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Connecticut western news., 1885-09-09
NoYel Corn Planting.

The means used in planting corn in the semi arid Kansas belt enables that region to raise good crops of the great fattening grain of the United States It is by means of the listing blow, which throws the soil into high ridges, the middles being deeply pulverized in addition. In the trenches the corn is planted down in the permanently moist soil of the trenches, these being filled up in the process of cultivation. This trench, as plowed, is V-sheped, and sixteen inches deep. Until the corn gets strong, an inverted trough covers the rows as the cultivator pass es, preventing the blows from rolling the soil over the plants. When the corn is ready for the second cultiva- tion the trough is laid aside. The shovels are set to throw the earth to the corn plants, now strong and two feet tall, and they are also set to take the ground deeply. This cultivation throws almost all the earth into the trench that the lister threw out. The weeds are deeply buried. The surface of the field is level. The main roots of the corn-plants are at least ten inches below the surface of the ground and how much further they have sunk 
 into the rich, damp, underlying ground, no one knows. But now no ordinary drought affects the plants. The hot southwest winds can blow, the mercu- " can rise until the integrity of the thermometer is threatened, the sun can course across cloudless sky for weeks, but the corn leaves do not roll. The plants thrive, and, if a soaking rain falls between the middle of June and the middle of July, the listed corn will make full crop.-Nea0 York Sun.
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-09
Tho LorlInst RnlIrond.

Mir. Meiggs carried his famous rail. road from Lima to tho crest of the Andes at cost of s270o0,000 and 1000 human lives, but died before completing 1t About fifty miles of track remain to be built A contract for it's construction has been made by brother of Mayor Grace, of Now York. It is said that the sensation of riding up this railroad, together with the rapid ascent from the sea level to the mountains crest, produces sick ness called "sirocche" often fatal, and usually sending people to bed for sev- eral weeks, The symptoms are terrl- ble pressure upon the temples, nausea, bleeding at the nose and ears and faintness, but the effects can be avoid cd by taking precautions and observ- ing rules that experience has suggest ed, the chief one being 10 drink glass of brandy and keep perfectly quiet as the slightest degree of exercise willl floor the strongest man. Roston yeur.i RdI
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-09

And so, between hysterical sobs and smiles. and everybody talking at once, and asking questions that no one dreamed of answering, they went in under the bower of roses and honey suckle. and presently John hobbled from the field on crutches, and the story was told all over again.
 And when Mary slipped out into the kitchen to get an early supper. old MT Brown followed here and there, and she was folded tight in her fath- CTS arms again, while the tears streamed downed both their faces. It was as if she had been raised from the dead. r la
 "My child," whispered the old man, q hain't been the best of fathers to ye; ha' shut my eyes and my heart when fought to ha' been the one to help ye; never ye mind bout that money; don't ye say one word bout it, and we'll knock this old rattletrap down tomorrow, and I'll show ye how to build housel"
 And so he did, and very comforta- ble house it was, where John did not have to stoop when he went in and out of doors. And would you believe itP The letter, all the more harsh for being so brief. never did reach it's des- tination. Old MT. Browns chiro- graphy was of a very inferior sort, and the postmaster couldn't puzzle out the address, much as he desired so to do; then the letter was forwarded to the Dead Letter Office at Washington, and in due time was returned to MT. Brown, who quietly and satisfactorily consigned it to the flames.
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-09
The Use of Mosquitoes.

There had been discussion in the parlor car on the uselessness of mosqui- toes This particular parlor car was running through the State of Michi- gan, where August mosquitoes are not noted either for their modesty or their smallness. After everybody else had given his opinion young man accom- panied by young lady was invited to express his convictions on the momen- tous question. This young man was engaged in watching the face of the young woman, who was 80 sweetly sleeping upon his shoulder, breathing through her mouth instead of her nose He was so vigilant in his guard against mosquitoes lighting upon the face of this fair one, evidently his own little tiredy bridey wifey, that his own neck and face were exposed to the as- saults of the enemy.
 Do think mosquitoes are of any use in this world?" he said. with se- we're slaps and scratches, "Yes, l think they arc. It is their (slap) mis- sion to remind foller that (slap and scratch) this isn't heaven, after all, cuss 'em." --Chicaao Herald.
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-09
Local News a Speciality.
Comfort.

