Connecticut western news., 1884-04-09
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

lSa0 Ill year, one-Slxtn more than America, which comes next on the list, while Germany follows with 90,0O0.
 A BUFFALO PHYSICIAN LAYS THE large increase in the number of midgets and dwarfs in the past fifty years to the con- sumption of nicotine by fathers who smoke excessively.
 THE DOMINION ALLIANCE FOR THE suppression of the liquor traffic has is. sued a circular urging immediate agita- tion for the adoption of the Scott act in every county in the Dominion.
 IN CHINA, so LoNa-REsIDENT of that country says, a son is obliged to divorce his wife if she displeases his parents. Mother-in-law means something in China, and the young wives soon find it out. ..
 THE MINES OF THE BLACK HILLS, in Dakota, have mined and milled l ,512 ,037 tons of gold ore, yielding $10, ,434, 116, an average of only $5.78 per ton, making profit of, and paying in dividends, 8, 142, 800.
 THERE ARE 8l, GOO MASTERS AND mis- tresses teaching in the public schools of France, and out of this number no fewer than IS, 043 receive salaries below $200 year, while only 579 receive salaries above $520.
 THE STATISTICS SHOW THAT there are in the United States physicians and sur geons of all classes, schools and qualifi- cations, about 60,00O; and estimating our population at 55,O00,OO0, there is one to every 900.
 MR. CHILDs' PRIVATE SECRETARY says that as many as POO begging letters are received in one day, and the total of the applications for money made to the Ledger publisher by letter often aver ages S20,O day.
 THE BUTCHERS OF NEW YORK are try ing to discontinue the transportation from Chicago and other Western cities of dressed cattle. The butchers say that the meat is tainted when it reaches the city, and unfit to eat.
 THERE IS A PHYSICIAN IN Rochester whose heart makes only twenty-six pull. sations a minute. He is A years old, and enjoys excellent health. The aver age for healthy men is sixty-fve heart beats to the minute.
 A SINGULAR ACCIDENT HAPPENED LATELY at a mill in Nashville, Tenn. A workman was thrown toward a circular saw, and, thinking he would strike it, died from fright. When picked up he was dead, but there was no sign of a bruise on his body.
 ON JAN. 1, 1882, THE INHABITANTS of Russia numbered 91, 118,5l4, living in sixty-three provinces and eleven dis tricts. During the year 1881 there were 4,043, 863 births and 2,s26, ,43S deaths registered, the growth of the popula- ton being 1,217, 425 inhabitants.
 ABOUT 150 MILES NORTH OF Missoula, Montana, region has been discovered by an exploring party in which are twenty-two cascades over 800 feet in height, and true glacier with mile frontage and 800 feet fall. 1t is said to be more wonderful region than the Yellowstone.
 Cor. CALKINs. A WAR DEMOCRAT, and editor of the Milwaukee Sunday Teie- gram, the Western organ of the Grand Army of the Republic, says it is not true that the G. A. R. is political organiza- ton. Politics is td6ooed in the order, and any attempt to introduce it would be drowned down at once.
 ANY PERSON WHO IS THE head of @ family or who has arrived at the age of twenty-one years, and is a citizen of the United States or has filed his declara- ton of intention to become such, is en- titled to enter one-quarter section or less quantity of unappropriated land under the Homestead laws.
 GEORGE MARKELL, OF MINNESOTA, went to be married. He found his pro- gress impeded by river swollen by the spring floods. He swam tie stream, and then on a raft lowed over his clothes and two saddles, one of them his we'd ding present to the bride. Then the horses were guided across, and the wed ding was celebrated.
 THEY ARE HAVING TROUBLE IN Texas over a man who has just received two sentences, one of fifty years imprison ment, and the other to be hanged. They want to hang him now, but the mar claims that he ought to serve his tern first, as that sentence was pronounced prior to the one of hanging.
 IN SPEAKING OF THE TEMPERANcl question the New York Hour says There can be no doubt that the hquo bill of the Republic is far larger than desirable; but it can hardly be main tained that the present generation i more incorporate than that which pre- ceded it. Outside of the great cities ther is little inebriety. AS a class, the farm CTS and the farm laborers lead lives c very great sobriety.
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