Connecticut western news., 1885-01-14
NOTES AND COMMENTS.


 THE shipbuilding industry in Maine is reported to be remarkably depressed. The coming year, says prominent ship builder of Bath, promises to be one of the hardest known to men of that busi- ness in Maine for half a century.
 TIE Mayor of Decorah, Iowa, deter mined to inforce decorum in the streets of his town at night, and to that end dressed himself in the apparel of a girl, so as to entrap the bad man who had habitually insulted those maidens who ventured out after dark.
 TIE closing of mills and foundries throughout the New England and Middle States has caused an influx of working men in New York city, and it is estimated .hat nearly sixty thousand laborers, ar- tisans and clerks are now idle or have only temporary employment. The suf- fering during the winter will be severe.
 TIE Norwich (Conn.) "watch" of many years ago did not carry the clubs which are now part of policeman's out fit, but had handful of cayenne pepper to throw in tho eyes of roughs who re- sisted arrest It is hardly probable that 'brawlers who were we'll posted were otherwise than lamblike when the "watch" got fair grip on them.
 BEHIND the curtain of barber shop, in the secluded apartment sacred to the application of dye to gray hair, sharp observer declares that he saw the barber clipping the locks from mans head in order to make him nearly bald The ex- planation is that he remarkably resem- bled the Prince of Wales, and was so proud of the likeness that he wished to perfect it by partially denuding his scalp.
 TIE Naval Academy authorities at Annapolis, Md, are Investigating case of supposed stealing at that institution. The suspected party is understood to be a naval cadet of the fourth class, who is accused of entering the room of a fellow student and robbing him. About eight cen months ago a cadet who ,stood high in bis class was dismissed for similar offence. In his case the robbery was attributed to kleptomania.
 TIE late Dr. Frederic Eliot, whose services during the war, and whose wise methods of practice since that time will not be easily forgotten, was also noted for his common.sense views of health. He was once accused of being oyercare- ful in providing for the wants of his stomach. He replied; "If my stomach is in working order, am in working order; when I take good care of my stomach, it takes good care of me-"
 A WISCONSIN, granger writes 10 Dem. ocratic Congressman at Washington that he wants "foren mishun," and bases his claims for the office partly on the fact that he has eleven children to support. Another man wants to be an examiner in the "pention ofIis;" and still another wants place worth S3, ,u00 q year, and of such nature that he could take the work home and do it at night, while he studied law in the day time.
 IN Barbadoes one Sunday, the cap. taiu of vessel from New York saw a very important colored lady, oloved, shoed, and parasolled, walking .a church with q barefooted colored ser- want. carrying her bag and prayer book. Ha was astonished n. ths lady of color being able okeep up so much state, but was told that the couple were sisters, and that it he would only wait till next Sunday he would see tine situation re- varsed
 DID Nor Go.-A Washington core. spondent says "I understand that Mir. Smalls, the colored M. O. from South Carolina, has only been invited to one public dinuer during his service in Con- gress. On that occasion the invitation came from the late Fernando Wood, of New York, who was during his day one of the most hospitable men in Congress Mir SmalIs did not accept the invitation because he imagined that his name was put down on the invitation through mistake"
 JOHN B. GoUoH in his youth was very wild and dissipated. He was foDdly at- tached to young lady who lived in Vermont. She refused to marry him on account of his dissolute habits, and gave her hand to promising lawyer in her native village. Cough reformed, and became celebrated temperance advo' lte. The lady's husband went to the war, where he acquired the vice oi drinking. He came home, reformed and fell, reformed and fell again, and finally died. complete wreck, the vie' tim of whisky.
 THE state of affairs in Dublin, N. H. is somewhat interesting, owing to the difficulties experienced by the Sele et' men in disposing of the income of fund of &, 800, which was given to the town some tiuie ago with the provision thai the interest should be annually dis tributed to the poor inhabitants of tho place. The interest is now about to b' distributed, but there are no takers, a' quite a number of persons to whom oifls have been made decline on th' ground that their self-respect would b' compromised.
 IN the current number of Sci'nc esh interest is given to the subject 0 car hquakes, which have lately caused alarm in both hemispheres, by state , meut of tre number of noticeable shock in this country during the twelve year , fr, m 1872 to 1883, inclusive. No les than 3j4 earthquakes are recorded as oc F curing in Canada and the Unite' , States, not including Alaska, within tb I above period. Of these the Paeiti , slope had I5I, the Atlantic coast 147