Connecticut western news., 1880-06-09
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

l A cubic foot of gold weighs 1, 200 pounds, and is worth nearly $3O0,Oo0. A cubic foot of silver weighs 600 pounds, and is worth about $1O,O00. The value of gold coin, bars and bullion in circulation in the world is estimated at $3, 300, GOO, 900.
 This would make in mass @ twenty-five foot cube.
 THE DEATH of the late H. s. Foote may serve as warning to careless per sons. The painful malady which put an end to his existence was caused by striking the top of his head, when sud- denly rising, against the sharp point at the bottom of chandelier under which he had been sitting. Such accidents
 are liable to occur every day, and almost every person can recall narrow escapes
 from injury in the same way they have experienced. i 6&E && S Sa l THE Bishop of Kamtcatka having vis- isted Saghalien, the. new Russian penal settlement, reports that there are many escapes in stolen boats to the mainland i; that the officials and oyerseers are not free from danger, a doctor, who pro nounced as well convict who pretended to be too ill to work, having been mur- dered. The chaplain has not for two years been to where the convicts are at work in the coal mines, but from fear remains at Korsakoff.
 I A TRUE tramp's offspring are as irre- l claimable as savage. Asyoung savage may be taken, educated and put into the way of doing we'll. Sooner or later, the chances are, he will desert town and take to the woods, just as.win the wild ducks matched under a barnyard fowl. The same, says the London Examiner, has been noticed about the children of old tramps. The vagabond is inherent in
 them, and if the history of half of those
 who begin as "street Arabs" and end as
 '..tramps" were traced out, it would be found that they belong to more or less
 unbroken line of ancestors like unto
 themselves. .s ....- 5, ,.,..-,...-. zs..s | A PRETTY story comes from Florida,
 thus: "A little child in Jacksonville
 was in the habit of playing upon the
 piazza of his fathers house. Near by a
 mocking-bird had it's nest in the orange
 trees, and the child would throw crumbs
 to the bird daily. After while the
 child was taken sick and died While
 the childs body was lying in the coffin
 the bird was seen to perch upon the slai
 of the window blind, pour forth one ot
 its most brilliant songs, and then fit
 away. Some hours after this the body
 of the little bird was found dead upon
 the floor of the piazza, and was placed
 upon the coffin of its little friend, anC
 was inferred with it in the same grave. ,
 IT IS A curious fact not generally
 known that at 8 certain point on the Up.
 per Columbia, close to the waters edge
 the fine sand is continually travelling ur
 stream in one eternal procession. Tall
 of the great army of Xerxes on the march :. what was that to the myriad bat
 talions that pace the marge of the mighty
 river? In comparison with these tiny
 travellers what are the "leaves of the
 forest when summer is green ?" This |, |
 and as the water falls away with the } dearth of the season it dries, is taken III
 by the winds, carried back up stream, i
 blown into the water and makes another Ivoyage; and so the work of transporta tion back and forth, by land and by sea , Egoes on forever and ever. a.,eAa ssa ess A DESPATCH from Consul General Far } man at Cairo announces the successful : shipment on board the Dessouk of tn < Alexandrian obelisk and pedestal. Thi notification has for some time past bee expected, but the story, says the World ! is still to be told of the patience and tn 7 perseverance displayed by Lieutenant 6 Commander Gorringe in overcoming tn n difficulties which have .been put in hi B way since it became clear to the mos - preiudiced observers at Alexandria ths 2 he would assuredly carry out the entel $ prise which he undertook so gallantly year ago. When in due course of tin o it becomes proper to tell this story i IS details will be found to. reflect the higl 'O est credit on the personal character, ta, 
 , and spirit as well as on the engineerin e skill of this distinguished young office g THE unexpected invariably happens ! Colorado court. During the calling of V new panel of the petit jury recently SC 70 eral men asked to be excused from SC l. vice. Among them was Newton Adam l. gambler. "Why?" asked the Judg e es "I am gambler" "You are COT ,r Oa mon gambler, are you?" added u 2 Judge. "Yes, sir, !" said Adams. eve Id you are excused" Then, turning to u Is Sheriff: "Take this man in custody 2, The look of blank astonishment whi, Al settled on the features of Adams's ia e te amused the court loungers. He we ld out with the court officers, and return, at with Alexander Lewis as his bondsma G. When the identity of the bondsman W le established, six writs for indictments rt re gambling found by the Grand Jury we ss immediately served upon him. Lew D. was surprised in his turn. eas .a z-. in ONE OF the results of the many ci,
 wars which have been waged in Spain a, list of officers out of all proportion ~ ~ the strength of the armed forces. Eat i'd party as it has succeeded to power h e. been obliged to reward its adherents ss the army by giving them promotio y and thus the lists of officers, of high o1 oi rank especially, have continually i r,- n- creased in length. At present there a e. no fewer than 589 generals on the acti
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