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Connecticut western news., 1885-07-29
College Expenses.

The following is from the New York MdI and Express:
 The annual expense of course of study at old Bowdoin is from $500 to $500. It is not fashionable there to bo extravagant.
 An Amherst college student can finish the course at cost of $350 a year, and at the outside it need not cost him over 5000.
 The expenses at Vassar college run from $500 to 5000 year. The girls have no football teams or rowing clubs to support.
 Brown University is rather expen- sive. A scholar can spend 5000 if he wants to, but the actual expense need not exceed $35O.
 A student at Yale college can pay all his real expenses with s4O0 a year, ,and yet $3000 can be expended in so- called legitimate expenses.
 One of the cheapest colleges to at tend in this country is at Beloit, Wis. Board is $150 a week, and it is almost impossible'for a student to spend more than $500 aryear.
 Yale, Harvard and Columbia col leges are the most expensive institu- tions in this country. The minimum expenses are from $4OO-to $600,' while the maximum are,put at $3000.
 The expense of5an education at Cor nellf is;not largein comparison with other institutions of learning. A student can spend.sll0O for,his legiti E,mste. expenses. but $500 will coYsl lthasa. agagidsde ehAsia eaon0rnIoaL
Connecticut western news., 1885-07-29
The Baseball Manufacture.

It is estimated that 10,000,000 base balls are made and sold in this country every year. First there is a little hard rubber ball, and around that the wrapper winds a strong, blue coarse yarn. This is firmly wrapped with white Venetian yarn. The balls are then placed in ovens until all the moist ure is taken out. After this they are coated with cement. Then comes fine blue yarn, and around the whole is placed fine white gilling twine. Each must be of certain weight. The cov- CTS are made of the best quality of horse hide of two pieces, each cut in the shape of the figure "8."
 For years balls were covered: with four pieces ofleather, and at one time two covers were placed upon ball. Hard knocks cannot disturb the ball as now made, because the cement holds it.
 A little machine wraps -2h ounces of the American association balls in a minute, and the rest fis finished by hand. Scientific American.
Connecticut western news., 1885-07-29

with the drug until he has become a slave to the habit We had an in- stance here several years ago of popular divine who catered to his ap- petite till one day he was discovered in an anteroom of his church in a state bordering on idiocy. He accept ed a call to adistant city shortly after, and the story of his misfortune never came out. He was an exceptionally brilliant man, of strong and determin- cd countenance, and the last man in world one would judge could give away to the cravings of his appetite. There would have been several other instances in addition to those above recited, among them former resident of the city who several years ago migrated East, but died shortly after reaching his new home. His death was undoubtedly caused or hastened by the drug. of which he had been a constant tippler year previ- ous to his departure. The drug in its crude state is principally derived from absinithum, a plant indigenous to Northern Africa, Asia and the greater part of Europe. It has also been transplanted to this country, where it grows rapidly and where it has been cultivated extensively for medicinal purposes. Wheeling (W V.) Regis- fo,.
Connecticut western news., 1885-07-29
wbv Tbov RIushod.

Tn one of New Yorkss largest oll houses is employed a boy someFhet under size, whose dutiestaFe to kc6p the office cleaa and make himselA use- full. One day tho senior mcmPer qi the firm happened to- chan the llttlo fellow about being 80 smallr and. said to him;
 "You will never amount to much you arc too small"
 The little follow looked up from tho work he was doing and spidi
 "small as am I csnsdo sometaina that no one else about this place Scan do."
 "oh, what's thatr' asked his em. ployer.
 "I don't know as ought to tell you," he replied.
 But the employer being anxious to know urged him to tell what ho could do that no one else about the place was able to do.
 "I can keep from swearing" said tho little fellow.
 There was blush on moro than one face present, and no anxiety for further information from tho very small boy.
Connecticut western news., 1885-07-29
Travelling in 170Os

