Connecticut western news., 1878-01-10
GENERAL ITEMS.

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 The winter is now severer in Turkey than that during which the Germans campa1gned in France ill 197O-71.
 The bones of every adult person re- quire to be fed with lime enogh to make marble mantel every eight months.
 A London firm has introduced hunting biscuit, containing in a small compass 8 great amount of nutrition.
 -Osman Pasha was wont to personally thrash those of h1s soldiers who dis played marked cowardice during the siege of Plevna.
 The cultivation of sorghum sugar cane has assumed a great importance in Texas, reaching the highest perfection in the middle counties.
 In the Commune of Rivola d'Adda, in Italy, woman has given birth to quintuplets, all living. A year ago she bore four children at birth. The treasurer of Augusta, Me-, has hung a big banner across the street, bearing the device, Treasurer's Office. Have you paid your taxes?'
 The Central Pacific Railroad Com- pany have ordered 100000 trees, to be set out along the line of their road the coming season.
 There were stea mers, 29 ships, and | 1O1 other vessels built in Maine last year, the aggregate tonnage being 76,- 3OS tons. This is an increase over 1875 and 1876.
 A Montreal medical man is suing an old woman for the sum of $1, ,O0O he paid her for cure she guaranteed for fever and ague. The cure turned out to be worthless.
 | The farmers of Santa Aud, Los Ange- les county, Gal, are building canal fifteen miles long by ten feet wide at a cost of $50, 1000, by which 15, ,OOO acres of land will be irrigated.
 The Katirs of Afghanistan have such 8 deadly hatred for their Mohammedan neighbors in the Swat valley that their young men are obliged each to kill a Mohammedan before he can take wife.
 Near Whltesville, Ky, the body ot s. A Savage, young man, was found sitting rigid and ghastly in death on a stump in field. There was every indi- cation that he died of heart disease while in that position.
 Mrs. Dalby, of New Orleans, locked her baby, five months old, up in room with 8 pet terrier, and when she return ed found that the dog had almost eaten off the little one's foot, which was so badly mangled that it had to be ampu- tated. ..
 Sir Wilfred Lawson, the temperance member of Parliament, says that a jail chaplain once told him that in hls expe- rience only one teetotler was ever brought before him, and that was a man who thrashed his wife for getting drunk
 A Sicilian brigand of some little note and of high pedigree recently consented to give himself up on condition that he might first be allowed to visit his mother, who is an industrious washerwoman 102 years old. The request was considered reasonable and granted.
 | Why the Canadians get along SC peacefully with the Indians is partly ex- plained by the fact that every person who, since 1874, has introduced whiskey into the region of which Fort Macleod is the centre, has, without an exception, been captured and fined.
 It was the last match in the box the holder was in hurry to light the gas, the match broke off, close up to the business end, and the lighted part fel and burned up the house. Then came au insurance man to pay several thou sand dollars for the "match that wal broken of. {"
 A man named Goldworthy met hi death in England in very singular hill when he attempted to get dowr from it the end of his necktie caught in hook and became frightened, and as tho horse continued to move the unfortunate man was strangled before help could reach him.
 In England, man named HigginI fell into blast furnace. As he fell, groan was heard, but nothing could b, seen of the poor fellow. The blast wal at once thrown off, and a powerful cur rent of air forced in, but the horribl, !, smell which rose proved that the poo , fellows body was being rapidly con sumed, and not the slightest portion, O course, was recovered.
 A San Francisco correspondent say that gold is carted around there much a lead is carted in New York. Boys carr, canvas bags of gold through the streets Kegs and bags of gold are thrown mt carts as though they were kegs of nails In the Bank of Nevada trays of gol( rest on the counter, not caged and wiret : in as in the East, but with as little guard as is thrown around silks in & dry good store.
 Several English scientists are en
 deavoring to ascertain the quantity O salt that is contained in rain water. h the College of Circenster, says the Agrj cultural Students Gazette, the result o . experiments in that direction is that il U the average quantity of rain that fall . during the year there are thirty pound of salt to every acre. It is worthy o observation that Circenster. where Uni