Connecticut western news., 1884-07-16
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

are contending that the expenditur was extravagant.
 THERE are no less than 1,346 cooper ative societies in England, with mem bership of 661 900 persons. The yearl, sales reach upward of $130, ,O00, GOO while the profits exceed S10, ,000, 900.
 A CALCUTTA paper tells of a railwa, station agent in India who recently sen the following dispatch to headquarters "Train just due. Tiger jumping abou the platform. Please telegraph orders.
 IN the eighteenth century the growtl of population in Denmark was so smai as to be scarcely noticeable. During the present century the population hal increased from one million to nearly two.
 THERE are moro than 1,500 people II the employ of the Government by tht name of Smith, more than 500 by tn, name of Jones and more than 800 by tho name of Johnson. There are between 300 and 400 John Smiths.
 GEN. LEW WALLACE, U. s. Minister to Turkey, who is just home from Con, stantinople on visit, declares that the Turkish women are the most beautiful in the world. He won't except Ameri. can women only as a matter of patriot. ism.
 THE medal awarded by the Legisla- ture of Iowa to Kate Shelley, the brave Irish girl who saved a passenger train on the Northwestern Railroad at the peril of her life on a stormy night two years or more ago, was presented to her on the Fourth.
 THE new Transcaspian region ac- quired by Russia contains 200,00 in- habitants, and is 3,60O square versts in extent, one verst being equal to two thirds of a square mile. This territory reaches the Afghan frontier at a point 40 miles distant.from Herat.
 A YOUTHFUL appearing couple have been detected in a strange conspiracy to obtain money. They visited different cities as single persons, obtained po- sitions in society, courted each other and were married. In every case the wedding presents amounted to handsome amounts.
 TIE blacksmiths of Pesth, Austria, have struck. They are required to work 14 hours a day and half time on Sun. days, for which they receive $2.50 2 week. They ask for 12 hours a day work with their Sundays free, and g.. SC a week. Their employers laugh at these exorbitant demands.
 A MIDNIGHT marauder put the con. tents of hen house into bag at Altoo Mich, and was surprised next day, on dumping the fowls for sale at a market, to see that they consisted of two three. legged hens, a double-headed duck and a nearly headless goose. He had taken the stock of a travelling museum.
 TIE Hebrew population of St. Louis is in state of agitation because one oi their number, a fashionable natter, haf been refused lease of house in a gen. teel neighborhood, on account of q clause in leases already granted that nc Jewish family shall be allowed to occu' py any house in the row.
 EVERY saloon in Des Moines, Iowa, has closed and ns liquor is obtainable under any pretext. News from all parts of the State show that the new Prohibi tion law will be obeyed, unless at some river points. Saloon keepers generally are either removing their stocks to other States or embarking in other business.
 WHEN a Wisconsin farmer was a smal boy his father put him into half orphan asylum, though not compelled by pov' erty to do so. He lately retaliated by sending his paupered parent to a pooi house, though abundantly able to take care of him. The case is being consid cred by the church to which the re vengeful son belongs.
 TIE town of Medora, on the Northern Pacific Railway, is named after the wife of De Mores, Medora Hoffman, tn, namesake of her aunt, the famously beautiful Medora Grimes, whose memor! is freshened by the "reminiscences of th' late Sam Ward, who won her for hi second wife when she was already tn, betrothed of a rich young Frenchman.
 A DELAWARE young man whose gir went back on him and yet refused t' give up the engagement ring, sued he for it, whereupon her father sued tn, young man for the fuel, light and meal that were consumed during the court ship, as we'll as the fodder and corn fo his horse, and the case was decided il the old mans favor.
 WITH an expenditure of less thai S90, ,O00, 900 a year Germany can put il the field, in ten days, 100000 traine, soldiers. England, at the same tim spends more than $80, 100000 on tn 800, 900 men who compose her army two-thirds of whom are militia and vol unteers, who were lately described b Lord Wolseley as being no better thal ''men with muskets."
 LABoRERs IN Mexico fare hard. Thir , ty cents day is the common rate c wages, and for that the natives are COT , tent to perform the heaviest labor , Farm work, mining, factory labor an , domestic service are all alike paid low The custom of making loans to laborer to be repaid by work Is common, an tends materially to prevent their socii advancement.
 r WOMEN, both in France and Switzel l land, have a far more important role the family, among the middle and lowe a | classes. than with us. The female