Connecticut western news., 1889-08-21
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 50, ,0O0 pounds this season.
 It is claimed that the use of electri- city in the deep mines of Nevada has increased their productiveness 25 per cent.
 The London Kennel Club has de- cided to let no dogs, born after this month, that have cut ears, to enter their bench shows.
 Two billion dollars are invested in dairying, more than the value of the country's banking and commercial in- terests combined.
 A cat kept in swimming bath at Albany is said to be an excellent swim mer, and to like the water, into which she will dive in pursuit of fish.
 Belgium, of all nations, has the greatest density of population, the largest diversity of occupation, the most uniform distribution of wealth and the minimum of pauperism.
 It is said that the belief that the Eiffel tower causes thunder-storms is becoming an article of faith in Paris. Never have thunder-storms been so frequent there as ill the last fortnight.
 A bear that helps himself to trout from pool formed by dam in brook is the extra inducement offered at Catskill summer resort, where, of course, a sea serpent would be entire ly out of place.
 The British naval authorities believe they have secured plates absolutely i'm penetrable by missiles fired from any gun at present invented. A plate ten inches thick is being cast for experi- mental purposes.
 Her majesty's steamship Pallas, 2,575 tons displacement, having engines of 7,500 horsepower, to develop nine teen-knots speed, and with an arma- ment of sixteen quick-firing guns, has just begun in England, to be finished in 1891.
 Paris is following the example of London and is about to build an under ground railway line. The railway will be seven miles long although only four miles of it will be completely underground; the rest will go through cuttings and by viaducts.
 Charlotte Harbor, Fla, is said to be so full of fish that it is actually rum ming over. One day recently fully thirty pounds of fish jumped out on shore and were picked up by citizen. There was one fifteen-pound redfish three five-pound snooks and five jack fish. . .....
 The launching into the air of more than 100, 900 pigeons will be an inter- esting event about the first of August, at the Paris exhibition. They are to be let loose on given signal at the same moment in a garden recently laid out on the site of the Tuileries palace.
 There has been a competition among stenographers to decide how many words can be written on 8 postal card. Sylvanus Jones, of Richmond, Va, has taken the prize by writing 36, ,764 words. MT. Jones is shorthand writ CT employed by the Brighthope Rail- way Company, of Richmond.
 The Maoris of New Zealand, while at war with the English invariably sent notice when they were going to make an attack, as if they were com ing on friendly visit and desired things ready for them. They thought it very strange that the English did not give them similar notice. ....
 The Egyptians have always been rec ognized for their ability in the manu- facture of perfumes, but due credit was never given them before vase containing some Egyptian ointment was opened at the museum at Alnwick. The perfume it contained still had g pungent odor, although it was more than 5000 years old. -.
 The largest organ in the world has just been constructed by the Messrs Hill < Son, of London, England. Il was made for the Town Hall of Sydney, New South Wales, at a cost of $75, ,0o0. The instrument has 126 sounding stops, and possesses the extraordinary novelty of pedal reed stop of sixty-four feet sounding length. The wind supply is maintained by gas engine of great power.- .......... ....
 Studying the Currents of the Ocean.
 Prince Albert of Monaco has recently reported the results of his experiments to ascertain the ocean circulation in the North Atlantic. Four years ago he set adrift several hundred floats, many of which have been picked up. Some of these were hollow copper balls, some oak barrels and some ordinary bottles. ......-.. 5.s. .5..-. .--.. .
 In 1885 he cast overheard on the