Milford chronicle., 1885-04-10
ODDS AND ENDS.

; BARREL OF flour weighs 1876 pounds.
a A BARREL Of pork weighs 200 pounds.
: A HURRICANE moves eighty miles an
! hour.
A SPAN is ten and seven-eighths
a inches.
A HAND Chorse measures) is four
inches.
4 WISCONSIN and Minnesota are to have
agricultural colleges.
TIE families of Memphis, Tenn,
average 4.23 persons.
THE skating rink fever has reached
the Sandwich Islands.
WILLIAM H. VANDERB1LTs family
tomb will cost $780, 600.
SAN FRANoIsoo gets 800, 900 bananas a
month from the Sandwich Islands.
A CHILD was born at Lawrenceville,
ILL.,, with one of its legs entirely black.
THE population of London is increas-
ing at the rate of 100000 people year.
A CAT at Barberville, Fla, last week |
killed a rattlesnake nearly six feet in |
length.
TEE total cost OF the public schools Of
New York State for 1884 was S11, 1884,
911.52.
PIUTE Indians are proving successful
farmers on the Pyramid Reservation in
/ Nevada.
THERE is said to be a genuine case of
! leprosy in q hospital at Edinburgh,
Scotland.
THE four Senators from South Caro-
lima and Arkansas have only five legs
under them.
THERE were forty-five different kinds
OF pie at a dinner given recently in
Greedy, Col.
IT is estimated that ton of gold is
buried each year with those who die in
this country.
OF the 1850 inhabitants of the
would-be State of New Mexico rs, 900 I
are Mexicans.
THE silver-plated ware manufactured I
in this country annually reaches a value e
of 1000, 600
FLATS in the best apartment houses s
in New York have fallen from ten to /
twenty per cent. d
THE biggest run ever made at the
three ball billiard game was l, ,531 points,
made by Vignaux.
GERMANY has granted 81, 900, 600 for |,
subsidies to steamship lines to Australia "
and Eastern Asia Is
TwENTY-THREE citizens of Wichita.
KS, are reported under arrest as con- l,
spirators to murder. P
A NEW rifle, capable of discharging F
three bullets at the same moment, has
been made in France. 2,
ANEW building, 13Ox15O, has Just been
for the use of the Sitka, n
Alaska, public school. IA
"A l--N in Los Angeles county last sea- m
son sold 1862. IA worth of figs from an =
orchard OF only one acre. az
This years Indian budget shows a n,
ieticit Of S2,50O,O 600. Last year there w
vas surplus of S5,OOO,O0O. "
LESS than ten per cent. of the works G.
allied for in the great library of the Pi
British Museum are novels.
WE'LL preserved sharks teeth have at
'een taken from an artesian well 1900
eet deep at Bainbridge, Ga.
THREE hundred thousand pairs of roll
r skates, it is stated, are now manufac- Or
lred in this country each month. Pl
The present reigning dynasty of be
apan dates back 2,546 years
ousiderea the Oldest in the W in lAfiarr wal
=, ana lb H.
sr.--ey- 80. ornH~ Io.orld. the tt,e
WATER in the flooded Comstock mines nnr
lbs and flows at intervals with the
gularity of the tides of the ocean.
generally claim that r
ace the census of 1880 the city has L
own beyond 100000 in population. OF
SOME young Southerners are prepar- S.at qua;
o to start q cattle ranch in Alabama III
ION the Indian Territory and Texas GIo Ga
an. roo,
LITTLE speckled trout come up with bea
e water of the artesian wells in the vi tive
nifty of Austin, New, from depth OF tbal
70 feet. lore
of gallons of milk are now pie.
mt from Scotland to Liverpool and TT
anchester, and there sold for sixpence rain
+ gallon. stat
1875 to 1884 the South made a Eve
in in her oat crop of 50 per cent, while Day
e gain for the rest of the country was mai
ly 81 per cent. ny
A GRADUATE of the University of -
ichigan, who is a good Greek and II, u ,
ltin scholar, is doing duty as police wa. wa
an in Detroit. oou ;o
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER says that w. ~,
per cent. of the inmates of the EImira , neS
,formatory are sent out reformed and ~,
come good citizens. ~ ~,
A CoLoRED man at Key West bought n Ii
,onch at the fish market, and on crack IRON
2 its shell, found a pearl the size of
an. which he sold for 500.
A KNoTHoLE in the frame of an old m
use erected about 1850, at Newington, .AdL III
m, has been the home of family OF '''By By
lebirds for seventy-fve years. s1.7
A SAN BENITo county, Col, goose BI
rry patch yielded 65 cents to the S9oi Wol.
shel. There are 2,713 bushels to com, mn9
3 acre. which gives a revenue OF CT
1895. toge
AFTER a riot on the west coast of dina
rica, it was found that three natives Penn
1 been killed and cut to pieces, their FL
mains being prepared for cooking in sSi9, 9 d,
,antic pie. salt
4 RECENT death at the Warrell, Pa, He
,lum was that of a man who was made year
maniac thirty years ago from drinking hoo 70
Diously of cool water while in a heated III
te of body. waul
rRrPE and bone dust, oleomargarine whit
/ artificial manures, tallow and glue steo1
is the curious list of pro deliv
ctfons turned out by one factory IN 5o5sc
ode Island. hyer 5
THE Missionary Secretaries of the 40
,thodist Episcopal Church have issued Fr.
appeal for 'lump sum" of 81 ,0O0,- s.. .6l
} for the prosecution of missionary ambe
rk the current year. 499;
Mr.. BONNER, of the Ledger, who has W.
died advertising and its effect, never 47@4
8 posters or circulars, but confines
nself to advertising IN the leadlng FL
ly papers OF the large cities. medi
1rrc,,,, tho vacant cold soalI n Knox. Corn
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