Milford chronicle., 1889-09-20
ODDS AND ENDS.

Upward of twenty-eight large bales Of hui
man hnir were brought to France in the last
steamer that arrived from the Orient.
TIE richest man in the house of commons
is said to be Mr.. McEwan, Home Rule mem
Der for ono Of the divisions 81 Edinburgh,
worth coz, 600 per annum.
1t is not generally known that Mr.. Glad-
stone has only three fingers on his left hand.
The index finger was shot off forty-seven
years ago by an accident in the hunting field
The art of putting the right men in the
right places is first in the science of govern
nlent; but that of finding places for the dis
contented is the most difficult -Talleyrand.
A recent cargo of Java sugar, landed at
Philadelphia, was infested with swarms Of
sugar feas resembling potato bugs, and in
aicting a sting like bees
A fire that broke out in shaft of IA coal
mine at Birmingham, Ala, imprisoned
miner and sixteen mules The miner was
reached about ten days afterward and was
found to be dead Eighteen days after the
Are the mules, which were much further
back in the mine, were reached, and all but
one Of the sixteen were alive, although too
weak to stand.
a San Francisco newspaper thinks that
Si2O00,O00 is yearly drained" by the Chi
nese through various channels from city of
100000 inhabitants 1t figures this way,
There are 10000 Chinese in San Francisco.
These persons earn at least 81 day each
over and above their board That is $4,000
n day, Sl,0l0,000 a month Of twenty-six days
and over Sl2,0OO,OOO a year Most Of this
money, it thinks, goes directly or indirectly
to China never to return
The highest structure of masonry in the
world is said to be the national museum re-
Gently completed at Turin. 1t was originally
designed for a synagogue, but it proved in
adapted to that purpose, and was sold to the
city. II was then converted into a museum
as a monument TO the memory Of Victor
Emmanuel. On top Of the dome rises spire
nearly as high as the whole Of the rest Of the
building. The gilt statue on the top of this
spire stands SIS feet from the ground.
An Indian called Old Gabriel, living at the
Monterey County hospital, Cal, is believed
to be 100 years old. In 1910 Gabriel was al.
ready a grandfather, and in III assisted in
the construction Of the first chapel at Monte
rey. In 1915 when he married his sixth
wife, he was said to be over 40 years old.
In Cypress the eggs of locusts are gathered.
and the developed insects are caught in sys-
TENS of screens. The quantity of eggs col
lected was 3716 tons in 1879, 237 tons in 1850
and $50 tons in 1881 More than 6,OOO
screens were used in lSS2, and l05, 600 OK, 900
insects were destroyed; while in 1886 there
were more than II, 900 screens and 1900
traps, the former representing an aggregate
length OF about 3l5 miles.
Nineteen hundred will not be a leap year.
because the length of the year is not exactly
365L days. 1t is really a little less eleven
minutes and fourteen seconds, and as the
difference keeps increasing from year tol
year, it is necessary to drop out the extra
day every hundred years or 50 to bring the
calendar right. Even this correction is not
quite exact, but it will serve for a great
many centuries, SO there is no pressing need
of reform.
The features of the poetess Sappho have
perhaps been discovered in mosaic recently
unearthed at Sparta. The greater part Of a
mosaic floor Of private house, In fair preser
walton, contains a square with a woman's
bust labeled Sappho. The head is crowned
with a wreath, and the face is handsome /
Other portraits were in the same mosaic, but
unfortunately that which was labeled Al
keiades lacks the portrait itself.
Apropos of the story told about the shah
hlStuklng one OF inc smart sllken programmes /
provided for him at the opera for a pocket
handkerchief, It is said that that famous ri |
ratical Princess Granna Naillo Grace OiMal- |
iey) when at Queen Elizabeth's court, was
decidedly primitive in her habits Observing /.
this, lady in waiting, fancying Grace had
forgotten her pocket handkerchief, handed |
her a cambria one. Grace, who had a bad
cold, used it promptly, and then threw it in /
the fire, doing so every time fresh mouchoir
was lent her.
The export trade in matches is a most I'M |
portant one to Japan. China, however, is /
almost her only customer. Noless than 49,, 900 !
yens' worth were exported to the Aowery land /
in 1857. The matches made in Japan are all |
safety matches" and, although they are
given out to be inferior to the European arti- !
Gle, the price is SO low rs to defy competition |
in the Chinese markets
The country home of Mr.. Charles A. Dana |
is an island, called Dosoris, on the north |
shore Of Long Island The island consists of
forty-five acres under a high state of cultiva |
ton, being one immense garden. The pas ]
ture and forage lands are on the main land !
A sea wall, over which hang festoons of vines, |
runs around the entire island. The house is |
an old one but it is large and comfortable,
and surrounded by vine covered piazzas. A |
perfect lawn in front runs down to the sound |
glimpses of which are to be caught between /
the trees.