Connecticut western news., 1877-05-18
NEWS IN BRIEF.

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 The city of Constantinople haf 350,- 900 Mohammedan mosques and thirty six Christian churches.
 In 1876, five hundred and ninety bears were killed in Maine, on which a bounty was paid of $2,595.
 A man in Ontario county, Canada, worth $100, ,000, has been arrested for stealing horse blanket.
 pr. Shelton Mackenzie has entered upon his twentieth year as literary edi- tor of the Philadelphia Press.
 There is only one manufacturer of artificial eyes in the country, and only three workmen are employed in that.
 The Empress Dowager of Japan has contributed $50,000 toward found- ing school in Tokio for young nobles.
 The people of Portland Me, have decided literary tastes. They have stolen 2,OOO volumes from their public library.
 It is reported that the Chinese Gov ernment has contracted loan of $S, ,0O0,- 900, which is to be remitted from Europe in silver.
 Dean Stanley is president of Sum- day society in England, which has for it's object the opening of museums and galleries for Sunday.
 A colony of San Francisco women have undertaken to solve the woman problem by buying big farm and going to work for themselves.
 A bronze statue of Thomas Camp bell, at Glasgow, his native place, will be unveiled on July 27, the hundredth anniversary of his birth.
 The women of Minnesota who are twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, now have the right to vote for all school officers.
 Paris proposes to hold in the winter of 1877, or during the period of the Ex- position grand book fair, modelled after the famous one at Leipzig.
 A Texas sheep raiser says there are about 2,000,000 head of sheep on the borders of the Rio Grande, the finest sheep-raising country in the world.
 The Countess of Ducan is dead. She was the daughter of the Earl of Cardigan, the brave man who led the charge of the "Six Hundred" at Balak- lava.
 During the past winter it is esti- mated that l, 1,OO0,00O bison have been killed in Western Texas for their hides alone, the carcasses being left to rot on the prairies.
 The Chinese Government has ap- pointed Eli T. Sheppard Assistant Le- gal Adviser to the Foreign Office. He was for many years American Consul at Tien-tsin.
 The Maine porgy oil business last year consumed 51S,0 ,000 barrels of fish. which produced ], ,61S, ,000 gallons of oil and 16,000 tons of scrap, valued at $7l6,30O.
 The Superintendent of Public In- struction of Iowa has decided that male teachers in the public schools must not be under l9 years of age, and female teachers IF years.
 -Thirty-three States have enacted laws for the prevention of cruelty to animals. The States which have not are Florida, Mississippi, Arkansas, Ne vada and Colorado.
 Under the modified marriage law of lndiana, licenses may be issued to youths Of eighteen and girls of sixteen. The divorce lawyers think that this will be good for business.
 -Twenty-two publishers in England are said to issue Longfellow's works, and make them profitable, but only one
 
 American poet~a royalty.
 The Royal Society for the Preven- tion of Cruelty to Animals offers prize Of to0 for the best vermin trap, one of the conditions being, Of course, that 1t snail not lnJure the animal entrapped.
 Locomotive No. 6. of the Central Road, made the run between Albany and New York. with the St. Louis ex- thp in eighteen minutes-the fastest time on record.
 In suit recently heard in New York State, the sum involved is about $7O. Already the case has been on the trial list for no less than six years and the actual Court costs have exceeded $3,50O.
 Chief Justice Fancy was a slave of tobacco. He ate and drank little, but smoked necessarily, and when his phy- slclan prescribed short allowance he would reduce the supply to thirty or forty cigars day.
 Next fall Pennsylvania elects a Supreme Court Judge to serve twenty one years, an Auditor-Ge General to serve three years, and State Treasurer to serve two years, A Governor will not be elected until 1878.
 -Col. W. W. Hollister might as we'll, while he is about it. buy the whole of California. He already owns 75,O0O acres of that blooming State. On his Santa Barbara farm he has the trifling number of 40.000 fruit trees.
 At the request of the Austrian Am bassador, and on the recommendation of the Duke de Decazes, President Mac Mahon has conferred the cross of the Legion of Honor upon Johann Strauss, the composer and orchestra leader.
 R. Cornell White, owner of the ill., fated excursion steamer Rockaway, whose timbers now strew the beach at Atlantic City, is having a new boat built to replace the one whose career was cut short by the March equinoc- tial.
 A sale took place lately in Paris of a marvellous collection of engravings. They include quantity of almanacs, forming a regular succession of histori- cal annals, from 1646 to 1889. These brought 7,2o0. The whole sale realized $63,000
 | It is estimated that it will cost the State of Texas $500,000 to hold a consti- tutional convention, and the Houston Age suggests that, instead of that ex- pense for a convention, five cotton mills be built, which can be done for the same money.
 Colonel s. s. Taylor, of Cairo, Ill.,, has carried in his valise for many years when travelling, rope ladder and a thick pair of gloves. At the burning of the Southern Hotel, at St. Louis, where he was guest, the ladder and gloves saved his. life.
 Among the many objects of interest at Hatfield House, the seat of Lord Salis- bury, is the bed occupied by Queen Elizabeth when she visited his ancestor,