Comfort. Hast thou OCT the clear heaven of thy soul
 Seen tempests roll Hast thou watoh'd all the hopes thou would'st have won
 Fade one by onef Wait till the clouds are past, then raise thine
 To bluer skies Hast thou gone sadly through dreary night
 And found no light; No guide, no star, to cheer thee through the plain
 No friend, save painf Wait, and thy soul shall see, when most for
 Rise a new morn. Hast thou beneath anothers stern control
 Bent thy sad soul, And wasted sacred hopes and precious tearsi
 Yet calm thy fears, For thou canst gain even from the bitterest
 A stronger heart Has Fate o'erwhelmed thee with some sudden
 1eb Lny tears uOWs But know when storms are past, the heavens appear 8tEE'
 More pure, more clear; And hope, when farthest from their shining rays,
 For brighter days. Hast thou found life cheat, and worn in vain
 It's iron chain Hast thy soul bent beneath earths heavy bond?
 Look thou beyond; fife is bitter there forever shine
 Hopes more divine Art thou alone! and does thy soul complain
 It lives in vain Not vainly does he live who can endure.
 o be thou sure, That he who hopes and suffers here can earn
 A sure return. Hast thou found nought within thy troubled life
 Save inward strife Hast thou found all she promised thee, Deceit,
 And hope cheat? Endure, and there shall dawn within thy breast
 Eternal rest.
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-09
EIenhnnts in RnrmaL.


 A correspondent to the Providence Journal, writing from Rangoon, Bur nah, says: if, .r.. .r,,.. .f .... ..|
 saw one of the white elephants about two months ago at Wimpadaw, on the Sittoung river, then about to start for Mandalay. Rs10.000 were offered for the young animal. Ionly three or four years old, But the young owner refused the 10000 and was going himself to Mandalay to pre- sent the royal gifts, for which be hoped for Rs30,O00 to 50,OOO. as his grandfather got 50,000 some 25 years ago for similar animal. The animal appeared to me unusually black and glossy five hundred yards away. said to the owner: "Why, your white elephant is exceedingly black P "Yes," said he, "but sir don't you. see the signs?" pointing to scattering hairs in different parts of the body, one or two inches longer than the mass, and somewhat white or gray in appear ance. ,-..,.-....-....., .-r..,
 It matters not how black the ele- phant is if he has the signs" This is well understood to the initiated, but it makes the outsider smile. It should be understood that the royal white elephants" worshipped at the courts of. Burmah and Siam are never white" and need not appear even whitish, and as a matter of fact are often darker than the ordinary ele- plant. They have certain signs" and peculiarities, which are very rare, and which give them their fancied sa- credness and value as duck bearers" to their royal owners There are now several "herds" of elephants within one or two days journey of Ragoon. I was near one of those herds not long ago. My cartman stopped his bullocks and turned back to a village and a Zayat because the herd was within hearing, and soon men were hurrying from it and warned us not to go on. The elephants were marching in a solid body from great plain near the sea, where they find an abund- ance of rich, tender grass, but no good water, to a mountain stream full of pools, not far away. to drink This they did in the hottest weather every night, but in the cooler weather and with rains, only once in two or three days. By 3 o'clock in the morning. said the man, "they will havereturned from the pools, and the road will be clear" This herd is said to number 100 to 200. Some put the number as high as 500. The herd at times, nc doubt, divides, especially when food IS scarce, to graze over wider ranges, They are protected by the government "a heavy fine being imposed for kill ing or shooting one, except in self-de fence. If one should kill an elephant the ivory, bones, skin and flesh must at once be made over to the nearest government official, with the proof ot the necessity of the killing. Human beings are far less secure in life ant property in Burmah than elephants And yet these animals are captured tt some extent. know of an elephant that has in the last 10 years captured ) no less than IS of his fellow beings and as he has now got his hand in, hi owners think him good for three ol four each year. s..ra .. -uu.r -.7~
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-09

worth from 83 to 86 cents. The latest swindle relating to spurious money is the split bank note fraud. A $20 note is taken, and by some ingenious method the note is split in two, and the raw side "doctered up" and each half is passed off as genuine $20 note.
 The work is done so artistically in most cases that it is difficult at first to detect the fraud.-Philadelphia B,ll- latin ---- = ----- .---- -----
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-09
HUMOROUS.

