Connecticut western news., 1878-04-11

with violence, and should therefore be used with caution.
 The foreign imports into American custom-houses were $57, ,813, ,499 more during 1877 than in 1876.
 The beach at Galveston, Texas, said to be the longest and broadest in the world, is twenty-five miles ill length.
 About two millions of dollars have been contributed in England for the re- lief of the sufferers by famine in India. Fodder-Land America as this country now supplies Europe with beef, flour, apples, potatoes, butter and cheese. Government land costs $1.25 an acre, and whisky $2 bottle. And yet there are many who prefer whisky to land!
 American cheese has got to be very popular throughout England, being much cheaper than any article turned out by the English dairies.
 The Indian famine is attributed to the fact that greatly over million acres of the best land in the empire is devoted to the produce of opium.
 The recent Sioux war cost the coun- try $2,312, ,531. Two hundred and sixty seven soldiers were killed and 125 wounded, and the Sioux still live.
 Austria can put in the field for war purposes 0 standing army of 800,000 men, including reserves, besides land wehr, ersatz, reserve, and landsturm.
 A drunken man strangled to death at Caldwell, Ohio, the other day, from falling against picket fence and getting his neck caught between two pickets. wich Islands have sent home 2,O0O | trade-dollars to their starving fellow millions in the northern provinces ot | China.
 During last year there Were ninety two cases of capital punishment in the United States; and during the first quarter of the present year there have been forty-two.
 
 gagged in the express business; $500 horses are employed, and there are 5000 offices. The capital invested is estimated at thirty millions.
 During the past twenty years 35, ,949 shipwrecks and casualties have occurred on the British coast in 2,592 of these, | between 1861 and 1875, there were 12 1922 persons drowned.
 liners are 46, 900, ,O0O acres in Great Britain, and 32, ,0O0, 900 inhabitants. Only forty per cent. of these can be fed with British food. The remainder of the food supply must be imported.
 Over $2, ,OOO year is the value of the studs of a Bonanza miners wash. The dirt washed from their shirts has been found to assay $250 10 to the ton. What 8 field for Nevada washerwomen.
 The Duke of Sutherland, who owns over million of acres in Scotland, has obtained leave, his heir consenting, to disentail his estates in that country. They have been in the family five or six centuries.
 The Japanese are growing fonder of beef. In 1871 the number of cattle slaughtered in Tokio averaged only forty month. In 1874 the monthly average was 400, which rose last year to nearly double that figure.
 School attendance in Virginia has nearly doubled since 1871 in South Carolina it has nearly quadrupled since 1870; in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Texas, good progress has been made toward permanent systems of edu- cation.
 Of the 366 members of the two Houses of Congress, 239 are lawyers, twenty physicians, nineteen are bankers, seventeen merchants, fifteen editors, twelve farmers and planters, seven manu- lecturers, five officers of railroads and five school-teachers.
 -Darwin's son Las published scien- tifc treatise on caterpillars, showing that this little animal is formed of the contents of the egg, but has to get its own living as soon as 1t IS born, and that one cannot imagine anything more for lorn in this world.
 MT. James Gordon Bennett, if he takes care of his health and his money, ought, says the Sst'e, to become one of the richest men in the country. He has some expensive tastes, but he is not spendthrift. He is now verging on forty, and is unmarried.
 A fire. lately took place in the upper part of an English brewery. The roof fell in and burned for twenty-four hours, without communicating with the rest oi the building. The floor upon which il fell was of three-inch blanks, grooved together, which prevented 8 supply o1 air from below.
 A rigorous and uniform divorce law throughout all the States of the Union is favored by many newspapers, regard less of section. The facility with which marriage can be tied ill New York, and cut loose from in Chicago, is filling the charity hospitals and lunatie asylums uneomfortably all around.