Connecticut western news., 1877-03-02
NEWS IN BRIEF.

London has nine hundred profess sional brokers.
 There were about 650 suicides in the United States in 1876.
 -Westborough, Mass, makers have sold about 5000 sleighs this winter.
 Over 3,O00,000, cigars are daily burned in this country. No insurance.
 Florida citizens are taxed, on an average, 2.50 piece.
 The Harvard freshmen have chal- lenged Yale to an eight-oared race.
 The coal miners of Brazil, Ind, are clamoring for an increase of wages.
 Last year the English Life Boat h. stitution saved 49S lives, besides res cuing Is vessels.
 The Kindergarten system has been introduced in the Government schools for girls in China.
 Domesticating cartridges is a new and profitable branch of industry in North Carolina.
 At her recent Moscow benefit Patti received 300 bouquets, sprinkled with $50, ,000 worth of diamonds. sgM. ..
 Arnold, the writing-Huid man, has made $1, ,000, ,000 by it. That's the sort of an ink-come to have.
 Rev. Anna Oliver has taken charge of Methodist Church at Passaic, N. J., which has debt of $l00,000.
 A lemon tree at Stamford, Fla, pro- duced 6,000 lemons last year, some of which weighed pound each.
 During the past five years Califor- nia has exported nearly 6,000,000 gal Ions of wine valued at over $4,000,000.
 Miss Emily Peyton has been second time elected enrolling clerk of the Tennessee House of Representa- tives. ,'.s. .... s.
 Cumberland county, Va., is infested with beavers, which are busily engaged in building their habitations along the rivers.
 There are four lay preachers in the British House of Commons-Sir Watkin Williams and Messrs. Blake, Waddy and Allen. -- f.-f . '.
 A magnificent vase, four feet high, and cut from single piece of agate, has been sent to the Mikado by the Emperor of Russia.
 The gold production of Montana since the discovery of the mines in 1863, is calculated by an authority in that Territory at $110.000,0 ,000. "A Detroit restaurant keeper hangs out sign of "free chops," and when the old loafers come around he shows them an axe and woodpile. +a"
 The biggest sail in the world has just been made in Dublin. It is rectan- gular in shape and in size lS0 by 60. It will be used in raising sunken vessels.
 Hard as the times are, one cham n0pnn firm in RhQimc aynnrtnA tn thiG country last year over 3S, ,000 dozen, on which the Government received $22S,- GOO in duties. '
 The 5000 grasshopper prize offered by the Minnesota Legislature has in- spired genius who proposes to destroy the insect by raising net by balloonsa quarter of a mile apart.
 At least 500,000 tons of fee were shipped from the Kennebec and its tributaries the past year. The sales are reported to have averaged $2 per ton, and at this figure million dollars was realized for the cold product.
 The Catholic Directory for 1877 re- ports the number of Catholic churches in this country as 5,292, and the number of priests as 5,297, while the congregations to whom they minister are estimated at {, 6,200,000. -aH
 Jewish silver shekels have lately been found near Jerusalem, belonging to the time of Simon Maccabeus, B. c. IA. On one side they have the cup of mama, and on the other the budding rod of Aaron. Boston covers an area of 31 square miles, has 364 miles of streets, and it's population is 342, ,000. In 1860 it's popu- lation was 17S,O00, the city covered AZ square miles, and had 102 miles or | streets.
 pr. c. H. F. Peters, the indefatiga- ble astronomer of Litchtield Observa- tory, Hamilton College, is gathering quite family of planets about him. The twenty seventh addition to his family circle of asteroids is announced.
 MT. George Jack of Chester county, Pa., has drove of turkeys numbering nearly eight hundred. They were pur- chased in Southern Ohio, shipped by railroad to Newark, Del, and driven from there to MT. Jacks residence, a distance of twenJy-two miles.
 Edwin Booth and Sothern have each given $500 to the fund for the erection ofa Shakespeare memorial hall in Strat- ford-on-Avon. Of the sum required, f100 000, (the land is gift) f6,O00 has been subscribed, and Prince Leopold will lay the cornerstone on April 23rd.
 -Santo Monica, California, ssthe Long Branch of the Pacitic," was laid out in town lots but sixteen months since, and now there are in the town over three hundred buildings and eight | hundred inhabitants, with $20, ,000 hotel, public school building and two church edifices.
 The Queens state saloon on the Great Western railway, England, is made entirely of boiler plate, and so lined and padded that if the carriage were to go over an embankment and roll to the bottom, the chances are that the occupants would escape uninjured.
 Mrs. Lena Orton, of Lanesville, Conn.,, in order to prevent quarrels among her heirs after her death, has adopted the expedient of dividing a large part of her property among them. She has already distributed in this way more than one hundred and forty thou | sand dollars.
 The Massachusetts census report for 1875 contains some curious findings. For instance, there are l06 "ladies" in the state and 29S gentlemen" ,"and there are five "old Irish gentlemen" There are nine gamblers, three "hermits,' three 'loafers," ten "pedestrians," !" and one "prize fighter"
 Storey county, Nevada, is one of the richest counties in the United States. The bonanza mines are situated in it, and they yield their product of wealth every month with invariable uniform ity. It's yield of gold and silver bull lion for the quarter ending September 3Oth was $s,742, 400.
 The Freemasons of England sup Il