Litchfield enquirer., 1874-05-21
MISCELLANEOUS.

Tiltonis sTempest Tossed" will be issued in about two weeks. A#
 TheEanborn report has been presented in the House.
 A gambling hell has been established in Cairo. Egypt. Probably they play mostly Pha,ro.
 England reports the accession of 19O,- O00 Good Templars within the last two
 A religious sect is announced in St. Louis which compels women to cut of their hair. T -EE's
 Tho new State Normal School of Ne braska had during the present year 257 students.
 Rochefort will start La Lanterne in London. and lampoon the Septennat with all his former vigor.
 Steamnn, ,-flse poet, is said to be about to join the editorial force of the New York Arc@iian. e #0 efI~
 The number of cooperative societies in England and Wales is 749, with 300,- 5S7 members.
 Nearly $50 applications have been made for admission to the School of Natural History at Penikese.
 JE. Spaulding of Winsted, left his gold watch with pick pockets in New Haven election day.
 Naturally, John Bull gets all his cheese from America. During the last quarter he has imborted $2,610, ,230 worth.
 An increase of 40 per cent. in railway freight charges is expected to prevent nearly all eastward shipment of fruit from California.
 A large eagle was caught in the act of sweeping down upon small child at Portland, the other day, but scared away and afterwards shot,
 It is said that within few weeks about forty dogs have died in Bridgewater, Mass, of a disease resembling the horse distemper.
 An unprotected bachelor hopes his landlady won't join the cremation society, as he would be sorry to have her hashes handed down to future generations.
 The women crusaders at Portland, Or, each, are actually serving out their time in jail.
 Two reverend gentlemen of Illinois are m the second week of public discussion whether people who differ from one of them can escape eternal punishment.
 The prosecutions of liquor sellers un- der the Civil Damages law in Cleveland are very numerous. The damages claim cd m pending suits amount to $15O,OOO.
 The champion guide-post is located in front of the Suffield town house. It gives the direction and distance of fourteen towns, including Springfield and Hart ford
 The bill for relief of sufferers by south- ern floods was amended by the Senate so as to make the amount appropriated $19O. 900, and the bill as amended has passed both houses.
 A San Francisco newspaper has found 1t rather expensive announcing the death of man without full proof. It will pay one person five thsusand dollars for an error of this kind.
 All the prizes for the best essays on sub lecfs Tn municipal law awarded bo Colum- bia college, New York, on Saturday. went tO Yale men of the class of 70. and'71. and amounted to S25O, and $10O.
 After much debate and great speech made by Gen. Hawley in it's favor. the Centennial failed to pass to it's third read ing 92 to 136. By much effort the vote was recOnsidered, 114 to 1l2, and the bill recommitted.
 4 Vermont preacher recently asked his congregation to pray for the editor of the local paper. The editor had his revenge by sending in to the preacher a bill for thirteen years subscription and large amount of advertising.
 Jndgs Woodruff of the United States Circuit Court and Judge William E. Cur tiss of the Superior Court have accepted the invitation of the Yale faculty to de- eide the merits of the prize essays of the Senior class in the Law School.
 The anti-crusaders of Indiana, having asked why 1t is not just as reasonable to prosecute gluttons as drunkards, the In- dianapOlis Sentinel remarks: eff a man kills himself by Over-eating he does not run crazy, commit murder, burn houses and destroy his family. He crams and keeps very quiet. Therein lies the differ ence" EeH H .#R This year again the Pope has abstained from presenting his famous golden rose, the POntifical recompense to female soy ereisns for piety and right thinking. The last two were sent respectively to the con- sOE4 of Napoleon IIk. and to Isabella of Bourbon, then Queen of Spain. They did not bring gEced fortune to those ladies.
 The great Exeter Cathedral case has been settled. It is decided that images are illegal and that alto relieuO figures c0neeander the head of images. The bish- Op therefore ordered the removal of the reEe1Os and the substitution of the ten ssr-nv-N~@1.AS2ss- A6 tlaO same Limc he iu- tImRted that he would grant a permission for anything that would add to the beau ty of tue Cathedfal. .ssO long as it was not illegal
 General Sherman has on his staff a gen: Ias who. though versed in the art of war, has other accomplishments that win him more glory than comes of handling mus- ke&<@ His name IS Audenreid, known to the wog1 ak large as the handsome Au- demresd-~ He leads the sfGermans.'' de- c0sztes halls for aristocratic charity enter ta1nDe1ts. groups the flowers. drapes the a1gs. helps fix the tables and is the most smizble, useful man in society.
 Nr SFieris patent bill proposes to al- low the inventor monopoly, as at pres. enf. for two years, and then to grant him, on his application, an extended patent foi fifteen years. on condition that any per. son may make and sell the patented arti. eies on payment of a royalty of 10 pel cent to the patentee The principle oi the bull is very generally approved by in. vc1tnrs. as it will obviate many of the legal difficulties they are now compelled to encounter before they can derive an ' profits from their ingenuity.
 Ik is stated that Mr. Wheeler, of t he appropriation committed, one of the old. est and most experienced memberSof the house, says that nothing but the rays of a