Litchfield enquirer., 1879-05-22
MISCELLANEOUS.

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 The municipal debt of Paris IS $897 ,4sS 229.
 William H. Vanderbilts annual income i estimated at SIS, ,0O0, 900. -ss,~ -
 Paris has named two of it's streets in homo of Washington and Lincoln.
 One hundred and eighty three cotton mill have been built in the South since the war.
 The approaching golden wedding of the En peror of Germany will be very quiet atfail .S A twenty three pound salmon 4.was aeasieh in gill net at the mouth of the Connecticut the 9th.
 Bishop Ames left $25O, 900: more wealtl than is usually gathered together by Metho dist clergyman.
 A gang of students of thes University c Michigon have been caught at counterfeitin' and systematic stealing. k 5 A
 It is said that George Eliot" will probabl. resume the name of Evans, as MT. LeWes' wife IS still living E. X h -s E %~S <-I
 Missouri has new law forbidding men t
 
 This is aimed at the St. Louis socialists.
 The bill to prevent discrimination in rail road freight charges has passed the Pen syivania House of Assembly on second read ing by vote of 82 to 72.
 Santa Monica is this year to bethe fashion. able seaside resort of Califarpia.e Senator Jones owns. it. He. bougi& 36, 900 aeres there in 1874 for $250 00o, and Mas ever since beer preparing it for summer visitors.
 The borough election in Stamford on the 5tl resulted in republican victory, beinga com plete political overthrow Edward Gay, the new warden was elected cby AT majority.
 ,. The Danbury News says the contract fol building the road between Waterbury anC Brewsters lies between two firms One oidl $25. 900 less than the other and will get tho contract provided the company gre satisfied i is responsible.
 Referring to the allowance of pin money given to English ladies, the London Queen, high authority, in an article on the subject says that $2, 800 is the usual snm allotted in the highest grade of life, even in the case ot men who have from $100,000 to 150,0 g year. A lady whose husband has from $15,- 900 to $30, 900 would get annually from $1 ,0OC to S2, 900.
 A tree 325 feet high, in the neighborhood e1 Stocton Cal, has hitherto enjoyed the repu. tation of being tallest in the world but an of. ficial of the Forests Department in Victoria, Australia, lately measured fallen eucalyptus m Gippsland, which was 435 feet long Another tree of the same species in the Dan denong district of Victoria, still standing, is es. timated at 450 feet
 John Sutter, the discoverer of gold in Cal ifornia, is living in comparative poverty al LitiZ, Pa. A correspondent of the Philadel. phia Times visited him recently and found him hale old man, fond of relating his Pa. cific coast experiences. He went to California in 1S30 became the Mexican agent, acquired immepse landed possessions, and was for a while literally monarch of all he surveyed. He first saw gold there in the hands of playin ng and soon his land, to which he had no legal title, was taken by miners Litiga. tion completed his financial downfall, and he came to the East.
 The Rev. Mr. Gober of Grass Valley, Cal, offended part of his Methodist congregation by Chinamen. The officers voted tc pay him no salary unless he discharged the Mongol, "I now answer you once for all, ? he said, from his pulpit, ''that this Chinamen shall stay and 1 shall continue as pastor of this church until the Conference sees fit otherwise to direct me, salary or no salary, starve or nc starve. l have never yet been intimidated and do not propose to be now. Bretheren, it strikes me that it would be better for you te follow the religion taught in the Bible thar that dealt out on the sand lots in San Francis O."
 A young Jewish lady of rich and respected family was recently on the point of being mar ried near Cologne, Germany, when a peasant woman. entered and forbade the ceremony. She said that twenty years before she had been the nurse of the child now supposed to be tht bride, but had accidentally rolled over upon il and smothered it while sleeping. Fearing punishment, she substituted her own infant, and allowed it subsequently, to be taken from her. ''Of course1 am much obliged for the education and resring the child has received, but you can understand that as good Chris tian could never allow my daughter to be married to Jew.'
 The Paris National publishes the details ot a wonderful astronomical feat performed the other day by two Hayti an negroes. They betteG 5000 that they would eat without stopping fol six hours, and won easily, sitting down to ta- ble at noon and not rising before half past G. In the long interval they succeededin consum ing eight soles au gratin, twelve lamb outlets, a joint of roast veal weighing eight pounds, three klogrammes of asparagus, and an one lette Of twelve eggs, besides a dutch cheese twelve pounds of bread, and fifteen bottles o wine. At the conclusion of the performance the two negroes left the house with a very sat isicd expression of countenance, dividing be- tween them the fifty louis which they had thu. pleasurably earned.
 The number of works sent in for admission to the Paris Salon this year is larger than ever exceeding by 1000 that of last year. Int labers of the jury who decide upon the ad missions have consequently been very arduous As many as 300 pictures were passed in re view and decided upon in the course of five days, which makes 380 works day, or about two every minute, for the jury only sit from 9 a. m. to 12k p. m. During this time the smaller pictures defile before the judges on { movable stand, along which they are pushed in rotation by one of the attendants; the larger ones are placed on what is termed the RigoSo, large plank mounted on four rollers upon which is raised support for the picture to lean against. As soon as the pictures are judged, they are marked with letter "A. signifying admitted ''R. refused, or ''R.* submitted for revision. Artists are informed by letter of these decisions.
 With the exception of Lords Ripsn anc Butte, the Duke of Norfolk is almost the onl, very wealthy Roman Catholic in England and had he five times the income he possesses | it would be inadequate to meet the claim made on his purse. His income is put dew in the modern Doemsday Book at f269, 900 year, but in reality, it is about e10O, 900, al the Doomsday is estimated at what it will b when leases at Sheffield, most of which be longs te him, fall in. He had however. minority of many years, and consequently considerable sum of ready money on comin! into his estate. His grandfather and fathe both married Protestants, for at that time tn, Roman Catholic Church made no difficulty about mixed marriages; but the present Duke' mother subsequently, joined the ancient faith and is intensely devout therein. Her childrer were all brought up in the strictest doctrine O the Church, and surrounded by ecclesiastics
 Perhaps it would be just as we'll to suspend the cry about England's commercial and me chanical downfall until our iron companie can make steel rails that can be put down ol our railroads cheaper and better than the Brit