Milford chronicle., 1889-06-21
ODDS AND ENDS.


In England check reins are now entirely
out of use, being forbidden by law.
Professor Virgins predicts that Aug. II,
1904, Pennsylvania will be fearfully shaken
up by an earthquake.
W. S. Thompson, Of East Liverpool, o.,
opened an old organ and found three foot
snake coiled inside.
Fish have died by thousands, year after
year, in the Youghiogheny river, and nobody
seems to know why.
The superiority of some men is merely
local They are great because their associates
are httle.-Johnson.
Prince Bismarck now devotes a great deal
Of time to playing solitaire. This was IA
vorite game Of Napoleon |.
Hatfield, Mass, is to have big time Sept
10, that day being the 2l2th anniversary Of
the Indian attack on that town.
A housewife at Gridley, Cal, while dress
ing chicken for dinner, found in its crop a
diamond, which was sold for Sls5.
Irwin Blair, of Valdosa, Ga, has two Curl
ously malformed hen eggs. They are small
in tho middle and large at both ends
After southern Californians have scooped
out the insides of some Of their Chilli squashes
they successfully use the rind as rowboats.
Every line in every European paper men,
tioning Russian troubles is stamped out at the
frontier, while hundreds of copies are de-
stroyed entirely.
A rustic chair, bought by citizen Of York,
Pa, was made of green sassafras wood, and a
few warm days have caused it to put forth
many sprouts, some an inch long.
The most remote point reached by Mr..
George KEENAN, in his Siberian trip are the
mines Of Kara, 5000 miles from St Peters
burg and about 1000 miles from the Pacific
coast.
Sloth makes all things difficult, but indus
try all easy; and he that riseth late must trot
all day, and shall scarce oyertake his business
at night; while laziness travels so slowly that
poverty soon overtakes him.-Franklin.
A sharp and fascinating miss visited Allen
town, Pa, and got numerous orders by sam
pie for new style of corset, at g.. so apiece,
went to a retail store and bought them for
$3.50 each, delivered them, got the cash and
left town.
An effort is to be made in Iowa to strip the
law Of its nonsense. Lawyers declare that
DEEDS warrants, and all other legal papers
can be cut down one-half in the amount Of
whereases and wherefores.
In Holland an unmarried woman always
takes the right arm Of her escort, and the
married woman the left At church we'd
ding the bride enters the edifce on the right
arm of the groom, and goes out on the left
side of her husband
Right actions for the future are the best
explanations or apologies for wrong ones in
the past; the best evidence Of regret for them
that we can offer or the world receive. Ed
wards
Professor Mommsen, the historian, who
will soon be y years old, expresses himself
with his old time vigorSit seems A Berlin
correspondent quotes him as saying Of the
Samoan commission and its work. 1.-The con-
troversy relative to Samoa is a strife which
is unworthy Of men. For my part ! would
not give glass of Bavarian beer for all the
islands in the Pacific ocean"
A discussion upon how much can jockey
know during a race Of what-his competitors
arc doing tends to the conclusion that they
can really know very little. A knowledge of
the pace Of their own mount is about as far
as they can go. The late Admiral Rous es-
teemed a Jockeys judgment as of very little
value. Il have often made Matches" he
once testified, ION the representation Of the
Jockey that, If he had not done so and so, he
could have won, and in nineteen out Of
twenty cases have found the jockey wrong.
Any man who follows the advice Of his jock
ey Is sure to be ruined"