Litchfield enquirer., 1879-04-03
MISCELLANEOUS.


 night and without religious ceremonies is still followed in England. F tesi | | The excitement in Canada over the new
 tariff is scarcely less than that in England s during the Corn law agitation. A bill has been introduced in the Arkansas Legislature te form new county to be called 9 Tilden. as- .sss ,, The net profits divided by the eight partners in Bass & Col brewery, at Burton on Trent, : England, last year amounted to $2, 100000. 1 Since paper napkins were introduced by a manufacturing firm in Wisconsin, year ago, : one Boston firm alone has sold 250, 900 of them. @ # H Not only have active sanitary measures been neglected in most of the Southern cities and villages ravaged last year by yellow fever, but generally they are less clean than usual. Blondin, the hero of Niagara, as he loves to call himself, is still pursuing bis perious course upon the tight-rope after making and losing half dozen fortunes.
 Judge Schafer of Lucerne, in Switzerland, has just been condemned by the court of which he was formerly a member to four years imprisonment for embezzlement public mon- ey.
 Nearly 9 900, 900 cattle, mostly young, will be driven from Texas north before the hot weather of August begins. The number of cattle in a ''drive" is generally 5000, thought is sometimes much larger. s
 'Donaldsonville, La, there is novelty in the way of Court House. It is very small fatboat covered in. Being discovered floating down the river it was pulled ashore, and is now occupied on court days by a cclored justice of the peace.
 A Holyoke, Mass, paper mill has been mak- ing tests between the best English and the best American writing papers, much to the disad- vantage of the former in length and strength of fibre, in sizing in the 'laid" process, and in general finish.
 Of B, ,612 clergymen belonging to the Church of England, 8615 were graduated at the Uni versity of Cambridge 7,682 at Oxford 1,761 at Dublin, 655 at Durham, 176 at the Univer- | sity of London, and ,646 are enrolled as non- graduates E s
 l The expenditures of Lord Dufferin in Can- ada are said to have made him poor man and forced him to sell most of his Irish estates l His salary as Ambassador to St. Petersburg will be $5O,Oo0 year.
 | A large number of white and colered Repub- licans who say that they have been driven out of certain parishes in Louisiana by bull- dozers have signed a petition to President Hayes asking him for assistance in leaving the state. A7f s- -- | MT. Stamford, the California railroad capi- talist, owns a farm of tive thousand acres near San Francisco. Upon It are sheds and stables stretching for mile containing three hundred thoroughbred horses, worth more than $100- | GOO.
 | Eli Perkins says that John B. Cough always drinks sherry and eggs before featuring, and that he advised him to do the same. He says that Susan B. Anthony always takes three eggs in three cups of strong coffee before she goes upon the platform.
 There were nine hundred and five English H soldiers killed by the Zulus at Isandula. This is greater loss than was sustained by the British at the battle of the Alma added to the combined French and British loss at the battle of Inkermann.
 Operatic buisness does not prosper in Paris. The Grand Opera does not pay, in spite of the government subsidy, the Italian has disap- peared, the Opera Cemique is in difficulties, and in thirty-two years twelve managers have been bankrupted at the Theatre Lurique. Kearney seems to have lost his power in California. He spoke to a large crowd at Salina recently, but the next day the town 1 election resulted in a victory for the Citizens | ticket The Oakland election was also vic- | tory for the Citizens party, and Sacramento has given Republican majority. l The Scottish fast days are losing their hold l upon the Presbyterian people of New Zealand, even in Otago, which is Presbyterian to the | core. At Dunedin the churches have decided not to observe them any longer, but in lieu of them to celebrate the Lords Supper four times 1 o frcfo of ha1f r1r
 The French are a curious people, Two army surgeons have just fought duel in the Rnis de Vinconnos Ono wounded the other badly, and the fraternaly dressed his oppo- nents wound and helped him to carriage. | Having thus proved his gallantry and humani- | ty he went home and-cOmmitted suicide. | In an out-of-the- country place in Han cock county, Ohio, lives girl five years old who charms birds at will Birds fly into her hands and upon her shoulders, showing signs | of gladness. Even humming birds fly to her caresses. And all day long birds hover about her window. Her parents are ignorant and | poor. -.,-.. r--rE
 A traveller from the country drank a glass of whisSey in Christiansburg Va., put twen- ty-five cent piece on the bar, received ten ceuts change, and demanded five more. The bar | keeper explained that the Moffat punch had increased the price of drinks The country man drew revolver, declared that he wouldn't be swinded, and was shot dead by the bar keeper.
 Mir. Hepworth Dixon in his recently pub lished work on Cyprus grows enthusiastic over the fertility and productiveness of the island He extols in particular the quality of it's wines, and asserts that those made in the vineyards around Limasol are sold in London as superior | fO( Inc, I'd ot> protectorate the yield of wine is rapidly in- creasng
 The physician attending Representative Acklen in Washington is Doctor Garnet. stout Democrat Somebody asked him the other day if it was true that his patient was dying Diving" calculated the doctor; ''dc you think I'd let vote die when we have only one majority and no time for a special election to fill the vacanc cy?
 The Rev. William Dunbar is the Baptist minister who was lately detected in stealing vase from Rochester store. He had for thirty years been the honored pastor of church. es in central New York, and a strong effort was made to keep his crime secret but ac- cusations multiplied, and he is to go to trial. Officers searched his house and found over $200 worth of things that he had stolen from Rochester merchants. Th5re were books, l SuOtS, hHlFSS, dH opcIa SlttSS, SlOVcS, anu other articles, showing that he was confirmed shoplifter
 Prof. Kohl, in recent paper, denies the exclusively modern use of guano in nagriculture and quotes the Arabi an geographer, Edresi, as mentioning cliffs bordering the Persian Gulf which were. covered with the excrements of birds. These were used as manure at Bassora and up the Euphrates. The Peruvians also used guano at the time, the Europeans first ar rived there and Humboldt, early in this cen- tury, urged it's use, but without effect. It was only in 184O that the first ship load of the article was sent to England from the Chinehl | Islands, and large demand soon sprang up.
 Omer Pasha, we'll known twenty five years ago, at the outset of the Crimean war, by his victories over the Russians on the line of the Danube, died at Constantinople last month, aged 73 In 1867 he gained an inevitable mo- | |