Connecticut western news., 1880-01-28
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

] resided in this country but has returned I to his own ceuntry, has recently sent & letter, to Boston friend, in, which he gives gloomy picture of the condition of the Christian subjects of the Sultan. Since many of the Christian subjects were set off as the result of the war with Russia, those who remain are treated worse than ever before, as revenge is taken on them for the disasters of the war. There are many homeless Christian 'fhgitives in the country who live by robbery and steal the stock of the farmers and waylay travellers. There are in the country 100, 900 men dismissed from the civil and military service of the Government, who have been driven out of Roumania, and many of them have turned beggrs or robbers. as ti4ey are unable to support themselves. The Government is bankrupt and many of the, persons in its employ have received no pay for many months. To crown all, the harvests have been bad three years and the cup of sorroW and misery of the people of the country is full to the brim. s-.r.. ,-, f. -.r. l A deserted wife recently filed bill for divorce in the Wayne Circuit Court in Indiana, alleging desertion and fraud on the ground that her husband represented himself to be reputable mechanic, whereas in fact he was 8 notorious gambler, blaokleg and thief" After commencing proceedings in court the wife noticed one day in the papers the names of two men who had been sent to the House of Correction, and recognized one of them as that of her husbands former !" pal" Hoping to get some evidence out of him she ! accordingly sent for the mans photo graph to make sure of his identity and discovered that his companion was her missing husband. .t.... ..-.
 We publish the following from an exchange for the benefit of some of our recalcitrating readers: "If your local paper happens to tread on your toes 8 little in performing it's mission, don't get your back up and abuse it's editor, but stop and take good breath and think for g season, and see if you can't remember some of the favors and kind nesses it has shown you in the past. Then remember that it may not be long before you may want favors again."
 Apparently the lactometer is of not much account. At Q meeting of the Farmers Physicians Club of the American Institute, New York, @ paper was read showing that an article esembling pure milk was manufactured of certain proportions of fresh milk, skim milk, and something else not mentioned, which passed all the tests of the lactometer. Dr. Lambert declared that all the COWS in the United States could not supply sufficient milk from i which to make the condensed milk now offered for sale. ...,.r i.
 Senator Sharon built magnificent residence in San Francisco i've years ago, but upon the death of his wife, shortly after he had established his family in 1t, he sold the building and all the furniture to w. s. O'Brien. Now the appraisers on the personal DOT tion of that millionaire's estate have been making estimates of the value of the furniture. Senator Sharon paid $125, 900 for the furniture and, though many of the rooms have not beer used 8 single day, the appraisers value the whole lot at $26, ,OOO. For instance, the furniture of the library, which cost $17, 1000, is valued at $2,700; that of the "pink room" cost $7,680 and is valued at $1,1s6; that of the "drab room," $5, ,0OO; value, $1, 169; and that of the "green room," $4.0OO; value, $500.
 l As $1O0, 0,OOO,O0O worth of foreign sugar is annurlly imported into this country, the sorghum movement is ol importance. In the cane growers con
 vention, recently held at St. Louis, Mr.
 Belcher, the official analyzer, reported
 that the tests of sorghum had been en-
 couraging and surprising. One asso
 citation in Peabody, Kansas, has invested
 $20, ,O00 in this industry another, al
 Crystal Lake, Ill.,, made At. .OOO pounds
 of excellent sugar, this season, out O.
 inferior juice from largely unripe canes
 Both Congress and the State Legisla
 lures will doubtless be asked to givt attention to this industry, which, how
 ever, is we'll able to take care of itself
 However mistaken an idea of per sonal comeliness the use of hair-dy, may imply, it is not supposed that an, . one would choose that method of com mitting suicide. Several physicians wh attended the late Cyrus Morrison, o |, Lancaster county, Pa., believe that tn
 dye which be applied to his hair, whisk CTS and mustache killed him by poison ing his system. Since Nature agrees t , furnish, gratis. every man, woman an child with more or less abundant hirsut adornments, it might be just as we'll t
 allow her 8 monopoly of the colorin material.
 The fabrication of the travele
 D'OreIlana in 1539, that he discovere ; armed women on the Amazon, who mad war and conquered adjoining nations , is recalled by the recent savage condut of Peruvian women in Lima Hearin t that Chilian soldiery had brutally mii l used Peruvian women, the women of Lim gathered to the number of a thousand i q 8 furious mob last month and charge B on the quarters where dwelt some wome I from Chili. These they dragged frol 8 their houses to the number one hundre t and beat with clubs and rocks. The