Connecticut western news., 1877-08-10
NEWS IN BRIEF

tants now, ....... c. ..... ir.... a. Belgium is building 500 iron rall- way cars for her State railways. HH
 -Dr. Dix, of Trinity, gets $l5, the highest clerical salary In New York.
 - John Habberton's Forthcoming
 book about babies starts off with orders for 20, ,000. ... .4.a... .l
 Shaw, the fish man, has let loose in Iowa streams, the last fifteen months, 3,693, ,000 fishes. l .r..t .ag ~t ..
 Houston, Texas is SO nearly bank
 rupt that the authorities talk of surren- dering the city charter. .}t. .......-.lg
 The aggregate value of the Jubilee offerings to the Pope is estimated, on good authority, at nearly $3,000,000. r,
 Lone Tree, Nev., has been deprived of it's picturesque name, and will hence forth be known as Central City. s.... An American firm has received an order for 100000 quinine pills for, a government hospital in Rome.
 A good sized parrot will devour laA
 grasshoppers per minute, and perhaps
 it would be we'll to import 100000, 900
 parrots. '-''h
 "A clergyman in Toledo, Ohio, has
 patented car coupler, which Is new
 venture in the coupling line for one of
 his profession. ''P l"'-'t -lI E ""
 At the Sidney (Australia) exhibi- tion, which has just closed, there were l29,OO0 visitors, ard the American ex. hibit was the best. ta'. sHHaE afR ....,a
 A Wisconsin eagle, killed the other day, had eleven bullets in his body. 1t was probably going off somewhere to found lead mine. ..W .-
 Ioko Doan.
 took full notes of his talks with Daniel Webster, and his "reminiscences will soon be published. Gl .as sst5 esl E8f
 The daughter of one of the Siamese Twins has lately procured divorce from her husband, Nathaniel Boleiack, in North Carolina. .. ., ae.s-' Es'.a-
 The Astor Library, New York, will be closed from July 2S until September 5, during which time each of the l6O, GOO volumes will be dusted. ,n Hsis ,ora.
 Secretary Sherman thinks he, can save $lOO, 900 by having the Government printing office print the revenue stamps, and he proposes to do it.. gg ssE .re.
 The French Mint has struck 10000 francs worth of centime pieces in bronze, each representing about thef twelfth of an American cent. h.s .,. .,5t
 It is asserted that in 1856 nearly one person in every five who died inps London that year closed his days under E a roof provided by public awor private charity. -.sf val :, ..4r ..yIr -a 5aa r ,a Since August l, 1876, over 320,0OO people have moved into Texas. It oueh, to change the character of the popula,. ton enough to have some effect on State politics. ..- .....-, 9,. ,., ..,--.
 The only original oil painting of Daniel Webster is on exhibition in Bos- ton. It was painted by the celebrated artist Joseph Ames, and is said to be an excellent likeness. ..' .I, "A lawsuit begun in Indiana four- teen years ago to recover $7,50 for use of water privilege, has lately heen enueu py a decision i'll favor of the defendent. The costs amount to $2 900.
 The Harvard Library will not se- cure the services of MT. Justice Winsor, the Boston Aldermen having added $1 ,O00 to his annual salary in order to retain him in the city Public Library.
 -"Helen's Babies" has reached sale |. of neasly quarter of million copies, about equally divided between thiszs country and Great Britain, where It was seized upon by at least six different houses. a-nr t.. rr.H.s# ut rYalH su>
 They arrested man in De Soto Parish, Texas, named William Lung ley, the other day, who has confessed to s the killing of thirty-two men. Hes lived among his neighbors entirely un-, .-,. ........
 The Chicago Journal figures 13, ,000, 900 ] American schoolboys will tear 3S, ,0O0, 900 holes in their pants during the summer i, vacation, and this in addition to stone bruises, explosions, drownings, falls and the collie.
 The wool clip in Montana, last year. was about 600, ,000 pounds, and netted the sheep owners nearly $l5,OO0. Nu- merous large bands of sheep are re- ported on the way there from Califor- 2- mia and Colorado. .-'
 Three carrier pigeons let loose in Reading by an Easton gentleman, arrived in tho latter place in forty-five distance of fifty-four miles. Less than mile a minute, this, and dis tancing locomotive. faar a. .ratfra
 The Countess Lauretta Lambertini. who asserts that she is a natural dauGh- ter of the late Cardinal Antonelli, has commenced an action claiming the whole of his property, which is esti- mated at many millions of francs. '"s 'af
 The Presbyterians of Canada are having a lawsuit over the Temporalities Fund, which amounts to about $750, 900, @ t being contended by the orthodox that Ill who have entered the Union have orfeited their rights to the adherents a1 ,f the old Kirk. -.. .su Ea .a r6lau
 We understand that the Adams Ex- press Company are about to enter into with the United States Government in carrying small packages or one cent an ounce to any part of the United States, but not receiving any 'um less than ten cents. '..@1 -
 Rev. Charles F. Deems, D. D., pas- or of the Church of the Strangers in New York, received the degree of LID. rom the University of North Carolina, .s. It its recent commencement. He was when comparatively a young nrn, professor in the University.
 The alphabets of different nations contain the following number of letters: English, 26; French, 23; Italian, 20; Spanish, 27; German, 26; Sclavonic, v; Russian, 41; Latin, g; Greek, 34; Hebrew, etc., 22; Arabic, 2S, Persian -. 2; Turkish, 33; Sanscrit, 50; Chinese,
 MT. Clark Mills, the sculptor, has one to St. Augustine, Fla, where he .-. as been engaged by the Smithsonian institute at Washington to take casts of ixty Indian chiefs now imprisoned here. The casts are for the Ethno- ', 'gical department of the Smithsonian }. ........ .a rE Wagon Wheel Gap, in Colorado, is .5 ,0O0 feet above the sea-level, and is ra tuated near the head waters of the Rio