Milford chronicle., 1888-03-23
SCISSORS AND PASTE.

There are thirty-seven japanese students
in the University Of Michigan
Florida nurserynen are doing a large busi-
ness in shipping young orange trees 70 Cali
fornia
The London fremen are to follow their
French colleagues in being dressed in asbestos
cloth.
The Peruvian government invites offers for
the introduction of the telephone in that
country.
In the diocese Of London, with popula-
tion Of 100000, there were 1854 baptisms
the last year.
-Four sheep and ten bushels Of wheat set
tied an Iowa breach Of promise suit where
$4,000 damages were demanded.
A club room in Portland, Ne, is said to be
paved with IS 400 worth Of old lottery tick
cts, not one Of which ever drew a cent.
By Queen Victoria's orders, no Intoxicating
/ liquors will in future be allowed upon the
premises Of the Peoples palace in London.
There is in the vicinity Of vaughnsville, s.
c., an infant 2months old whose mother is Il,
grandmother 81, grandfather 81, and great
| grandmother 81
OF the seventy-six United States senator's
only thirty have received a classical educa-
tion, and Of the SSS representatives but los
have attended college.
It is asserted by those who profess to know
that the entire surface Of Raleigh county,
W. Va, is underlaid with coal from four to
twelve feet in thickness.
Tho lot on which the California theatre
stands, in San Francisco, which has just been
purchased by Kate McDonough for sl27, 900,
was bought forty years ago for s45.
The presence Of eighty-three students in
electrical engineering at Cornell university
is an indication Of the rapid growth Of the
interest in the application Of electricity to
engineering problems.
An electric elevated railway for the con-
veyance Of small parcels and newspapers at
high rate Of speed is under consideration
by Baltimore capitalists, with a strong pros
peet that it will be constructed.
The story comes from New Lenox. Ills,
that boy there has two big Cochin China
roosters, which he has "broken so that he can
drive them double 10 a small sled or wagon.
The last boy that got into the newspapers for
doing this lived in Maine
The town of Bellevue, Ills, is entirely free
of dogs Since the terrific nitro-glycerine
explosion there some time ago not a canine
has been seen on the streets. At the first re-
port every one started on a dead run for the
woods, and not one has returned yet
A company has been formed at Pittsburg
with capital of 100000 to manufacture
brick from blast furnace cinders. The in
dustry is successful in England, and the pro
jectors count on turning out $4,000 brick per
day, which they expect to market at s. per
thousand
Tho cost of maintaining the imperial fam
lily of Germany, with all its various branches. |
is S20,000000 a year The sultan of Turkey |
costs the people S15,O00,OOO annually. The |
most economical court in Europe, consider !
ing its size and the wealth of the empire, is
the Austrian
The Russians and Poles are orowding into |
the factories where sewing is done. For sew
eral reasons they are strongly objected to by
the other nationalities In the first place
they are inhumanly dirty and vitiate the air
already none too pure. They viii work for
the least possible amount and carry work
home TO be done at night.