Connecticut western news., 1885-05-20
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Two YEARS ago the whole State of Texas was convulsed with excitement over the cutting of wire fencing. Now it is never heard of This, according to the Dallas Herald, is the result of iu- dicious legislation.
 TIE operation of the mechanical ap- pliances in a watch factory have become 80 rapid and systematic that it is possible to take the raw material from stock in the mofhing and have A watch running from them by noon.
 INvALIDs who depend upon cod-hver oil to sustain their vital forces should be careful to get pure article. Cotton seed oil is now doing for the cod-liver product what it long since accomplished in the matter of olive oil.
 TWENTY years have not sufiiced to de- stroy the explosive qualities of shells which were used in the late war. Forest fires have recently laid bare the old bat tlehelds of the Wilderness, Virginia, and many old shells have exploded.
 IN the year 1777 considerable interest was manifested in an announcement that six stoves had been completed in Phila- delphia The annual product of the stove foundries in that city is now valued at S4,0O0, ,00O, and the industry supports about 12, ,000 people.
 A LONDON journal tells this story of Mir. Sturgeon, who lately visited San Remo:-"On one occasion, when he was crossing the Italian frontier, the redoubt- able preacher was ordered by the douan- iers to give up to them. certain fruit which lie was carrying. Thereupon he retired three paces into the French ter ritory and ate it"
 TIE London Medical Press says that the fact has at length been made sbund- antly clear that trichiniasis in con- tracted mainly by those who consume pork derived from the more carnivorous wild swine which abound in forests. Persons whose pork diet is derived from animals carefully fed on large dairy farms do not suffer from the affection.
 Nor many years have passed away since roller skating was the fashionable amusement of the hour in large cities and watering places both in England and Ireland. Kinks sprang up here and there with a mushroom growth, and after 8 short lapse faded as rapidly away. Dublin affords ample evidence of the fall of this artificial imitation of skating.
 IN anticipation of clean sweep, the postmaster of Golden, Col, hns posted up the following notice on the door of his office: "I have to get out of this shebang about 1st of August coming, and I want to close out all of this store truck before that time, and if any of you have the welfare of fellow being at heart and are fond of good smoke, walk right up to the counter and drop your shekels-you will never get another such chance"
 THE Detroit Lancet describes the four plans for reducing obesity: The eating of nothing containing starch, sugar, or fat, called the Banting system; the eat ing of fat, but not sugar or starch, called the German Banting; the wearing of wool and sleeping in flannel blankets, instead of sheets, or the Munich sys- tenn; not eating and drinking at the same time, or, rather, the allowing a couple of hours to intervene between eating and drinking, the Schweninger system.
 DR. A. l.. LOOMS is credited by the Canada Lancet with saying: "A Aman can take two or three glasses of stimu- lants daily and may continue the habit for, perhaps, 20 years without harm, but when this man reaches that period of life when the vital powers are on the decline, he suddenly finds himself old before his time, for he has all these years been laying the foupdation for chronic endoarteritis. I believe that 50 per cent of all diseases arise from the use of stimulants."
 TIE last census report in Chili pre- sents an anomaly that is puzEling the people very much. The married popu- lation of the country, distinct from widowers and widows, is stated to be 59s, ,3I2. Of course half of this num- Der, or 299, 156, ought to be males and half females. But such is not the case, according to the census report, which says the married persons consist ot 300. 577 males and 297,73 females. This leaves 2,s42 married men without | visible wives.
 WHEN our gallant marines pitched their tents on the Isthmus, some of the officers made temporary beds by spread ing their blankets on boxes of provisions. A distinguished captain in the course of a bloody battle with mosquitoes kicked the cover off and discovered that he was sleeping-when he did sleep-upon three boxes of biscuit marked "U. s. s. Thetis." Those biscuit less than year ago were in the Arctic seas with the Greedy Relief Expedition. The thought of it has kept the captain cool ever since.
 A COLONY of infidels was founded five years ago in Barton county, Missouri A correspondent of the St. Louis Globe Democrat, who spent day and hall in the new town called Liberal, says that the experiment is a failure; that the town, instead of keeping pace with other towns of the same age, has fallen far be. hind them, and instead of being the bapnv prosperous community it prom.