Connecticut western news., 1885-01-21
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

ACCORDING to the official returns ot the Health Department of New York there were reported in the ten years end ing with 1883, 34, ,697 cases of diphthe- ria, of which over 15,000 proved fatal.
 A CLERGYMAN in Wisconsin helped to defeat candidate for public office by asserting that his business-that of rum selling-was disreputsble. A jury will now decide whether the reverend gentle mans remarks were libellous.
 IN limestone quarry, in Oarters- vile, Ga, there was found, at a depth of sixty feet, human jaw bone of great size, in perfect state of preservation. It was full of teeth, all of which were sound. A few feet lever down numer- ous human bones were found, as we'll as the bones of 8 cave bear.
 MEASLES is 8 survival of an evil GUS tom of remote ancestors. The disease was generated in the earliest ages, say the physicians, among children whose skins were never washed and were also irritated by swaddling clothes, while they lived in badly ventilated and over crowded huts and generally upon bad food.
 JOAQUIN MILLER writes that he has found in New Orleans the noblest wo- man he ever saw, and he professes to have "seen the world we'll" She was born to wealth, received careful edu- cation, travelled extensively in Europa, and at length became poor. She now keeps little shoe store and works with her father and sister at making the stock.
 All IT, of La Porte, Cal, is the wealthiest Chinaman in America, having a modest $2,0OO, 900 to his credit. His family consists of wife and six children, and he has sent them back to the Celes- tial kingdom to live permanently, whither ri will follow them as soon as he settles up his business. He made his money in the mines and in trade, and is going home to enjoy it.
 PERSIAN carpets are rarely large, be- cause they are chiefly woven, says consular report from Teheran, by the women and children of the peasantry in the villages. Thus, countryman will have rug made in his own house, and when it is done he takes it to the nearest town and sells it for what it will fetch. Of late years, however, much larger carpets have been made for the foreign market.
 SOME of the researches lately made by English explorers in regard to deep-sea beds have led to the belief that there are no rough ridges, abrupt chasms, nor bare rock, and that the sea bottom at great depths is not affected by currents or streams-even by those of the magni. tude of the Gulf Stream-its general appearance rather resembling that of the American prairies, and it is everywhere covered by kind of mud
 "SAN FRANCISCO" says an inhabitant, ''has not been clean city from the day of it's foundation. There is Oriental dirt and Occidental dirt. It has come to be foreign city. Merchandise fills the sidewalks, and in many places crowds the pedestrian into the street. Offal is thrown there. The six months tradewinds of summer and the six months rain are the sanitary agents which keep watch and ward over the city"
 IN New South Wales rabbits are so numerous in one district it cost 80 much to clear the pests that no money was left in the treasury to keep the roads in re- pair. The rabbits could be counted by thousands. As if these pests were not enough, the elephant beetle put in an appearance. These insects eat the young, tender buds clean out of the grape vines. Children were employed to pick them at the rate of 25 cents per thousand, and 100000 beetles were destroyed.
 KEY WEST, which has population of 15,000, is one of the most peculiar in the world. It has no chimneys, no show windows, no brick blocks, no fine buildings, no blaming mills, no steam mills, no machine shops, no farmers  driving in with loaded teams, no country roads, no railroads, no rattle of ma chinery, no noise of any kind, except the beating of the waves against the coral bound shores, and yet, for its size, does a large manufacturing and shipping business.
 A WILL case involving law question of some magnitude has recently arisen in town near Augusta, Me. A person worth a property of some ten thousand dollars died, and in his will he be- queathed the entire amount to the town. Three citizens of the town were wit nesses to the testament The will was ad- mitted to probate year ago. Now the law says that benefciaries of a will shall not be witnesses of such document. It is held that the witnesses of the above mentioned will, being inhabitants of the town which receives the benefit, are such benefciaries, and on this ground the di- rect heir of the testator will bring an &C., tion 10 break the will.
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