Connecticut western news., 1885-05-13
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

CHINA was recently compelled to bor- TOW money from foreigners for the first time in its history. The Celestials in- tend to reorganize their militia and avoid international disputes iu the fu- ture.
 THE New Orleans Picayuae very prophetically remarks Tt is better to have your relatives live than to have them die and leave you a plantation without money to run it and no funds to pay taxes.
 As WARNING to bicyclists it may be stated that Sir Justin Aylmer, the heir to an ancient English baronetcy having rent roll of $35, ,000 a year, young, handsome and engaged, fell from bi. cycle the other day and broke his neck.
 TIE farmer king of Alabama is Bragg B. Conner of barbour county. He raised 2,250 bales of cotton last year, besides 6 large amount of corn. He has from 5000 to 10000 acres in cotton and corn this year, and says crop prospects were never better.
 THE Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle says A darky is in jail in this city for steal. ing two shirt collars, worth about IL cents. He will probably be convicted and serve year on the chain gang, be- cause the lay and iuries are terrible to such small culprits.
 A SOUTHERN journal makes the follow ing remark: The public are now, fol the first time, refreshed by a sight ol that much-talked-of chase, "the office seeking the man," and curiously enough, in several instances, the office has mol been able to catch the man.
 A LONG, lofty and wide subterranear aqueduct has lately been discovered or the site of ancient Carthage, together with twenty-two Phenician tombs ant some Phenician and Etruscan vases. Il is hoped that other and more valuable discoveries will soon be brought to light
 Ar meeting in Boston the other day Col. T. w. Higginson said:-I nm ac quainted with man who became utterly broken down from drink but took tho pledge and kept it for 10 years. At tn, end of this time he was swept back by simply seeing his clergyman take on, glass of wine.
 A PARTY who was employed in Ger nantown to plant several beds of tulipi had not made good his departure befor, a fine crop of spring onions showed up He will have time for rumination il private, with the compensating thought that his methods have been pronounced "original aud ingenious"
 TIE average strength of the European troops in India in 1883 was 55,525 among whom the death rate was bu 10.SS per 1000. The native arm, showed an average strength of IA, $50 with death rate of 14.31. The mos fatal diseases for the Indian troops wer, those of the respiratory organs.
 THE Earl of Selkirk, whose title hai become extinct by his death lately a St. Mary's Isle, Scotland, was a son o the founder of the Selkirk Settlemen in Canada. Paul Jones once dropped down on St. Mary's Isle and carried of the family plate while the Earl wal away. It was recovered, and the family have it to-day.
 CAPTAIN EPHRAIM D. ELLSWORTH ant his wife, the parents of Colonel E. E. Ellsworth, who lost his life in that "a. nous staircase at Alexandria at the out break of the war, are living at Me chanicsville in a comfortable little cot tage adorned with numerous mementoe sacred to the memory of their gallan son, whose monument can be seen iron one of the windows.
 A MEXICAN historian makes new at tempt to show that America was dis covered in the fifth century, A. D., b a party of Buddhist monks from Afghan istan, ofwhom one, Hwui Shan, returne, to Asia after an absence of forty on years. A short account of the Ian, which he visited, supposed to be Mexico was included in the official history c China. There is proof that Hwui Shal actually visited some unknown Easter region, and the traditions of Mexico con tain an account of the arrival of tn monks.