Milford chronicle., 1889-08-30
ODDS AND ENDS.

The university OF Oxford has appliances
for printing in $50 different languages
One man in western Australia owns and
controls nearly 100000 acres Of land
There are twenty trust companies in
ehe state of New York. with resources aggre-
eating S2G9,5l7,s5G
A Miss Glanf, Of Pittsburg, married her
uncle-stepfather and becomes stepmother to
her brother
Who is wiser He that learns from every
one. Who is powerful Re that governs his
/ passions. Who is richi He that is content
-Dinwyn
A man named Clemmer has been diseov-
cred In Reading who has made 800 clay idols,
which he keeps in his house and HOrships
with idolatrous devotion
The strength and safety of a community
consists in the virtue and intelligence Of its
youth, especially Of its young mem
Halves
There has lately been such a glut Of her
rings that the Scotch fishing sInacks are
leaving Ardglass for home, herring being SO
cheap and plentiful that it does not pay to
Catch them
The present estimated population of the
United States is 64.OOO,OOO The annual
growth by natural increase and immigration
Is placed at about a million. The estimated
foreign population is not far below 1900,
600.
1t was lately stated by one of the heads Of
departments Of the London and Northwest
ern Railway company that that company is
sues yearly fifty tons of railway tickets
A Gothic government was established in
CASTLE about 500 By the marriage Of Fer
dinand Of Aragon and Isabella Of CASTLE, in
l474 the first step toward the union of Ara
gon and CASTLE was taken. Both kingdoms
became one monarchy in 1870
It is rumored that the queen has at last
yielded to her physicians and will take a long
sea trip perhaps to India, or possibly to
Canada and the United States
A recent discussion about the height of
trees in the forest Of Victoria brings from
the government botanist the statement that
he has seen one 525 feet high The chief in
spector of forests measured fallen one that
was 4S5 feet long.
Are we not to pity and supply the poor,
though they have no relation to usi No re-
lationl That cannot be. The gospel styles
them all our brethren; nay, they have a
nearer relation to us-our fellow members;
and both these from their relation to our
Saviour himself, who calls them his brethren
-Sprat.
The primate Of all England has two chairs
considerably over one thousand years old
the chair Of Augustine at Canterbury and
the chair in which he sits at Lambeth, which
belonged to the abbot of Reculver in the
Seventh century.
He that will not permit his wealth to do
any good to others while he is living, pre-
vents it from doing any good to himself when
he is dead, and by an egotism that is suicidal
and has a double edge, cuts himself off from
the truest pleasure here and the highest hap
piness hereafter.
Willard Matteson's pet cat Of Hope Valley,
Conn, killed sixty-one chickens for him in
five days, making a good record Of one
dozen slaughtered each day. Then Matteson
killed the cat.
A coon killed dozen chickens for Alden f.
Miner, of North Stonington, Conn, and
within an hour after Miner had discovered
his loss his deaf dog Pontius PLATE, the first
coon dog in the county, had freed the coon in
a neighboring wood, and Mr.. Miner shot it.
That coon was the 293d one that POntius Pi
late has aided in slaughtering in the last
fourteen years.
In Australia there are nearly 247, 600 more
males than females. Including New Zealand
and Tasmania, the excess Of males over fe-
males is 3Ol $40
The ways of auctioneers in different parts
Of the world vary greatly. In England and
America the seller bears the expense of the
sale, but in France the purchaser bears the
L.
In Holland it is still worse the buyer being
required to pay 10 per cent additional for
The expenses Of the sale.
Refrigerators of enormous size are now
being placed in all large commission houses
nCleveland. Some Of them are large enough
'or the storageof from 10000 to &C, 600 pounds
If butter The temperature within them is
lept at 20 dogs, and the public has the enter
aiming sight of seeing ice form on buckets Of |
water in midsummer.
The meeting Of orange gro wers and dealers |
'ecently held, was hardly well enough at
ended to give promise of any immediate and
ar reaching revolution in the methods of the |
orange trade. Less than dozen persons in
crested in the business were present, and only |
wO of them were from New York
There is no reason TO believe In the carry !
ng out of the project now before the Domin-
on government for laying a new cable in the |
Atlantic. If laid, it will be the shortest ocean /
able line between Europe and America, or,
n other words, viii be less than 1000 miles in |
ength The project is strongly supported by |
he press in all the provinces Of the New Do
ninion, and is favored by several Of the lead
rs Of the Dominion government The cable
an be laid at a cost Of 81, 900, and there
appears to be no difficulty in procuring the
apital required.
Tie latest story Of Kansas productiveness
ONES from Ford county, where Mr. Stern
,erg planted twenty acres to melons and sold
he seeds TO an eastern seed house for S4OO
from the melons he manufactured 1000 bar
els of vinegar, which he values at $40 per
'arrel. This melon vinegar he claims 70 be
ully equal to, if not better, than the cider
inegar II this story is true Kansas will
,e principally devoted to the production Of
in a short space of time. Just
hink of It'll 400 for the product of TWEEN
y acres of land.
A Great Powder Man.