Connecticut western news., 1884-10-08
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

OAoSONhnhD "AhSh6 bho AuAhS SA AAN Zuni and Aztec cities are spindles and whorls remarkably like those employed by the Highlanders in Scotland. The position of some would indicate an an- tiquity of at least 2,0OO years.
 A NICE little Boston girl, finding that she remarkably resembled the leading actress in a theatrical company, found diversion in ordering large quantity of finery sent to her double, and signing that persons name to numerous passes.
 IT IS said that the estate of the late Bishop Simpson, amounting to nearly a hundred thousand dollars, was nearly all the result of profitable investments which the advice and opportunities given by warm friends enabled him to make.
 AN architect says that forty-nine people out of fifty who build homes for themselves voluntarily increase his esti- mates from $1, 900 to S3, 900, by changes they want made on the original plans, and in case they get 'stuck" they howl at him.
 THE Missouri father took most sen- sible view of the situation when he did not pursue his elopiDg daughter, but sent a clergyman on a swift horse to overtake the couple, in order that the marriage ceremony might be performed properly.
 A WEDDING in Boston was lately fore stalled by the death of the bridegroom. The bridal dress is understood to have been thereby bewitched in some manner, and several successive possessors of it believe that it has brought illness and other evils to them.
 W. HAnIErT GREENE, a colored youth, and graduate of the College of the City of New York, has been ap- pointed to the Signal Service corps. Gen. Hagen objected to the appointment but Secretary Lincoln in a special order ordered the enlistment made.
 THE oldest and largest tree in the world, as far as known, is a chestnut near the foot of Mount Etna. It is hollow, and big enough to admit two carriages driving abreast through it. The circumference of the main trunk is PIP feet. The Grizzly Giant, monarch of the Mariposa Grove, measures s2 feet. 's. s'
 THE law about the admission of China men is so rigidly enforced on the Pacific coast that a chinamen residing in San Frannisco found, on going across the line into British America, that he could not go back without making the journeyto China and return, in order to obtain a certificate that he was a merchant, and not a laborer.
 STANDING ROCK, a Custer massacre Indian, died of consumption, last month, while travelling with an Iowa circus. Sitting Bull and his braves are on exhi- bition in New York city. This forces the belief upon the mind of an exchange that the Custer massacre was after all only shrewd advertising dodge on the part of the aborigines.
 OFFICIAL raiders caught an unlicensed liquor business in full operation in Adams, Mass. The keeper hastily emptied his keg of whisky into a sink, whereupon the enemy plugged the vent, SO as to secure some of the fluid as evi- dence. A hard fight ensued, in which many eyes were blackened and the hole was repeatedly stopped and unstopped; but a sponge was satuated with the es- caping beverage, and carried off to be carefully squeezed and tested.
 IT WAS supposed that the difficulties between the New York Tribune and it's old printers were settled, but the Gen. tral Labor Union received Sunday the re- port of Typographical Union No. on the failure of its negotiation to end the Trio. une strike. The report said that Mir. Reid had conceded everything the printers asked for, and then had made stipula- tions on his par. that totally nullified all of theirs. The committee then refused to treat with Mir. Reid. The boycotting of the Tribune will continue.