Milford chronicle., 1885-03-06
ODDS AND ENDS.


S25 pair.
FIVE steam vessels appeared in Scot
land in 1918.
WOMEN are becoming commercial
travellers in England.
THERE will be three Quakers in the
next U. 8. Congress.
HAY bunkers is the Southern Cal
iiornia name for tramps.
ENGLAND owns 10, 3S4 sailing ships
and over 5 $50 steamers.
RUSSIA is one Of the great tea-drink-
ing countries of the world.
A ooRNcoB pipe factory at Washing.
ton, Mo-, employs fifty men.
The Texas public school system is
said to be the finest in the land.
DURING last year there were 169 mur-
ders in Ohio and IT'S in Kentucky.
FLORIDA will have a Constitutional
| Convention on the 9th Of June next.
A LOCAL option Law has passed both
branches Of the Oregon Legislature.
THE first steam vessel of Europe COM
menced plying on the Clyde in 1872.
WooD WHICH is odorifercus is gen.
orally the most durable in exposure.
IT is estimated that there are 200
600, 900 Mohammedans in the world.
OVER 5000 patents on churns have
been granted by the U. s. Government
Gen. WoIsELEY has received $685.
600 in bounties for his military services.
"MARK TWAIN" is going to England in
May next to give readings from his own
works.
THE city of Berlin budget wis caves OF
year cover Sl5, 600, 000 1t is the hAssa are no
on record. ,.IoB.sorreo ,.Iac.are
GONG upstairs should be one Of t.
slowest and most deliberate acts of
mans life
TIE value Of ton Of pure gold is
1902, 1921, and a ton Of silver,
S37, ,7O4s4
THE merchant service Of the world
consists of SO, l57 vessels, which includes
6, 433 steamers.
A GERMAN ,ieutist says the attractive
power of the earth is 42,310, 900, ,O0O,-
000 600, 600 tons.
The people of Maine have decided not
to transfer their State election from Sep
tember to November.
CALIFORNIA raised in 1884 a bushel of
wheat for every man, woman and child
in the United States.
FIPTY-EIGHT million dollars is the esti.
mated value Of the finger rings of this
country actually worn.
THE exhibit of cOlored people at the
New Orleans Exposition shows a great
diversity Of industries
PoRTUGA1 has I, ,0S4 women TO every
200 men, the largest preponderanee Of
my country in Europe
THE Kansas House of Representatives
fof1r rrirf 60
sleket clerk is a woman.
never was a time when ''trihes"
1laytreSS ~ Important part in house
decorations -. .gTesent
The devastating inseeiT' -phyllo7
~, destroyed 10000 acres q
ines in France last year. V@'
JUsT sixteen years ago the interest Oh
he national debt was S1l3, 100000
ear 1t is now SOS, 900.
An international exhibition Of apicul-
lre is to be held at PankOw near Berlin.
,om May to September l.
The potato, introduced into England
] 1900, was first eaten as q sweetmeat.
ewed in sack-wine and sugar.
A WOMAN in Germany was recently
led for breach OF promise of marriage.
ld mulcted in 935O and costs.
In is said that the avs Ges yield of DO.
oleum wells in Caucasia y sixteen times
great as that Of American wells.
a GARGLE Of strong black tea used cold
ght and morning is now fashionable in
ondon as preventive Of sore throat.
ACTUAL test shows that So per cent. of
e power driving the propeller of an
can steamship is lost or unaccounted
A NINE.ToN lump of coal, the largest
er mined, represents the coal interests
Alabama at the New Orleans Exhibi.
N.
THE sum of S500000 was recently
It in a London gambling establish
mt by a gentleman who had dined too
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The Cincinnati Associated Charities
1crts an increase in applications for
istance IS per cent more than last
MELT one pound of resin and two of
together and rub all the bright
m tools with it. Twill keep 'em
ght
The Aeronautical Society Of Great
tain will hold an international Ex-
ition in London on the 31st Of
rch.
JNoINNATI is building an elevated
road, the length of which will be
enteen miles, and the estimated cost
O0O 900.
HERE are in New York city $1,000
es, including as such the children Of
ish parents. Four-ffths Of the 81, 900
Hebrews.
VETERAN Congressman estimates
about per cent. of the member
} really does the business accom-
he'd there.
4 is not very generally known that
zen Victoria was once called Queen
zandrina Victoria, and that the oaths
llegiance were in that name.
HE Commissioner Of Education
es the number of medical students
ais country in 1873 at S, S,6S1; in 1888
lad 15.151
MoNG the visitors to the Washington
lument have been several rats, who
ethe ascent to get the debris from the
1men's lunches Pigeons convert il
a roost at night
IL BuInD1xe of the Georgis State
tol at Atlanta develops the fact that
ite can be quarried in Maine,
ped TO Savannah, aud thence carried
all to Atlanta st a less cost than it
be had in a quarry only sixteen
s away.
.EAT MEMS SoNs.-A Washington
: writer says: The newspapers are
ed to record altogether too much
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