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Connecticut western news., 1889-06-05
The Tea of the Himalayas.

The tea of the Himalayas is the best in the world, writes Frank G. Carpen- ter, and would advise housekeepers to try Indian tea. There is a tea in Thibet which has the flavor of milk to such degree that when used it has all the properties of good tea mixed with the most delicious of Jersey cream. This Himalaya tea has the flavor of flowers. It is pure and clear and it is supplant- ing the Chinese tea in the English mar kets. The tea plant grows wild through these Himalaya hills, and in some of the regions near here it attains the dimen- sions of large tree. Still it is now only about half century since tea cul- ture was commenced in India, and now there are many Indian tea men who prophecy that Indian tea will eventually push Chinese tea out of the markets of the world.
 Tie lower hills of these Himalay as ar e covered with tea plantations. The plants look not unlike well-trimmed ox-wood hedges, and they rise in ter races up the sides of the hills. Here and there you may see a gayly dressed woman picking their leaves, and now and then low shed in which the firing is done. The seeds are sown in nur- series in December and January. and they are planted between April and July. The ground has to be we'll drained, and I am told that the best tea soil is virgin forest land, which in h. d ia is very rich. The plants begin to bear about the third year, and they are at their best when they are ten years old. The Indian tea planters get about five pickings year, and often seven. In China and Japan three pickings is considered good.
Connecticut western news., 1889-06-05
Romance of the South Sea Islands.

A romantic story comes to Washing ton from Tahiti, in the South Sea Islands, in which the United States consul and native princess figure as the principals. The consul is Jacob L.. Doty, young man of twenty-five who was appointed to his present position about year ago. Young Doty served for some years as page in the Senate, and when he asked for place in the consular service, all the members of the body, Republicans and Democrats alike, gave him cordial indorsement. Shortly after his arrival in Tahiti, Mir. Doty, who is bright, handsome young man, made the acquaintance of the Princess Palona. The Princess is beautiful and accomplished lady, about eighteen years old, aud perfect blonde. She is the daughter of Lord and Lady D'Arcy, her mother, Lady D'Arcy, being a native Tahitian princess, and her father an English nobleman of distinguished an- cestry. Princess Palona has had all the advantages of continental education in France and Germany as we'll as England. She is the possessor of immense wealth, being in her own right, the largest property owner on the island, with vast cocoa plantation, and pearl fisheries valued at millions of dollars and further receives large annuity from France under treaty stipulations. As may naturally be supposed the Prin- cess has not lacked suitors for her hand, but she threw them all over for the young American, and in recent letter from MT. Doty to his mother in this city the announcement is made of their be- trothal. Lord Darcy, it is said, de- sired that his daughter should marry in her own station, but like sensible man waived his objections when he saw what direction matters were taking. The fact is, the young man can boast a lineage quite as long as his pros pectivc father in-law. He is a great grandson of Lord Melbourne, who was half a century ago Queen Victoria's S prime minister. He is also related to the Wallaces and McPher. sons and other families of note in Great
 Britain. P9st.
Connecticut western news., 1889-06-05
The Wind Blast of the Avalanche.

