Milford chronicle., 1889-12-13
ODDS AND ENDS.

Domestic skeletons are very often formed
of the bones Of contention.
The greatest pleasure know is to do a good
action By stealth, and have it found out By
accident.-Lamb.
It was Garricls who first introduced foot
lights on the English stage. in 1865. He bor.
rowed the practice from Italy.
"Ycs, sir" said a man with a grndge
against the orator of the day; ''his speech
was funny enough to make donkey laugh
I laughed till cried"
1t is stated that the car Of Russia receives
from all his gold mines in eastern Siberia
about 5000 pounds of pure gold every year
Some Wheeling boys put up a job on q
user Of the weed, concealinga piece of soap
in the plug. The tobacco chewer masticated
some Of the compound and was sick for two
days.
Chewing gum recently transmitted the
germs Of diphtheria from one little girl in
Bridgeport, Conn, to three other small dam
sells, two of them dying few days after
wanls
NJ. Laguerre, the friend Of Gen Boulanger,
has political poodle called Mira. Wheel he
asks it, "What do YOU think of Ferry, Mirzag'
"
N. Laguerre taught it to do this by kicking it
whenever ~ Ferry's name was spoken in his
presence.
The most fashionable hen in New York
state is said to live at Winslow's mills, in the
town Of Waldoboro. She started in life
plain, dark brown pullet, but soon exchanged
this for a black and white suit. The next
time she shed her feathers she came out as
white as snow, and this fall she appears in
black, white and tan dress.
While removing an old straw stack near
Curtis, Neb., there was found a hen which
had been imprisoned under the pile for sew
eral months A half dozen chicks in the
nest were dead, but the hen lived od-twenty-four
hours after being restored to light and lib
erty
The smallest circular saw in practical use
is a tiny disk about the size of a shilling,
which is employed for cutting the Sits in gold
pens. These saws are about as thick as Ordi-
nary paper and revolve some 4, 600 times per
minute. Their high velocity keeps them
rigid, Notwithstanding their extreme thin
ness.
The sum of S4O0,OOO has been paid by the
Quebec government to Father Turgeon, rep
resenting the Jesuit order in Canada, in con
sideration of the orders total and perpetual
of claims to the estates which
became the property Of the crown when the
order was suppressed nearly century ago
Living within two and half miles of Mat
tapOisette. Mass, where all were born, are
nine brothers and sisters named Bolles, who
range in age from 69'to IS years. Altogether
there were twelve children, but three died, |
one at the age of &c, anotherat the age of GO, !
and the third when he was 25. The mother |
lived to be a nonagenarian. The father died |
in his tlfty-eighth year.
King Otto of Bavaria receives 4,231.OA |
marks, or a little over a million dollars, a |
year, from which $685. COO is deducted to pay |
of the debts Of his predecessor, King Lud- |
wig. How large those debts are may be in
ferred from the fact that it take fifteen years
to wipe them out entirely,
In France, when a patient is under chloro-
form, on the slightest symptoms Of failare Of
The heart, they turn him nearly upside down l
that is with his head downward and his
leels in the air. This they say, always re-
stores him; and such is their faith in the
Efficacy Of this method that the operating
ables in the Paris hospitals are made so that
II an instant they can be elevated with one
nd in the air, so as to bring the patient into
position resembling that of standing on his
lead