Connecticut western news., 1885-04-29
NOTES AND COMM ENTS.

A REMARKABbE trade was made Satur- day, in Macon, Ga, if we may believe a paper of that city. A certain merchant sold a suit of clothes, pair of shoes and hat for 6, and made sl.35 by the trade.
 "ouoHT we let our hens lay on Sun day ?" sister asked me, and I said, "Yes, but you ought to give the Sunday eggs to missions, and she did it. So says clergyman who tells the story in a religious paper.
 IF there is any law in New York city, says local paper, Buddensiek, the builder of the fallen tenement houses. should be given m opportunity to study solidity of architecture from tho inside for a time long enough 10 appreciate it
 ACCORDING to tho Rutland Hcrald no Vermonter ever said "Yarmount ex- cept in initiating outsiders. The local pronunciation of the name of tho State is that of tho scholar except for ten dency to neglect the "r" and make 1t "Ve'mont."
 IE the police court of Missouri town, the other day, several "young ladies and gentlemen of the highest social standing" were tried and fined for disturbing public worship. Tho offenseo onsisted in writing notes and and talking in church. ...
 YouNa man, if you arc ambitious don't try for aclerkship at Washington. Take warming from the careor of the oldest clerk in the Treasury Depart ment. Appointed in 1s47 at salary of s1, 200, he is now getting sl, ,400--a rise of S200 in thirty-eight years.
 A UNIQUE and nicely written placard has been placed over the stamp window in the Post Office, of western towu, which reads. 'Liok your own stampass It would have accorded better with the rules of the civil service it the Post master had begun with ''please," says . local paper.
 Tm will of the Hon. Thomas Hoge of Franklin, Pa, provides that should any of the officials of the Bank which closed up there become conscience stricken and conclude to return Co his executors the S55, 900 they stole from him, be bequeaths that sum to the ceme- tery of his town.
 A LADY not resident of the new city of Lisbon, Dakota Territory, had a house and lot there, and the city ordered her to build a sidewalk by it. She neglected or refused to build it, and the city built the walk and sent her bill for Sl00. Her gentle spirit waxed wroth and she went there, toro down the house and took X away on the cars and told them they might have the old lot. "There, now"
 Tm white brick now made in Franco from the immense accumulations of waste sand at glass factories Is likely to prove a valuable industry. The process of production consists in subieoting tho sand to an immense hydraulic pressure and then baking in furnaces at high temperature, SO as to produce blocks of various forms and dimensions, of uni- form white color, and of almost pure silex. The product is unaffected by the heaviest frosts or by the sun or rain.
 A SourH CAROLINA citizen thus looks the problem in the face when he asks What is to become of us 2 With tho morphine habit making host of liars; the quinine habit ghostly band of nerveleas, would-be suicides; the tobacco habit giving us a tendency to cancer and what not; the whisky habit taking people by crooked ways to carly graves; the money habit filling inc ooun- try with avaricious speculators, thieves, and bank robbers; the ofiiceeeeking habit turning honest people away from honest work to getting an office, it doca seem we are generally in a bad way.
 TaE annual report of the Ohio Agri. cultural Experiment Station urgeS tho preservation and maintenance of forests, and says this concerning woodlands oThe first step should be to remove all worthless varieties, and to encourage the valuable sorts to take their place. Stock should not be allowed 10 run in wood lots for purpose of foragei there should be careful guard against fire; seeds should be planted in vacant places of such varieties as are most desirable; shoots of inferior varieties should be kept down, and valuable sorts should be trimmed up, so that they may grow tall, forming trunk rather than branches"