Connecticut western news., 1877-12-28
THE TRADE DOLLAR AT A DISCOUNT

THE TRADE DOLLAR AT A DISCOUNT
 The San Francisco Bulletin of recent date says "The demand for the trade dol lar in China is no longer equal to the supply of the Minus here and at Carson, and the result is an ovsr-abundance of that coin in circulation. This coin is now being subjected to heavy dicount from four to five per cent. being named as the rate. And this discount is carried on in almost every branch of business. Even conduc- tors on the street cars now refuse to take them for their face, and subject them to 6 discount of ten per cent. Other silver coins circulate in small quantities for their face value. There is no reason why any such distinction should exist. The trade dollar is as much of legal ten. der for eums not exceeding $5 as any other silver coin"
 How ARTEMUs WARD WRoTE-A friend 1 of Artemu, VI ards, who was with him on The Cleveland Plsipdealer for some time, says he used to be necessarily whiting bis ! chair a1d desk. His manner of writing was as peculiar as everything else about tn. man. His mission in life seemed to be to hunt up funny things. When he found them, out of his own head or elsewhere, he himself enjoyed them better than anyon. | else. As he sat writing when the funny idea struck him, he would laugh with g guffaw which seemed to shake him from l his heels upwards. He s 1t in an armchair always with his left leg swung over the arm of his chair. When the joke came, be would pound the table with his fist, slap the
 long thin leg that hung over the chair. and explode with laughter. It was his habit to share good joke with his associates in the office at once. He loved sympathy as if he had been woman, and seemed to stand as much in need ol il. He wrote rather rap- J idly, and writing seemed to come easy tt I him. He laughed nearly all the time hs was writing.
 A wild man has turned up in Nebraska Two hunters while lying in the under growth of forest waiting for game. saw 6 small man about five feet eight inches tall He was entirely naked, his head covered with long, tangled mass of hair, his beard falling nearly to his waist, his entire body covered with light brown hair an inch or more in length. When seen he was dig. ging roots with stick, and eating them ; all the time continuing chsttering and @ nervous watch upon every side, not unlike d monkey. He appeared about forty-fiv years old. but on the discovery that he was seen. sprang up with great agility and ran like deer. Query: Was it man, or wal Ii monkey that had lost it's way2
 'Is Governor Rice in ?" inquired a seedy looking man of the clerk of the B; unssSick, Boston, few nights ago. "Yes," said ,he clerk, ives, he is." "Well," said the man, walking out, ''Pm glad of it; it's @ wei night. and he might catch cold if he was out"
 During the review of the Sunday school lesson last Sunday, the question was asked "What became Of Elijah P and the entire congregation was electrified by a small shrill voice that piped out with extreme unction, "He went to heaven like a house afre, you bet"
 A woodman in Austin, Nevada, has named bis team of eight oxen after leading citizens of the place. Every day he is heard shouting to them like this, excep, that he also uses prose nlty: "Gee there, John Lyons; Whoa Dr. Sheridan, you blamed lazy beast; haw there, Colonel Price. or I'll break every bone in your darned lazy body; git up Jack Squires p Then he wbacks the minister with the butt of his whip, and throws stone at the bank president.
 There was quite company of distin- guished guests sitting at the table, who happened to disagree as to the date Of a certain event of which they were talking. when the hosts eight-year old 'un attempt ed to expedite the solution of the problem by suddenly asking: Why mamma, what day was it you washed me?
 'What do you charge for quart of your milk hert?" asked man as he put his head in the door of milk shop. "Eigh, cents" was the reply. "Aint you got any for seven cents?" Mo-" said the proprie- tor, "but we can make some"
 Potter says he doesn't mind dew on the blossoms, but that on his house rent both ers him considerably.