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Connecticut western news., 1886-04-07

"HoRsE SENSE" is we'll illustrated in the way that some of them perform their duties on the top floors of New York warehouses, where other power is not available, in the work of hoisting goods to the different floors. In one case a horse has thus been kept at the top of a high warehouse for eleven years, without having been down to te'7u .frmo but twice in the whole time The horses are directed when to pull and when to stop, pulling by the sound of the check rope when shaken from below, to which they invariably give prompt attention that might well be initiated by many workers in higher field, but otherwise they are always left to themselves.
Connecticut western news., 1886-04-07
Looks Like the Egyptian Sphinx

A correspondent writes to the Star of Washington that in North Carolina there is a mountain formation very closely re- sembling the Sphinx. It is called the "Pilot Knob," and is in Surry county, in the northwestern part of the state, just east of the Blue Ridge; it's position, prone on the Piedmont plain, like a gigantic lion; its body at right angles to the precipitous ridge, and with head reared aloft, as if in the act of rising. The head is of solid rock, several hun- dred feet in height. The shoulders and breast are finely proportioned, and at the distance of few miles it looks like a thing of life and intelligence. It rises about fifteen hundred feet above the plain. It is seen at the distance of fifty miles, but as yet no railroad approaches it nearer that twenty miles.
Connecticut western news., 1886-04-07
Felicity.

 Vfhe cat sang on the b ck-yard fence, Whence ali but she ad fled; seized my stock If mmon-sense And flung it at seI head;
 flung my best ! bilaments,
 My chair, my atl H-bed; : Yet still, with ps sio quite intense, With strange CO tort lineaments, nat cat sang on the ack-yard fence Whence all but she ad fled. Spoke with strange randiloquen stn coaxing tom I plead; sy toots were g ae-my last defense- My Sunday he ad sped; All things or pct immense Found lodgem Il m the shed. Nhe feline wontiere much from whence They came; but sti with grief intense, % sang upon the ! ek-yar,i fence, Whence all but sh had fed. She reused two O Ter residents oft had wishe them dead, For they were m ic-loving gents" And dwelt aboy my head They seized their; ringed instruments, Which stood ha by their bed They played with vondluus eloquence- With one vast hoy of pain intense That feline fed af, from thence: She sings no more pon our fence, But on a loftier eninence-
 Our next-door neighbors shed.
 -E. F1ank Lintober m Puck.
Connecticut western news., 1886-04-07

The idea is general that very long time is necessary to develop a nation. Byron informs us that "a thousand years scarce serves to form state" Still, if the statements of a Scotchman residing at Nukualofa, Tonga islands, be true, q nation ''with all the modern improve ments'' has been created there in the short space of twenty-five years, chiefly by the exertions of one individual. This gentleman writes to the Glasgow Weraid that there are now living on the Tonga islands, which are situated in tho South Pacific ocean, about thousand miles northeast of New Zealand, persons who,
 in their childhood, ate human flesh. Less than century ago most of the peo, pie were cannibals, while all of them were savage, cruel and degraded. To- day the people are peaccable, industrious, refined and generally well educated. They owe their conversion and present enlightenment to the missionaries.
Connecticut western news., 1886-04-07

ONE Charles Smith, who has been inn posing on the credulity of the people of Central and Southern Missouri by organ izing secret religious lodges under the prctense of having visions and the gift of prophecy, has been arrested and placed in jail at Warrensburg. The "Star of Heaven," the sounding title of the religious order Smith has founded, and which he claimed was to be the fore-runner of the millennium, has been joined by great numbers of dupes who have been led to believe that they will never see either death or sickness. Branches of the order have been cstab- lished in q half-dozen counties of the state, and it is said that he has managed to fleece his followers out of considerable money.
Connecticut western news., 1886-04-07

A BURMESE gun belonging to ex-King Thecbaw, which is shortly to be sent to the Queen, was regarded as an oracle by the dethrened monarch. h.2The cannon is about the size of an eighteen poundcr, and is probably made of bronze, but it is now gildcd, and stands on gilt car riage under gilded dome. When going to war Theebaw always consulted the gun under the auspices of a phoongyee or priest, who poured bottle of wine into the mouth of the piece. If the King was to be victorious, the gun would re- tain the wine; if he was to be defeated, the wine would be returned. When war was imminent with England, Theebaw duly consulted his oracle, but to his hor- TOT, the gun cast forth the wine. at once, the alarmed phoongyec-who probably had an inkling how little chance his master ran of succcss-dcclaring that a nat or spirit was at work.
Connecticut western news., 1886-04-07

