Litchfield enquirer., 1879-06-05
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Prince of Wales is going to Australia.

The Michigan legislature having voted dewn
 proposition to return to prohibition.
 The total number of Bibles issued by the
 American Bible Society during sxty-three
 years is B, ,052, 169.
 Oliver Wendell Holmes says somewhere
 that America offers the largest market in the
 world fer intellectual green fruit.
 The Utica Observer observes that Nordey- skjold's name, once fixed in the mind will stay there.
 The widow of General Gordon Granger has been divorced from Lieutenant Blair on ac- count of his bigamy.
 Col. King Texas cattle man, has a fence 75 miles long, enclosing about 337 square miles on which range no, 900 beasts.
 An Ching, a Chinaman twenty-five years old, has been ordained as a deacon in Trinity Church Protestant Episcopal, San Francis co.
 The cotton goods. exports thus far this year are forty per cent. in excess of those of cor responding period of last year.
 ThessWidow Oliver is decided failure as lecturer. At Pittsburgh, Penn, on Wednes- day night she had an audience of four persons.
 Learning to read, under professors of elocu- tien is said to be more popular with Paris young ladies than learning to play on the pi- ano.
 A Wilton man has cat which, instead oflap- ping milk in the ordinary way, puts his paw in the dish and afterwards lcks his paw.
 Two million and a quarter of acres were | taken up under the homestead and pre-emp- tion laws of Kansas during the last nine l months.
 The fact that Paul Morphy is a quiet little | gentleman, engaged in minding his own busi- ness, has led to all the talk about hls being crazy.
 Under the new Constitution of California. if | it is ever enforced, the banks of San Francis co will be taxed on $72, ,694, S38, instead of on 6,279, APO, as at present.
 The banks of the Passaic river from Dundee lake are strewn with dead fish wkich are SUD- posed to have been poisoned by refuse from Paterson factories.
 A Spiritualist robes himself in white, and walks at midnight in graveyard at Northfeld Vt, believing that he can thus communicate readily with spirits of the persons buried there
 New Jersey has recently put in claim to naturalizing the first woman, but Maine dis | putes the honor, Margaret Landergae of Port land having been naturalized in June, 1857. The Belcher Mine, in Nevada will soon be 5000 feet deep. Machinery at the bottom is worked by compressed ar, which is forced down through pipes, and which also ventilates the mine.
 One of the German physicians lately return ed from Astrachan announces that the plague is extinct, and that the sanitary measures ta- ken by Russia are very stringent and in every way satisfactory
 La Gaceta of Madrid puts the population of Spain at 16, 625, ,860. This is an increase of 952, 324 over the census of 1S60 The emigra- tion from Spaln is increasing; in France, in- | cluding Algeria, there are 156, 475 Spanards.
 The radical party in France have put for ward the name of Monsieur Loyson, best known as Father Hyacinthe, as a candidate l for the French chamber of deputies in one of the Paris arrondissements. The name of Joseph Sheldon appears in the list of vice presidents of the New England Women Suffrage association for the ensuing year, chosen at the annual convention of the organization held in Boston, Tuesday.
 Gen. Hooker said of Grant, to a Cincinnati | Enquirer reporter: '1 think the better class of men in his party don't want him again. Tom | Murphy wants him, doubtless, as do Belknap, | Babcock, and Robeson, and all the fellows he | used to associate with. Jim Fisk would want | him agai if he was alive"
 Governor Andrews is in receipt of large | number of letters urging hlm to pardon Mrs. | Kate Cobb, the Norwich murderess Of | course these can avail nothing as the pardon l i,,rr so fa1 so fho1
 Dr. Schliemann and Professor Virchow have | been having what schoolgirls call "a perfectly | lovely tlme' together They have been digging | away at Troy, and have,not only come across great masses of charred buildings, hut also a | splendid treasure of long gold chains and gold l discs ..
 German newspapers say that half the amount | expended in the occupation of Herzegovina. and Bosnia would have sufficed to prevent the | disastrous floods that have caused SO much de- vastation in Hungary, and that have destroyed | Szegedn. Nothing was needed except certain | engineering operations.
 Colonel Heginson, who had personal | knowledge of H. D. Thoreau declares that i both Charming and Lowell have done the | quaint New-Engander injustice in emphasiz- | ing his eccentricities and not placing sufficient | StSSo Ou HIS NlSpis SOOI SClSC duu ClcdI pcT- captions.
 Mir. Rassam who is carrying on the work begun by the late MT. George Smith, has just | discovered at Babylon an octagonial cylinder, on the sides of which are engraved history | of the campaign of Sennacharib against King | Hezekiah. This important find is to be sent | to London for safe keeping in the British | Museum.
 MT. Henry, the inventor of the barrel and | the ammunition of the famous Martini Henry | rifle, is after the lapse of ten years. vainly | seek ing for adequate remuneration from the | British War Office. To the London News | this seems ''hardly creditable" to England
 The Prussian Government appears deter | mined to make sure that the army shall not, | like the French soldiery, be permeat ed by the | leaven of democratic ideas. The troops sta | toned in Berlin have been forbidden to read | | the liberal newspapers, and their quarters are | to be searched at regular times for the prohib- | tied journals and for other objectionable pub | locations.
 Senator Thurman is presented in pleasant | attitude in Washington letter He sat plac- l idly in horse-car, which was nearly full, ] when in peeped little colored boy, all patches l but very clean. He hestated whether to en- | Ter the car or to rlQe m the cola outside. The Senator saw his timidity, moved along for him l and said benignantly, Come here, sonny, and | sit down. Sir Garnet Woseley has every reason to be- | lieve, he says that in the mountains of Cy- l prus, at height of $500 feet above the sea, his troops will be quartered throughout the | year with as great safety to health as at Malta | | or any place on the shores of the Mediterrane- | | an.
 There is notion entertained by some doc- tors that alcohol may be an antidote, or at l least an antagonist to diphtheria, as quinine is | to malaria. In supporting this view, one prac- titioner gives the results Of fifteen years ex- | perience, extending over four epidemics, in | | which he treated 125 cases, and lost only one patient, while the mortality under ordinary | treatment was from twenty to thirty three per