Connecticut western news., 1878-07-04
GENERAL ITEMS.

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 Upward of 494,991 persons were employed in English coal mines in 1877, 21, Al less than in 1876; and 1 ,2OS, or ] in 409, died by accident.
 A Parisian elegante has as many bonnets as she has dresses 1; also, as many boots, shoes, gloves, stockings, and even parasols to correspond.
 --Fifty-one metals are known to exist thirty of which have been discovered d within the present century. Four hun dred years ago but seven were known.
 It is stated that there are 5000, ,OOO pupils enrolled in the public schools of the United States. The average daily attendance is 4,5O0,0OO. The estimated population between six and sixteen years of age is 1O,OOO.OOO.
 Of every thousand men, twenty die annually. The population of @ city or country is renewed once in thirty years. AoO hOAAOC4 OA O1u 1AOA WAo O1O HI CO1u weather is to those who die in warm weather as seven to four. -.
 According to the latest returns, the cultivated land of France is divided into $500, ,00O properties. Five millions are under six acres. Belgium has like subdivision of property. In Ireland, on the other hand, no owners hold one-fifth of the soil.
 As an illustration of the present value of horses in England, strong farm ing and dray horses brought at the late Howden horse fair $25O to $35o each ]; harness horses $3o0 to $35O; handsome carriage horses $35O to $500, and hunters from $25O to $75O.
 Two boys started from Rochelle, Ill, in quest of adventure. They walked along 8 railroad for ten miles, and then, very tired, sat down to rest. Very soon they fell asleep, and one lay with his head across the rail, so that when a train came along he was beheaded.
 One thousand three hundred and seventy eight pieces of skin, taken from the arms of friends have been engrafted on the head of Mrs. Jonas Hay of James town, who lost her scalp by her hair catching in the mill machinery in which she was working Mrs. May is rapidly recovering, and is now able to ride out.
 Sir Charles Nugent of Saddington Hall, in England, has gone into bank ruptcy. His assets are $100, and his liabilities $6O,OO0. He has lost $30, ,0OO. nearly his whole fortune, on the turf, and had hard luck in other matters. Sir F. Farquhar, who owed him $45, ,000, died without paying him and left no es- tate.
 The cruelty of which Wisconsin wife complains, in her suit for divorce, is that her husband tied her securely and shaved her head. The defence is that she bleached her black hair to lemon color by the use of acid, and that he, deeming such thing highly scan- delous, took the only means of undoing what she had done. ''.t
 For several weeks past the stream from an artesian we'll at Stockton, Gal, has brought up quantities of tow and oakum, and scales of iron and copper. When this we'll was sunk, about one year ago, at a depth of sixty feet, something prevented further progress. A drill lowered bounded as if striking deck of 8 vessel. A shaft is to be sunk, and the mystery unrsvelled.
 Prof. Richard Heschel, the Viennese says that while among some 2, ,OOO or 2,5OO Westphalian hams one is affected with trichinosis, of the Ameri- can hams inspected in North Germany, according to an official report, one in from every five to ten are condemned, and there is great probability that sev- eral epidemics have been caused by the in American hams.
 There are in the world %, 900 news papers, edited by 6O,OOO journalists. Nearly 5000 newspapers or periodicals are published in North and South Amer ca, 1900 in England, 2,OOO in France, 1, ,5O0 in Austria Hungary, l, 200 in Italy, 800 in Russia, 800 in Switzerland, $50 in Spain, 200 in Belgium, in Sweden 25O, in Portugal, in Holland and in Denmark LOO, in Turkey and Greece 500, in Asia LOO.
 As an instance of the great ingenu- ty of ants, and the enormous work they can accomplish, may be mentioned an Incident that recently occurred near Paris, Ky, in rural cemetery, where some ants, by diligently working for several weeks, undermined coffin in a vault, dug tunnel, and carried the skeleton which the coffin contained through the tunnel to a place several 'eet away from where it was originally.
 Two prisoners were lynched in springfield, Tenn., in manner that in- Heated love of murder, rather than lesire for justice, on the part of the mob. The lynchers came from village thirty | i've miles distant, and had no special | reasons for being excited by their victlm's ,rime. On the other hand, the people 'f the community ID which the crime vas committed tried to prevent the un- awful hanging. The trip seemed to be or pleasure, and the party was com posed of roughs, who got very drunk on | he way. -45
 The other day 8 man of exceedingly yentlemanly appearance presented him. elf at the office of the Director of Police n Paris, saying that he brought certain He was asked to sit down. must tell you," said the Director,