Connecticut western news., 1885-06-17
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

A LITTLE girl in one of the orphan asylums of New Orleans was recently stung by bee on tho ball of one of her eyes, the sting causing the sight to be entirely destroyed. Tho physician in attendance states that he never heardoi a similar case.
 ED HARRIS, of watkinsville, says Q local Georgia paper, has built one of the best cyclone pits we ever saw. IL is on the side of a gully, is perfectly dry and fitted up with chair, table aud stove. It is as large as an ordinary sized room and perfectly safe.
 Nj. W. GmBs, of Little Rock, Ark, is e colored man who made money enough in selling boots and shoes to on- able him to study law, was admitted to the bar, and has just been elected Judge of Police Court. Gibbs is man who believes th at an effort for ones self will be productive of good.
 JUDGE CHARLES ALLEN, of Boston, says that he is disgusted with the inso- lent way in which witnesses are quos- toned. It is, he thinks, neither funny nor profitable, and avails nothing with tho court He would stop it fl he could, but he cannot tell what counsel are driving at until fl is too late
 NAPLES at last has It's Croton. A whole river in tho Apponines has been diverted to the city, and is now flowing through 10, 900 pipes, and playing in the five ornamental fountains constructed for 1t The King and Queen came to inaugurate the waterworkH, and were re- ceived with indoscribahle enthusiasm
 JOHN SrETsoN, tho well-known theat. rical manager, was called into tho dock of the Municipal Court, in Boston, to answer to the charge of being profane on the street. He listened as though intensely interested while the Clerk of the Court arraigned him. He pleaded guilty, and paid hne of S5 and costs.
 AN old legend of St. Louis is revived, which says that the ground on which a noted hotel wns built was cursed by Q poor and aged Frenchwoman, who was dispossessed of her humble home, which stood on its site, by the oity's march of progress, far back in the early days of the settlement, and that 1t has never been able to do paying businesS A MILWAUKEE ward assessor found that Peter East, an aged blacksmith, had concealed S20,000 for many yoars, SO as not to be taxed. This SO worried the old man that he committed suicide by braining himself with hammer. If all who concealed their property from the collector took the matter 30 to heart the coroner would have plentyof work.
 TIE total annual catch of menhhden in the United States is about TOO, 000, 600. This seems to be a great number, but blue fish alone are said to consume about 3,000, 900, 900 menhaden every day of the summer months on the coast of New England alone, and these fish, fl they were not as prolific as potato bugs, would soon be used up and not enough left to All the sardine boxes in the Maine fao- tories.
 To SHOW WHAT a girl can do it is re- lated by local paper that Miss Tay- Tor, who came Co wahpeton, Dakota, three years ago, took a pre-emption and had an offer of marriage the first year. The second year she took homestead and tree claim and had four offers to o,jine" farms Sho has now section of land, twenty.seyen cows, and innumer- able calves, and Is ready to consider tho offers to marry.
 EXPERIENCED lumbermen have always held that timber cut in the spring waa not durable for building purposes. Re- cent scientific investigations sustain this belief. It is shown that the richer the wood is in phosphoric acid and poe tassium the more likely it is to rot and mould; wood cut in the spring contains eight times as much of the former and five times as much of the latter as when out in the winter.
 A FARMER near Washington, penn., having occasion to take his horse from the field to the stable, owing to the ani- nal suddenly becoming sick, unthink- ingly left his dinner basket behind, which he was surprised to find on TO. turning several days later had been carefully guarded all tho while by his dog, which would not move from the victuals, although several neighbora tried to frighten and coax him away.