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Connecticut western news., 1888-11-07
The Man.Stealing Turk Romans.

The man stealing raids of the -Turko- mans into Persia, says Thomas Stevens in tho Youths Companion, were called alamans, and the horses they used to ride on these alamans are famous throughout Asia for their marvellous speed and enduran ce. The Turkoman horse is long-egged, raw-boned animal, that one would never imagine capable of such performances; but they have been known frequently to cover 6 hundred miles day, for eight or ten consecutive days.
 In the Shah of Persias present s tud are Turkoman horses that have travelled eight hundred miles, over the bad roads of that country, in eight days. Day after day, halting only for few hours daily, to nibble the grass and obtain a drink of water these wonderful steeds pursue their way across the sandy desert and rocky mountain, bearing up as though they were things of iron, in- stead of flesh and blood.
 Mounted on these mate hless horses, the Turkoman bands would swoop down, almost as swiftly and suddenly as eagles, upon some peaceful Persian village, gather up the most desirable young men and maidens, and carry them off to the slave markets of Turkestan, Box hara and Khiya.
 Hound all the fields in the vicinity of tho four towns known as the Four Stations of Terror dotted with little towers of refuge for the laborers work ing in tho fields to fl f,e to whenever the dreaded human hawks swooped down upon them unawares. The towers are circular buildings, about twenty feet high, and built strongly of adobe or sun burnt brick.
 They are often found scattered all about the fields but a few hundre d yards apart, so that, at the first alarm of the Turkomans the Persian ryot could scurry into the nearest tower, like rabbit into it's holo at the approach of | a dog.
Connecticut western news., 1888-11-07
A Surgical Marvel.

A startling advan ce in surgical science has been made by Dr. Maximilian Klein, a German military surgeon. The par ticulars are given by the professional journal Memorabilien. A man acci- dontally cut off his left great toe in the middle of the first joint. Tho severed piece remained hanging to the foot, but tho connecting skin was scarcely thicker than thread. Dr. Klein sewed on the fragment, dressed it with iodoform, and had the satisfaction, in twenty-t wo days, of finding the wound healed and the toe perfectly sound and flexible. Encouraged by the unexpected result in this case, Dr. Klein was induced to ap. ply the same treatment again. A re- cruit in order to disable himself and SC escape from military service, delib- erately cut off his forefnger with an axe at the second joint. The finger end was lost, and could not be found until half-an-hour had elapsed. It was then cold and blue. Nevertheless, Dr. Klein sewed it to the stump and applied g bandage of iodoform gauge. As early as the second day it was evident that circulation had been partially re-estab- lished throughout the finger, and in oix weeks tho man had not only left hos pital, but was doing the very rife drill | which he had hoped to shirk. The finger was, in fact, as serviceable as it had ever been. These stories read al- most like extracts from the ex. ploits of Baron Munchhausen. That they are chronicled in Memora
 bi!ien is, however, evidence oi their truth. English surgeons will not be so unwilling to credit them as they would havo been in the days before the discovery of the marvellous properties of iodoform.-[St. James, Gazette.
Connecticut western news., 1888-11-07

If kings havo been abolished in France, various Frenchmeu seem de- termined to have their ''innings" by setting up e monarchs on their own ac- count in far and former climes, says tho London Telegraph. Everybody has heard of the King of Arancania, Ore. lius |" who was Parisiaa Rio dc Tuli- patsn, and now another Gaul M. de Hayrena, has just boon crowned mon arch of . tribe of Annamites on tn, borders of Siam. The new sover eigr calls himself 'Marie L, King of the s. dangs," and according to all accounts, hs has inauyurstsd happy aud pros- perou, reign, and promises to bs q merry and e eentsatsd petsntats . .Vsd Rag cslS' AnsslG
Connecticut western news., 1888-11-07
CANAAN, CONN, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER ?. 1s88

