Connecticut western news., 1878-11-13
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GENERAL ITEMS.

The recent 1nundatlonS Ot the Nile destroyed 250 human beings and $2, ,500,- 900 in property.
 There are 39, ,258 post-offices in the United States, 1913 having been added in the course of the present year.
 The garments belonging to the Moors who die from cholera in Morocco, instead of being burnt, are sold by taucion in the public market.
 The exportation of American pork has made the keeping of pigs unproit- able in England, and even the Irish farmers are giving up the attempt.
 Eight young men left Hartford last August to nurse yellow fever sufferers in the SoathA Harry Brooks, the only survivor, has just returned home.
 -Sealskin will be much worn this winter. It is somewhat scarcer, and correspondingly higher in price this year. Sacques are worn thirty y-eight to forty inches long.
 The whole area of Great Britain and Ireland under cultivation is, exclu- sively of space covered by buildings, roads, waters, gardens, wood and waste land 47,327, ,0OO acres.
 A little girl at Heeley Falls, Ont, , while straying around her fathers farm came across young bear, and, mistak- ing it for dog, tied string around its neck and lugged it home.
 A man was crushed by a heavy wagon il Aurora, New, and left writhing in agony. His companion, reasoning that he could not recover and that it would be merciful to end his suffering, deliberately shot him through the heart.
 At Des Moines, kitten had caught and was playing with mouse, when the frightened captive sprang into pussy s open mouth and ran down her throat. The kitten went into spasms, which did not subside till the mouse had been suf- located.
 Jones, the man who was recently tarred and feathered in Reno, Gal. spends most of his time reading the hotel registers in San Francisco. He carries two loaded revolvers, and will talk with nobody. It is surmised that he is insane.
 The London Guardian says: "Live cattle have been brought lately from America because trade is otherwise stag nant and freight therefor unusually low. It has not yet appeared that under or dinary conditions live cattle can be sent thence to England at a profit.
 Ten years ago over 1 1000, 900 of acres were devoted to potato culture in Ire land now only about 870, ,000 acres are thus employed. The decrease is at tributed to the great uncertainty attend ing the cultivation of the crop, and tc new methods of foraging cattle.
 MT. and Mrs. Terrell, of Houston Tex, liked an orphan girl so we'll that they decided legally to adopt her at their daughter; but, just as the papers were ready for signing, Mir. Terrell made
 
 his wife. And he eloped with her.
 MT. Phillips, of Millington, Mich. whipped his thirteen-year-old daughter till she consented to be married to ( man she detested. As soon as the ceremony was over she escaped and reused the neighborhood, and her hus band and father had to fly for their lives
 The Russian Government is making preparations for trying the $40 Nihilist' who are now confined in prison at Odes sa. Many of them have been in priso1 since 1876. During the course of tho examination the garrison will be in creased and the police supplied with re volvers.
 The immense horns of South Afri can cattle are made to twist spirally, ant in fanciful curves, by being scratched on one side or the other while they art growing. Each owner can tell the oxeI which belong to his "span" " in this way by the acquired shape of their naturally regular horns.
 A farmer at Ulverstone, England gave lift home from market to neigh Dor and her three children. For thii kindly act he was arrested, on the ground that he had violated the law which licenses his cart to carry onl. merchandise, and reluctant judge wa compelled to fine him heavily.
 The Illinois Supreme Court ha decided that a city cannot by ordinanc' compel citizen to remove snow from sidewalk in front of his premises, an, more than to remove Instructions iron the middle of the street, the interes that he has therein being only the inter est common to all citizens.
 A miner was riding up on an eleva tor ill Nevada shaft. One of his hand caught in the framework of the side and he was left dangling 1000 feet iron the bottom. His plight was not dis covered until the elevator reached th surface without him. He was so weak after being rescued, that he could no stand.
 Great droughts, like that which ha ragged over India and China this year produce sort of disease among the in land fishes, and they die by millions Nor will any but the most intelligen and enterprising of the Hindoes gathe the carcasses with which to fertiliz their fields, and thus the vast and valu able deposits of phosphate manur along hundreds of miles of river bank is wasted.
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