Milford chronicle., 1885-02-20

G. @. MARTIN, Engineer of the Brook
lyn Bridge, says:-It is undoubtedly OF
great public interest that everything in
connection with bridge management
should be closely watched. Many look
with extreme concern to one important
feature, namely, the contraction of the
structure in cold weather. This is a
point, of course, on which the most
careful and patient calculations have
been made, aud needn't tell You that
there can be no possible chance of any
thing going wrong. There is an allow
ance OF two feet for contraction which
takes place in cold weather like this.
The greatest shrinkage took place dur
ing last winter, measuring twelve and
three. quarter inches; up to the present
this wear the contraction is O shade
under eleven inches and half.
A MAN at Pataha City, W. T., has the
rare and remarkable name of Angevine
June Titus and Company Favor. All
that part of the above described name
lying in front of the word ''Favor' is his
Christian name. His parents lived in
small town in Maine, and a circus came
there for the first time in the history of
the place. 1t was owned by Angevine,
June Titus & Co. Mr.. and Mrs. Favor
attended in the afternoon and were so
well pleased that they named their boy,
born on the following day, for the pro-
pTietors Of the enterprise. The son has
horne. his inaiestio4 without murmur,
and is fondly hoping for t6esuiiiliee- %nen Sg!I
Pataha City shall have grown to be
large enough to justify the visit of
circus.
A PRIVATE soldier on guard duty at
Woolwich Arsenal saw man advancing
toward his post and commanded him to
halt and give the countersign. The
stranger neither halted nor replied, but
attempted to walk past the guard line.
The sentinel thereupOn plunged his
bayonet into the mans body, killing
him almost instantly. An investigation
shows that the man who attempted to
run the guard was also a soldier and
comrade of the sentinel, whom he had
tried to annoy by silly practical joke.
A DISPATCH from Henderson county,
N. c., gives details OF prominent farm
er being buried alive. John jenkins,
the unfortunate in question, fell i'll, and
after prolonged illness assumed the ap-
pearance of death and was buried. His
brother exhumed the remains and was
Mortified to discover that the body had
turned in the grave. Both hands were
full of hair, which the deceased had torn
from his head and beard in his frantic
efforts to escape from his awful doom.
SQUIRE CBIsTLER, of Banks county,
Ga, was called upon the other night to
Join couple together in the holy bonds
of matrimony. Getting to the river he
found it impossible to cross. Deter
mined not to be disappointed, he sum-
moned the couple to the waters edge on
the other side of the stream, and the
license, tied to a stone, having been
pitched over 20 him, a distance of some
sixty yards, he proceeded 10 tie the knot
at the top of his voice.
THE habit which frontier postmasters
have of carrying the mail around in the
pockets of their trousers vexes the souls
Of the cowboys. When one of the latter
species has ridden 200 miles after his
mail and is told by the postmaster's wife
that the post office has gone after bar
rel of water aud won't be back for two
days, the "cow puncher" feels like COM
planning to the government
Mrs. WILSON, of Jefferson, N. Y,
placed about $500 in the oven of her
cook stove to hide it from burglars while
she went to a lecture in the school
house. The lecture gave her so much
to think about that when she went home
she built fire in the stove and had it
well under headway before her mind re-
verted to the money. The bills were
badly scorched.
An Indiana wife told her husband one
that she was going to elope
with the hired man. "Let us pray over
it. " replied the husband. They prayed |
for half an hour, but when they got |
through the woman's intention remained |
unchanged. So the husband helped her |
on with her wraps and tucked her in the |
sleigh, wishing her God speed with tears |
in her eyes.
SOME man with considerable leisure on |
his hands estimates that during a life
time of fifty years a man on the average |
spends 6,000 days in sleeping and the |
same amount in working; 1000 days IN |
eating, 800 days in walking, is i'll 900 |
days. aud the remainder of the half cen
tury, nearly nine years, is fritted away
in recreation and amusement.
A MINNESOTA man is lobbying in the
State Legislature to have a bill passed |
giving him frst-class sleigh. He says
there is plenty of snow on the ground,
and plenty of money in the Treasury.
III, 600 4yvo fooko roolro - 1ovonor khok bn
should have a sleigh, and he would like
10 see the iron-handed despot who will
lare refuse his request.
APRoPos of the present agitation anent
he Sunday liquor laws of New York, a
return has Just been
ssued in England showing that in the
.welve months from October l, 1888. to
September 90, 1884, there were 1892
convictions OF persons arrested for
on Sunday in England and
Wales.
A STATEMENT of exports Of iron rails
rom Great Britain shows that, while in
1888 there were shipped "a, 306 tons of
ron rails only, in the past year that
mall tonnage further fell to Is, 591 tons,
md there are indications that it is fur
her falling, and that the iron rail man
fracture is practically extinct.
A DOG in Wanaqua N. J., who for
ONE time has been noticed to take his
in his mouth and run away
With it uneaten, was followed, when it
vas discovered that he took his meal to
decrepit and emaciated old dog in a
overt in the field, who eagerly deVoured
he food thus provided for him.
ST. PAU and Minneapolis are SO jeal-
MS of each other and are growing so
apidly that before long there will be a
Iostile meeting Of the cities. And then
here will be only one city, but the ques-
ion will arise which will be the city?
SETTLED WITH HIN. "A secret agent
+ the Revenue Stamp Department Of