Connecticut western news., 1878-06-20
GENERAL ITEMS.


 eight tons of paper collars day.
 Last year $3, ,45O, 900 worth of cop per was dug from Michigan mines. :, The Jewish population of the Uni ted States is 25O,Ooo They have 152 synagogues. -.'..
 The Bagot will case in Dublin is said to have cost e3O, ,0O0. Notice of appeal has been given. I t. A seven-year-old Chicago boy was so slightly bitten by dog that the skin was barely broken. A week after he died of hydrophobia. -... .-
 A new kind of potato bug has made it's appearance in some parts of Michi- gan, and some of the wise ones are pre- dieting destruction to the whole potato crop. ...
 "A burglar broke into store in South Birmingham, Mass, and instantly found himself face to face with clerk. Both had reyolvers; but the clerk was quick est in using his, and the burglar fell.
 Doctors in every city, says Dr. Foote's Health Monthly, are, still dis cussing the nature of diphtheria, and the best modes of treatment, but unfor- tunately there is very little unanimity of opinion concerning this very fatal dis ease. .-+ '-'-
 The London Spectator, referring to the troops from India, gives the latest form of the famous Jingo rhyme as fol lows: We don't want to fight; but by lingo, if we do, we won't go to the front ourselves, but we'll send the mild Hin doc. l ..l..f ..,.--a. ...- gfr- far Farmers of Ohio are complaining about the voracious propensities of a small black bug, closely resembling Q flea, which has made its appearance in the fields and commenced devouring the young corn. It is stranger to the "oldest inhabitant." t.-......-.. .r ....
 -Oleomargarine has arrived at Liver pool, where it IS put up in firkins and rolls in close imitation of butter. The health officers of the city announce their intention of seizing all the stuff which is sold as butter and prosecuting the vendors but if it is labelled ''butterine' they will permit it's sale. .--.,
 It has been calculated that about 1OO,0 boatmen are employed on the canals of England and Wales, that 70,' GOO women live in them, and the chil. dren found afoat make up total popu' iation of nearly half million. No wo- men or children are allowed to hVe in canal boats in either Scotland or Ireland.
 "A Cincinnati woman applied for di- yorce on the plea that her husband ob. tained her by false pretences, claiming to be in a profitable business and to be also heir to large estate ill Germany which statements prove to be false. The judge declined to grant divorce fol these reasons, and new ones will have tc be devised. --E .-7
 The Corresponde'acid de EspGmo says that from the beginning of tho Cuban insurrection up to January las 133, ,555 soldiers died in the hospitai' from wounds or disease, and 12,500 oI the field of battle 7,726 were dis charged and about 100, ,000 insurgents were either killed in battle or shot aftel being made prisoners. >'s v 7 '''.' n. At Ratelfontein, Fraserburg, Soutl Africa, where water is precious, woo | washing mill is so arranged that thu water, after passing through fine wire gauge screen and falling over the water | wheel of a corn mill, goes to the land lying in the valley, and thus is used fo wool washing, corn grinding, manurinG by carrying down the grease from th' | work, and irrigation.
 The rinderpest is rapidly carrying off the comparatively few head of cattle 1 in Turkey which have escaped the ray ages of war. A few weeks ago the dis ease was confined to the European prov inces of the empire; but lately it hal shown itself and is rapidly spreading through Asiatic Turkey. Thousands o cattle are dying every week in the villa vets of Smyrna and Hudayendighiar 1 and unless the Government promptly adopt and put in force measures to pre- | vent the further spread of the contagion one of the richest sources of the wealtl of Turkey will be destroyed. Alread. meat is becoming scarce in the capital.