Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1889-09-06
ODDS AND ENDS.

'"I wnl lose no time in reading your book
said gsntlemm TO an author.
The extremely fashionable summer young
man wears a silver bangle on the left wrist.
The recent floods in Japan.are said to have
swept away 1900 houses and drowned 100
persons.
You may set It down as a truth, which A.
mits of few exceptions, that those who -
your opinion really want your praise.-O.
w. Holmes.
Diamonds have blazed in English society
this season as never before. They have even
appeared in profusion in morning ensertslp.
ments. ~
Never speak well or in Of yourself, says an
eastern pr6yerb II well, men will notebe-
heve you; fin, they viii believe a great deal
more than you say.
A New Orleans alderman, in speaking OF
pauper burial, remarked that greater care
must be taken of the Indignant" dead.
An emigration movement has been started
among the colored people Of North Carolina,
and thousands ofkthem will probably leave
that state during the next eight months
The greatest house in London before long
will perhaps be Lord Portman's proposed re-
production OF Wolsey's famous palace at
Hampton Court
Professor Langley finds tbat.a very faint
light may. be perceived In about half see
ond while an ordinary bright light requires
only half that interval; and that the'same
amount ofAenergy may produce at least 100
900 times the visual effect IN one color that 1t
does In another.
Secret society people help one another
wonderfully said a man as be went by a
brick building in process Of erection. "See,
for instance, how those bod fellows assist the
masons. n-C hRonicle-Telegraph.
A slick confidence man in Arkansas recent
" made quite pot Of money by selling bulbs
which he said would produce rare orchids
and other exotics. Enthusiastic ladies paid
from seventy-Ave cents up to I've dollars
apiece for the magic roots, The bulbs were
duly planted; and .produced-comPon tur-
nipsl The vender long ago left for parts I'M
known.
A company Of blind English students win
soon vide on bicycles from Boulogne to PaEts,
and tilen will visit the exposition. The BIZ
cycle used has from four to eight wheels and
can carry eight people.
A statement prepared at the postofiice de
partment shows that the increase In the
mileage Of railway mail service for the fiscal
year 1850 was 6,046 miles. Nebraska fur
/ nished the largest increase, 500 miles, fol
/ lowed by Alabama with Az miles, Kansa,
with 4l6 miles, and Kentucky $50 miles.
Another great canal is suggested, one from
| Lake ERIE to PitNburg. The Smoky City
is ambitious Of being virtually seaport ant
/ Of having vessels Of from 800 to 1000 tom
come from lake Erie to the city's wharves
The transportation of Lake Superior iron t.
Pittsburg would be greatly cheaPened By
such canal.
An ingenious contrivance has been invent
ed in England whereby the strigs Of red and
:, black currants are picked" by mechanical
fingers The currents are distributes upon
band which is ever passing upwardsi at the
top of this Is a revolving brush, which take
the strigs from the currants, leaving the cur
rants TO roll down to the bottom into re
seiver.
Thibet is the only known country on eartl
not open to missions. It has an area Of $50,
600 square miles, The greatest length from
east to west is /, 800 miles, and the population
is estimated at 100000. II is the strong
hold Of Buddhism. Lhassa, the capital,
the Rome" of the Buddhists, and the Dal0
Lama is the Buddhist pope. He is suprem
in both temporal and spiritual things. On
monastery has about five thousand Buddhis
priests, and there are about six thousand il
the country. Thibet is virgin soil for mi,
sions. The country is tributary to China.
The legislature Of Minnesota has lost pa
tience with lone Willard Glazier," whose di.
tressing attentions to the Father Of Water
as sole discoverer Of the fountain head ar
well known It has passed an act fixing tn
name of Elk Lake, situated in Beltran
county. and warning all publishers that 'n
edition Of any school geography, publishe
subsequently, to Jan. 1, 1890" which giv'
Glaciers name to that lake, or any name br
Elk, 'shall be used in the schools Of tn
state.n