Some curious facts are presented in a communication from Secretary Whitney to the house in response to resolution asking for list of officers on the retired list of the navy, the relative rank of each officer, the date of his retirement, annual pay, and reasons for retirement. It ap- pears that there are 49 rear admirals, who have received pay at *45Oo to S375O a year for from one to P years. Then there are 15 commodores at from $2G25 to $375O a year, II captains at from T9o0 to $3375, II commanders at from *9OO to $2625, 19 lieutenant commanders at from $7OO to $2250, 9 lieutenants at from $9OO to $1950, 16 junior licutcnants at from $9OO to $500, 9 ensigns at from $500 to $1O5O, and several printed pages of medical and pay officers, engineers, chaplains, professors of mathematics, boatswains, gunners, carpenters, and sailmakers. Some of these officers have been retired for the reason that they have reached 62 years of age; others because they have had 45 years of service, and others still because of physical incapaci- ty, the result of an incident of the ser vice. Others, however, have found a place because they were not recommend ed for promotion, for the reason that their professional fitness was not estab- lished to the satisfaction of tho examin- ing board; for mental incapacity," be- cause they were decided by the examin- ing board as not possessing ''mcntal, moral and professional fitness" for physical and mental incapacity, not the result of an incident of the service, and because incapaciated by reason of peculiar mea' tal tsmpsramsnt."
Connecticut western news., 1886-04-07
Newport News, 1886.

The huge sea monster, the "Merrimsc; The mad see monster, the Monitor" You may sweep the sea, peer forward and
 back, But never a sign or sound of war. A vulture or two in the heavens blue; A sweet town building, boatmans caT: The far sea-song of pleasure crew;
 The sound of hammers. And that 6 au And where are the monsters that tore thb
 main. And where are the monsters that shook thls
 shore!
 The sea grew mad And the shore shot
 flame! The mad sea monsters they are no more. The palm, and the pine, and the sea-sands
 brown: inc far songs of the pleasure crewA The air like balm in this building town And that is the picture of Report Nswx.
 --.Jooquin Miller tn Indcpe~dsnA
Connecticut western news., 1886-04-07

Eliza Harncy, an old pensioner of Trinity church, Pittsburg, who died re- gently, was supposed to be penniiess, but it was found she had 5000 in tho Dollar Savings Bank. Her only son, just before going to the war; purchased for his mother 100 bushels of coal. She received word that he had been killed in one of the first battles of the war. From that moment she would not burn any of the coal even in the most severe weather, but guarded it religiously in the cellar to the day of her death.
Connecticut western news., 1886-04-07
Fortunes Made In Old Corks.


 make fortune selling old corks and bot ties, would you9 We'll, know a man who bought out 8 coffin shop twenty-five years ago and began to deal in old corks. Eight years ago he went into the old bot tie business, and he is now a rich man" The policeman who said this took the writer down Mulberry street, and few blocks below Bleecker stopped before a rickety old building, in front of which stood several barrels filled with bottles of all sizes. There were bottles empticd of Vino Vermouth, Piper Sec and Rhine wine, of Bass ale, claret and stomach bitters. Inside the shop were seen the necks of thousand bottles, pointed toward the door like little howitzers. They were piled up and boxed up and were in rows on the floor. From the roof hung dingy demijohns, covered with was barrel of old champagne corks.
 How many corks have you sold to- day, Hugh?" asked the policeman.
 Eight barrels"
 'How many bottlts2"
 ''Seventy-five gross. You see we never take the labels off, and never wash the bottles, The men who buy wine bottles want the labels as we'll as the bottles sometimes want the labels much more than the bottles; but we do not deal in labels. When junkman comes in with a load of bottles he may have twenty different kinds. We sort them. When we get gross of certain kind we know where to sell them. A gross of quart champagne bottles fetches $4. 50; pints, $225. Claret bottles sell for 8. "a per gross, and so do soda water bottles Bass ale is worth $2.25, but for Rhine wine bottles we get $6 per gross. "Tom' gins and stomach bitters go at $4; porter and Vino Vermouth at $2 25. Apollina- ris, quarts, we sell for s per gross, and pints at $325. A gallon demijohn is only worth 20 cents, but larger beer bot eiSo "Aeh eiAO PoCOho SooPPOiS DiAuS PO per gross. Root beer bottles sell for $6, while ginger ales only fetch $1.50. We sell Hathorn, Congress and Geyser bot ties back to the mineral spring men in Saratoga for 30 cents per dozen. Most of the small bottles are bought by catsup and table sauce makers. We don't buy medicine bottles. We sell very little stock to medicine men,
 "You know champagne cork has a sound head and is turned from the bark. It Is not cut out as straight corks are made. When it pops from the bottle the head is cut up by the string and the cork looks like mushroom We put them all in a big kettle of boiling water and swell them. Then they're as good as new. Ordinary sound corks sell for twenty-five cents per gross, but corks from champagne bottles, made with more labor, bring $2.50. We have handled enough corks in the past twenty-five l years to float the Great Eastern. "-Neu | York Sun.
Connecticut western news., 1886-04-07
HUMOROUS.

