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Connecticut western news., 1885-09-02
Currency of the CannibaI Islands.

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 MT. Walter Coote has described some curious moneys of the New He brides and the Solomon Islands. On one of the islands he noticed a neatly kept house, which he was told was the money-heuse --Entsring-it, he found a number of mats hanging from the roof, beneath which a fire was con- stantly kept up. under the effect of which they became covered with a black glistening coating and adorned with festoons of soot. It was mans business to keep the fire always burn ing, and so low as not to scorch the mats. A well-colored mat Is worth about as much as a we'll grown vigo- rous boar, This is the strangest of all kinds of money, for it must never be taken from the money-house, even when the title is transferred from one owner to another. The inhabitants of Santa Cruz Island use for money, rope-ends, about an inch thick, and ornamented with scarlet feathers which are worn about the waist. The traveller could not obtain new coins of of this kind, but found them current everywhere. The specimens he bought were already old, and the feather: grown dingy. The money of the Sol omon Islands consists of neatly work. ed pieces of shell of about the size oi our shirt-buttons. They are strung on strings about four yards long. and are distinguished under the names O red and white money. Dog-teeth art ot higher value, and comparable t. our gold coins. They are usual. worn on string around the neck MT. Coote saw necklace of this kin that was valued at about one hundreC dollars. Marble rings are also worl on the breast for ornaments, and a valuable money.
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-02
HUMOROUS.

Wanted.-A sheet from an oyster bed.
 Hooking and lying are the nsher- mans crying sins
 A cyclone is like a waiter. It car ries everything before it
 The bird family must have . jolly time-they have SO many larlCs.
 Wealth screens depravity. but it isn't worth shucks as preventive of corns.
 "I've lost ten pounds of flesh on your account" sighed the butcher, as Q dog ran off with a steak.
 "IIe never had but one genuine case in his life" said a lawyer of ri- va. "and that was when he prosecut- ed his studies"
 "Never mind nc" said MrS Jones before she was married, and that ia exactly what her husband did after the honeymoon was over
 70 where does beauty lingerp" de- manded Quaker City poetess. As usual thing. she fingers in the parloE until her mother has cleaned up the kitchen. a
 Of the seven successful candidates for the Presidency during the past twenty-elght years five are dead, while of the seven unsuccessful aspiranta five are alive.
 There's farmer boy in Ohio, who has the making of a funny man" in him. He recently wrote an ode to the dead mother of his pot lamb, and called 1t "Ewe logy."
 A witty paragrapher has relieved his mind by saying that "Aliss Liber- ty" will not bo lonesome way down on Bedloe's island; she will be out with the "buoys," you know.
 In Kentucky a bolt of lightning cut the rope by which mule was tied without scorching hair. Lightning takes terrible risks sometimes. but this was the most foolhardy thing thv electric fluid ever did. Next time it may not get of so easily.
 A Parisian doctor prescribed for q lady who had objections against grow ing stout: "TalSe exercise. my dear lady. Consider the trees of the field; they never take exercise. and, as . consequence. they go on growing big ger and bigger every year."
 An article in an agricultural jour nal is entitled "Profits in Small Fruits Near Large Cities" There is not much profit in raising fruit near large cities. unless the premises arc well supplied with a crop of cross dogs. The farther from large city small fruits-or large ones either-are rais. cd, the more profit there Is in tho bus
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-02
Grants Tyne.

