Milford chronicle., 1889-06-14
ODDS AND ENDS.

The mantle Of charity has been worn thin
| trying to cover so many sins
The greatest critics in the world are the
dead beats who do not pay for what they
criticise.
The efforts made to introduce European
vegetables and fruits in the Congo states have
been rewarded with great success
About one hundred and fifty colors are
now obtained from coal tar, which has al
most entirely supplanted vegetable and ami
NAL dyes.
A Redding Cali man has made lot Of
sugar from the native maple, and connois-
seurs pronounce it equal to the eastern pro
duct.
Charles Dickens youngest son, Mr. Edward
Bulwer Lytton Dickens, has been elected a
member Of the Now South Wales parliament
One Dr. Thenius, of Vienna, has invented
process by which he declares that good
heavy sole leather can be made from the
wood of old red beech trees.
At present tho Lifeboat institution has
fleet of nearly 300 boats, but as there are
about goo miles of coast in the United
Kingdom to guard. the number is none too
large
an electric light down in Brunswick, Ca,
and at night makes a pretty picture against
the background of white fire
A piece of coal weighing five and half
tons has been cut at Abercara colliery, Corn
wall, England, to be sent to the Paris exhi-
bition. The block measures feet inches
long, 5 feet inches wide and 3 feet inches
deep.
1t is said the science Of medicine now
knows II, 600 remedies for diseases, and the
most remarkable thing in the face of this is
that people keep on dying, precisely as if dis
ease could not be cured.
The northern papers are abiding to The
southern melon trust There is no melon
trust, but if there was, it would be all right.
The farmers ought 10 have some kind of trust
in order to keep up with the rest of the people.
Atlanta Constitution
It is stated in Fox's book upon regimental
losses in the American civil war, Just pub
lished, that the Thirteenth regiment, Massa-
chusetts Volunteers had a smaller percentage
Of deaths from disease than any three years
regiment in the entire Uibon army.
In fifteen cases investigated after lightning
had struck a building and done more or less
damage il was found that in nine cases the
discharge made its way to earth through the
water pipes, in two through gas pipes and in
only one was there any probability of the
regular lightning conductor having done its
duty.
John A. Fulmer, of Moravia, n. Y, has in
his possession a neck yoke which has a his
tory. 1t originally belonged to Maj Gen.
Frederick William Augustus Baron de Steu-
ben, who came to this country in ITO He
died in 1904, so it will be seen this neck yoke
is quite a relic The wood appears to be
white oak.
At the St. Louis fair ground they have
trained a big elephant to pull the heavy har-
row used to smooth the training track after
the horses are done working, and she is so
fond of the exercise that as soon as she is let
loose she goes to the place and kneels to have
the harness put on her.
A southern farmer has a colt that has
learned to ring the farm bell by catching the
rope in his teeth and prancing back and
forth. He knows, too, when to ring it.; at
daybreak to awaken the farm hands, and at
noon to call them to dinner, and is never
five minutes late or early.
Mr.. Gladstone's ancestors it appears, were
pirates. In 1868 a company Of adventures
sent out the George of Glasgow, fully equip
ped as privateer, to preT on the Dutch mer-
camille marine and 'Ialbert Gladstone.
merchant in Edinburgh" was one of the Co
Adventures From this northumberland
the English Liberal statesman is descended.
The Medical Press says there is a talk Of
applying telephones to the infectious wards
of the French hospitals, so as to enable the
sick people isolated in their contagious suf-
ferings to have the comfort of hearing their |
relatives voices without any risk of convey
ing infection by an interview It certainly /
is very humane idea, and would not-one
would think-be a very costly one to carry
out
Tho pictured rock" of the Kanawha val
ley, near Charleston, W. Va, has been Gov
cred by the river, owing to the building Of a |
dam by the government. 1t is one of very |
few documents of the Indians left in the |
eastern states, and has often been attributed |
to a vanished race of the ordinary Indian |
type. Figures Of men, bears, fish and fowls |
are carved on smooth part of the stone in a |
fashion that is thoroughly Indian, though |
perhaps not the work of tho tribes last in pos
session of Paint Creek and the valley Of the |
Kanawha.