Connecticut western news., 1879-11-26
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

however, a native of Peru, and so strong ly Peruvian in sentiment that at one time, while in lower grade, he pro- tested against serving in fleet com manded by an admiral of foreign birth. He was thorough-going seaman, whose generosity was as marked as his bravery. Though he had achieved fame, yet he was still in the full tide of his professional career, and could have hoped for still greater laurels, being but 45 years old when he was killed.
 MT. Lathrop, Recorder of Lyon county, Nev., has in his office at Day ton wren's nest containing two eggs, so charged with electricity that they act precisely as magnet. If tho open blade of a knife be placed within half an inch of them, says the Lyon county Times, they will be attracted at once and will adhere to the blade until removed. The eggs were charged with electricity by telegraph wire passing through the tree which sheltered the nest. They have been in the cabinet about two months, and are just as magnetic now as when he first got them. An offer of $50 has been refused for them.
 An association has been formed in Westphalia for the extinction of poverty throughout the world. The theory of it's promoters, who are not Socialists, IS that the wants of mankind have so ln- creased of late years that luxuries are now looked upon even by the poorest classes as necessities. Life, it is urged, may be sustained and comfort insured at trifing cost by simply putting aside the opportunities of modern existence. This object can only be attained by g complete revolution in our social and domestic habits. Children should be trained from their earliest infancy tc look for no other shelter than that af forded by wooden huts. Their fooo should consist only of bread and vegeta- bles, and their drink of pure water The style of modern clothing, as regarde NULL AACA "OI4CAS ID NOANOA3@S>~ o>N extravagant, barbarous and unwhole some. One thick garment of good ma terial for winter, and one of slightei texture for summer, is all that is re quired. It is estimated that under good management on the new system $50 { year will be sufficient income for an. person to exist upon comfortably, ant will leave small margin which, if laie aside annually and carefully invested will amply provide for all the reasona ble wants of old age.
 Astronomers declare that the yer million -colored spot now noticeable o. the planet Jupiter is an affection of tn planetary body itself and not of it's at mosphere. There is no record of sim liar phenomenon having been previousl observed, and the explanation general given is that it indicates that some grea disturbances are 1n progress within tn planetary substance. We may obtai some notion of the extent of the dit turbance by noting that the size of th spot with reference to the whole area ( Jupiter's surface is as large as the whol of Europe is with reference to the SUI face of the earth.
 The Judge at court in Maine It gently sentenced a culprit to twenty five years in the State Prison. The ia,
 wss communicated to the prisoner
 mother. who was struck with the mag
 nitude of the sentence. "What di.
 they do that for?" she exclaimed
 Twenty-Five years Why, he won't l
 contented there three weeks !"
 ] Secretary Taylor of the Bonanz
 Mines in Virginia City has been payin
 off now for about six years, duriu
 which time he has disbursed owe
 $60, 100000 He has handled so muc
 money that he can tell by the weight
 @ pile of twenties, without looking
 them at all, how much there is in Il
 lot. In paying off he has the go
 counted into $100 and $40 piles, al the silver into $4, $6, and BIO piles,
 that he can pass it out as fast as tl
 men can come up to the paying counte So sensitive is hs to the weight of
 pile of coin that sonleti mes, if $1 stack of half dollars contains few tn
 are new, and consequently trif
 heavier than the rest, he will stop an
 count them over to see if there isn
 some mistake, so local pa per tells u
 Irregular methods are tolerated
 the West. Two men started fro
 Minneapolis on the same train carryin
 conflicting deeds to a piecs of land
 Sioux Falls, and each resolved to g his document recorded first. As the
 approached that city, one of the
 climbed upon the engine, slipped u coupling, left the train to take care itself, and rushed on, securing reco1 1 of his title half an hour in advance his rival, who had to wait for anoth locomotive.
 After the saving of imperilled liv
 of the five men in the St. Charles Brid. disaster in Missouri, the piteous a peals of the imprisoned cattle and ho were answered. Men armed with I - volvers walked over the line and whe . 8 sufferer was found who could not ! released from the debris, bulle5-hc f in the head pnt ao en1 to it's troub] g Some Of the hogs however, who moan , the loudest, were beyond even the reat f of the bullet, buried away in under t
 wreck. These were of course left
 die. Some of them lived through t
 night and day, and when the timbe