"Gath" says in an article on General Grant in the Cincinnati Enquirer: In the great men of the past we find none of the type of General Grant. Cromwell and Wellington suggest no resemblance to him either in origin or temperament Among modest heroes like Admiral De Ruyter he might be classified but for the supreme honorh he has attained. It was told Of De Ruyter that on the morning after a battle of four days visitor found him sweeping his cabin and feeding hts chickens; and "when decorated with honors and titles by every Prince of Europe he never in the slightest do- gree overcame his innate modeaty." Both Dc Ruyter, who was taken out of rope-y yard, and Grant out of a tannery, were sincere republicana graduated by sense of duty that sup. pressed all restless. vulgar ambitIons Grant Is the earliest fruit of that per fected and slmplihed rcpublIcanlsm which was seeded and rlpened beyond the Ohio river He Is not only Amer ican, but North western. People who are seeking in him traces of the old Colonial gentry, like Washington, arc ignorant of their country and its x.  pansion. What Washington but aim. ly conceived the age and locality og Grant have fully reallzed--a powerful democracy and its homo heroes Ho was born on the public land, went to land-endowed Public Schools, and waa the son on both sides of pioneers The whole machinery of the Federal Con, stitution and the statutes of the gov. ernment of tho North western Terri tory had gone into operation when he came upon the stage. No other Prosi. dent except Lincoln had been exci0' sively Western grown, and Lincoln was born in Kentucky, though of Pennsylvania descent
 Grants stock is Puritan and Penn. sylvanian. He Is of English Puritan stock, which came to this country nj 1880, ten years after tho Pilgrim Fathers
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-02

two canteens, lariat, picket pin, side lines, nosebag. currycomb and brush, sometimes four to six days rations, pannikin, tin cup, and numerous other little traps that are of no use but d. ways in the way. Then comes the gun and field belt, with fifty rounds of cartridges, with 100 morein the sad dle pockets, then the pistol and belt, with twenty-four pistol cartridges. "Weigh a man with all this" says the sergeant, "and then turn him loose after an Indian pony with shell of n saddle, gun and ammunition, and an almost nude buck. and see which wins in the race of 300 miles, to say noth- ing of the bucks rcmounts and perfect knowledge of the country"
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-02
What He Noticed.

There had been some trouble at Mir. Bilkin's about the butter for break fast, and at diD Or Mrs. B. had made a change. When MT. B. had every thing ready about him to commence operations, he picked up the butter dish. His wife watched him, and af- ter minute inquired:
 Do you notice any difference in that butter, my dear?"
 "Not yet, Maria" he replied eau tiously, though may later. So far, I don't notice anything in it, except a hair and"
 He never finished the sentence. Married men with impetuous wives will understand why Merchdnt TIT. peEEeT;.
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-02
The Picture on the Gun.

Ispent a half-hour not long since in the private den of photographer on Broadway, looking over odds and ends Finally I noticed on the wall face almost hidden by bedraggled fox skin and Japanese fan.
 "Is not that Nelson ?" I asked.
 "Yes." the artist replied softly, "that is my greatest treasure. Let me take it down for you"
 He did so. The picture was drawn on a gentlemnn's cuff. Nelson, as the ill-starred Juliet. leaned over balcony, white-robed figure with flowing hair, a crumpled rose in her hands, from which she idly tore the petals. Pinned to one corner of the cuff hung withered branch of vio- lets.
 "She asked me to visit Booths" my friend explained, ato see her as Juliet, I went. This picture is one of the re- suits, lifelong remembrance of that most beautiful woman is another ] had no paper convenient and remoy- ing one of my cuffs, made the sketch upon that Miss Nelson saw it after wards in her dressing room, laughed, signed it with her autograph, and talk ing bunch of violets which had been thrown carelessly on her dressing table, handed the flowers to me with . bowitching smile. They have been pinned to the cuff ever since. No, ] shoull not care to part with the pic ture. though have had scores of op portunities to sell It. never glanc' at it without thinking of poor Neilsor as she died in Parls, tearing madly al the couch on which she wrlthed in hel last agony. Somehow she alwayl comes to me that way.-Neto Yorl i Empress.
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-02
paIrr Cons Iu smitterland.

