Connecticut western news., 1890-08-06
ODDS AND ENDS.


 Edison's far sight" machine will probably be completed by 1892 Through it's aid one will be able in Cincinnati to see the features of a friend in Boston.
 A double deck electric car capable of carrying 175 persons is being ex- perimented with in Pittsburg.
 Building operations in Brooklyn and the adjacent districts of Long Island aggregated last year valuation of $30, 900, 900.
 The supreme court of Saxony has de- cided that boycotting is equivalent to disorderly conduct in the first degree, and punishable as such.
 At Norway, Me-, some gold hunters have stumbled upon a deposit of pink granite thought to be very valuable
 An old bachelor declares that it is pleasant always to have two babies in the house, because each cries so loud that you can't hear the other Rila Kittridge, of Belfast, Me-, has written President Harrison's last mes sage, containing 10000 words, on postal card.
 Corporal Tanner has received over 5000 applications for pensions under the new dependent pension bill already. That means $50, 900 for the corporal
 The greatest coal pier in the United States is about to be erected at Can- ton, Md. The pier will be forty feet high and will accommodate four large ocean steamships at one time. A church was put up for sale the other day by the French colony at Madrid. All the church decorations, such as altar cloths priests robes, gold and silver vessels, were included in the sale.
 A confessed incendiary under arrest at Indianapolis is only years old. He admits having ignited only one build ing, but he is believed to have had a hand in several other fires. Hugh McCulloch, ex-secretary of the treasury, who has been seriously ill at Washington for some days, is 82 years of age.
 Large numbers of eggs are bought by foreign agents in the governments of Kharkov Kursk, Vorenezh, Tcher- nigov, Orlov, Poltava, and in the set clement of the Cossacks on the Don river, for transportation into Germany and Austria. The purchases are made so energetically by the active agents that the prices of eggs in those parts of Russia have trebled.
 English ladies are adopting the fash ion of putting their maids who wait at table in livery. The skirts are plain of these livery gowns and of the heraldic l color of the house. All the plaits are thrown behind. Then the waistcoat and jacket are trimmed with livery l bands, buttons and crests or mono grams in metal. A high, stiff white collar. white cuffs and a tiny white cap like a topknot complete this livery.
 Turkeys customs officers are pecu. liarly keen in searching for travellers books, and the censor, if he does not conflscate them, tears out or obliterates any remarks they may contain dispar- aging to Turkey or Turkish institutions. Even the ''Divine Comedy" is prohib- ited in the sultan's dOminions, because Dante has spoken in unfattering terms of Mahommet.
 In Bakhmoot, government of Eka- 1 terinoslav, curious accident occurred l A rock was blasted in the alabaster factory of Novikof & Co., Fully two hours after a charge had been ex- ploded, while the workingmen were ell gagged clearing up the debris produced by the explosion, piece of rock about fifteen yards in diameter broke down and killed all the laborers that were working underneath.
 A citizen of Selma, Cal, who had two lazy boys on his hands, induced them to plant vineyard and cultivate 1t with their own labor for three years, with promise that he would pay them bonus of $1 for every pound of raisins that should be raised in that length of time. The boys went to work with zeal that nearly took the old gentleman's s breath away, and from present indica- tions this years crop will cost him 1 $2, 1000.
 l The English love of dancing still l puzzles lazy Orientals. At a recent ball at Rangoon two native grooms were watching the festivities from a veranda and one of the observers asked his companion why the couples walked about after each dance The other groom described the reason in l stable phraseology: ''The sahibs run 1 the mems and missiles round to make them hot and then walk them round to cool them down"