fessed, humbly land can't never tell you how grateful I am to you, young man. Them was noble words in this here case. Wal, that pin of yours-1 m consider'b ble absent-minded, Mir. Good . win-I picked it off the floor jest after dinner; recollect it now. And not knowing whose 'twas, nor where it be- longed, I jest put it up thero under that hat; thou ,ht 'twould be safe till found out who it belonged to; and it went clean out O my head, jest as things do."
 Don't say another word, sir" said the young man, eagerly, with sympa- thetic admiriug eyes on Myra- "don't for my sakel'
 But 1t was for Myra's sake
 'Tm an old fool Myry," said Mr.. Bennett an hour and half later, when Mr. Goodwin had gono down the path with light hearted briskness, and Myra was finishing the dishes, her eyes shin ing and her cheeks flushed. "Im an old fool, and I've been a trial to you, and you've stood it like major, and so did he, and I shan't forget it. When you go to keeping house for him, stid O me-"
 'sMr. Bennett 1" said Myra, shily.
 "Oh, wal, that's coming; I can see it plain; and whom it does come you shan't want for setting-out as good as I'd give girl O my own. You deserve it, and SO does he, said MT. Bennett, de. Saturday Night.
Connecticut western news., 1888-11-07
How Coiners are Punished in China.

How Coiners are Punished in China.
 From a recent trial reported in the Pekin Gazette it appears that in China coiners are punished with even more than the severity of our old savage penal code. Two coppersmiths out of employment in Hankow privately formed little company to make copper cash, and began their operations for some reason by melting down about eight pounds of imperial copper coins. The band had made but little progress in their secret trade, having only manu- factured altogether some 10, 900 coins, equivalent to little moro than e3, when they were captured, tried and con. demned. According to the report tho riugleader was sentenced to immediate decapitation' for melting down coin of the realm; the next, who had assisted in the work of coiniug, was entenced to decapitation after imprisonment; while two others, who had polls he'd the spurious coins, and the last who acted as bookkeeper, were treated not as principals, but as accessories, liable to transportation to Turkestan and en- ploym ment as slaves to the troops there "a fate believed to be worse than i'm mediate decapitation. Some other men, who seem to have had nothing to do with the coining itself, but acted as do. mestic servants to tho principals, re- ceived sentences of three years banish- ment and hundred blows each.
Connecticut western news., 1888-11-07
Two NOn.PrOgressiYe Berries,

The huckle berry and blueberry are the only ones of the popular berries, says a contemporary, that have not been improved by cultivation. Middle aged men can recall the time when the straw berry and blackberry were rather poor, common place fruit, but they have been cultivated, grown from seed, and the result is the toothsome berries which now adorn our tables. But the huckle- berry we eat now is tho same which tickled the palatcs of our great grand fathers. Word has gone forth to i'm prove this berry, to grow it iu gardens from seed, and select tho variety which gives tho best result. It is not genor- ally known, but nearly all our edible plants aud fruits wore origi. nally weeds, or of so inferior kind as to be scarcely fit for human uses. But for countless generations man has becn inn proving his environment, but more es- pecially the grains and fruits upon which he now lives. The human pal ato itself must have been greatly inn proved in sen ensibility, owing to the diff ference between what fruits and vogc- tables wer, and what they are. Thore are those who thiak that this process is to go on, and that other weeds will be turned into useful plants. and that by scientific methods tho qu,ntity of food will be at length so great that no hu- man being will ever die of starvation. - Scientific American.
Connecticut western news., 1888-11-07
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Facts About Tobacco.

It Is asserted that tobacco was in use in China from the earliest times, but we have no certain knowledge that this was the ca~e. If it was so, the knowledge of the plant and its uses must have been carefully guarded by tho Chinese, for it was not introduced into any other Oriental nation until af- ter its discovery in America When Columbus first landed on the island of San Domingo, ia the West Indies, he found tobacco in use among tho natives there, who smoked it when made into small cylindrical rolls and wrapped in maize leaf. The Indians on the con- tinent smoked it in pipe, and among all the tribes, from Peru to Upper Can and, the first discoverers found the plant to be in use, and to have been known to them from so early a period that the time of its first discovery was unknown. The smoking of tobacco with tho Indians partook largely of tho nature of a religiou, rite. The seeds of the tobacco plant were first brought to Europe by Gonzalo Herman deg de Oviedo, who introduced it into Spain, where it was first cultivated as an ornamental plant, till traveller who has noted it's use among the American Indians, called attention to its narcotic properties. The name is said to have been taken from Tabacco, province of Yucatan, though others derive it from Tobago, an island in the Caribbean Sea, and yet others from Tobasco, in the Gulf of Florida The practice of smok- ing the dried leaf of the plant became general in Spain, and its manufacture into snuff followed soon after. It was introduced into Italy in 1860, and about the same time into France. The first to bring the seeds of the plant into the latter country was Jean Nlcot, the French Ambassador to Portugal, in whose honor tobacco received it's botau- ical name nicotiano, whence the name nicotine, applied to poisonous extract from the plant. Tobacco is said to have been first introduced into England by Sir Walter Raleigh. From these be- ginnings the use of the weed spread over the entire eastern continent. It | dld not become known in Asia until the 17th century, but was taken up by the Oriental nations with great eager ness, and they are now the greatest l smokers in the world.
Connecticut western news., 1888-11-07
BeieWeled Brass Furniture.

