Litchfield enquirer., 1872-03-07
MISCELLANEOUS lrEMs

WISSEL6ANEOUS HTS EMS
 The Pope made 2s bishops, last week four for this country. .' Surratt is teaching Maryland school. Montreal pays her policemen only S8 a week. ..r
 Chicago real estate, Phenix-like, is ris- ing ..l ...{ ...,.y The Union Pacific railroad is blockaded again.
 Miss Nilsson has given Swedish church Tn Iowa present of $500.
 Nearly every official of the Staten Island government has been indicted.
 Mr. Bright's friends are now convinced that his health is not perfectly re-estab- lished. '- H The Thanksgiving accidents at London now amount to five killed and thirty wounded. e'f .a1t'.n Miss Anna c. Bracket, principal of the St. Louis Normal School, receives S2, 800 year. .l ..... One Bullock, the postmaster of Belvi- dere, N. Y., has been arrested for robbing the mails.
 Two youths of Fl Paso, H., aged eight and ten, fought 8 bloodless duel about a six-year-old sylph.
 Mir. Joseph F. Page of Philadelphia has given $30 900 lot. in that city for site for 8 Baptist home. N ga. ..s. -,fyat st
 Extensive mines of copper. coal and mar ble are said to have been discovered near Los Angeles. Cal. E-.1rl ,,.g..,.a
 The Prince of Wales Theatre at Sydney and number of houses there, were burn | ed, January 16th. Loss about e4O,OOO.
 In the Fisk sales at New York, Thurs day, two hundred and fifty canary birds were sold for a total of 900. .f aI
 MT. Lorillard, of New York city, won the first prize for alaughtering pigeons at match in Nice, Italy, Feb. 9.
 The French language has about 32, 900 words, the Spanish 30, 900, the Italian 35,- 900, and the English 40,000. f'b
 Cornell university has accepted MT. Laws offer of $250,OO0 and has complied with it's conditions by granting admission to female students.
 There are between thirty and forty American artists at present living in Rome, these embracing both painters and sculp- tors. se e5sa
 The Parsee believes that post-mortem examination excludes the patient from heaven. A Bombay coroner has put a stop to suicide by delivering over the can dldates to the surgeons. s.i tsr far. Almost before the ground had grown cool after the fire, Chicago, whose princi- pal hotels were all destroyed by the con fagration, had perfected plans and con tracted for the erection of others to fill their places. Five magnificent caravan saries are already under way, and the journals of that city boast that within & year it will have more ample and elegant accommodations than it ever possessed before. "A '.s-
 According to John Stuart Mill. there has deen a steady decrease, since 1921, in the number of children born to each one thousand women, both in France and in England. It is especially noteworthy that this has been the case in England. where wealth has been accumulating so abundantly in both the middle and up- der classes. Increase in the property of nation has almost always been followed by an increase in the number of it's child ren, but during the last half-century the rule has not held good.
 A vote was recently taken in Champlain county, Canada, region on the St. Law renee, half way betweene Montreal and Quebec, in reference to 8 subsidy of G1OO, ,O00 to the North Shore railway. The vote was dead against it. In the col onial parliament, their representative Mar childon, opposed this and all railroads on the ground that their noise frightened cows and injured. the quality of their milk. The Sunday before the voting the priest of St. Flores preached long sermon | against the road, and in the course of It 1 seized the ciucifx from the altar, and cried out, ssIn the name of of Christ cru cifiod. whose image hold in my heno. ' coniure and adjure you to vote ssalns' the xailMay.''