The lawyers advertisement-Give Hne a trial.
 Misplaced confidence Trusting In mule while you pare his corns. What is taken from you before you possess it? Your photograph.
 Policemen know more about club hfs than any other class of citizens.
 It's the little things that tell-espe- cially the little brothers and sisters.
 The letter carrier that gets around quickest is the cylinder of printing press.
 Professor (who is about to have his hair cut)-How cold is it in this room. Pray allow me to keep my hat onl
 A young lady, who said she had mar ried tanner, deceived her friends most shamefully. He was only schoolmastsr.
 A western sight-seer being told that the dried-up man of no pounds weight was Evarts, the New York senator, said: .'By gosh! I'll bet he boards" /.
 The Indians of New Mexico are very thrifty and economical. When blood hounds are sent in pursuit of them they shoot the dogs and eat them.
 Little maiden (who is spending the afternoon with her aunt)-Auntie, moth CT said must not ask you for anything to eat, but Pm awful hungry" {.
 A Montana girl shot bear and with the bounty paid bought sewing ma chine. Ina short time she will probably be gunning for the sewing machine agent. An exchange says: "The use of glass flooring is increasing in Paris" Glass flooring seems to be increasing in this I country, also. Many man is 'hoored" by a glass.
 "Are you marrying mani" was asked of sober looking gentleman at recent reception. ''Yes, sir" was the prompt reply. 'sThat's my business. I'm . clergyman.
 An English paper reports that duang recent explorations at Nineveh petrifed umbrella was found in one of the temples. Near by was the petriied man who was just about to make off with it.
 A ''three- year-old" discovered the neighbours hens in her yard scratching. In most indignant tone she reported to her mother that Mrs. Smiths hens were 'wiping their feet on our grass"
 ''Landlord," said Wisconsin tray- clcr, emerging from the dinning-room after long and fruitless struggle to se- cure dinner-''L Landlord, there's one thing you have here that's as good a tho Palmer House, Chicago" '1 am very glad to please you, sir. What is itf' "The salt"
 Mir. K Y. has little voice, weak, fem nine ''Thcre is a dime for you, my brave soldier," he said, as he tossed tho coin into the cap of poor fellow who was blind. "Thank you, marm," was the response. "Tm not woman," was the indignant reply. "Thank you, mis-, " was the prompt retort.
Connecticut western news., 1886-04-07
Hawk and Cat.

A huge California hawk swoopcd down on a sleeping cat at Santa Rosa the other day, and bore it squalling and scratching high in the air. When about 500 foet high the hawk lost it's grip, and the cat came down with fearful velocity, but the hawk caught it again just before it struck the earth, and was carrying it off, when suddenly both fell like lead to the goand. The cat had bitten through the hawks head, killing it instantly, and ths iAll killed the eaas
Connecticut western news., 1886-04-07
He Knew What He Was About,

