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Connecticut western news., 1882-10-11
A Model Village.

Probably few Americans ever heard of the obscure German town of King enberg- on Main, not far from Aschaffen- burg but nevertheless it IS town we'll worth knowing and initiating. It seems that the town corporation has large interest in certain quarries which have recently become very valuable ; and the result is that not only are there no taxes levied in this little Utopia, but every burger is presented at Christmas with a sum of money equivalent to 1925. The Cologne Gasette says that at the cele- bration of the Sedan festival this year the corporation of the town ''gave gifts to it's householders and children of all ages actually attending school. Each head of family received two marks every schoolboy and girl twenty pfen- nings, or about twopence halfpenny. On the occasion, moreover, 8 few months ago, of opening 8 bridge across the Main, built by the municipality at a cost of e1O, ,OOO-not a farthing of which was contributed by the townsmen-a bonus of ten shillings per head was handed to each burger, and all the school children got sixpence apiece. " It is difficult for the ring ridden and tax ridden cities of the New World to con- ceive the possibility of such state of affairs as this.
Connecticut western news., 1882-10-11
HerOisn and Sugar.

On the late nasty homeward flight from Philadelphia of MT. Tug Wilson, famous as the man who declined to be knocked out by MT. Sullivan in four rounds, it was carefully explained that he would return in October to train for his projected fight with MT. James Elliott. He was to bring back his wife and children with him, so that domestic ties might not wholly be broken during attention to professional business. But on arriving in England, it seems, he found himself an international hero, like Sir G. Wolseley or Sir H. Halford, and the incense of admiration for his accom- plished exploits seemed pleasanter to enjoy than training for war and uncer- tain laurels. As Tug is reputed to have saved $5,000 for himself, besides what he earned for his employers during his brief transatlantic tour, he will probably reappear here after time, with an in- creased appetite not only for professional fame but for those pecuniary sweets which he was won't to call sugar. Mean while, says an exchange, he may be writing a volume of travels in America, with critical description of American institutions.
Connecticut western news., 1882-10-11
THE NEWER ARITHMETIC.

A HUMAN body weighing 160 pounds falls ifty-five feet per second. How long will it take a baby weighing thir- teen pounds to fall down. pair of stairs fourteen feet high?
 THERE are twenty-four newspaper re- porters in Louisville, and each one kills an average of 15O cockroaches per day. How many victims would they number in 365 days?
 THE length of certain bean blower is one-third the length of boy who is four feet high when he stands on a block five inches thick. What is the length of the blower?
 IN particular field are ninety-seven water-melons, and itis softly approached by five colored men in search of wood- chuck. How many times does ninety seven go into five?
 JAMES and Henry go fishing and agree to divide. James has two nibbles and bite from a dog, and Henry gets two duckings and loses twelve shilling hat. What is the share of each?
 SIX MEN put in their capital to start cooperative store. What was left after the manager got into Canada was valued at $250, and this represented one-ffth of what each man put in. How much did the manager get away with?
 ONE person out of every five in the United States has one or more corns, and the cost of effecting cure is $1.30. What is the number of corn victims, and what would be the cost of placing every person on 8 sound footing?
 A YOUNG man about to be married figures that $8 per week will support l the family in luxury and erect i've story building out of his savings in three years. How many days after the mar riage before he will tumble to bean soup?
 THE average cost of curing a sore throat is thirty-seven cents, and the number of sore throats in this country averages 21, ,OOO,O00 per year. How much could America spend for going to the circus if our throats were brass- lined?
 IT costs 8 political candidate $25 pc head to retain thirty loafers to slug him through convention and $150 for in- cidental expenses. How much is he out altogether, and in case he is left how long will it take him to make himself good by hoeing corn at $1 per day9
 EVERY man who has arrived at the age of forty years has lost at least ten umbrellas worth $1 each. Estimating the number of losers at II, ,000, 900, and granting that one-third of them have stolen seven umbrellas worth ten shil- lings each, what do you make the total loss 2--D Detroit Free Press.
Connecticut western news., 1882-10-11
Love at Newport.

