Litchfield enquirer., 1879-03-20
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Derenda is the name of a new hat.


 Out of 17,ooO guns made by Krupp, only sixteen have burst.
 The owner of Chicago peanut stand has formally gone into bankruptcy.
 The debt of the city of Paris is now nearly $400, GOO, 900, and the interest about $2O, ,O0O,- 900 year.
 The pilgrims to Mecca the last season have been rather more numerous than usual, and numbered between 80, GOO and 90, 900. Mrs Anthony worked 80 earnestly at raising the debt of a Providence church, that she be- came insane, and tried to kill herself
 Many Russian peasants oppose the vaccina ton of their children, though the smallpox appears periodically and depopulates whole villages.
 A visitor observed to Meissonier that he seemed to have none of his own pictures "Too dear, my dear madam" said the great artist
 The most extravagant boarder in the Parker House, Boston, is an expelled Harvard stu dent, whose parents believe he is still studying in Cambridge.
 Bosnia is improving under Austrian rule. The Post Office has been put into working or der, and line of railroad is nearly completed. Bosnia is rich in unworked minerals.
 Detroit has had variation of the common foreign Count matrimonial episode-the hus- band running away with the brides money and jewelry, but proving, after all, to be real Count.
 Baton Rouge boys started pedestrian eX- hibition (admission two cents) and nine-year old walker stuck to the track till he fell from exhaustion. He has since been dangerously ill.
 The coal industry of Pennsylvania has reach- ed enormous proportions the annual product being valued at fifty million dollars. The first coal mined, amounting to few hundred tons, was sold in Philadelphia in 1913 for twenty one dollars a ton.
 Sewage farms and modern manures make surface water supply dangerous in England they are beginning to depend more and more on artesian wells. The London water compa- nies have sunk several of late years.
 The fact that less than one hundred mem- bers of the French Chamber voted in favor of bill favoring divorce is quoted as proof of the strength of Roman Catholic orthodoxy in that country.
 A young woman engaged a section in sleeping car at Pittsburgh blushingly explain ing that she would be joined by husband at Harrisburg. When the train arrived at Har- risburg young man got aboard with clergy man, who married him to the purchaser of the section, and the honeymoon tour was at once commenced.
 There are 69 places in France called St. Etienne. This curious fact was ascertained in consequence of libel committed by Paris newspaper, which stated that the receiver of St. Etienne had embedded $20,0O The tax receiver in every town of the name brought an actioD and the paper has been ordered to pay $20 damages to each of them, besides a fine of $40.
 Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, in h. dianapvlis, Ind, the last charge of Rev. Gill bert de La Matyr, Greenback Congressman elect, was sold at sheriff's sale last week for $7, 800 Its debt was too heavy for the con- gregation to carry, and the members Will go to other churches.
 According to Newburg judge you must convict the liquor for being intoxicating before you can convict the man for selling it, because Court e Brown, 342, and Smith, 211) is not bound 10 take notice that the liquor sold was c Jones, 615) that sort of liquer 0 Robin son. oSJ. 4hedl"Hhe llle Hlau kI1lC, Il4) Wno drank the liquor was licking his wife with young maple tree (4 Equity Reports, 91T.
 Some time ago Cardinal Manning issued an order forbidding women to sing in the choirs l of Westminster diocese, and now Archbishop Fabre of Montreal has proclaimed that after June 1 the same regulations will be enforced | in his diocese He says: We permit females to sing by themselves at the retreats which may be given them, but it must be well under stood that the mixture of choirs of men and women are prohibited"
 A French advocate in separation case | pleaded very warmly for his client, who, he said, was literally dyivg of hunger, and who had two small children. He demanded the immediate aid of 2, 900 francs, in the name of | humanity and in the name of justice and, full of confidence, threw himself on the equity of the court. A few days later his client receiv- ed the following lotter Madame, 1 am hap py to say we have succeeded in obtaining the provision of 2000 francs. have handed l. l 900 francs to your attorney, who has given me a receipt, and 1 am much obliged to you for the surplus in settlement of fees. Accept, Madame, " etc.
 The Clafin University and South Carolina Agricultural College and Mechanics Inst titute is the extensive title of the colored college at
 
 dents, onethird of them females, representing every portion of the State and receiving a scientific and classical education. One-half the | expense of the college Is paid by Northern | philanthropists the State government paying the other half; three of the professors are South Carolinians, two of them being white and the other colored The other professors and the president are Northern men. The current feeling among thinking men in Germany seems to to be that however ably Prince Bismarck may deal with politics, he | knows nothing about finance. Sentiments of | this kind have been freely euunciated before the Statistical Society of Berlin. At recent meeting Dr. Bamberger delivered very able address on the proposed reactienary policy in the course of which he said ''There is, con 1uslon without equal no business man knows what course to pursue. A stand still in the development of industry and an as sault on the government will be the result. |" The Frankfurter Zeitung takes similar view, and especially points out how injurious the proposed customs duties will be te the carrying trade of Germany.
 Dr. Willard Parker gives credit to the tenn perance refornlers for good intention and ear nestness, but he is convinced that, by ignoring the difference between fermented and distilled liquors, and deneuncing both alike, they are preventing the result they seek to accomplish. He argues that fermentation is process of nature, which will continue to exist as long as there is sugar and starch. That is the work of Omnipotence, he says, not the work of man. It grows out of the very constitution of things; and is as truly divine process as is growth itself. He holds that the Bible does not dis countenance the use of fermented liquor. As to the effect on health, he says: It is not this vlnous fermentation that does the harm; it is not with that we have to do battle. A man can get foolish on it 1 admit; but he is not likely to get very drunk. We have never had a single case of an inebriate in the asylum at Blnghamton who came there from using only vinous lamentations. He may have begun with them, and gone on to other and stronger ] liquors; but the mere vinous fermentation did not make an inebriate of him. And while men use simply the native wines, the natural pro. duct of the vine with no more alcohol thaH comes from it's fermentation, drunkenness is but little known. Dr. Parkers condemnation