Litchfield enquirer., 1880-12-23
MISCELLANEOUS.

Letter postage in Italy has been reduced
from four to two cents
Out of total of 100, 900 railway employ
ees in Great Britain and Ireland 1000 are
either killed or injured every year.
Wood cutting is very active this winter, in
view OF the. great demand for lumber 1t is
expected that 10000, 900 more feet of logs
will be obtained IN the Chippewa woods than
ever before; the Maine cut will also bemuch
larger; the numbering business of the Lake
Huron shore. of the Big and Little Manistee,
and of the Chandiere, Ont, will be many
millions of feet beyond previous periods
Numerous lumber and shingle factories are
projected throughout Michigan.
Arough estimate of tue extent of the trade
in VIC gao1ea2f 81 LodisA toEthe past year
places The total amount of Transactions al 81. :.
600, 600. single firm have exported for the
holiday season to the London markets 400
dozen quail, 1.4OO dozen prairie chickens, and
500 dozen wild turkeys; and to the Liverpool
merchants, 2,000. wild turkeys. THERE'S mere
Missouri venison this year in market than was
ever before known. Bear meat comes chiefly
from Arkansas antelopes from the far West.
the borders of Kansas and Colorado, and deer
is quite plenty throughout Missouri
A beautiful mirage was seen in Accomac
County. Va, few mornings ago. The sun
rose behind thick bank of fog, which soon
grew thinner until few pale rays shot up
above. In single minute wonderful trans
formation had taken place. Apparently not
quarter OF mile away lay the island of
Chincotesgue, with its tall white tower, its
81 W. :ss i i90sf' shee1 as 5's
the shore, and even little girl in the door Of
the lighthouse keepers home foudling doll.
In another minute second fog bank rose and
shut out the vision. The island was distant
thirty miles.
The projected ship canal across France from
the Atlantic to the Mediterranean will have
uniform depth'of 275 feet and width of from
115 to $50 feet. The great majority of the
French ironclads will therefore be able to pass
through the canal in a-gOing trim, though
few OF the heaviest armored ships will have to
be ilghtened before making use of it. The
total length of the canal from the neighbor
hood of Narbonne, On the Mediterranean. to
Bordeaux, will be 219 nautical miles and it is
calculated that, including the. time taken to
pass fhrihgh ahe locks, ship win beable.ta
rayerse NE Whole length ofthe canalsin forty
Sagas noqFs9s e
Lfd Cpleridge, the new EordfC hief Justice
af AkhSaaadAih succession to heFsf Chief Justice
Cockburn, is son of Mr.. Justice Coieridee
who was Judge of the Queens Bench, dis
tinguished both as a lawyer and for his classii
cal attainments. and is grandnephew of Sam
nei Taylor Colerldge. Both the Coleridges,
father and son, won high distinction at Ok
ford. The father was Tory, but the son, like
Lord Selborne. forsook early Conservative as
sociations to follow Mr.. Gladstone. Lord
Coleridge, when Sir John, conducted the first
case IN opposition to ''Sir Rogers" claim. and
his favorite question, would you be sur.
prised ?" became cant word in England Sir
-HepsFS James, the present Att rney General,
.ontakang office agreed to waive his right of
succession in favor of Lord Coleridge.
The following story is causing painful feel.
ing in Rome: A young man named Moretti a
tailor, was condemned to a short term of i'm
prisonment for some alleged fraud in his deal.
ings girl to whom he was betrothed went
10 the police magistrate 10 ask about his fate
and prospects. The magistrate told her that
he would assuredly remain many years in
prison. The girl, in dispair. poisoned herself
forthwith. Soon afterward Moretti was found
to be innocent, and was at once discharged
On learning the end of bis betrothed he, too.
poisoned himself The magistrate had sen.
fenced him at the instigation of the girls
mother, who wished to break of the match.
Heligoland is the most celebrated station in
the world for staagsB9 the 4pigra,ioa Of 5irass.
This LIVE island S hi IDLY HUNDRED acres il
eextenf IN &olaAd Hriang dlar rnck al red
sands one Vith per1knaicular cliff to or
kthrs6 hai6red fa JIM Nd I'll all faand. IL. .u1
is mostly cultivated, and its resident birds are
hardly more than d oxen species but in
spring and autumn migrating birds make If 4
resting place, and these are watched for, and
shot or trapped. by almost the whole popula-
ton. and The results have been carefully chron-
icled for the last twenty-five years by Mr..
Gatke, an experienced resident ornithologist
The amazing result is, that as many species of
birds have been obtained in this minute islet
as many country In Europe; while the vast
number of tie migrating focks is shown by
the fact that IL. 600 larks have sometimes been
caught in one night.