Litchfield enquirer., 1879-07-10
MISCELLANEOUS.

The salary of the Bishop of London is $50, ,- 900 year.
 The King ofHolland's only son, Prince Alex ander, has an incurable spinal disease.
 The new king of Bulgaria. is to receive the moderate. salary of $129, 900 per year.
 A nephew of Sitting Bull was one of the defeated contestants in a walking match at Winnipeg. .s4 sK e@ i The theft of piece of paper valued at few cents sent London man to prison for seven years. sa'7@"s -s~-i4- 4-s'a''' A, --. --' %as Saga
 Gads Hill Place, where Charles Dickens died, is offered for sale. He paid $S 950fer it and it is now thought to be worth $5O,0 900. Just as the neighbors had gathered around the body of Mrs. Weir, in Memphis, and be- gun to talk about the good qualities of the dead old lady,e she sat Sup and joined in the conversation. A # Hs @s.#
 Sir John Lubbock, the naturalist, has been testing the affection of ants for one another. His conclusion after repeated experiments IS that in these curious insects hatred is astrong- CT passion than affection"
 The cost of the late Durham strike m Eng land is estimated at $3 200, 900 nearly half is borne by the men. Without reckoning inter- est, it is computed that it will take 9b years to make up the sum lost.
 A man 94 years old was divorced from his third wife at Fairbury, III. He marrled her in 1850, when he was 65 and she 16 Their youngest child is but years old The Court gave the divorced wife 400 acres of land of her husbands estate.
 w B. Wilson was deacon in the Presby hotT lfo Ipd nd tendent of the Sunday school Although he already had wife, he secretly married Miss Sheplar, one of his pretty pupils, intending to keep the matter a secret But it has all come out. ..s -.=-
 A bridegroom at Grinnel, Iowa, received a cigar by mail, accompanied by the written as- surance that it would be found to be of an un- commonly good flavor. The bride recognized the handwriting as that of a rejected suitor, and unrelled the cigar, to find several grains of strychnine in the end that smoker would bite off. ssA-
 The Boston Bicyle Club went out on. Sun- day for ride on their two wheeled vehicles. Ten of them were arrested on charge of viola ting the Sunday law, and justice fined them BIO each, on the gronnd that they had been l playing or sporting on the Lords day. They appealed, and the legal question will be brought before higher court.
 The story is told of Mir. Talmage s cousin, the Marchioness of Ailesbury. that she did not see her mother between infancy and matu- l rity, and that when she did meet that parent she observed, and not without truth, that she was of such "bad style" that she really | shouldn't be able to see much of her. It will be interesting to learn how this lady and his other great English relatives receive the Brook l lyn preacher.
 The Earl of Beaconsfeld recently said in the House of Lords: Il am perfectly free to admit that there is difference between the Christian Sunday and the Jewish Sabbath, and cannot agree with those who would ex- i tend to the observance of the Christian Sunday the rules and regulations of the Jewish Sabbath If there be any who desire to do it they will utterly fail to accomplish that purpose"