Connecticut western news., 1885-02-04
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

A BILL introduced in the Michigan Legislature provides that the occupa. ton and politics of each candidate shall appear on a voting paper giving the names of all candidates.
 A CLOCK seven feet high has been made by Q Leesville, Ohio, blacksmith with the aid of nothing but the tools of his trade. It is made principally of steel, gives the time in eleven ciiieo, strikes the hours and quarters, and is exhibited in glass case where the movement can be seen.
 BERLIN papers report that subscrip- ton list for contributions to tho pedestal of the Bartholdi statue has been put up in the United States Consulate General in that city, in accordance with an order by President Arthur. The amount sub scribed is limited to, $1, and the list is already well covered.
 IT has been discovered by the Tren- ton, N. J., Board of Health that farmers in the surrounding country have been in the habit of adulterating their "fresh roll butter" with oleomargarine and other nauseous stuff, and then selling it 10 their confding customers in thnt city as the pure and genuine article.
 A CHARITABLE clergyman of Chicago had large bundle of half.used clothing made up for disposition by a ladies mis. sionary society, but when the agents of the latter called at the clergyman's house they were given by mistake q bundle prepared for the laundryman, and by the time the error was discovered the family wash was on it's way many miles toward the Northwest.
 CHARLES WEsrwooD, of Shoreditch, being an anti-vaccinahonist, evnaed the English health law and permitted three of his children to remain unvaccinated. They have recently died of smallpox. The Lancet says that Mir. Westwood will have to look far back into history for any accident from vaccination to be compared with inc disaster that has ao. crued to his homo from smallpox.
 W. W. oomvIE, inc grain king O Manitoba, has closed his mills from in ability to compete with the Minneapolii millers. Since the season began 600, ,00t barrels of American flour have beer shipped to the Dominion, principally foi consumption in the province of Quebec. Grain, according to this Manitoba au' thority, can be had by the Minneapoli millers at 50 cents bushel, while he hai to pay 72, and even with the duty oI four at 50 cents Q barrel they can stil undersell him in the Canadian markets
 TIE practice of carrying Q revolver i now very common in Paris. A gentle man belonging to one of the most fash ionable clubs of that city said the othe day: "I left the club at l o'clock. Ther was no porter in the hall and did no know where my greateoat was, but thought l should recognize it because had left revolver in one pocket Well I touched twenty greatcoats, and in al I felt revolvers, and I was still searching when the porter entered and gave m mine, which he had forgotten to ham up."
 THERE are in existence rather nor, than forty Egyptian obelisks. or thes England possesses 2; America, l; Ger many, l; France. q; Italy Qncludinl Rome, which hns 12), IT, and Constan tinople, ?. The remainder, many o which are fallen or broken, are still Ii Egypt The smallest is the Lepsiul obelisk in the Royal Museum at Berlin which is two feet one and half inchei high, and weighs 200 pounds; tn, largest, unfinished, of Assouan, still il quarries at Syene, the estimated weigh of which is more than l, 800, 900 pounds
 TIE Sacramento River, says tht Colusa (Cal.) Sun, has for a few week past been a puzzle to many people Sometimes it will reach the high-water mark at Grimes when it lacks seyera feet at Colusa. Once last year it passet the high-water mark of any previou year at Colusa, but no great flood wa seen further down. At that rise it lacke, little of being up to high water a Butte City, and a couple of miles abov' Butte City it lacked Q foot of higl water. During the late food the rive lacked some feet of high water at Butt' City, and it came within few inches o the extreme high water at Colusa, ant higher than ever before, except few hours last year.
 TIE St. JanleS's Gdsette says the i'm precision that Americans are melanchol, is a widely-spread mistake, founded oi wrong inference rather than wrorg ob seryation, the fact being that the Ameri can travelling public, as seen in th' hotels and other public places, is of bearing sober and decorous even to dul ness. "But," remarks that journal "this is not evidence of unhnppiness O m oroseness. It is nothing but m out ward habit legitimately akin to the air 0 selT-centered reserve which has lonl been attached by tradition and reput to the public appearance of well-to-d' English people. A stranger from al most any part of Europe would probabl. form the same oifhand judgment if h were set down in the morning room c almost any English club, with the sam plausibility and the same injustice Americans attach, if possible, eyel greater weight than we do to the mind ing of ones own business"
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