Connecticut western news., 1884-03-19
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

THE ANTI-CATHoLIC PARTY is still strong in Germany. The lower house of the Prussian Landtag has rejected, by vote of 2O9 to 152, Herr Wind horst's motion to repeal the law abol- ishing the salaries of Catholic priests.
 JOE EMMET's S4,OOO DOG RECTOR is a famous English animal. It was sold in Leeds for $1, ,250. Joe paid S900 for him. The other S3, 100 is a fraud. The dog is so mischeivous that he is a nuisance and Joe would gladly give him away if any body would take him.
 A BEAUTIFUL INCIDENT OF THE carni- val in New Orleans was the presentation of a basket of choice flowers to the daughters of the late General Robert E. Lee by the General Joseph A. Mower Post, No. 1, of the Grand Army of the Republic.
 STORIES OF THE FLOODS are still going the rounds. Those in charge of one of the relief boats reported that the in- habitants of a partly submerged town on the Ohio asked first for the news, next for ropes with which to anchor their houses, and then for some- thing to eat.
 ACCORDING TO THE STATEMENT of a prominent phy sician of Brussels, if the normal temperature of mankind were 1000, that of the moderate smoker would be represented by 1,008, and the normal pulse under like circumstances would increase to 1,1S0. The heart is overworked to just the extent repre- sented by the latter figures.
 THE TOTAL NUMBER OF journals pub lished in Great Britain is 2,015, and the total number of magazines 1,260. Of the journals, London has 401, the prov inces 1,177, Wales 80, Scotland 1S1, Ire land 156, and the Channel Islands and Man 20. According to another classif- cation, 179 of them are dailies. Of the magazines, 332 have a religious char acter.
 By THE TIME the great Yellowstone Park is finished it will be grand affair. The United States House has passed bill ordering 2,000 additional square miles. The former area was 1900 square miles; so that the addition will make it sixty per cent. larger than it has been and large enough to accommodate all who will want to visit it for years to come.
 ARBoR DAY, RECENTLY established holiday in Ohio, is an institution which promises to do much for that State in the future, not only in the development of material interest in the propagation of forests, but in an educational way. The day is devoted to setting out trees where they are needed, and the children are developing deep interest in the good work.
 IT MUST BE A PLEASANT diversion to fill ones self full of opium. A young Baltimorean went to the Hospital, to get relief from the effects of dose of it. He said his face seemed two feet from where it really was, and he sometimes thought he had lost his legs and was walking on his chin. He was very much afraid that some one would steal one of his arms if something was not done to counteract the drug.
 A PHILADELPHIA PAPER SAYS that, con- trary to the popular supposition, the ''Shanghaing" of sailors is carried on at that port almost as extensively as it was twenty years ago. The business is con- fined to the sailor boarding-house keep CTS, who, if it is necessary to make up a crew and men are scarce, will pick up. and often drugging, will put aboard ships anybody that falls into their hands. Many of their victims are from the country.
 HERE IS A NEW complication of affairs. Twenty-two residents of Waterville, Me-, have asked the town to reimburse to each of them $200 with interest, which they paid substitutes under the draft of July, 1863. The voters are to pass upon the claim at the ensuing town meeting, and their action will be looked upon with interest by those all along the line who paid for substitutes to take their places before the canon's mouth.
 THERE IS GOOD OLD fairy story of girl who received from the good peo- pie the marvellous property of dropping pearls and diamonds from her lips when ever she spoke. This fairy girl has found rival in recent present to the Pope of fish, made of solid gold, studded with rubies, which, whenever it opens its mouth, pours coins of virgin gold into the hands of it's fortunate owner, but unfortunately it has not the gift of durability, and the Pope must be sparing of his tests.