knew we'll, for an honest fellow told me that he was driving his sledge with two horses on the Albula Pass, when an avalanche fell upon the opposite side of the gorge. It did not catch him. But the blast carried him and his horses and the sledge at one swoop over into deep snow, whence they emerged with diff culty. Another man, whom I count among my friends here, showed me spot in the Schanfgg Valley (between Chur and Strela Pass) where one of his female relatives had been caught by the Lawinen- Dunst. She was walking to church when this happened, the people of her hamlet having taken the same path about quarter of an hour before. The blast lifted her into the air, swept hel from the road and landed her at the top of lofty pine, to which she clung with great desperation. The snow rushed under her and left the pine standing. It must have been an inconsiderable ava lanche. Her neighbors, on their way back from church saw her clutching for bare life to the slender apex of the tree, and rescued her. Many such cases could be mentioned. A roadmaker, named Schorta, this winter, was blown in like manner into the air below Brail in the Engadine, and saved himself by grap- bling to fir tree, else he would have been dashed to pieces against the face of a precipice; as it was he only lost his hat. have been shown a place near Ems, in the Rhine Valley, above Chur, where miller's house was carried bodily some distance through the air by the Lawinen-Dun Its inAabitants were all killed except an old man about sixty and an infant of two years. Again may mention that the tower of the monastery at Dissentis was on one occa- sion blown down by the same cause.
 Cases are frequently met with where walls of houses, windows and doors, have been smashed in by the wind of avalanches falling on the opposite flank of narrow ravine. have myself seen house wrecked by Staub- Lawine, its roof removed in one piece by the blast, and it's back wall and one side stove in by the weight of snow and stone and tiles which folio wed,
Connecticut western news., 1889-06-05
HUMOROUS.

A sign writer-The stenographer.
 Consumptive's early stage-A hack.
 A foul tip-Feeing the waiter with lead quarter.
 Natures serial story-The spinal col umn, continued in our necks.
 'I should re- mark, said the merchan- when the price of goods went up.
 The frontiersman who shot an Indian corpse didn't know it was Lo-dead.
 The man who made himself new tile out of fur was fur tile in resources.
 When the ''shrill music of the shells'' is spoken of, i, bomb bard meant2
 sOnly hew and cry," said the boy who sliced his foot with broadaxe.
 When man goes out for { "spin" on tho road he should use 'top" bug gy.
 To use the language of gushing y youth, the very perfection of the beautiful is the smile which now adorns the face of the seaside hotel keeper. Young Lady-Mr. Conductor, will have time to say good-by to my friendsa Conductor-Guess not, miss; this train leaves in two hours and half.
 A lawyers life is full of trials and tribulations, but he manages to make money out of the trials and leaves noth- | ing but the tribulation for his clients.
 MT. softleigh Approaching the poinD -"The sentiments hold toward you, my dear Miss Keene, are so tender that I cannot express them ]" Miss Keene- "Then you might send them by mail. "
 Pupil-'' Teacher, kin me an Bill go an git pail O water 2" Arkansas schoolmaster-"T There you go again. How many times have I got to tell you that it aint good grammar to say me an Bill 2" Pupil" What ort I to say 2" Teacher" Bill and me. Can't never learn you nothing.
 When in tho orchard Robin sings
 When in the meadow springs the grass lis time for cucumbers and things
 And tender ''garden sass"
 Spring vegetables glad the heart;
 Ohl they are welcome ever;
 A zest to life do they impart,
 And purify the liver.
 'sAre those our men2' asked Major Pitcairn, as squad of soldiers ap- preached along the road near Concord. "No, sir" replied Colonel Smith. "Thcy are minute -men." General Washington believed that it was to this that the British defeat may be attribu. 1 ted.
Connecticut western news., 1889-06-05

The morphine habit, which is causing such an amount of talk in France, is re- ceiving attention from English reviewers and medical men. It would appear, ac. cording to some of the commentators on the vices of dissipated folk, as re- corded by the Chicago Herald, that all sorts of ghastly dissipations have been adopte1 by women who have nerves and other idiosyncrasies. On this side oi the water tea cigarettes have been super seded by cigarettes filled with various herbs, including opium, which are smoked by women of London who run to that sort of thing, while the number of ingenious drugs which have been in troduced among the women of Paris is too long to enumerate. There is little serious doubt about the extent to which this particular form of dissipation has taken in Paris, but most of the talk ip London apparently emanates from pro
 fcssional alarm ats, who are forevei estaaaa . ths sditon q ths daaly pesos H&-<-
Connecticut western news., 1889-06-05

A beautiful damsel was recently per suaded by her admirer to elope, and the ardent pair fled In a sailboat from the wrath of pursuing parents. The lover grew sick with the washing of the waves, and at last succumbed, much to the disgust of the bride, who ordered the captain to turn the boats head and let her land. If more couples would try 8 sea voyage before marriage, instead of trip to Europe afterwards, there might be fewer unhappy marriages; for men or women look their worst when the horrible sickness of the sea is upon
Connecticut western news., 1889-06-05
Grim HunOr.