It is rather odd news that the Deco rator and Furnisher brings, that we in this country are succeeding 80 we'll in the manufacture of artistic brass work that we are exporting the highest and most expensive grades to Europe. There is something for Oscar Wilde to r. fleet upon, considering how recently he camo as an msthetic missionary among Us. Perhaps he would view this state of things as result of his efforts. If it is so it proves what peculiarly apt pupils we are. Tho thing in which we are particularly distinguishing our selves are tables, jewcled brass tables. MT. Ruskin has loag been preaching tho use of jasper onyx, mother of pearl, lapsus lazuli, etc., in furniture, and a table just sent from this country to England was of oval shape, made of a block of onyx set into a shallow cyliu- drical form of framing, with brass border including pierced band show ing lining of red marble beneath. There is no end to tho luxury that can be indulged in after this fashion. One of the richest specimens of such furni ture in Europe is table belonging to the Earl of Warwick and to be seen in the state apartments of Warwick Cas- tie. The earl few years ago was of- fered $50, 900 for it, and though he was pretty hard up at the time he refused it. Its value, howev,r, is ia a measure antiquarian, as it is perfect specimen of the work of the middle age Venetian artlfcors. .-[Graphic.
Connecticut western news., 1888-11-07
Traits of Native Australians

"Our blacks," said Mrs. J. R. Reid, a native of N W South Wales, to a Chi cago Herald man, t'arc different in type from tho African. Their hair stands up wiry and bushy like that of the Clrcas- sian women in your dime museums. The blacks find an abundance of food, and there is no Incentive for them to accept civilization and learn to work. The country swarms with kangaroos, wall varbies Gan animal similar to tho kan garoo), rabbits and birds. Then the blacks make large part of their diet of snakes and worm. Worms they eat raw just as they dig them from the earth. They eat snakes of all kinds Tho women, of course, arc brutally abused by the males and kept in tho most degraded state ofservitude. Whom black wants wife ho falls upon some young woman, chokcs her so she cannot cry out and runs with her into the Lush. There he must keep her for tAree or lOuC nOuLuS. II C0nuOC re- turn to his own tribo until the expira- tion of this period. When he does take her lack, if she utters no complaint of hungor against him-that is, if she does not show that he has utterly failed to supply her with sufficient worms, kan .aroo mo at and snakos-he can keep her. But for year he must stay out of tho way of h,r tribe, for if they catch him they will kill him and take the young woman back. The sign of the married state adopted by the women is the pulling out of ono front tooth. When the male becomes Q B enedict he indi- catcs the joyful fact by cutting off the little finger of his right hand at the first joint They live in low, skin-covered huts, and I think aro in every respect beneath the North American Indian in intelligence.
Connecticut western news., 1888-11-07

Tho most astonishing story is related in Japanese paper of the mystery of tho loss of the new war-vessel tho UnAbi Kan. The popular theory was that she wont down with all on board during great typhoon in tho Chin a sea. This journal, however, declares that French sailor has reached Vladi vastock who claims to be the sole sur vivor of tho lost vessel. He declares the Unebi- Kan was captured by Black Naggs and all on board savo himself were rut 10 the sword. The story ha, avery fishy flavor, as there is nothing to show how the sailor reached the Rus sian port or how the Chinese pirates wess able to overcome . well- equipped modern man of-war.
Connecticut western news., 1888-11-07
Perfect Combustion.