An American, who has spent some time in France, writes: Now that CO., operative cheese and butter "farmeries , are the order of the day, wish to draw attention to the special breed of cattle in the Canton of Appenzell. The cows are good milkers, small but well built, admirably adapted for mountainous regions, and easily cared for. They are small feeders, and their milk is as rich as Jersey, and abun- dant as a Kerry or West Highland cow. They yield from fourteen to twenty quarts of milk day, but the average daily yield for the year is about eight quarts. The cows are hired for-the summer pasturage on the slopes of the Alps, for 16 or 20 francs, and descend in the autumn, comparatively fat. The proprietor himself, or member of his family acts as herd, and superintends the sale of the milk at the central de- pot, or more generally converts it him. self into cheese. He may have from twenty to sixty cows. The latter never exceed six hundred weight. They receive the bull when IS months old, and when they have had six calves are fattened for the butcher. Young bulls of 2 to 8 years old are selected to serve Cows intended for the summer highland pasture are pre- ferred if they have calved in Febru- ary, and for lowland grazing if in November. Calves destined for the butcher are only allowed to suekle their mother three or four times. They are then fed from the pail twice a day. milk and water at first, then pure milk mixed with the refuse of the cheese factory; but they are finished off on goats milk. The cows are milked twice day, and receive salt every second day. They are daily curried, and occasionally washed. When wet, after storm or rain, they are rubbed with a wisp of straw this keeps away, it is considered, rheumatism. The Swiss loves his COW as an Arab loves his horse; he employs neither whip, stick, nor dog. Government is all by the voice. He addresses them as his dear beast | dds iebe Vichl
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-02

and only put in caches after freezing weather has come on. The general impression of people is that they drink oil (rendered from fats) of all kinds almost as copiously as we drink water, and yet I have seldom seen them do this, and understand that it is only done to avert starvation, except salmon oil I doubt if they use as much oil as some civilized nations. In the shape of huge chunks of blub- Der from the whale. seal, or walrus, they consume enormous quantities, but to drink it in the pure state, or to even use 1t as dressing for any other cooking, Is very -raEspindeed. The Esquimatf& insand around the mouth of Blacks Great Fish River catch quantities of fat salmon, and great deal of oil is obtained from these fat fish. This oil have seen them drink and have so used it myself. About the middle of December, 1879, in our midwinter sledge journey from the Arctic Sea to Hudson Bay, our supply of toodnoo (reindeer fat) ran very low, and so did the thermometer, and we noticed the disappearance of our fatty food very conspicuously in the greater effort that was necessary to keep warm. After matters had been running this way two or three days, one of my Innuit sledgemen came to me and showed me couple of recep- tacles, being reindeer bladders, each holding nearly quart of salmon oil, and poured me out agill of the stuff from one, which he told me to drink to drive away the cold. My repug- nance for the odor I soon overcame, knowing the usual after effect, and l downed the dose as an old toper would his morning drink, but with a horrible grimace might add that the effect of warmth, a pleasant glow all over the body, was apparent about as soon as if I had taken that amount of alec hol, although one would imagine that the oil would have to digest according to known laws of assimilation before
 producing warmth. Several times af terward I repeated the agreeable dose
 and always found the same effect oi
 genial warmth.
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-02
A Laundry Romance.

Five years ago remarkably bright and pretty girl of IF worked in a San Francisco laundry. The son of wealthy parents fell in love with her. She returned his passion, but said she would not marry him, as he wished, because she was uneducated and coarse. Then he offered to send her away to school. She accepted this offer. During the ensuing four years she was in Montreal. convent, very apt and studious The training wrought all the change that was desir- able. and the wedding took place, with long tour in Europe afterwards. The couple returned to San Francisco late ly. To show that she had neither for gotten nor was ashamed of her former employment, the bride gave grand supper to those of her old companions who could be brought together.
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-02
A Mexican Policeman.

The police system of the city of Mexico beats anything in America. A Mexican policeman is strong, fine looking young man, wearing military uniform and openly displaying a six shooter. He does not spend his time walking the sidewalk, lost to sight in a crowd of people. His beat is the middle of the street, where he can see and be seen. He does not dodge ve- hicles. but makes them dodge him. No nonsense is tolerated, and the DO lice rather enjoy a row. They keer splendid order--- Whselfng Register
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-02
Local News a Speciality.
"A Morning Call.

