Litchfield enquirer., 1871-12-07
INSTANTANEOUS ITEMS.

0UEkOeC4o ~-E Es~es@ S&A ese AStAeAtsA@&s VI The coal trade vas very dull last week.
 Last year Cincinnati paid Sc. .699. .5OO for beer. m
 Commodore Ashbury is building still another yacht
 England is about adopting Pullman pal ace cars.
 There are 400 young ladies at Vassar College.
 Aton of straw makes eight hundred and fifty pounds of paper.
 Russia is immensely busy in accumula- ting warlike material.
 "vaccinate vaccinatel' is now the cry of the New York press.
 An eight pound trout was caught at Os- siuee, N. H., the other day. @
 The residents of Lowell complain of a lack of hearse accommodations.
 ssHociety women" are declared to be the hardest workers of their sex.
 In Pennsylvania turkeys are selling at ten cents a pound.
 Ten million dozen corsets were import edinto the United States last year.
 A calf in Pennsylvania is ten months old and weighs half g ton.
 Cows are sold by auction in Orleans county, Vt, at from $10 to $23 per head. Duke Alexis has accepted the invitation to visit the Hub" December 2. 
 Brown university at Providence, R. l., has PA students this year.
 Frenchmen are buying California squir- rels to make kid gloves with.
 Diptheria is prevailing to an alarming extent in many sections of Vermont
 Gen. Joseph B. Johnson is preparing a history of his campaigns for qualifications. East Tennessee claims to possess the most extensive deposits of marble ill the world. Over 50, 900 photographs were purchas- ed at Harvard and Brown colleges last year.
 Chicago employed 600 printers before the fire. but will get along with 200 this winters
 Raphael Pumpelly of Harvard Universi- to has been elected State Geologist of Mis- souri.
 A single batch of "Texas Items" in the Galveston News gives an acccnnt of six murders.
 About 260 feet of progress was made in the Hoosac Tunnel during the month of October.
 Three thousand alligator hides were tanned by one firm in Boston the past year.
 One thousand bushels of sea clans were raked up on Nantucket bar Tuesday,. U. s. Minister Stekles was married at Madrid, recently, to Miss Creach, and comes home on visit.
 Five hundred thousand laborers are now on a strike for better terms in Germany. Emigrants are arriving at Chicago talk ing with them quantities of imported smallpox,
 The corpse of a whale sixty feet long drifted ashore on the Massachusetts coast Saturday.
 A panther. loose in the streets of New Orleans, caused quite wild excitement for time.
 The Courant says that any city cursed with worse managed street department than Hartford is to be pitied.
 A bill in the Illinois Legislature pro- poses that women shall not be debarred from any occupation except the military The only Bible in Velleio, Cal, is an old one aprinted in 1911, and iu black letter, which the man who owns it cannot read.
 Experiments on the French sugar-beet at the Amherst Agricultural College show ayield of thirteen per cent. of sugar.
 Seven thousand nine hundred and nine. ty dogs call Little Rock their home. The population is increasing.
 John Tucker of Sangerville, Me-, was found dead on load of wood last week. Heart disease is supposed to have been the cause.
 Dresses are to be made long enough, says cynical old bachelor, to sweep all the orange peel and cigar stumps off the sidewalk.
 Two hundred and twelve buildings, with 8 street frontage of over three miles, are BOW being put up in Chicago.
 The United States expended four mil lion dollars last year on three kinds of dye, madder, indigo and cochineal
 Maine has an, anti-tobacco league and an anti-corset league. Both are for the' prevention of youthful waste. There are still one hundred thousand cannibals on the Fiji Islands. and only iast August two persons were captured and eaten by the natives. Senator Morton, of Indiana, had his pocket picked Tuesday night at Jersey city by an impromptu revenue collector. It is reported that since Alexander H. Stephens took to newspaper writing two or three new paper mills have had to be started in Georgia.
 A party of youthful Japanese are in New York on their way to England, where they are to receive five years education.
 Several baskets of fragments of man once eleven feet high are now oil their way to Lendon. feast for paI@ontelo- gists.
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 The pumps in Washington city are be- lng cieaned and repaired generally. Prob. aDly Ill view of the reassemb!ing of Con- gross.
 In New Jersey the beer manufactured last Year was enough to give two and halt barrels to every man, woman and child there.
 Tue New York Post truthfully remarks tna1 the nazlng customs of young students ins.eaa or seachlng them to be brave, con- vert them into cowardly bullies.
 Al St. Albans. last week, old butter sold Tor if to " cents per pound, and fall da- res from s2 to 36. The market was auite active. <1>.-'o The Chicago Post says.the bell worn by o 0lv. T Al