It was at Tonquin. The young Count de T., who was serving as private in light infantry French regiment, had his skull fractured by bullet during an engagement with the Black Flags. He was taken up for dead, and removed to the ambulance. "He won't recover, " said the surgeon-major; "one can see the brain." At this word, the patient suddenly opened both his eyes. "You can see my braiu?' he asked; 'I beseech you, major, write at once to apprise my father of the fact; he made me join the army, because he pretended had no brains. ."-Argonaut.
Connecticut western news., 1889-06-05

The gallant British tar, who has been the theme of so much laudation in poem and prose, seems, remarks the San Fran cisco Chronicle, to have fallen on de- generate days-that is if credence is to be given to what English shipmasters say. It is alleged that they favor Nor wegians, Swedes or Germans-anything in fact but their own fellow country men. While the English sailor still possesses his old time ability, if he cares to exercise it, nevertheless he is so given to drink that he is insubordinate and quarrelsome to degree-char acteristics which are lacking in sailors of other na- tionalities.
Connecticut western news., 1889-06-05

Says the St. Louis Star- Sayings: GA monopoly, the most arrogant and grasp ing in this country, which is seldom scored by the press, is the National As sociation of Bill Posters. It is com posed of the one man in each city of the Union who owns the largest amount of boards and fence privileges. Any show man who should come to this city and patronize any one but the association bill poster, would be immediately listed, and nowhere in the country could he get his paper on the walls, or at least the walls controlled by the association, and that is about all the desirable space 10 be found."
Connecticut western news., 1889-06-05
Habits of the Beaver.

\ Having to pass the newly made lumber camp often, writes a Michigan core spondent of Forest and ,Stream I saw that the beaver had two or three dams, and house built, all in shape to spend the winter. The man who carried lunch to the men several times saw the beaver at work carrying birch and alder sticks into their winter storc houses. He said he watched them one day for an hour, and this was in the middle of tho day. In November, after it froze up, set two tramps and caught ono beaver, another broke the chain to my trap and got away under the ice. Thinking he might have got fast with the trap and drowned, ] took two boxes with me ono day, and cut number of holes drought the ics along their road. As the water in their dam was only two or three feet deep l could easily sec the bottom, but could not find my trap or beaver. As a last resort I cut hole in the dam, so as to draw the water off. In about an hom the pond had lowered a foot. The beaver came out of their hiding places and made straight for the hole in their dam. We saw three of them, and aa they swan past the holes we had cut in the ice we caught two young ones, two-thirds grown, by the tail and pulled them out. On the ice they were help less, They showed fight but did not make much effort to escape. The other was an old fellow, and we tried to catch him in the same way, and had hold of his tail several times, but he was too strong. Just then a hunter happened along with a gun aud shot him for us. We were eight miles from home and had no way to carry the two live beaver, SC we foolishly killed them, and have been sorry many times since, as think they might have been tanned, or could have sold them alive for double what got for their hides, 8 each. The old one weighed thirty pounds, and the hide brought me s6. caught one two years ago that weighed forty nine poundss
Connecticut western news., 1889-06-05
CANAAN, CONN.,, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5. 1889

