Connecticut western news., 1884-07-02
NOTES AND COMMENTS.


 for market on the 1st of July.
 THE number of horses in the United States in 1884, according to the latest official statistics, is Il, 169, 683-showing an increase over 1883 of 331, ,577 head. The number of mules in this country IS now estimated at 1914, ,126.
 BOSTON, according to the Ne10 Eng land Farmer, consumes from 100, 900 to 150, 900 pounds of oleomargarine and other limitations of butter per week. Very little spurious butter is now sold in the markets of New York.
 A CALL has been issued in Georgia for grand State temperance conven- tion to meet in Atlanta on Thursday, July 24, and continue in session two days. It will be composed, the call says, of all sorts of temperance people.
 AN advertisement in the Paris Figaro announces that man of 36. titled, in- telligent, and energetic, would accept any situation, even one perilous, or re- quiring him to go far away, or marriage, in return for the payment of $20,000 of debt.
 PERSONS interested in ferns will be glad to know that monograph of the ferns of Canada has been prepared for early publication, in which sixty-three different species are described, though only forty-six were known twenty years ago.
 A GERMAN, now resident in England, says that, having served for six years in the German army, he can confidently say that the military system of that country constitutes the most cursedly tyrannicaI form of slavery that ever dis graced 8 civilized nation.
 THE United States navy has rescued ten people from the Marshall Islands in the Pacific, and Commander McCor- mick, of the Essex, presented the sava- ges, in the name of the United States, with several hatchets, some brads and a handsaw. There is good work in our navy yet.
 | MR. BANDELIER, who has long been studying the matter in Mexico and along the Southwestern border, reports that he finds a well-defned system of growth from the temporary Indian lodge to the many storied pueblo-building, (which clearly does not owe its origin to any ex- ternal influence"
 FROM the postmaster at Mutt, New Mexico, the. Postmaster General recently received notice as follows: "Our town is gone to the Sweet By and By'-only one family left. I respectfully resign my position as postmaster here. West ward the star of empire takes its way, also the P. M."
 MAJOR BEN PERLEY PooRE, on in- quiring into the history of the Marine Band that discourses our national music in Washington, finds that it originated on board the frigate Constitution, Con- modore Hull, cruising in Mediterranean waters in 1895, and has always been largely composed of Italians.
 Ar Mir. Oscar Wilde's marriage to Miss Constance Lloyd the brides dress was fashionable and not aesthetic. The saffron-hued garment, which brought him such lucrative notoriety, was dis carded in favor of a creamy brocade and satin robe, made by one of the best. known French dressmakers.
 THE Earl of Wilton has just had his tongue cut out. He bore the operation well, and it has been successful, at least in saving his life. Hitherto cancer il the tongue has been deemed fatal. The elder Placide, Henry, died of it, and his brother Thomas committed suicide under the suffering which attends it.
 SATURN and his rings have lately beer studied from the observatory at Nice under extraordinarily favorable condi tions, and some features ot great interes observed. Not the least of these wal the fact that the outer ring is made III of three separate rings, and each of thest show striations as though indefinitely : subdivided.
 SINCE TIT New York State has hat twenty-nine Governors. George Clinton served seven terms, Daniel D. Tomp kins and De Witt Clinton four each, Wm L. Marcy three, and John Jay, Enos T Throop, William H. Seward, Horatic Seymour, Edwin D. Morgan, ReubeI E. Fenton and John T, Hoffman tw, terms apiece.
 IT is said that only one small herd O buffaloes remains in Texas. This Ina , been feeding on the Pecos River, in tn | Staked Plain region, but band of hun
 ters is lowering about it continually
 killing the animals as fast as the mea can be cared for, and it's days are mum f bered. This is the remnant of what wa ! known a few years ago as ''the grea
 Southern herd"
 VOLCANIC dust is composed chief , and essentially of silica-fne particle
 of natural glass that which fell durin 8 the late eruption of Krakaton held 6 & per cent. A recent volcanic dust shove 8 in Alaska (Unalashka), however, shove | almost no silica, and the dust was fouu s to consist of feldspar, magnetic, an l. other minerals in irregular splinters. |: Cor. MALozEwsK1, who died lately [ s his home in Prussian Poland, was 10I h While serving in the Prussian army | F was taken prisoner, and forthwith el
 tered the French army and took part i
 many of Napoleon's campaigns. Aftt IS Waterloo he went home, but in the ri J. ing of 1880 entered the Polish army ant |" being taken prisoner, passed forty-seve ,t years in Siberia. He was only release ?, in 1879.
 " A YOUNG man who was addicted to Il ., 1 cnroi11rrn holnit n H,l;fr,..,:. IL.