Milford chronicle., 1885-03-20

t found sure cure for rheumatism
geranium leaves.
! ACCORDING TO Prof. Sargent, fore
! fires cause a loss of S25, 900, 600 annua
ly to this country.
THERE are in New York State Is. Oh
boys and girls employed in mills, ia
tories and workshops.
If England had not reached out afte
Egypt, some other Power would bay
got there ahead of her.
AN orange grower near Anthony. Fla
WIN ship this year between 500 AL
1000 boxes of oranges.
A MEMBER of the Missouri Legislatur
has introduced bill compelling circuse
to do all they advertise.
A PoUaHKEEPsE gossip was fineC
SI0O Tor circulating reports preiudica
to a person in the place.
The English sparrows have disap
peared from several places in til,
neighborhood Of Boston.
COLONEL FRED BURNABY's widow
Will not need a pension, as she has ar
income Of $50, 900 year.
NINE. RUTTKAY writes from Tnrin tbat
her brother, Louis Kossuth, is in en-.
snellent health and spirits.
I53HE natives of India are said TO give
AAleir horses opium when they wish to
accomplish long journeys.
The present winter is the dullest fbe
Atlantic steamship companies have ex-
perlenced for twenty years.
EVERY year over $4,000 gallons of
VINE are consumed at the sacrament
tables in this country alone.
The expenses of the White House. in
cluding salaries of the Presidents score.
taries, foot up $4,000 year.
THE State Of AJrll.;e,',4ees dari-,s OAr sire
Ne sI ',T 'ISasS T3eeti1 ae H q g. COLLECTIONS y
c V.s-.nose men G,@J'ts q to detee. .t5S t3s 90,
'Ire,aud to say that the SBenitentiary py
artistic county are not its cOnvicts.
- l.1ae are -c~ Photographers on thu
city pay roll in NeN York, and they
draw S96, ,l20 in salary annually.
THE Harvard annex for women is
success. It began with twenty-sevel
students and now has over fifty.
The first man in England to sign
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filed a teetoler's grave at ninety.
A WOMAN in Mattoon, ILL.,, who looked
out of a window where the sun shon,
brightly on the snow lost her sight.
DAKOTA is no longer a "tender-foot'
Territory. The inhabitants are begin
ming to have ''old settlers reunions.
An exhibition of birds has been held
at the Crystal Palace, London. On,
canary exhibited was valued at SIS, O00
TIE citizens of Chattanooga will pre-
sent to the Government a site for the
new 100000 United States Court
House.
In the opinion of the Kansas colored
preacher the earth was created at mid
night, so no one could see what it was
made of.
The Duke of Buckingham, who has
no heir to his dukedom has just mar
ried the daughter of a Scotch baronet.
He is SO.
A FIRM at Albany, Ga, is selling large
quantities of bacon at the rate of a
pound of meat for a pound of cotton
next fall.
HAMMERED silver butter plates are
now used to the exclusion of those
made of even the finest and hand
somest china.
The Savannah, first steamer to cross
the ocean, was of $50 tons burden, and
sailed for Liverpool from Savannah, Ga,
July 13, 1919.
MARY is the most common name in
England 6,8l9 out of eVerv 30, 600 indi-
viduals answering to it. William comes
next with 6.5O0.
The United States has II 600 dentists,
who use ton of gold and five tons of
other metals and make 100000 arti-
6cial teeth annually.
SLAVERY dies hard in Brazil. The
province of Pernambuco has still 49,,
600 slaves. Abolitionists are not In
favor in that province.
IT is stated that Prince Albert Victor
is betrothed to the Princess Olementine,
daughter of the King of the Belgians, a
a young schoolgirl aged 12.
The average wages paid to the 400,-
900 railway men of the country, not in
cluding the officers, clerks or book
keepers, is $3.50 a month.
TURKEY is so absolutely impoteut and
apathehc that half the world forgets
that it owns Egypt, and that British
troops are doing its fighting.
A NORTH CAROLINA young ladies insti-
tute sends specimens OF stocking
darning and refooting old stockings to
the New Orleans Exposition.
THERE are in London 405 newspapers;
in the provinces, 1902; in Wales, 70;
in Scotland, 1874; in Ireland, 161. and
in the British Isles, 2l-total 2.O52.
Mrs. JULIA WARD HOWE says that
Rhode Island surpasses other States
in the variety of her exhibit in the
Woman's department at New Orleans.
A CLERK in a pawnbroker's Office in
Boston was fined $40 and costs few
days ago for selling rifles to two boys
who wanted to go West and shoot In
dians.
a GANG raided the China houses at
Huntingdon, Oregon, and stole 50 600
from the inmates, who were forced with
halters around their necks to give up
their money.
A CITIZEN writes from Dakota that
he yearns for his old home, where a
man can weep without his tears form
ing icicles and there's something better
than hay to burn.
MANY PHYSICIANS of small practice in
London keep drug shops, and on certain
hours each day see patients, prescribe,
give advice, and furnish medicine for
one shilling each patient.
THERn are nine American countesses