Connecticut western news., 1884-06-25
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

FOR slNteen years the grave or man who murdered little child in Columbia County has been strewn with flowers by some one on the anniversary of his exc cution.
 ONE of the celebrities at the Chicago Convention was Judge Norton, of Texas, who has kept a pledge made in 1S44, not to shave or cut his hair until Henry Clay was placed in the Presidential chair.
 THE Vicksburg (Miss.) Herald says that Capt. NJ. Hughes has discovered that the use of layer of Spanish moss in dike or dam prevents the damaging work of crayfsh in boring holes through them.
 MRS. SINCLAIR, who was divorced from Edwin Forrest years ago, is still living on Staten Island, and is a hale, hearty, handsome old lady, plentifully provided with this worlds goods, in- cluding some of the best.
 A FEW days ago two policemen, of Stockton, Cal, arrested an old man for stealing an orange. One of the police men ate the orange. and the old man got twenty-five days in jail. Thus was tue majesty of the law vindicated.
 FIVE generations of one family are residing under one roof in Rutland, Vt The great-great. t.grandmothe is 95 years old, the great-grandmother is 75 years old, the grandmother 53 years old, the mother 30 years old, and the child G years old.
 WAGES are ten cents 2 day in China, and it is not surprising that the almond eyed son of Confucius should desire to come to this glorious land where he can get ga dollar a dozen" for washing the soiled garments of the sons and daugh- ters of freedom.
 A CHINESE cook in San Francisco was caught in the net of stewing a plump rat in his employers kitchen. He de- nied it was a "lat," and declared it was a ''labbit." But the proof against him was palpable, and Chinaman, rat and saucepan were discharged into the street.
 A CORRESPONDENT of the Tucson (Ari- zona) Star, writing from San Carlos Res ervation, says the Apaches who n year ago were on the war-path, "ready to sweep down upon our herds and ranch. men, rifle in hand," have now "blistered hands holding the blow and using the hoe."
 - IT has been represented to the Health officers of New York city that the acids in beer corrode brass faucets and cause the formation of verdigris, which in turn poisons the beer. Brass faucets shown to the Health officers to illustrate this fact contained deposits of verdigris along it's entire interior.
 ALEXANDER MITCHELL, the Scotch banker, of Milwaukee, who is believed to be worth anywhere from S25, 900, ,0OO to $50, ,0O0, ,000, is thick-set, 200-pound man of sixty, very hospitable and famous for his hot-house fruits and his flower gardens, claimed to be the finest in the | West.
 THE plan adopted last year in London of sending poor and delicate children into the country for three weeks in mid summer has proved very successful. They are boarded in cottagers' families at the rate of about S1.25 per week. Manchester and other towns are making an effort to the same end.
 THERE is Q negro graduate at Harvard this year-Robert Hebberton Terrell, { Virginian, and the son of slave parents He went to college as a waiter, and nl that time was illiterate; but some o the students took fancy to him and helped him through a preparatory course, after which he supported him self by teaching Q Boston class of negro boys.
 THOUGH ninety-five years have passed since the organization of the Govern ment, the method of selecting Presi dential candidates by national conven tions has been in vogue only some fit, years. The first President who wal nominated by national convention wa Martin Van Buren, who received thu Democratic nomination for that office il 1885.
 WOMEN in China are deeply interested in avoiding divorce, as the diyorce' loses the honorable position of wife The Chinese lady, strongly developed avoids both scandals and intrigues The magistrate often composes quarrel instead of pronouncing a decree of ali vorce, and the wife has an unfailinl source of consolation in the upbringint of her children.
 THE Indianapolis Journal protest against the further circulation of the an cient item crediting seventeen.y year-ol, Miss Rossiter with being the head O the silk culturists in this country. Sh would have been seventeen years ol ten years ago, when the item was frs written, only for one trifing obstacle which we are almost ashamed to men tion-there never was such a person. AFTER enduring for years the visits C book canvassers and the rest of tn l office-infesting tribe, Glasgow iirr } tried what banter would do, mud issued
 notice as follows-"The hours of attend ance in this office are--To cauvassers fo church subscriptions, 10 till 2; book an l insurance agents, till 4; commercii travellers, beggars, and advertising mer - all day. We attend to our own bushes 8 at night"
 g A MAN who had never seen a railroa r was being shown one by his friend, an ! I Al sC T