Milford chronicle., 1889-06-28
TERMS: $lOO PER YEAR IN ADVANCE.

company is a young traveller just returned
from abroad.-Swift =,
To have flower gardens in front Of the /
school houses is a movement agitated in some 1
of the Maine towns A good way to teach I
botany
Some mischievous youngster hung pla- !
card on the back Of bench occupied by |
pair Of lovers in the park lastSunday. The /
placard read: "Wlll move about July IL
burlington Free Press
The Japanese government has engaged
two German lawyers in Berlin % proceed to
Toxic and reframe the japanese penal code
to conform to the German instead Of the
French code, as now.
A Canadian paper figures that in the event
Of war between England and the United
States it would last at least five years, and
that 800 600 men would be killed
Turks and Arabs and dancing bears have
become so numerous in the south that the
cities and towns are passing special ordi-
nances to deal with them and make all hands
dance.
Il is estimated that at present there are
from $500 to 1000 electric motors In use in
the United States for stationary power. The
number in this business is rapidly increasing.
Very few consumers Of wheat products are
aware Of the fact that, crackers are the old
est form Of bread Fragments Of unferment-
| ed cakes were discovered in the Swiss lake
dwellings, which belong to'the neoltthic age.
The charge for ascending the Eiifel towers
/ fvefrancs, or one dollar in'our money. The
receipts are already large, and a considerable
proportion comes from American and Eng
Ish people DESTROYS Of acquainting them
selves with high life
Few persons have any idea Of the magni-
tude of the investments Of English and
Scotch capitalists In the United States. They
hold railway bonds to the extent Of ESQ, OOO,-
$50. Welding at the average rate Of ~ per
cent, an annual income Of SO, 10000 Ord
nary railway shares are held to the amount
ef'ab5Ss e1O0,OOo,OOO
Baron Alberto Franchetti, who composes
operas, expends immense sums on their pro
duction Ills work, "Asrael,n was rehearsed
for a month previous to its performance In
Florence, ZOO people being engaged The
mise en- scene was estimated as costing ESQ
600
Under the present police rules In Russia an
officer can enter any house at any hour on the
excuse that ''heS Suspects a suspicious person
NAV have entered there to talk sedition." dc
can arrest the whole family, keep them IN
prison year, and then turn them loose with
out the slightest apology.
A grand washerwomen's competition has
been held at Bonveret on the shores OF Lake
Geneva, between French and Swiss laun
dresses. Two Of the champion washerwomeI
Of Paris appeared to represent their country
, and one, Mile Lefevre, aged 10, won the frs
, prize. A banquet wound up day such a
I the lake had never witnessed
The Welsh newspapers announce the dealt
of William Jones, Of Tyncoed, Swansea val
lev, the oldest inhabitant in the principality
Deceased is said to have attained the remark
able age Of Ito years, which also agrees witt
the record in the parish register at AbeTay
I ron. Cardiganshire, where the veteran wa
? born. The greater part of his life was spen
= in the army, and he was one Of the heroes
Q the battle Of Waterloo
: They tell of judge in Bennington, vt
i who, having spoken of buying safe, was n
o teryiewed by two rival agents, each Of whor
n had so much to say in favor Of his own pa
n ticular safe that the judge was quite at 2 To-
to decide which to buy. In happy mornsr
g he thought Of Burglar Price, whom he ia
himself sentenced, and going to the jail b
obtained this expert saIe breaker OkAiAAoi
:; and then gave the order.
The census Of 1890 will furnish informatio
which no other fedstal census has yielded r
lating to the recorded indebtedness OF IL
people. The idea is to present statistics shov
:, ing the extent Of this private Indebtedness
= record and the form in which it exists
n namely, whether in real estate or mortgage
Z debts otherwise secured, or in general indeb
- edness through notes and bills payable
ia Two constables. were lately dispatched
n Peterhead on q tandem tricycle. in pursuit {
II a Young man who had been wanted on
a charge of theft and fraud committed
Forres. The fugitive was captured at Ne'
IA burg. and after@ard brought to Aberdeen
le await the arrival of an officer from Elgi
shire The chief constable has caused bicycl
n. or tricycles to be attached to several static
10 within. his jurisdiction, with the view OF pc
ut hitting Journeys being undertaken by rol
Of where there is no railway, and this is the FL
occasion on which long journey has be
id performed on tricycles by members Of t
~ county force.