Connecticut western news., 1885-03-18
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

one article in the written warrant for town meeting posted according to law in the post office in Winthrop, Me. |, reads: ITO raise sum of money for tho support of poor and other necessary town officers"
 THE cocoanut will not flourish away from the seashore, and DO magnet is truer to the pole than the root of the cocoanut tree to the ocean, for when the root breaks , through it's husks it points directly toward the sea, no matter in what posi- ton the nut is placed in the ground.
 THE procession of decrepit little boys who smoke cigarettes has begun to de- posit its victims in the insane asylum in New Jersey. If it goes on increasing there will have to be more prisons, poorhouses, and pauper insane asylums than all other buildings put together in few years.-SprRqfetd (HGSS.) Re. pu6licGI
 7THsRE is in the jail of Multnomah county, Oregon, a Chinese leper, who is under indictment for committing an ss- sault to murder, and the authorities do not know what to do with him. They are afraid to place h m on trial for fear of the infection, and the Legislature has made no provision to meet the case San Francisco CdH.
 A NEVADA paper thus notices the death of a prominent citizen "Ho evidently died from the same cause tbat took Ben Stafford off two years ago-pul. monary apoplexy, superinduced by the excessive use of alcoholic stimulants. Old Jim had many sterling good quail ties. He was scrupulously honest, a hard-working and No. l miner, and without an enemy in the world. His only fault was excessive love for whisky"
 THE other day gentleman remarked in the presence of 8 little knot of others that he could not understand why a cer- tain individual was always saying unkind, harsh things of him. An excellent judge of human nature, hearing the remark, quietly asked: "Did you ever lend hlm any money or do him favor for which he has not paid you?" The party said he had done him many favors, and then the gentleman said: "Oh, well he will never forgive you until he hes paid you what he owes," and this seems to be the rule under such circumstances in most instances.
 THE local paper. says a good author. ity, is the best read paper in the world. All city papers cannot supply tho place of the home paper. No other contains the marriages and the deaths, to say nothing of divorces and births. No other paper gives the time of the next ball, picnic or political meeting; no other publishes the ''roll of honor" oi the public schools; no other d:scu ses the affairs of the town and county, or gives ill detail the local news, which can be obtained by no other source. Every body reads it, and this is why the local paper is the best read in the world and the best advertising medium for it's cir- culation extant.
 ABOUT a fortnight before Christmas the yacht Iolanthe, with three men or board, sailed out of Port P.ilip Bay, Victoria, and was never seen agaiu. On the 26th of December a huge white shark was caught at Frankston, a small village near Melbourne. Some of the leungers on the beach facetiously sug- gested that relics of the missing cIew might be looked for inside the fish. The shark, therefore, was cut open, and in the stomach were actually found a human hand, a mass of sodden rags, a broken wooden pipe, and gold watch and chain. The watch was immediately recognized as having belonged to one oi the yachtsmen who had been on board the Iolanthe.
 CAPT NATHANIEL PALMER, of Ston. ington, the original discover of Palmer's Land, Iurthest south of all known land, tells the following story of the way he saved the discovery. He was getting ready to leave it when Russian frigate hove in sight. Capt. Palmer was am bilious to claim the land for the United States. How to contend with the ship of the Czar he did not know at first. He waited till the frigate ran to the lee wGrd of him and hove to, and then he put up his sheet and squared away for her, running under her stern, and call ing out as he shot past: "Ahoy, there ship ahoy do you want a pilot in ?'' The ruse succeeded, for the Russian frigate at once filled away, and left the dominion free to the Stars and Stripes.