Connecticut western news., 1885-07-08

thority for the statement that the Arabs, who ride their horses over very rocky and stony ground, most frequent ly shoe their horses with plate shoes covering the whole of the sole; but this form is not suitable to wet soil or stiff, clayey country.
 The word consols Is an abbreviation of the term consolidated annuities. The English consols differ from our national debt in this way: The prin- clpal may vary in amount, but the interest never. They constitute a perpetual obligation of the United Kingdom, bearing 8 per cent. interest and representing an irredeemable principal
 The German government has dis charged all women who were employed in its postal, telegraph, and railway service as clerks and in other capaci- ties As during the last twenty years they nearly monopolized such service in some towns, much suffering has en- sued among the discharged. The mo- tive alleged is that women are unfit for such public service.
 Rats and mice were long the scourge of Hawaiian farmers, but they have been successfully dealt with by the introduction of the mongoose. Thirty six pairs of this animal were imported from Jamaica two years ago into the district of Hilo, with the result of in stantly clearing 4,0o0 acres of cane of this nuisance One planter estimates his saving from this cause last year at $50,0OO.
 Frank Della Tore, of Baltimore, has invented an instrument by which he thinks the presence of icebergs at sea may be detected in a fog by means of an echo. He believes that even an object offering so small surface as a floating wreck may be be detected in this way during fog in time prevent collision. The apparatus consists of a musket, to the muzzle of which a speaking trumpet is attached.
 The idea of cooperative agriculture is being elaborated by the Minneapolis Knights of Labor, who have been a corporated society since 1888. At their last meeting they discussed scheme for the founding of Q colony where spectators cannot enter. The society propose issuing five thousand shares at s10 each. to be invested in land, the limit for each member to be one-half section. In this way each will be pro- vided with a home and a farm, even though he be of moderate means.
 Prof. Muttrich, of Berlin, has reach ed the following conclusions from his forest meteorological researches: l. The forest exercised a positive in- fuence on the temperature of the air. 2. The daily variations of temperature were lessened by the forest, and in summer more than in winter. 8. The influence of the leaf forest was in sum
 mer greater than that of the pine for
 est, while in winter the tempering in- fiuence of the pine forest preponder ated over that of the defoliated forest. An attempt to determine the influence of the forest on the mean annual tenn perature led to no sure results.
 A curious fact in connection with
 cremation is the amount of ashes re.
 ceived from a body and the disposition
 made of them. The two largest
 bodies cremated in Philadelphia
 weighed two hundred pounds each,
 the ashes weighing four pounds eight
 ounces and five pounds four and a
 half ounces, respectively. The largest
 percentage of ashes thus far received was from body weighing 1S0 pounds and whose ashes weighed five pounds and eleven ounces. Various disposi tion has been made of the ashes, 1T some instances the remains being buried, in some retained in the family and in others sent to Europe. The ashes of one subject were placed il a marble urn and deposited in Ma , sonic lodge-room, while those of an l other, Miss Clancy, the actress wer' , divided, part being buried by tn 3 side of her sister in Baltimore and tn
 rest by her mothers side in Maine. Q As a grape growing country a larg , portion of Ontario, says The Toro1lt , Globe, compares very favorably wit , most of the well known grape cour ! tries of the world. A very consider able portion of the province is nc surpassed by any district either i A America or Europe, so far at leas & as quantity of grapes per acre is coI concerned. The yield of the Concor grape-the leading grape of this col a tinent-averages from Montreal to tf il Detroit river, over twice as much as h France, Italy, or south Germany, b' the Concord is heavy bearer. Son @ parts of southern Ontario, like we if tern New York, show average yiel' d equaling any in southern Californi 1t As compared with the Carolinas, Mi s souri, or southern Ohio, Ontario talk