Connecticut western news., 1884-10-29
NOTES AND COMMENTS.


 EIGHT days are required to cut dia- mond, though several may be on a wheel at time, and one workman will finish half dozen in week. Diamond cutters receive good wages-something like $6 day.
 A VOLCANIC tree is reported to exist in the Japanese village of Ono. It is sixty feet high, with 8 girth of ten feet, and said to be centuries old. Every day a white smoke-like mist issues from the top, lasting from early afternoon till evening.
 A CITIZEN of Troy is said to have re- gently papered the stalls of his stable with paper that cost him $60.0O0. Part of the covering consisted of bonds of defunct steam-heating company and the remainder was bonds of other "bu'sted bubbles"
 ONE of the luxuries for sale in the New York markets is New England mince- meat, the Thanksgiving brand, compris ing everything that should compose generous pie. It is put up in fve-pound wooden buckets and costs from 12 to 15 cents apound.
 A BOSTON gentleman who was recent ly in Montreal visited the cafe of ". H. H. Murray, whom he found busily en- gagged in culinary duties, but who at once recognized him and received him with as much composure as if the meet ing had taken place in church.
 AN aged lady who died recently in Pittsylvania county, Va, was buried in garments the material of which was raised and spun by herself, and the arti- cles made by her own hands more than sixty years ago, and laid away for the purpose for which they were used.
 AN English society journal prints the extraordinary and altogether improba- ble story that Oscar Wilde made $50, 900 in New York city by suggestions to shoddy society people as to the aesthetic interior decorations of their houses, re- ceiving in some cases $500 for such ser- vice.
 BUFFALO proposes as soon as Niagara Falls shall have become a public park to make driveway along the river from the city to the falls. A continuous avenue from Delaware avenue, the finest boulevard of Buffalo. for about twenty miles, will then make one of the most beautiful drives in the country.
 THERE is more railway travel in Mas. sachusetts than in any other State in the Union. The number of passengers car ried by the roads last year was 53,000, GOO. Pennsylvania comes next, with 30, GOO, GOO, and New York third, with A, 000,000. Illinois, New Jersey and Ohio follow in the order named.
 NANTUcKETERs have had a habit of being born at various distant points of the globe. Cause, father and mother on whale ships. Port made; child born; possibly Valparaiso, Honolulu, Rio Janeiro, or midocean. The birth entry of some Nantucket children reads "Born in latitude 30 north, 42 west from meridian of Greenwich, a son." etc.
 IN one of his sermons Robert Collyel told of little child in church whose mother came in late and took back seat. The child saw her, and regard less of everything except the fact that it wanted to be with its mother, scampered up the aisle to where she was sitting. ''It wasn't good manners" said Mir. Collyer, "but it was as sweet as kiss. "
 A WASHINGTON lawyer, devoted tc pension practice, claims to have on his list of clients J. s. Timberleg, who ac quired cork one during the war; Isaac Walkingstick, also loyal hmper; Tor ment Twist, rheumatic sufferer iron camp service, and Christly Crow, black preacher, who was wounded while act ing as chaplain for colored regiment.
 THE dacoits and thugs of India for tht most part reside in the native States whence they make frequent raids int British territory. They form regulal tribes, one of the most notorious 0 which is the Baori tribe in Raipootana every man of this race being brought uI as robber. The association has com plete organization, and possesses bolt and skillful leaders, and its members arr masters of the art of disguising them selves. Other tribes likewise have al organization scarcely inferior to this.