From a paper on "Social Life in the Colonies" by Edward Eggleston, in the Century, we quote the following: "The Virginia planter of the richer sort, who was said to live with more show and luxury than a country gen. tleman in England on an estate of three or four thousand pounds year. showed strong liking for the stately six-horse coach,. with positions but it was not until 172O that wheeled car riages were recognized in the legal price-list of the Virginia ferries. In the other colonies, also, the coach was valued as sign of official or family dignity, and some of the richer Caro. linans carried their luxury so far as to have carriages, horses, coachmen and all, imported from England; but in Carolina, and everywhere north of Virginia, the light open chair or the covered chaise was generally pre- ferred. These were better suited to the roughness and sinuosity of the roads than the coach. The chaise was a kind of two-wheeled gig, having top, and drawn sometimes by one, and sometimes by two horses the chair had two wheels but no top, the sulky, which was much used, differed from the chair chiefly in having room for but one person. All these seem to have been hung on straps, or thorough braces, instead of springs Boston ladies in the middle of the eighteenth century took the air in chaises or chairs, with negro drivers. Boston gentlemen also affected negro attend ants when they drove their chairs or rode on saddle horses. But In rural regions, from Pennsylvania north ward, ladies took delight in driving about alone in open chairs, to the amazemeut of European travellers, who deemed that paradise in which women could travel without protec- tion. Philadelphians were fond of a long, light, covered wagon, with benches, which would carry a dozen persons in an excursion to the coun- try. Sedan chairs were occasionally used in the cities. The Dutch intro duced sleighs into New York at very early date but sleighs for pleasure though known in Boston about 1700 only came into general use in the northern provinces at a somewhat la ter period. The first stage wagon in the colonies was run from Trenton to New Brunswick, twice a week, during the summer of 1738. It was link in the tedious land and water journey | from Philadelphia to New York, and travellers were promised that it would be fitted up with benches, and covered over. so that passengers may sit easy and dry"
Connecticut western news., 1885-07-29
High.TOned.

"How do you like your sons wife, Mrs. Hlgley2"
 "Well, she pears to be reether 8 peart sort of a body. but Pm afraid she's too high-toned to get along smooth with our family"
 "High-tonedl Why, gracious alive l I wouldn't have thought it. She's not very stylish about her dress, and don't seem to be at all affected in her ways, so far as can see. What makes you think she's high-tonedP"
 "Well, I reckon it's her talk. You see, she calls tea-cup a vessel, and if that ain't putin on airs, l tell you it comes mons'us near it, and4 don't be- lieve in no such way O .doin'. A tea cups tea-cup. and all the eddycatIon in our family couldn't- never make nothins. else out of oftt.@s;-sOntoggo LeGq: Lm -
Connecticut western news., 1885-07-29
NO. 5.

In regard to the increasing longey- ity of the population of the civilized world, tho Baltimore Sun notes that the progress of sanitary science and the improvement in the moral tone of almost all classes of the population are gradually raising the average life time in most civilized countries. In spite of the common belief that our fathers were heartier and healthier than we are, there can be no question that a child born to-day has better chance for a long life than was ever before the case within historic times at least. How many years the ordi. nary lifetime may and should com. prise if men were protected from the privations of the poor and temptations of the well-to-do, and were fenced about with all the guards that medl- cal science can furnish, is strikingly illustrated by the vital statistics of the English Society of Friends, more com monly styled Quakers, At the pres ent time the average life of one of this sect is t59 years, or at least fifteen years more than that of the population as a whole. The industry for which these people have long been noted keeps almost all of them out of the ranks of tho very poor, while tho sim pie and moral lives presented by their creed shield them from other dangers scarcely less threatening to human health and life.
Connecticut western news., 1885-07-29
A Fathers Mistake.

Young MT. FeatherlNra guest, de- clined cake, and ; Bobby's eyes grew big with astonishment
 ';Don't you want any cakea". he asked.
 'No, BobRH"ay replied Featherlyi q seldom cat it"
 "HoW's' that paPi1inquiEed.B Bobby, turning to the old, gentleman;y "You said thsr at the: dinner table MT. FeatheflY always takes. lthefohksfls..
Connecticut western news., 1885-07-29
w CANAAN CONN.,, WEDNESDAY, JULY 2s 1885,

