Connecticut western news., 1885-04-01
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

burglar had taught his dog to render as- sistance by keeping guard and warning his master of danger. Three houses had been robbed this way.
 Ar Pekin, ILL, the other day, large gray eagle swooped down on a little child and was raising in the air with it when farmer came to the rescue and killed the voracious bird, which meas ured over eight feet from tip to tip.
 IN manufacturing S1O0 worth of liquor g goes to labor. In manufacturing S100 worth of boots ana shoes S22 go to labor. The money turned over by one distillery employing 150 men would, if employed in more useful ways, give work to 15,000 men.
 A GENTLEMAN who is we'll versed in regard to cattle says that after the sap rises in the spring, cattle driven from north to south distance of thirty miles or more are sure to die, and those driven from south to north will not die, but the cattle they come in contact with will die. Driving them east and west has no effect upon them.
 IT was shown at the recent conference that there are APO, 900 persons confined in this country in penal and reformatory institutions of one kind or another. Of this vast number, 105, ,5s6 are children under sixteen years of age, and 3S, ,857 are between sixteen and twenty-one. Yet of these only IF, 16s are confined in reformatory institutions.
 AN interesting scene was witnessed at Franklin, Ga, in which dog proved his value. While fat hen was near the dog 8 large, hungry hawk, charmed with her plumpness, attempted to seize 8 rich meal. The dog seemed amused, and watched the fight until it was plain to him that the hen was losing strength, when he bounced upon the hawk and killed it.
 A FLEA, one-sixteenth of an inch in length, can jump a distance of twenty inches. This is 320 times its length. The common gray rabbit jumps about nine feet clear on the level ground. In pro. portion to length horse. to jump as fai as a rabbit, would have to clear 64 feel at jump. There is no quadruped that has such powerful muscles Tn bis quar- ters as the rabbit, and none excel him ir the muscles of his loin and back.
 WHEN Ellen O. Bemis, sentenced to Jackson, Michigan, for life for the mur- der of her son-in-law, was pardoned by Gov. Begole she thought that life had lost all its charms; but Mir. Bemis, hel husband, who hnd bc1n granted ai vorce after the woman's conviction, saw her the other day, the old love was TO, kindled, and the pair were remarked. Mir. Bemis either believes the woman to have been innocent or he is a very brave man.
 "I CAN always tell the nationality o an engineer by the complaint he makes, said an old engine builder and repairer ''The Scotchman is always worried abou the 'boch Iosh;' Englishmen and Irish men are always fighting the thump, which they firmly believe was left fol them to remove; the German is very much concerned about dem valves, while the Yankee has hard time tc keep her from chawin' too mucl steam
 WHEN a Finland girl wishes to leav, the country she has to go first to hel clergyman and partake of the sacrament and procure letter of recommendation from him; next to physician, and ob tain from him after an examination [ certificate of ofpermission to remain absen certain specified number of years This certificate costs her about S20. | she returns promptly at the end of th' time prescribed, all is well; but if not her name is erased from the book 1T which it has been entered, and she ii considered as having violated her con tract with the Government and loses hei citizenship forever.
 A GENTLEMAN scientifically inclined captured a spider and by careful esh' mate made by means of actually weigh ing it and then con6ning it in a cage, he found that it ate four times its weight for breakfast, nearly nine times its weight for dinner, thirteen times itt weight for supper, finishing up with an ounce, and at p. m., when he was re- leased, ran of in search of food. Atthil rate a man weighing 160 pounds would require the whole of a fat steer fol breakfast, the dose repeated with thC addition of half-dozen well.fattened sheep for dinner, and two bullocks eight sheep and four hogs for supper and then, as lunch before going to his club banquet, he would indulge in abou fnr1r barrala of fraah fiah