Milford chronicle., 1885-04-17
STRANGE AND CURIOUS.
NOTES OF ODD AND STAWTIINC
MATTERS OCCURRING ABOUT Us.
over n Precipice-AmonE the Chiellens-A
SeorEin Fish story = The Presidents
Saddle Horse, Etc Ete.


IL Over n Precipice-Among the Chiel,ens-J
l. 9corEin Fish story The President
a Saddle Horse, Etc Ete.
a THIS IS A GEORGIA fish sfory:-Jin
johnson and Tom Pitcher. OF Unior
l. FONT, went fishing few days ago but
q IN short time their bait gave out and
Y they had caught no fish. They scuffled
4 around and found large black bug and
= hitehed him by the gable end to their
a hook. Then they sat down. both hold.
! ing to the pole, and patiently waited TO
I catch whale, but got no bite. FINALLY
they concluded to examine their baif
To their astOnishment the bn0 was
larger than when they put him on tbe
, hook, so they cut him open and found
: that ne mad been fishing hinself, and
mad caught and swallowed half dozen
minnows. The young men looked at
each other IN silent disgust. Macon
(Ga.) Telegraph.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has received
the following; 1t has always been INV
ambition, dear Mr. President, to own q
saddle horse that had been ridden by a
President If you have a saddle horse
that you are willing to sell when You 20
to Washington, please let me know N,
price Of it. If you haven't anv sueh
horse, l wish you would look arouyd
among your neighbors and find one and
ride it awhile and then let me have II
Please don't buy it until | know tbe
price. AS l don't want any one to work
for me for nothing. inelose one dollar
for your trouble to look M A 0ood
horse" eN
SEVERAL MORNINGS ago. quite early a
Georgia farmer was about his chicken |
house and found a denuded little negro !
under the rOOsts. He demanded of fbe |
little chap toknow why he was there and |
IN that condition, but he did not answer
and slipped away whimpering. He was
almost too small to suspect of roguish
intentions. At breakfast the farmer
learned that the child belonged to his
cook, and that she had put him there
with instructions to remain until the
chickens flew down over him. The child
had the chicken pox, and the mother
believed that that was the way to cure it.
A CHINESE IMPERIAL DECREE has re-
Gently been issued, ordering that the
late Viceroy Of Yunnan, through whose
negligence, it is alleged, SOntav and tbe
Bac Mimi were captured by the French.
and the Viceroy Of Kwangsi, who did
not advance beyond LangsOn to the re-
LEI OF these two towns, are to be be-
headed after the ''autumnal assizes.'
Ihe Nlceroys LII and TsO, who strenu-
ously lnterceded for the culprits. are s
degraded two degrees in official rank. I
Inc Ficeroy OF Canton, who was guilty 1
OF recommending one of them for en- {
Is also to be punished.
THERE are about 125 German reern
IN ~ Chinese army III =.
1een compelled to adopt Chimes Los.
luch as Wang Ii Triang or The Great a
Wall. The pay Of these recruits is verv &
ligh, ranging from 5000 to $500 a t
month; and in addition the Chinese b
has promised to pay to the Il
Of any G, rman who NAV o
70 killed in action the sum of $4,000. Il
Recruits are also called for in the et
)hinese Navy, the inducement being an II
nnual salary of SO, 800 and life policy IL
Or large amount. "
IT IS generally known that Easter is -
he first Sunday after the full moon
nat comes on or after the 21st of March - -
ut some may not know why the 2lst Of u ~
larch is taken as a guage. It was de- %
ded by the first Council of Nice that -
le festival of Easter should be cell "a "a
lrated on the Sunday following tbe y, 70
rst moon of the vernal equinox. The ~ ~
ct correction made in the calendar bv ne
regory xiii. DrOuBht the vernoI w
luinox March 81. Easter may eeaso- --,,- tai
lently fall any day between March % an an
ID April 25. .n ~,
THE loss of 100 fine fat sheep is -
ported from Heffner, Oregon, the ev
use being a singular panic on the part mir
the flock. While dan" Prescott a Tri
epherd, was getting several hundred pal
to night quarters some of the animals. bar
ing thirsty, started down hill on a mic
n. The others, bleating loudly, fol- he
we'd. Before their impetus could be ne,
,pped nearly half of them went over a abr
sh bluff, piling one upon another. car
r. Prescott extricated part of the TO
eep alive, but fully one hundred apf
rished. mn
DEvoNsHIRE, England, farm laborer, thr
ID 20, interceded for a stray dog which ing
armer was about to shoot, and, find lun
{ the name of Morrison on the dogs did
lar, got some one to write to the mai
ner, Squire Of considerable prop for
:. The latter asked the laborer to can
ct him, and then gave him into GUS foul
y. He was locked up for three days will
a charge Of stealing the dog, and so d
n brought before the magistrates and M.
missed, as there was no pretence for in 1
suggestion of dishonesty against the soor
man. will
LFBED Long, a Canadian farmer, see
aroused at midnight by pain. He ing
Id that during his sleep he had will
wed his tongue horribly. Next morn well
it had swollen to such an extent
he could not speak. After the
ling went down a cancer was dis
,red on the tongue. This grew to D.
l an extent that the poor man could ~ ~
be fed with great difficulty, and he tiia slia'
ged to death. w we
\ the town of Warwick, in Rhode Sius, 4 -
nd, is boulder so poised on another r. e.
that person standing on It can 1;ttle
, it from side to side. When It is LII LII
ed a dull booming sound is given =, ,'.,'
which can be heard for miles over -,
country on a still night. A legend bfSi sirfici
that in this manner the Indians t;on
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- - AZ suil,ilon lnelF war ferin
" Oouii''i a. 'nis pi'co- pired
MEDICAL authority says: Five per respe
of all cancers are situated upon with
tongue. The average duration of retur
n cancer of the tongue is, without were
alton, 105 months; with operation, entic
onths. In some cases, after opera brou,
the patients have lived for from subse
70 five years, or even ten years. boys
RATHER queer accident is reported cripp
ave occurred in Atlanta. Ga. A supp
g man who runs on one Of the rail the /
was sleeping with his hands under the
cad. Suddenly he threw them ont in b
cir natural position, and by some kni
lar twist one of the arms was dis into b
I'd at the shoulder. attenI
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