The pretty girl who is maid of han work is the door belle.
 A pound party-the young woman who is learning to play on the piano.
 A New Jersey man has been aned fifty dollars for keeping COW. The COW belonged to nelghbor.
 A "monster in human form" says that the only time woman does not exaggerate is when she is talking of her own age
 "NothIng is impossible for him who wills" chimes in a would-be philo- sopher. You don't try 1t when the old lady says wont"
 He: q see the latest idlocy of women is to have monkey for pet" She: "That is not new. It was SO when we got married"
 "Happy the man whose bride has many needle marks on her fingers" This doesn't necessarily follow. Per. haps she has just completed crazy quilt
 A thoughtful mind can find fodder for much rumination in the announce ment that seventy two per cent of tho baldheaded men of this country arc married.
 A kind word may turn away wrath, but 1t won't turn away bulldog when he is after a small boy, aud tho small boy Is trying to escape with tho contents of an orchard.
 A horticultural authority says there are 1,600 kind of pears" 1t is the green pear, though. that is tho doctors favorite This is one of tho things that science cannot alter
 George Eliot says "things look dim to old folks" They undoubtedly do when old folks peer into the parlor be. tween the hours of nine and twelve in the evening. But the old folks look ominously distinct to the occupants of it's dimness.
 A member of the rhetorical class in a certain college had just finished his Reclamation, when the professor said "Mr. --. do you suppose general would address his soldiers in the man ner you spoke that piece?" "Yes, sir. I do" was the reply, "lf he was half scared to death and as nervous as a cat" ...a#..r ..... .a. A maiden's lament:
 ''Afother," she said with heart that beat Loud as her tones of woe,
 "To you the secret I'll repeat
 This cold world cannot know.
 Lay thy hand on my throbbing brow Nay, shrink not from tho thomo-- Oscar has como for two weeks now, ga .sga. fFt
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-09
A Weather Prophet,

It is possible, according to French authority, to foretell the weather, sometimes ten or twenty hours in ad- vance, by observing and comparing the sounds emitted by @ telephone connected by leads with two iron bars stuck into the ground a few yards apart. In case of thunderstorm es- especially, a noise like that of shiver- ing leaves increases until a flash of lightning occurs, when the sound resembles that of rain or hail falling on grass.
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-09
For All Who Die.

The following poem wns regarded by Edgur A. Poo as the most beautiful and touching oi is kind in the language; It hath boon sad for all who dio
 Thero is a tear, ....=... Some naining, bleeding heart 10 sigh
 Ger every bieri Dut in that hour of pain and dread
 Who will draw near Around my humble couch and shed
 Ono farewell tonr Who'll watch the fast departing ray
 In deep despair, ..." And Soo,ho tho spirit on its wny .s
 With holy nrOycrl whnt moumer round my couch will come
 In words of woe And follow mo to my long homo
 solemn md slowf When lying on my earthly bed
 In icy tlgep Who then bY pure affection lcd wIl como and wocpf Dy the pale moon imnlant tho TOGO '. Upon my breast And bid it oleer my dark rcnoso, .
 My lonely rest fa...... ....--.s Could but know when am sleoping
 Low in Inc ground One faithful hcart would then be keeping
 Watch nll around, As if some Eom lay shrined beneath
 That cold sod's gloom, 'Twonld mitigate the pnngs of death
 And light tho tomb. Yos, in thnt hour II I eonld feel
 From the halls of gleo And boauty's pressure ono would steal
 In secrecy And como and sit or stand by me
 In nights dcep noon, Oh, would asl of memory ' aa No other boon. Ia But nh, . lonelior fate Is mine,
 A deeper woo. N .Q From nn I've loved in youth's sweet timo
 l soon must go. .. ....ae.,.# st Draw round mo my naio robes of white
 In a dark spot To sleep thro deatha long, drunmlcss night
 Lone and forgot
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-09
JapaneSe Proverbs.