A Newport letter to the World says |: In the summer of 1879 there came to Newport 8 gentleman of distinguished mein and the owner also of dlstin- guished surname. He had not been here great while before he fell in love with young lady who was visiting one of our best known summer visitors. Fortunately, however, as the young man thought, he discovered that her friends were not wealthy, and his ardor cooled, and what was understood to be an engagement was at an end. In the year 1880 he came back again, and once more fell in love, this time with lady whose friends ''cut dash" The mar riage took place in New York that fall. and not long afterward the fortune-hunt- CT discovered that his bride and her friends were even worse off than he, fer he really had moderate income. The marriage has proved most unhappy one. A separation is talked of in fact it is stated that arrangements have been made looking to that end. The gentleman passed small portion of the season here, and it is no secret among his intimate friends that the financia condition of the wife's family is tht cause of all the trouble. Of course SO ciety laughs,
Connecticut western news., 1882-10-11
Virtues of Hard Work.

And take off your coat early in the fight, 1ny son. Don't be afraid of hard work. It can't hurt you. Ten o'clock isn't too late to knock of, and o'clock doesn't come so very early in the morn ing, to young man. It doesn't come so early as 3, by two hours, and yet how often do you go to bed at 3? No? I'm glad to hear you say it, because while 3 o'clock is very early hour at which to rise, it is paradoxically very late one at which to go to bed. In order to be up with the lark in the morning, Tele- machus, it isn't at all necessary to sit up with him all night. But if you are at work, the midnight oil won't hurt you. It will do you good, because the hard workers are long livers. You'll never work yourself to death, my boy. Now there's your sister; she is more liable to overwork herself than any man you ever knew. believe the ceaseless, monoto- nous sound of old Euryclea's household duties and domestic cares, or young Nausicar's worry over the family laun- day would kill the oldest man in Amer ica in a week. It is true that woman s work goes on forever, but then, bless your soul, fair Hermisne, don't let that worry you. You don't go on forever to do it all. And you don't have all of it to do, even where you live. Mans work goes on forever, too; and I'm glad of it. But I'm not going to stay here to do it all, and I shan't do any more of my own while I do stay, than am obliged to. Don't fret because woman's work goes on forever. You will have shirts to maB e and socks to darn for Neoptolemus not more than fifty or sixty years anyhow. And as for you Telemachus, it isn't hard work that destroys young men; it's the | intervals that kill. It's the relaxation that hurts. Some time you may wake ! h the morning with the worst head upon you that ever made you sigh for death. And you weren't sitting up to work until 2 a. m., either. You will know there isn't line of Virgil or a unit of mathematics, or one stroke ot honest hard work in that headache that Is going to throw one more wasted day into your bright young life. If you had l burned the midnight oil over the work bench, at the forge or at the desk or at the lathe, it would never have manufac- tured such a headache as that. It might, and it would send you to bed tired as a shadow of death, but you would open your eyes next morning on an honest world of hope and sunshine and manly ambition, without blush of shame in all it's radiance. You'll never work your. self to death, my boy. The harder you work, the less mischief and trouble you
 will get into.-BURDETTE.
Connecticut western news., 1882-10-11
Our Sanitary Condition.
WHY THERE IS so MUCH SICKNESS IN
 MANY COUNTRY TOWNS.

