Connecticut western news., 1884-03-26
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

SfEhh lS NUT ALD huushlhS 1bA AAAO manager. The Mapleson opera drew S1, ,000 lately at Denver, with Gerster getting $1,6O0, while Patti, at s5,5O0, attracted only s3, 1000.
 TIE WHEAT HARVEST IN South Austra- lia will give an average yield of about eleven bushels per acre. This, on 1 100000 acres, will give a gross yield of about 20, 900, 900 bushels.
 FOREIGN BROKERS ARE MAKING heavy purchases in this country of the silver trade dollar at a discount of ten per cent. or more. The object is tosell them at par to immigrants ignorant of their value.
 THERE ARE LOTS OF THEORIES about the interior of the earth but the latest is that it is twice as dense as the solid materials of the surface, and, though very hot, no portion of it is in liquid condition.
 THE PRIZES RECENTLY OFFERED by S. Nicholas Magasine, for the best origi- nal illustrations by young artists under seventeen years of age, brought more than nine hundred pictures under the notice of the judges.
 THE NEW YORK PRODUCE EXCHANGE have settled itj that hereafter there will be allowed for wheat 525 bushels per car, corn $50, oats 960, barley 625, field peas 525, hax-seed 625, rye $50; export sack flour, 15o barrels.
 MR. JAY GOULD, THE SECOND richest man of the United States, is credited with being the possessor of wealth esti- mated all the way from $50, ,000, 900 to S75, ,000,0 900. Were his railroad stocks worth their par value he would be an hundred millionaire.
 THE OPIUM HABIT IS SPREADING in this country, and especially among the higher classes and professional people, says Boston physician. Morphine, which is six times the strength of opium, and extracted from it, is the favorite drug used by these people.
 TEE EVIDENCE or RELIEVING officers of at Birmingham, England, discloses a dreadful state oi things. In some cases two families, including children, occupy one room; in others one small house contains several families mixed up in a most demoralizing way.
 THE WALLS OF THE new Mormon Tem- pie in Salt Lake City are eighty-five feet high and ten feet in thickness aud are built of granite. The building will be completed in six years and has already cost S4, 500, 900. It has evidently come to stay, whatever becomes of its builders. TEE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIo LANDS of | the United States House has agreed to report in favor of declaring the forfeiture of the lands granted to fifteen railroad companies, aggregating more than 60,- GOO, 900 acres. These lands are valuable and many of them would be at once taken up by settlers.
 | A GEORGIA PAPER SAYS THAT gentle. man in Oconee is digging cyclone pit under his house, fixed with trap-door It is large enough to accommodate all his family, and whenever a cloud arises they take refuge therein. Storm pits are also going down by the hundreds in other parts of the State.
 LONDON Truth SAYS THAT Mrs. Mackay has given pain ''to all right thinking persons in Paris by appearing in a dress of white velvet trimmed all over with the wings of robin red breasts; and, to complete this barbaric toilet, her shoes of red velvet were entirely, covered with the toes of the little robbins"
 A WOMAN IN CRAWFORD COUNTY, Pa., in 1872 applied for a divorce from her husband. The divorce was granted, but the woman, not understanding the &C., tion of the Court, made up with her husband, and continued to live with him. Now she and her friends arc wor- rying over whether she is legally mar ried to him.
 THE POPULATION IN IRELAND is now very nearly the same as it was in the year of the Union. 5,1OO,0OO, the great increase up to 1841, when it reached 8,199, ,000, having been entirely lost. But whereas in 1882, on the passing oI the reform bill, Ireland had 92.32 per cent of the population of the United Kingdom, it has now but IA. s1 per cent. and its electors, who were 1L.82 pei cent. of the whole in 1882, are now