Connecticut western news., 1877-08-03
NEWS IN BRIEF,

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 The highest pyramid in Egypt is 479 feet. St. Peters, at Rome, is 434 feet, ., IT, . a,-.... ... The Maine editors will make, an ex- cursion to Moosehead Lake, starting from Bangor July 2Sth. 2 '.' y7a:
 The Macon, Ga., ice factory is turn ing out 10000 pounds day at a cent pound.
 A Hudson toy balloon travelled from that city to South Acton, Mass, 145 miles, in less than twelve hours. During his eight years term, s. H. H. Parsons, late Pension Agent at Albany, has disbursed over $l2, ,O00, 900 and signed $40, ,000 checks. ''a77y7
 Ellen McCloud, Georgia negress, who died at St. CGtharine's Island re- gently, was reported to be l20 years old. She outlived seven or eight husbands.
 At Tehama, on the Sacramento river, a few days ago, TIC, 900 shad, month old, were set free. They were sent by rail from Havre-de-Grace, Mary land. ... aa1saa. P. ai.. 2 y'au
 Among the premiums awarded at school examination in Lancaster, Pa, was $5 gold piece to Miss Grace Muench for "the most skiiful. darning of stockings.' sHlolq ai 21a s3ilsi'H1s
 A Nelson county, Ky, man has just invented and perfected a new varietyaof road-wagon. It weighs about $500 pounds, and runs at the rate of 15 to 20 miles an hour. ''''
 An old beggar woman died at Mort, France, recently, and in her mattress was found the sum of $500 and will bequeathing that sum to the town hospitals. -.. .............-.,
 The European Academies of Artare those of Paris, founded in 1868 Vienna, 1705; Stockholm, 1733; St. Petersburg, 1704; London, 176S; Turin l7S6, and Madrid in 1799.,.. E. .ta.fs.s L.a..as.J
 The oldest Baptist associations in the United States are: The Philadel- phia, formed in l707; the Charleston, $. O., in 1751 the Warren, R., l., in 1787, and the Shaftesbury, Vt., in 17so. .@ T Queen Victoria has lent to the Cax- ton exhibition a book-the Mentz Psal- ter-which is valued at $l5, ,000. It. is the first printed book bearing date, this date being 1457. .. ....-, .-. .,,,, ,.tit
 Captain, Nathaniel B. Parker, :, of Stonington, Conn.,, the discoverer of
 
 Ocean, died in San Francisco the other day, aged 7ss years. lsa adp cao5a1
 While compositor on the Montreal Witness was setting up an advertisement of a lost canary recently, the bird flew value of advertising. "3 'ta ,.IH ai
 A Worcester lady has a shoe for merly worn by the French Canadian giant, which measures fourteen inches in length, and thirty-four inches in the circumference of the soul. r, .'..-,,
 The tunnel which connects the water level of Liverpool with the Man chester Railroad is 6,750 feet longsl22 feet high, and 16 feet broad, and 4,5D0 feet of 1t pass through hard rock. The forty-sixth annual exhibition of the American Institute of the city of New York will begin September F, and continue until late in November The prospects of the exhibition are now good. f57rte 4g .H H a.,.yiJ
 A firm in Beaver Falls, ,Pa., has just finished belt saw, fifty-four feet long and eight inches wide to be shipped to California, and there used in cutting the huge redwood trees in the Yosemite Valley. 4-Y qa. sse.t. tgs rra .t.,li -Greenbacks are the favorite cur rency in the Black Hills. They are worth $l1 more on the hundred than gold dust. Building lots that sold for $200 last fall are now in active demand at $l,oOO. a.us fsr.. .-y aa u. Toorrojia Herr Driesbach, the lion tanner, who, gave to Henry Clay three-foot quill from a condor captured in South America, which was to have been used by MT. Clay in writing his first Presi- dential message, is still living near Wooster, Ohio. ,... ..r.....-.g -,.
 pr. Frederick Morgan, the oldest surviving officer of Yale, and the last tutor required, on inauguration by President Dwight, to givepublic assent to the Westminster Assembly's Cate chism and Confession of Faith, has just died in Connecticut.
 Philadelphia has the honor of es- tablishing the first dispensary on this continenI, it being first opened in April, 17S6, and incorporated in l796. New York, in l79l, established the second, opening February s, on the cor ner of Beekman and Nassau streets.
 It is said that while there are I15,- 900 Baptists in New England, the Jour nals of that denomination there have a combined circulation of only 25,000 !; and similar state of affairs is true of other journals representing other churches throughout the country. d In Chicago, what was called but terfies' ball yielded $2, 900 to charity. The entertainment consisted of dancing, tableaux, and pantomime, by very small children, gorgeously winged like butterflies, on the stage of theatre.
 A young lady living near Kingston, N. Y., was recently stung while hand- ling a seventeen-year locust. The wound caused intense pain, and phy- sician was summoned. He pronounced it case of blood-poisoning. Entomolo- gists have united in saying that the sting of this curious insect is not poi sonous. ... E lr-. aa- .a faaa MT. Andrews, the Minister of the United States at Stockholm, has in- formed the Department of State that an important state agricultural exhibition will be held at Christiania, Norway, from the 2ud to the 7th of October next The exhibition will be open to foreign as well as to domestic agricultural im- plements and machines. .'..
 The first submarine cable was that laid across the Strait of Dover, twenty seven years ago. It parted next day, : and the first working cable was laid in 1851, on the same route. The network of cable has now extended so far that when Asia is united to America by cabling the Pacific, the electric girdle around the world will be complete from east to west, as it now is betweenl1 h and south. .-. .z...., .-t
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