Connecticut western news., 1877-05-11
NEWS IN BRIEF,

The French smoked six hundred tons of cigarettes during 1878.
 Arkansas has more newspapers in proportion to population than any other State in the Union.
 It is estimated that over 2S0, ,000 per- sons are employed in connection with the British railways.
 -Ex, Gov. Hanford, the California millionaire, has given Bierstadt an order for $2O, ,OO6 picture.
 Marriages solemnized in Pennsyl- vania on the Sabbath are not legal. So says law enacted in that State in l777.
 John Brougham has written over one hundred acting plays, none of which could be called literary or theatrical failures. .........
 The wife of Dom Pedro is the first empress who has trod the streets of Jerusalem since the days of Queen Helena.
 The Secretary of War has ordered home the troops now stationed at Alaska. The cost of the post has been $5O, ,O00 per year.
 In the year 179s the national debt of France was held by 23,971 citizens; in 1875 the public fund-holders increased in number to 4,3S0, ,933.
 San Francisco has thirty million aires who talk of forming an association for the purpose of devising form of will that cannot be contested.
 The circulation of Scribner's Monthly is 70,O00 copies, AtlGntic Monthly, 1z. 900, Gdtd1y, l5,0OO, Hdrper's Md0dzine, l20,- 900, Weekly, 11O,O ,OOO, Basar, s0,000.
 Observe the value of single vote. Ex-Lieutenant Governor Pacheco, of California, gets to Congress by one majority out of nearly forty thousand.
 It is calculated that an ordinary gold coin, kept constantly in circulation as money, should not wear out in 2,000 years; silver would not last more than 200 years.
 The surveying instruments for merly used by old John Brown are now owned by man in Wyoming, Iowa, who bought them from him in 1857 for $40 in gold.
 The French Geographical Society has awarded the great gold medal of the society, to Commander V. l.. Cameron, of Her Britannia Majesty's Navy, for his explorations in Africa.
 The Augustine convent at Witten- berg, in which Luther lived when 8 monk, and which was afterward given to him and his wife, IS now to be used as Lutheran Museum.
 A Holly Tree Inn has been started at Chester, Pa., and one is soon to be opened at Titusville, Pa. The Holly Tree Inn is intended to popularize hot coffee instead of hot whisky. 
 Charles Fairbanks or London, Eng land, member of the Vermont family of that name, has given $15, ,000 to finish a new hall for women students at Drury College, at Springfield, Mo.
 -Col. Moore, Cincinnati's new mayor, is popular with the news-boys. He has done good deal for them, and they celebrated his election by torch light procession and serenade.
 The son of Charles Dickens will not allow monument to be placed over his fathers grave, as proposed, because the noYelist's will requested that nothing of the kind should ever be per- mitted.
 The Post Office Department reports that during the past three months there have been 132 detections and ar rests for mail robberies, embracing officials in nearly all grades in the pos tai service.
 A bill to allow husband and wife to testify against each other has been killed in the Indiana Legislature. It was feared that if legal permission was given nobody else would have a chance to say anything. ....-. ..a
 George Eliot and her husband Mir Lewes, are going to give up their Lon don house and reside altogether in Sur rey, in which county they have pur- chased house which formerly belonged to Sir Henry Cole.
 The King of Holland has offered to M. Krantz, Commissary-G General of the Paris Exhibition of 1878, 4, 1000 tulip roots, which will be taken care of at the expense of the King. The offer has been gratefully accepted. ...
 The people of Virginia, it is esti- mated, drink annually 2,325, ,O00 gallons of ardent spirits. Of this BIC, ,OO0 gall Ions are produced in the State, leaving 2,O25 ,000 gallons of the consumption to be imported from other States.
 It is shown that the British Post office Department carries thirty-two letters per annum for every man, wo- man and child in the United Kingdom, or, in detail, 35 each in England and Wales, l7 in Scotland, and 13 in Ire- land.
 Since the accession of Queen Victo- ria to the British throne, forty years ago, it is calculated that eighteen mem- bers of the royal family, including the Queens uncles and cousins, have cost the nation f20,217 ,0O0 or about $1OI,- 095, ,O00.
 The Municipal Council of Paris is considering the project of great sys- tenn of metropolitan railways to connect all the quarters of the town as in Lon- don. It is very probable that work will be begun on this shortly after the close of the great exhibition of 1878.
 Fred Archer, the leading jockey on the English turf, is only Is, but during the racing season of 1876 he rode no less than 657 times, and won 217 races-a feat never before accomplished by any horseman on the turf. He prob ably received in fees, retainers and presents, $43, 700.
 An immense meteor, weighing un- told tons, alighted sometime since in Nevada Valley; and. as they assay everything out there, this was taken in hand by chemist, who demonstrated that this windfall from the heavens was real bonanza, yielding $3S7 in silver and SAP in gold per ton. ss
 In 1870 for every s100 received by the railway companies of Great Britain e4s was expended. Year after year the proportion of working costs has in creased until in 1874 it cost 955 to earn G100. In 1875 matters were so far im- proved that it cost only $54 and last year only trife over f50. -l
 One of the foremost champions of women's rights in England is about to condescend to matrimony. Miss Lillian