Connecticut western news., 1880-06-02
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

hlm, though ne aHoCGoQ to aGGaCn no importance to it, and he joined three life insurance societies, so as to leave his wife provided for in case of his death. On May l he was apparently in perfect health. A dinner was to have been given to him in the evening, to celebrate his escape from the fulfllment of the dream. The party had just gathered, when he fell from his chair, stricken by heart disease, and died in few minutes.
 A CONSIDERABLE steel-making industry exists in the present day in China, on the Upper Yangtz, whence the steel is sent to Tien-tsin for shipment and dis tribution. It fetches much higher prices than the Swedish steel imported into the country. The Chinese metallurgists recognize three kinds of steel, namely, that which is produced by adding un- wrought to wrought iron, while the mass is subject to the action of fire, pure iron many times subjected to fire, and native steel, which is produced in the south west. The different names for steel are twan kang, or ball steel, from it's round form; kwan kang, or sprinkled steel :; wei tee, or false steel. The Chinese, ap- parently, have known how to manufac- ture steel from the earliest ages.
 A GLASS manufacturer of Leeds, Eng land, a widower with five children, pro- posed to woman whom he understood to be 36 years of age. Finding, how ever, that she was younger, he wrote that he would prefer her elder sister. She replied that he was insulting, and she hoped the matter would end there meaning his reference to her sister; but he understood the reply to mean that he was released from his engagement, and subsequently, he married widow who had two children. He was sued for breach of promise, and jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, with farthing damages, but the judge would not allow her costs.
 LEM OFFUrr shot his father-in-law, Richard Evans, at Georgetown, Ky, two years ago. The bullet lodged in Evans's spine, paralyzing him, and thus making him an almost helpless cripple for life. He said nothing about vengeance, refused to appear in court as complainant, ano it was generally supposed that he for. gave his assailant. But Lem kept care fully away from him.. This spring, Evans was able to ride out in an easy wagon and it was observed that he always hac cooked pistol lying in his lap, ano closely scanned every man who came in sight. He was looking for Lem, and or finally meeting him in the road, he sent ball directly through his heart.
 i ARTHUR COLE HILL was in the Hudson Bay Company's employ, and held posi- tion of considerable responsibility in Manitoba. He was an Englishman ot education and intelligence, and 50 years old. He fell in love with an Indian girl, married her, abandoned the little civil ization to be found in that region, and lived in wigwan with his wife. During five years he was practically member of her tribe, leading their rude life, and hardly ever seeing white man. He died recently. To former white con- panion he said that his life had been exceedingly happy, and that he had roundings. ...
 THE Globe says that from April 23 to September 3 last year there were sent from the Moscow Central Prison to Siberia over 11,O00 prisoners. All of them went by the Nijny-Novgorod over- land route. Over 10000 were exiled for various terms, and 1O5 were condemned to hard labor in the Siberian mines These prisoners were transported from Moscow by rail, the prisoners train, car rying from 300 to 800 persons, leaving the city every Monday. - . THE SAN FRANCISCO Argoaa0ut regards geology as descriptive science-it can describe mine, or a Assure, or 8 rock, or 8 stream after the pick and shovel have turned it up or laid it open. What did geology ever discover? Not mines in the Ural; they were found by acci- dent. Not silver in the Andes; goat herd found the mines of South America. Not quicksilver at New Almaden; In- dians painted their faces with it's ores. Not gold in California; Marshall struck 1t in the tail-race of 8 sawmiQ. Not gold in Australia; a California miner hunted for it and was successful. Not diamonds in Brazil or the Cape of Good Hope. What geologist ever found coal, or iron, or quicksilver, or silver, or gold, or pre- cious stones? We have forgotten his name.
 A CHILD six years old was scalded to death in bath fortnight ago in the English town of Clifton. Little Herbert appeared to have cold, and his aunt, Miss Laudale, ordered hot bath to be prepared, and in the presence of the nurse, after testing the water with he1 hand, placed the child in the bath. He struggled and screamed, but, as she had | no idea that he meant the water was toe hot, she kept him in it six or seven min utes. He was of a highly sensitive tenn perament, and was accustomed to gel excited and cry out at anything strange so that his screaming and struggling when kept in the water did not excite any alarm till he had been in the batt some minutes, when the nurse, thinking his eyes looked strange, and that he was going to have a fit, drew Miss Laudale's attention to their appearance, and the
 boy was taken out and placed in bed
 and doctor was sent for. The lowe
 part of the body and the legs were very
 badly scalded. He died two days after
 ward. The doctor attributed death tt
 the shock to the nervous system caused