A Morning Call. II When she sPied him coming She wore kerchief round her head, Her papered curls to hide. The founces on her skirts were torn. Her slippers were united, Her jacket wanted buttons, and Twas not exactly clean, And through her worn-out sleeves quite plain Her elbows could be seen.
 When she receired him Upon her brow her fluffy hair Like tangled sunshine lay, Her pretty Mother Hubbard gown Was rich in ribbons gay, Har little shoes were decked with bows, Some meadow flowers clung Near her fair throat, and from her side A small scent-bottle hnng.
 -3ssrvrr-- srs.F-sa.s
 find ifs c sure thing That never yet for eonjurer Did quicker change befall, Than that young man evoked who came To make morning call.
 -PhilndeLphi1 .NeCs.
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-02
stanley On sIave Hunting In AfrIca.

Stanley on Slave Hunting in Africa.
 The slave traders admit they have only 2,30O in this fold; yet they have ralded through the length and breadth of a country larger than Ireland, bearing fire and spreading carnage with lead and iron; lSS villages and forty-three districts have been wasted, out of which is only educed this scant profit of 2,300 females and children and about 2,0o0 tusks of ivoryl To obtain these 2.30o slaves they must have shot round number of 2,500 people, while 1900 moro died on the wayside through scant provisions and the intensity of their hopeless wretch edness.
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-02

The Chicago Tribune says "It is a fact of curious interest relating to Gen. Grant that he had been looked upon by more people than any other man that ever lived. The heroes of ancient times handled lesser armies than he, and their movements were limited to comparatively small field. Of the famous men of the present day none have been much of spectacle outside their own countries. Bismarck has been seen by Germans and travel lers, Gladstone has been seen by En- glishmen and trsvellers-no man save Grant ever became famous all over the world and then travelled all over the world. It was, of course, but the accident of his extended travels which made it so, but the fact still remains that of all human beings who have peopled the earth the great captain had been seen by the largest number of his fellow creatures"
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-02
Sure te Smile.

Editor" I Cannot Make Him Smile" (reading title of her poem). !. "You want to make him smile right bad, eh ?"
 Hiss Violet (with an indignant in 6ection )-.Sirp
 Bditor--"Show him your poen.r--- Calt. e~@
 ,ss
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-02

A sergeant of cavalry on active ser
 vice in Arizona against the Indians tries to answer the inquiry, "Why don't the United States troops catch the ralding ApachesP" He says that the Indians have from five to seven good saddle horses each. The soldiers are compelled to follow with one horse each, loaded down blanket, overcoat,
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-02
Hope.

hVPcs Storm overhsnging Darkcns the plainl Silence most dismal Burdens the brain. Inc wind that passes Over the marsh Sounds 10 tho grasses sullon and harsh. Down thro' the darkness Cutting its way, Cleans from the heavens One single ray. There In the tempest, Threatened with blight, One simple flower
 sparkles with light -Riehdrd L. Datcsoa Ia ths currtHf
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-02

In the northern part of Nebraska an Irish colony, called Jackson, has been settled for twenty-nine years, six of the colonists of which are worth from O,000 to S90.00O each. They were very poor when they arrived there, and were so discouraged by the deso- late appearance of the prairie and the loneliness and desolation, which af- fected the Irish so much, that if they had the money they would have left. Fortunately they had not. They had come up by steamers from the southern states, where they had been digging ditches.
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-02

A gentleman who was formerly en- gagged in bookkeeping in New York, and afterward in southern California, has been managing the apiary of some sugar planters in Cuba the past year. He states that the honey harvest is three times as long in Cuba as in most parts of this country, and that colo uies will average four hundred pounds of extracted honey a year. Each col Ony may be relied on to furnish four strong swarms in the course of the season. The honey produced in Cuba Is generally sent to England It is ex- tracted and put in barrels. on which there is an export duty. There are no losses of bees during the winter.
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-02

Experiments made during the past two years to introduce a few of the early varieties of American corn into Bome of the Austrian provinces have proved very successful in Dalmatia. Not only is the yield twice that of the home product, but the harvest of the American corn can be finished early enough to escape the annual inunda- tions, while the Dalmatian corn ripens late, and is often totally destroyed by water before the harvest time. The question. however, seems to be wheth- or the American corn will retain all these good points after it has been cultivated in the foreign soil and cli- mate for period of years, or whether 1t will become acclimatized and par take of the home peculiarities, thus necessitating a constant importation of fresh seed.
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-02

