Connecticut western news., 1877-08-24
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The Volga, the largest river In Eu- rope, is 2,700 miles long. ,aA
 The most ancient known coins are of the fifth century B. c. ....7 9
 In 1876 Alabama exhumed 65,OOO tons of coal from her depths. ,ans
 It costs about $7 to send ton of wheat from Chicago to Liverpoola -One Burlington, N. J., factory is canning 500 bushels of peas day.
 "A fifth Avenue (New York; florist has sago palm tree two hundred years old. -n.1
 Virginia and West Virginia com bined cover an area of 640,OOo square miles. ...''....-T Isabella, ex-Queen of Spain, has the most valuable collection of lsces In the world. -Tg
 The average annual value ofimports into Turkeys1O0, 900, ,0o0; exports. about $50, ,00O. "a
 There are always twenty-five thou sand lost umbrellas at the Paris Chief of Police's office. ,-. ....'..@
 -Of the 2,0S2 Chinese children in San Francisco, 109 go to private schools. There are none in the public schools.
 The Mount Washington Railroad carried to the summit of the mountain 5000 persons in 1875, and 6 ,000 in 1876.
 There is now map in China drawn 1000 years B. C., which accords with surveys made by the Jesuits, 17O0 A. D.
 Rev. Dr. N. Bouton of Concord, N. H., senior trustee of Dartmouth College, has resigned after thirty-seven years of service. ,t .......-,a ....f ats
 It is reported that Miss Cary.i the singer, will buy house in Portland, Maine, and pass her vacations there hereafter. sE l. a@a.t~ -f 3#i
 A Manchester, N. H., man sent a guitar to Sacramento, Cal, through the mail recently, and it has arrived there uninjureG. ...-s. .i...,rs,
 Scribe, the French dramatist, has made $600, ,000 out of translations and original plays. Few scribes make as much as that. # .-...l & eat.aIlq
 In Italy July is the month of bread; August the month of wine. In the first the Roman peasants reap; in the second they gather the grapes. ....[r,
 From the 1st of May to the 3Oth of June the average daily circulation of the London Telegraph was 242 ,215 copies, the largest ever enjoyed. H5&b
 Mrs. Catharine Turish, who died in South Boston the other day, aged 79 years, left twenty six grandchildren, and ten great-grandchildre
 V A novel race came off at Newbury. port, Mass, the other day in which a man 73 years of age, beat one 40 years his junior in three mile walk. iea
 o.rood hall x,,;I1 ho ~,..o-. White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, on the 18th day of August, to raise funds for monument to General Robert k. Lee. a
 -The exiled Modocs are living peace fully on their reservation in Kansas, and occasionally turn penny by selling bows, arrows, and Indian notions to the whites. Gilmanton, N. H., aged 9l and S4 years respectively have twelve children, all married, twenty-five grand and ten reat-grandchildren. ... tav
 Boxes are made in London direct from the paper pulp. Four machines, with the drying stoves, produce 500 boxes or covers in an hour without the employment of skilled labor. .f-ae,T9t
 Of about 250 applicants for admis- sion to the Freshman class this year at Harvard, about one-fifth were unsuc- cesstul, and three-fourths of the remain der had one or more conditions. -.,.
 The dies for an experimental gold coin, worth $50, are now nearly com pleted, and are said to be of exquisite workmanship, rendering counterteitlng a matter of the greatest difficulty. }tE
 In 1900 French prisoner at Liver pool exhibited most extraordinary propensity to devour nauseous diet, par ticularly cat, of which, in one year, he devoured 174, many of them while alive. The Smith sisters of Glastonbury, Conn.,, live in house 139 years old, sit under tree l94 years old, and are the happy possessors of the Governor Sal- tonstall's china, which is 200 years old.
 The unlucky yacht Mohawk, in which Wm. T. Garner and party were drowned last season, is for sale at $25,- 900. The vessel cost $100, 1000, the car pets and furniture alone costing $40, ,000.
 Honest people in Minnesota must hang their heads very low when they read the footing of the recent election on the question of redeeming the State's 17,324 in favor to 59,l76 against.
 The soldiers monument at Man chester, Conn.,, will be dedicated on the 17th of September, the anniversary of the battle of Antietam. It is now nearly completed, and it's total cost will be $l0,000. -.... ,.,-.
 A new idea in journalism. probably. based on church custom, is that of Mass, editor who announces that the paper will be suspended for two weeks in August to give the proprietor B chance to take a vacation. .,.... ....,
 The Winsor mansion on Blackstone, Square, Boston, which was sold year pr more ago for SAY ,000, when taxed for s65, 900 has just been offered again at auction, and knocked down at $25, ,000, to the mortgagee. It cost $70, 900. " ..-
 Queen Victoria's nephew, Count Gleichen-otherwise Prince Victor of Hohenlohe-Langenbu burg-has just made ! statue of the Saxon King Alfred,3 which is to be set up in the town of; Vantage, where that ruler was borns9n
 There has been secured for the coming Exposition in Pittsburg the first rain ever run in the State of Pennsyl-I 7ania. It comprises an engine and twoa passenger coaches, and was built by John Stevenson in 1913 for the Hudson River Railroad. .'- .|-A
 The population of Nebraska has in- creased in ten years from $, ,000 to nearly 100, ,000 and at the rate at which emigra- ion is now flowing into it it would not ,e at all surprising were the population 0 exceed half a million at the end of hree years more. .-.- I..i..! gstom
 An arctic expedition will probably ,e sent out by the Dutch, under the conn ! hand of Dutch lieutenant who has 3 made three arctic voyages under theh British flag. Its object is not the dis,