 The Japanese are fond of proverbs, and in consequence their language can boast many happy hits. Some of the axi- omatic sayings which are accredited to Japan are really of recent introduction into the country, the people absorbing Western expressions with great facil- ity. Some few of the following may be traced to other lands, but they are 90 well known throughout the em- pire as really to deserve the name of Japanese. .--.----.--.,
 The Japanese Mrs Burlington is characterized as attempting "to drive away fog with fam" af 7Es 91t An allusion to the usual effect of re- yenge in an uncivilized country is con- tained in the expression, "When you curse. look out for two graves" naE
 It is common with us to say nothing but what is charitable of the dead In Japan, where the tiger is only known as a rare foreign animal. the saying goes, Spare the skin of the dead tiger" r...,.a Ls.s. ... .... a ..-.a Domestic infelicity receives com ment in the phrase. "A three-inch tongue can kill six-foot man." .a Others, more terse. require no ex- planation .-fset...t.rsr f-. g "The borrower smiles like saint, and the repayer scowls like fend."
 "The bad artist planes his brush" Frog spawn becomes frogs" ..
 Egg plants do not spring from melon seeds"
 Do not seek fish on trees" ... "There is no escaping the net of Providence" .....
 "Blind men fear not snakes"
 "Making an idol does not give 1t a soul.'- Youths Companion.
 Tho men most willing to take risks
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-09

It may be interesting to our readers to know where the bodies of our Pres idents lie. Of the twenty-two that have occupied the chair from 17S9 to date, but three are living, Rutherford B. Hayes, Chester A. Arthur and Grover Cleveland, the others are in tered of follows: George Washing ton, at Mount Vernon, Va; John and John Quincy Adams, at Quincy, Mass. : Thomas Jefferson, at Monticello. Va; James Madison, ut Montpelier, Va James Monroe, at Richmond, Va; An drew Jackson, at his old Hermitage" home, eleven miles from Nashville. Tenn; Martin Van Buren, at Kinder hook, N. r.; William Henry Harrison, at North Bend, Ohio; John Tyler, at Richmond, Va; James K. Polk, at Nashville, Tenn; Zachary Taylor at Frankfort, Ky, Willard Fillmore, at Buffalo, N. Y.; Franklin Pierce. at Concord, N. H.; James Buchanan, at Lancaster, Pa; Abraham Lincoln, at Springfield, H.; Andrew Johnson, Greenville, Tenn; James A. Garfield, at Cleveland, Ohio, and Ulysses S Grant in Riverside Park, New York City.
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-09

lowing a precedent established some years ago in this State. The anala- gous question has also been raised In criminal cases. But there it has been held that prisoner cannot be com pelled to submit to an examination of his person when such examination may afford evidence against himself
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-09

The remedy for corpulence, accord ing to the Lancet. is in the method of eating and drinking. If we only ate more deliberately, it says, we should find half of our accustomed quantity of food sufficient to satisfy the most eager cravings of hunger. Let men of all classes who lead healthy lives resolve to eat and drink slowly. ..
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-09
TIMELY TOPICS

Tn France there is hardly any growth of population; and the French, so far from appreciating this condi. ton, are doing their best to alter it. They in fact put "bounty" on large families by causing seventh children to be supported by the State. l
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-09

A traveller describes natural bridge,
 almost as interesting as the Virginia curiosity, spanning a cannon, about twenty miles north of the point where the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad crosses the boundary between New Mexico and Arizona. This bridge is sixty five feet long and fifteen feet wide at the narrowest point. It con
 sists of tough grit rock, underneath which the softer ssndstones have been worn away to depth of twenty-five to forty feet beneath the arch. Near by is petrifed forest. The stone tree trunks lie just beneath the soil, or half exposed, fallen in all directions. This point had never before been yis- tied by white man. s.-. ......
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-09

One curious revelation of the last census was the growth of tho female population of the large cities. It was shown that New York contains about 25,000 more women than men; Boston has a surplus of 1s,00o women; in Baltimore there are 17o00 moro women than men, and 30 on in several others of the large Eastern cities. Fifty years ago 1t was the men who came to the cities to pursue their careers, while the women stayed at home; but more recently, women, both in this country and in Europe, have been crowding to the business centres. s4.-u a.f ..- ..eTs..,--g .t
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-09

The "Big Woods' of Minnesota well deserve the name, for they cover 5000 square miles, or 3,200,000 acres of sur face. These woods contain only hard wood growths, including white and black oak, maple, hickory, basswood, elm, cottonwood, tamarack, and enough other varieties to make an aggregate ofoyer fifty different kinds. The hard wood tract extends in belt across the middle of the state, and surrounding its northeastern corner is an immense pine region covering 21,000 square miles, or I3, 3,440000 acres
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-09
Serpent and Fiddler.

