Litchfield enquirer., 1879-10-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

dred deer this year.
 Jessamine, Ky., has produced ninety pound watermelon.
 Illinois wheat crop this year is said to be worth $27, ,0OO, ,0O0.
 Seventy officers and 600 men comprise the force of Greece's navy.
 Madison (Ind) flour mill has a Ger man order for 20, 900 barrels
 The old Clay mansion on the Maryland estate is still in excellent preservation.
 One third of all fha-f,ape- useu i'll the world is now made in the United States.
 Beef sells in Wilmington, N O., at from one and half to two cents per pound
 Kingston, N. O., claims man and wife who are 11s and 104 years old respectively.
 Kansas has gone into the manufacture of lumber from straw and paper.
 Twenty-Five dollars month is the official income of the Mayor of St. Augustine, Florida. .. .. ....-
 Oil City, Pa., proposes to use oil for fuel in moving the machinery of her water works .'s " tf'
 Meissonier will soon finish 8 portrait of the late Louis Napoleon, begun in 1870, but delayed by the war and the exile.
 There are in Great Britain eight societies laboring for the conversion of the Jews, and on the continent of Europe dozen more. .. >
 Fourteen cups of Sevres china will be of- fered in competition by the French War Office to the society of carrier pigeon breeders. '--
 It was a Chicago lady that invented the paper pail that grocers find SO convenient, and now San Francisco lady has invented 8 baby carriage.
 After twenty years of daily blockades and accidents on London Bridge the cor- 'poration has discovered that it should be widened.
 A man in Shrewsbury, Mass, recently found a quairs nest with sixteen eggs in it, placed them under bantam hen, which twelve days afterward left her nest with six teen little quails around her. ..
 An old housekeeper says that, in the fu- rore for buying foreign goods and ware Americans overlook home products in fictile ware and that American china and porce- lain is quite equal to English and French ware. ....
 The site granted ny Dean Stanley for the statue of the late Prince Imperial is in re- cess in Henry VII's Chapel, in Westmin- ster Abbey, near the spot where Cromwells remains lay till they were disturbed at the Restoration.
 In paper recently read before the Brit ish Literary Association on Chinese li- braries, it was shown that in former times in the Celestial Empire libraries were burned and writers mutilated and killed. in the vain attempts to stem the tide of litera. ture. .
 A writer in the August Gentlemay,'s Naqa- zine says that it is true of nations as of in- dividuals, that sheer is almost az unpleas- ant to hear as blow, and that he is not sure that Dickens American Notes" did : not do more to estrange for time the two countries than the Alabama difficulty.
 It is maintained, by some experts in physics, that if all the noises of great city were suddenly and unexpectedly to cease, it's inhabitants would thereby suffer greater nervous shock than the loudest and most terrible explosion would cause. The ear becomes accustomed to the din.
 Charles Dickens, son of the great nov elist, manages one of the largest printing offices in London, perhaps in the world. He has very successfully published the " London Dictionary" and the "Guide to London, and is now preparinga "Diction- ary of the Thames" He inherits his fathers early love for printing offices and news papers. -.
 ! The house in New Haven in which Bene- dict Arnold at one time lived is still stand ing, though in somewhat dilapidated con- : dition. Arnold's stationary shoe-box still remains in one of the halls. One of the at- fractions of the dwelling is secret stair j way, with the lowest section of steps run ? ming on a track, so that it can be pulled into the room when necessary. t.i
 Mr. Forrest, the English Consul at Tentsin, reports his belief that, during the ' late famine in China, the deaths from star vation and want reached the enormous total of about nine millions and half-that is to say, that population more than twice. "that of Portugal was swept of within few months. This q estimate would appear scarcely credible, were it not supported by , thersport of the consular service. Y .ral Mrs Clarke, wife of Professor Clarke, of Berryville College, Arkansas, was accident ally killed by a falling tree. The Professor, with his family and students, had been camping at Eureka Springs, and were seated at what was intended to be their final repast before starting .homeward. Without warning a large. tree close by was seen to be falling. All started up, except the lady, who, having an infant in her arms. was embarrassed in her movements. and was caught and crushed by the falling j, tree. With a mothers forethought how lseyeD she held, her babe at arms length and -lt was not tharnlad.3 7 asae i..E -..sa .1 1. sa 4aa Iu4'.584 Ii b.42 ai .7ei y The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has begun to plant Virginia creepers on the { hilllsides along their tracks. The effect. it is thought. will add to the beauty of the scenery and tend to prevent land slides.
 During grand review at Madrid in honor of Prince Rudolph, of Austria. a short time since, an ammunition wagon exploded, and two soldiers were killed and two others and several spectators wounded. @ aus
 The iNeapolitan women have the most perfect hands and feet in the world. but ; the atmosphere of Naples is said to deprive fhen If avav,,t nfb ,,o,oouul elo,.,,, hv