Litchfield enquirer., 1871-02-02
MrscHLLANHous ITEMS.

E-o The Winchester Arms Go. have shipped g. 900 stand of arms to Turkey. aJ. s,5 s grey eagle, eet across, was killed ai ec North Stonington, lately.
 . An lb. salmon has been caught in the Housatonic.
 An enormous moose has sirayed into e Andover. Fl
 n A horse and wagon were stolen from un : der shednear Hartford. Friday night. C3 Theodore Thomas gives a concert in Hartford. tonight.
 The Internal Revenue Returns of the 1st District were $55, 800, last month. 5asaa S64, 4,000 worth of real estate changed ,Tt hsndslin Wallingford. Friday.
 The oldest person in Bridgeport, aged 98. died last week sa An English Opera written by Professor Porter, is to be performed in Bridgeport, soon. .z- si A party of Norwich fishermen walked nine miles to their fishing ground, and then. had to walk back for their bait
 A man was attacked by highwayman, lately. He knocked the fellow down with his whip and then escaped.
 zl Norwich has paid $lO,OOO to strolIing minstrel troupes, within few weeks, but allows the Otis library to remain closed!
 The Rockville Water Power Go. propose to build reservoir, which will hold water enough to run their mills ten months without drop of rain.
 Hiram Powers will visit the United States this summer. He has not been home for thirty.three years.
 There are 19 men on the Bridgeport police force, of which number 12 are on night duty. There were ,488 arrests last year, of which 860 were for drunkenness. 962 were Irish. 2,841 lodgers were accom- modatea.
 A Paris balloon was picked up in Nor way recently, which, besides three mail bags and six carrier pigeons, contained a bag in which were found several articles of toilet, some underclothing marked B. 0. M. asd R. M., Scotch plaid, an officers cap, and an electric battery. The fate of the poor voyagers remains mystery.
 On pleasant days Noank goes down to the sea in smacks to fish. Saturday it hon. ored tho old custom. Mir. Nash honored it more in the breach than the observance, by sitting down on large fish hook. The operation of cutting this out with dull bait knife was not considered by Mir. Nash an overwhelming success.-Nor,oich Bulle Hn. q D. -.i...a.
 The safe in the steamboat depot at Gro- ton, at the time of the great fire which des- troyed the steamer Commonwealth, went through. the floor on which it, stood, down to the bottom of the Thames, and remain ed there until Saturday last, when it was recovered by Captain H. s. Bartlett. Its contents, unlike those of the safes which we read about, were totally destroyed.
 A lady residing in German city, which is heavily taxed for both men and money by the war, writes her friends that the cost of living is so much increased in con- sequence that she has to pay 65 cents for a pair of white kid gloves "witb two buttons, that new silk bonuet costs nearly @ dol lar in gold, cab for two persons. to the opera and back, 37 cents, and washing is charged for at the extravagant rate of IF cents dozen pieces President Woolsey' of Yale College, has been peculiarly afflicted in the loss of chil- dren. Some years ago he lost three daugh- ters in one week by scarlet fever, since t00u u0 uaS lOSG SOu anu UdU&JlGef WlCu. in two days of each other; and now fol- lows the death of two more daughters while travelling in Palestine.
 From HOO up 10 1755, Yale had only one professor. From 1755 to 1901, there were only two. There were four in 1910, seven in 1915. ten in 1920, thirteen in 1925. four teen in 1880. fifteen iu 1885. sixteen in l84O. eighteen in 1845, twenty three in 1850, twenty seven in 1855, twenty eight in 1860, thirty-two in 1865, and thirty mine In 1870. Previous to the administration of President Woolsey, only thirty seven persons had held the office of professor in Yale College. while. during the twenty five years of his administration, fifty have been added to the list The annual cata- logue for l845-6 contains the names of nineteen professors and instructors, and of five hundred and eighty-eight students, while the catalogue for 187O-1 contains the names of sixty-five professors and instruct ors. and of seven hundred and ffty.fiv students
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