Connecticut western news., 1884-08-13
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

question of comets is to be found in the election of masses akin to meteors from the suns and giant planets.
 A DAKOTA clergyman, after a long period of intense inebriety, preached a sermon of correspondingly deep con- triton. Several passages of the remark able discourse were devoted to vivid description of delirium tremens.
 ENGLISH opinion on the Greedy ex- petition sympathizes with the American idea that no more Arctic expeditions should be sent out, but hints that it will not prevent other Arctic expeditions any more than the latest accident on the Mont Blanc will prevent Alpine asoents.
 AN artificial flower maker reioices in the extravaganza of the time. Bouquets of artificial flowers are carried by many ladies at balls. A wreath of artificial flowers is n pretty trimming for a dress. One made for lady at Saratoga was of pinks aud dropping grass, and cost 800.
 A CHINESE physician in this country says that n very small proportion of Chi namen die of consumption, because, three hundred years ago, T'sang Loo, a learned doctor, discovered that people become afflicted with the disease by breathing through the mouth instead of the nose.
 Ul,yvpx, ora ,,,ora than a ,uortar nT n million women in London who work with their needle for bare subsistence. Their lot since the introduction of the sewing machine is even worse than the condition depicted in the "Song of the Shirt" Then they might live, now they barely exist
 MR. THOMAS COWBOY is a hardworking shoemaker in Tanners Falls, Pa, who, in fulfllment of VOW, for twenty-six years has refused to touch fortune of e5, 900 and accumulated interest await ing him in Dublin, Ireland, until his re- latiyes should apologize for having CT. roneously accused him of sympathy with the Molly Maguire organization.
 PROF. AUSTIN PHELPS, D. D., says that death is to all minds alike a dread, appalling presence, from its first eoncep- ton till ife's close. Say what men may of it, all men fear it. He declares that the most devout Christian and the most sensuous skeptic recoil from it, resist it, put it of sight, struggle to forget it to the last. "It is the one overwhelming terror of every human life."
 IT is said that the following anecdote, which has been told of a number of peo- pie, originated with Lord Cowley, who at one of his own parties in Paris, was leaning against the mantlepiece when an unknown gentleman said to him, "Do you mean to say that Lord Cowley's parties are never ivelier than this ?" "Never." "Well," said the stranger, "then shall take myself off at once." "You're lucky man." said Lord Cow ley, with a sigh; "I'm obliged to stop"
 FROM & paper contributed by the veteran scholar, Dr. Edkins, to recent number of the Chinese Recorder, it ap- pears that about B. 0. 2200 the Chinese possessed knowledge of the art of writing, a year of 366 days with m in- tercalary month, the astrolabe, the zodiac, the cycle of sixty, of twelve musical reeds forming a gamut, which also constituted the basis of a denary neurology for measures of length, weight, and capacity, divination, and n feudM system.
 THE manufacture of 'buffalo-horn" furniture has become an industry in New York City. The horns are not those of the bison, as is commonly be- lieved, but are from the cattle killed in the abattoirs. They are sold at the slaughter houses for little more than what the hutton manufacturers give, aro cleaned, dried, scraped and polished. The cost of making these horn goods is less than that of carved wood, but they bring two or three times more than the latter. The new industry is almost mo- nopolized by Germans from Saxony.
 ON the 21st of July, 1909, died Daniel Lambert, at the early age of 30. What his actual weight was at the time of his death is not exactly known; but three years before that melancholy event, when he exhibited himself at his house, 5 Picadily, he weighed, according to one of his exhibition bills, ,222 pounds, London weight. The coffin enclosing his remains, which was with some diff. culty deposited in St. Marks Church. yard, contained no less than 112 super ficial feet of elm, was feet inches long, 4 feet inches wide, and feet 1 inches deep.
 SOME of the Tiehborne claimants friends visited him in Portsea convict prison the other day, and told him of the proceedings in the colony of New South Wales for the release of "Arthur Orton" from the Paramatta lunatic asylum. Tbe claimant said he did not mean to slumber when he came out of prison. He will be released on the 24th of October next from Pentonville prison, to which place he will be re- moved about week previously. Eleven members of Parliament have signed the memorial to the Home Secretary for "Arthur Orton" to be brought to Lon- don at the country's expense.