Litchfield enquirer., 1879-03-27
MISCELLANEOUS.

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 MISCELLANEOUS
 Anti-treating temperance societies are multi plying throughout the country. L
 The imperial Government in China has or dered the closing of the Buddhist nunneries. Yale senior tried to chastise sophomore editor of the college paper, but got so badly whipped that he had to go to bed
 Hard times in Germany are shown in noth- ing more than in the consumption of 9,000,- 900 gallons less beer in 1878 than in 1877.
 John T. Rockwell, of Winsted, fell heir to half a million of dollars, by the death of his brother, the late James s. Rockwell, of Brook lyn, N. Y.
 The Marquis of Normandy, who has been Governor at one time or another of half the British dependencies, has been appointed Governor of Victoria.
 The favorite name of princes in France IS Louis, that of Prussia IS Frederick that of stonding the imported George) is Edward, with Ferdinand for Spain. -'
 If Edwin Furbish of Pontiac, Mich, had not paid a debt promptly. the masked robber who bound and gagged him and his family would have got the $l ,O0O that he had just parted with.
 ''If you please" said Baltimore young woman politely, as she laid her gloved hand on a pickpockets shoulder. ''I'll take the purse that you just stole out of my pocket" He gave up the booty.
 Marshall MacMahon wouldn't hear of a pension, and refuse to use the money voted to defray hospitaties at the Elysee during the Exhibition. It was distributed by his wife among the charities of Paris
 A Virginia paper gi yes the following advice to the pumptious Caifornans who want to secede: Don't go Be warned by several who have been there, and don't, for there's nothing secedes like secession"
 The marble top ot the Stafford Conn. Con- gregational Church communion table, which was carried off in the flood over a year ago, has been recently recovered and put to it's original use.
 There is a German colony of 425 persons on the Pozuzo on the eastern slope of the Andes The colonists cultivate coffee, coco, tobacco, cotton, rice Indian corn, sweet potatoes sugar cane and tropical fruits.
 MdudHie dIIcTSOIl, TclICL Ol JeTOlue DOLd- part, King of Wurtemburg, now in the ninety sixth year of her age, has been lying ill at her residence in Baltimore for more than month past and the family have little hope of her recovery.
 A Chicago policeman testified in court as evidence that a prisoner was drunk when ar rested, that he was trying to warm his feet at a grating in the sidewalk, supposing that he was standing on a register .- 4
 If the gun that John Guyer of Westport, Conn.,, fired in his hen house for thieves had been aimed little lower, or his son had been a little taller, the consequence would have been more serious than the rddling of hat.
 A Phil delphia boy loaded a toy pistol, and accompanied his father in search through the house for imaginary burglars. On the following day, for getting that bullet was in the weapon, he shot and killed comrade while 'playing robber.';
 T. /: Graham. an actor, staggered and fell on the stage of the Indianapolis Theatre. The audience hssed him, suppesing he was drunk He was really weak from consumption, and, after the performance, was put on his death- bed.
 In 1894, in the township of Eastman, Mass a regulation was made that every unmarried man should kill six blackbirds and three crows a year as long as he remained single. If he neglected this order, and wished to marry, he was not allowed to do so till he had shot his full number of birds.
 The late Elihu Burrtt was called on some years ago to decpher blindly written Danish will from the West Indies after it had been the round of several leading colleges. He ac- complished the task in two weeks, however, n,,I aIa 1,v I. in the same time at his forge. The duke of Newcastle, who has lately died in London, had, at the beginning of his ca- reer, rentroll of $367, ,0OO year. In one year he lost $40O, 900 by betting at horse races and now, at the age of forty five, he died used up. B..
 It is said that the Duke and Duchess of Cumberland were watched by German detec- | tive officers from the moment they landed at | Lubeck until they reached Austrian territory, and that this espionage only ceased upon the | protest of the English Ambassador at Berlin against such an indignity to a Prince of the English royal family and sister of the Prn- cess of Wales.
 Ex-Senatcr Mcdonald of Arkansas repre- sents his State as in poor condition. 'Itook fortune there," he says, land have lost most of it. bought plantations which were thought to be dirt cheap at $50, 900, and have offered them a: 10, 900 apiece since and had no takers. They can't sell their land until peo- pie with means are willing to accept the socie- ty, and that don't believe Northern people will ever do in any numbers until there is more general intelligence.
 Nicanova Rodriguez belonged to an infuen. tial family in ChiE, but many years ago went | to California for the purpose of becoming Cland Duval. His first exploit, in 1859, was to lead party of highwaymen that robbed a wagon train of bullion worth $26, 1000. He has since performed feats of the same sort that would charm the readers of dime novels but he has had the unpleasant experience of fifteen years in prison, and must go there again for a recent stage robbery in Arizona -'
 Thirty-twe young Government clerks in Ottawa were invited to a state ball. and, tow ard the close of the entertainment nearly all of them were so drunk that they staggered about the ballroom. It was thought that somebody had drugged their beverage, but an linvestigation has proved that they became in toxlcated in ordinary ways-some on cham pagne but most of them on hot Scotch whiskey punch, the strength of which they underrated.
 Major Labordere, the French officer who in the Limoges Barracks refused to march because he suspected coup d'etat was contemplated and was cashiered for that actof disobedience, has been restored to his rank by Gen Gresley. This reparatien, which would have been i'm l possible as long as Marshal MacMahon was President, is an admission on the part of the present Government that it shrinks from inn peaching the Ministry of May 16, not as be-
 ieving them innocent but because the prosecu- tion is inexpedient. - E.. E
 John A. Smith of Wichita Kan, was una- ble to leave his business to gs to Xenia, Ohio, and marry Miss Vashti Longfellow and the girls father, cautious clergyman, would not permit her to join her lover before the knot was tled The difficulty was overcome by enl- ploying the telegraph. The bride and her friends gathered at one end of the wire. Smith stood thousand miles distant at the other end, and the proper questions and answers were flashed between. Then Mrs. Smith started to join her husband
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