Connecticut western news., 1879-11-19
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

tired for consultation. Hour after hour passed and no verdict was brought in. The Judges dinner hour arrived and he became hungry and impatient. Upon inquiry he learned that one obstinate ]uryman was holding out against eleven. That he could not stand, and he ordered the twelve men to be brought before him. He told them that, in his charge to them, he had so plainly stated the case and the law that the verdict ought to be unanimous, and the man who per mitted his individual opinion to weigh against the judgme nt of eleven men of wisdom was unfit and disqualified ever again to act in the capacity of jury man. At the end of this excited ha-
 rangue little, squeaky voice came from
 one of the jurymen. He said "Judge,
 will you allow me to say word ?' Per.
 mission being given, he added "May
 it please Your Honor, I am the only mar
 on your side."
 At Sheldon we get cut and eat
 While we eat our car is switched off or
 the Indianapolis, Cincinnati & Lafay.
 cite tram for Lafayette. When we gc
 into it it has been faced about. Mar
 who was sitting in the forward end o1
 the car before dinner finds whole pile
 Of woman's baggage in his seat. Awfu.
 mad. Throws it all out on the floor anc
 wonders what "blamed thieving hound
 has got his baggage9" Woman who
 sits in the rear end of the car finds hel
 seat all full of a mans traps. Throws
 them out of a window. Screams for the
 conductor and says all her things art
 stolen. Old man who sat in the mid
 dle of the car finds his seat turned
 around and slaps an innocent boy in the
 next seat for turning it. Woman who is
 anxious to reach Lafayette to attend he1
 sisters wedding comes back into the
 car, takes in the points of the compass,
 shrieks that "we are going the wrong
 way l" and swoons. Conductor and
 brakeman labor and explain and beg for fifteen minutes before order is restored. Thus does the HaaOkeye man tell us of the miseries of travelling.
 The recent soundings taken by the
 United States Coast Survey schooner Blake, in it's dredging cruise in the Caribbean Sea, lave, with previous ob- ser vations, made it possible to form some idea of the former outline of the South American Continent in it's northern pal U. 1t appears that the Caribbean Sea must have been once gulf of the Pacific, or have been connected with it through wide passages, of which traces are found in the Tertiary and Cretaceous deposits Of the IsthmUs of Darien, of Panama, and of Nicaragua. The islands were mostly united in such @ way that the Caribbean Sea was connected with the Atlantic only by narrow passage of a few miles in width between St. Lucia and Martinique, and one somewhat wider and slightly deeper between Martinique and Dominica. another between Som- brero and the Virgin Islands, and com- paratively narrow passage between Ja- malca and Hayti. Central America and Northern South Amer1oa at that time must have been series of large islands with passages between them from the Pacific into the Caribbean,
 The sale of church livings is an abuse and reproach which the English Church seems to be powerless to re- move. Among those recently advertised IS an advowson On the borders of Not ''otfering an unusual op- portunity for gentleman to provide for son or one seeking preferment for him. self" Immediate legal possession may be had. The income is about $3, 900 per annum, and one-half the price may remain on mortgage. Another "tine opening" is the next presentation to a " desirable living" in a healthy locality on the East Coast, the income being about $s2, 425. There is a comfortable rectory, with good stabling, and first rate fishing and sporting on the spot. The population is 600, and the present incumbent, being in his seventy-second year, is not likely to keep the purchaser out of his rights long.
 The Liverpool Post tells strange adventure of a venturesome small boy. It appears that he played truant from school and dared not go home at night. He managed to get into the station yard at Chorley, with the intention of pass- ing the night ill one of the passenger carriages but he failed to gain access, the door being locked. He then crept under the guards van, and pulled him. self on the couple of short iron rods be- tween the axle of the wheels and the carriage door, and between which The break apparatus passes. In this posi- tion he went to sleep, and atfive o'clock in the morning the train started for Wigan. The lad was actually brought jo Wigan, and again taken to Chorley, the rods. At the latter place | le was discovered, still fast asleep, and :escued from his perilous position. The marvel is how the lad remained on this 1 rail support during his eighteen miles, ourney, and asleep all the while. Had | le mo we'd death was certain.
 -Tweed's horse palace is rivaled by
 stable belonging to Baron Rothschild | f Vienna. He has favorite horse, or whose accommodation he has had pecial loose box built at cost of | 12,000. This elegant room forms part f a new stable, which cost $SO,OOO, and which has marble floors; encaustic lies painted by distinguished artists ings, chains and drain-traps of silver, nd walls frescoed with splendid huntinn