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Connecticut western news., 1872-03-15
The Washington Treaty.

A meeting was held in Baltimore under the auspices of the American Peace Soci- ety, to discuss the Washington Treaty and promote the interests of peace be- tween Great Britain and the United States. Hon. Reverdy Johnson presid- ed, and addressed the audience on the question of consequential damages. He argued that it was clear that the prefer ment of such claim by the United States before the Geneva Commission was not contemplated by the High Commission CTS of Great Sri ain under the terms of the treaty and that if such was the con- struction by the High Commissioners on the part of the United States, not one of them ever so asserted. MT. Johnson
 said there were three modes of settling the matter first, that England should consent to permit the claim to go before the Geneva Commission. This she might safely do ; and if that Board decided it had jurisdiction of the question of con- sequential damages, it would reject the claim second, withdrawal of the claim by the United States, and if the speaker had the ear of the President he would advise such withdrawal; and third, it's postponement as the subject of future negotiations. MT. Johnson argued that the Treaty of Washington was great achievement in the interest of peace be- tween all nations for the settlement oi all questions by arbitration. He was frequently applauded. Elihu Burritt followed MT. Johnson in brief speech.
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-15
Nursery and Child's Hospital.

The eighteenth annual report of the Nursery and Child's Hospital, to which is now attached & lying-in department, shows that the mortality among the chil- dren provided for in that institution did not exceed last year twenty-five per cent. o result that can only be accounted for by the fact that this institution has a branch hospital situated on Staten Island, whither the children are usually sent. The mortality among foundlings, both in this country and in Europe, has usually been from fifty to seventy-fve per cent. in large hospitals situated in cities. There has never, we believe, been an in- stance when it approached so insignificant rate as that exhibited in the report of the institution in question, which not only cares for disowned infants, but fur ther contributes to the discouragement of infanticide by providing for those un- fortunate females who have been over- taken by misfortune, and who might but for the beneficial influence of this or some similar refuge, become the victims of abortionists or the murderers of their own offspring. The report makes the gratifying statement that though the hopes of reforming these erring sisters by extending to them the hand in spirit of charity ard love are not always real ized, there is reason, in the majority of cases, to rejoice in the fruits of the labors that are bestowed. This admirable in stitution is under excellent moral and medical care, and includes in its Board of Managers many of the most respecta- ble and most estimable wives and moth CTS in this charitable community, who are untiring in their exertions to make it 0 source of reformation to the erring and the friendless.-N r. Paper.
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-15
How to Make Beef Tea.

Cut into small pieces pound of per fectly lean beef. Add five or six drops of muriatic acid-and stir for moment. The acid, disengaging all the nutritive part of the meat from the fibre, leaves Q clear red juice which is strained off, heated very hot, and seasoned with salt, and, if the patient likes it, pepper. This beef tea has frequently prolonged and saved life Tn desperate cases.
 2d. Beef-tea made in bottle One pound of perfectly lean beef is cut into small dice, placed in strong quart bottle, corked, and set to boil in pot of water. The heat disengaging the juice of the beef, gives after three hours cooking strong and nourishing liquid into which tho essential principle of the meat is condensed. Let it grow thor oughly cold before using, so as to remove every floating particle of fat-then re- heat, season, and serve. A tea- spoonful of arrowroot stirred in while the beef-tea is heating makes an excellent addition.
 3d. Beef-tea for cases of lighter ill., ness, where it is to supplement rather than replace other food Take pound of lean beef-steak and broil it for aA in- stant on both sides. Chop fine as for mince meat, then add quart of water, and boil slowly for an hour and half Strain it, let it get thoroughly cold, skim off the fat, and season with salt, pepper, and, if the doctor permits, soupcvs ot tomato catsup. A little rice boiled witt the tea makes it nice-ora sprig of celery dropped in to lend flavor. This souI is admirable food, and almost all sick lpersons will be found to like it.
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-15
LNmaiCa C00I HeAYArS.

