Litchfield enquirer., 1871-09-28
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Princess Alice, Queen Victoria's daugh- ter, is writing serial novel for German magazine ..t ...... ....
 Tom Hughes has been very i'll, but is in Scotland.
 The health of Queen Victoria has not been improved by her residence in the Highlands ',.o
 A young lady student in the State Uni. versity of Missouri, has gained the first prize for Greek scholarship. Lad Ug4a
 A single establishment in Sheffield, Eng, uses 631 tons of sheet steel year in mak- ing pens, averaging l, ,OOO, ,OO0 pens to the ton.
 At the ''Passion Play" at Ober Ammer- gan, so many Americans went behind the scenes to intrigue with the actresses that the inhabitants complained. s~5 ars -.. :-
 In Philadelphia, say the city papers, it is impossible for decent women to appear up- on the streets after nightfall without being outrageously insnlted. ..
 The whole yearly income from the meat stock of the United States is estimated at not less than $500, ,O0O, ,O0O including beef, dairy and labor of working oxen. ess
 By the bursting of steam boilers in vari- ous parts of the world during the last sixty days there have been 1926 persons killed and injured. 5- In some places South the farmers have put in peanuts instead of cotton. The pea. nut crop of Virginia last year was probably under.estimated at 400, ,O00 bushels. '. At Summit Hill. few miles from Mauch Chunk, Pa.. there is coal mine which has been on fire since period antedating 1859, 1 in which year the fire was discovered, hay. | ing then made considerable progress. 1 The forthcoming election in Pennsylvan- 1 ia derives it's chief importance from the fact that the Legislature to be elected will have to redistrict the State under the new l apportionment of Representatives to Con- l gress. .r .-.. -.... | Bits of iron will prevent water from ibe. I coming putrid. Sheet iron or iron trim. mings are the best. The offensive smell of water in vases of flowers would be avoid. ed by putting few small nails in the bot tom of the vases. 7.g .s j. s- i1sgssIt ] A well informed writer says that more than 15O, ,O0O acres of the best timber in America are cut every year to supply the demand for railway sleepers alone. In a single year the locomotives in the United States consumed $56, 1000 worth oi wood.
 The American cheese factory system or. iginated in 1851, and in 1868 only about twenty factories were in existence. There are now not far from eleven hundred, ot which 824 are in New York. To 66O oi the factories milk is supplied by 287, ,31e COWS. 4 Ft -QG4a1
 Frederick A. Warner, of Waterbury, Conn, was severely and probably fatally injured last week by the breaking of the rope of an elevator, which carried him with the elevator from the second story to, the basement. The lower part of his body is paralyzed and fracture of the skull is also feared. yab4a 82 v1. ba. aim ed
 A Washington correspondent asks:
 .Why doth the little busy bee T Delight to bark and bite,
 II And gather honey all the day, l4E@ And eat it up at night?'' ae.a In Sir Walter Scott's Life, there is an amusing account of his professional emolu ments at Jedburgh. In one case. Scott's client was convicted of fhousebreaking. Af thanked him for his exertions, and said he , was sorry he could not give him fee, but he would give him two bits of advice 1 First, that 2 yelping terrier, inside of 2 house. was better protection than big r dog outside; and secondly, that no lock so ? bothered Q housebreaker as an old, rusty one. ,.5 -. - s'-s.'7 ..T,S' s''e3 ,oo
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