Connecticut western news., 1884-09-17
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

IN Baltimore, last week, some rowd, boys threw live cat through window into the kitchen of Mrs. John Norsk, young woman of nineteen, the anima striking her in the face. The cat hat been dipped in water and then covered with four. The woman was so fright ened that she went into convulsions anC died during the night.
 WILLIAM ZIMMERMAN, of San Francis co, has obtained from the Mexican Gov ernment a concession of 70, 900 acres O land within ten miles of railway for a1 ostrich farm, and will receive bonus o $200 apiece for the first two hundred os triches imported into the country. The concession has to be confirmed by Con gress, however, before possession can b, taken.
 THE soldiers in the province of Hun Nan, China, are armed in almost medi@ val style, their equipment consisting of { helmet, coat of mail, sword and battl, ax. The mail coat is so arranged tha in case of defeat the wearer can throw i instantly of and escape by flight. Sev eral Hun-Nan suits of armor are in pri vate collections in New York city.
 THE wealthiest man in the world ii the Chinese banker Han-Qua, of Gan ton. He pays taxes upon an estate o $450, 900, 900, and is estimated to bt worth billion taels, which, in oul money, would be about fourteen hun dred million dollars.
 ONE of the greatest curiosities ir Japan is the wonderful variety of coinI that are daily used. In some instances it takes 1000 pieces to make a dollar These are called "cssh, and are seldom received by foreigners.
 JEWS in Jerusalem were until lately few hundred families, who had gon, there to die in the land of their fathers Now there are at least 1000, or abou one-third of the population. They de vote themselves almost exclusively tc mercantile occupations. The new corners are mostly from Bulgaria, Rus sia and Hungary.
 HAN1AN was mourned as dead a Keighley, England, by relatives ant friends who thought that they found hi body in a pond. The widow got tn, money on his life insurance policy, ant soon took a second husband. But Han Ian has emerged from an hospital aliv, and well, but greatly displeased.
 ILLUSTRATING Chinese cheap labo and competition, the cigar manufactur CTS of San Francisco are useful exam ples. While there are about 800 whit, persons employed, there are about ', ,0Ot or 5000 Chinese, and the white men re ceive $11 to $22.50 a week and tn, Chinese $5.
 AN idea of the extent to which womel bet at horse races may be gained iron the fact that during the season at Sara toga the French pool boys collected 1000 from them; and their judgmen was generally bad, for they won bacl only $2, 900.
 LARGE numbers of dried and smoked lizards are imported by the Chimes physicians. They are used in cases o consumption and an@mia with consider able success. Their virtue seems to b in the large amount of nitrogenou compounds and phosphates they con tain.
 Or 270 illuminate factories started il Europe during the present century 26 have disappeared by explosion. Fulmi mates are now made in small quantity a & time in low sheds. These are st arranged that an explosion throws then over, and Ii tile damage is done.
 Loco, a Western weed, acts upol horses and cattle just as alcohol does or man. They lose all appetite for nor nal food, become apparently intoxics ted at times, and finally die from dis ease strangely like delirum tremens From the vice comes the California ex pression, "as bad as Ioooed horse"
 MRS. POLK, who is living in Tennes see; Mrs. Tyler, who is at Richmond Va, and Mrs. Garfield, who lives a Mentor, Ohio, three Presidents widows are among She United States pensioners Each receive $5, ,OO0 year, according t act of Congress. President Taylor daughter also gets pension of $50 month, given because of his services il the Mexican war.
 SUMMARIES of nearly 800 returns iron agriculturists in various parts of Eng land show that the wheat crop Of tn present year is considerably above tn average of late years, and is better thai the average of the last 20 years. Barley i just under the 20 years average. Tn yield of oats will be short one and thu | L L