Connecticut western news., 1879-11-12
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

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 law and he had called in poll ce officer
 to arrest her, and when they undertool
 to search her she struggled so violently
 that they were compelled to desist
 When she was arraigned in the Centra
 Station her shriveled jowls were observed
 to be inflated, and something like greer paste was oozing between her lips. The officers pried open her jaws and ascer
 tained that her mouth was filled witt greenback pulp.
 Cyprus is likely to grove an expen, sive failure. Three of the largest frm' which started business in the Isle o! Venus immediately after it's annexation
 have withdrawn, though unable to find purchasers for their concerns, built al heavy expense. Trade is no betserthan it was in the time of the Turk, while the roads, railways and harbors, of which an elaborate scheme was drawn up months ago, have not even been marked out. The Cyprians are very down in the mouth, and go about declaring that Sir Garnet Wolseley, having bamboozled them with fair promises, left them in the lurch, and ran away to Africa to evade his pledges.
 James Nash went into his log barn at Richmond, Va., with lighted can dle. He was drunk. A heavy bale of hay, against which he stumbled, fell against the door and the candle ignited il? The fire spread fast. Nash yelled for help, but his family could not get him out, though they could see him through the wide cracks between the logs. They threw water into the build- ing, but that only retarded the fire slightly. Nash worked desperately in his fiery prison, trying to roll the bale away from the door, and to put out the flames by shoveling corn on them. He was driven into corner and there slowly roasted to death.
 A fellow who looks like Shakespeare, and calls himself the Rev. Col. Howak, Courtney, Bates, or whatever name suits his purpose at the time, has been per sonating missing relatives in Pennsyl- vania, with considerable success. His method was to find family that had g male relative whom they had not seen for many years, then inform himself about their history, and introduce him. self as that long absent person. The imposture always secured for him few weeks board, and usually he was able to get off with some borrowed money and jewelry. He said that he was an ordained clergyman, and frequently got an opportunity to preach. His last ex- ploit was in Oil City, where he is now in jail.
 Probably man of gentlemanlike appearance would have very little diff culty in attending large party without an invitation in almost any great city, and many years ago it was done in Lon don for we'll nigh whole season with out the offender, who went to the most fashionable balls, being brought to book. At length, however, he was "spotted" at Devonshire House, then the ne plus Wltra of toss. The Duke noticed him and asked several friends if they knew him. Nobody had the honor, but several had seen him about and wondered who he was. His Grace then sent his secretary to say that the Duke would like to have the pleasure of knowing the strangers name, and the murder was out. He was requested to go. There was no reason to suppose that he came with any other motive than to amuse himself. At Lady Pal merston's famous receptions no one was announced, but the hostess trusted to her memory and also to corps of young men about town, who were always at hand to do her behests. Lord Sails bury's grandm other-a famous old par ty-giver, who used to scandalize the proper by her Sunday card parties used to employ Townshend, the famous "Bow Street Runner" as London de- tectives were called in those days, to watch her guests. Townshend used to say that he knew every girl in London when she had been out season.
 A correspondent of the San Fran cisco Post, writing of the varied climate and temperatures of California, says that in the interior valleys he has found the temperature as high as 114 degrees in the shade, and at least 125 degrees in the sun, yet the air was so pure and dry that he did not find it enervating nor even very inconvenient, as much lower temperature east of the Rocky Noun tains certainly would have been. He rode twenty-five miles on horseback in that sun of 125 degrees, observing, ques- tioning and making notes for his news paper, and felt perfectly we'll through it all. A constant gentle breeze that is never wanting in summer kept him comparatively comfortable. The nights were cool and pleasant, as they always are in the hot interior valleys of Cali fornia. The peculiar quality of Califor- nia heat is illustrated by the fact that, however high the thermometer rises, sunstrokes are unknown.
 - Twenty-three years ago a man named Todd, while playing cards in gambling saloon in CentraIia, Ill.,, was accosted by a young Frenchman from New Orleans, who had lost all his money and had no friends. Todd lent the stranger $500. The Frenehman re- turned to the table. won a good sum of money, and repaid his benefactor. Years rolled on, Todd lost all his money. One day last week he received letter from