At the sound of the bell on steamship company's wharf, at Kingston, the coal beavers emerge from their dwellings in every part of the city, and in few min utes the dock is alive with coal whippers, anxious to earn few shillings. These coal carriers are among the most indus trious people in Kingston, and they work with steadiness and alacrity that is sur prising. They carry twelve head-loads of coal on bsard steamer for one penny, equal to about two cents in American money, and are able to earn from shilling to shilling and threepence day. At night their wages are doubled. Much of the labor of coaling the transatlantic ships is done at night, and it is then the carriers are in their highest spirits. An unceasing flow of song-the words, as nearly as I could catch them, sounding something like 70 Lord remember Moses !''-is kept up till long after mid night, and so much work is accomplished by the inspiration of the rude music that one feels bound to confess that the melo- dy is not wasted. The Neva, ill which arrived at Kingston, is 0 large screw steamer, and the work of coaling her is no slight task. The coal whippers began to fill up her hold at noon, and by six o'clock the next morning, not counting a three hours spell for breakfast, 82O tons, of 2, 24O pounds, had been put on board. In addition to the wages regularly earned by the carriers, the agent of the company generally gives each of them Q small gra- tuity, and this, even more than the pay ment of the money, insures the attend ance of the carriers when they are want ed
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-15
. A RiIl from England.

England, according to P'e'ach, has made out quite bill against the United States. Among the items charged we note the following For encouraging the Fenians, and putting Canada in dread of a Fe- nian invasion, one-half penny. For al- lowing MT. G. F.. Train to be out of a lunatic asylum, six pence. For the use of the works of ancient English authors from Wm. Shakspere downwards, and for calling them American authors 91,- GOO, ,O00, 900. For piracy on modern Eng fish authors, and for not calling great many of them American authors G1 ,000,- O00,0 For spelling great number of decent second-rate English actors, and sending them home with the idea that they were Keans and Kembles, seven shillings and six pence. For outraging humanity by not annexing Mexico, and putting an end to its atrocities, e1, ,000,- 100 00n
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-15
4 Slow Train.

The train that night seemed to be wandering about somewhere in the inter- for of the State, through country well lighted by the moon, windy, very cold, and rather spectral with the snow and bristling evergreens, looking for farm houses and convenient places to stop. And stop it did frequently, start 1t did reluctantly, and move about it deliber- ately. We got to know all the pleasant little detail of breaking-up and getting underway again. First the whistle, then Q perceptlble slowness of motion, then the jerk of. the brakes, and sudden stop, followed by loosening of the brake, another lunge of the car, then q rattle of the chains, and a long creak or still, ominously silent, as if dead. This It was sure to be broken, however, by a nasal voice at the end of the train ring ing out on the night air "Hello, Jim {! How's life ?" "An superior," replies the young man in the baggage-car, ill the latest railroad slang.
 "Seth, send along them castin's ?" "Seth didn't need nothing." "Seth be hanged" and remarks follow about Seth which I should not care to hear about a friend of mine. The bell rings, the en- zine shorts, and slowly moves off. Con- versation is also carried on inside the car, upon the various events of the night. "What are we stopping for now ?'' "Are we stopping Station probably y "No, there is no station here looking out of the frost-covered window, after scraping place); we are right in the open country" Will be station here train is waiting for it to grow" The explanation is not satisfactory. After a little while the sleepless one discovers that the train is doing something else. "There, we are backing. What are we backing for ?" "Don't know probably to get back" "But we back ever SC much" "Of course. You see," says the sleeper rousing himself to explain, "we have to go one hundred and forty. four miles in ten hours and we couldn't do it if we didn't go backward part oi the time. ."-Erchaaoe
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-15
British India.

