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Connecticut western news., 1881-07-13
The Comet.

It is extraordinary news about the comet that comes from the Cincinnati Observatory. Prof. Stone reports that on Wednesday night he perceived evil dences of tremendous agitation in the nucleus, and separation into two parts. If the comet should split in two the astronomical world would have excite ment enough. Biela's comet in 1846 became divided, and the two parts were seen racing side by side on the comets return in 1852, and after that the comet was never seen again. But in Novem- Der, 1872, when it should have been visible, if it yet existed. there came suddenly out of that quarter of the heavens where the comet was looked for a driving shower of fire balls, and the astronomers said these meteurs were fragments of the lost comet.
 Prof. Pierce showed mathematically that the nuclei of some comets must be as dense and as tenacious as steel. If that-is true of the present comet, and if the estimates which give its nucleus diameter of 1000 miles or more are correct, who can conceive the terrific power of the force needed to rend it in two?
 The theories that the nuclei of comets are dense swarms of meteors, or clouds of liquid particles, or masses of gaseous matter, seem far more likely to be true in this case than that the nucleus is a metallic ball of planetary bulk.
Connecticut western news., 1881-07-13
BreYity in Woman.

We find, in a California diary, says an English paper, the following glorii- cation of quality we are not sure we should like. "A man of few words is very well, but a0onaa,s of few words is matter open to argument. I en- countered to-day, in 8 ravine, some three miles distant, among the gold washers, woman from San Jose. She was at work with large wooden bowl, by the side of a stream. asked her how long she had been there, and how much gold she averaged day. She replied:
 "Three weeks and an ounce."
 Her reply reminded me of an anec- dote of the late Judge B., who met girl returning from market, and asked her:
 "How deep did you find the stream |? What did you get for your butter?"
 up to the knee and ninepence, was the reply.
 "Ah ]" said the judge to himself, sshe is the girl for me no words lost there, |" turned back, proposed, was accepted, and married the next week, and more happy couple the conjugal bonds never united-the nuptial lamp never waned !; it's ray was steady and clear to the last. Ye who paddle off and on for seven years, and are, perhaps, capsized at last, take lesson of the judge. That Cup to the knee and ninepence" is worth all the rose letters and melancholy rhymes ever penned.
Connecticut western news., 1881-07-13
The Census of Ireland.

The census of Ireland shows a popu- ation of 5, 159, ,849, being decrease of 252, ,53S since 1871. The population is composed of 2, 522, ,8O4 males and 2, ,637,- C35 females. The decline of the last ten years was spread over all the coun- ties except three. The counties which did not decline were Antrim, Dublin and Kerry, one of the poorest and most remote localities. In all the others the decrease went on varying from 1O8, or in round numbers Il per cent, in Mon aghan, to 10 1 per cent. in Tipperary, 10 exactly in Carlow, 3.2 in Galway, 1. 7 in Cork and 0.7 in Mayo. It is remarkable that Carlow, the garden of Ireland, and all the other richest tracts of soil, should have suffered most from depopulation. The religious distribution of the popu- lation was 3,051, 1888 Roman Catholics, 635, ,67O connected with the Church of Ireland, 485, ,5O3 Presbyterians, AT, ,669 Methodists, and the balance was made up of other denominations. The de- crease of the Roman Catholics in the ten years was 198, 979, of the Protestants 1928, and of the Presbyterians 12, 145. During the last ten years dwelling houses have disappeared to the number of AS, ,619, while buildings used as acces- sories to farms and for business pur- suits in towcs have increased to the number of 15, ,228.
Connecticut western news., 1881-07-13
Stubborn Integrity.

A dispute from 8 singular cause took place at the office of banker in the Chauisee d'Antin. MT. Benjamin F--, the cashier who has filled that office for the last twenty-five years, was at his post, when collecting clerk, named Pierre Doulley, presented himself with 8 draft for 10, 1000 francs, drawn by 8 London banker. The notes were counted out, and the man left the place. In 8 few hours after Doulley returned, and addressing himself to the cashier, said:
 "There is little mistake between us; there is difference of 1000 francs in our account"
 '1 never make mistakes" replied the cashier, indignantly; s'for twenty-five years my balance has always been cor rect to sou."
 "But the error." said Doulley, ''is against yourself, as you have given me | 1000 francs too much: I am as honest 6 man as you are-I have been employed as collecting clerk for thirty five years l HI UAAO OoA44O AOuSOs 1ASI0 IS Oul AOg0 I will not take it.''
 ''Insolent felloww cried the cashier "do you dare to insult me? I will not take your note. I regard any man as an enemy who wishes to prove to my employer that am capable of making { mistake. Take the note, or will tur1 you out of the place"
 Pierre Doulley was not to be thu repelled, and from words the partie came to blows; but the clerks of tn house hastened to separate them. Tn cashier, not wishing to avow an error which he would have regarded as stai1 on his long-established reputation fo correctness, was fain to put up with tn loss of the note; and Pierre Doulley car ried the ,000 franc note to the Mayo of his arondissement, to be distribute among the poor.
Connecticut western news., 1881-07-13
It was Time for a Divorce.

