Milford chronicle., 1885-05-15
ODDS AND ENDS.

OUDD AMI ENUDs
GOETHE has no living male descezd
ant
IN Boston it costs s2a42 to educate
child.
THREE Georgia weeklies are edited b.
ladies.
IRELAND is to have second electri,
railway.
IDAHo will build capitol at a cost o
$50, 900.
CAArELs sometimes live to the age o.
100 years.
DRIVERS in Paris are very cruel tc
their horses.
LEATHER wheels are made in France
for railway carriages.
THE wheat crop of Italy amounted to
ia, 100000 bushels.
A GYPSY dance was brilliant feature
of the Kirmess in Baltimore.
NEW YORK is suffering with an epi.
demic of amateur theatricals.
OMAHA, Neb., claims to be the best
paved city in the United States.
I i
not used tobacco for thirty years.
GERMANY contemplates a grand ex-
hibiGon of German industry in 1883.
MANY white people patronize the
Chinese theatres in Californian cities.
VIENNA has ten times as many doctors
in proportion to population as London.
IT is stated that Queen Victoria has
arranged TO visit Ireland next autumn.
A STATUE of Garfield, to be erected at
San Francisco, has been cast OF Nurem.
berg.
TIE electric light is to be used on all
trains running through the st. Gothard
tunnel.
TIE manufacture of broom corn
toothpicks is a growing Kansas in
dustry.
ENGLISH papers announce that Irving's
last trip to America netted him about
$4,000
OUT of the word ''incomprehensibil-
ity" Connecticut lady made 2,24S diff
ferent words.
SIXTY thousand dollars were spent in
Chicago for flowers during the recent
opera festival.
EARTHQUAKES in North Japan are
more numerous and severe in winter
than in summer.
EVEN in Dakota the farmers are grow
ing tired of grain farming and advocate
mixed husbandry.
FULLY one-half the names of the mail
ing offices stamped on letters and postal
cards are illegible.
Two HUNDRED men will begin work
on the cable railroad in Atlantic avenue,
Brooklyn, shortly.
IT is rumored that Emma Nevada
will marry DR.. Palmer, her manager,
some time this year.
Mrs. THEODORE T1LToN is living in
comfort and quiet with her mother, Mrs.
Morse, in Brooklyn.
THE number of mules attached to a
hearse denotes the responsibility of a
funeral in Rio Janeiro.
WASHINGTON statistics show $50
churches, with 49,351 members; 81 900
are in the colored churches.
GREAT BRITAIN imported more leather
from France during February than ever
before in the same length of time.
THERE are 8, 163 Japanese Christians
in the empire of Japan. They have 112
churches and propose to build more.
Prussia has now II, 969, ia adherents
of the Evangelical Church, 9,22O,326 !
Roman Catholics and 357, 554 Jews.
THE Austrian railway companies en-
ploy about 5000 women, principally in |
Al fiolyoF oGfoag op1 rroiffn,r ,.or,,oe
THERE are now about 8, 400 residents |
in the Virginia county where stood |
jamestown, of early settlement fame.
No MAN, it is said, can enlist in the
regular army of China until he has shown |
his courage by having tooth pulled.
TREE planting is systematically fos-
tered in China, and $50, 600 trees were
set ont last year in Hong Kong alone.
The filling of the Potomac Flats at
Washington is going on day and night,
and gives work to a small army of men.
An Indian doctor in Utah was stoned
to death recently by his tribe for having
failed to cure patient placed under his
charge.
EVERY day the London postmen walk
y 0AothLCD NHAeAA W lMANG AAAg LAAGull4-
ference of the earth. There are 4, ,O3O
Of them.
A VALUABLE Connecticut COW came toI
a mysterious end, and a post-mortem
revealed three inches OF fence wire in
her lungs.
A CANANDAIaUA, N. Y, lady has been
elected to act as governess for one Of
he daughters of the King of the Sand
7ich Islands.
IT is estimated that not less than a
housand men will make a regular busi-
ess of playing base ball professionally
his summer.
BETWEEN progressive euchre and re-
rogressive roller skating, the Western
arsons have plenty to do in the way of
enunciatiOn.
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