Connecticut western news., 1879-10-29
NOTES AND OMMENTS.
A tabulated statement of the ra


 of wages paid to farm hands in the various States has been prepared by MT. Drummond of the British Legation, apd published in the London Daily NeWs. The extremes are from $6 36 per month, with board, in South Carolina, and 1885 in Nevada. In New En gland the rate is $11 to SIP month with board. New York, $13. 19. The great farming States of the West pay $14 to $l5. On the Pacific Slope the rate is much higher, averaging about $l day, with board.
 E. The year 1881 will be g mathcm at- ical curiosity. From left to right and from right to left it reads the same; IS divided by 2 gives 9 as a quotient; 81 divided by and is the quotient. If 1881 is divided by 200, Sis the quotient; if divided by 9, the quotient contains a 9; if multiplied by 9, the product con- tains two 9s. One and are g.; 8 and 1 are 9. If the IS be placed under the 81 and added, the sum is 99. If the figures be added thus, 1, 8, 8, 1, it will give Is. Reading from left to right is IS; and reading from right to left is IS, and IS is two-ninths of 81. By adding, dividing and multiplying nineteen 9s are produced, being one g for each year required to complete the century.
 A fortnight ago there was comical accident in one of the boulevards of Paris. One of the large three-horse omnibuses broke exactly into two. pieces. The first half went on with the driver, who was unconscious of what had happened; the hind part remained poised on it's two wheels-it is not said how long-but all the passengers had time to get down. Fortunately, there were but few. Only one was seated in the exact middle of the vehicle, an old lady, who, when the division of the omnibus occurred, was deposited some- what suddenly on the pavement.
 A level-headed newspaper editor says: ."Patronize home industries. !" This applies as much to the printing business as anything else. Why give your work to an out-of-town drummer, when you can get just as good job and for i ust as low price at home? Is it consistent for business men to grumble about people ''going away from home to trade," when they do the same thing themselves
 pr. Le Moyne weighed about two hundred pounds in life; in ash, only seven. All that remains from the burn ing has been removed from the crema- tory at Washington, Penn. The silly tale that all members of his family who refuse to advocate the incineration idea will be disinherited is, of course, with out foundation.
 -" worst drunkard in America " is thus referred to by the 1Snses, of Bath, Me. He is sketched as a young tramp of personal appearance that is rough and coarse to the last degree. But there falls from his lips the most beautiful language ever heard. All the standard works of literature in the dead and living tongues come readily in quotations the most choice to his lips, and impromptu verses are dashed of with snap and bubble. A Bath mer- chant offered the tramp, who is a graduate of Oxford, a clerkship, but the Bohemian refused. saying that he wouldn't give up his whisky for $1, ,0OC @ day.
 The charge of plagiarism against the Rev. Dr. Lorimer has caused great deal of discussion in Chicago. Si1 Methodist clergymen, in town to attend conference, went to hear him preach
 On their way from the church, one re marked that some of the language ot the sermon was familiar. Another sait it was from sermon delivered yea before by the Rev. Dr. Parker in London
 A comparison of Dr. Lorimer's ow1 manuscript, as furnished by him to { newspaper for publication, with { printed report of Dr. Parker's discourse showed that in many long passages tho former was plain copy of the latter
 Dr. Lorimer has published defence
 in which he says: My memory is suct
 that pretty nearly everything I reat
 adheres to it, frequently in the words O
 the author, and it unconsciously become part of my mental furniture, and, con sequently, run the risk, when an treating of kindred topics, of employin. similar and, at times, identical language without intending in the least to wronI
 any one. Writers of marked indi
 viduality possess me entirely, photo graph themselves on my mind, beoom
 part of my own being, so that have a
 times, and with utter ignorance, foun myself clothing my thoughts in thei
 language"
 If any of your readers are in Eng
 land next summer, says l.. J. J., in tn !, World, I can tell them where they ca 2 see an interesting head-it seems a 7 odd way to speak about dead folk heads, but there is no help for it. { f gentleman living in Sevenoaks, in Kent 8 has in his possession head which als s looks exactly like leather, and whic r was once sold for the rather large pric t of 9230 ($1, Several teeth sti ? remain in the mouth and on the fore s head there is small hole where a wal p had evidently been. The hair was ono |. long, but had bSen cropred short 0 relic hunters. It is the head of no les @ @ man than Oliver Cromwell. Tn s great Protector was embaImed after hi