Connecticut western news., 1876-12-08
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A cricket ball struck boy, aged thirteen, behind the ear, in London. He fell senseless and died within two hours.
 The wine crcp of France this year is unusually large, being a. third larger than tho vines promised at the outset of the season. 4s# 4st5
 The annual death rate in London now averages eighteen per 1000; in Edin- burgh, twelve; in Glasgow, twenty one ill Dublin, nineteen. ... ....
 Dr. Carpenter believes in confning an habitual drunkard long enough to have new food, without alcohol, produce new, healthy tissues of the body.
 Mrs. Trimmell's terrible mode of sui eide, in Sterling, Ky, was to saturate her clothing with kerosene and set fire to it. She was religiously insane and believed that the flames would wait her to heaven without burning her.
 Admirers of Q former mathematical professor at Dartmouth cite. as proof of his wonderful gift of calculation, that, when he went to Europe, he estimated his expenses so accurately that he took just enough money to pay all his bills, and returned with one cent left.
 Senator Norwood, of Georgia, is forty six years old, a.d the son of a tanner. When elected to the United States Sen ate he said he did not know thirty mem bers of the Legislature that elected him. He is known as "Tanyard Tom," and can beat any map in Georgia telling joke. .-..-.-.t z-., .gs..,
 The good old days are dead and gone; the rich coloring has faded out of the warp and wool of the past, and yet we rejoice that 1t is still true that pretty woman cannot ride by her lover's side through tunnel without emerging in hat that looks as if it had been struck by lightning. ...a......t t...-.....
 Mrs. Polk, the widow of the ex-Presi- dent, says 8 correspondent, now lives in Nashville, and takes lively interest in affairs of State. Her husbands tomb is laid in the lawn in front of her house. It is solid block of gray stone, under a | fiat entablature of the same stone, raised above by four stone pillars.
 A merchant, having sustained con siderable loss. desired his son not to mention it to anybody. The youth promised silence, but at the same time requested to know what advantages could attend it. elf you divulge the loss," said the father, "we shall have two evils to support instead of one-our grief and the joy of our neighbors.
 Along the Virgin river, in Nevada, are some of the most remarkable salt forma- tions in the world. They arc mountains of crystal salt, extending for more than thirty miles. The salt lies under @ shal- low covering of earth, and is raised by blasting. Most of it is perfectly pure, and is so clear that fine letters can be read through pieces of it a foot in thick ness. aa4
 President Chadbournc, of Williems College, during lecture was telling the freshman class that the notion of allow ing girls to enter the college for the sake of their good influence on the boys was not as sound as it might be, when freshman raised his hand and eagerly inquired: "Don't you think it would have good influence on the young ladies 2"
 Though Mohammedan who marries a French girl is not required to renounce his religion, he cannot contract valid marriage with another woman during her lifetime. These unions usually turn out we'll and are extremely prolific. and the Arab husband submits passively to the dominion os his French consort, as sthough he tacitlyacknowledged himself of an inferior race.
 An English company has proposed to Governor Smith, of Georgia, to put on 8 first class line of steamers between Savannah or Brunswick and Liverpool at once, and keep them running steadi- ly, provided tho State will give them a bonus of $50,000 year for three years. They guarantee besides tbat they will land three hundred in migrants per month on our shores. .-
 The recent report of the French min- ister of the interior gives the immigra- tion from France from 1865 to 1874 as 6O, ,245; the agricultural element consti- tuted thirty-seven per cent, and the average of mon was seventy-one per cent, and of women twenty nine per cent. During the same period the i'm migration of permanent settlers, chiefly by the eastern frontier, reached 63, O25.