All British officers acknowledge that England has very frail hold on India, and that it could not hold it day with out an army over 200, 900 strong. Never theless, its grip is greater and closer now than ever before. Fo say nothing of the reaction in favor of British power since it quelled the terrible mutiny, it's railroad and telegraph system are worth to 1t 100, ,0O0 soldiers or more. And there is no confidence between Englishmen, and Hindoos, and Mohometans. There is no bond of unity ill any way, except that of force. The races are ill all respects re- pugnant, the one to the other. To in- crease it's security, the Government makes up the native regiments about one- half from Hindoos, and the other Ma hometans :; and it relies more upon the Sikh soldier than upon any other-the Sikh from the up country, who has great contempt for the men of the plains-the Sikh, who, in the last mutiuy, stood faith full when everything else was dropping away. Education is doing something to soften the mistrust of race but Christian missions, as yet, seem to be doing little or nothing. Education, however, at first, only makes Deists of Hindoos and Ma hometans. It takes away from them all respect for their own customs, while 1t cannot sever them from the associations of their brethren and kindred. They lose their respect for the Koran and the Ve- das, and yet they have no more respect for the bible. But, doubtless, this is Q process through which the heathen mind has to go before it can comprehend the sublime truths of Christianity. Accord ing to the best authorities, the Hindoo Pantheon is peopled by precisely 333,- 100000 gods-and such lot of divinities, of course, are not to be got rid of in a hurry! Then, the castes are not to be broken down without tremendous social struggles. The Brahmius; even, count 2,OO0 separate distinct families of their order alone. Then, the abominable castes in some parts of India-that is, the outcasts-cut-number these Brahmins in the proportion of three to one, exclusive of the other impure and very low tribes Bankers in Bengal rank below barbers But shall not write 8 book on castes. Nor shall dwell more upon the Indian, as contrasted with the European-for what can know, in my flight over and through the land ?. All I can give is inn pressions and one of the most vivid of my impressions is, that the Indian is far inferior to the Chinese or the Japanese, in almost every quality that goes to make up the man. Letter from James Brooks.
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-15
FacfS and FancleS.

Chicago has 1887 saloons, of which 600 have no license.
 Why does donkey eat Q thistle [ (this puzzle you.) Because he's an ass.
 All the difference-Thea ancients urned their dead, the moderns earn their living
 Nearly two thousand miles of irrigat- ing canals have been projected in Cali fornia, which, it is said, will protect ten million acres of land from drought.
 A little girl asked her sister what was chaos, that her papa read about? The other replied, "It was great pile of nothing, and no place to put it in."
 "what should you be, dearest" said Walter to his sweetheart, (" if I was to press the seal of love upon those scaling wax lips ?" 1T should be stationary"
 Terrified trees have been found in O bog at Waterford, Vt. In two instances, one huge pine stump was found resting upon another, indicating that the latter tree grew after the first had fallen, the seed having been deposited on its stump.
 We have always thought, says the New York Erpress, that the ladies might have their ear rings of some practical value, especially in travelling, if, for instance, they would wear a good-sized| yalise in one ear, and an ordinary lunch-basket in the other.
 A woman applied to magistrate the other day for warrant against neigh bor, saving, "She called me O thief, your honor. Can't I make her prove it ?" "Perhaps you can," quietly re- piled the magistrate, "but if were you r xvou1dn't do if
 A Sheboygan Wisconsin, woman en- tered saloon the other evening where her husband was carousing, and after expostulating with broomstick to the barkeeper and two or three other men in the place, soundly whaled her husband. aud then led him home by the collar.
 Says an Illinois paper: During the cold weather the city editor of the Jack sonville Journal froze his ears about foot deep. They are to be amputated at the second joint, but his many friends will be rejoiced to know that, in spite of the accident, he still has an ample stock for all the purposes of his position.
 A young Frenchman, who has been discovered in Utica in a condition of insanity from disappointed love, has the peculiar freak of insisting that he is guilty of passing counterfeit money. He offered genuine greenbacks to several persons, and then attempted to get him. self arrested for "shoving the queer. "
 At a school concert the pastor, who prided himself on the quickness and cleverness of his little ones, said, "Boys, when I heard your beautiful song to night, I had to work hard to keep my feet still. Now what do you think was the matter with them?" The answer came with great promptness, "Chill- blainth l'
 The physician attending a young lady, who had her entire scalp taken of by the machinery in button factory at Naugatuck, nearly year ago, is replac. ing the skin by transplanting pieces of skin from other parts of her body and from other persons. Three-fifths of the wounded surface is al,eady very success fully covered.
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-15

