Connecticut western news., 1890-04-09
ODOS AND ENDS.

It is estimated that New Hampshire receives $3, GOO, 900 from her summer boarders and that Maine receives $6, 1000, 900 yearly.
 Experiments have been made in Ger many with torpedoes made of paper, loaded with a charge of twenty-five pounds of dynamite and fired by elec- tricity. Very satisfactory results are said to have been obtained.
 English saddle makers report no de- mand yet for cross saddles for ladies, and the habit makers declare that the only woman they know of who rides man fashion does 80 in ordinary male attire. There is a new style of habit, though, the skirt of which is divided at the back and the loose portion formed into a sort of leglet.
 Some remarkable artificial diamonds came into notice during the Paris Ex- position. So perfect were some of the limitations that they puzzled experts. They melt only at a very high degree of heat, and are so hard that they will scratch and almost cut mirror glass. A queer journal has just reached the east It is four page paper issued on board of car No. 36, of the Southern Railroad company, that was blockaded by snow at Reno, Nev. The contents are interesting and as bright as the sit uation would admit
 It is we'll known that whales can re- main long time under water, but ex- act data as to the time have been lack ing; Dr. Kuckenthal. of Jena, has ob- served a harpooned white whale con- tinue under water forty-five minutes.
 It is said that the number of pearl oysters collected last year at the Cey- lon fisheries will barely cover the cost of bringing them from the sea bottom. One reason for the falling off in the returns is the circumstance of shark carrying off one of the divers. His fel- low workmen fearing the same ghastly fate, refused to enter the water.
 In Tihis, Russia, club of 125 fami- lies just formed has hired a doctor, M. Oganiants, for $6O per year, who agrees to visit the families regularly and give them advice how to keep health y, to tend them if sick, and, be- sides, to give them occasional short lectures upon hygiene and physiology. Each family pays fifty cents per
  poor families are admitted free. Simi- lar arrangements have been made with the druggist.
 A most wonderful toy has been on private exhibition in Paris. Fancy seven life sized kittens covered with real skin, but with eyes of emerald set in pearly white enamel, and each playing on a musical instrument, a flute, a zither, a violin, drum, harp, a cornet and an accordion, all perfectly harmonized and playing the most difficult operas, then you have the picture complete. The mechanism is similar to that of music box, and the whole apparatus. kittens and all, is valued at 20, 900 francs.
 The vitality of snails' eggs passes be- lief Even if desiccated in furnace until reduced to minuteness barely visible, they will always regain their original bulk when damped, and the young will be brought forth as success fully as though the eggs had never been interfered with; nor has the cold any injurious effect upon them, for they may be frozen into ice any length of time, and yet, when the ice has melted, will be found to be wholly uninjured-
 The usher of the English court of probate and divorce has just died, leaving fortune of $1OO. 900, accumu- lated from a salary of $750 per year for thirty-three years, and from the tips that flowed in upon him in a stream, averaging nearly $4,0O0 per year. Suitors, jurymen, witnesses, re- porters and lawyers all have to tip the usher in the English courts.