Connecticut western news., 1884-05-14
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.
 THERE arc IF applications for divorce to come before the May term of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, which has opened in Boston, and all but 32 of them are uncontested.
 X STATUE is going to be erected at Antwerp to the old Flemish printer, Jordaens. perhaps the greatist oolorist of the seventeenth century.
 A SOUTH CAROLINA man discovered that a chalk mark around barrel of sugar is a sure cure for ants, and is now mad because the Patent Office refuses him patent for it.
 OF the 25, 2s4 students enrolled last year in the German University, 6,1T2 studied medicine, 9,l17 philosophy, B. 626 law, 8, ,54s evangelical theology, and S11 Catholic theology.
 ABOUT 1,S0O, ,00C trout fry will be dis tributed from the Wisconsin State Fish Hatchery at Madison during the present spring, together with about 200, 900 Me Cloud and mountain trout fry.
 DURING the first two months of this year 10, 504 persons emigrated from Ger many. In 1888, during the same time, 13, ,516 Germans left tho fatherland, while in 1882 the number was 14, 5S2.
 THERE seems to be room for few girls in Illinois. According to the report of the Superintendent of Schools there ap- pears to be a superhuity of about 19, 900 boys under twenty-one years of age.
 IT is thought, says the Cleveland Leader, that Dakota will receive 100, 900 immigrants this year, and that the total population of the territory will be about 5OO, GOO on the 1st of next January.
 AN old duck shooter calculates that broadbils fly at the rate of from thirty five to one hundred and sixteen miles an hour, and other varieties from forty-five to fifty, eighty or one hundred miles per hour.
 
 of which 8 are steam launches, 5 ships, II ironclads, and in construction, which are armed with S5 smooth-bore and 92 rifled cannon. The naval force is 5000 men.
 NEARLY 10, 900 heads of families, rep resenting n population of over loo, ,0O0 persons, have been aided to emigrate from Alsaco-L Lorraine to French territory since that district was turned over to Germany.
 TIE largest book ever made at the Government Printing office, in Washing. ton, has just been finished. It is bound in sheep-skin and Russia leather, is l foot inches in breadth, contains 10, 0,00O pages, and weighs 140 pounds.
 A CORRESPONDENT says that in Fisk dale, Mass, under one roof, are living five generations, namely, the great. great-graudmother, 95 years old; the great grandmother, 75 years; the grand mother, B years; the mother, 30 years, | ana the cnllu, o years.
 TIE effective strength of the British army on the list of January last amounted to l5s, ,O29 men, and the total establishment to 165, ,3S6. The number wanting to complete was 2, ,5SS. The in fantry numbered 100,Sls effective and an establishment of 106,6 wanting 5,s12 to complete.
 TIE London association which offer: prizes of e700 and G300 for the two besi non-alcoholic beverages is ready fol business. Competitors must submit E sample of not less than three gallons o their article, with a statement of its in gredients, and the cost must not exceed @ per 100 gallons of English measure
 THERE are 55, 5,57Sscholars in the public schools at Boston, this being slight in crease over the number last year. Btu there is a marked decrease in the number of young pupils, those of five years ant under having diminished twelve per cent those of six years three per cent ant those of seven years over two per cent
 TIE current production of gold for tn, worlds use has been gradually diminish ing for the last twenty y-six years. Thu in 1857 the worlds production of golt was estimated at little over S145, GOO From that time the supply has gradu ally and very uniformly diminished until last year the production was abou l S103, 100000.
 STORY telling is still remunerativ, calling in Japan. In Tokio alone si' hundred street improvisatores ply thei trade, provided with small table, a fan and paper-rapper to illustrate an, emphasize the points in their tales, an, are as ready to extemporize histories O modern events and celebrities as to re late ancient legends.
 TIE north of Scotland recently cam in for the tag end of shower fror Hecla or the other Icelandic crater Between the Orkneys and the Shetland ash has fallen SO thick that it has to b shoveled off the deck of passing vessels When Skapta broke out violently som , years since the fine dust fell in sue .. quantities over Caithness that it entirel , killed the crops.