Connecticut western news., 1884-08-20
HERE AND THERE.


 Mrs. E. H. J. Cleveland has been chosen class poet by the Chatauqua as- sembly class of 1886. The class num- bers LOGO.
 Mortimer Ward, for many years con- nected with Commodore Garrison in business. died on Sunday at his home, No 135 East 45th street, New York.
 Colonel J. J. Woodward, surgeon U. S. Army, died Monday morning, Aug. IS Surgeon Woodward was one of the physicians in attendance on President Garfield.
 John Bassett of Pittsfeld was over come, Monday, by sunstroke, while shingling barn. Other slight cases of sunstroke are reported in Berkshire county.
 Hundreds of people daily visit place on the Norwich X Worcester railroad, miles above Norwich, where Q solid mass of pond lilies in full bloom, may be seen.-Daily Leader.
 Mary Clemmer, the authoress, wife of Edmond Hudson, editor of The Capital, died at Washington last Monday even- ing of hemorrhage of the brain. She had been i'll for some weeks.
 The union band excursion from New Hartford and Winsted to the Hudson river, last Saturday, was well patroniz- ed, there being eight cars loaded to their utmost capacity. The five hours sail on the river was enjoyed by all present.
 The maple-bark louse Is killing trees about Manchester, N. H. It sucks the juice from the leaves and the trees with CT. .. Newport, R. I. is to have $40,- 900 tennis building and grounds. Har- " l.. Stevens of New York is running the matter and S15,O0O has been sub scribed. .-Sprinafeld Republican.
 A Roxbury man has discovered that the Leather Man" is Jules Bourglay, 0 Frenchman who was made insane by the crash of leather in 1857, just as he was to be married to his partners beautiful daughter, ,and who was in the mad house two years before he escaped. and came to this country.-Daity LeaCIer.
 A Vermont farmer wanted to get a couple of shingles patched over leaky place in the roof, but no one dared to do 1.-the roof was so steep. That very day the farmers daughter came home from boarding-school and did the job before she sat down to supper. She said she was used to crawling over steep roofs. It was the only way the girls could get out after 9 o'clock
 The favorite stimulants of famous men :-Bonaparte used snuff Byron's favorite drink was gin and water Pope's strong coffee Mrs Siddon's DOT ter; Edmund Kean's beef tea, cold brandy; w. E. Gladstone's an egg beaten up in sherry; Miss Catley's lin seed tea and madeira. Disraeli was fond of champagne jelly. Schiller used to sit over table deeply impregnated with the smell of decaying apples. He stimulated his brain with coffee and champagne. Lord Erskine and John Kemble used opium. Wedderburne, the first Lord Ashburton. used to place a blister on his breast when he had to make great speech.
 Capt s. B. Horne of Winsted, who has recently returned from the Grand Army encampment at Minneapolis, says that nutmegs were worn as badges by the Connecticut delegates. . The an niversary of the battle of Stonington, in the war of 1872, at which time British fleet threw cartload of shells into the street of an old saltwater borough, kill | ling one goose, was celebrated last Sat urday. According to the weather re- | port kept at Stonington there has been no rain-storm for one hundred and one years on the 10th of August, the anni- versary of the battle. .. J. s. Salters of Fairfield has now in blossom a root of the sacred lotus of India, from which, according to the Brahmin legend, ,sprang the great God of Bramah. The flower, which is over eight inches across, is of bright pink color, with blue anthers and a curiously formed yellow centre. -Nec HarHord Tribune.