Connecticut western news., 1884-04-30
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

 verts accompanied by seventeen mission aries arrived from Europe by the steam ship Nevada.
 TIE population of Mexico, including natives, Indians, Spaniards and those of mixed blood, numbers about 10, ,000, GOO. The area of the country Is nearly 500, ,0O0 square miles.
 Two YOUNG women in New Orleans earn SIS month by keeping books, and on this have bought and are paying for cozy little home for themselves and their mother.
 CHAMPAGNE drinkers refuse to believe the most of their fayorite beverage comes from California, but statistics show that 15,000,00 gallons of it was never nearer Europe than New York.
 LORD TENNYsoS has written to an old, blind Sheffield workman who sent him some verses: "I should have heart harder than your anvil if were not deeply interested in what you write"
 LhE hoHhuh LtHtto hhNs Alht at uo time since before the civil war in Amer ica has so little attention been paid in England to the affairs of the United States as during the past four months. !"
 TIE new steamer Oregon made the passage from Queenstown to Sandy Hook, in six days, ten hours and ten minutes. She beats the best record ever before made by eleven hours, thirty minutes.
 WHAT Sunday is to Christians Monday is to the Greeks, Tuesday to the Per sians, Wednesday to the Assyrians, Thursday to the Egyptians, Friday to the Turks and Saturday to the Jews and Seventh-day Baptists.
 CENSUS reports state that the people of Canada are divided [by classes) into agricultural class, 662, ,630; commercial class, 107, ,646; domestic class, "A, ,S30; in- dustrial class, 2s7,296; professional class, 52, 974, and not classified, 205, 22S
 IN some parts of Northern Sweden, it is considered a crime to dance on n Saturday night, while every Sunday night may be spent in dancing. The Sababth commences at six o'clock P. m. Saturday and ends at six o'clock p. m. Sunday.
 PRESIDENT ARTHUR favors building a new mansion on Lafayette Square, op- posite the White House, for the strictly private home of the Chief Magistrate, and retaining the old White House for the executive offices and for holding off cial and public receptions, dinners, etc.
 FORTRESS MONROE, Virginia, is tht largest fort in the world, covering ar area of seventy acres. 1t was built II 1877. and to the uninitiated looks i'm pregnable. In shape the fort is an irreg ular hexagon, two sides fronting th' water, while the other four command the land approaches.
 THERE are 100000 deaths yearly in London, and all the bodies are buried ir the surface soil around the city that it in thirty years 3,OOO,oOO bodies. In twenty years, says Sir Spencer Wells, 6 body becomes clay, and London has, therefore, always 2, 1000, 900 bodies under going "harmful decay"
 AN enterprising capitalist of New Jer' sey has set out 100000 cocoa-palm trees on a tract of 1 1000 acres in Dade County along the southern coast of Florida. Il will require six years for the trees tC yield, and the owner calculates that ir ten years the grove will pay ten pei cent. on valuation of S2, 100000.
 Boys intending this summer to emu late the bold hunters of the prairies who live on roots when game is scarce should take warning from the boys o the training ship Cumberland, stationed on the Clyde. Ten of them were re gently reduced to inconsistencies anc made dangerously ill by eating bari which turned out to be a species of hem lock.
 A PENSIONERS check for upward of si' hundred dollars was stopped at the Bos ton Sub Treasury few days ago, it be ing in the hands of a lawyer, who, n the pensioner said, claimed half th proceeds for obtaining the allowance O the sum. As the retaining of any fe beyond ten dollars is an indictable oi fence, the affair made q ripple in som quarters, but was settled in favor of tn pensioner.
 TIE United States Government owe , the State of New Jersey seyenty-thre cents with interest thereon since 1861 the State having paid an excess of tn amount assessed upon it for direct taxe to carry on the war in 1861. The inter est amounts to ninety-seven cents an six mills, and at the present time th sum of S1. roc stands to the credit l, the State on this account on the book , of the Treasury. An net of Congrei would be necessary, however, in ord' to have the debt paid of.