~~"The Chinese believe that 1t gives fresh life to mind and body; cures all kinds of disease. They mix it with dried caterpillars to give to the insane people, and with powdered tigers skulls for the cure of grief"
 Polly laughed. "And what Is in that smaller sack" she asked.
 ''That is another root that goes with the ginseng to China It has a pleas ant smell, but don'tknow the name" "They burn it before their josses, to ensure themselves long life"
 "There is queer gummy stuff in a bottle wonder. Does it go to Chinap' asked Polly.
 ..No; that's balsam. It's the gum of these trees outside, with the black trunks. You're nigh five thousand feet above the sea- They won't grow no lower. They're Q mighty proud tree; and the chestnuts and oaks and sech like can't grow 50 high, so you'll notice on most of these mountings a barren strip between them whar thar's nothing green"
 "But the bottle of gumP Is it used for mucilagep" asked David.
 "No, no." cried Polly, who had put the bottle to her nose. q have smell ed this often in cough-medicines and plasters and cures for burns"
 "What keen littleseyes and nose you have, Polly" said hersbrother, "for ev- i erything but books. Is she right uncle ?"
 Yes. Although the balsam common ly used in medicine comes from Rus sia. The supply from these mountains is very small. It sells highr" turning to the woman.
 "Ten dollars quart here, and more eff you kerry it to town. Oh. thar's a fortune in balsaml Bear-slzins is worth a powerful sight of money, wolf-skins not quite so much. My baby Il call him my baby, though he is, ,twenty-one. bein' the youngest), he took down some peltry yesterday. Bar, wolf, deer, coon and boomer. They do tell me ladies up North, have them bigger skins to cover their coachmen's feet; but I don't believe it. They've surely got wit to know what.fne bed-spreads | they make"
 The children by this time had fin ished their dinner. "Here are some strange-looking yellow stones," said Polly, with an inquiring glance
 'Oh, them rocks? You see'a man was around hyar prospectin' for mines and he left word with my boy to look out for sech rocks as that, and mark the place. Expect to find gold, ] reckon" ?"
 "Something more valuable than gold. This is yellow corundum." | "What is it used forP"
 "This corse kind is ground to make emery, which Polly sharpens her need, les with. The finer corundums are the sappire and oriental ruby"
 "Ohp cried Polly breathlessly. "DC you mean that rubies are to be found here-here?"
 "One was found in the next county worth six thousand dollars" said th' mountaineer. q suppose the folk that live in towns couldn't get along very well without us North Carlin yans," smiling. "We send 'em lumber and iron and gold and medicine, ant even rings for their fingers"
 The rain had ceased, and they bad her cordial good-by, and rode away
 "Instead of being in solitude, sh is quite in the centre of things,"' sai, David laughing.
 "I told you that we were all tied to gether by fine cords" said his uncle "you are just beginning to find ou how many of them there are."- , YotGth's Companion.
Connecticut western news., 1885-07-29

There seems to be wide difference of opinion concerning the cost of the steamship Great Eastern, and her size as compared to Noah's Ark. The cost
 If building and launching the Great Eastern was s3,650,000, and this broke tho original company. A new com pany was formed which spent &600.- 900 In fitting and furnishing her Then this company failed and a new company was organized with capital of $500,000 At the close of 1880 this company sunk e86,7l5 upon the ves- sel, thus making her total cost $4, ,703,- 575. Nothing over built can stand comparison vi h the Great Eastern excepting Noah's Ark, and even this vessel could not match her. The length of the Ark was 300 cubits, her breadth 50 cubits, and her height 90 cubits. The cubit of the Scriptures, according to Bishop Wilkins. was 2l 65.100 inches, aud computed into Eng fish measurement the Ark was 547 feet long, 91 feet beam, 54 7-10 feet depth, and 21,762 tons The Great Eastern is 63o feet long, S3 feet beam, 56- feet depth, and 2S,099 tons measure ment So Noah's Ark is quite over shsdowed by tue Great Eastern.
Connecticut western news., 1885-07-29
Song.

Song. Lonely nrt thou In thy sorow-ionely oN thouj Yet, lone as thou art, ot least it is lOl thee 10 sings Thy hoart-blood staining Che thorn on the secret bough,
 Mako the keep woodland ringi woll.fricniod urt thou In thy ioy-welliriends cd art thoui No longer, lovo-kcpt as thou nrt, 1t is icft thos to sings Thou, in thy down-son nest on the summer bough,
 Foldcst both song md wing.
 --Edith M. Thomas in he Century
Connecticut western news., 1885-07-29

The use of natural gas has become so universal in the foundries, facto- ries, breweries, Sc, of Pittsburgh, Pa, that a saving of nearly 40,000,000 bushels of coal annually will be ef- fected. In fact 0 great industrial change has been wrought, by which thousands of men engaged in coal mining will be thrown out of work and compelled to seek other employ ment.
Connecticut western news., 1885-07-29

