Connecticut western news., 1877-02-16
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Salem, N. C., had thunder, light ming and snow, all In one night. ..r
 The government university at Paris teaches 9,250 students. ., ,..-,,.,,, .t.... 1 Seven men married for the fourIh time in New York last year. .. l There are six women in tho Black Hills and only one miTliner's shop.
 Two hundred and thirteen Ameri- can horses have trotted faster than 2.26.
 There are forty-eight millions of dollars in the Brooklyn savings banks.
 Italy now possesses 1,l26 periodi- cal publications, including 3s7 diurnalh.
 Oranges on the tree bring but cent piece in Tampa county, Florida.
 It is reported that 400 national banks are preparing to retire their cir culation.
 There are 1928 newspapers and pc riodical publications in the German Empire. | A prismoidal one-rail railroad Is now in successful operation in the Son. oma Valley, California. -...s..... Paris has 35 theatres and places Of amusement. exclusive of the skating rinks and concert halls. , ...--. -One of the Boston letter carriers was given over $250 by the people along his route on Christmas Day. nr9 gaq m.
 The Academy of Music at Baltlniorel has been sold under a foreclosure oi mortgage for $l65, 900. It's original cost was over $400, ,000. lsa....o eli 2..-. -President- Congressman Seelye saws that after the 4th of March he proposes to give his life to the College of Am herst. sa4sfutaf 1. as8 a.rD .Y.Hsal The dial of the clock constructed for l the crystal palace, Sydenham, England. is forty feet in diameter; the minnte hand is nineteen feet long. 1sr esall ,.. The growth of Protestantism in Palestine is rapid. There are now 25O Protestant Churches in the Holy Land, and the schools there have ,600 pupils.
 The Hon. Wm. M. Evarts is bril- liant success as raiser of corn. This year he added to the wealth of the coun. try 2, 200 bushels. . '..,..
 .The number of dogs in the State of Iowa is given at l97 ,509. That odd nine gives to these figures an appearance of accuracy which we suspect is delusive.
 "A walnut tree in the Crimea is a thousand years old, and yields eighty thousand nuts a year. 1t is greatly cracked up by the Russian press. --Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progressp was Commodore Vanderbilt's ofavorite book. and he sometimes carried it with him him. '"'7 '1EI7 78'''F 7N-T1
 Miss Eliza Powers, maiden lady of Boston, who amassed q fortune In the millinery business, died lately, and left by will $50, 1000 to the American Uniua- rian Association. is i7s57a 8.S V 5Gr The roof of the Palmer House, Chi cago, (weighing about 4 900 tons, is be- ing raised by means of numerous iack- screws, to give.an additional height of 30 inches to the rooms belows f': .sr,g. It is reported that a new glass com- pany. composed of foreign capitalists, will shortly build glass works in the lower part of the city of Jetfersonville, Ind.
 -bankruptcy in England must be profitable for somebody. In a recent case the assets were $4 ,495 and the ex- penses $4 ,3S0 leaving $165 to be divided among the creditors. s.' EYE "
 The slate business in Northampton county Pa, is very prosperous at the present time, after years of depression. Large quantities of slate are now shipped from Bangor to England. o.
 On the 23d of April the anniver- sary of Shakespeare's death, Prince Leopold will lay the corner stone of N new memorial Hall at Strattord-upon- Avon. ... -.M ....... es -.. IIr s
 Between 17,000 and lS,O0O alligator skins are tanned yearly in the United States, which are consumed by boot and shoe manufacturers, and many are ex- ported to London and Hamburg.
 A Glasgow firm manufactured a number of enormous umbrellas to be presented to African chiefs. Three were about thirty feet in circumference, ana the remainder about eighteen feet.
 The savings banks of Sacramento. Cal, having more money in their vaults than they can profitably invest, have decided not to receive any further de- posits on interest for the present. 7n e.r
 "A few years ago the State debt of fennsylvan1a amounted to upward of $46, 900, 900 The existing funded debt is s4only $22, ,s65, ,02l, having been reduced. more than one-half.
 Susan Fletcher Smith, an American lady has bequeathed her body for dis section to the Royal College of sur geons, London, only asking that women students shall have the first chance. lu7'
 A young woman in Rochester, N. Y., has sued for damages man who had. kissed her. A man who can't, kiss a woman without damaging her ought to pay for his awkwardness.
 There are $40 monasteries and con- vents in Russia, the revenues of which amount altogether to $6,50O, 900. The cost of maintaining 8 monk or nun during one year amounts, on an aver age, to about $110.
 The Jesuits expelled from Germany some month ago have taken refuge in India. A large number of them have joined the University at Bombay, and an add, tional college has already been founded there with 600 students. -s...
 A citizen of Massachusetts, whose name has not been made public, has offered to give $30, 900 toward finishing the monument to the pilgrim fathers at Plymouth, Mass, if the town authori- ties, will give ,000 toward improving the grounds. t ... s..o.-a VI
 -"My son." said Mir. K, kindly, to his youthful heir, s'accnstom yourself to be polite to the porter, the servant girl, the coachman, to all the servants; thus you will come in time to be cour- teous to all people, even to your parents" ..='.a ~
 MT. W. Haywood, the city of Lon don engineer, states as the results Of his observation and experience with London streets that horse would tra- vel l32 miles before a fall took place on granite, 191 miles on asphalt.a and 446 miles on wood. ....~ "a, /. 4.,.5 ,..s. ...
 A line of the American steamship company, to run from New York to