Connecticut western news., 1884-05-07
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

OEhAIOh SHERMAN udS Ene IepuldllOu of being the best whist player in Wash ington.
 THERE are about 2,O0O, 900 sheep in Colorado. The clip this year will be 10, 1000, 900 pounds.
 INDIANA has 42, ,421 more males than females, and Massachusetts has so, ,O00 more women than men. Go East, young man, go East.
 BRITISH courts have decided that when a person has not been seen or heard of for seven years the presumption is death, and the insurance company must pay up.
 THE Great Pyramid contains 2,300, 900 stones, weighing on an average two and a half tons each. The granite beams of the kings chamber weigh between fifty and sixty tons.
 DR. FARR has divided life as follows: Boyhood, 10 to 15 years; youth, 15 to %; manhood, 25 to 55; maturity, 55 to 75; ripeness, 75 to S5; and old age, S5 and upward.
 MIR. JOSEPH E. TEMPLE, of Philadel- phia, has given the Pennsylvania Muse um and Schools of Industrial Art $50, 900, on conditions that the income shall be paid to him during his life.
 WHAT a satire on 'toutdoor" sports, says the New York World, is a walking match in such stifing atmosphere that the smell of tobacco and bad rum makes more than one of the contestants sick.
 FOR a complete case of atonement a Lewiston, Maine, man takes the prize. Having spent ten years in prison he is now engaged in paying of his old debts, as well as compensating those from whom he had stolen.
 THE membership of some of the En- glish unions is as follows Boiler makers, 29,000; weavers, 23,0OO; cot ton spinners, 17,600; tailors, 7,65S; la- borers, 12,500; iron founders, Il, ,563; stonemasons, 1000; printers, S,2Oo.
 A PARIS medical writer is greatly in- censed because an American doctor pro- poses the drinking of hot water as 8 health measure; he says that for some time to come men in general will care little for hot water except in their foot bath.
 WHILE on the march to the place of execution an English soldier, recently sentenced to death, complained of the man in front of him for not keeping step to the music. He said it made him sick to see soldier marching out oi time.
 THE albnm of the Bank of England 1T which specimens of counterfeits are pre-. served has three notes which passed through the Chicago fire. Though they are burnt to a crisp, black ash. the paper is scarcely broken, and the es' graving is as clear as new.
 A TREMENDOUS waterspout was that which burst over Hutchins Station, or the Texas Central Railroad. The water is represented as being ten feet deep on level ground. Farm implements, fences and crops were destroyed, and not 8 bridge remained. The damage was very severe.
 Two HUNDRED and seventy. two new Lutheran houses of worship were dedi cated in this country last year. O these 162 were built by German, 62 by English, 2 by German English, 26 by Swedish, 2 by Norwegian, by Norwe gian Danish, and 1 by Danish congrega tions.
 A TOMATO canner says the cause O poisoning from eating canned tomatoes is this:-When the can is opened anG only a portion of the contents removed the air acts upon the tin and develops the poison. The can should be emptiet at once, and the unused portion put il an earthen vessel.
 PRESIDENT HOARD, of the Northwest i ern Dairymen's Association, thinks it i strange that not one in a hundred of tn, patrons of the cheese factories of tn, Northwest ever attend a dairy conven ton. The President forgets, says al exchange, that the dairy has very littl, to do with the manufacture of ehees, nowadays.
 LAST year the women of the United States gave 5000, 900 toward Christianiz ing the heathen. Of this large sun Presbyterian women gave nearly $2OO, GOO: Baptist women, $156,000; Con gregational women, $13O, 900; Northern Methodist women, $108, 900; and South ern Methodist women, $25, 900.
 A VESSEL off Para reports falling il with mass of spiders h.ating in tn air. The rigging and sails were coveret with the web, the long threads of whicl formed the balloon for the tiny aero nauts. For several miles this spide swarm continued, the captain estimating that there were millions blown iron land.
 GEN. SHERMAN was offered a Briga dier- -Generalship in the Missouri militi recently, but he promptly declined The General very wisely thinks it woul, be easier to command the entire arm, of the United States than brigade c militiamen, and he is now hunting fo rest, peace and quiet game of ocea sional whist.
 He Got His Answer.