Connecticut western news., 1877-03-30
NEWS IN BRIEF.


 for the books in the British Museum. A new style of postage stamps of the three cent denomination is to be is. sued in May.
 The salary of the president of Switzerland has been increased from 2,000 to $2,700 year.
 Kansas anticipates very large emi- grafton in the Spring from Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan.
 A sheep ranch of GAO, ,0OO acres has just been surveyed in Menard county, Texas. for Tennessee breeder.
 Earl Township (Pa.) boasts of very young grandfather, viz., Nathan Rae. who is not yet 8 years of age.
 Bills enforcing compulsory educa- tion have been introduced in the Wis consin and Illinois Legislatures.
 -Dr. Schliemann's wealth is esti- mated by those who have the means of knowing at not less than 3,000, ,000.
 -J. P. Hasler, the defaulting cashier of the Carlisle (Pa.) Deposit Bank, hanged himself in the garrett of his dwelling.
 An old-fashioned piano, which was made for Beethoven, and used by him in Vienna, is now to be seen in a music store in Zurich.
 A new Methodist church in Boston is to be the largest belonging to that de- nomination in America, and will seat 5000 persons.
 The Senate of Nevada has passed a bill to tax the profits of churches, secret socletles, and colleges, and exempt mortgages.
 They have a man in San Francisco who is distinguishing himself by eating maccaroni by the mile. He disposed of the first mile in 9 minutes.
 Colonel Delancey Kane proposes that the first trip of the spring season of the Pelham Coach to the suburbs shall be made on Tuesday, May l.
 MT. Wm. k. Dodge, of New York, is said to be the heaviest timber land owner in the United States. He owns land in the South, the West and Canada.
 The new Democratic daily at San Francisco is edited by an Australian. He landed since November, but hurls the spirit of '76 at all Returning Boards.
 -Narrow-gauge railroads were first made in this country in 1871, and now we have 3,157 miles of this form of con- struction, of which 569 miles were built in 1876.
 A very old married couple named Minor, live at Fall River, Mass, The husband is more than one hundred years of age, and the wife eighteen months younger.
 The shock from the firing of the SO- ton gun at Shoeburyness, England, re- gently caused bottles to fall off glass shelf in the window of house sixteen miles distant.
 Kansas derived revenue of $S9,- l20 50 from its railroads on state tax alone during the last year. The assess ment of railroad property amounted to $16, ,205, ,435.
 } -Four factories at Huntsville, Mo-, are prepared to handle three million pounds of tobacco this year. Nearly double that amount finds market at Huntsville.
 A San Francisco clerk paid $35 a month for his rooms, ate $3 dinners, and smoked 20 cent cigars. The firm over hauled his accounts, and found them $21 ,000 short.
 There is talk in London of setting up Cleopatra's needle in Northumber- land avenue. To remove the obelisk from Alexandria and re-erect it will cost at least $35, ,OO0.
 The Irish organizations of Balti- more have sensibly resolved not to waste their money on St. Patrick's day par ade, this year, but give what they would have spent in that way to the poor.
 A curious fish is found in Wallow's Lake, California, which are blood red in color, very fat, and are of superior delicacy to salmon. There are only four known lakes in the world where these fish are found.
 The oldest Duke in Great Britain is the Duke of Portland, aged v; the youngest the Duke of Montrose, aged 20. The oldest Marquis is the Marquis of Donegal, aged 80; the youngest, the Marquis of Camden, aged 5. MT. Demas Barnes's loss in his newspaper venture is computed to be $400, ,O00. The price paid for the privi- lege of killing the Brooklyn Argus in ad- vance of its natural dissolution is vari- ously reported at from $S, ,000 to $35, ,000.
 In order to retain Professor Young, of Dartmouth College who recently re- ceived a call to Princeton College, the Dartmouth faculty voted to offer him special professorship of astronomy and to appeal to the alumni for funds to en- dow it.
 Caleb Cushing is seventy-seven years old. He is the reputed author of large number of Presidential messages. A congressman was once asked what he thought of one of Buchanan's messages, and replied that it was the "best one Caleb Cushing ever wrote."
 The match of the national rifle as- | tha so1 announced for September, and notice has been issued to foreign rife teams. The captain of the Irish team responds thet it is un certain whether it is possi- ble to raise team to shoot for the tro- phy this season.
 A number of very interesting old manuscripts, supposed to be written by some monk of the Soloveisk Monastery, near Archangel, and said to throw new light upon the history of the religious sects of Russia, were recently found by a Russian antiquary in one of the book stalls at St. Petersburg.
 The Health and Police Committees of the San Francisco Board of Super yisors have just laid out the future Chi nese burial grounds, short distance beyond the half-mile track, parallel with Point Lobos avenue. This will be the third time the Chinese have been com peIled to remove the bones of their dead inferred in this country.
 On the Southern Pacific Railroad, $40 miles south ofSan Francisco, is seen a unique piece of railroading, where the track, after passing through a tunnel, winds around the mountain and crosses itself directly over the tunnel, thus gaining height of 7S feet on 3,795 feet | Of rail A hout 1OO miles further South the road runs through one of the largest tunnels in America, that of San Fran cisco, 6,967 feet in length.