A MYSTERY Birmingham, England, has got its mystery now, and gloats over it. A commercial traveller for firm of brass-casters and bell-foulders had been sometime ill Russia on business of the firm. He returned to London, and his employers had been for some days ex- pecting to see him in Birmingham, when a letter came to them bearing the Lon don postmark, and purporting to be written by the missing traveller. The letter stated that the writer was mem- Der of Russian secret society that for some offence, he was detained in Lon don and had been condemned to death, and in week the sentence would be car ried into effect. His luggage, the letter stated, would be found at his hotel Nothing further was heard of the matter for week, when the firm received another letter, also dated "London, :" but written in broken English, inform ing them that their traveller was dead and buried according to the regulations of the society. The firm placed the matter in the hands of the police, but nothing has yet been heard either of the traveller or his luggage.
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-15

A WOLF SToRY.-The main street of a village of central India, where children were always at play, randown the slope of the hill and while one of two wolves, which was smaller than the other, would esconce itself behind some low bushes between the village and the hill, the ether would go round to the top, and watching an opportunity, race down through the street, picking up Q child by the way, and making of with it to the thick cover of the rayine. At first the people used to pursue, and some- times make the marauder drop his prey; but, as they said, finding that in that case the companion wolf usually suc- ceeded in carrying off another of the children in the confusion, while .he first was usually so injured as to be be- yond recovery, they ended, like plleg. matic Hindoos, as they were, by letting them take just as many of their offspring as they wanted. An infant few years old had thus been carried off the morn ing of my arrival. It is scarcely credi- ible that could not at first obtain suffi- cient beaters to drive the cover where those two atrocious beasts were gorging their unholy meal.
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-15
Living In New York.

Eli Perkins has been visiting the poor of New York. He says:
 The first hut we visited was occupied by sturdy German. his wife, and six children. The lord of the manos was smoking cherry pipe. As we passed into the little 7x6 yard, big bul-pup made lunge for us, but soon came to the end of his chain, where he hung with his mouth open. He gnashed his teeth and invited us to early dinner.
 "Git e-o-u-t :! " shouted my friend.
 "Ton't yes pc feared of mine toggy, for he is tied very tight init sthring," said the German.
 Inside the miserable hut were Q coal cooking-stove, bed, table, and good many pictures of saints, and two not very cheetul crucifxions (crucifxions are never cheerful pictures to mel. A very pretty German girl was standing over the stove, while q red-headed boy sat on the floor and grinned, and the big-faced mother stood with her sleeves rolled up to receive us. There were no extra chairs, and only one window in the house.
 "What wages do you get, my good man ?" asked.
 "Vel, I works for two tollars for day. I works up by the park, but now only gets one tollar and foofsty cents by the day." Think of that. reader, $45 per month to support wife and six children on.
 " What rent do you pay ?"
 "Thirty fife tollars for year.
 "What does your wife do ?"
 'Sho takes care of the childers and gathers coal"
 "How gathers coal ?" "Vel," said the old woman, advancing to the relief of husband; "I goes out every morning bout seven o'clock init mine basket, and I chucks mine hands through all the ash-barrels in front of the great houses"
 "How long does it take you to get coal enough to last you all day ?"
 "I gifts enough in two hours"
 "Do your children work ?"
 "Yes. Angeline works in Robbers match factory, on Fifty-second street. She makes sixty cents for day."
 "Why don't you leave this wretched abode, and go West, where the Govern ment will give you, free of expense, 6 farm of eighty acres ?" asked, think of MT. Greeley.
 "Vel, the childers are all girls but one, and they can york better when they gifts pig enough, here in New York"
 Outside, the man had fine pig, and running around the rocks, she goat which they milk daily. One girl goes to the Ward school, and she showed me @ very nice map of Europe which she had drawn on slate.
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-15
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Circe.

