Connecticut western news., 1884-08-06
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

NO1 IAJ d1ND SSIh-hA1AN 4Oa
 AT Toulon, France, two foolish youths made a bet as to which one could drink the more seltzer water. One drank nine syphons and the other eight. Both died shortly after of chol- era.
 THE phylloxera has reached Rouma- mia, and the disease is spreading rapidly. It was introduced in vine imported from France by some imprudent snug gler in contravention of the most strin- gent precautions of the government. IT is said that by the following sim pie method almost instant relief of ear ache is afforded: Put five drops of chloroform on little cotton or wool in the bowl of clay pipe, then blow the vapor through the stem into the aching ear.
 IF the stories that are told about the filthy condition of Toulon and Marseilles are true it is a wonder that they are not afflicted with the Black Plague instead of mild form of cholera. Both of these cities, virtually without drainage, have been sitting by the side of tideless sea and stewing in their own nastiness for years.
 JOHN A. SUFFER is buried in a corner of the old Moravian burial ground in Litiz, Penn. It was on his farm in Cali fornia while digging for a mill race that gold was first discovered in 1S49. He was born in Germany and went to Cali fornia from the Sandwich Islands. He died not long since in Litiz. where his children were being educated.
 KRUPP is now building up gun-barrels weighing 124 tons. How to lift them becomes a matter of moment. The largest steam crane in Europe-that at Autwerp-is capable of lifting only one hundred and twenty tons; but one is being constructed at Hamburg which will lift an object weighing one hundred and fifty tons and swing it aboard ship. l.. J. ROSE has sold his estate, prob ably the finest in California, for $780, 900. The plantation is known as Sunny Slope, near Pasadena, and it contains more than 2,000 acres of well-watered land. The orange crop was sold on the trees by Mir. Rose this year for SIG, 900, and the vintage last year from 1000 acres of vines was 1 1900 tons of grapes.
 SETH GREEN states that the cause of the death of the vast number of falewives, the bodies of which are found floating on Lake Ontario, is starvation. He says they travel about in large schools, the strong ones naturally taking the lead and getting most of the food. Those in the rear get positively nothing at all, yet they will follow the school day after day until they die of actual starvation.
 MRS. THOMAS ROWLAND of Spring vile, Ala, seeing storm approaching took refuge with her five little children in cyclone pit under the house. The lightning struck a tree in the yard, the roots of which ran into the pit, and the fluid followed the roots with fatal results. | The infant in the arms of the mother at the time she was struck to death was not injured.
 THE business of making wooden houses in the United States for custom sale is stimulated by brisk demand for these products in Brazil Several large shipments have been made to Rio Jan eiro, and they were all sold soon after their arrival. Fifteen hundred of them have already been erected in the new city of La Plata, the new capital of the province of Buenos Ayres.
 MUCH has been said as to woman phy- sicians in Russia, but according to a competent authority there are only some 25O, and whatever their requirements and abilities they are only allowed to treat the diseases of women and chil- dren. Even in country districts, where there is, perhaps, no male physician within fifty miles, apothecaries have been forbidden to put up prescription emanating from a woman.
 IN the German Empire seventeen years ago there were 300 towns, with populations of between 5000 and 20, 600, which were without railway accommo- dations. In the year 1880 the number of such towns was only 132. Of towns having populations of between 2,00C and 5000 there are in the empire 1875 of which only 468 had any railway ac commodations seventeen years ago. By 1880 the number of towns so provided had risen to 932.
 Mss SUTRo, the daughter of the maI
 who built the famous Sutro Tunnel, re ceived great many letters from a pro lessor in Berlin, who had seen her pho tograph and had been captivated by it , proposing marriage. She sent them al
 unanswered to her father, who was il
 Spain. Mir. Sutro afterward saw tn professor in Berlin, and liked him s
 much that he advised his daughter t
 answer his correspondence, and the en-