Connecticut western news., 1883-11-07
NOTES AND COMMENTS.


 spondent of the St. Paul's Pioneer Press says, is the most wonderful whisp- ering gallery in the world. When every body i'll it is quiet the faintest whisper may be heard in the remotest part of the house. It will seat 10000 persons. There is no means of heating 1t, and in winter the services are held in an as- sembly room that will seat about 6, ,O0O persons. The other large edifce in Salt Lake City-the temple, which was begun say, $l0,000, ,00O, and they will require $5,000,0 900 to complete it; but Boston architect recently offered to. duplicate the structure and finish 1t within two years for $S0O,OO0. It's walls are of solid granite, 9 feet 9 inches in thick ness. They have reached height of about 100 feet, and the six towers will rise another 100 feet.
 IN ALL THE COLDER regions of Europe, says French writer, COWS and horses near the sea coast occasionally vary their diet by eating fish. Some horses which about century ago were taken from Iceland to Dunkerque were fed during the voyage, as we'll as during their stay at Dunkerque, on nothing but salt fish. At Saint aast-la-Hougue fish is given to domestic animals, which eat it with great relish. According to M. Valen- ciennes, certain kind of fish which is found in great abundance on some parts of the Indian coast serves both fresh and salted as food for tbe horses. Kant chatka dogs, of course, are notorious fish eaters, but not even the authority of Philotsrates can induce us to believe in his fsh-eating sheep, although Ellen backs him up in guaranteeing that their flesh acquires the fshy taste of marine birds. In Lydia and Macedonia sheep were said to be fattened with fish, greatly to the detriment of their mutton. but it must be admitted that the whole story has very ancient and fish like smell.
 IF A CERTAIN BROOKLYN suit goes for the plaintiff, 8 good many people will find that they laid the foundation for 8 prosecution for bigamy when they were babies. It has always been favorite pastime with the older folks to have toy marriages, so to speak, among the boys and girls. Usually the husbands and wives are far below the marriageable age, and are married for that occasion only. But hereafter boys and girls who are above the marriageable age will probably avoid such dangerous pranks. A boy of eighteen was united in this humorous way at an evening party to a I girl of seventeen, and the whole matter, according to his statement, was regarded as huge joke. He claims that ne has never in any way recognized her as his wife except by writing her jocular note in which he called her "My dear wife. !" To his astonishment, however, she has brought suit against him to compel re- cognition of her as his wife. If his statement is true, this is blackmai, and worse.
 RUSSIA APPEARS TO BE losing her pre- eminence as the granary of Europe in the face of such competing countries as America and India, but whether or not she can yet claim to be great manufac- | turing country may be seen from the fact that, according to statistics lately compiled in the Ministry of Finance, there are just IF, 176 large manufactures and works of all kinds in the 52 pro- vinces-an extent of land as big as the rest of Europe-with not more than 8OO,OOO work people employed. This total does not include 15, ,272 small estab- lishments of the peasants of not more than five workers to each, where chiefly articles of domestic use are wrought, and has been calculated for the purpose of regulating infant and female labor in works and factories.
 ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY Egyptians decoyed into 8 mountain defile and mas sacred to man by the hill tribes of Nubia, is certainly a frightful picture of savage ferocity, but in harmony with the character of barbarians, who know little | and care less for the civilized warfare of | Christian nations. But what can be said of Admiral Courbet, of the French forces in Annam, who ordered that no mercy be shown to the men, women and children of their opponents? Nearly five hundred of these, while compara- lively helpless, were ruthlessly shot down by his soldiers. There is apparently not much difference between the barbar- ous tactics of pagan warriors and the brutal cruelties of modern armies.
 A SOUTHERN MAN, writing from Boston to Georgia paper, says: ''The truth is, no Southern man can see Boston and it's people under favorable circumstances without feeling very much at home, and if he takes the trouble to give the mat ter any thought or investigation, he will wonder how it is possible that these peo. pie, reared and educated under such diff ferent conditions and in the midst ot such diverse surroundings, should pos. sess all the most striking characteristics of the people of Georgia.
 MARTIN LIEY SELLS RAILWAY tickets in the company's office at Koppang Sta tion, Tn Norway, and he is an honest