Connecticut western news., 1878-05-02
GENERAL ITEMS.

dried fruits.
 Thousands in San Francisco would starve if charitable institutions did not give them their daily bread.
 The late President of the Western Union Telegraph O., William Orton, commenced life as a printer boy.
 The German School Gazette states that there are in the German empire, in round numbers, 60, 900 primary schools and 5000, 900 scholars. 4
 A Macon, Ga., man has invented three-toothed saw that turns out the lumber perfectly planed and ready for the carpenter and painter.
 -Jefferson's tomb at Monticello is to be repaired at the national expense. The spot is at present marked by gen. eral aspect of ruin and decay.
 Mark Hopkins, the California mil lionaire, who died recently, made $45,- 000,0 in ten years. He had a million to begin with.
 A foreign writer states very serious ly that in the United States there is such 0 scarcity of thieves that they are obliged to offer reward for their discovery.
 When Congressman Hale married Miss Chandler, Pap Zach. Chandler gave him $1Oe, ,00O for wedding present, and at the advent of every grandchild n check for $20, ,000 is forthcoming to be placed to the credit of the child as the nucleus of its future fortune.
 .,-Trichin@ are sometimes found in beef, when the cattle have been fed upon grass that was manured with matter from slaughter houses where pigs had been killed. Rats are almost sure to get trichin@ from the flesh they eat, conse- quently cats become largely infected.
 In Nelson county, Va., hawk was seen at a considerable height with a large snake writhing in it's claws, when suddenly the bird closed it's wings and fell heavily to the earth. The snake-a moccasin-had bitten it in the neck, but the talons of the hawk were so buried in the vitals of the serpent that it also died.
 A London policeman, aged p, late ly reported seven fires within thirty hours. Such amazing activity excited suspicion that he had originated the calamities himself for the informant's 8 re- ward, and this being, proved to the sat isfaction of jury he has gone to penal servitude for fifteen years. -s if.
 -E. B.Alter obtained divorce from his wife in La Crosse, Wis, and was award ed by the Court the custody of their lit tie girl. Mrs. Alter hid the child, and was committed to prison for contempt, the Judge saying that she would not be released until she obeyed his order. She declares that she will endure imprison- ment for life rather than give up the child, and her acquaintances say that she is woman of her word.
 As a man was. recently digging a well at Mertin, ill Alsace, his Spickaxe, at the depth of seven feet, struck the rem nants of wall. Further research re- vealed the foundation of an extensive building, thought to be an ancient Ro- man temple. The entire ruin has not been revealed, but number of interest ing objects have been exhumed, includ- ing Corinthian columns, busts, coins, arms, and the remnants of the statue oi horse.
 During the trial of case at the Clare Petty Sessions in Ireland, it came out that the land formerly held by one Phelan, who was evlcted from his hold ing three years ago, was interdicted that no one took it for twelve months, but that the meadowing was put up for sale one year, whereupon the man who bought the hay was shot dead as he was carrying away the first load that since then each successive crop of hay is al- lowed to rot on the ground, and that the land is entirely uncultivated.
 Fortunes in Florida from orange growing are made as easily, on paper, as cities are built by companies on subur- ban farms. A MT. Dewhurst thus glow ingly calculates what his income will be. He has four hundred acre farm at Piney Point, and has just planted it with eighty-four quarts of orange seed, which are expected to produce APO, ,OOO trees. If they bear 5000 oranges each annually, he will have 2,1OO, ,OOO, 900 oranges, which, at the low price of two cents each, would give an income of S42, 900, 900.
 An Omaha poker-player was play ing cards in saloon and there were four in the pot. A dispute arose and he made use of phrase such as this: "I hope Christ will kill me if it isn't so P He had dealt the hand himself, and as the betting was over, he passed the cards to the player on his left, who shuf1ed them and then asked him to cut them, giving him light tap to attract his at- tention. The blasphemous player did not stir. He was dead.
 "A we'll known New York commercial house says "Of all the methods open to the merchant for advertising his busi- ness, an experience of nearly half cen. tury enables us to unhesitatingly de. clarc in favor of the Newspaper. It is without exception, the most economical persistent, painstaking and successful, canvasser any business firm can secure for the purpose of bringing their good. to the attention of the consumer"
 The Wheeling (Va.) IStandard says "We earnestly recommend every mar who is languishing for a job to retire tc the country; rent farm raise every thino that vou will need for the supporI