Connecticut western news., 1884-07-30
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

NUTES AND COMMENTS.
 LIEUTENANT SoHwATKA fell over a rocking chair in San Francisco the other day and broke his arm, after exploring the Arctic regions without accident.
 OVER one hundred bushels of grass hoppers have been captured this summer on one farm ir Plymouth, N. H., by the owner, for which he received a bounty of $1 per bushel.
 Two HUNDRED and twenty-five dozen eggs shipped from Cape Breton to Bos- ton were accidently found to have been cooked by the heat of freshly cut grass in which they were packed.
 THE Italian Government has been ad- vised by its Consuls to prohibit the emi- grafton of ofganists with monkeys, on the ground that they give bad reputa- tion to Italy in foreign countries.
 Ar Osborne, New Zealand, in March last, died A. H. Braithwaite, the man who designed the locomotive Novelty, which competed with George Stephen sons locomotive Rocket, so many years ago.
 SoUTHEY records in his Common place Book" that a physician who had seen more than 40, 900 cases of smallpox said he had never met with the disease in person with red or light, haxen hair.
 THE law prohibiting the sale of malt and spirituous liquors in Iowa has boomed the sale of buttermilk in that State and many saloons are to be opened for its sale by persons who formerly sold intoxicants.
 TIE State Treasurer of New Hamp- shire has issued notice to the Select men of towns, that in presenting claims for bounties on woodchucks, they must certify that none of the animals were killed on Sunday, else the claim will not be allowed.
 | A CALIFORNIA newspaper recently con- tained an article on the subject of the increase of insanity in that State, and the writer's explanation of the increase is that free use of flesh meat by immi- grants previously used to a vegetable diet causes the trouble.
 WATERLOO is a small and insignificant village in the province of South Brabani
 in Belgium. Brussels, the capital ol Belgium, is distant about nine miles in 6 N. N. E. direction, so that Byron's poet
 ical assertion that the cannons' opening roar was heard in the capital may mol have been altogether imaginary.
 A STORY is on the rounds to the effect
 that the Mayor of Boston sent two pack. ages exactly alike in weight and con
 tents by mail few days ago. One o them was bound to Paris, France, 8, ,O0t miles or so away, and the postage on il was 20 cents. The other was destined
 for Worcester, forty miles away and tht postage was 28 cents.
 THE other day a woman fell into tha
 pellucid stream, the Irwel, near Man chester. She was rescued alive, but sub sequently died. An inquest revealed the interesting fact that the cause of hel
 death was not drowning as had naturally been supposed, but poisoning by swal lowing the waters of the river. This is
 pleasant idea.
 DIAMOND discovery has had much tn
 same effect at Cape Colony as gold ha, in California. Colonists, dazzled at thu
 rapid rise to wealth of few, have aban doned agriculture for diamond seeking
 only to find penury. This state of ai
 fairs is reflected in the bankruptcy court
 There is returning disposition now t trust more to mother earth's vegetabl ! rather than mineral productions.
 THE bog peat of Mexico is now bein used on a considerable scale as fuel fo
 locomotives, stationary engines, smeltinI
 purposes, smiths fires, and househol use. The peat is mixed with a prope proportion of bitumen, and is said no
 only to burn freely, and without smok in much quantity, but to give highe dynamic equivalent of heat than tn same amount of wood.
 ? A PROMINENT operator in speaking O ' the reduction in wheat which had takel place of late, remarked: "The stocks O , the world on the 1st of the presen month were only 45,5OO, 900 bushel against s2. 300, 900 on the Ist of Januar, , and 50, ,O00, 900 on July 1, 1883. Thes figures represent the wheat and flour re duced to wheat in ten principal cities O Europe and the visible supply il America"
 STATISTICS show that the tendency t. } suicide is much greater among regula gamblers from losses than among busi } ness men. The sharp strain of the gam } ing table, short though it may be, spoil the nerves, and weakens fortitude nor,
 than the strain of business. Cavour one of the most serene of men, wa within an ace on one great gambling night of throwing half his fortune ava, rather than call card, and only called it, as he related himself, because drop of precipitation rose on his opponent's
 forehead.
 The Gilt-Edge Butter Circle.