"When I married dat woman ten y'ars ago." said Uncle Peter, "she believed in dreams. If she dreamed of seein' 8 white hoss I had to get my own meals nex' day or go hungry. If she dreamed of rats she would go an git drunk. If she dreamed of bein' on the water she would go ober to Jarsey an stay for hull week. I put up with all this, an' bimeby she got so dat she believed in in-tellin'. She had her fortin told wheneber she could get dollar, an if didn't han ober the money, she would pawn some of the furnichure. A few days ago fortin-teller told her dat she was bon fur great lady, an when l got home she had traded off my Sunday coat fur dollar set of jewelry, an had gone out to take her first pianer lesson. den made up my mind it was time to act, an left de house fur good. It's time fur me to have divorce"
Connecticut western news., 1881-07-13
Sixty Millions in Gold.

The sixty millions of gold in the Sub Treasury of New York weighs about ninety nine tons. A man who should own it would be able to wall himself up in it as in we'll, and the we'll would not be so wide or so high but that he could stand in the middle and touch every brick. The number of gentlemen in this country who could perform this interesting experiment. with their own gold is small. The bricks in the Assay Office average about $4,OOO apiece in value. The most of them are not made to look at. They are as black and dull in color as cheap quality of stovepipe. If you scratch one with knife you make bright yellow mark, and this mark will not get black again. These black bricks are composed of melted foreign coins, containing about the right amount of alloy for American coinage, and so the alloy is allowed to remain in them. When the melted gold is poured into the moulds the oxygen of the ail attacks the copper of the alloy, and turns 1t black. If it were worth while to protect the bricks from the air unti they got cold they would never get any darker in color than gold coin would Two thirds of all these bricks are made of French twenty franc pieces. Thos' bricks made of gold directly from thu mines are very nearly pure metal, ane are as bright as coins.
Connecticut western news., 1881-07-13
Air Your Houses.

The first number of Food and Health contains the following advice, which all housekeepers would do well to heed :: "We must have soon hot weather, and want ventilated houses. Too many houses are built up the back in America, there are no through draughts; front and back open and current of air set gong, that's fresh air. Air stagnates, and curtains drawn, blinds down, car pets on floors, doors closed, and one bit of window just opened; goodness, where's the life to come from to breathe in so many cubic inches even of oxygen Now, then, in the morning let your maids open the street door for an hour, and set something airing, some current into those stagnant air layers, that stuff each other up, and can neither move up nor down, nor in, nor out. Ladies are faint, children droop, babies die, men swear, and all for want of @ little current of fresh air just passing through the I house. Look to it, and open your 1 house door the first thing in the morn
 ing and if you can set current of ai1 going do it"
Connecticut western news., 1881-07-13
A WOmen'S Prison.

Representatives of the New England and National Suffrage expectations, re- gently in session in Boston, visited the Woman's Reformatory prison at, Sher- born and expressed much satisfaction at the workings of that unique institution. At present there are 250 women. They are kept employed at cooking, cleaning, laundering, sewing and knitting, both by hand and machine, or the manufacture of hammocks. In the industrial de- partments 27 dozen shirts per day are turned out 800 dozen pairs of stock ings month, and the revenue of the laundry is $13O per month. Much wash ing is received from the city, unsolicited family washing being done for 50 cents per dozen. The uneducated are taught reading, writing and the other rudiment- ary branches. The inmates are graded according to behavior and from the up per grade are bound out to service in families or at trades learned, to be re- turned if not faithful It is said but 8 small per cent. return to their evil habits. The institution is in charge o1 Dr. Eliza M. Mosheo, under the direc- ton of a board consisting of Mrs. Ellen 0. Johnson, Mrs. Mary G. Ware and Messrs. Thomas Parsons, William Rob- erts and c. c. Chapin.
Connecticut western news., 1881-07-13
Sold as Slaves.

