Connecticut western news., 1880-05-19
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

eighth egg is taken by the government; ; and, as all fruit trees are liable to be taxed, none are planted. The country might be purchased from the Sultan for about $25, 900, 900; and it has been sug- gested that Europe might declare it to be @ principality like Bulgaria, self governed, but still part of Turkish territory.
 THE FIRST telegraphic wire of any practical importance laid in England was that from Paddington to West Drayton in 1888. The first Scotch line was opened in 1841, and the first American, that between Washington and Baltimore, laid in 1844 Ireland received her first wire in 1854. The submarine telegraphs first used were those between Dover and Calais, November, 1851, between Port patrick and Drogheda, May, 1853, and between Howth and Holyhead, in June, 1954 It was not, however, till 1858 that anything like systematic telegraphy connected England with the Continent.
 JOSHUA HUTCHINSON whipped his wife habitually, and in many ways was the most inhuman of husbands; but when, after enduring his cruelties for years, she had him put into jail at Greensburg, Pa., he wrote to her as follows: "You have forsaken me forever, and l have nothing to live for any more. I loved you dearer than did my own life. I have made preparations to leave this world. want to be buried in the lot in the graveyard reserved for me, and at your death l want you to lay alongside of me-" She thought this was device to get released, but he was in earnest, and really committed suicide
 HITHERTO when professional diver went under water tube has supplied him with air. But Mr. Fleuss has patented process by which an expert enced diver can remain under water for hours, having within his helmet and dress supply of compressed oxygen gas, dilzted with nitrogen, which is naturally present in his lungs and in the diving dress when he assumes it. The exhaled carbonic acid being brought into contact with caustic soda, the deadly gas is transformed into simple carbonate of soda. It is asserted that numerous tests and experiments have conclusively proved that MT. Fleuss's system is at tended with no inconvenience, and the expense IS one-haf that of the old method. MT. Fleuss is only 28. His process has been brought out since the | Tav Rridpe disaster
 LIVERPOOL, England, has been created city and erected into a Bishopric. During the early part of the last cen tury Liverpool, which was a poor, de- cayed town, leaped suddenly into &C., tivity and .treblef her population, from 4,OOO to 12,OOO, and has since yearly grown in prosperity. It derives its name from bird, named liver, the only one of his species which dwelt in pool on the banks of the Mersey, and is repre- sented on the corporate seal after DOT trait taken 600 years ago, as having two | legs and only one wing. Whether he took flight over the ancient city, said to have stood in the days of the Ptolomies, where Liverpool now stands, is not cer- tain, but he must have existed at very remote date, as he could not have found | his way into the arms of the oldest fami- lies of Lancashire. Naturalists say that this liver is the blue duck, which is also found in the Ribble.
 Mss NoRwooD, lady in the Ameri- can mission at Swatow, has given some interesting particulars as to feet distor- tion in China. This abominable barbar- ism is determined by locality rather than | by the rank and wealth of those who practice it. It is vehemently opposed by the Hakkas," and where people of this province-who, happily for Chinese women, seem to have nomadic habits - settle, it begins to disappear. Of the women attending the missionary schools i in Swatow about sixty per cent. have their feet bound The binding does not take place until after child has learned to walk. The pain is intense when the process is performed in the case of an adult, and source of dreadful discom- fort in any case, yet the desire to have small feet is so intense that girls will slyly tighten their own bandages, in spite of the pain. This binding, the Chinese themselves admit, often pro- duces, among other evils, blindness.
 SINCE the passage of the anti-Socialis bill no one in Berlin has been allowed to carry arms without 8 direct permit | signed by the police authorities of his district. A few weeks ago a curiosity dealer, while looking over his own pri- vate collection of antiquated odds and ends, lighted upon quaint tinder-box dating from the earlier years of the last century, and shaped like pistol, the barrel being utilized as repository for finder, small portion of which, placed in the pan of the lock, could be ignited at will by the ordinary flint and steel process. A patriotic impulse stirred the proprietor of this venerable toy to pre- sent it to the Mark Brandenburg Pro- vincial Museum; so, tucking the tinder- box under his arm, he sallied forth con- placently, resolved to take it to the Museum in person. Hardly had he turned the corner of his street when a hand grasped his shoulder, and gruff voice bade him hie to the police station, there to answer to the serious charge of "carrying arms without permit.
 THE JUBILEE singers from Fisk Uni versity were excluded, on account of their color, from the frst-class hotels of Pittsburg. MT. Loudin, their leader, had been servant in one of the estab- ishments. In the midst of concert he