Connecticut western news., 1884-06-04
NOTES AND COMMENTS.


 tune by proHigacy, became hermit and the other day starved to death at Leo- minister, Mass.
 A PARIS medical journal says that a piece of borax weighing two or three grains will, if allowed to dissolve slowly in the mouth of a singer, remove all trace of hoarseness.
 THE Cape Cod Canal is now being excavated at the rate of seven hundred cubic yards per day. The canal will be a saving of one hundred miles between Southern ports and Boston.
 LOVERS OF so-called "blood- will be interested to hear that, the SUD- ply of their fayorite fruit having fallen short, certain dealers now prick the skins of ordinary oranges and then sub- ject the latter to bath of colored liquid.
 M. HoUIEs, in a report to the Academic des Sciences, states that he Is unable to find that workers in copper suffer any injurious effects from handling it. It is becoming more and more doubt ful, he says, whether copper can be recognized as among the poisonous metals.
 THE anti-prohibitionists of Wichita, Kan., had a mass meeting "to emphasize the doctrine of free opinion in free country" Late that same night the Methodist and Presbyterian Churches, the pastors of which were total-absti- hence advocates, were set on fire, and the barns of several persons were destroyed.
 TRAMPs should go to Italy. "Ouida" says of life there: "Here one wants so little; the air and the light and little red wine, and the warmth of wind, and a handful of maize or of grapes, and an old guitar, and a niche to sleep in near a fountain that murmurs and sings to the moses and marbles-these are enough in Italy"
 A FINISHED EDUCATIoN.--"So your daughter has graduated, I hear, Mrs. Smithers ?" "Yes; she finished her education last week. She knows almost everything now" 'I suppose she is quite proficient in French" "Oh, my, yes. She is up in her room now read ing French novel. ."--Philadelphia EUening Call.
 A NEW outdoor game for ladies and gentlemen, called enchantment, is be- coming fashionable in England. It is played with small, light hoops, thrown with wands, something after the manner of grace hoops, though the wand is of a novel construction, involving a peculiar method of casting the hoop. A moder- ately large piece of ground is suitable.
 THE native American population of Iowa at the last census was 989, 1928, and less than half that number were born in Iowa. There were 73, 435 of native born Pennsylvanians; 79,143 New Yorkersi 5,943 Maine people; 5O,057 New Hamp' shire folk; S,929 Massachusetts people; 12,204 Vermonters; 5,6S8 New Jersey people; 10000 Virginians, and the resi- from other Southern and Western States.
 A DAKOTA farmer in 1881 planted g single grain of wheat in one of his oat fields. From it grew twenty-two stalks, each one bearing Q full head. These yielded 860 grains, 760 of which were planted the next year, producing one. fifth of bushel of splendid wheat. This was planted last spring, yielding + bushels, making 1,020 pounds of wheat from one grain in three years.
 MRS. CAROLINE SPAULDNG BURDETTE wife of Robert J. Burdette, died in Ard more, Pa, of inflammatory rheumatism from which she has been suffering fol many years. The bereaved husband ha' the sincere sympathy of thousands O friends, and his faithful tenderness toward the suffering lady throughout her long illness will be recalled to hi honor now that she has ceased to neeC it.
 SOCIETY in Milwaukee was shocked at the marriage of Mr. Burt, an elderl, millionaire widower, with his young Scotch servant. But the sudden deatl of MT. Burt has left pretty widow witl million in her own right, and the sterl rules of society which has placed he in Coventry shows signs of relaxing. A a widow she has developed charms ant attractions which did not exist when, as poor young woman, she married tn courted millionaire.
 THE transformation of slave labor into free in Brazil was commenced in earnes as long ago as 1871, having been inaug urated by a law known as the Rio Branc law dated Sept. 2S in that year. It ha ever since gradually progressed, is stil progressing, and has produced no sensi ble political, financial, or economies disturbance. In addition to the actiol of the State, private benevolence eman cipates large numbers of slaves ever year, and the recent Rio papers an nounce that in the province of Gear alone 15,000 have been freed during tn
 last five years by this agency.