Connecticut western news., 1883-05-09
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

| hS SeuG GLlo CApGSblu auU nAb0 QI Ill , yacht ashore and then ran the vessel o
 to the beach. He has more than ono
 done similar things, and not only whe
 he was alone with his crew, but whe
 he happened to have large parties (
 friends on board. He has often sprea
 every stitch of canvas in gale of win
 to the great terror and despair of hi
 companions. As soon as he sees tha
 every body has been duly scared, an,
 that the joke has become dangerous, h
 goes quietly to bed, we'll knowing tha
 the moment he is gone his sails will b.
 taken down and reefed.
 A YOUNG LADY FROM New Haven re
 gently applied in Boston for position
 as nursery governess. She was in
 formed that she must give her whol,
 time to the three darlings, sleeping ant
 eating with them, bathing them, clean
 ing their room, walking out of doors
 with them, teaching them all the En
 glish branches, Parisian French, core ct
 German, perfect technique on the
 piano, and elegant manners, and wher
 not sewing form them assisting with the
 family sewing, besides dressing herself
 we'll. She was to have no ''outs," and
 if upon trial she suited she might re-
 ceive as much as $16 month.
 INA NEW YORK CAR twenty-two males
 might be seated and twenty females hanging on to the straps It would be miracle If one of the males arose to give lady his seat. A city paper says that in a Third avenue elevated car, at 8 quarter to seven the other evening. fourty-four well-dressed men were seated and four ladies were standing. Of the men four were old and gray and eighteen were looking at the ladies over the tops of newspapers. The others looked at the ladies out of the corners of their eyes. Of the forty ''hogs," but three, it is fair to state, wore the "dude'' collar.
 OBJECTION IS MADE to naming one of the new steel cruisers the Chicago, D as proposed by Secretary Chandler, be- cause Chicago is said to be the Indian name for retromingent animal that fights with his tail. The President told young lady, the daughter of an East ern State Senator, that she might select the name for the dispatch boat. The young lady very promptly selected the name Pinafore, and the President just as promptly said: "Very appropriate, but 1t won't do.''
 IN MARCH, 1881, THE Quincy, H., Coal Company sent $9, 800 to Colchester to pay its miners. The money was stolen by Captain D. s. Howell, who fled, evading the shrewdest detectives. A short time ago the company received $3, 900 from Howell, who asked that it be applied in restitution. He has now appeared at Quincy with the balance. surrended it and himself. Howell states that sudden temptation induced the crime, but when he opened the package he tried unavailingly to replace the seal. Then he tried to shoot himself but had lost his revolver. In despair he fled to Mexico, where he was robbed of S3, 1000 and invested the balance in coffee plantation and trebled it. He lived under an assumed name in fear of de- tectives, and at last conscience impelled him to return and surrender. This was his first offense and he will not be prose- cuted.
 WASHINGTON correspondent notes the wonderful resemblance in appear ance between Congressman Phil Thompson, of Kentucky, and his brother John, saying: "So much are they alike that John always walks into the House past the Door-keepers when sver he comes here, not one of them that he is not Phil. When John goes into the House he usually 5akes his seat on some one of the sofas n the rear of the seats, and members passing almost invariably salute him in ] way that shows they suppose him to be the member from the Eighth District of Kentucky. So much are they alike n appearance, voice, and manners that John often attended court for Phil while that gentleman was Prosecuting Attorney at Harrodsburg, and, taking charge of his work, carried it on for hours and lays without suspicion by the jury or others that they were being addressed by Prosecutor Phil's brother and deputy instead of himself"
 To SHOW that country people may be too sharp for city folks, Richmond >Va.) Religious Herold tells the follow. ing: "The other day 8 Pastor and several of his head men went out to take ! collection at country church for the new church in the city. Pretty soon after the city clique reached the church some of the country sisters besieged them for contribution to buy new suit of clothes for their Pastor. The upshot of 1t was that the finely dressed city brethren had to borrow money to 90 back home"
 "HE THAT HAS PLENTY should have plenty more" Is an old English adage The King of Holland, who is one of the richest sovereigns in Europe, but who knows nothing about race-horses saw the race for the City and Suburban Stakes rom Lord Rosebery's private box at Epson, England. Lord Rosebery's horse Roysterer behaved so badly in the training that the bets of 50 to were laid against him before the start His majesty of Holland as matter of ooliteness insisted on laying e2O on the horse of his host, against Lord Rose oery's advice. The result was that Roys- terer won and the King of Holland pock-