Firing is only done properly when the fuel is consumed in tho best possible way---that is, when no moro is burned than is necessary to produce the amount of steam required, and to keep tho pres sure uniform. To obtain this end, complete combustion must bo obtained in the furnace, and this is going oa when tho fuel is burning with bright flame evenly all over the grate. Blue flames, dark spots and smoke arc evi- denoes of incomplete combustion, due to lack e3 aar.
Connecticut western news., 1888-11-07
1t Had the Strength

Capt Salthorse (to landlady): ''Mrs. Hashetter, can you tell mo where can purchase largo quantity of this but. teri"
 Mrs. Hashetter (gushingly): 'Now my dear captain! What can you want of quantity of that excellent butterP'
 Capt. S.: 'I intended arming my marines with it in place of cutlasses, al my experience with it here convincea me it's great thing to repel boardsrs.' '' -tjudgA
Connecticut western news., 1888-11-07
Cactus Fodder.

The uch-despised cactus of our des- erts is, according to tho Now York In. dependent, being found blessing in disguise. h the old world they uso the very prickly gorse as cattle food, by putting it in crusher so as to render the thorns harmless. By drawing the American cactuses over flame, the thorns are easily destroyed. Some peel them. They are found nutritious and very ac. ceptable to stock when divested of this natural armor. Crushing as the gorse is crushed in Europe has not yet been introduced, but this is proposed, and when successful cactus fodder will be as popular on the desert as hay further east.
Connecticut western news., 1888-11-07
A Song of Love.

A Song of Love- The love of tho Great for the Less Is the Suns free way; The love of the Like for the Like Is the Days glad love of the Day. But atom and mote can tell Of a nobler love, In glory and beauty beyond, In blesscdness far above. 'Tis the love of the Less for the Great, The yearning desire Of the Poor to attain the Complete, Of the Low to embrace the Higher; The longing an love of the year For the Spring unborn, The love of the Brook for the Sea, The love of the Night for the Morn. -[Robertson Trowbridge in Independent
Connecticut western news., 1888-11-07

Tho 'Decameron" of Boccaccio has come up in the English courts as to tho ftness of its salc and publication. The pubiishers of the work set up as 6 de- fenss tho fact that the book had been recognized as work of high literary merit for the last 500 years; that dur ing that period it had never been out of print and that the British Museum possessed 200 copies of it The mag nitrate, asserting the truth of these claims, dismissed the case.
Connecticut western news., 1888-11-07
Wings,

We'll may he sing-the careless bird Whose carol OCT the field heard. The day is chill and dark to see, The fitful rain falls drearily, The bough beneath him rocks and swings, Yet still he bravely, blithely sings;
 For he has wings. o saddened heartl thou too canst be, Tho joy is dying, sorrow-free. What need to wreck the gathering nighti Trust thou to fancy's pinion light, And when the sullen storms are nigh, Love can find out sunnier sky;
 For wings have l. IGeo M. Whicher, in Independent.
Connecticut western news., 1888-11-07

At last tho telephone ls become . factor of cven-handed justice. Up in Toronto, Canada, . citizen who had broken by Jaw found that he could not possibly reach tho court room in time, % telephoned the fact to the off, cials, admitted his guilt was fined $1 and paid 1t and all by wire.
Connecticut western news., 1888-11-07

The New York Telegram says: 'tOne trust has fairly turned itself inside out in its attempt to swallow as much of earth ss possible The jute bagging trust put pric,s up to nearly prohibi- tory price and the southern cotton planters have found better material than jute for enveloping cotton bales. Next year they will probably refuse jute bagging at any price"
Connecticut western news., 1888-11-07

Itapp>ars that tho British army is not only tho dear-st in Europe, but the worst fed, so far as the rank and file arc concerned. Tho bread ration is the lowest in Europe, being ono pound per day. Tho allowance of meat is three quarters of pound, including bone, whereas continental soldiers are given a full pound of solid meat The bread ard meat are both apt to bc of poor quality, while tho fuel supplied is in aufficient
Connecticut western news., 1888-11-07
HUMOROUS

