Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1885-04-08
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

THE matches consumed in the United
States require wood to the annual value
of SO, 29s, 562; the railroads use about
So, 600, 600 OF wood for fuel and $4,000
600 for ties each year.
A SOLID silver balustrade, which had
stood in one Of the Mexican churches
since the time of Cortez, was torn down
not long ago and taken to the mint, pro-
ducing over sixty thousand silver
dollars.
SOME person has calculated that to
manufacture the 900, 600 tons OF paper
annually required for the supply OF the
world, 430 days medium flow Of water
down the river Thames would be
needed.
NEAR Chickasawhatchee, Ga, says the
Savannah NetOs, line OF earthworks
can still be seen which were thrown up
by Gen. Jackson (Old Hickory as a
protection against Indians on his march
to Florida through that section in 1873
A BBoonNaroN Qll) youth OF 10,
after a course of yellow-back literature,
wrote to a merchant that unless he i'm.
mediately received 500 he would burn
down the merchants store. he con-
fessed afterward that he adopted the
scheme from a novel.
FRANCIS MuRPHY's coat was stolen in
Pittsburgh few days ago. The thief
pawned 1t and sold the pawn ticket, the
buyer of which attended q Murphy
meeting and took the pledge. Francis
Murphy then tied blue ribbon in the
buttonhole Of his own coat on another
man.
ALCOHOLIC intemperance is stated to
be increasing to an alarming extent
among the women OF Australia. In dis
cussing the matter at a meeting Of the
Melbourne Medical Society the physi-
clans present concurred in attributing
the trouble to close confinement,
anxiety, and the fatigue arising from,
overwork.
Mr.. E. MATTHEWS, Of jackson county,
Ca, has colored man living on his
place who was left in the Cherokee Ma
ton, in Twenty-nine-mile Stretch, sold
twice by John A. Murrell and shot at
three times by the Confederate soldiers.
He is now the father OF 40 children and
is 80 years old. He can pillow as much in
a day as any man.
ONE Of the cases recently reported
at a meeting of the Charity Organ
ization of Washington was that of a
professional beggar who has two dresses
"a begging dress and society dress.
Her name appeared in the society col
umns of a city paper as receiving guests
during the inauguration, and she was
found to be living handsomely out OF
aims.
A SERIOUS epidemic Of whooping
cough has run through the islands OF the
FIJI group. The malady has carried OF
all the very young native children, and
left a decrease in thepopulation of 8, 900.
A few years ago $4,000 persons in FIJI
died from an epidemic OF measles. Since
then the local government have done
much to instruct the people in the laws
OF health.
81 PASSED through funny town the
other day" remarked a gentleman who
is just home from the South. oIt was a
place called Fulton, on the Illinois Gen.
trail Railroad, and is built right over the
dividing line between Kentucky and
Tennessee. The main street OF the town
is the dividing line. On the Kentucky
side of the street local option is in strict
enforcement but you may cross over to
the Tennessee side and linda dozen So
looms in full blast"
Mr.. WALTER, of the London Times Is
said to have been the originator Of the
custom of charging for marriage notices
in the newspapers. The charge at first
was trihing, and the income OF the
Times from this source was paid regu-
larly to Mrs. Walters as pin.money. On
her death she passed this prescriptive
right of hers to her daughter, and when
it was repurchased few years ago by
the present proprietor Of the paper il
was assessed at from $4,000 TO 1000
year.
MANY years ago Georgia gentleman
had son who was given to drinking toe
freely. One day he was on spree and
saw the old gentleman coming toward
where the hands were piling brush in
the new ground. he made the negroes
cover him up in brush heap, TO hide
him from his fathers wrath. The
old fellow walked mp and ordered them
TO commence burning the heaps. I'm
agine his surprise TO see his son crawl
out from one of them. He could not
stand the Ere.
A6coRDINa to the Building Ncws,
manufacturers of wood mosaic say that
they have found by experiments that
hard maple on end is from four TO five
times as durable as marble, and equally
as durable rs the hardest baked tile. II
is reported that two end-wood floors
were laid in the elevators OF public
building in Chicago about fifteen
months ago, and that the floors are in
as good condition as when first laid
although each elevator carries from
1000 to 1000 people daily.
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TREATING. A bill has been passed by
the Nevada Assembly imposing fine Of
$40 on any person who treats another In
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