Connecticut western news., 1879-10-08
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Cologne Cathedral is at le,

see IL mashed. Begun In the very midst of the "ages of faith," when beggared themselves to raise magnificent structures, of which only ruins now remain for the world to look at, this extraordinary temple Jagged behind all it's con- temporaries in the work of construction, saw them reach their mature glory, decline, and sink to ruin, itself being l all the time an unfinished fabric. The | first stone of the Cologne Cathedral was lad In 124S, when the grand edifices | now left, perfect or ruined, in Europe were either just finished, or, like Notre Dame, in Paris, were in rapid progress :; but while the most elaborate of them took only three centuries to bring to perfection, Cologne has absorbed more than double the time. It took nearly three centuries to complete the choir. and since that date it has required liberal aid from nearly all the sovereigns of Europe to keep the construction going. What now remains to be done is the last stage and browning decora- tion of the stately towers.
 Miss Tylney-Long, whose person. alty was lately sworn in England under 5000, ,O0O, was half sister of the greatest heiress of her day, Mrs. Wellesley Pole, who owned Wanstead Hall, in Essex, which, up to 1922, was one of the finest houses in England. The Queens uncle, the Duke of Sussex, proposed to marry her, but was refused, and she gave her hand to MT. Wellesley-Pole, son of the Duke of Wellington's second brother.
 Within few years he squandered all her property on which he could lay hands, and her home was the scene of an auction, which lasted month, after which the house, which had cost $1 500, ,0O0, was razed to the ground,
 and the gardens were plowed up. The
 site of Wanstead can now hardly be
 traced. MT. w. Pole subsequently,
 became Earl of Mornington, and sur-
 vived his wife some twenty-five years,
 an object of contempt to every one, and
 supported by small pension from the
 Duke of Wellington. His second wife
 applied for charity from the police
 magistrates.
 There are said to be fully 200, ,OOC
 beggars tramping about the German
 Empire, and they are estimated to gel
 as aims not less than SIS, ,OOO, 900 annu.
 oI1xr 1T, yooorov xxy;%bo,,4 oo,oc; Jo~;,,o. AE,e
 value of food and clothing given them
 Many of these beggars got into the habit of gaining their livelihood in this way through the oppressive laws formerly il vogue that required apprentices to trave
 about, literally as journeymen, with { view to perfecting themselves in thei respective trades.
 A Texas gentleman who stopped a
 St. Louis hotel before morning mad himself the most interesting guest il , the establishment. The waiter aske, 5 him if he knew how to turn off the gas and he said he guessed he knew what h
 was about. A couple of hours later tn
 odor of gas pervaded the whole hous
 and was traced to his room. A call wa
 made, but he told the waiter to go ava, . or there would be trouble. It becam apparent the guest had blown out hi gas light, and frequent and more vigor ous calls were made. The guest hel the fort, however, and despite the warn D ings that he would be smothered t U %ha declined to open the door, and told a, applicants to retire. Finally he bega U shooting at the door, and for about te u minutes kept up fusilade, firing foul ,' teen bullets in all, many of which passe
 through the door and others lodged n the walls. A squad of police fnall
 forced an entrance, and at imminent ris
 captured him. It was then ascertaine = he had$5O in his possession, and couldn
 smell. As he got no odor of the gas | imagined the walters were all burglar
 trying to get in and rob him, and hene o his conduct.
 70 It is the habit of the French iur, is man to bring extenuating circumstance
 to the notice of the judge. Hardly !. case is brought up in which he fails
 find some reason why the Court shoul ], exercise it's clemency. This peculiarii 70 reminds us of the remarkable verdict ( ,f an English jury some years ago. l. Cornish miner was accused of makin at away with his wife. The evidence W, to overwhelming, and the only rebuttin
 testimony consisted of strong proof thu
 the wife was not all she should be, tn % she was quarrelsome and given to val D ous other bad habits which do not hel Iu to make happy home. The jury Ii
 tened to this part of the evidence wit ,u great interest, and in their verdi ,d showed that it had exercised an almo Il controlling influence. When the que es tion was asked, "Do you find the pri it oner guilty or not guilty ?" the forems d replied, "Guilty, My Lord, but J. served the woman right" The Judp re tried to explain that such a verdict W r. very embarrassing, but the rough jur P men, who perhaps had wives of their ov
 who once in while indulged in the u
 of forbidden words and missiles, insist,
 that they had expressed their true CO ,h viction and that the Court must maj m the most of it and be satisfied.
 d After the invasion of butterflies ar at moths reported from the whole of Wes o ern Europe week or two ago, we no le hear of fresh, but perhaps more we !, come, intruder in the shape of the hon.