Connecticut western news., 1880-02-04
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 NOTES AND COMMENTS.


 the lucrative business of taking board CTS. Not merely a "few friends for company" They have gone about in the most cold -blooded and business like way-advertising. It is all right, of course, and much more reputable than some of the ways Congressman have of killing time here, but it strikes Wash ington as trife odd.
 . The proper age to marry Is liberally discussed by 8 contemporary on the theory that early marriages are to be preferred, if the old idea prevails that it is the duty of the woman to adapt her. self to mans ways; but that if the woman is to take position of intellec- tual equality and equal rights she is too young at eighteen, and should not form lifelong alliance before she is at least thirty, or, if she is particularly anxious to maintain distinctive personality, she should be from thirty-five to forty on her wedding day. .s.r
 Some people have curious ways of doing things. Take, for instance, the following example When a man gets angry with newspaper and undertakes to "hurl back something that it has stated, he begins with the lofty remark: {" My attention has been called to an article in your paper," etc., etc. Having thus galled the editor by intimating that he does not condescend to notice the offending journal unless his eyes are directed to it as it were by violence (though in reality he reads every issue), he proceeds to vent his wrath, and the unfortunate editor is obliged to receive his castisstion weekly.
 |. Four months ago Herr Phillipp placed in the hands of the Chemical Agricultural Commission of Zurich bottle containing a sample of his pre- served milk. It had been eight days in an ordinary living room, often at 75 Q without perceptible effect on quality, taste or appearance it creamed like any other milk, and butter might have been made from it. The same results were obtained at various other times,
 
 dent and analyst of the Commission failed to detect in the milk any doubtful ingredient, such as some experimenters have used for milk preservation.
 At Niatka, Russia, an actress. by name Mme. Barbara Parmenovna Kos siakovskaja, owed butcher eighty-four | roubles for meat, which she was tenn porarily unable to pay. One evening the butcher went to the theatre where she was playing a leading role in the Russian drama, "The Actress of Venice." He was so overcome by her acting that, in the midst of cne of her impassioned speeches, he exclaimed in stentorian voice: ;"Barbara Parme- novna, consider myself paid for all the meat I have sold you ]" The audience burst into uproarious laughter. The actress sued her creditor for defamation of character.
 A new plan for relieving Ireland was developed in the United States House of Representatives. This is to be embodied in an organization known as the " Cosmo- American Colonization and General 9 Improvement Buresu, which numbers among it's thirty eight ] corporators Thurlow Weed and Cardinal cCloskey, and is to devote itself to the work of encouraging emigration from the other side of the Atlantlc to the vari- ous States and Territories of the United States which want inhabitants. Emi- 1 grafton from overcrowded cities and dis tricts of this country is also to be en- outraged. The stock of the corporation is placed at one million, with power to increase it. In recent divorce suit in Detroit the following passages from the hus- bands diary were read "23d March, 1S78-Belle drunk I had to go to Mrs. G.'s to take care of the children. 24th- Belle drunk. 26th-Belle drunk and asleep had to go in through the win. dow. 27th-Belle drunk and rowdy nc dinner, no supper; lay with her clothes on upon the bed. 25th-Belle drunk ai 1p. m. No dinner, and more drunk to that day. April 3-Belle drunk at HofE. mans grocery. 4sh-Belle out from 8 to ', and got home drunk. 7th-belle drunk; no dinner or supper" and so on up to May 22, when the entry occurs "A manin the house who left his satchel un the table, and ran out of the back door when he saw me fonnd the whisky bottle. May 24-Moved myself and children" It certainly SC emed about time.
 | The year 1880 will be memorable in naval and commercial annals for the ptomulgation of new code of sea sig nals and road rules. Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Austria, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Den mark, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Chili and our own country have agreed to these rules, which include, besides signaling with colored lights, a set ot blasts from the steam whistle or fcg horn, whose numbers and length oi duration talk plainly. For example, a steamer sighting any vessel gives one short blast to denote that she is keeping to starboard, two if she is keeping to port, and three if she is going astern. Other blasts have fixed meanings. The new rules should help to diminish the number of disastrous collisions which have been steadily increasing with the increase of shipping.
 | The following curious anecdote is related apropos of picture by the Rus sian painter, Vereschagin, recently ex