WILL sror Ir.-A California lawyer has como out in a card stating that ho will not hereafter defend my of Inc criminal class prefer to aid in send ing that class to State prison, where they moro properly belong, rather than keeping them free to prey upon tho com- munity, as have heretofore done Co nay sorrow.p
Connecticut western news., 1885-07-29

Among the more fastldlous people there is an impression that the flavor of tea is wholly ruined by journey on salt water. All the crowned heads and wealthy nobility of Europe use tea, therefore, which costs them three times the prices paid in America for a brand bearing the same name, but which is brought by Russian trtders in caravans overland from China. The trade is very profitable, and it is large ly to protect it that Russia is jealous of her Asiatic possessions.
Connecticut western news., 1885-07-29
Common Things

~AA@A@aS@@ Oh, how narrow is our vision That VIC see not moro Elysiara
 In the commonest ofthingsi Why, a lumber-wagon's rattle Is ns grand as any battle,
 -four ears had only wings. Iris g. necessary fraction Of the worlds unfolding action, Detail of the life of many Discord when we hear 1t single, Music when we make it mingle
 In the complicated plan- In the simplest shines the story Ol the universe's gloryy
 And the lofty and the wise Zee that all things are relations, Follow the considerations
 Till above the stars they rise. Even anguish, even error, Paints them with no traco of terrors For the All is in their eyesI Knowing nothing isolated, From the loved and from the hated, Up to God they generalize. --FrGnkLin E. Duston in the Currents
Connecticut western news., 1885-07-29
HUMOROUS.

College girls should bo made baohe- lors of hearts.
 The sky, unlike man, Is most cheer ful when the bluest { The silent watches of tho night those not wound up.
 The butcher should always beplacod on joint committees.
 A painting is called Q rare work, sometimes, because it isn't well done. The fisherman and tho shepherd must be a hard lot Theylive by hook and crook.
 Where are you going this summorY" "To the falls" "At what placoY' At tho skating rink, of course"
 A cucumber Is bad for food,
 It bE eds informal strife;
 Who eats it mover comes to good.
 It cuts up like wife.
 War news has not much interest for the man who has been married ten years and joined the club six months after marriage. It is to tane When in Q convention two factions arc so evenly balanced that neither ono nor the other bosses things 1t is called tic. Hence the term "marriage be " "Terrlble railroad accident yester- day, wasn't it2' "IIadn't heard of it. what was itg' "The x. road. yo1 know itp" "Yc1 wellP" "It paid . dividend"
 "Ahl you aatter me- llpsod dude to Q pretty girl with~wfom he was conversing. No I don't" was t.A reply. You couldn't Do any tlattor than you are now.
 "James. did you divide your paper of chocolate with. your brotlcrY Y' "Yes, certainly, mama; Late the choco. late and gave him the motto-he -s fond of reading, you lnowP
 An Arizona man has stopped talk ing an agricultural paper fIe wrote to the editor. a-ant how to gct rid of Gnats. The answer cam@in tho next issue of the paper. 'Kill them." q am growing up pretty fast and soon shall be raising a npytache. " said Tommy Toddler. "You. are mis- takep my boy. Wnon syonIraisc 2 mustache youn be growing down" Some people are born to ill-lucks An old woman who has paJted nearly avp thousand medical recipes into a book during the past forty years has ncyck been i'll a day in her life. and she Is growing discouraged.
 A man never begins to find out how little he knows about domestic mat ters until his wife asks hinf. to kccE his eye upon the baby and see that 2 pan of melted butter is kept stlrredl while she goes into the attic tO look | through her rag-Dag.
 Al early lawn the fisherman Doth sock somo placid nook
 Where ho into tho lg;rllng atroani
 May drop his baItod hook.
 IIc iishcth long, and syct in vain, And finds what poscc ho may To hcar a country boy dila,e On fish caught yesterday.
 We prefer poetry of higher range of thought than this contAinS" said the editor kindly, Ss he returned some rejected manuscript "HIghorsrtngs of NoughtP" repeated ths'disceuragod poet. q wrote 1t onithe top floor of 2 seven-story flat. Do you expect map to sit out on the roof ana write poetry@
Connecticut western news., 1885-07-29
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