Brown-I say, Smith, what's the at- traction up this way? see you passing quite frequently.
 Smith-Yes, six nights in the week, and twice on Sunday. There's lady in the case, old man.
 Brown-Ah, ha! see. But six nights in the week and twice on Sunday is rather thick, isn't it? found that twice a week was
 Smith-Yes, but you married a young lady. Pm courting widow. 1 know what I'm about, old msn.--Nss YyrA
Connecticut western news., 1886-04-07
No Uncertainty,

Angelina: Didn't you promise me, Edwin, when you went out that yol'd certainly be home by one2
 Edwin: Yezh, my dear, yezh, and here am jezh to the moment.
 Angelina: Just to the moment, in. deed Do you know what time it is now2
 Edwin Jezh one, my dear, ezh one Jezh heard it strike one over and ovu ogxin. .-Lu1.
Connecticut western news., 1886-04-07

A New York oleomargarine factory boasts that it employs the highest talent in its laboratory, having secured the services of the French chemist who bleached the famous sacred elephant. A man who can counterfeit an elephant ought to do fairly we'll in counterfeiting buttar
Connecticut western news., 1886-04-07

It is estimated that 5O,0OO conversa- tions take place over the wires in New York every twenty four hours. For each message there must be at least five ''hel. los," which would make 23o, COG ''hsllos'' agfn9 ayW the was0 daaly.
Connecticut western news., 1886-04-07
Connecticut Western News.
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Local News a specialty,
TERMS,

$20O per year, if paid strictly in advance, 0 nos paid at the expiration of three months e126 will be charged
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Connecticut western news., 1886-04-07

Felt slippers Those applied to vicious younsstsrs.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-10-08
THE KNIGHTS OF LABOR.
THE ACTION TAKEN BIZ THE CON.
MITFsE ON
CredentIaIs-They Decide 10 Admit
All the Brooklyn Delegates
Except One.

RICHMOND. VA, October 7.-Before
the hour Of 8 o'clock had struck, tue
delegates to the Knights OF Labor
Convention in the several hote's and
boarding houses had finished break
fast, and groupsof neatly dressed, in
telligent looking men were seen pro-
ceediDg toward Armory Hall, through
every street leading to it. Fifteen
minutes of ten, the hour fixed for the
beginning of the session, even the
latest ttragglers had arrived, and the
work Of the fourth day was under
way. AS to the details OF that work,
the four walls OF the armoIy barred
out the outer world into at least tenn
porary ignorance, and not until the
cose OF the st ssion, could even such
information as was decided should be
made public be looked for.
At the close of the morning session
matters ware exactly in the tame po-
sition as they were last night. The
discussion OF the Morrison case, which
had been begun, was resumed imme
diately after the opening OF the SEES
sion and was continued until the ad-
journment for dinner. The hour oil
adjournment 10 IL o'clock, but today
il was nearly / O'Clock before the re-
cess YVES taken. When the afternoon
session began the Morrison case was
once more taken up, and 1t was ex.
pected that 1t would be disposed Of
within an hour and that the case OF
the ST. Louis delegation would then
be proceeded with. II is not expected
that this case will occupy much time,
as no such Issues as were presented IN
the Morrison case are involved.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-10-08
One Dollar of One standard.

Senator Sherman was received at
the Cincinnati Chamber OF Commerce
yesterday. In the course OF a brief
speech he said: The greatest ques-
ton of all, perhaps, is the gold ques-
tion-how to make the silver dollar
equal to the gold d0llar--for there
should be only one standard. / have
gone through one process OF redeem
ing Uncle Sans money, and do not
want to 20 through It again. You
might have put more silver in your
dollar and made Ii equal to the gold,
but then it IL would be too big, as it
is now. But anyway 1t would be a
good thir TO 20 TO market with. A
dollar must be dollar, and enough
silver must be put in dollar to make
II a dollar, though II bs 100 or 800
graius. That is honesty and prudence.
II had my way / would stop the
coinage Of the silver dollar, gather 1t
into Uncle Sans great vaults, and
then issue the certificates and let You
handle them. These certificates would
form the basis of our national bank
circulation, and preserve what l be-
lieve 10 be the best system Of banks
In the country. The tariff and other
great measures would in great meas
ure regulate themselves, but the silver
question is the great one OF the fu-
ture. 0ne dollar OF one value is what
we must have before we can have
that stability so necessary TO national
security and business success.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-10-08
POLITICS DISCUSSED.
SENATOR SHERMAN ON THE Ed
UCATIONAL BILL.
The FavOrite Son Of Massachusetts,
Democrats One Dollar Of One
Standard.
To tho Editor, Of tho Appeal.

