Connecticut western news., 1884-04-16
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Two-FIFTHs OF ALL THE newspapers and periodicals sent through the mails by publishers at pound rates are mailed at New York city.
 AFGHAN SOLDIERS IN THE British army have been known to ask for furloughs to go home and kill somebody who had slain relative, as a solemn family duty.
 THE VALUE OF THE neat cattle sub sisting on the natural grasses along the slope of the Rocky Mountains from the British possessions to Mexico is placed at $500, 100000.
 MIR. JAMES G. BLAINE RECEIVES EIGHTY cents a volume royalty for his book. It is said that about 100000 volumes have been ordered already, so that the writer is sure of $8O, ,0OO for his years work.
 THE INDIANS OF ALASKA are said to have used in making salmon nets the bulk of 900 miles of telegraph wire, which was laid by the Overland Telegraph Company many years ago at a cost of 8, ,000,00O.
 IN THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED June 30, the United States governments dis bursements for pensions reached sum which exceeds by six millions of dollars the disbursements for all purposes in the year 1860.
 A MAN IN PHILADELPHIA was paid by mistake at the Remington National Bank $1, 168 on check of $468 and kept the money. He was arrested and locked up over night, but returning the $700 overdrawn he was liberated.
 THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION WAS adopted by the miners of Alene, Dakota, and posted up all over the place:- ''Not Chinaman shall ever enter the diggings unless he climbs tree, with one end of lariat over limb."
 HERE IS THE WAY Philadelphia paper raps New York over the knuckles :- Vanderbilt is worth $200, 100000, Jay Gould $1OO, GOO, 900 and Cyrus W. Field is worth $50, 1000. The Bartholdi pedestal can be put up for $300,000.
 JAY GOULD IS SAID to be much hap pier man than MT. Vanderbilt. As the latter is worth $2OO, 100000 and the former only $1OO, O,0OO,0O0 it can be easily seen, says the EUeni'ag CaU, that wealth alone does not constitute happi- ness.
 A DITCH TO BE CUT in the Arkansas Valley in Colorado will take so much water out of the Arkansas River that the stream will not cause much trouble here after in the way of floods. It is to be sixty-fve feet wide at the bottom and 5ixty-fve miles long.
 THE DENVER Republican finds, on up the list, that over one hun- dred lives have been lost there this year by means of snowslides alone, without disasters of this nature that were either too slight or too remote to prompt and extensive notice.
 CHARLES l.. KUsG, EDITOR OF THE Gri1ego and Greaser, at Manzano, New Mexico, who was assassinated by unknown men who shot him through window, was 8 harum scarum sort of 8 fellow, always in trouble. While resident of of Leadville he made over $100, 900, which he soon lost.
 TWENTY YEARS AGO newspaper cor attended a country school in Wisconsin, where the teacher, a minister's wife, punished gum chewers by forcing them to spit out the gum and chew ashes, while whispering and other delinquencies entailed the swallowing of liberal doses of castor oil.
 DURING THE PAST TEN years Uncle Sam expended nearly $70,000,0 ,000 in caring for the Indians. The total num- Der of Indians attached to agencies is only 246. .000, and of these 60, GOO in Indian Territory, 7,7OO in Wisconsin, and 5000 in New York are supposed to be at least partially self-supporting.
 THE BLUE RIDGE OF West Virginia is believed by the State Geologist to con- tain a slumbering volcano. There is one place of about an acre in extent where the ground never freezes and the snow always melts. Vegetation is always a month in advance of the season. The volcano is believed to be below this spot.
 THE AgricuIturaI ReUiea0 ESTIMATES THE corn crop of the United States for 1883 at 1851, ,066, ,835 bushels-acres planted, 68, 3O1, ,889; wheat crop, 42O,- 154, 800 bushels-acres planted, 36, ,393,- 316; oat crop, 571, ,283, 400 bushels acres planted, 20,322, ,622; cotton crop, 6,014. 220 bales-acres planted, 16, TIT, 993.
 A LITTLE BOY WAS BURIED in Meridian, Miss, the other day, and behind the hearse in the funeral procession walked his pony with its saddle draped with crape. Strangers even looked with moistened eyes upon the little fellows pet, upon which he had been often seen to ride through the streets but little while ago.
 PETER DE CoRcEY, AGED 98, has been in the Otter Tail poorhouse in Minne- sota, his descendants having turned him out, except grandson, who became too poor to care for him. The old man was a soldier in 1872, and has now received land warrant for 160 acres of land and $9, 200 back pension. How the family throng about him But he puts them aside as they put him, except the grand son, to whom he has given the land war rant and half the money.
 AT LATE MEETING of the Lime-Kiln Club the President said: I has bin requested to state our posishun on de Mormon question. If slavery am g blotch on de character of a civilized kentry, Mormonism am curse dat ortel make freebo'n people bow dei'r heads in shame. If a man in Michipan an