Litchfield enquirer., 1879-10-23
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
 The rnderpest is raging in Russian Poland with greater virulence than ever.
 Over two hundred barrels of water are car, ted through Corsicana, Texas daily, and sold.
 The Swiss colony, numbering some 700 souls that settled in Tennessee, is devoting It's ener- gies entirely to cheese making
 The Marquis of Headfort and his agent have received letters threatening them with death unless reduction of rent be granted.
 There have been imported into New York by sea from California since the beginning of this year 1, 156,712 gallons of wine, and IA, ,717 gallons of brandy. hAA@ A probable anecdote of President Grevy is in circulation in France. Being asked what he thought of the Legitimist manifesto tions, he replied; My maxim is, say what you like, but will let you do nothing"
 In New York city 15O persons killed them- selves in 1878. In Paris, the number was an average of 646 suicides for every one million of inhabitants London, in the same time, had the low average of 96 for every million.
 A young lady of Philadelphia had her pock- ct picked of wallet containing $5. On ascer- taining her loss she found that a diamond ring, pronounced to be worth $500, had slipped from the thef's finger during the operation and remained in her pocket .... A Miss Whitten, now at Damariscotta Me-, has probably the longest hair of any woman in the world. It is eight feet long, and when dressed in French twist it passes six times around her head. The growth is perfectly natural
 Dr. Falk has been nominated as candi- date for the Prussan Landtag in more than dozen constituencies, the people. not having forgotten that while he was Education Minis ter the teachers increased by 4,000 and the pupils by 100000. 2 s'S*.
 Gen. Bull had big elk in his park at Bull city, Kansas. The beast was tractable, and nobody supposed him vicious but one day he chased child out of the enclosure and gored dog. Gen. Bull went to chastise him with aclub, and was killed, the elk's horns being thrust through his body.
 To the circular of.the English bishops warn ing the churchmen against rituallsm two sig natures were wanting, those of the Bishops of Salisbury and Durham. The former, ritual ist, would not censure his friends, and Dr. Barring refused to sign so milk -and-watery dOcument .ltr .JtHt~'I It,'
 Limburgsr cheese now made in this coun- try, is said to be superior in every respect to that produced abroad especially in the pecu- liar smell which distinguishes Limherger, and which in the American article is said to be of such an exquisitely horrible nature as tt drive the stolid Dutchman wild with delight.
 The California Theatre has live English aristocrat in it's leading actress, Adelaide Stan- hope, only daughter of the late Rev. Henry StanhOpe, and granddaughter of the Earl of Harrington, herfather being the third son of that nobleman. She is therefore, the first cousin to the present Earl. One of her aunts was married to the Duke of Bedford, and another was married to the Duke of Lelnstcr.
 A lady travelling on the New York Central road, the other day, lost her satchel near Ilion. It contained twenty thousand dollars. A freight train came along shortly after the pass enger train. and the conductor picked mp the satchel from the side of the track, and left it with the agent at Ilion. It was restored to the lady, who presented the conductor with eight hundred dollars for his honesty.
 The Golas newspaper says that in the central prison of Moscow during the summer just elapsed no fewer than 1T ,854 persons were in- carCcrated, of whom 10, 477, including both sexes, were condemned to be sent to Siberia. These being drafted off into exile, upward of half thousand remained in jail, the remain der being admitted into the hospital owing to illness resulting from the incredibly filthy state of their cells.
 The Archbishop of Paris has entered into direct conflict with the order of the Paris Govern. ment that priests should not be allowed to ap proach the beds of patients in hospitals unless by their desire 1.-The Archbishop, ignoring the existence of all religions but the Roman Catho lie, says, in letter to hospital chaplains that the shepherd must know his sheep, and that il IS their duty to visit every patient without ex- ception.
 A draft for $7, 900 was to be paid to Robert Hilton at San Antonio, New Mexico. Hilton beinga stfanger to the cashier of the bank, wentthere beforehand with resident, who identified him. He was a tail man with red face and white beard. A few days afterward just such man presented a forged draft for $7,O00, got the money, and went away. It was not long before the genuine draft was handed in by Hilton himself. The swindlel turned out to be a broken down actor, who haC used his skill with false hair and paint tc make himself closely resemble Hilton, and haf prepared deceptive counterfeit
 The Tagwach of Berlin describes the differ ent kinds of work performed by women il various parts of Germany. They saw an( split wood; they carry of their heads water wood, coal, sand and stones; on the farm they plough, haFyows mows and thrash~the crops they help to build houses, carrying bricks pip the ladders in the barge cities they sweepfhe streetsS and besides all that they perforIn fheiF ordinary housework. In times or ~aF%taany4ef them@are found on the battle field, though their occupation there is of more peaceful character than that performed by their mothers of the pagan era: they prepare meals, mend soldiers uniforms, and nurse the sick. m
 Tins year there were 412 applicants for ad. mission to the St. Petersburg Medical College for Women. "Of these," says the Golos, ''66 were Greek Catholics, 40 Hebrews, 3 Lu. therans, 3 Roman Catholics, and Armenian The ladies were subjected to preliminary examination in arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigononfetry, physics, and. the Russian, sths Latin, and the French or eGerman' language Seventy seven ladies passed satisfactory ex animation in all branches-49 of whom were Greek Catholics 26 Hebrews, Lutheran, anG Roman Catholic. Many of them received the highest mark (5) in Latin; all of them tht highest in French oF German. and not one ol thepfins R1ssian ;iin fact, thefeast satisfactory examination was in the Russian language, the majority being marked 3. The explanation o1 this strange fact is that in Russian gymnasiums and seminaries particular attention is paid to the foreign languages, and the least to theil own. SE ~nSk a-.s