Connecticut western news., 1884-08-27
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

BUrrERnSE is superseding oleomsrgar- inc. Where the latter is made from pure OK fat, the former is manufactured from deodorized lard. A major part of the butterine sold comes from near Chi cago.
 lN 1791 Benjamin Franklin made the city of Boston the trustee of fund of e1 ,OOO, to be lent to young mechanics, calculating that in 1891 the fund would amount to $5S2, ,OOO. His figures must have been faulty, however, for the fund now only amounts to $291 900.
 ON some of the sheep ranches in the Western Territories there are as many as 300, 900 sheep. Shearing begins in September, and October is busy sea- son. The sight of from 300 to 400 men at work, each clipping 8 sheep in dex- trous manner, is very animated.
 A COMPANY of Mennonites number. ing 80 persons passed through Berlin recently on their way to this coun- try. They were possessed of a consid- erable sum of money, and were under the leadership of a fine-looking, silver haired man, 95 years of age, who had been recently married to girl of Is.
 THE Massachusetts Bureau of Statis- tics states that in 1868 the chance of a person being killed on or by steam cars was in 5,O26, ,281, while in 1882 it had diminished to 1 in 20, 927, ,O34. This is less than the chance of being struck by lightning, and much less than that of be- ing injured by kerosene lamp explo- sion.
 THE War Department at Rome has invited all Italian emigrants settled in foreign countries to return home and fulfill their military duties, every male of 21 years old being subject to conscrip- tion, regardless of naturalization abroad. Italy has repeatedly refused to exempt her sons naturalized in the United States.
 SwIss STATISTICS show that the land Switzerland and it's natural productions afford employment for 410, ,023 men and 147, ,716 women, and that the labor of these persons supports 1, 168, 137 indi- viduals. Those who live on rents, inter est, pensions, and annuities number in Switzerland 56, ,055, or about two in each 100 of population.
 THE death of Mary Clemmer (whose married name was Mrs. Frank Hudson) removes a faithful and hard-working | journalist, who had also done a fair | amount of estimable labor more purely literary. She offered one of those many illustrations of good work done patiently and perpetually, because good work con- tains a reward beyond the reach of money.
 STEP by step the leading food prod ucts of Europe are being reproduced in this country. Macaroni Is made by Italians in New York, Neuchatel cheese by Swiss in New Jersey, Schweizer kase by Germans in Ohio, Albert biscuit by Englishmen in Albany and caviare by Russians in Harlem. Nearly all of these are exported to Europe, and there sold as domestic manufactures.
 WHEN the government of Mexico wishes to get rid of dreaded politician or general, a military guard is sent to arrest him, and before they reach the prison he is shot and the report carried to headquarters that they have shot him because he tried to escape. Eight vic tims thus crossed the Styx by the same route a few days ago on their way from Chilpancinsgo to the capital.
 SOME weeks since an English school teacher boxed child's ears with some severity. There followed a severe and long continued headache, and it is mol unlikely that the child is injured for life. The medical journals agree as tc the very great impropriety of punishine a child in this way, and give the many anatomical and medical reasons against it so clearly that the brutal practice ii likely to be lessened.
 | IN Massachusetts women and children are driving men out of many industries, The trades in which the former are { very large majority are awnings ant tents, buttons, dress trimmings, carpet ings, clothing, cotton goods, woolens fancy goods, flax and linen, hair work hose. rubber, mixed textiles, paper silks, sporting goods, straw goods and worsteds, twenty in all. Sixty tradei show a preponderance of men.