A Swede who recently arrived in San Francisco from the Sandwich Islands tells 8 story which lacks confirmation, but ought to be investigated, of the barbarous treatment to which three or four hundred Scandinavian emigrants are subjected in the dominions of King Kalakaua. They left home under contract to work on the Hawaiian plan tations, influenced by the prospect of good wages and the glowing language in which the agent described heavenly climate, cottages embowered in roses and land flowing with every delicious viand. The person who tells the story escaped after the most fearful priva- tions. He says that he and his country men were practically sold into slavery and forced to undergo outrageous toll and suffering. Families were separated remorselessly, and men, women and chil- dren were forced to live in miserable novels and work beyond the limits of human endurance. This story has greatly excited the Scandinavian popu- lation of San Francisco, and steps have been taken to prove it true or false.
Connecticut western news., 1881-07-13
A Strict Law.

The vindictive spirit shown in some of the outrages in Ireland assumes 8 ludicrous form. The practice of obliging bailiffs to eat their processes has been exceeded in an instance which is re- ported from Moate, County Westmeath. A farmer residing near the town had the misfortune to find one of his cattle very ill. A village veterinary surgeon prescribed a copious dose of castor oil, |, but unfortunately the only vender of the drug in the neighborhood had been "Boycotted." The farmer had no al- formative but to lose his COW or enter the forbidden shop. He waited until nightfall, when he ventured into the shop and procured half a pint of the oil
 He was not unobserved, however, and had not proceeded far on his way home when he was met by some Land Leaguers, who asked him if he did not know that Reilly's shop had been 'Boy- cotted." He pleaded dire necessity, but in vain. The bottle was taken from him, his mouth held open, and the whole contents were drained slowly down his throat. He is not likely to incur again the penalties of the unwritten law.
Connecticut western news., 1881-07-13
The Texas GauchO.
A YELLOW WHO WOULD RATHER FIGHT 2 ia ..-ss s...E THAN EAT.

The Texas gaucho appears to have de- veloped already, although he is as yet hardly out of his first generation, all the worst characteristics of his South American brother. His animal courage is high. He would rather fight than eat. He rides miles to some little railroad town for the sole purpose of fighting, 1 drinking, killing, and smashing things generally. If he can do no better he fights and kills his companion. Mexi- cans, Indians, Chinese and well-dressed strangers are particular aversions. In his favorite haunts, as at Deming, El Paso and Albuquerque, he is the boss law giver, and woe unto the justice of the peace or the sheriff or constable that attempts to curb him. He herds for another only until he can steal a herd of his own. When on Ca spree " and runs short of change, whether in town or country, he puts pistol to some citizens head and demands cash. The demand is nearly always honored.
 In exceptional cases the pistol goes off and the citizen dies in his boots He goes by the name of Cowboy" in Texas, but his real name is Gaucho, and his numbers have so rapidly increased of late that he is about as much above the law in the places of his usual ren- dezvous as his brother of the Argen- tines. Quite recently he has been heard from as far West as Arizona and as far South as Sonora, where the climate has been unhealthy for him. More active railway intercourse will probably inter- fere with his health in Texas and New Mexico. He will then emigrate into Chihuahua, Durango and other States of Old Mexico, where the cattle range is good and refuge from justice easy. He is sure, in the end, to become a rev. olutionist, and we shall by and by hear of him as 8 far more dangerous pest to the authorities of that Republic than he can long continue to be on this side of the line, though where he now is he is the cause of more murders and fla grant outrages than all the surrounding tribes of wild Indians.-iSan Francisco Chronicle.
Connecticut western news., 1881-07-13
FASHION NOTES.

Stove-pipe hats are going out of fash ion in London.
 Shaded grays, browns, and garnets are the colors worn by older women this season.
 The fashionable dust cloak takes the form of the ulster or the Mother Hub bard cloak.
 A comfortable fitting boot or shoe is the prime necessity of the woman who travels.
 Pretty breakfast caps are composed of small squares of null, edged with lace rufdes.
 Beige, kersey, cheviot, f1annels, and lady cloths are all used for travelling costumes.
 A novelty for bonnet strings is tubu- lar ribbon, woven ouble without an- visible seam.
 The wardrobe of woman who adopts the asthetic style is more valuable the older it grows.
 Shoulder capes and large mantles of net chenille are the wraps of high cere- mony for summer wear.
 The most fashionable low coiffure is broad, describing figure 8 horizontally in the nape of the neck.
 Fans of bronze and maroon velvet paper, covered with gilded and lowered designs, are pretty novelties.
 The advantages of the artistic aesthetic costume is it's comparative cheapness, and it's not going out of fashion. When summer dress does not fit we'll, it is best to cover the corsage with 8 pretty fichu, crossed on the bosom. Parasols this season are as varied in form, material and decorations as any other part of woman's wardrobe effects.
 Dotted and sprigged white and cream colored muslins trimmed with Italian lace make beautiful, inexpensive sum- mer dresses. |,
 The favorite dress of the msthetes is of null, cream white, pale rose, blue, or mauve, with fichus and sashes tied high up under the arms.
 Gay, stripped awning cottonades are used for the skirts of country dresses, to be worn under plain flannel polonaises, or jackets and overskirts.
 Immense bows of wide satin ribbon frequently take the place of corsage bouquets, being placed on the left side, over the supposed region of the heart.
 The favorite wrap for cool mornings in the country is the light chudds shawl, pale blue, light cream or white, dark red, and shades of gray and drat being the range of colors.
Connecticut western news., 1881-07-13
Two.and.a.Half. Dollar Christians.

