Connecticut western news., 1879-10-01
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

The depth of the water in the gorge below Niagara Falls has just been meas ured for the first time. The swiftness of the stream had bafded all previous efforts, but corps of Government en- gineers accomplished the feat. They embarked in small boat not far below the falls. An old guide accompanied the party. With great difficulty they approached within a short distance of the American falls, which darted great jets of water on them. The roar was 50 terrible that no voice or sound could be heard. The leadsman cast the line, which rapidly passed down 83 feet. This was near the shore. Passing out of the friendly eddy which had enabled them to get so near the falls, they shot rapidly down stream. The next cast of the lead told of 100 feet, deepening to 192 feet little further down. The average depth to the Swift Drift-where the river suddenly becomes narrow, with a velocity too great to be measured-is 153 feet. Just under the lower bridge the whirlpool rapids set in, and 80 vio- lently are the waters moved that they rise ike ocean waves to the height of 20 feet. At this point they computed the depth at 21O feet.
 A horrible case of baby farming has l just come to light in Paris. Rumors being rife in the suburb of Clichy that an unmarried woman was in the habit of bringing infants home with her and murdering them, the police made in- l quiry into the matter, and discovered the following facts The young woman above mentioned was in the habit of going into the Clinical Hospital and accosting girls whom she supposed to | be mothers. The conversation once be- gun, she would tell them that she was very fond of children, and that for the small sum of fifteen francs month she would take charge of them. It is known that at least nine children have been confided to her, that she kept them all in the same room, and that eight of them died literally from starvation. The wo- man has, of course, been arrested.
 The Atloatic Coast Pilot, published by the United States Survey, explains the origin of the curious deep holes met with along the New Jersey coast, some distance out at sea. Of these mud holes," as they are termed, nine are known to navigators, the deepest and the furthest out being 145 fathom hole, eighty-three miles southeast of Sandy Hook light vessel. The remark able Impressions, as the Pilot points out, bear the appearance of having been originally continuation seaward of the Hudson River valley. They were in all probability scooped out by the river being forced to run through narrow gorges. Several of these gorges can be still traced running almost parallel with the New Jersey shore line. In fact, the surroundings along the coast would seem to indicate that the whole coast line. ages ago, was many miles seaward of it's position to-day; that then the Hud- son River entered the ocean at least 100 miles southeast of it's present mouth, and that the whole continent has since subsided, the sea encroaching further and further inland, as the country grad ually sank:
 The King of Denmark was the other day driving along seaside road, when suddenly his carriage came in collision with another carelessly driven by a we'll known young actor. The King was un- hurt, but his vehicle was so injured that he was obliged to finish the journey on foot. The actor was so confused when he recognized his sovereign that he was unable to give utterance to his feelings. Nor was he less perplexed when the King turned and said to him: "My dear MT. A, would really suggest to you the propriety of studying your part, as coachman, a little better next time. If you had not prepared yourself more carefully for previous perform ances in which I have seen you, I am afraid l should never have had the pleasure of witnessing your perform ances at all /; and if you continue to ap- pear in the role you have now taken up with no better success than has attended you to-day, fear that that may happen which will effectually deprive me of the pleasure of ever seeing you again P
 The Moquis Indians of Arizona, numbering 1,700, live in seven villages on the tops of three cliffs or headlands that rise more than 600 feet above the plains. Why they choose these un. handy places is mystery. On reach ing the villages, says recent visitor, one finds one's self on a flat ledge of bare rock which extends out from the main table nearly half mile in length, and from ten feet to perhaps three hundred feet in width. The sides are almost perpendicular. Tie most populous of these villages, Wal-la-pi, is on the extreme end of the rocks, where the width is not over one hundred feet. All the water for all purposes is carried in earthen vessels on the backs of men and women from spring near the foot of the mountain, distance of nearly mile, while the wood is brought eight miles. Here these people have lived longer than they can tell, even from their traditions, and hitherto they have been averse to 8 change of location, notwithstanding the difficulty of obtain ing their necessary supplies and the distance from their fields and herbs.
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