Dr. Peters's statements on influences detrimental to health at Newport should set many residents of old towns to thinking. There is no American town or city equal in area and population to Newport that contains so many costly residences, and where there are so many people who care nothing for the expense of maintaining proper sanitary condi- tions. Yet the facts that Dr. Peters states show that unhealthful surround ings have affected some people in city that should be one of the healthiest places in America. If the neglect and abuses complained of are common at Newport, what is probably the condi- tion of many another town that boasts of old associations, picturesque views and healthful location? On the way from New York to Boston every desira- ble position on the Sound and the sea has been marked by village for at least hundred years. In each of these towns the majority of the people should look stronger, ruddier and more spirited than an equal number of people in New York or Boston, but they do not. Their lack of superior vitality has been at- tributed to many causes, among which are small, damp, unventilated houses, lack of variety of food, ignorance on the subject of cooking, and general ab- sence of bathrooms. No resident of any of these old towns can deny, how ever, that whatever garbage, sewage or other filth has been disposed of by put ting it underground IS generally allowed to remain where it lies, no matter how much it may pollute the wells and foul the air. In such towns the death rate is but little if any less than that of large cities apothaceries abound and so do undertakers. To have sewer gas force it's way through drain-pipes into city house is certainly very bad, but 1t ls not as bad as to have the noxious effluvia of cesspool or prlvy vault blown into open windows all day and all night, or to drink water from wells into which vile drainage finds its way by percola- tion. One resident of beautiful old town not far from New York recently discovered five old vaults ln his garden, all of them being within one hundred feet of the we'll he promptly ceased using well water, and also ceased to wonder why all previous occupants of the house had been sick. Such cases are frequent, and yet there is nothing to which the residents of an old town will object 50 earnestly as to Board of Health, although new villagers start in rivalry to the old, and secure the greater portion of the city's overflow of population by reason of their superior healthfulness.
 As number of old towns within fifty miles of New York will soon begin again to bid for city tenants, may it not be profitable for them to pay some at tention to their sanitary condition ?- NeaO York Herald.
Connecticut western news., 1882-10-11
He Sat Down.

We were running through South Car solina when big giant of fellow with "a terrible eye and voice like 8 fog-horn boarded the train at small station. I think most of the passengers sized him up as chap whom it would be danger ous to argue with, but the giant wasn't satisfied with that. He clustered at the conductor, growled at the brakeman and looked around as if. seeking some one to pick fuss with. Everybody answered him civilIy, and he had two or three seats to himself, but the man who wants a row can generally find some pretext. About the centre of the car pale-look- ing chap about twenty years old oc> cupied seat and was reading 8 news paper. After time the giant rubbed along to where the young man sat and growled out:
 "Stranger, what may be the first cost of such hat as yours?'
 The young man looked up with flash in his big blue eyes, and then returned to his paper without replying.
 "Hey Did you hear me ?' roared the other as he leaned over the seat and lifted the hat off the young mans head.
 Quicker than one could count six 8 shining revolver came from you couldn't tell where, lifted itself on level with the big mans eye, and the white fingers clutching the butt never trembled hairs breadth as quiet voice uttered the words:
 "Drop that hat !"
 The hat fell from the giants grasp, and the quiet voice continued:
 "Now you sit down or I'll kill you r"
 The muzzle of the weapon was not six inches from the mans eye, and I saw him turn from red to white in ten seconds. He backed away at the com mand, sat down in seat opposite, and never stood up or spoke another word during his ride of twenty miles. He had snavy" under his coat, but some thing in that quiet voice and blue eye warned him that to move 8 finger on his part would crash bullet into his head. M. QUAD.
Connecticut western news., 1882-10-11
Diplomatic.

While Gen. Arthur was at Newport a Boston belle set her cap to catch him. After several unsuccessful maneuvres to detach him from the crowd, she at length accomplished her purpose, but, not knowing exactly how to introduce the conversation, tentatively observed 'I have cousin in the Post Office De- partment at Washington, General. ' ''Indeed," said the President, nervously edging away. elf you have anything tc say please put it in writing and send it to the Postmaster General. I never in terfere with his appointments" Later on somebody asked the fair Bostonian "What do you think of the President? ? "I understand he is pretty good fish erman," she answered coolly. .-Brook Iyn Eagle.
Connecticut western news., 1882-10-11
DRINKING BETWEEN MEALS.
Men who Insist on Keeping It Up
 Until They Get Hit.