There are great many people in their religion that remind me of 'Uncle Phil," pious old darkey of the old times in Texas. We'll, Phil was fer vent Christian, with great gift of prayer. He attended all the Saturday night prayer meetings on the neighbor- ing plantations, and could pray louder and longer than any of the brethren. But Phil had one weakness-he dearly loved money, and different from the negro generally he loved to hoard it. Near by us lived man who, not troubled about any scruples, would pay Phil a dollar to work on his field on Sundays. One Sunday night as Phil came home after dark accosted him with:
 "Where have you been, Phil ?"
 "Oh, just knocking about, massa."
 "You have been working for Miller. :"
 "Well, you see, massa, the old fellow in needs, and he jest showed me a silver dollar, and jest couldn't stand it."
 Ain't you afraid the devil will get you for breaking the Sabbath ?"
 Phil scratched his head minute and said:
 "Iguess the Lord Il 'scuse me, massa. !"
 "No. He says, Remember the Sab bath day and keep it holy"
 Phil went or 1ooKruB Pr7v-J---A and ;t ---..s not long before heard his voice in fervent pra CT back of the barn, and so thought would slip down near enough to hear.
 "Oh, Lord P I heard him say, "I have this day ripped and teared, cussed and swea1e ed at them confounded oxen of Miller's, and jest broke the Sabbath day. Oh, Lord, please forgive me ; please forgive me, for you knows Is nothing but miserable heathen any how. If you'll jest forgive me this time I'll never do it again as long as live, 'cepting he give me two dollars and a half a day"
 At this point was obliged to beat a hasty retreat, but I am thinking that poor Uncle Phil isn't the only two-and- half dollar Christian in the world,- Ctristian O6server.
Connecticut western news., 1881-07-13
THE USES OF TOBACCO,
A Medical Opinion.


 The medical officers. of the United States Navy who have been stationed at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, have been greatly impressed with the necessity of such regulations as will interdict the use of tobacco at that school. The future health and use- fitness of the lads educated there im- peratively demand it. They claim that in this view they are sustained by their brother medical officers and by sanitar- ians generally in military and civil life. Dr. Albert l.. Gihon, Medical Director United States Navy, and his successor, Dr. A. 0. Gorgas, Medical Inspector. hold the same views as to the expedi- ency of prevention of this pernicious, indefensibie and wholly unnecessary habit. They point particularly to the long series of evil it's use entails on the minute vessels, on the digestive func- tions, on the heart, on the eye, produc- ing amurosis, defective vision, etc. Re- jection for those applying for admission as cadets suffering from irritable hearts (" tobacco hearts" ") is of no rare occur renee. That smoking leads to drinking is true of cadets as well as of older per sons, and this accompanying vice is an other argument which these gentlemen employ to substantiate their fulmina- tions against tobacco. Equally potent is the claim that inveterate tobacco smokers or chewers are incapable of concentrated mental effort. .E .7E'E
 Dr. Gihon deserves particular credit for his persistent war upon this harmful agent during his whole term of service at the academy, and although, as in the case of all other good regulations, in- furious and dishonorable means will be resorted to in order to evade it's restric- tions the interdiction of the use of to- bacco by these young aspirants for fu- ture glory and fame will be one of the wisest acts that the Government can in- terpose to promote the health and pre- serve the vigor of its young wards at the Naval Academy. Certainly, as Dr. Gi- hon justly remarks, an agent that has misehievously been represented to be be inocuous only because of the remark able tolerance exhibited by few indi- viduals and is actually capable of such potent evil; which through it's sedative effect upon the circulation, creates a thirst for alcoholic stimulation, which determines functional disease of the heart; which impairs vision, blunts the memory, and interferes with mental eff fort and application, ought, at whatever cost of vigilance, to be thoroughly in terdlcted. We do not discuss or con- slider here the effects of the use of to- bacco by the adult, but simply as it af- fects the young and their present and future health by it's indiscriminate and premature use.-COllege and Clinical Record.