Connecticut western news., 1884-07-09
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

A DRY air store has been constructed by Lord Fitzhardinge at his Berkeley Castle farm in England, with the obiecI of ascertaining whether it is practicable to store butter when it is Is. per pound, until winter when it would fetch 2s.
 THE Luke Voorhees, cattle ranch in Wyoming comprises 1,000,000 acres of land, 10000 of which are inclosed by one barbed wire fence. The ranch has water frontage of thirty miles, and will easily accommodate 75,000 head of cattle.
 MIR. G1ADsToNE's followers are to wear on his next birthday a bunch oi lilies, with oak and ivy leaves, supposed to represent purity, strength, and te, nacity, which are considered by them the three most prominent chara cteristics oi their leader.
 THE Mayor of Oakland, Cal, has or. dered the revival of the old custom of ringing the curfew bell every evening at g o'clock, with responses from the bells on the engine houses, and the police are to arrest all boys under 15 in the streets after that hour.
 A POND near Monticello, Florida, sud. denly emptied few days ago and deep vent was found in the bottom. It is said that this pond enpties itself regularly at intervals of six or seven years with a loud noise and shortly after begins to fill mp again.
 IT is a splendid season for entomolo- gists. Potato bugs, canker worms, cut worms, white grubs and other specimens are abounding, and if the farmer does not exterminate them depleted collec- tions can be magnifcently arrayed with all sorts of bugs.
 THE claimant, Sir Roger, will soon be out of prison. The date will be before his full term of sentence expires, and he will go forth on "a ticket of leave" It is stated that he has been offered a good sum by one of the Surrey managers to appear as Bob Brierly in the drama of | that name.
 IT is stated by experts that Broad Riv- CT at Anthony Shoals, Georgia, has a volume of 19, ,0O0, 900 cubic feet of water per minute and its velocity is 175 feet per minute, it's fall in a mile aud quar- ter being 92 feet. The horse power is calculated to be 37,286, while Lowell has only 16,0O0.
 DR. FARR, an English scientist, says that if one were to watch the march of 1000, 900 people through life, he would observe that nearly 150,000 would die the first year, B, 900 the second, 28, 900 the third, less that 4,O00 in the thir- teenth, and at the end of 108 years there would be but oae survivor.
 THE Iron Age pays Mir. Don J. Whit. temore, chief engineer of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway, aud president of the National American So- ciety of Civil Engineers, the tribute oi a full page biographical sketch. Mir. W. IS one of the most prominent civil engi. neers in the country.
 IN the village of Varanda, iu South Hungary, a woman has been arrested or a charge of poisoning her fourth bus. band. She confesses to having likewise poisoned her three former husbands, and further to have murdered in the same way hundreds of women during the last two years. She made use o certain drugged preparations of brandy.
 LOVERS of salad need have no feal that the supply of olive oil will diminisf to any alarming extent. According tt ths-Drugnlan there are now eighty-fivt mills in operation in the South for tho manufacture of cotton-seed oil, and dur ing the past season about 500, 1000 tonl of the seed were crushed, giving a pro duct of over 250, 900 barrels of that con venient adulterant.
 TUCSON is the pride of all Arizonians They even claim it to be the oldest city in America, and declare that its origin antedates that of Santa Fe. Before the advent of Americans 1t was a Mexican hamlet, and still earlier it was an Indial village. No traces of it's first occupant are to be seen to-day, but the adob houses and narrow, winding streets ar
 Mexican.
 BRICKS made of cork now constitut, one of the new German industries. Tn usual size is ten by four and three fourths and two and half inches. The , are prepared from small corks, refus and cement and have not only been use , for certain building purposes, on accour 3 of their lightness and isolating proper ties, but are also employed as covel 3 ing for boilers, in preventing the radii
 tion of heat.
 DR. STURGE, a medical missionary
 Siam, relates how native doctor at 1 ministered an emetic to love-sick lad @ who had swallowed quantity of opiul . with suicidal intent. The scientist t Siam took live eel, clipped off a part B his tail to make him squirm in a livel 0 manner, and then pushed hin, tail frs e down the romantic damsel's throa :. When the eel returned to the stream t running water near which the girl W; e made to recline, the opium quickly flo I lowed him.
 k A BIG bakery on Blackwell's Islar bakes all the bread that is used by th l, institutions under the management It the Commissioners of Charities an g Correction of New York city. Ever e six weeks the Commissioners buy 4, ,0l l barrels, the best to be had. They d, e vertise for proposals, and the flour l bought subject to the approval of thrt u members of the Produce Exchang ts selected by the Commissioners. IT