Connecticut western news., 1884-10-01
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

THE blind seldom smoke. Soldiers and sailors who lose their sight in action continue smoking for short time, but eventually give it up.
 FtFTY years ago black boy was sold on the Gold Coast as slave for hogs head of rum, and as he was boy of spirit he is now the Church of England's Bishop Crowther, of Africa
 IT came out in a Tennessee lawsuit that the ardent letters sent by a girl to her lover had been composed for another fellow, but that, on transferring her af- fections suddenly, she had erased the original name and inserted A new one.
 JUSTICE FIELD, of California, has ruled in a case before him that a Chinaman coming to this country cannot bring his wife on her husbands certificate. The Chinese have no great showing with the Courts on the Pacific Coast.
 IN Chicago they appear to have a plan that interferes seriously with clan destine marriages. The papers of the city make it a point to publish the licenses as they are issued, thus making public at once every case. It is said to be productive of much good.
 MR. LrvKsEY, the founder of teeto- talism in England, who died lately in the nineties, lost his father and mother from consumption when he was 2, and had a most discouraging experience of water in early life, as he had to work in a damp cellar, often inundated, for years.
 STEALING horses in Delaware is by no means an agreeable business for the thief if caught One was recently sen tenced to pay the cost of prosecution, s100 restitution money, S200 fine, to stand one hour in the pillory, receive twenty lashes, and then suffer eighteen months imprisonment.
 JERRY DUNN, the once prosperous Chicago gambler who killed Jimmy FL iott, the notorious thief and pugilist, has had bad luck ever since that tragedy. He formerly owned stock farm, was a power on the Western turf, and ran sey- eral faro banks; but he is now under ar- rest as petty swindler.
 TIE trick of backing a thin diamond with polished glass, is said by the Art dnaatetr to be common in American jewelry. When the underlaid gems are skillfully set it is difficult to detect them, but it may be done by holding them in strong light, when the surface where the stone and glass meets be- comes visible.
 A CURIOUS result of the flood in the Chippewa River, Wisconsin. is that many of the farmers, disgusted by the ruin of their crops, prefer to go further West, and break new ground, rathei than stay on the scene of their heavy losses. This is a matter of sentiment purely, and all the- business considera- tions are against 1t.
 THE Boston of Massachusetts was named after the Boston of Lincolnshire, England, and the mother city has always taken a great interest in the pro- gress and welfare of the city by the Charles River. This sentiment has been exemplified in many ways, and crops uI now in old Boston peoples invitation to the American mi mister to insugurate $ new dock.
 THERE is a stsgnant pool in Florids forest particularly lonesome and SC cluded. Thirty years ago a lover was shot and thrown into it by the father oi his sweetheart, who at once drowned herself in the same water, and the beliei is held among the people of that regior that no visitor to the spot can avoid ar intense depression of spirits, accustomed by the breeding ghosts of the pair.
 THE standing armies of Europe aggre, gate 3,20l, ,971 able-bodied men. The taxes for their support aggregate $495.. 6l5,603. The men organized would make about 5000 regiments of 700 mer each. In the United States each reg. iment costs S1, ,OOO, 900 per year for its maintenance. The same army in thif country would cost five thousand mil lions dollars a year to sustain. They do these army matters cheaper in Europe than we do.