Connecticut western news., 1883-10-24
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Oi Inllauelpnla Is tfaVollnS Ill IeOnSyl- vania with his family is described by an exchange: "The outside has seats for three i'll front and two back; two large lamps are on each side of the froat seat, and one large head light is on the dash board. Here also are clock, an ax, a knife, pistol, and other things. On the left side of the coach, near the box, is private locker containing viands. On top is large willow trunk, immediately back of which the tent, camp chairs, and blankets are stored. Under the back stops is place for another large willow trunk, hanging behind which is 8 stepladder to be used by ladies when taking seats on the outside of the coach. Inside the boot all kinds of cooking utensils are packed. On the sides of the coach are willow cases for canes, umbrellas, fishing rods, and guns. Inside are two roomy seats facing each other, accommodating six persons. In the cushions of the doors are map pock- cts, and on the cushioned walls hang Q thermometer, barometer, 8 compass, Q clock, night lamp, match box, and near the top are racks filled with note paper and envelopes. The vehicle weighs only 1870 pounds; and the reins are handled by the owner, who generally makes from twenty five to forty miles daily. The party go into camp at 12 o'clock. The horses are then picketed and the camp fire is kindled.
 IT BEGINS TO LOOK as though the bent arm of Massachusetts which stretches out into the atlantic would at last really be severed, on the surface, from the main body of the State. Dredges and pile drivers are already on the line of the canal, and it is promised that 800 laborers shall at once follow. It must be remembered, however, that this en- terprise, two or three years ago, had ad- vanced still further than now, and then failed. But the last Legislature granted a charter to company which is believed to have both the means and the energy for pushing through, at last, this famous project, for which plans were drawn more than a century ago, and which has been under consideration about two cen turies.
 A PHYSICIAN WHO WRITES for the Con- ti,ae,u about the curative powers of na- ture is positive in his conviction that Il is better for @ consumptive to stay at home. where he can be comfortable, than subject himself to the discomfort of hotel life, or to the greater inconven' fence of a camp. He says that the camp cure may be fairly tried by sleep ing on ones own housetop. Another medical man replies that the summer conditions of spruce forests are eml nently favorable, and consumptives have recovered in the most surprising wa. living under canvas ill them, where th' air is impregnated with the healing emanations peculiar to the nondecid
 uous tree growths. There are consump
 tives whose lungs crave the salt of tho
 ocean; others to whom the dry atmos
 phere of Colorado Is infinitely sooth
 ing; and others again who are benefited
 by the climate of Florida or southern
 California. ''To prescribe Florida fo
 one person might mean death, while i
 he went among the northern paradise o
 spruce recovery might follow"
 THE WEST HAS DRAWN the young bloo'
 out of the Green Mountain State. Tn
 Rutland Herald says: '"There are man
 deserted farms and decayed towns i
 southern Vermont; at least, that is tn
 testimony of an Intelligent farm-bre
 lawyer who recently personally visite
 the towns that touch both sides of tn
 Green Mountains from the Massachr
 setts line to Addison county. The woot
 land has SO encroached upon these d'
 serted farms that our friend is confideI that there is more woodland to-day
 the mountain towns of Vermont tha there has been at any previous time
 the past forty years. In the old coul ties of Bennington, Windham, Winds( and Rutland there are many deserte farms and decayed towns along bot sides of the mountain range, and the' deserted farms are not being reoccupit by any returning wanderer, althoue most of the towns are places of mut natural beauty and attractiveness.
 OPIUM IS ssURREPTITIoUsLY supplied !. San Francisco Chinamen to thair cou y trymen in the Sandwich Islands, whe t it is forbidden. The drug brings $SO $9O Q pound, and the smuggling of ft : hundred pounds makes d Gilman I rich In numberless ways they contri y to introduce it. A large safe was co signed to merchant. An officer ( manded that it be opened. The Chi1 man declared that he had forgotten h combination. That night the sa l. weighing four tons, was taken out of Ill bonded warehouse, carted away seve n miles. emptied, and left in a sugar ca IT field. where the officers found it the n y day. with evidence that it had bt a crammed with opium. A man had 8 c al tract for washing the linen of the Pac h. Mail steamers. Hundreds of bund ed each containing can of opium, W Ill pitched from the steamers deck to d, wharf, and carted to the laundry.
 happened to be sick on one occasi
 aud his assistant, who was ignorant
 the contraband trade, handled the lii
 in such a way that the opium can les out A great number of sewing res chimes were sent to Honolulu, and en accident it was discovered that the ,x- were hollow and packed with opi ". Opium has been delivered in the isla om in fruit cans, the can being divided ma thrne conn mnartments tha twn nnt