Connecticut western news., 1884-06-11
NOTES AND COMMENTS.


 chants have signed a pledge to wear high silk hats, instead of the wide -brimmed slouches that have been in fashion there.
 AN old Vermont man who died re- gently at Alburgh, Vt, wore 8 peculiar old vest through his final sickness, night and day. At his death it was found to contain $50, 1000 in Government bonds and other certificates.
 ACCORDING to the German monthly statistical statement, the total number of those who left the country for Ameri- ca in the first quarter of 1884 WAS 29, TSP; as compared with S,291 in the same period last year.
 CHURCHES that want to get rid of their pastor now say that they ''assist him to abdicate. This is somewhat sim liar to the phrase used by a colored deacon in O similar case. He said Eve sent him in his resignation"
 IDA LEWIS, who deserves the most that can be done for her, draws larger salary by two hundred dollars than any other shore Ight-keeper, and is exempt from wearing the uniform. She lives alone at Lime Rock with her mother.
 IN the East and West Ridings of Yorkshire over 4,500 females are en- ployed in colliery labor; and more than 8, 700 boys from 10 to 13 years of age work underground, while the boys whose ages are between 13 and Is number 37,353.
 IN certain part of the country, where women are permitted tovote, it has been statistically ascertained that the women and their husbands agree 39S times and disagree 36 times. Now the question arises, which agreed, the husband or the wife '?
 THE Scientific American maintains that the great manufacturing establish ments do not by any means monopolize the best workmen, many of whom pre- fer the comparative ascendency and in- dependence which they enjoy in ''the little shops"
 OS THE 1st of April there were in blast 269 iron furnaces, while 432 were out of blast. The weekly capacity of the furnaces in operation was 5,561 tons, and at the beginning of this year the 2SS furnaces in operation were of the weekly capacity of s5, ,225 tons.
 THREE Indiana highwaymen, fearing that the boy whom they had robbed might reach neighboring village to re- port the crime before they could get to a safe distance in the other direction, deliberately shot 8 bullet through each of his legs, in order to lame him. THE recent Papal encyclical against the Freemasons Is aimed at no less than 13S,0 ,065 lodges throughout the world, with 14, 160, 543 members, whose annual receipts are estimated to amount to about $500, ,0O0,0 of which sum fully two-thirds are expended in charities.
 FIVE children went home from circus in Dakota deeply impressed by the feaI of descending an incline on a globe Finding smooth log lying at the top oi a steep hill, they took their places on il in row, and set it rolling. They were all thrown of and run over, three being killed.
 A MORMON missionary, who was ar. rested at Vienna some time ago, wa sentenced to a months imprisonment He tried to propagate the Mormon faith and baptized a man and a woman in tht Danube Canal in such cold weather tha- the man took to flight and the woman tainted.
 THREE tramps commanded a woman at Crestline, Ohio, to cook breakfas for them. She said coolly tha she would do it; but she brought il a cooked pistol instead of food, and the. fled for their lives. She had nor, bravery than strength, however, anc has since been raving maniac.
 IN the revolution of 1880 law studen in Paris was kicked by one of the King officers for tearing down a copy of tn ordinances placarded on the wall. Tn officer was armed, the student was not so the latter ran away and lived to fgh another day. The officer was Patric de McMahon, and the law student Jule Grevy.
 THIS is what a man who pretends t know all about it says To tell whethe it is butter or oleomargarine, take common case-knife, place it flat upo the compound and draw it across tn surface. If it is butter, its color will b unchanged; if oleomargarine, the trac of the knife will be of whitish tint The hint is worth remembering. AN English doctor reports the case C lady who had a regularly recurrin series of abscesses upon the ankles. O. entering her sitting room one day h noticed pair of her shoes, and, on th impulse of the moment, he directed hi , patient to use large broad -heeled shoe She did so, and has had no trouble fo | two years. Her former shoes had ong, tapering heel, set nearly in th , middle of the shoe.
 IT Is asserted that the Maine Fin
 Heavy Artillery lost more in "killed an
 died of wounds" in the late war of tn rebellion than any other Union reg ment, the exact figures being 2,2O2 me
 enrolled, and 415 killed and died { . wounds, or 18.8 per cent. The Wiscor : sin Second Regiment came next, wit 175 per cent, and the Pennsylvani One Hundred and Fortieth Regimen next, with 164 per cent.
 PARIsIANs no longer acknowledge tt word lady. With them every membe of the gentle sex is woman, while il squires of the provinces are offended their wives are called women. It woul