The only countries upon the globe to which cholera has not been carried are the islands of the south Pacific, Australasia, the Cape of Good Hope, the islands of the North Atlantic. and the western coast of South America. These countries are all separated from India by wide expanse of ocean, and have no commercial intercourse with that country.
Connecticut western news., 1885-07-29

The pipes by which petroleum IS transported from the oil regions to the seaboard are cleaned by means of a stem 2 1-2 feet long, having at its front end diaphragm made of wings which can fold on each other, and thus enable 1t to pass an obstruction it cannot remove. This machine carries a set of steel scrapers somewhat like those used in cleaning boilers. It is put into the pipes and propelled by the pressure transmitted from the pumps from one station to another. Relays of men follow the scraper by the noise it makes in its progress, one party taking up the pursuit as the other is exhausted. They must not let it get out of their hearing, for if it stops unnoticed its location can only be established by cutting the pipe.
Connecticut western news., 1885-07-29

The burial of a relative in Timur is a very serious and expensive business. Itinvolves a gift to the deceased from Ill his blood relatives, and, in return burial feast. If the deceased is a man of rank, this feast Is matter very often of ruin to his family. The eestivity must be given, and at the same time the hospitality is expected to be extraordinarily lavish. Con sequently it often happens that the lay of the funeral is indefinitely post poned for months, and even for years, until the family has had time to ac- cumulate sufficient wealth of cattle and substance. In the meantime the lorpse is enclosed in mating, and housed either in @ tree or hut and left to itself. Then for days there Is a savage banqueting and revelling, and the interment at last Is carried out. Among the more savage races of the rimur Laut islands and Timur the skull of an ancestor is severed after burial and kept as a relic in place of honor within the house
Connecticut western news., 1885-07-29

The Yaquis hold their title from the king of Spain and do not recog- nize the republic of Mexico. No taxes or imports are levied on them, or If levied they have not been col lected. They are hardy, agricultural race, living on small patches of fertile soil on the Yaqui river. They steal stock when opportunity offers, but have rarely IT. the last few years com- mitted any murders. Cajemo, their chief is of fair education for Mexico, and is a stern ruler. He has absolute control over them. The nations com 5ined number over fifteen thousand, of which, at least five thousand are adult males. Their principal arms are bows, arrows, spears, and a three cornered bludgeon made of ironwood. Some of the arrows are poisonous. They also carry powdered stone in lmall sacks. used by them to throw in the eyes of their alversaries.
Connecticut western news., 1885-07-29
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Connecticut western news., 1885-07-29
THE MOUNTAIN HUT.

BY MRS. REBEccA HARDING DAVIS.
Connecticut western news., 1885-07-29
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-04
THE DAYS CONTRAST.

twenty-five years ago Mr.. Lincoln left his
home in Springfield, Ill. for Washington, to
take the helm of state. His leaving was not
by stealth, but his neighbors had been we'll
informed as to the very hour of his departure,
and they were present by the thousands to bid
him good bye. He addressed few parting
words, full of pathos and neighborly love, sin
cerely asking them to invoke Gods wisdom
and guidance in the duties about to devolvo
upon him. He stopped at Indianapolis, and
made the first speech that in any degree fore
Swallowed his probable policy with the
eleven States already seeded and the
hundred thousand rebels already in arms.
He stopped again at Cincinnati and addressed
many thousands, hoping that for centuries the
people of that city might give as cordial good
will to the constitutionally elected President.
He stopped again at Harrisburg but he was
there met by messenger who revealed the
plot to assassinate him, and it was deemed
prudent to go at once and by night, on a
special train, to Washington, so that on the
Esd Of February he entered Washington
just at the break of day and was
quietly escorted to his hotel. Here he
remained until the Inauguration. So bold
had been the plans of the would-be assassins
that General Scott had ordered out a battery
of artillery, and Mr.. Buchanan, at the risk Of
his own life, deemed it proper to ride with
Mr.. Lincoln to the Capitol as a protection tC
the person of the new President.
Twenty-four years have passed. 1t has
been century, measured by events, and to
day witnesses another Inauguration. Fol-
more than four years the eleven States out Of
the Union when Mr.. Lincoln assumed Office
and others that joined them, tho 100 900 sol
diers already in arms, and the hundreds
| of thousands that joined them, endeavorcd by