gleaming red lights suddenly appeared around the curve in the cut, and she knew that the train was already rapidly backing up, and that she had not mo- ment to lose.
 Feeling for the lock in the darkness, she then struck it several heavy blows with the ax, which she still retained. Luckily, one of the blows taking effect, the broken lock dropped to the ground. She then grasped the switch lever and ried to throw it over, but it resisted her utmost efforts to move it.
 The train was now only short dis tance away, and with the energy of de- spair she braced her feet against the switch standard, and, putting forth her strength in one mighty effort, the ob. stinate lever came over with sudden jerk and No. 9 glided safely in on the siding.
 The shrill scream of whistle was now heard in the cut, and as soon as the  train was clear she again exerted all her strength and threw the switch back to it's former position.
 A headlight now flashed around the curve, and a moment later No. 21 rushed roaring along.
 Lily, by her bravery, promptness and presence of mind, had averted terrible calamity.
 At the official investigation which took place few days later the entire crew of the runaway train acknowledged that they were asleep, and that the con- ductor had been awakened by brick thrown in at the caboose window.
 The only excuse they had for their neglect of duty was that they had been on the road for thirty-two consecutive hours without sleep or rest, and that they were completely worn out.
 Notwithstanding the fact that the management of the road was responsible for requiring the men to run the long double trip, the entire crew were sum- marily discharged for neglect of duty, as though mans endurance was an infal- ible bank, to be drawn on at pleasure!
Connecticut western news., 1889-06-05

Secretary Tracy has issued a general order calling the attention of the officers and men of the navy to the repeated acts of heroism performed by William Fooye, a seaman of the wrecked Trenton. On February 23 and on March 9 last Fooye jumped overheard and rescued ship mates from drowning, and again on the latter date, when the ships propellor was foulcd by a rope, he went overheard under the counter during heavy swell and removed the obstruction, which had temporarily disabled the engines at a time when the vessels position in the harbor was unsafe In the order Secre- tary Tracy says that such bravery and devotion and duty merit the highest praise. He directed that the order be read
Connecticut western news., 1889-06-05
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Canine COpartnership.

The cats on the west side of the river in Norwich, Conn.,, have been having rather hard time lately on account of the singular cooperative business carried on by two dogs in that quarter. For sev. eral months an English setter and bull dog have run together in the successful pursuit and slaughter of cats. The cats were too willy or formidable for either dog to overpower one of them alone, so the animals went into partnership. It was the setters part, as soon as $. cat was brought to halt, to engage her at- tention in front, while the bulldog in cowardly way approached from the rear, sprang on the game, and broke her backbone with a single snap of his pow. erful jaws. These dogs hunted nightly together, and they killed great many pet cats, as we'll as tramp cats; and naturally after while one of them died rather suddenly while the business was still fourishing. After its death the partner entirely abandoned the pursuit of cats; the warning was not lost on him, it seems.
 But at Norwich town there is still 8 lively canine copartnership between a couple of dogs in the business of killing woodchucks, small black aud tan ter rier and bulldog being the members of the firm. The pair visit woodchuck burrows daily, and the bulldog rips and bites off boughs and roots at the mouth of the hole, and then the little terrier slips in and gets the woodchuck. Some times it happens that the wood chuck, if he is a big, old fellow, gets the terrier at the same time, and then there is bitter and rumbling underground battle, but the terrier has always won thus far. The two dogs have already killed scores of woodchucks. After killing a woodchuck the terrier drags him out of the hole.
Connecticut western news., 1889-06-05
A Mysterious Deposit of Coal.

Although attempts to mine coal at the mouth of the Kennebec river in Maine have been unsuccessful, yet every time a lump is washed ashore it cxcites some one with desire to investigate farther. A Portland paper tells of lump weigh ing about twenty-six pounds that re. gently was washed up on Popham beach, and thinks that Portland syndicate will make another effort this summer to find the source whence these pieces have come for the last sixty years. Thv opinion is frequently expressed that the Jumps are broken from a rich vein be- beath the sea.
Connecticut western news., 1889-06-05

The American sugar beet is sweeter by about B per cent. than any other beet on the globe, asserts the New York Herald. We ont say this in boast ng spirit, but with modest pride. The average extract of sugar from German, French or English beets is 12 per cent. But out in Nebraska the beet has got itself down to business, and insists on extracting 17 per cent. of "sweetnin'" out of the s'sile'
Connecticut western news., 1889-06-05
The Silver Lining. Above my head, beneath my feet Tho hlaclx closdc rxolI iy, fnrv hv.

