Connecticut western news., 1884-08-20
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

n NEW dSNiSo TUT NSdNuhB ufcdhlaotS is a pyramid of transparent ice, having in the center photograph of the bride and bridegroom. This is suggestive of coolness as we'll as exclusiyeness.
 IN Trent, England, the corn this year is streaked with red, and the polenta made from it is believed by the peasants 10 contain the germs of pellagra, the skin disease affecting Lombardy.
 CIVIL service examiners have found that the average standing of applicants from Southern and Western States is fully up to the average of the applicants of the New England and Middle States, contrary to the usual inference.
 TIE natives of Stonington, Conn, as sert that it has never rained there on the 10th of August for 101 years. That is the day they celebrate, and the weather record, they say, has been &C., curately kept in the borough ever since the first anniversary of the battle of Stnington.
 THE young ladies at Bar Harbor are said to feel the "dearth of young men'' more than at other resorts, because the enioyments of the place are just the kind that require man to take the lead. Driving, boating, sailing, and above all, canoeing cannot be enjoyed, nor some times safely undertaken by girls alone.
 DURING the prevalence of cholera in Italy, in 1867, many of the carabineers and soldiers who went to succor the af- flicted villages were killed by the peas- ants under the delusion that they came to poison them. If the cholera again ap- pears this autumn, the peasants threaten to renew hostilities with the military. A MICHIGAN justice of the peace, eager for business, has issued this card "Marriage ceremonies performed at all hours of the day or night. Especial at. tention given to claims of soldiers who were frightened or discouraged during the war. Office hours from o'clock ir the morning to midnight, standard time."
 A CORRESPONDENT of the Fruit Re corder says he has boiled leaves anC stems of tomato plants until the juice i. all extracted, and finds the liquor dead ly to caterpillars, lice, and many othel enemies of vegetation. It does not in Iure the growth of plants, and the odol remains long time to disgust insec marauders.
 A POPULAR London comedian had il his service a short time since a servant whom he had taken, out of charity from tho workhouse. One day she wa, very insolent to her mistress, whereupor the comedian told her that if it occurred again he should certainly send her bacl to the place whence she came "I won go there," she replied, lon any account If the worst comes to the worst, I'll gC on the stage"
 A WHITE MOUNTAIN letter says of tht girl walters of that region, many oI whom are school teachers: "As a rule they are very demure and dignified, but equally prompt and attentive. They dc not carry on, as heard Philadelphia lady remark. One might as we'll try tC fiirt with one of the Sisters of Mercy ht meets in the New York streets. I saw one young woman politely return hal dollar left for her on the dinner table.
 A DAIRYMAN in Milan keeps an intelli gent rooster in his bedroom to wake hin up in the morning. The bird, in ordel not to disturb his masters slumber, re frains from growing until o'clock when he emits one loud crow, jHmpl upon the bed, and begins eagerly t. peck at the slumberer. He has beer taught that his breakfast of corn de bends upon it, and he knows when it i six as correctly as the clock does.
 IN Baxter street, New York city there is boarding house, the proprie tor of which is half Spanish and hal } Malay, was raised in Hindustan, ant lived for years in China Besides speak ing the language of these countries, h, is familiar with French, Italian, ant Portuguese. His clerk is a Polish German Jew. The boarders are nearl. all foreign sailors, especially Sandwich Islanders, Lascars, Cochinese, and Jap anese.
 CARE should be taken with the tricl toys known as magical spoons. Thes, are made of a very fine fusible alloy and when put in hot tea or coffee b. the victim of the joke melt immediately Unless continually cleaned and polishe, they rust very rapidly, and the rust il , some instances is very poisonous , Among the dangerous metals used il making these spoons are antimony, bis muth, zinc, lead, cadmium, and mer cury.