Connecticut western news., 1875-12-03

of apple juice...... There is said to be one case of scarlet fever-a child of MT. Lii ner......Rev. MT. McCutcheon of Sharon preached in the Methodist church on Sun
 day, the Fist inst, in exchange with our regular preacher, l.. B. Stowe. R
 PAUL MoRPHY, THE FAMOUS CHESS PLAY ER, is in New Orleans asylum hopelessly insane. He was born in that city in 1S40 of wealthy Creole percentage, and when mere child showed extraordinary powers in games of skill, and especially in chess. He was trained to the law, receiving @ careful education, his family being in atfluent cir cumstances, but, though he gave no prom thence to his chess studies, it was soon ap'
 parent that no player in this country could contest his superiority at the game. In 1858 he visited Europe, and his easy suc- cess in conquering the ahest players in England and on the continent is still W ell remembered. His remarkable powers in playing from memory, biindfolded, created astonishment. At Paris he played blind folded simultaneously with eight of the ablest players of Europe, won six of the games, the seventh being draw, and los :. ing only the eighth. His quiet style of playing, refined courtesy of manner, and unassuming modesty under his triumphs, also made a most favorable impression ID European circles. But his adoption of the game of chess as a business greatly of tended his relatives, and when he returned to his home just before the rebellion, he became suddenly and thoroughly disgusted witlfchess-so much pr,judiced against it that he has since never played. He has since led an idle. morose life. His daily routine of existence says the New Orleans Picaystne, Involved a walk on Canal street every morning. where his dapper little fig ure-always scrupulously well dressed-be- came as we'll known and as regularly looked for as the monday bell. After this daily promenade he retired from public geze un- til evening, when he appeared in his box at the opera, where,lt is said, he never missed night. It is further related that during these years he permitted no friendly ac- quaintance: he was never known to asso- ciate with anybody but his mother, and consistently repelled advances from those who having been friends of his eally youth, desired to renew their associations. He lived a strange life, strange. moody and peculiarly mournful man. About a year ago he began to lose his mental control, and several months ago was put in pri- vate asylum. Some of his friends hold the theory that his malady had it's start in the strain upon his mind in playing many anG difficult games of chess.-Haruord Post.
 SIZE AND WEIGHT OF BRAINs.-Vice- President Wilson's brain weighed 49 l.: ounces. That is rather above the average weight-which is in this country probably about A or 45 ounces. Daniel Webster's brain has been mentioned in a newspaper paragraph. published some years ago, as having been found to weigh 63 ounces; ap parently an error, as Appleton's Cyclope- dia Ca very accurate work) gives the weigh
 of Webster's and Napoleon's brains as 'ar ounce or two less than the French surgeon Dupuytren's, which weighed 5s ounces CuYier, the great French naturalist. seems
 to have had the heaviest brains of any ia
 nous man it weighed between 59 and G ounces,' according to Appleton's, and 6; l-2 ounces according to the newspaper par agrsph above referred to. But what shal be though: of the avoirdupois of intellectu al greatness when the fact appears that tn
 brain of a London csrtman was found t
 weigh more than Cuvier's ?-for that was
 fact. However, it is not probable tha
 four pound blalns are very common, eithe
 In France or England; nor is 1t the size, o even the weight alone, of persons brail
 that determines the intellectual power o
 that person. It IS tue quality of the brail
 Ca quality which does not wh oily consist il 4 It's relative fineness or coarseness, but thi
 and something more), and also the depth o
 the convolutions in the brain. It is thes convclutions which furnish the necessar surface for the power of the galvanic bal tery which the brain really is; the deepe
 they are, the more power. Hence, brai may be, like Byron's, hardly up to the av craze in size, and yet, united to the rigE
 temperament, show itself to be au uncon
 monIy powerful one.-Hartord Tunes.
 ApvERTIs1NG.-The. advertisements in , newspaper are more read than the though
 less imagine. They are the map of larg !, class of mems capabilities in life. Th
 man who contemplates doing business in , distant town takes up the local paper an I in its advertising columns sees true pic , ture of the men he has to deal with;
 complete record of the town, Its commerc
 its home trade, the facilities of storekeeI
 CTS, its banks, and in almost every case |
 can estimate the characters of the men wh