Milford chronicle., 1889-04-19
lsed, at an average OF nine cents a gallon.

used, at an average OF nine cents gallon.
Milwaukee Is said to have the first draw
bridge working by electricity, structure 800
feet long, turned by a ten horse power motor.
The power Of a windmill has been success.
fully applied to the generation Of electricity
for domestic purposes by Professor Blyth, Of
the Glasgow Philosophical society,
II any housekeeper finds it imperative to
clean windows on an icy cold day she can &C
complish It safely by using cloth dampened
with alcohol, which never freezes
George Meredith has tasted the bitter
sweets Of authorship He has been miser-
ably poor, and once lived on oatmeal por-
ridge for very long and proportionately
hungry year.
In case Of burning the hand, which often
occurs when one is cooking, at once spread a
thick covering Of common baking soda over
the injured part, then tie cloth over It, It
| givesspeedy relief
The experiment at the Los Angeles, Cal,
lighting station with crude oil instead of coal
under the boilers but corroborates what was
long since proved. Oil gives an intenser,
and, above all, a more even heat than coal,
not to speak of its convenience
When Lord Beaconsield was on his way
back from the congress of Berlin, he re-
marked to a friend; 81 shall not last long
When am gone, Lord Salisbury ought to be
leader. And in his nephew will be found a
second Pitt" The nephew, of course, is Mr.,
Balfour.
A citizen Of East Union, Me-, has historic
teacup that its former owner, a lady, used for
more than seventy-fve years She never
drank from any other cup, and it is estimated
that she drank nearly 400 barrels Of tea from
the same, and consumed in the mere act Of
drinking tea nearly year of time.
Professor Richard T Ely has been invited
to deliver the Carew lectures before the Hart
ford Theological seminary. He has accepted,
and the title Of his general subject will be
THE Church and the World" 1t will deal
with therelation Of Christianity to economies. |
A remarkable piece of wood has been sent
to Portland, Ore, for exhibition. It is a
board of white cedar 20 feet long, 80 inches |
wide and 3 inches thick, without the least
sign Of knot or twist of any kind The grain |
is as straight and regular as X traced by |
human hands,
The use of the fan is a lost art Perhaps /
the long gloves have something TO do with it. /
Reaching over the elbows, they make it more 4
or less difficult to manipulate a fan. At any |
rate it is certain that playing conspicuously |
with fan is not at present considered good |
form among McAllister's Four Hundred
The Ocean Bay society, a corporation re-
Gently organized, proposes to buy the i'm
mense hotel with 1900 rooms which cost
Sl,7O,OO0 and has been so long idle at Rock
away Beach, together with an adjacent plot
of ground containing about twenty-five
acres. 1t will be converted into n large re-
ligious seaside resort similar to Ocean Grove.
and although it will be non-sectarian will be
under Methodist government
Among the many who have sent letters To
DR.. Talnage in acknowledgement Of copies Of
his new book, THE Pathway Of Life,n ere
Queen Victoria and Lord Tennyson. The
book is having a wonderful sale, and already
100000 copies have been contracted for by a
southern subscription company. DR.. Tai
mage says that he expects a million copies
will be sold.
The London Times was hoaxed a century
ago nearly as badly as in the present instance
by clever gang Of forgers who got up a
bogus edition Of the French paper L'Eclair,
at that time recognized as an authority upo6
matters of international news The paper
what purported TO be the text Of a
treaty of peace between the French republic
and tie emperor of Austria A copy was got
into the hands Of the correspondent of The
Times at Dover, and from him went to Lon
don, where the alleged treaty was published
in The Times and was such good and unex-
pected news that the stock market went ur
with rush. 1t was several days before il
was discovered that the paper was a forged
edition and had been gotten up by London
'peculators to bring about a boom in stocks.