Iumy letter published in Thursdays
APPEAL said: "If support OF a nom
partisan measure, such as this is, by
the Republicans OF Tennessee makes
it Republican, does not the opposition
OF the Republican Senators from Ohio
and Kansas make it Democratic ?" To
show what Mr.. Sherman, the Repub-
licsn Senator from Ohio, saye, | give
an extract from his speech in the Sen
ate in opposition to the bill. He said;
"But after all the whole Of this dis
bursement depends absolutely upon
the State authorities and the United
States could claim and exercise no
power OF supervision. / am not pre-
pared to pay over to the local author
tiles sll,O00,000 or Sl2,000,0OO
out OF $l5,O0O,O00 Of money which
belongs to the. people, nearly eight
tenths OF which is collected from the
resources OF the Northern states"
w 1 SYKES
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-10-08

ing sentence upon them until 2 o'clock
this afternoon.
This afternoon, when Judge Gary
asked the prisoners whether they had
anything to offer why sentence should
not be passed upon them, Spies
stepped forward and began reading
prepared speech. While 1t is not
known with any degree Of certainty,
1t is stated that December Sd will be
the date named for the execution.
Spies made e fierce haraDgue in
favor Of anarchy and declaring his in
nocence OF the hay market bomb
throwing. Schwab then made
speech TO the court. The defendant,
Lingg, began making o speech after
Neebe and Schwab had concluded,
and before he had concluded the
court, at 5:05 o'clock pm, adjourned
to 10 o'clock tomorrow without Tor
mally passing sentence.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-10-08
Archbishop Fabrc'a Revision OF the
Rules.

MONTREAL, October THE con.
stitution Of the Knights oil Labor has
been revised by members Of the clergy
in this city and under the auspices of
Archbishop Fabre, with the object OF
expunging the provisions contrary to
the rules of the Roman Catholic
Church. MIR. Powderly, when here,
promised the Archbishop to support
the passage of the amendments before
the annual convention. Two delegates
from the Knights OF Labor have left
to attend the convention In Richmond,
Va, and have taken the revised con-
stitution with them, 1t is stated the
Archbishop delayed action until the
present time because OF the assembling
OF the Richmond convention.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-10-08
The Democratic Candidate for Gov
ermOr OF It's.

New York Ercning Post: The nom.
ination Of Mr.. Andrew for the Gov
ernorship in Massachusetts by the
Democrats show that even II honesty
In politics be not always the best pol
icy, as some people think, 1t is al all
events not always had policy. Mr.,
Andrew is the son OF John A. Andrew,
the former war Governor, whom Mas
sRchusetts remembers with 30 much
pride He belongs to the same class
OF young Boston men as Mr.. Cabot
Lodge, and went with this gentleman
rs a delegate to the convention which
nominated Blaine, having the same
low opinion OF Blaine which Mr..
Lodge had and then freely expressed,
and being equally opposed to his NOM
ination on the capital ground OF per.
sonal unfiDness, He, like Mr.. Lodge
and Mr.. Roosevelt, opposed Blaine's
nomination in the convention, but I'M
like them, when the nomination was
made refused 10 acquiesce in 1t, He
held, we presume, the old and, until
recently by respectable men unques
toned, rule OF moral y, that no man.
date or trust can bind delegate Ia
assist in the elevation TO high office
OF man whom he believes to be
personally dishonest, and to have
abused a pubic office for purposes Of
private gain. A delegate may be
bound TO sink objections to candi-
dates opinions, or to sink objections &c
his capacity, or to sink objections tc
hisprospects with the voters, in defer
ence to the majority. But objections
TO candidate on the score Of persona
dishonesty, on the score Of untruth
fulness and uniaithlulness 10 publ
trust are fundamental. They go be
hind all political commissions. The.
destroy at one blow everything tina
can be said in his favor, except tina
the country is in danler and that b,
is the only man competent to save II
In other words, the plea Of over
whelming necessity is the only plea al
honest man can use to justify hi
helping to put such person in higl
office,