Connecticut western news., 1885-02-25
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

presented a petition containing 60,000 names in support of his claim. The Court said If the petition contained 600, 900 names Harry could not have the license.
 A BoAT's crew of the United States corvette Iroquois had won thirty-two races and never been beaten when the other day-they rowed four miles against a crew of the ship Miranda of the Eag- fish Navy, at Sydney. The English crew won by s seconds.
 GRLs under fourteen years have formed esociety in Concord, N. H., for benevolent and charitable purposes. They went in body to the almshouse not long since and carried quilts and towels made by themselves. The little ones are doing much good.
 THERE was touch of genuine phil. osophy in the remark of little girl in poor children's kindergarten. She was trying to sketch a snowflake which her teacher had brought in upon her cloak. After few minutes she paused and sighed: "So many of them, and yet such hard work to make one I'
 PEOPLE are so honest in Norway that cigars and liquor are placed in the pub. lie rooms of the hotels without any one to guard them. Eich man goes up to the office once day and tells the clerk what he has had and pays for it. There are no locks on the doors in the houses there, as burglars are unknown.
 IT is estimated that 200,0 tons of beet sugar will be consumed in this country during the coming year. The production of the whole world is esti. mated at 2. 2.500, 900 tons, Germany alone having produced l, 1,150, 900 tons in 1881 and 1882, and having erected within two years thirty new factories with capacity for S59, 900 tons more.
 PERSONS wishing to make experiments in the cultivation of tea may obtain plants by addressing the "United States Tea Farm, Summerville, s. O." The condition is that the applicants for plants will in all cases pay tho cost of trans portation. They should state the num- Der of plants they desire and make their applications at once.
 A LETTER from father tells its own story as follows: Enclosed please find ten dollars for application to the Fresh Air Fund for the benefit of poor chil- dren. It is the money our dead boy Joe left behind him in the savings bank. I do not think he would desire, could he speak, to make a better dispo- sition of his little savings than to make some other children happy"
 A HEAIDsBuBa California; paper tells how a man Eamed Joe Hotchkiss went ont few days ago, with bucket con. taining 20 pounds of nitro-glycerine, which accidentally caught fire, but be succeeded in throwing it away in time to prevent any serious damage. His hand was burned, but he is recovering. Had the nitro o-glycerine been in tight vessel he never would have known what hurt him.
 As result of careful canvassing anG estimating are the following statistics o the condition of the printing business i1 the State of Maine at present: There art 701 men, 3S6 females, and 100 appren tices; 100 power presses of 15 different makes; g hand presses; 70 paper cut ters; 37 steam engines, 8 each hot ail engines and water powers; 2s mailers aud fourteen folding machines of differ ent makes.
 To TEST the purity of water there ha' been found no better nor simpler way than to fill clean pint bottle three. fourths full of the water to be tested, and dissolvein in the water half teaspoon full of the purest sugar-loaf or granu. lated will answer-cork the bottle and place it in warm place for two days. If in twenty-four to forty-eight hours the water becomes cloudy or milky it is unit for domestic use.
 IT has been computed that before Prince Henry of Battenberg began to bask in the sunshine of British royalty there were only six men in the world from whom a husband for Princess Be atrice could have been selected. There would not be this number of royal la. dies for the future King of England to select wife from. Not improbably a consort will be found for him among the descendants of the Emperor Will liam.
 THE Rev. Elijah Kellogg, the distin. guished author and preacher, spent, says the Boston Courier, his early life on Harpswell Island in Casco Bay, where he still has a beautiful summer residence. Instead of spending hi: time in play with his companions wher a boy, he devoted every leisure moment to the somewhat ar6uous task of drag ging heavy OK chain all over the island to hear its musical rattle on the stones and its soft "chink" in the grass.
 A SOUTHERN poet died, and several ladies interested themselves in making up money to buy a monument, a loca exchange says, to put at the head of his grave. It would be we'll for the men tc do like work and put one at the grave of the poets wife, who was one of tho most patient women to mans tyranny The poet would often say on leaving tho house: Charlotte, shall probably bt absent two hours. I shall, on my re turn, be drunk, and it I find you in the house on my return I shall fog you like thunder" Charlotte was wise enougl to be away from the house when hel drunken lord returned.
 THE MrLLISERs.-Why should mil liners ever fail, or, in fact, ever do any