Litchfield enquirer., 1879-04-10
MISCELLANEOUS.

Gen. w. s. Rosecrans is manufacturing safe ty powder in San Francisco.
 Two mothers-in-law in one house produced a tragedy in Louisville.
 Five ambitious dogs chased wolves ln Sauk County Wisconsin. The dogs bones were found on the following day.
 Mr. James Russell Lowell, United States Minister to Spain, has obtained leave of ab- sence, and will visit his home next summer.
 Charlotte Thompson, the actress, owns three thousand acres near Montgomery, Ala, said to be one of the finest plantations in the South.
 A gentleman who called on Senator Wade Hampton, recently, found him very comfort able. A second amputation is not now looked for.
 Antwerp has about the finest Geological Gar den in the world. The collection now includes thirteen lions and five tigers, magnifcently housed.
 Queen Victoria last year received $220, 900 from her duchy of Lancaster. At the begin ming of her reign the revenue didn't exceed a fourth of this.
 Experience in Africa proves that the bayo- net is poor defence against the assegai, and the propriety of arming the British infantry with revolvers is di scussed.
 The Maine Legislature intended to cut the Governors salary down to 1,500 year, but bunglingly wOrded the act so as to empower him to draw that amount every three months. The Protestant clergymen of San Francisco have united in movement fer the reforma- tion of public affairs through religion, and are delivering sermons on the subject. The band of the Twenty-fourth Regiment, on marching out of Natal for Zululand, played John Browns Body" the soldiers singing in chorus as did ours when they left for the civil war.
 The experiment of lighting the reading room of the British Museum by electricity seems to be perfectly successful. The smallest print was as legible as by daylight The room IS a vast circular apartment.
 Sixty-two out of one hundred an ninety. nine persons checked as voting in one of the precincts of Philadelphia at the recent city election have made affidavit that they did not vote. Their names were voted on by repeat | CTS.
 English newspapers very rarely contain in | the obituary column & notice of funeral because, except in the case of an eminent pub lie person, it is not deslred that any but near relatives or very intimate friends should attend, and men worth million go to their graves 1 with less pomp and parade than New York car driver.
 About five years ago Mrs. Brown, of Ital- ian percentage, died in London worth $1 O00,- OOO. No heirs could be found, and the prop erty passed to the crown. Some Italians named Freccia have now substantiated their claim to the satisfaction of the Court of Chan cery. This is an enormous fortune in Italy, Dickens, when over here, sad enc evening that he always found the people most like his characters 0bjecting to them as improbable and extreme. A Mrs. Nickleby had talked to him in so peculiar a strain that he was thinking, Good Heavens she is going to charge me with putting her into my book" when she be- gan to observe on the character as utterly un- natural. So with several Pecksniffs
 The political and social Eden of New Eng land is New Fairfield, in Connecticut The town instead of being in debt has money at in- terest. Within its limits It has no distillery, no greg- -shop no court house, no jail, no doc tor, no lawyer, no constable, no policeman, and only three paupers. @ #
 A firm of booksellers in Northampton, Mass. has received an order from Tarboro N C., for three gross of 'Emerson's Evangelical Primer ]" That almost forgotten work was published in 1909, and contained Calvinistic catechism Scriptural passages, and woodcuts of saints in glory and sinners in torment On the title page was recommendation signed by numer- ous clergymen, including President Timothy Dwight of Yale. Only thirty-six copies could be found toward supplying the Tarboro de- mand.
 Dr. Newman, the new English Cardinal, plays on the violin and violoncello with exquis- ite taste and skill. The symphonies of Beetho- ven are his evenings delight. On being chal- lenged by an emient Methodist divine te dis cuss the merits of their faiths in the Birming- ham Town Hall, he declined, but said he would ''play the violin against him."