The London Lancet thinks the young man about town in that city takes too many "nips and stims before and after luncheon for his own good, and is under drafts upon the vitality of his stomach at all hours of the day. It holds that the use of these stimulants, apart from wholesome lunch, is fatal to health and longevity, and is on every account to be discouraged. It even goes so far as to suggest the need of a society, the members of which will pledge themselves to drink no alcohol but at meals. The L0ncet would doubt less prescribe the use of alcohol at meals also, if it supposed such sug- gestion would have any weight with the heavy eaters and drinkers among the middle and upper classes of English society.
 The genteel and fashionable, but painful disease called gout is prevalent there chiefly because of the generous port and other heavy drinks composing their dinner table lbations; and their excesses in this respect are probably quite ss general now as when Dickens and Thackeray depicted the social habits of London third of a century ago. But although the suggestion falls very far short of the radical remedies of modern prohibitionists, it is an effort in the right direction. And it certainly ought to bave some effect in restraining spractitioners at the bar" and visitors at the sideboard, between meals, to be told by such an eminent authority as the Lancet that the practice inevitably invites disease and shortens life.
 Labouchere, another writer, relates his experience in testing the capacity of his stomach, with much humor and pith: "I know men will never un- derstand that two glasses of wine help their digestion, while six disturb 1t; that heavy lunch destroys afternoon brainwork, or heavy dinner sleep; that coffee is better to sit up with than brandy; that milk and tea are better to walk and play cricket on than beer or than the various and elegant pranks of five-and-twenty simply mean ex- haustion, disease and death at five-and- fifty or sixty. In word, believe the question of health generally is not What can safely be done? but who can safely do it P remember, in years gone by, trying again and again to go through my supper parties in decent form; it always ended the same way.
 "After the first glass or two I got nc real pleasure, and always had head ache next morning and there was MacGorman, who would go off at twelve o'clock, after drinking hard all the evening, tie 8 wet towel around his head, work till two o'clock, and turn uI smiling at eight o'clock next morning, Of course he was Scotchman; they are like that. But you are different, and yet you are always trying those little experiments. Others are smoking, sc you smoke, and become unfit for con. versation. Others sit up at night, ol bathe in all weathers with impunity. It does not much matter what it is, your constitu tion rebels, and you will go on. for years, perhaps, tempting head, stomach and Providence-until, ol course, at last you get hit.
Connecticut western news., 1882-10-11
Under the SOund-

French enterprise is steadily persever- ing in the work of redeeming the desert of Sahara by means of artesisn wells. A large number of wells have been sunk along the northern border, more than l5O in the Province of Constantine alone, and the work is advancing into the in- terior. One of the curious phenomena which the digging of these wells has brought to notice is the existence oi fish and crabs at great depths. The learned engineer M. Jus, who for twenty years has directed the work, ayers that he once boiled and ate crab which had been drawn up from the depth of 25O feet, and that, moreover, it was of an excellent flavor.
Connecticut western news., 1882-10-11
WIT AND WISDOM.

OTHER mems sins are before our eyes, our own behind our back.
 ALWAYS taking out and never putting in soon reaches the bottom.
 THERE is no sweeter repose than that which is purchased by labor. WHILE learning adorns man, let us remember that truth ennobles him.
 THE art of life is to know how to enjoy . little, and to endure much. THE wise man looks for happiness beyond the narrow ken of personal in- terest.
 THE head, however strong it may be, can accomplish nothing against the heart. .v
 MEN often judge the person, but not the cause, which is not justice, but malice.
 HYPOCRISY is hard game to play at, for it is one deceiver against many ob- servers.
 A WISE man reflects before he speaks; a fool speaks, and reflects on what he has uttered. .
 By TAKING revenge man is but even with his enemy; but in passing 1t over he is superior.
 THERE is no moment of life in which we cannot find comfort in the thought that God loves us. A GREEN BAY, Wisconsin, mother writes: "Are the children of Arabi Bey called Arabi Beybies? ?"
 IF YOU begin by laying the founda- tions of your houses in lies, you will have to end by matching it with them.
 IN THE treatment of nervous cases, he is the best physician who IS the most ingenious inspirer of hope.-Coleridge. | MY SOLE be on thy guard, Banana peels abound; l The sidewalks very hard, And very hard the ground. l IT TOOK western compositor to make Mississippi River Commission read Miss Essie Spiriver Commission. n.-Boston Globe.
 "WHAr is home without sister ?" A Springfield girl works out and SUD- ports three older brothers who are always out of work.
 SEVENTY million gallons of whisky are annually consumed in the United States, which accounts for the high cost of cloves and burnt coffee. ......
 AN Iowa man was fined $10 for squeez- ing a woman's thumb. "At that rate" observes the WSlneSngton Neaos, "no- body but millionaire could affort to put an arm around her waist"
 MEN and statues that are admired in an elevated situation have very differ ent effect upon us when we approach them; the first appears less than we imagined them, the last bigger Greville. .t.
 A NEW YORK manager has secured novelty in the way of 8 play. The hero goes to Congress and tries to be honest. The critics, however, will probably con- demn the play on the ground of its ex- treme improbability. ty.-Bostoa Post.
 "IF YOU don't like my sermons, pray what kind do you like ?" said minister to an over-candid parishioner. "Well," was the reply, "I like the kind tbat drives man into the corner of his pew and makes him think that Satan is after | him."
Connecticut western news., 1882-10-11

