Connecticut western news., 1884-03-12
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

THE BILL PRESENTED IN the New York Legislature to permit the filing of will at any time anterior to mans death is not unique. In Michigan the probate law already permits person to file q will with an officer commissioned for the purpose, and to cause notice to be given to his heirs that unless they interpose sufficient objections it will be considered a valid instrument.
 BOSTON PAPERS SAY THAT free soup is not so much sought after in that city this winter as last, the demand at the soup-houses since their opening last month showing falling of of nearly 400 gallons, and yet there never was time when so many workingmen were out of employment as now.
 | MIR. ARoHDALE, WHO WAS recently ap- pointed High Sheriff of county Ferman- agh, Ireland, is reported as having said that he hoped he would not have much to do as Sheriff, but if he ever got Par nellite at one end of rope he would give very heavy tug at the other end. The Parnellite members of the English Parliament have taken offence at this language, and intend to question the Government in regard to it,
 THE MEN EMPLOYED IN the Police De- partment of New York did not receive any payment for work done on the 29th of February. The policemen get cer- tain amount annually and this is divided up into 365 days. As no provision is made for leap year their pay did not include work done Friday. h IS INTERESTING TO know that for tke last fiscal year we imported 15, 279, 065 dozen eggs, the declared value of which was $2, ,677, ,604. Ofthese over 12, GOO, 900 dozen came from Canada, 2,500, 900 dozen from Nova Scotia, and the balance from China, Germany, Holland, Den- mark, Sweden and Mexico
 THEY HAVE ABOLISHED ON most of the London tramways the bell punch, which they adopted after its adoption in the United States. It was considered nuisance, and it failed to prevent dis honesty.
 THE 18TH BRITISH REGIMENT has been stationed at Halifax for some time Recently it was ordered to Malta. Numerous assertions took place. the men fearing that they would be sent to Egypt for active service.
 THERE ARE SAID TO have been 5OO, 900 Christians in the world at the end of the First century, 10000, 900 in the time of Constantine, 30,OOO, 1000 in the Eighth century, 100, ,00O, 900 at the time of the Reformation, and 450, 900, 900 in 1883. HON. ALEXANDER MITCHELL THE we'll known banker, is the donor of a statue to be presented to the city of Milwau- kee, Wis. The subject is to be Robert Chivas, a nephew of Mir. Mitchell, who was one of the first soldiers from the State to fall in the war of the rebellion. The statue is to be of bronze and of heroic size.
 LETTERS TO A MEMBER of the British Parliament, show that there have been sixteen suicides and two murders at Monte Carlo, the great gambling station, since the first of Janusry. It is stated that the newspapers published in that district have been paid to suppress all mention of these tragic events.
 Ar MEETING OF the Orange County milk producers, Dr. Pooler made the statement that the consumers of milk in New York city paid annually S9, 720, 900 for pure milk and S6,200,0O0 for skinned milk and water. The producers received $3, 720, 900 for pure milk, or nearly $2, 800, 900 less than the amount received by the dealer for skinned milk alone. The dealers portion of the milk supply of N. Y. city, less the freight, was over $11, ,0OO,0
 HENRY JAMES, WHO IS SAID to be man of taste, says that the most beautiful woman he ever saw is the cashier in a Povence restaurant. She is large, quiet, and has the dignity of a Roman em- press. He also declares admiration for the washerwomen in the Trastevere.
 RESOLUTIONS BY THE MINERS of AIene, Dakota: "Not a Chinaman shall ever enter the diggings unless he climbs a tree, with one end of lariat over a limb
 Ar A BENEFIT ENTERTAINMENT in New Haven, one of the incidents of the money getting was mock auction sale of old maids. There were thirteen of these spinsters, and the bidding was spirited {; but the result reflected on the perspi- cacity of the gentlemen who did the bidding, for after the unmasking, the chattle who had commanded the fewest offers, and was knocked down at the hu- initiating figure of 23 cents, proved to be the handsomest and wealthiest young woman of the city.
 FooTE, THE EDITOR OF THE Free thinker, a London infdel paper, has completed his years imprisonment for blasphemy. MT. Bradlaugh, NJ. F., with 5000 sympathizers, met him at the gates of the prison as he came forth, and gave him an enthuiastic reception
 How ARE THE MIGHTY fallen. The steamer Great Eastern has been pur- chased by the English Government for a coal hulk, to be stationed at Gibraltar She has been losing elephant, on the hands of her owners, ever since she was l built.
 A MANUFACTURER, OF Waterbury, Connecticut, says that city is the capital of the brass manufacture in America. It makes the sheet or bar or brass wire from the Cleveland pig, made from Lake Superior copper, aud with popu- Iation of 23, 900. has about z. GOO onera-