Connecticut western news., 1879-05-21
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

-Jonn J. Andrews, Ph1ladeIph1a merchant, lost the sight of his left eye twenty years ago, and physicians told him that there was no cure. The use- less member gave him no trouble until 1877, but thereafter it was occasionally so painful that he writhed on the floor until the attack was over. Many of the best oculists made careful examinations, and were unable to ascertain the nature of the disease. Lately he put himself into the hands of Philadelphia physician, of whose investigation he says "He blistered me around the eye to draw out the inflammation, and at last he said: I know what it is not it is not inflammation, and that is one point gained.' He drew out diseased tooth and cut out piece of the jaw bone and did some probing; finally he said: 1t that is another point gained He dosed me with quinine until he was satisfied, and then he said: It is not miasma, and that is another point gained Last
  room, and, throwing an indescribably bright light into my eye, looked into my eye for two mortal hours. At last he exclaimed: I have the secret Look ing in through the pupil of the eye he could sec live cysticercus, or embryo tape worm." This was the first case of the kind in America, and was exhibited to most of the physicians of Philadelphia. An operation with knife removed the creature.
 Young ladies who correspond with rejected lovers would do we'll to take 8 hint from the following curious case |: Mile. Felicie Maxy, who lives on the farm of Pentecote, on the Belgian from tier, was on the point of being married, when she received letter from an old suitor asking her to reconsider the mat ter, and send him an immediate reply. A postage stamp was gallantly enclosed to defray the cost of transmission. The answer duly written, Mile. Maxy applied the stamp to her fair lips but hardly had she done so when she felt sharp pain in her tongue, and in less than no time that interesting member was hor- ribly elongated and inaamed and cov- cred with noisome sores. The disconso- late one, Alfred Camin by name, far mer at Pichou, in the Nord, has been arrested; but he declares that he used no noxious drug, but simply moistened 8 corner of the stamp with his own lips. Such is the state of the case as it stands, but the tale carries it's own moral.
 A singular arrest was made in St. Petersburg on April .19. A lady and gentlemen were walking arm-in-arm to ward the Vosnessenski Bridge, followed by another gentleman. The lady looked round uneasily several times, and o1 arriving at the bridge leaned over the parapet to look at the canal. In doing this her hat fell off. Instantly sh' jumped in after it, but was speedily re joined by her pursuer, who, after {
 brief struggle, brought her on shore It then appeared that the "lady" was { man in disguise, who belonged to thu
 Nihilist conspiracy. and that the mal
 who jumped into the water after hin
 was member of the secret police. Th'
 lady's companion was also arrested.
 The rumor that an Italian firm wa
 negotiating in the United States for ar
 immediate supply of 100000 tons o
 coal, in place of obtaining it from Eng
 land, as heretofore, has caused uneasi
 ness in London. A cargo of American
 coal reached the Mediterranean sixteel
 months ago, and met with a ready sale
 and more than twenty cargoes have bee
 sent over since that time. A LondoI
 paper apprehends that before long tn
 coal industry of Great Britain will hay
 to encounter determined rivalry on tn
 part of the United States. America
 coal will not be landed in England, bu
 will be shipped to ports on the Cont
 nent which are now dependent upo ) supplies from the coal fields of tn United Kingdom.
 Gen. Sherman having been invited by the 18th Regiment of Brooklyn t visit Canada with them on the Queen birthday says he cannot go, but adds > envy you the privilege of assisting i doing honor to sovereign who has prt , sided over the destinies of Great Britai for more than forty eventful years, an whose life as child, wife, mother, Queer and Empress stands resplendent as a example to the rulers on earth, by wha ever title they may be known, and whos private life is type which may safel ? be followed by the most humble, as we as the most exalted, among civilized az enlightened people. However believe 5 she may be by her own subjects, I b u lieve in no land on earth is she held : more kindly respect than in this our R D public of America.
 Q Large numbers of Chinamen a e making New York city their home. ( 6 every side street and on many of u l. main thoroughfares "Ah Sin," "k l. Wah," and "Wah Sin have their sig r. up as laundrymen, and 1t is evident fro ,f the new places opening that John Chin l. man will soon control the laundry bu IS ness of the city. Many of these ne J. corners have married, and it is of fl ia quent occurrence to see their children L. the street. The Chinese children e mixed percentage are really pretty e though their features are so marked a l. John Chinaman sticks out so plainly . them. The children Are in most ca,