A droll dog-A wag with funny tale.
 The elements arc angry when the waters pout.
 Guest-Waiter, the sugar. Waiter Sugar, the waiter.
 An attitude is about the only thing dude dares strike.
 A cup that cheers but does not inebri. ate-the big dipper.
 Why does an old mail wear mittensi To keep off the chaps
 The dude is great stickler for the correct thing in canes
 Why is door in the potential moodi It's wood, or should be.
 What is thieving in the outskirtsi Picking ladies' pockets.
 Some men are never satisfied with their lot unless it's a corner lot.
 Soldiers like to eat the fruit of the vine cold. They object to taking grapeshot.
 What arc tho great astronomersa The stars, because they have studded the heavens for ages.
 sTm a member of the Fire Depart. ment," replied the hotel bouncer, wher asked his occupation.
 Candidates for nomination who are on the wrong side of tho fence are hereby informed that they can get in through the dele gates. A man is rarely found who kicks when his name is misspelled in the police court record of newspaper. This is s notable exception to the rule.
 No acids do in kisses lie; Who would for honey kisses barteri
 Yet when one comes to say ''good by," Then kisses are the cream of "ta, ta-"
 "You have heard cat purr, sup. pose9' asked the judge. "Yes" re- piled the major. '.But, outside oi poetry, you never heard Cowper." A man living in western town say, his was the only houso intact aft,r recent cy clone, and attributes his good luck to the fact that it had a heavy mortgage on it.
 "You are Mr. Quezoen, the husband of the celebrated lecturess oa cookery, are you not7' ''Yes, sir" replied the dejected, hollow-eyed man. I'm the man she tries her now dishos on."
 Commercial Traveller (who has just been refused by Boston girD-Wel!, good-by. Pm going to Egypt. Bos- ton girl older)-Indeedl Why1 c. T.-Because think I can make moro of an impression on mummy's heart than on yours Empiric-''Then l can count on you for testlmonia to my liver regulator9" Richly-'I can speak of it, doctor, in the highest terms." Empiric-What evil did it euro you of, sir9' Richly Poverty, doctor, povertyi It laid my late lamented uncle out as stiff as a poker, and was his hcir." Clerk to landlord): Young MT. spriggins and old Tomboy have had . quarrel and both threaten to leavo the house unless the other one does. Land- lord: Which is the better customer3 | Clerk: About the sam, sir. Land lord: Tell old Tomboy he must go. He is likely to die any day and we may keep Spriggins for years.
Connecticut western news., 1888-11-07

The migratory habits of the criminal class are illustrated by the fact that of 69, All prisoners ia American peniten- tiaries, 4767 claim legal residence in some other stato or territory than that in which they arc iacarcerated. Tho state which furnished tho largest num- bsr of convicts to the prisons of other ttatos is New York.
Connecticut western news., 1888-11-07

Will that universal language Vola- puk, go out with tho death of its in- ventorf asks the New York Press. Will it prove only tho latest ''fad," or will it demonstrate the just deceased Sch leycn . great inventori It is said that Volapuk has really gained firm foot ing in nearly every continental country; but it is doubtful whether it will, after all, undo that tremendous days work at the town of B ,bel.
Connecticut western news., 1888-11-07

A radical innovation has visited tho Chinese empire. Tho Marquis Tseng fornarly minister to England, has just celebrated the marriage of his daugh- ter, Lady Blossom, after asking her con- sent to her husband. This is reversal of Chinese custom Tho Marquis kept up other customs, as, for example, head ing tho procession carrying 120 tables of presents about the streets of Pekin.
Connecticut western news., 1888-11-07

A strike at Bsvier brought out tho fact that Missouri, . well populated Ststa has but ono militia regiment Missourians seem to b. singularly def- eisnt in love of military show.
Connecticut western news., 1888-11-07

Every newspaper, no matter where 1t s printed, is opened at the frontier offices in Russia and carefully looked over before being sent to its address, and objectionable matter is stamped mt
Connecticut western news., 1888-11-07

The Globe, of Toronto, declares that city to be tho only possible capital of tho great American nation whom the an- ncxation of the United States takes wlsn>
Connecticut western news., 1888-11-07

Tho Grand Vizior at Constantinople has issued . decree forbidding tho pub ication of morning papers and allowing only evening papers to be issued.
Connecticut western news., 1888-11-07

One of the most desirable plots of land at Bar Harbor, Me-, is owned by an Irish woman, who lives on it in Q small hut She has had offers of $150,- 900 for tho lad. but rsfusss te sell.
Connecticut western news., 1888-11-07
Connecticut Western News.
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Connecticut western news., 1888-11-07
The rate of mortality among tho h. dians increases about ten per cont each

The total average percentage of labor cost in the man ufactured articles in this country is about 21 DOT cont
Connecticut western news., 1888-11-07

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