Connecticut western news., 1878-03-21
NO. 38.
GENERAL ITEMS.


 Complaints of depression in trade are now general in Brussels, which seems hitherto to have escaped the cpl demic.
 There are 156,0 900 Protestants and 100000 Catholics in San Francisco The Chinese and colored people number 1850.
 A Laporte Qnd. lady who had ten teeth extracted the other day tainted twenty-five times and came near bleed ing to death.
 Two Iowa men traded wives eight years ago, and now wish to swap back, but one of the wives objects, and there is much trouble in consequence.
 The Town Council of Edinburgh, Scotland, have decided to establish a number of public bowling greens. These were common in England century ago.
 The Legislature of Mississippi has enacted law providing the same penal ty for rape as for murder-death or i'm prisonment for life, at the discretion of the Jury.
 A Bostonian, who two years ago possessed more than $200, 900, now lives in an attic, and finds it hard work to gather together pennies enough to pay for his daily bread. .
 If one of your children is suffering from contagious disease, such as diph- theria, you are criminal if you permit your other children to go out to play with the little fellow.
 "A Yale graduate of dozen years standing went back to New Haven one day last week and paid tailor bill of $16 and interest, contracted while he was a student at the college.
 -Engiraeeriaag says: About dozen German telegraph offices have been provided with telephones, and these ap- pear to have proved so effective that forty-eight more offices are now being provided with similar instruments.
 The story comes from Woodstock, Vt, of an old clock that no tinkering will induce to run but at every annual gathering of the family it starts of itself, and keeps on ticking and striking the hours until the visitors have departed,
 A short time since in Parliament the First Lord of the Admiralty stated that B, 172 seamen and marines of the British fleet were members of the Church of Eng land, 1.778 Presbyterians, 4,162 Protes- tants of other denominations, and 5,35O Roman Catholics.
 The worthy burghers of Long Branch are in dire distress. A deaf and dumb boy, aged nine years died there, and few moments before his death spoke, predicting that this summer there would not be enough inhabitants alive in Long Branch to bury the dead.
 Miss Blair was one of the most beautiful girls in Atlanta when MT. Wetherstone engaged to marry her ; but afterward she fell down stairs, broke her nose. and was disfgured for life.
 
 her, saying that she is a damaged article.
 The statistics of emigration and inn migration for 1877 have just been pub lished in England. The total number of emigrants was 119, 9,971-a falling off of 13,251 as compared with 1876. The total number of immigrants was S1,s48, d reduction of 1,7O9 from the year pre- vious.
 In 1873 there were 205, 615 marriages in England and Wales, and 38, ,634 men and 52,207 women signed the register with marks. In 1874, out of POP, no 36, 117 men and AS, ,903 women signed with marks and in the following year, when there were POI, 212 marriages, 34, ,660 men and 46, ,666 women signed in that manner.
 A hawker named Nancey was tried a few days ago in Paris for insults to Marshal MacMahon by selling printed representing him welding a hatchet to decapitate the republic. The defence was that the design was merely reproduction from an American journal, Puck. Sentence, three months and 500 francs fine.
 A printer in Wellsville, N. Y, who has been deaf for many years, was placed in highly-heated room to help him out of case of chills. He was seized with sharp pains in the head, and fell down The whistle of a locomo- tive woke him next morning, and he since has been able to hear well, and speech, which had also about left him. has returned.
 T have many friends when I have said the unknown German who attempted to drown himself to escape the bangs of hunger, and was rescued in New York city. "I have none now" What message of misery is this pathetic speech /! What an echo of that underworld of the great metropolis, whose reality is more marvellous than any romance
 The Rev. David Keppel writes for the Northern Cbrist5asa Advocdte, one of the official organs of the Methodist denomination, an article entitled "The Morals of Hell, in which he argues that hell is Ga well-regulated prison, in mor- ality only second to heaven" He says that no sin can be committed beyond the grave, and that therefore hell is free from it.
 -One of the foreign medical journals, says Dr. Foote's Health Monthly, calls attention to the evils of breathing by the mouth, and reminds us that the nose was made for A two-fold purpose: first. to