Connecticut western news., 1878-06-13
GENERAL ITEMS.

sa .--s GENERAL ITEMS. J '1 ,-G Germany bids fair to have as fine a | navy at the bottom of the sea as England.
 ..---It is estimated that American tour ists will leave $20. 900, 900 in Europe this year. ''s7 9''S' fa... .' ...
 New Jersey makes three-fourths of the hcorice manufactured in the United States. .so: e.-aH g.. .-@. ts. ,, America spends $7o0, ,oOo, 900 annu- ally on strong drinks England, $765,- OOO, 900. ora@ .4. 20 ,'s. ..t.a -a
 a--Boston's total tax levy this year is $7, ,s7s, ,15O, a decrease of $500, ,0Oo from last year.
 The proposed Centenary of Ameri- can Methodism in 1882 is to be held in Baltimore. sat,, ..... f-.,.... ....4-i -.f .,
 Two men mul ldered third in Woes ter, Ohio, while on thelr way to the hanging of murderer. ."s .l&
 Any one who waters milk that is of- fered for sale in Wisconsin is liable to be fined not less than 1925. @l1 l''a There is custom in Scotland which forbids man s father-in-law from visit ing him without written permission. .
 The entire faculty of the Medical College at Cincinnati is to be arrested for the ghouish crime of grave-robbing.
 A gilded youth in Paris, the only heir to a name of European celebrity, lost $6o0,O00 at cards last year in that city. v '.s.'. r. ".' -. The planters throughout Virginia complain of the fly in the tobacco leaf, and fear that the next crop will be short for want Of plants. ..-5'-.'' .lA.s 1 A mine in California has been as- certained. it is said. to contain full acre of silver in one solid body three 1 feet in thickness. It's estimated value is l g, 700, ,ooo. ... .r l, The Socialistic press of Germany
 boasts no less than. seventy-6ve publi- cations, with 135, 900 subscribers--an an in-
 crease of eighteen in the humber of the
 papers since last year. '+' I The famine in India is slowly dying
 out everywhere the survivors are re-
 covering health and strength, and the
 small quantity of food imported shows i that the people have sufficiency of grain. l-According to annual custom, party
 of Americans in Paris visited, on May
 20, the little cemetery of Picpus, where
 Lafayette is buried, and placed a pot oi flowers, growing in Amer1can earth, upor his tomb. a' "
 Judge Dennison of Washington Territory has poor eyesight He went ' hunting for deer, and fired at something
 that moved in the bushes. A wilt
 whoop of pain came from his brother
 whom he had hit. ' -s Ordinary working girls in BrusselI : get only eight to ten cents per day. Th' low wages are attributed to the competi ! tion of the convents, of which there ar thirty-fve ln the city. The nuns under sell all competitors. -9 Close imitatiors of silver dollars ar, made of block tin, bismuth and pulver 
 ized glass. An immense number of thes, bogus coins are in circulation in tn, West, They initiate exactly the tru, color and ring, and are about right il
 weight. .r.,a... .,... ....e .r...t tr....f. : At Omaha woman named Oleson 5 while in g fit of temporary insanity . seized her daughter, twelve years old B and threw her into pond, and thel 3 jumped in herself. The screams of tn girl alarmed people. A search wa
 made, which resulted in the finding c l the dead bodies of mother and daughter l The husband of Mrs. Oleson is craze D by grief. .......a ..:3s p~,i 8 p A ten-year old schoolboy in Hol
 yoke, Mass, lately refused to do hi p writing lesson because he couldn't lii l his arm to the desk, and examinatiol
 proved that his collar bone was broken Further questioning showed that the ac
 cident happened two days before mean ! while he performed all his duties ,.nd at
 tended school without complaint, fear
 ng his parents.