Connecticut western news., 1877-09-14
NEWS IN BRIEF.

The expense of the Tichborne trial cost Eng gland million and a quarter of dollars.
 The jail at Houston, Texas, is con- sidered so insecure that all the prison- CTS are kept in irons.
 According to Hader, an authority. female house fly will produce in one season 20, 0,0S0, 1920 eggs. 1 Iron wire conducts electricity 400,- OOO, 1000 times better than water and 100000 better than sea water. | -Tokio, the capital of Japan, with l l,2oO,O ,O0O or so inhabitants, has 737 pri- vate-schools with 3S, 1904 pupils in them
 MT. Charles A. Dana of the New York Sun, has reached his 5Sth birth day-and he is now old enough to know better.
 Last year, in England, ,249 per sons were killed on the railroads, while l,52S were killed by carriages and wagons.
 -The tobacco crop in the Connecticut Valley promises to yield more than last year, although the average is smaller in Connecticut.
 A bronze statue of Robert Raikes. founder of the Sunday school system i'm England, is to be erected in his native city of Gloucester.
 An enterprising London publisher announces history of the "Barmaid Industry" There are said to be BOG. 900 barmaids in Great Britain.
 The river Pc carries out the land 22o feet per annum, and the city of Adrea, which 7, 800 years ago was on the sea, Is now twenty miles from 1t.
 -The silk crop of France for the pre- sent year, it is estimated, will be more than three times as great as that of last year, when it was generally failure.
 A Mir. Hume is establishing fish propagating establishment, on Rogue river, in Oregon, at his own expense. and will this year expend SIC, ,O00 upon it.
 -The Louisiana planters annually lose about one-third of their cotton crops by reason of insufficient labor, They call loudly for laborers from the North.
 Miss Jennie Bancroft recently graduated by the Syracuse University. has become Dean Of the Woman's Col lege connected with the North western University.
 -Of the 497 members of the present German Parliament, 139 belong to the nobility. Of these 2 are princes. B counts, 29 barons, and 6S have only the prefix "Von."
 -Mohammed Ali, in 1929, made A canal in Egypt in two months, of forty- eight miles long, and ninety feet wide. on which he employed at one time 25O, 900 workmen.
 It is estimated that $4O0, ,00O have been paid this year by Oregon dealers in agricultural implements for freight alone. One firm in Salem has paid $55, ,OOO for the purpose.
 Years ago Samuel Johnson and Samuel Longfellow made a Unitarian hymn book. Theodore Parker iocoselv named 1t the "Sam Book" which name it still unofficially bears.
 Angelica Kaufman, about the first famous woman painter in the world, was one of the thirty-six original mem bers of the London Royal Academy. which was started in 1768.
 A Swiss society has been formed in California under the name of the Santa Clara Valley Swiss Club, for the pur- pose Of celebrating every year the anni-
 
 The first telegraphic line in China has just been put in operation. It is six miles in length and runs from the official residence of Iii Hung Chang, Viceroy of China, to the Tietsin Arse nal.
 -The mackerel catch on the Eastern coast up to August 1st, this year, was less than one.third that of last year. The catch for July was only 6,6l4 bar rels-less than one-twelfth of the catch of July, 1876.
 An English enthusiast has placed nearly hundred Colorado beetles in an open garden and is feeding them with various kinds of fruit and vegetables, with view of ascertaining the kind of diet they prefer.
 On Monday, September 17th, the fifty-th1rd annual session of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows of the United States will commence in Baltimore. This will be the first session of the body in that city since 1873.
 Lake City, Col, is said to be the loftiest town in North America. It stands among the Rocky Mountains at an elevation of 6, ,5O0 feet above the sea, or more than 2,200 feet highter than the Tip-Top on Mount Washington.
 A new way to make a railroad pay. The occupants of 600 shanties along the lines of New York railroads make living by planting corn and po- tatoes between the rails and the fences. It is said that 9,0eO acres are cultivated in this way.
 Miss Thompson, the battle painter, has left London for Adrianople, with the intention of crossing the Balkans to the seat of war to make sketches. Her husband, Major Butler of the Horse Guards, was refused leave of absence to accompany her.
 The Duke of Brunswick's mauso- leum at Geneva to be erected ill the Jardtn des Apes at cost of 400, ,000 francs, is to include six white marble statues of his ancestors, beginning with Henry the Lion, and ending with his father, who fell at Quatre Bras.
 "A statue of "Faith," to be erected at Plymouth, Mass., will cost between $2O ,O00 and $40, ,0O0, and when finished is expected to surpass any memorial statue in granite in the world. The ex- pense of putting it in position on its pedestal will alone reach some $6, 1000.
 -ANew Hampshire Register of Deeds recently had occasion to trace tue name of Rollins back two hundred years. He discovered that within that period the spelling had been changed nine times, as follows: Rawlings, Rawlings, Ra- lins, Rallins, Rollins, Ralings, Rallings, Rollings, Rollins.
 Nine of the survivors of the British ship Strathmore have sent to Captain D. l.. Clifford, of New Bedford, Mass, mas ter of the whaler Young Phoenix, A splendid gold watch and chain as recognition of his humane and generous in rescuing the survivors of the 
 The average annual value of the musical instruments made in Paris during the last six years has been S2, 500, 900, divided among three hundred