Connecticut western news., 1884-02-06
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

in every branch of revenue, including e2,s3s, GOO from the property and income tax, G352 GOO from the customs. f300,- 7ss from stamps, f290,oOo from the post.oflice, eco. 900 from telegrnphs, md e51 ,00O from house duty.
 TIE Amcrjcan Grocer FINDS that in 1883 5000 900 cases of tomatoes were packed in the United States, each con- taining two dozen tins. The exact figures arc 70,645,S96 cans. Their value at wholesale was probably S6,000,000, Maryland puts up about one-half of the product, and New Jersey over fifth.
 THE PRIZE or S5,000 offered by the French Academy of Medicine for cure for diphtheria was demanded at their last meeting by all sorts of people. among whom were a glass maker, a ma. ehinist, m iron founder. hotel keeper, and justice of the peace; two women applied for it, one n lawyers wife, and the other the wife of veterinary surgeon. One man proposed that the diphtheritic patient be beaten until he expelled the membrane, and another that he be cx. posed to scarlatina as q counter irritant. There were several who wanted their ex- peuses paid to Paris so that they might explain their method of cure, and alarge number who refused to disclose the secret before receiving the S5,000. No one had found the lnfallibleremedy.
 THE LATE JOSEPH ARNOLD, who was for many years cashier of the Birming. ham Conn., Bank, had prodigious memory. The Sentinel of Ansoma says that after he had heard Mrs. Kimberly read "Hiawatha" he repeated the entire poem. He lost his temper to the point of profanity just once; A farmer had called to deposit some money. Mir. Arnold counted it, and found it five dollars short The farmer persisted, and the cashier counted it again, with the same result. "Well, there was that sum when you took itp the farmer broke out. The cashier stopped, looked his customer square in the eye, and re. torted, DO you suppose, sir, that I would be such an internal fool as to steal five dollars when I could step right back there (pointing to the vaulb and steal slO0, ,OoO."
 A PROFESSIONAL MAN WITH good in. come writes to an English paper that he has recently apprenticed his son, 1t years old, to a builder. "Of course, says the father, "he has to work at the bench and go out on jobs, but he is happy and his time we'll employed When he is 2l he will have become master of his trade, aud, being an edu' cated lad and sharp to boot, very few pounds would start him in one of the colonies on the high road to competency The silly pride of parents, he says, "ie the chief drawback 10 their sons sue. cess in life.
 THOMAS H. WILLIAMS, JR., of Stock. ton, Cal. having begun to buy cats with the purpose of fexterminating the gopherf that are laying waste tho fields of alfalfG on Union Island, the Sacramento Uiliot tells pertinent cat story: Shortly aftei the discovery of the Comstock mine al old gentleman was unable to meet [ mortgage of Sl, 800 on his place on Nor mon Island A stranger, stopping at hi door, saw several pretty kittens playing in the yard. He said: "Thoso cats, i you had them on the Comstock. would bring you S20 apiece" The old mai saddled his horse, and for the next fort night rode from house to house, farm [, farm, md village to village, begging ant buying cats. He got 500 and sold then on the Comstock mine, and after he hat paid of his mortgage and put in banl $500 clear, he told his neighbors why h, had wanted cats. They no longer deemed him crazy on cats.
 4 FARM IN THE TOWN of Eliot, Me. has been the home of nine generations of one family, having been handed down from father to son for nearly 250 years The first house was built of bricks i'm ported from the old country, but in 173t it was so shaken by an earthquake tha it was torn down and the present struc fure built of heavy oak timber. Upward of 75 children have been born and brought up there, and it is recorded thai only one unmarried person has ever died in it, except one child, who was accident ally killed.
 ,,,.fppt u,,pr rx.pr, rss , rastnuran says: Any housekeeper can prove tho honesty of her grocer or his butter by melting it. Pure buttor melted pro duces n pure, limpid, golden oil, and il retains the butter flavor. Melt oleomar carine and the oil smells like tallow and looks like tallow, and scum raises to the surface. Butterine is q mixture of dairy butter and fats. Melt that and the butter oil will rise to the top. Poui this off and you will find the fats at tn, bottom, whitish in color and giving off [ dsagreeable smell"
 ON A SIDE TRACK in the city of Roches ter, on a bitter cold night recently, a re porter for the Democrat and ChroHici, found a carful of immigrants. The ail was heavy with tobacco smoke and 2 score of children scampered down tho aisle and under the seats. A poor woman lay on blanket on the floor with babe not many weeks old. Sine had no food and the railroad men said that the Castle Garden officials had sent her out of New York without food. The train men had just made up a purse and sent for bread and milk, and while she was eating they told the reporter that scores of immi grants go through from New York tC their destination in the West without eating, and that many of them have nc friends at the end of the journey, and ds