Connecticut western news., 1884-07-23
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

A NEW JERSEY st rawberry farm has produced on the av craze POO bushels day during the sea on, and the number of pickers has beer sometimes 300. THE wealth of the United States is $50, 900, ,OOO, ,OOo. u< $9OO to each inhabit- ant that of Great Britain is $40, 900, ,oOO, 900, OF s1, 900 to each inhab- ! itant.
 THE Austro- German Russian italian alliance could muster an army of 1O,- 100000 men, thoroughly armed and drilled. The army of the United States numbers 1000, the navy about 5000.
 BOSTON has man who has gone mad, according to the explanation offered by 8 friend, through making chart of the marriage relations of popular actors and ] then trying to correct it for publication. MRS. QUINCY SHAW, who has spent $3G, 900 annually in maintaining kinder gartSns in Boston, has been obliged to close them in consequence of shrinkage in the railroad bonds in which her for tune is invested.
 A 5-YEAR-oLD daughter of Dr. Fad dens, of Sutton. Mass, was choked to death while eating cherries. The father, who was at hand, did all in his pow CT to save her life, but without success.
 THE most influential man in Dodge City is said to be Bait Matterson, who has killed thirty-two persons, according to common fame, and is spoken of as 8 ''sociable, good fellow, when he is not crossed"
 THE rainy season in California is over. It lasts little over nine months, from the beginning of October till the last of June, so that the Californians anticipate only three months of dry season-July, August and September.
 A MAN was tried in Dublin for polyg- amy. He was the possessor of five wives. The verdict returned was Gin sane with regard to his matrimonial en- agreements, and he was consigned to an asylum.
 SOME of the watering place hotels en- ploy public entertainers. These are wo- men of talent, who play. on the piano, sing, and in every way make the time pass pleasantly to the guests, for the compensation of the board and small salary.
 THE Savannah Nes0s looks for the day when the phosphatic rocks near the South Carolina and Georgia coast can be mined and sold in the South as fer tilizers as cheap as coal, or for $4 or $5 ton, instead of $40 to $50, the present price.
 THE summers sport at Block Island is swordfshing. Frequently the game shows fight, and in some cases the ex- citement is intense. The swordish caught in those waters weigh from 200 to 800 pounds, and the swords are from two to three feet in length. A KANSAS shoemaker stopped work and began to spend money freely. He was on that account arrested on sus- picion of having robbed stage coach. Then he had to confess and prove tha he was heir to an English quarter of million.
 THE Aztecs, before the conquest O ? Mexico by the Spaniards, recognized the value of trees for the maintenance of moisture and the promotion of irriga- ton. Prescott tells us that their law contained severe penalties against the destruction of forests.
 PARIS is 8 beautiful city, but 1t costs a great deal of money to keep it so. During the past twenty years more than $130, ,0O0, 900 has been spent on new streets, sewers, waterworks and public buildings The cost of the Avenue de POpera alone was SIG, ,000,0 900.
 YoUNa Allan Arthur sails under the nickname of Precious Thing" at Princeton, all because his Presidential father: in speech at the college, said that he had shown how much he thought of Princeton "by leaving his son-the most precious thing he had in life-there.
 THE daily product of paper at Holy oke is closely estimated at the enormous amount of one hundred and seventy seven tons. A large part of the product is fine writing and book papers. More than &, ,OO0, 900 is invested in the busi- ness, which gives employment to be- tween four thousand and five thousand hands.
 IF boy wants to go out West and kill Indians, the best way to cure him is to take him to some exhibition where real Indians and whisky-soaked cow boys are made to persontae the glorious wild West. After seeing it once, the average boy will be quite willing to grow up in the enervating atmosphere of civilization.
 A PARTY of Eastern capitalists have united to operate probably the largest cattle ranch in the world. It is in Grant county, N. M., and is about forty miles from east to west and sixty from north to south, comprising about 1,5O0,0 900 acres of grazing land. There are now some 16,000 head of cattle on the range and it is intended to increase the herds to 80,000 cattle.
 Ar 'Whitby, Canada, the other day, a farmer and his horse came upon a num- Der of dogs that were barking furiously at some sheep in pasture. The timid ewes and their lambs were huddled to- gether in fence corner, but were pro- tected from harm by two-year-old colt. The equine shepherd displayed great skill in his battle with the dogs, striking ont his fore feet at them and nnarnhinor