Connecticut western news., 1884-09-24
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

IT is said that every member of the Illinois bar both drank and gambled when Judge David Davis first joined it; he having made up his mind to do neither, has outlived them all.
 MAUD s. was sold for enough money to buy over three miles of barreled flour, laid end to end, or enough to fill a space seven hundred feet square and ten feet high with loaves of bread.
 Ar CHARTER Oak Park, Hartford, Maud s. was driven around the track by Mir. Bair and made mile in 2.1S1. She was theR urged a little and made a second mile in 2.13t. She is a smart beast.
 AFTER careful inquiry, the Moravians of Bethlehem, Pa, have decided that the Esqmmaux of Alaska present greater obstacles to conversion than any other people on earth, and therefore have sent missionaries to them.
 WHEN farmer was swindled out of a thousand dollars by bunco gamblers out side circus at Springfield, Mass, it was the proprietor of the show who went bail for the scUndrels, and, under pressure, restored the money.
 WHEN Sitting Bull was asked what had most impressed him since reaching the white mans country, he replied that the whites went on the streets and made money when they were little children and ought to be at play.
 IT is no joke that the Mayor of Brain- erd, Minn., has issued an order prohibit ing Mother Hubbard costumes in the streets. The girls wore them scant and thin, he says, and, as guardian of public morals, he felt bound to interfere.
 VERY positive in her testimony was the Des Moines woman who accused a boy of stealing her watch in a street car; but after securing his committal for trial she found the timepiece safe at home, where she had inadvertently left it on going out.
 THE fact of having pewned his watch when in need of funds, at the suggestion of Sophia Petrovska, hanged in 1881, caused Hartmann, the Nihilist, to make an error in the time of firing the match at the mine which was intended to kill the Osar, who owed his life to this acci. dent.
 IN subduing thousand women con- victs in Spanish prison, of which they had gained possession by open revolt, the troops were ordered to use none but blank cartridges, and while noise of musketry was being made at the main entrance, hole was battered in the wall at another point, thus sffording in- gress.
 A CORRESPONDENT of the London TeLe- oraph says: 'I had an interview with Lieutenant Ray, of Polar fame, who is @ thin, wiry man, full of energy, with pale face, and deep set eyes. He is inclined to look favorably on the Northern regions. On the northern shore of North America he says there is grand climate, which would prove perfect sanitarium against malaria.
 JOHN A. SUFFER is buried in corner of the old Moravian burial ground in Litiz, Pa. It was on his farm in Cali tornia while digging for mill race that gold was first discovered in 1849. He was born in Germany and went to Cali fornia from the Sandwich Islands. He died not long ago in Litiz, where his children were being educated.
 THE Chinese troops are uniformed in the hues of the rainbow, besides black and white. Imagine one hundred laun- drymen in scarlet blouses and royal pur- pie trousers drawn up in line, adjoining them company in pure white, then 8 company in bright green, then one in light blue, and you have Chinese regi. ment When they march they lift up their feet like cats in the snow.
 THE Christian world embraces three great divisions Greek, Roman and Protestant. As to numbers, the Roman Catholic Church is the largest (oveI POO, 900. .OO0, and nearly equals the two others combined; the Greek Church if the smallest Cbetween 80,000,000 and 90, 900, OO0); the Protestant Cover 100,. GOO, ,0OO) is the most progressive in all new countries, where the Teutonic race and the English language prevails.