You hold my heart In your slender hands. In your cold, your cruel, careless hands, In your beautiful hands, famed by a breath Like the breath of the rose 1t Is dying its death In your beautiful hands with their glitter ot
 rings,
 Each ring trophy that scornfully sings Of other hearts that have lain like mine On your cruelty beautiful, pitiless shrine. Of other hearts that have gone to their death. swooned to sleep by that sweet, sweet breath. That breath of the rose that comes and goes AS the smiling, beautiful lips unclose. When night after night down dizzying dances They follow and follow your dazzling glances. While round and round by the music whirled. AS I'd follow and follow you over the world Then hold me fast in your slender hands, In your cruelty beautiful, pitiless hands; Let me forever be dying my death, Soothed to sleep by that sweet, sweet breath Let me forever be whirling there, Lost in Q trance divinely fair,
 Let me forever be stricken and ssain, And dying with this delicious pain.
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-15

THE QuEsT1oN.-The present position of the dispute between the United States and Great Britain affords considerable satisfaction to our government. Earl Granville, in his reply to Secretary Fish's note, took no exception to the position assumed originally in the presentation of tie American case before the general conference. In replying to Earl Gran vile, MT. Fish will call attention to this fact, which is regarded as tacit indorse- meat by Great Britain of the ground talk en by the American government, and he will point out that if the omission was unintentional it is now too late to rectify it. Our country has acted, and will con- tinue to act, on the theory that the Brit ish government accepted the construction put upon the treaty by MT. Fish, and was prepared to stand by the consequences w Y Pape3.
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-15

MATTERS IN NEW YoRK.-The press of the country is doing it's best to encour- age us. The Wheeling LateHigencer, among others, send such cheering words as these: The signs multiply that there is to be more rigid enforcement of the law against murderers in New York" We thank you, bretheren, but at the same time we realize with Rachel how hard thing it is to be comforted. It is true, perhaps, that the "signs'' you speak of multiply, and yet we have always with us the narrowing conscious ness that the murderers multiply too.- ". Y. paper.
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-15

IRON STATISTICS. The F'inancier" gives the following statistics of the man. ufacture of iron in the United States, taken, doubtless, from the report of the Iron and Steel Associations Product of pig iron in 1871, 1,850,O0O tons, namely, made with anthracite coal, 863, ,OOO tons ; with raw coal and coke, 6OO,O0 and with charcoal, 3S7, 1000 number of per sons employed in the manufacture, 14O,- 900 value of the product. for transpor- tation, must therefore deduct, for trans portatiop, commissions, profits, insur- ance, taxes, &c., at least twenty. five per cent. leaving for labor and materials $6O, ,0O0, 900 or, for 300 days, $2OO, GOO per day that is to say, $1.43 per day for each of the 40, GOO men.
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-15
The YagabOnd Sage.

An old man of very active physiog- nomy, answering to the name of Jacob Wilmot, was brought to the Police Court His clothes looked as though they might have been bought secondhand in his youthful prime, for they suffered more from rubs of the world than the proprie- tor himself.
 "What business ?"
 "None. I'm traveller"
 "A vagabond, perhaps p
 'You are not far wrong. Travellers and vagabOnds are about the same thing. The difference is that the latter travels without money, and the former without brains."
 "Where have you travelled ?"
 "All over the continent.
 "For what purpose ?"
 Observation"
 "What have you observed ?"
 GA little to commend, much to cen sure and great deal to laugh at.'
 "Humph what do you commend ?"
 "A handsome woman who will stay at home an eloquent preacher who will preach shsrt sermons; good writer that will not write too much and fool that has sense enough to hold his tongue"
 "What do you censure ?" A man that marries girl for her fine clothing; a youth who studies medicine while he has the use of his hands anc the people who will elect drunkard te office"
 "What do you laugh at ?" "1 laugh at man who expects hi | position to command that respect whicI his personal qualifications and qualities do not merit" | He was dismissed.-Herald.
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-15

BITING AT NAKED HooKs.-A bank note company in New York forwards to the Treasury Department letter to them from B. w. Hammond, of West Virginia, who would like to have a fde simile of United States notes engraved thus: "The United States will not pay the bearer" This request, the writer says, is for the purpose of "getting something for suckers always ready to bite at naked hooks,"