Connecticut western news., 1884-03-05
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

swered. "That is not Venus. The right ! ascension of Venus this month is 15h. 9m.; her declination is IF degrees 25m. south, and her diameter is 102."
 NEWSPAPER SUBSCRIPTION RATES in tho Argentine Republic are little mixed. The Buenos Ayres Herald carries this paragraph at its head "Price for this edition, s6 gold year, or S150 currency, foreign postage extra"
 HENRY WARD BEEoHER, who has habit of giving good advice incidentally in his sermons, made q remark Sunday which certain unhappy Christians might well lay to heart. He declared that it is better to burn down church than to quarrel in it; and that calling a council will not settle the difficulty.
 "THE ONLY MIsoIvNa I HAD when I left the cutter, says Lieut.. Rhodes, the Gay Head hero, twas about my baby. You didn't know that I had one, did you? He is bright little boy about two years old. His mother died some time ago, and as I left in the boat called out to the captain to look out for him if anything happened to me"
 SALLY MALLORY IS TO HAVE her pen sion raised from Ss a month to $50 month. She is the widow of a soldier of the Revolutionary and 1872 wars. A number of Senators thought this would make others feel that they had been un- justly treated, but one who knew about the case said it was altogether unique. Sally Mallory is 90 years old and totally helpless, having been supported until lately by an adopted son, who is now TO and unable to do any more for her.
 ONE KLEIN INDUCED McCuE TO drink 3 pints of whisky on a wager, at San An tonic, Texas, The feat proved fatal. McCue's widow sued Klein for damages, and got a verdict for 5000. On appeal, the Supreme Court confirms the jury's conclusion. The ruling was that, as the drinker was so intoxicated as to be in- capable of consent at the time of swal- lowing the third and killing pint, the man who made him do it was respon- sible.
 A MOST UNFORTUNATE MAN is Will liam King. Upon being converted in revival meeting in Caldwell, Ky, he arose and confessed that he had robbed a store in 1863 of $500 worth of goods. He went to the proprietor the next day and paid the amount, with 20 years in- terest, but was immediately arrested for the theft, and now languishes in jail.
 "THE SILENT VoN MoLTKE, it is said, was once seated in a railroad carriage with his aid de-camp, when another off Ger, crowding past him to get out, said: Pardon me, and few moments later, coming in and passing his chief again, said: Pardon me;" whereupon the field marshal, annoyed at such prodigal waste of verbiage, turned to his aide and growled: "That chatterer l"
 IT IS ESTIMATED THAT the United States Senate is the wealthiest deliberative body in the world, the seventy-six members of that body representing Sls0, ,OO0,000.
 INTHE UNITED STATES to-day, accord ing to the last census, there are 106 sewing machine establishments, with an invested capital of SIP, 5Ol, ,s3O, employing 9,2s3 persons, to whom are annually paid in wages s4, ,636,O99.
 MRs. MIRA CLARK GAINES. A very old woman, after winning one-half or thereabouts of New Orleans after fifty years litigation to get her property, is living in Washington in almost strait ened circumstances. She lives in furnished rooms and supports herself, her daughter-in-law and two grand children on the S69 a month pension she receives as widow of Gen. Gaines.
 SINCE 1882 WHEN THE GREAT flood took place, until last year, no flood in Ohio has brought destitution to any great number of people. During that period towns have been built on low land all along the river, and in the great cities all the low land has been built over, so that the losses are frightful.
 REV. DR. FULTON, OF BROOKLYN, does not like theatres. He says: "Place me upon polar iceberg, where no verdure greets the eye, where naught but the white bears growl can be heard; let me live where no friend shall cheer me with a smile; bar me in prison; but do not, oh, do not compel me to mingle with the ungodly crowd of theatre"
 UNDER THE LAWS LIMITING the lia- bility of employers, the steamship com- pany which owned the wrecked City of Columbus will escape all damages, and the Captain must become the scapegoat for the young pilot and second mate, who was only 21 years of age, and could not legally take charge of the vessel at the point where the captain retired to his stateroom, leaving him in command.
 LONDON Truth SAYS: "Lord Gar. moyle wrote to Miss Fortescue that one reason for breaking of the engagement was that the Duke of Richmond had said she could not be received at court. Apropos of this Truth taunts the Duke of Richmond with being the descendant of the illegitimate offspring of Charles IL, and French woman, Madame CarewelI.
 THE LUoKIEsT MAN ON board the ill-fated City of Columbus was the one rescued by the tug Speedwell. He had a baggage check in his pocket, and when the tug picked up a floating trunk he coolly produced his check and claimed his baggage. As there was a correspond. ing check on the trunk his claim was in- disputable.
 THE RUBBER INDUSTRY IN THE United States has DO rival in foreign countries