Connecticut western news., 1884-10-22
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

AN American who went into business in Paris, and advertised on the fences, was fined $50 by the courts "for annoy ing the vision of the public"
 A BILL before the Vermont Legisla- ture provides a bounty of from 50 cents to S1.50 per bushel for grasshoppers, according to the season in which they are killed.
 FL MAHDI, the false prophet, sleeps during the day and transacts business at night Just like the newspaper man, except the newspaper man does not sleep during the day.
 A CHECK for $500, signed by William H. Vanderbilt, was sent to the Police Headquarters in New York. The money is to be added to the fund for the aid of disabled policemen.
 THERE are now more than 800, GOO persons in England who use the bicycle and tricycle., and the capital invested in the manufacture of these machines is S15, 900, 900, employing nearly 10000 men.
 ACCORDING to the Druqqists' Journal potatoes do not absorb the arsenical preparations used for destroying the Colorado beetle, but the productiyeness of tho soil is impaired by the use of ar- senic.
 ST. JOHN, the temperance candidate for President, does not have much faith in politicians. He said in late speech: ''If Chinamen could vote, the average politician would walk up behind him and stroke his long queue and say, John, it's a daisy"
 JACOB THoRNK, of New York, i'm ported the first Shorthorn cattle ever brought to this country. He was a prominent merchant, and his death which took place lately was regretted by all. He was noted for his acts of kindness.
 TIE Chinese city of Foo Chow, ac. cording to letter writer, is surrounded by high wall twelve feet wide on top. The streets are narrow and filthy and the climate very hot The inhabitants excel in the manufacture of ornaments | from soapstone.
 MR IT. O. WHEELER, one of the Vice | Presidents of the Iowa State Apricul- tural Society, has $500 acres of land fenced and under cultivation. He has 2,000 acres in timothy, 200 in clover, | 500 in wheat and oats, 1,500 in corn, and l, 300 acres in flax.
 TIE financial condition of the Italian Government has very much improved ol late years; deficits in the annual budget are smaller than formerly, the one foi 1885 being set down at only million ol dollars. The peninsula no longer keeps financial company with Turkey, Spain, and Egypt
 CHLORIDE of lime should be used witt care. A young lady recently put large quantity in a clothes press where ther, was a musty smell. The bad oior wa, entirely destroyed by the chemical, but a silk dress of pale blue color was bleached to a dirty gray hue and rem dered almost useless.
 WHEN the late Bishop of London re visited the University Chapel at Cam bridge, after long absence, he found thu same verger there whom he remem bored in his college days, and said tC him: "You have much to be gratefu for" "I have, indeed, my lord," re piled the old man, "for have heard every sermon that has been preached il the chapel for fifty years, and, bless th' Lord, am a Christian still"
 MR. POWERS. the London Time correspondent in Khartoum with dordol Pasha, writes: "One Arab horseman i enough to put 200 of the bulk of ou men to flight. The day Saai Bey wa killed eight men with spears charges 200 of our men armed with Remingtons The soldiers fled at once, leaving Saai and his vakeel to be killed. A blacl officer cut down three of the Arabs, an the other five chased our men. A horse man coming up rode through the hyin mass, cutting down seven. With sucl men as these we can do nothing. Th negroes are the only men we can dc |