OA"AA3 OhO ONOAAASS SPOahiAS5 OO AOA, 0Ac gave no answer, and, bending over her, he discovered she had swooned in her chair. When she recovered conscious ness, she smiled.
 "It is nothing," she said. "I have grown used to it. Only when it all is over, John, you will tell Alex, if you see him, that my love was stronger than my life."
 "You mean" he gasped, hoarsely.
 "I mean that I am dying, John. An, you will forgive me now the wrong never meant to do you p
 But like one gone mad, John Har- wood rushed from the room and house.
 The next day, Marjorie looked for him in vain, and the next, and next, first with dull pain that he, too, had forsaken her, and then in quiet apathy as her own weakness grew upon her, and she felt the end was drawing near. Every day it was more and more effort to rise, and at last she ceased to make it, and lay white and still upon her pill lows.
 So she was lying one evening in the twilight, when she heard the front door softly open, and mans step cross the outer room. At her door he paused. The twilight gray wrapped his figure in it's indistinct gloom, but she saw and recognized it. It was Alex who stood before her. Not fesh-andb blood Aex-that, of course, was impossible but spirit born of her great longing.
 "My love p she called. "Ah, God has sent me an angel wearing his shape P
 But, To! as she spoke the figure moved forward, and fell with groan on it's knees beside her.
 Marjorie Forgive me!' he mur- mured and then he told her all.
 Flushed with wine, and exultant with happiness, he had gone out that night, from the place where he and his com panions had gathered, to find man waiting for him outside-waiting to pour into his ear cruel, black and bit ter lie concerning the honor of tue girl he was about to wed.
 'sIhat any man could be so base, l never dreamed of. He maddened me !; he even promised to confront me with you. I listened, and fancied I believed him. In my despair, I sent my ship out that night to sea, praying the first storm might engulf both it and me. But, darling, repented later on, and wrote you. I know now my letters never reached you, in which prayed you to tell me all the truth. He inter- cepted and destroyed them, yet have forgiven him, dear. His love made him mad. He thought thus should he win you; but he discovered too late he had but snatched you from me to give you to death. Then he sought and found me to tell me all. Marjorie, my darling, I am here Oh, my love, will you not live for me?"
 ssYes," she murmured, faintly, while her arms stole about his neck and clung there and faint as was the whisper it was prophetic.
 Slowly, very slowly. health and strength came back. While yet the end was uncertain, the solemn words were spoken which made her Alex's wife, and from that moment the tide turned. But he who had wrought both wrong and reparation was henceforth a wanderer. He had won their forgive ness, but his own he might never win. -S0tabrd0y NiQht.
Connecticut western news., 1882-10-11

1T IS very comforting to man who is just recovering from a lingering illness, and has managed to crawl out to the gate on warm, sunshiny day to gel air, to have nelghbor come along an6 shout cheerily: "Hullo Been away, haven't you? Had a good time2 You are looking well. ."-LosoeM Citizen.
Connecticut western news., 1882-10-11

A MYsTERY.-An envelope marked as containing $5,OOO was found to hold nothing but blank paper, on being de- lvered by an express messenger at 8 Fort Wayne bank. The puzzling ques- tion for jury to decide is whether the money was in the package when the company received it or fraud was per petrated by the bankers who sent it. Positive proof of either theory is not obtainab,e.