Litchfield enquirer., 1879-11-20
MISCELLANEOUS.

| There are said to be three hundred Ameri- l can art students now in Paris. On capital of $9OO, 900 the cotton mills of Augusta, Ga, have dividend of twenty eight per cent
 The Sultan has issued decree that the ra- tions for horses, which have from time imme- rial been served out to naval officers, shall be | discontinued.
 Over 200 statues and pieces of sculpture, be- | longing to the best period of Greek art, have
 been recovered by German engineer on the site of the ancient Pergamos, now Bergama, Asiatic Turkey. Darius Perrin of Rochester transferred $500, 900 worth of property to his nephew to protect it in business emergency, and now ! wants to get it back, but the nephew announces
 his intention of keeping it.
 The male members of the Keokuk bar show ed no jealously when Miss Mamie Smith was admitted to practice. The presiding Judge descended from the bench to skake hands with her, and the lawyers subsequently, gave her a banquet.
 Brigandage is thriving in Sicily. A Signor | Schermi has had to pay 102 000f for his re- | lease, Signor Tucci has paid 25,OOOf., and | nothing is know of the fate of three other land- owners lately carried off, their families refus- ing to meet the demands of the captors. Norfolk, Va, did an export business last year of $10 900, ,0OO, and with her cotton re- turns now ranks as the second cotton export ing port in the United States. It is the first crop of Virginia, which is much larger than the growth of Tennessee and North Carolina
 A Denver girl, for diversion, not only en- frN T1orr frx,r h,,knw ed the same day, hour, and place for secret wedding with each. The suitors were some- what disconnected by each others presence, as well as by the girls absence, but they finally came to an amicable understanding to despise her.
 Witch burning is not recognized as crime in Russia, although this is the nineteenth cen- tury and the age of holy missions Seventeen peasants of Nijni-NOvgorod met the other day, and solemnly cremated an elderly female res- ident in their nelghborhood, who was suspect ed of black cat and broomstick tendencies. The Court acquitted them all, but directed thfee ot them to make their peace, by penan- ces, with the Church.
 Gen. John W. Sprague, who is superintend- ing the construction of the Pend Oreille Divis- ion of the Northern Pacific Railroad, in ex- plaining to the directors, in New York, why ASAO "A Chinaman consumes three and half gall Ions of water g day. These so-called heathen insist D washing themselves all over with clean water before going to bed" Hence the Californian hoodlum's hatred of these people. The Northern Pacific employs over 400 of them ln grading it's road east of the Columbia River
 There was a discussion among party of miners at Leadville as to the physical effects of hanging. MT. Edwards declared that, on a wager of $5, he would permit his companions to draw him up from the bottom of a shaft by rope tied around his neck. His belief was that, by throwing his head far back, the pres sure of the rope would be wholly on the back of his neck, and consequently he would not be choked at all. His calculation proved er- roneous, for he was nearly dead when he reached the surface, and it was with great diff ficulty that his life was saved.
 An urchin who had begged penny of an old toper in vain, rewarded him with this ad- vice: 'Don't you carry that nose of yourn near to no powder factory or they might play the hose onto yer"