Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1889-08-09
ODDS AND ENDS.

The wheat yield in Kansas is estimated at
81, 100000 bushels. which is just double that
Of last year
a Washington county, O., farmer 30 years
old assists the hands in the harvest field
A gentleman Of Pomona, Cal, says that
only five days have passed since March, lsSS
that he has not had fresh Strawberries on his
table
The actual consumption Of sugar by the
people Of the United Kingdom amounted in
1888 to l,0S3,O 900 tons The consumption in
1855 was 100000 tons more than in 1883.
The Bulgarian government has concluded
a loan Of S5,000,00O with New York bank
A syndicate was prepared to advance S20,-
10000 to the government
Aluminium for dental purposes is said to be
coming into favor 1t is pronounced better
than Rubber, being bright, strong, odorless
and wholesome, and less costly than gold.
Griffith Williams and family Of eight
have left for Wales They arc survivors of
the Johnstown food. One Of the children,
who was born in the attic of house that
was floating along the stream, has been chris
tened Moses.
A Havana dispatch says that numerous
assures have suddenly appeared in the earth
near Matanzas and have created great alarm
among the inhabitants Of that vicinity. Some
of the assures are COO feet long, "a feet wide
and 20 feet deep
A Cincinnati man used 10000 gallons OF
water on his lawn last year His neighbor
trusted to Providence to sprinkle his, and
when the fall came he had the hest lawn.
Eighteen Cincinnati grocers offer their Gus
toners per cent. discount if they will carry
home their purchases. They can afford to
do even better than this, as some Of them
have to keepas many as eight horses, wag-
ons and drivers
A purse of Sl0swas put up that two Ar
kansas men might make test as to which
could stand the mosquitoes the longest Both
stripped and sat down in a swamp. One
gave in after twenty minutes and the other
stood it ten minutes'longer.
The native doctors Of China are to a great
extent self constituted. Any person. who is
In want of a livelihood, and who can read
and write sufficiently wen to be able to copy
out prescriptions from a medical book, can
set up in practice without fear Of govern
msnt or other Interference
To be ambitious Of true honor, Of the true
glory and perfection Of our natures, is the
very principle and incentive of virtue; but
to be ambitious Of titles, Of place, Of cere-
monial respects and civil pageantry is as
vain and little as the things are which we
court.-Sir P. Sidney.
A Greenland expedition has been planned
for next summer Seven men, under the
command of an officer of the Danish. royal
navy, will leave Copenhagen in the spring,
taking with them provisions sufficient for
two and half years. Their destination will
be the east coast of Greenland, and they will
explore it between the degrees Of SO and %
north latitude
One method Of keeping the railroad track
clear of sand near the Caspian sea Is to soak
theroad bed with sea water. In other places
it is protected with an armor of clay. Pali-
sades are erected sometimes to stop drifting
Another method employed is the cultivation
of hardy plants such as are used for the
samepurpose on the Danish coast.
There are few that are not aware, at one
time Of their life or another, that they know
a better way Of living, Of doing Goodness
consists in living thus better, in doing thus
better What is needed them is a school for
learning, not so much what is to be done as
to do what we know ought to be done.-Ivani
Panin.
A new candle has been brought out which
extinguishes itself in an hour. This it does
by means of a tiny extinguisher of tin, which
is fastened in the wax by wires and which
effectually performs its task. It is only nee.
essaTy to remove this dinlinutive extinguisher
when its work is done, and the candle is again
ready to burn another hour
The huge organ for the town hall, Sydney,
has been completed iP London. Its most re
markable feature is sixty-four foot stop
The lowest note Of the stop, expressed in
organ builders language as ''CCCCC, b" is two
ootaYes below the lowest c on the pianoforte,
and as it gives only eight vibrations In a
second it cannot be perceived as note at all.
Its effect lies wholly in the extraordinary
richness and power Of its upper harmonics, by
which it re-enforces notes given by the higher
pipes.