The Big Woods" of Minnesota well deserve the'name, for they cover 5000 square miles, or 3,200.000 acres of surface. These woods contain only hard wood growths, including white and black oak, maple, hickory, basswood, elm, cottonwood, tamarack, and enough other varieties to make an aggregate of over fifty different kinds. The hardwood tract extends in belt across the middle of the state. and surrounding its northeastern cor ner is an immense pine region cover ing 21,000 square miles. or l3,440,0OO acres.
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-02

A Missouri paper thus delicately touches the key of compassion: ''When new baby comes likearay of sunshine to gladden. the editors household, 1t is a mute but eloquent appeal to his de- llnquent subscribers to gather imme- diately at the printing office and pay away back up to the present and a whole year in advance as congratu- lation to the important event. It is a boy, strong and hearty, with voice keyed like fog horn, to be heard"
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-02

The soldiers monument at Atlanta is to have statues of Grant, Lee, Johnston and Sherman around the base of the column. Near the top win be two soldiers, the blue and tho gray, cfsspfng hands, and above the globe that crowns the summit will be the Goddess of Liberty. The struc- ture will be 1S0 feet in height and win cost $100,000.
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-02
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

A new complaint against artificial teeth Is that they tempt the possessors to continue eating animal food after nature has pointed out by destroying the natural teeth that such food is no longer proper. Tho point is taken by Sir Henry Thompson in an article on ,"Diet, in Relation to Age and Ac- tvity." .. .... -.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-09-18
Mr.. Lincoln was an Offensive Par.
tisan.

Before President Lincoln had been II
office six weeks the victors had all the
Ispoils worth taking. Not Democrat,
Postmaster with a salary of more than
500 was any where to be found, and
from that day until the 4lh Of March last
Democrats have not been permitted to
hold an appointive Federal Office. There
seemed nothing extraordinary or out OF
course In the prediction that in the event
lof Democratic success there would b.
what was called clean sweep.
The new Administration has been In
Operation six months, and there has been
no clean sweep-there has been no clean
sweep at all. In the 1923 Presidential
Post Offices there have been but 4S7
changes, and large percentage OF these
were appointments made to fill yacan-
cies created by death, resignation, or ex-
|piration Of term. There are Al, ,4al Post
Offices Of the fourth class, that is. Offices
TO which the masters are appointed. not
by and with the advice and consent OF
the Senate upon the nomination Of the
President, but by the Post Office Depart
mcnt In these there have been but
3. 400 changes, many Of these appoint
ments being made 10 fill vacancies ari-
sing from ordinary causes.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-09-18

An editor died and slowly wended his
way down to whore be supposed warm
reception awaited him. The devil met
him and said: For many years thou hast
born the blame Of the spelling that the
printer has gotten of In the paper, the
paper has gone out for $3.50 or less, and
alas the money has often failed to como
in. The printer has deviled for the wa
ges Saturday night when thou hadst not
darfed farthing to thy name. Men
have taken the paper without paying for
1t and cursed thee for not making it bet
ter. Thou hast been called dead head
by the freight conductors and q dead
beat by the passenger conductors, when
thou hast shown thy annual pass to their
envious gaze. All these things hast
thou borne In silence. Thou cannot
come 10 here. And be fred him. AZ
he did so be murmured to himself:
Heavens bis home. and besides IL We
bad let him come in here be would have
been dunning his delinquent subscribers,
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-09-18

Professor Knapp, of the Iowa Agri-
cultural College, recommends Q paint
composed of three parts of crude petro-
leum and one part of linseed oil, with
the cheap mineral paints as body. He
says that paint OF this kind has been
used on one ofthe out-buildings and fem
ces Of the Iowa Agricultural College
farm, and 1t las been quite as durable ss
more expensive kinds. The paint may
be improved by adding white lead, but
this would increase the cost considera-
bly,, while 1t is unnecessary when the
paint is to be used on fences and cheap
farm buildings. Where crude petrole-
um can be obtained for 81 or % per tar-
rel, and the mineral paint for two or
three cents pound, there may be some-
thing saved, especially for covering
coarse, rough work.