Connecticut western news., 1879-07-09
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

inc felony Of two detectives, and that two Journal reporters found the mur- derers of Ellis. A reporter also traced Winslow and secured his arrest, and but for a reporter Cox, the murderer of Mrs. Hui in New York, would have escaped, and the venerable Dr. Hull been arrested for the murder.
 An unusually large number of deaths by lightning have been already reported this summer Not less than ten persons have been killed. In nearly every nota- ble case 1t turns out that the victims perish in circumstances which exhibit their thonghtlessness of the dapger-in circumstances in which persons who are timid about lightning would not have been found at the time. IL is worth a moments nsideration, says an ex- change, for people whose lives are of some value to their families at least whether after all 1t is not better to pur- chase security at the cheap rate of flight from an enemy against whom no cour- age can avail. It is not shameful to run to shelter 1n case of an impending thun- der storm, and it will conduce much to ones safety, especially if the run IS made judiciously.
 A French doctor has experlmented on the influence of alcoholic drinks on fowls. He administered to them brandy and absynthe, and found one and all take so kindly to their unwonted shmu- lants that he was forced to limit each bird to 8 daily allowance of six cubic centimetres of spirits or twelve ot W1ne. There was an extraordinary develop ment of cocks crests, and rapid and general loss of flesh. The experiments were continued until it appeared that two months absynthe drinking sutficed to kill the strongest cock or hen, while the brandy drinkers lived four months and half, and the wine bibbers held on for ten months before they died the drunkard's death.
 A housekeeper who has matne- matical turn has recently made thls cnrious calculation: For her family o1 six persons she every day washed and wiped 213 separate dishes or separate pieces on an average. These 7n the course O the year amount to H,799. She spends at @ low average an hour and half each day over the dishes, and ac- cording to this estimate has spent what is equivalent to three years of her life days, nights, Sundays and holidays at the dish-pan.
 About thirteen years ago neatly i attired man put up at Park Nash's botel in Granite, Montana, registering from Chicago. The Montana Herald says that s'after 8 few days spent in and about that locality the stranger went oil into the mountains and was absent sev- eral weeks. When he returned he had with him long string of nuggets. az pregating four or five thousand dollars.
 Of course he was besieged with ques'
 tions as to the locality of his precious
 find. and of course, like wise man, he
 held his peace. The next summer hf
 returned again, and again went of into
 the mountains, returning at the usua time with his string of nuggets. The same thing was repeated five years. The
 last time he went out he wanted old MT Nash to go with him, but that gentleman was away from home. Before anothe year had rolled around the gold seeke had died at his home in Chicago, an' 2 his secret is buried with him.
 -One of the English Judges says London journal, has received a hand :. some ring from the United States, ac
 companied by a letter in which tn
 donor, while concealing his real name
 expresses his gratitude to the gentlema in question. It appears that some year x ago the man who had been rlghtl I charged with having committed aforger g was acquitted, owing entirely to the Ia orable summing up at his trial. Sine
 that time ne has lived honestly, and , now honored and respected by thos
 Mho know him. Comparing his presen , position with what he might have bee had things gone differently, he rightl f gives the credit of his good fortune t A the Judge who presided, and enclose
 the souvenir in consequence.
 , A few days ago Capt. James F. Et 0 mands of Newton, Mass, was classe q among the solid and hourishing bus 1T ness men of the Bay State. To-day |
 is prisoner without friend to go c s his bo2d. It is an old story, told ov' d and over again in the cases of Winsiov @ Pond, Chace, Hathaway, Stickney, Tal J. pan, and other once honored and pron ,t nent citizens of Massachusetts, no V either convicts in State prison or fug " tives in a foreign land. Capt. E .s mands's "word was regarded as good
 his bond, his bills and paper were
 ways met promptly, and his credit W
 of the best" He encountered trouble
 he shrank from letting the world knc 7: the truth, and in order that he mig " keep up @ false appearance of veal s. and his expensive style of living he col o. nlitted forgeries to the amount of neal ?n $80,0 ,00O.
 ne MT. Dibrell, of Tennessee, has III troduced bill in the House of Repl e. sentatives which prohibits United Stat
 Senators and Representative from h. ce1ving pay for any absence. unless
 cases of extreme illness of themselves st. their families. The proper account ID, officers of Congress are required to ( as duct from the salary Of each abaen of the per diem he would have received
 present The Revised Statutes (secti pg 40) contain substantially the same C. lth dit1ons as Mir. DibrelIs bill, but u
 are evaded by obtaining leaves of