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


In Great Britain last year 80 persons were
killed and $3.50 injured on the railways.
A poetic genius is ono who can take a bare
idea and clothe it in beautiful language.
Imagination Is that part Of man that mag
niaes his own troubles and his neighbor's
joys
There IS not much fun in the composition
of man who has to put snuff in his nose to
tickle it with.
Limit the number Of your intimate friends,
and you will limit the number of your future
enemies.
Farmer Cthreateningly1-rve great mind
to thrash you'll Little Son-Take man Of
yer size. Take NAL Father trembles at the
thought and sits DOWN.
A Philadelphia district messenger boy
walked forty miles in nine hours He was of
on fishing expedition, however.
Numerous centennials are reminders that
our country is getting to be quite old; old
enough to DO bald and have bald headed
eagles
A new process Of hardening plaster of Paris
has been discovered, whereby it can be
adapted to the construction OF flooring in
| place Of wood.
The manufactured coffee bean can readily
/ be distinguished froms the natural bean by
the property of sinking when immersed in
ether, as genuine coffee beans float on that
liquid.
It took IA horses, 100000 pounds of hay
27,676 pounds Of bread and 81 barrels of APP
pies to feed the animals Of the New York
Geological gardens last year.
Mrs. May E. Bryan, who, so some papers
say, is the only southern woman writer with
a future, receives 5000 year for editing
Munroe's Fashion Bazaar.
The cost of every pound of fish taken at a
summer resort where the fishing is advertised
to be excellent is $3.50, and it may be a
mighty poor fish at that
In all evils which admit remedy, impa-
thence should be avoided, because it wastes
that time and attention in complaints which,
ifproperly applied, might remove the cause.
johnson.
John Healy, at Columbus, O., going in |
swimming with some companions, dived into |
twenty feet Of water and never came to the |
surface. When his body was recovered it /
was found eutangled in the meshes of a lot of |
loose wire, into which he had plunged and /
which had held him down.
have lived to know that the great secret |
Of human happiness is this; Never suffer your |
energies to stagnate. The old adage of ''too |
many irons in the fire" conveys an untruth /
You cannot have too many-poler, tongs and
all-keep them all going.-Adam Clarke.
The New York fish commissioners have
requested all fishermen to report the num-
Der Of shad caught in the waters Of that
state this year, with a view to guide that
body in future planting This is the first re-
corded suggestion that any serious deduction
can be made from fish stories
Peter Stein, of St Paul, walking along a
bluff near Vermiion Falls Mimi, with two
young ladies, was asked by one Of them to
pick for her a sprig of honeysuclIle blossoms
that hung over the edge of the precipice He
held to the limb Of tree as he reached over
for the flower, the limb broke and he fell
sixty feet to the rocks and was killed.
At High Ridge, near Stamford, Conn,
there is a wife who is the mother Of fourteen
children, all living, and mono of them twins.
All but two live at home, and these two.
catching the scarlet fever, went home to be
nursed. They gave it to the other dozen,
and the whole fourteen were sick at once,
and medicine had to be mixed in pitchers and
bread pens.
A placard in a Washington street window
arrests the attention of the male population
who pass that way by its announcement Of
Kisses, 25 cents. They must be very sweet,
considering the lasses from which they are
obtained. Budget.
Glassware cracks when placed in hot water.
because, being poor conductor Of heat, the
outside becomes hot and expands, while the
interior is still cool The strain resulting
from this unequal expansion causes the tract
ure. For this reason thin glass, which is
quickly heated through, is less likely to break
than the thick, heavy varieties.
General Manager Coleman, Of the North
Pacific Coast railroad, has been asked by a
number Of people living along the line of that
road to change the road bed above Duncan's
Mills for a distance Of some 100 yards, so as
10 run the track through he.trunk of one 9Th,
l2a large Tedwoods In that neIghOJlfGc -
The idea is to have the road tunnel, as il
were, the high stump oS one of the giants of
the forest recently cut down. The tree trunk
is sixteen feet in diameter.
The restoration Of the famous Wilmington
Giant" situate on the Sussex estate of the
Duke of Devonshire, few miles inland from
EastbOurne, has been resolved upon. The
figure, which is believed to be Of Celtic origin,
poses in an attitude similar to that Of the Co
ossus Of Rhodes, but its proportions are double
those Of that statue, and it is unlike any other
either in barbarous or classical
levice, except an almost exact delineation on
one Of the ancient Justice gems. There are
IN its vicinity British earthworks of lunar
form.
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