Connecticut western news., 1877-04-20
NEWS IN BRIEF.

The product of the Wisconsin dai- ries is estimated at $4 ,000, ,000 per year.
 London omnibus conductors work fifteen hours a day for four shillings.
 During the year 1876 the United States yielded 420,O00, ,000 pounds of rosin.
 Over $2OO, ,0oO, 900 are annually spent in this country for cigars and cigarettes.
 It is worthy of note that the Presi- dent, Vice President and every member of the Cabinet is lawyer.
 During 1876 the various ferry boats plying between Camden and Philadel- phia carried +, 2,500,000 persons.
 In the year 1876 the seeds received in Chicago, principally clover and timothy. were valued at more than $4,00O, 900.
 The diamonds worn by Mme. Mu- sard at the opera ball in Paris, the other night, when placed in a row measured nearly nine yards.
 The French say that their com- merce" sprang up from 5,S00,0 900 francs to 7,70O, ,000, ,000 in consequence of the Exposition of 1867.
 The republic of Mexico, covers an area of 76O,O square miles, and is di- vided into twenty-three States, having population of about 5000, ,0OO.
 A female reporter represents the Detroit Free Press in the Canadian house of commans, and, furthermore, reports the doings of the staid Canadians very we'll.
 Nearly 100000 Germans are settled in some forty counties in Texas, par ticularly Comal and Guadalupe, and they are highly successful as agrlcul- turists. .e
 A poor Scotchman in Dundee Is the father of a child born with two stomachs and the Cincinnati Commercial thinks this an imposition, even in the land of oatmeal.
 Plymouth, Vt., boasts of young ster, who is only i've years old, but who weighs 9S pounds, measures 38 inches around the waist, and 25 inches around the thigh.
 During the past year the German press issued S4S works devoted to the natural sciences, 297 to geography and travel, and 190 to mathematics and astronomy.
 Three of Washington's third cou- sins, the grandchildren of Warner Was hington, of Virginia, are now living, old, poor and dependent, in Gordons- vile, Ky.
 A pure white muskrat was caught in the north part of Great Harrington, Mass, the other day, something old hunters never saw before in that part of the country.
 The sea serpent interviewed some Chinamen near San Diego, Cal. They saw good deal of him. They say he was sometimes I6O feet long, and some times two miles. -.
 The whole population of British India is close on 239, ,O0O,00 The den- sity of population varies from five to over seven hundred and fifty inhabi- tants per square mile.
 Mrs. Pauline Spitz died at Elnano- witz, Austria, recently, at the age of one hundred and eight years. She had never been known to take medicine, and always enjoyed good health.
 The first picture MT. Sheepshanks, the eminent English collector, ever bought was Landseer's "Two Dogs," and he gave the young artist f30 for it. It is worth to-day a hundred times thirty.
 Applications for fish to put in Lake Champlain are refused by MT. Green because the lake is not exclusively New York waters, and Vel mont has taken no step toward bearing her share of the expense.
 From block of marble weighing two tons, an eagle measuring six feet between the tips of it's outspread wings is now being cut for the Grand Army monument which stands at Reading, Pennsylvania.
 Allegheny college, at Meadville, Pa., has been selected as one of the thirty colleges in the United States to which the government, according to recent act of congress, would aid and support military department.
 On the strength of map, without personal examination, some New York parties took a mortgage for SAG, ,O0O on rocky, inaccessible hilltop in Patter- son, N. J. Garrett Mountain), which has just been sold under foreclosure for $7O0. ---.
 Tobacco is now successfully culti.
  of Missouri. In 1869 the State had 8S3 tobacco manufactories, and she pro. duced IS, SOC, ,O00 pounds, occupying the sixth rank among the tobacco-groWing States of the Union.
 Thanksgiving falls on November the 3Oth only once in six or eight years. 1t comes on that day this year, and will occur again only three times this cen Il o.,1 InNa will be the last Thanksgiving day of the nineteenth century.
 The Augusta Chronicle says Massa- chusetts capitalists are investing in manufacturing enterprises in Georgia. A cotton mill is to be established at Au- gusta and another on the "Powder Mills tract." the first to run 10000 and the latter 60, ,00o spindles. ..,.,....
 Tradition says that years ago when the headwaters of the Chesapeake swarmed with wild flow l, the hands em- ployed at an iron forge at Havre-de- GLace once upon time refused to work because they were fed on canvas back ducks instead of bacon. -, .....v
 On the closing up of the Smith & Rogers silver-plating concern in New Haven, recently, preparatory to Its re- moval to Meriden, the floor of the pla- ting room was taken up, burned, and the ashes analysed, with the result of procuring pure silver to the amount of $9S1.
 -Rouen, France, has the tallest structure in the world. The cast iron spire of its cathedral is 492 feet high, while the dome of St. Peter's at Rome raises its cross 452 feet above the ground, and Strasbourg, the highest cathedral in all France, rerches, with its cele- brated clock tower, 455 feet.
 The poplar forests in the region of country north of Lewistown, Me-. have been cut down for timber for the manu- facture of paper. These forests have lAonI, cidnrnd l,xr ho fn ,.r,aorn n1-