Litchfield enquirer., 1879-09-04
MISCELLANEOUS.

New York drank $3O GOO, 900 worth of lager last year.
 Always forgive your enemies especially the ones you can't lick.
 The estate of O'Brien, the California mining speculator, turns out to be worth $9, 900, 900.
 Petroleum has fallen from twenty dollars barrel in 1860 to sixty-two cents.
 The deepest spot in the Hudson River is op- pOsite West Point, where the water is 216 feet deep. l. "a
 Two hundred Icelandcrs have formed col ony called Mnneota on the Northern Pacific Railroad.
 Horace Greeley paid $1O,OOO for a tract of wild Virginia land and his estate found it worth $40,O00.
 A Hartford faro bank lost $2. 100 to a green cOuntryman, and the discouraged proprietor thereupOn attempted suicide.
 It is reported that Lord Lytton, Viceroy of India, is soon to be offered an earldOm, winch IS tamount to request for his resignation.
 The Municipal Senate of Hamburg has de- cded to subject all cattle imported from North or South American countries to four weeks quarantine.
 A son of Dr. Kenealy has been arrested in London for forging a newspaper reporters name to despatch to tell of his own suicide
 The Count de Chambord the head of the French Bourbons, is to visit next month the Duke of Norfolk, the head of the English Ro- man Catholics. -s, eses ass=e --ea -.
 Mir. George W. Jones' at one time United States Senator from Iowa, has been forced by poverty to seek the nomination for Sheriff of Dubuque county. He is eighty years old.
 A prisoner Tn the jail at Brunswick, Ga., washed his face and combed his hair in bath room, and emerged to changed in appearance that he was able to walk past the jailer into the street unrecognized.
 In the capital of Japan, writes missionary, there are about seventy thousand soldiers, all in the American uniform, and provided with arms purchased from the United States and England.
 Lord Charles Ker, only brother of the Duke of Roxburgh, is bankrupt, with liabilities of $140,000. He is we'll known in turf circles, and was formerly in the Scots Guards. His mother has long been afavorite ladyin waiting to Queen Victoria
 . Said Victor Hugo, few days ago: '1n the twentieth century, war, capital punishment, monarchy, dogmas and frontiers will all dis appear. There will be for all one great coun- try-the earth; and one great hope-Heaven.
 Red snow, which is usually found only in Arctic attitudes, is seen on a lofty summit near Mount Stanford in the Sierra Negadas. For several acres the vast drifts are of beautiful pinkisll tint to the depth of three or four inch es. It is a beautiful spectacle. One explana- tion of it is that myriads of minute organisms cover the surface. 1 @ .. 7z
 The London Times has had 21 actions. for libel brought against it since 1872 In IA cases the plaintiffs abandoned the action be. fore trial, and in 4, recovered no damages. In these 1Sactlohs the expenses of the Times amounted to e3, 800, and only G130 was re- coveredN AS the law stands, newspaper pro. prietors have no security for costs.
 The trial of the Rev. H. H. Hayden for the murder of Mary Stannard, at Madison, Conn.,, will begin at New Haven on the l6tb of Sep. tember. A speck of steel is said to have been found in Mary Stannard's neck that just fits a nick in Hayden's knife. #s
 It wasaiscovered that hundreds of persons were At a Clinton County (Pa.) camp meeting solely for recreation, and spent most of the time of the religious services in their tents, even going so far as to play cards and drink beer. The presiding elder employed clergy men to go about and preach to these trifers, and since then there has been no escape iron elaboration, except by quitting the grounds.
 There are only female telegraph clerks em ployed in the imperial telegraph service o Germany, and they are all in the Grand Duchy of Baden, where they were taken over'' witt the telegraphs when, few years ago, these were purchased by the empire. Their pay i; from $515 to S1, 900 a year, besides an allow. ance for lodging. But it has been determined by the authorities that any vacancies which may occur shall be filled by male clerks, not by females Even in the private telegraph service of the railway companies, female clerks are few and far between. v / ;