Milford chronicle., 1888-01-20
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.
Hoosac Tunnel is to be lighted by j. .s5o il
candescent LAMPS

> Hoosac Tunnel is to be lighted by ,250 u
3 candescent lamps.
A recent trial in Japan between Germa
and English rails resulted in British viz
! tory.
There is a proposition for the colonization
Of all the drunkards of the United States il
/ the Panhandle section Of Texas.
The Great Eastern, which originally cos
&, 3,500.O0o, and was sold a year ago for S1s5,
600, has again been sold at auction in Liver
pool for 100000
Paris is to have this winter an interna
tional exhibition Of devices for preventing
and extinguishing fires in theatres Ther,
viii be theatrical performances with sham
ires.
A California tramp set fire to a lot Of rail.
road tics in order that he might be sent to
state prison and learn a trade He said that
was his only chance Of becoming anything
bus tramp.
The grand rabbi Of India won first prize mt
the R0thschild wedding in Paris recently for
the greatest show of diamonds. His exhibit
was worn in his turban and was valued ut
e250,oO0-
Between ], 100000 and 100000 farmers in
The United States are affected by The decision
Of the United States supreme court that the
drive well patents are illegal on account of
priority Of use.
The maladministration Of justice is said to
| have become snch an evil at Montreal that
the lawyers ere considering the advisability
ofrepeating their action of some years ago by
refusing to plead
Women do not generally avail themselves
Of the privilege to vote for school officers in
Massachusetts,. Only S37 women registered
in 1851 in Boston, against 2,23J in 1887, ard
l,193 in 1856.
The largest plate of beveled glass ovei. set
in the United States has been placed in Il Do
roit saloon front It is thirteen feet across
and three-eishths Of a foot in thickness.
There is a cotton plant at Narcoossee, Fla,
that is over five feet across the branches and
has from $50 to 400 blooms. 1t contains cot
ton in all its branches, from ths swelling bud
to the mature article.
Chicago is going to-spend S1,OO0,OOO this
winter in n frseh attempt to secure pure driuk-
ing water. The scheme advanced this time
is tunnel, eight feet in diameter, extending
out into Lake Michigan a distance of foui
miles.
A Philadelphian recently cut his great toe
while trimming the nail and claimed com-
pensation from an accident insurance asso-
citation for one weeks total disability. The
association refused to lAly until suit wns
brought, and then it paid up.
The Covington Crenn.) Leader claims to
have discovered in Upton county maiden
who rivals Rarey in her power Of mag
netizing the equine species. She canride and |
drive at moments notice horses and mules |
that nobody else can handle.
At a recent entertainment in PHILADELPHIA
admission was not by ticket but by
each person being required to
land over to the doorlleeper potato or some
'theT vegetable product. The net proceeds
were distributed among the poor.
Fourteen years ago bottle of milk placed
n well at OwensbOro, Ky, to cool. fell
nto the water The other day the well was
leaned out, and under about six feet of mud
vas found the bottle, and the milk within
vas apparently as Gweet and good as the day
was put in.
Eastern sportsmen arc advised to 20 to
Vhatcom, Washington territory On the
Stands opposite deer areso numerous as to be
positive nuisance, destroying orchards and
9'ain crops not protected by picket or wire
ances. Quail, too, are very plentiful, Orcas
iland being fairly alive with the little feI-
)ws.
Any readers who live in the country, or in
illages not densely built up, by putting out [
net or fat meats can gather before their
'indows many of the winter birds of their
'sality, and have their breakfast, dinner and
"A parties of happy, confident birds, and a i
opportunity Of studying them t
A lady in Milton, Pa, who was accosted /
y a rascal just at dusk the other evening, de- q
'nded herself in novel way. She was return
g from marketing and had in her basket a v
ece Of bologna sausage, which she pointed
the fellow, crying out: "You scouadrel;
you touch me III shoot you" Supposing
was pistol she had, the man took to his
eels.
In excavating for an addition to a prison
Salt Lake City II Gently five underground
lis were found, each two and one-half feet
ide, six feet long and three feet high, with
ais two feet thick, covered with hard plas- 4
r cement The doors were gone, but parts |
the hinges remained. There are believed =
be many more of the cells at the same =.
ace. They are supposed to have been 81
ached, when in use, by subterrancan paths.
neither their doors were grated or solid is
It known.