Uncle Billy Adams was furnishing the music for gathering at the resi- dence of a well-known planter in Dooley county, given in honor of visiting young lady from Augusta. The night was warm, and the win dows were thrown open. Miss Alice, weary of dancing, noticed the bird cage hanging among the vines which grew over the veranda, the inmate of which was aroused to it's sweetest strains of song by Uncle Billy's fiddle. Tapping her finger lightly upon the cage. Miss Alice felt the vinebuds playing about her hand. My God r exclaimed one of the dancers, as he looked toward the girl, "look there 1" A shriek from Miss Alice, and she fell to the floor. As she fell huge snake was seen circling down her arm from the cage across her shoulders, and as she lay prostrate gathered itself in a huge coil upon her bosom. With US mouth wide open, its fangs set, and pressing its head closely by the girls cheek, the moment was one of intense excitement The ominous rattle was heard when Uncle Buly's fiddle gave forth one of its livelicst airs, and the reptile quickly crawled off, wriggling its way toward the music and out of the house. "I dess knowed dat 'ud fotch um," said Uncle Billy, as he caressed his instrument. "Does creep. in creeturs is might fond of music. " The reptile was followed and killed, when it was found to measure eight feet.-Globe Democrat.
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-09

The present population of the city of Buenos Ayres is estimated at 400,- 900. One of the local newspapers predicts that in few years it win be the New York of the southern heini- sphere. Emigrants are arriving in steady stream, and if the proportion of the first six months of the year is kept aup, their number will be l50000 before the 1st of January next Ital
 ians form the great majority of the incomers. ii- tia s'i1'il4" ia'@ i
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-09

Getting into debt in Mexico is a se- rious business. If a debtor is unable to pay on the day his debt is due he is arrested and chained to post for five days. Then an officer looks at him to see if his punishment has enabled him to pay his debt. Of course 1t hasn't, and so the debtors labor is sold to the government for forty cents day until the obligation Is discharged. The government sends him with a gang of felons to a silver mine, and he does not see the light again until the debt is discharged. a"- -a H
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-09

A movement is on foot to erect a monument over the tomb of ex-Presi- dent William Henry Harrison at North Bend, O. It is on natural mound in the midst of pasture lot, and 1t overlooks the Ohio River. A dilapidated board fence, enclosing a space fifty feet square, separates the burial place from the pasture field. Within the enclosure are two or three old cedar trees. The tomb itself is a structure of brick, all underground except the gables, and it is covered with roof of shingles, that are now dilapitated and rotten. Even the brick walls that show above the ground are covered with a green mould. A sloping cellar door covers the steps which descend to the vault and even these doors of iron, exposed to the summer rains and winter snows, are eaten through with rust.
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-09

Tho men most willing to take risks are those who have nothing to lose.
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-09

The Supreme courts in several of the Northwestern States have recently rendered opinions which are likely to work an important change in the trial of actions to recover damages for per sonal injuries. By the general prac- tice heretofore followed the existence, nature and extent of the injuries al- legged have been determined mainly by the evidence of the complainant and his own medical witnesses. But in the opinions to which we have referred the principle has been affirmed that the plaintiff may be required to sub. init to a personal examination by physicians chosen by the defence or designated by the Court Decisions to this effect have lately been rendered in Iowa, Wisconsin and Nebraska, fol
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-09
A maiden's lament l:

''Mother," she said with heart that beat Loud as her tones of woe, "To you the secret I'll repeat
 This cold world cannot know. Lay thy hand on my thiobbing brow Nay, shrink not from tho thomo-- Oscar has como for two weeks now, And never said ',ice cream !"