Milford chronicle., 1889-10-11
ODDS AND ENDS.

There is a sunaoWer stalk at Hannibal, Mo-,
which is sixteen feet high and which contains
$50 blossoms.
An English plasterer has been staggered
with a fortune Of 81 400 900, left 10 him by a
clergyman who emigrated and prospered in
Sydney.
a curious and interesting exhibition will
he opened in Cologne on June /, 1890, in
which will be displayed an immense collec-
ton of arms, Instruments etc. serving 10
illustrate the art Of warfare, and bearing in
any way on the condition of troops or armies.
The Afghan amcer's method Of vengeance
on his rebel prisoners is pretty highly devel-
oped. One batch, numbering 800 were put
to death three a day. One OF the trio was
always hanged dressed in yellow and green,
another was dressed in black and blown from
gun, and the third was dressed in red and
cut up with a sword.
Az eccentric bihliomaninc who died recent
ly in England, leaving a highly vel liable Ii
brary, refused 10 allow a book in It over a
certain size, and absolutely excluded anything
written either by clergyman or a woman.
They had no business with literature, in his
opinion, and were incapable of achieving sue
cess in it.
writer in The United Service Magazine
says that the stones used for scrubbing the
decks of ships are called "holy stonesn because
the work was generally done on Sunday. But
a writer In The Churchnan says that they
were so called because those who used them
had to 60 down on their knees to do their
work
Lieut. Schwatka estimates the number Of
living cliff dwelers be has discovered in
southern Chihuahua at from 5000 to Il, 600
They are very wild and shy, land upon the
approach Of white people fly to their caves or
cliffs by notched sticks placed against the face
of the cliffs if too steep, although they ascend
vertical stone faces if there are the slightest
crevices for the fingers and toes.
A French woman invented one Of the most
original methods Of dealing with refractory
child ever revealed to the public She fast
ened on the hat Of her S-year-old daughter,
who had been naughty, placaTd inscribed
with the words, "AIadenloiselle is q thief and
a liar" and walked her through the streets
II took policeman to rescue the lady from
the mobbing Of an indignant crowd.
A writer in The Canada Presbyterian main
tains that "it is not going too far to say that
if some ministers now in their graves had
heard during their lives the good things
spoken Of them after they were dead, they
might not have died. The help given them
by little kindness might have kept them
alive and in good working condition few
years longer"
Who is responsible for the misuse of the
word ''whiskersn in Americal The word is
today almost universally used instead Of
beard. Whiskers, correctly speaking, are
only that portion Of mans facial hair which
is worn on either side Of his face, while the
rest is shaven clean. a man with full beard
cannot be said to wear whiskers AS the
very name indicates, the appendnges are
has almost lost the art OF trimming beardS.
they are now so little worn in this country.
One Of the cannon used by the American
colonists in 1868 in defending their settle
lnents from the attacks Of the Indian chief
Pontiac is imbedded in the foundation walls
of the residence of J. Samuel Krause. of
Bethlehem, Pa, where it was placed by the
officers OF the Moravian church to prevent
young America from.Aring it of on liberty
days.
Professor Lancaster proposes in Nature,
that this new word, "Mithridatisnl, be ad-
mitted to the scientific vocabulary, to signify
that immunity from the effects Of a poison
which is induced by the administration Of
gradually increased doses. Theselection of the
word has reference to the fable concerning
Mithridates, king OF Pontus, that he became
so charged with the poisons he experimental
with, that he obtained an immunity from
them all