Connecticut western news., 1884-11-05
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

AT hlddermlnster, England, the sew craze outlet was made within five feet of the town we'll, and yet after 500 cases oftyphoid fever they had to get doctor down from London to tell 'em what the trouble was.
 IT IS said that the Astors, of New York city, alone own 3,600 houses, all of stone and iron. The lowest rental they get is s1, 800 per annum and the highest $50, 900, which some of their enormous down town houses bring.
 AMERICAN canned fruits once had a ready sale over all Europe. Some manu- lecturers began to play snide with their goods and now some countries won't buy the goods at all. How much better it would have been to be satisfied with good thing.
 Ar the session of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Ohio resolution was adopted declaring it to be the opinion of the body that the selling of intoxicating drinks is a Masonic offence, and should dislualify any one from initiation into or affiliation with any Masonic lodge.
 AN Italian Admiral has invented a shrapnel shell for the 100-ton guns; at thirty yards from the cannon's mouth it bursts, throwing forward seventy-fve smaller projectiles, which in turn burst, strewing in fan-shape thick shower of balls and fragments with terribly de- structive effect.
 TEE Gaulois undertakes to pay a sum of 5000 francs at the decease of any subscriber who may meet with bis death on railway or tramway, or by being run over by vehicle in the street. A proportionate sum is paid for injuries | All that is necessary to do is to produce the last receipt for subscription. It pays compensation to any purchaser of single copy should he be injured or killed the day the paper is paid for.
 TIE Lawrence (Mass. American re- | lates that lady from that city while in Ireland last summer was asked by an elderly reverend gentleman whom she met in Dublin why it was that she was not married. "You wouldn't ask that question, said the lady, eff you knew the state of affairs in the city where I live. Why, there are seven ladies to one gentleman in that place." "And why didn't you get the one gentleman?" slyly asked the questioner.
 A REDoUBTABLE brigand known as Camilla has for some time been the terror of the country around Al, town in the department of Ariege, France. The gendarmes are no match for this modern Rob Roy, who is a frst-rate shot, dead hand at poaching, and as bold as lion. One evening he posted on the letter box in AK notice: "I laugh at law. The whole of Ar shall perish by fire." At the same time fire broke out in the market place.
 THEY are telling this story in Wash ington about a youthful German diplo. mat and bright young American wo- man with whom he was conversing at 8 ICCCRl1OhS LII bhO hOhFtO OA A4An hdAlNC land "Why," said she, "don't you speak English 2' "Oh," said he, with much dignity. 'I cannot think of speak. ing it here. I learned the accent in London" There was moments silence, broken by the Teutonic declaration: "But speak French also. Do you" "Oh, yes" said the young lady, "but l couldn't think of using it to a German. I learned the accent in Paris"
 A LETTER purporting to give a de- scription by an eye witness ofthe execu- ton of Mary, Queen of Scots, will be published at the end ofthe present year. It has been found in manuscript book among the papers of Lord Eliock, the Judge, who died in 1793. The book is all written in one hand, apparently in the first half of the eighteenth century, and the account of the execution is a copy of letter sent by special desire. Lord Eiock's father managed the affairs of the Duke of Perth and of other tam- flies devoted to the Stuart cause, and it is copjectured that the document is a copy of letter written by a member of one of these families.