Connecticut western news., 1884-05-21
NOTES AND COMMENTS.


 TIE fact that Sullivan the "slugger' has cleared one hundred thousand dollars in seven month is calculated to assist American youth in getting an honorable living.
 THE South is now credited with 372 cotton mills, of which North Carolina claims 92. Their products have in- creased from S21, 900, 900 in 1880, to $40, 900, 900 in 1884.
 IN house cleaning don't forget the cellar; pestilence may be breeding in heaps of rotton vegetables and rubbish there. Give the cellar plenty of cleans ing and plenty of air and light.
 THE amount contributed to college and university education in the United States during the past ten years is S35,- 622, 900, and since 1S47 the total amount given has not been less than $50, 900, 900,
 DR. JEssUP, of Beyroot, Syria, esti- mates that twenty years ago not twenty women in a population of two millions could read. There are now over seven thousand girls going to Protesatnts schools in Syria.
 THE late John Clancy, of Grand Rapids, Mich, bequeathed S60, 900 to the Roman Catholic Bishop of that diocese to found an orphan asylum, to be governed and controlled by the Bishop and his successors.
 IN Leigh Richmond's advice to his daughters, he wrote: Girls, be cheer ful, but not gigglers; be serious, but not dull; be communicating, but not for ward; be kind, but not servile. Beware of silly, thoughtless speeches"
 IN Mansfield, Conn, within the last twenty-seven years, twenty. eight persons have died whose ages averaged ninety seven years, four of whom were over hundred, and one, Mrs. Mary South worth, was hundred and five.
 THE Cuban revolutionary leader Carlos Aguero is not yet thirty, and has been in arms against the Spanish authorities al- most continuously since he was fourteen. He weighs only one hundred and fifty pounds, and belongs to rich family.
 THE New York Sun publishes m alphabetical list of all distinguished citizens who attend slugging matches, chicken fights, etc., in that city. The next morning after a match the column is pleasant reading in some New York families.
 TIE last census in France gives the number of insane persons as one in every Al inhabitants; but pr. Lunler, in Q recent lecture at the Sorbonne, says the real proportion is 2 to every 300 or $50 inhabitants. Dr. Lunier remarked that in countries presenting the same degree of civilization the proportion of insane people is identical.
 TALMAGE declared in his sermon last Sunday that "the poorest men in New York city are those who are worth a million dollars or more." Despite the prophetic warnings of so exalted an oracle as Talmage, hundreds of people are sacrificing health and honor to be- come members of the great army of the poorest men in New York.
 Ar Monte Carlo it is the custom to fill the pockets of suicides with bank notes so that it may be seen that they did not kill themselves on account of losses. They tried the trick on a presumably dead Irishman short time ago; but he was not dead at all, and skipped of with the money in the most lively style.
 TIE New Orleans Picayune relates that an old lady, eighty years of age, residing in that city, was dependent upon a daughter, who was a school teacher there. Hard work, i'll pay, no pay, and the worry of keeping decent and honest and out of debt, set the daughter crazy. She is now in the asylum, and her mother earns a miser- able living making button-holes and do- ing fine embroidery.
 CHARLEY WHITE, the minstrel, says that the first band of negro minstrels was organized late in 1S42 in the board | ing house of Mrs. Brooks in Catherine street, New York city. It consisted of Dan Emmett, Frank Brewer, Billy Whitlock, and Dick Pelham. They per formed for the first time in public at the benefit of Pelham on Feb. ', 1S43, in tho old Chatham Theatre, New York, and afterward in the Bowery Amphitheatre.