4uo SlANcI AluAuS. Above my head, beneath my feet The black clouds roll in fury by: glance as far as eye can see, And naught but storm clouds fill my sky. No ray of light, no sunbeam shining No glimmer of silver lining. About my soul and on my heart, The shadows fall in silence grim, The murkey clouds have filled my brain, And left my wearied vision dim. My soul in grief and woe repining, Can see no gleaming silver lining. Clouds of the past but roll away, To let the present gloom appear; While future years rise dark and stern With threat'ning cloud heads far and near. The hand of fate my lot designing, Obscures the blessed silver lining. Roll on dark clouds with grief oppressedl Thy vaporing mists must pass away. The soul bears but its destined load Of sullen sorrows day by day. Some welcome breeze thy mists entwining, Must yet disclose the silver lining.
 -Lurana " Sheldon.
Connecticut western news., 1889-06-05

The young German Emperer is play ing sad havoc among the generals. He shunted in 1888 eight corps commanders, twenty-one commanders of divisions, twelve brigadiers of cavalry and forty brigadiers of infantry, Age has no claim to consideration m the young monarch's eyes. Soldiers, he maintains, should be young and vigorous.
Connecticut western news., 1889-06-05
The First Grandchild.

 ''Grandmotherp called the farmer, and there came Out through the vine wreathed porch blush
 ing dame, Surprised and eager at the strange new The clock within rang forth the chime for eight "A message' Read it-quick-how can you waitg' Her husband, smiling leaned upon the gate, At arms length holding in his trembling The crisp, white sheet, while he the writing scanned, Then read once more, with voice almost un- manned: "'Thy granddaughter salutes thee Baby Bell," Mother and child, thank God, are doing we'll" A moments silence on the proud twain fell. She broke it soon. ''Grandfather I con- grat"- ''What meg' the good man cried, lifting his hat Grandfather I hadn't thought of thatm
 -Anna 4. Preston, in Harper's.
Connecticut western news., 1889-06-05

The proposal to saddle the Lord Lieutenancy of Ireland upon a member of the Royal family is grotesque thinks the New York Tr.5une. Forty years ago the island might have been pleased with the compliment, but it is too late now to dignify the office when it goes begging among the nobility. The proper course of action involves legisla- tive abolition of the office.
Connecticut western news., 1889-06-05
An Aesthetic Taste.

Miss Northcote Don't you admire decorated plates, MT. Oldmansion 2
 MT. Oidmansion--Indecd 1 do, Miss Northcote.
 Miss Northcote--What style of decor ation do you most fancya
 MT. Oldmansion-Hash.
Connecticut western news., 1889-06-05
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Connecticut western news., 1889-06-05
Not an Intentional Smile.

Miss May Morningside-rm very sor- " to hear of your brothers death, MT. Villers; but you'll pardon me if I say that see no reason to smile over it!
 Mir. Yorke Villers-Oh, dear, mol I'm not smiling, don't you knowl lit must be this eyeglass I'm trying to keep inl
Connecticut western news., 1889-06-05

About IS, 500, 900 persons, it is esti. mated, pursue the scheme of study laid down by the international Sunday-scho lesson committee.
Connecticut western news., 1889-06-05

The Illinois State Grange has offered reward of $1O, 1000 for machine which will bind wheat and oats with straw
Connecticut western news., 1889-06-05

Dehorning cattle has been declared illegal by the Court of Queens Bench, London, England.
Connecticut western news., 1889-06-05
An EXOrbitant Charge.

Conval escent- "Doctor, how much do owe you for saving my life2
 Doctor-t'Sixty dollars.
 Convalescent-'. '.Sixt dollarsl" (with an air of conviction) It ain't worth it. , -1peeA.
Connecticut western news., 1889-06-05

He-Do you like to ride in the rain2 She-Yes, especially if it is dri ving storm.
Connecticut western news., 1889-06-05

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