Connecticut western news., 1880-04-21
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

old world, 5,857, ,O25 immigrants. Of them, 2, 195, 1898 came from Germany j; 2,O42, ,O46 from Ireland; 761, 751 from England, the balance being scattered among all the countries of the globe.
 MRS. AUGUSTA Srn1wE11, in com pany with colored woman, while driv- ing to her home in covered farm wagon from Red Bank, N. J., struck 8 match to light her pipe, when spark ignited the canvas cover. The colored woman jumped outtof the wagon, but Mrs. Still well renamed until the entire cover was burned, when the frightened horses broke away, overturning the vehicle and leaving the woman, who was enveloped in flames, lying on the road. Some farm hands, noticing her peril, tried to stamp out the flames, but without success, until, with their spades, they buried her in the sand. Her injuries are fatal.
 THE GREAT American inventions of worldwide adoption are: 1. The cotton gin. 2. The blaming machine. 3. The grass mower and reaper. 4. The rotary printing press. 5. Navigation by steam. 6. The hot air engine. 2. The sewing machine. 8. The India rubber industry 9. The machine manufacture of horse shoes. 10. The sand blast for carving. II. The gauge lathe. 12. The grain elevator. 13 Artificial ice making on 8 large scale. A. The electric magnet and it's practical application. 15. The composing machine for printers. 16. The telephone. THERE was 8 sudden blaze in the Mile End Road, London, fortnight ago. Owing to a collision between a van and truck, two barrels of paratine oil were thrown on the road, which is paved with wood at this part, and the contents up Set A street arab who was standing by selling matches immediately seized the opportunity, lighted fusee and threw it into the oil, which was of course in stantly in flames. Several persons mar rowly escaped being burnt, and by the time the fire engines could be brought to the place great portion of the wood pavement was completely burnt through The urchin who caused the mischief promptly disappeared.
 OF THE five daughters of Queen Victoria, the Princess Beatrice, the youngest, will soon have remained the longest unmarried. The Grown Princess of Germany married at eighteen; the late Princess Alice of Hesse was married when she was nineteen the Princess Helena married at twenty the Princess Louise, who had until that time re- mained longest single, when she married l the Marquis of Lorne was about the same age that her young sister is-that is, 23. It is natural enough that there should be gossip and rumors about the welded fate of the last of the quintet Romance has not been absent from the stories told about her, but the truth seems to be that the Princess has chosen, up to this time, to be the confdante and companion of her mother, the Queen, rather than to leave Windsor, Balmoral, and Osborne without any of the daughters of the widowed monarch.
 A STRANGE scene was witnessed not long ago in the village of Ballintafy, in County Mayo, Ireland. Two men who had to abandon their farms, through, as was stated, inability to comply with impossible conditions, gave up posses sion of their holdings to a Roman Cath ollie curate of the neighborhood-Father | Corbett- to their emigrat- ing to America The reverend gentle man and some members of the Land League assembled, and the priest put in possession of the farms two "deter1nined looking young men, whom he instructed to hold out at all hazards. A notice board was reared containing the words ''let no man take this land, and Father Corbett said they would see whether any man would take these holdings till full compensation had been made to the ten ants and~,Ake present rents reduced. "Let no man," he added, "take these holdings; let them grow there waste, and before long matters will come to 8 crisis. |"
 THEEBAw, the Burnah despot, for buried alive under the walls of Mandelay commenced his career in blood, He was advanced to the throne over the heads of his elder brothers, by a palace con- spiracy, and immediately set himself to work to make his seat secure by the simple plan of killing all his immediate family. As his father had fifty-three wives and no children, it will be seen that Theebaw must murder by whole sale. He exterminated nearly all those who had shadow of claim to the throne. The few who escaped were not able to cope with this absolute Arbiter of Life, and at last accounts @ correspond ent reported that Theebaw was "about to finish off the Queens Dowager." One of these unfortunate widows was mur- dered, with fourteen of her own children, by the young King, who made royal sport for himself and parasites by ingenious and savage methods of slaughter of his immediate family relatives.
 As PROOF of how the best judges of horse-fesh may sometimes be easily fooled in regard to 8 racer, gentle man of Lexington, Ky, relates the following: "In 1852, I think it was, Colonel Wingate, former Superintendent of the Association Course, near this | city, informed me that friend of his, Q well-known turfman of New Orleans, came to Kentucky for the purpose of buying colt. He visited 'The Mead o,rs then the home of Dr. Warfeld