Connecticut western news., 1890-02-05
SUPERFICIAL SURVEY.

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 It requires twenty two volumes to regis ter the different cattle brands of Arizona
 Thirty German sculptors are working on thirty new monuments to Emperor William
 The Baldwin Locomotive Works expect this year to turn out not less than 900 locomotives.
 A cat set Greenburg house on fire by pulling from . table the cover and with it . lighted lamp.
 A set of false teeth exploded in a New port dentists office the other day, smashing things in the office.
 The international electric exhibition to be held at Frankfort has been postponed until the spring of 1891.
 The oldest inhabitant is great on parallels. He now remembers that the winter of 1S@ and 1880 was just like this one.
 Maine represents legally a general preiu- dice. The state has a law prohibiting man from marrying his her-in-law, Cuba wants independence. The little island ought to have it. It has been the dependent of old Spain long enough.
 Puck has noticed that "the man who is sure he can't be wrong is always the very OuO " AuO sAoe ~ AS eAAC AhtPooSlpA0 VAASA happens.
 The women of Milford, Me, have pre- sented to the town @ hall which they paid for themselves by giving entertainments and fairs.
 Chicago is trying to develop an art side to life. Verstchagln's pictures are now on exhibition in that city. Not many go to see them.
 There has bssn an extraordinary epldem- ic of suicides in the German army of late In one month twenty eight officers shot themselves.
 The condition of . certain cat in Lomoine. Me, is literally at sixes and sevens. She has seven toes on her hind feet and six on her fore feet.
 A genealoRist has discovered that the | McGinty is a lineal descedsnt of the fla nous Thorwald Mac Gunta who discovered Boston in 1l04.
 Tho municipal authorities of Calcutta re- gently presented an address to Prince AL bert Victor of Wales. 1t should have read 'I4et out"
 Last summer tho queen of Italy attained | tho loftiest point ever reached by Euro pean sovereign by the ascent of the Breithorn, lS, 7S5 feet At Tucanche, in Guatemala the boys in | school recently seized the master and hanged him in the school house. None of tho culprits were arrested. The Mexican government has lately or dered 1000, ,0o0 grape cuttings from Cali fornia, and will distribute them free to all who wish to plant them in Mexico. | The Philadelphia Times says: "William Black, the English novelist, makes s6,0Jo Q year ba his pen. Pugifist John L. Sullivan pays about that sum annually for gloves | and cigsrs." In heft the evolution of the locomotive has been moro than sevenfold. In Stephen sons time it weighed about seven tons. Now the weight of the average locomotive Is about fifty tons.
 They find ice on Mount Mcclellan, Cal, which they suppose to be 5000 years old. A geologist said recently that tnere wore evidences that man had been on earth for that period of time.
 Save your stamps. Every letter that goes to Tennyson asking for his autograph is thrown into the fire. Autograph people and tuft hunters have never had much suo- cess with tho laureate.
 Dan Slute, the ''Danp of .'Innocents Abroad" :" has failed in the blank book busi- I ness in New York. Perhaps 1t was Marx Twain's scrap. book which stuck him. Mark never sticks himself.
 An aged woman in Elmwood, near Cin- cinnati, being taken ill while out driving, | request her driver to take her to the office of an undertaken whom she knew we'll He did 1 90, and she died few minutes after her l arrival.
 William Hammond, of Wilkesbarre Heights, aged seventy-nine, has worked continuously in coal mines for over seventy years, having commenced with his father in Wales when he was eight years old. He is hale yet.
 Perhaps no more significant evidence of the onward march of civilization could be afforded than the lighting by electricity of the palace of the Guicowar of Barods, in India, and that too, on Q scale of unstint- ing splendor.
 West Australia now wants legislative autonomy, and number of delegates have been sent to interview the home govern ment on the subject. Of course John Bull will sec the propriety of granting to Aus tralia what he refuses to Ireland.
 Miss Kate Sanborne has an original idea. Once 2 week she is going to lecture to the | busy society women of Boston on the chief points current in the intellectual world, giving them tho gist of what is going on in the magazines and newspapers, both foreign and domestic.
 Although the Yellowstone Park Is full of springs and streams they contain no hsh. This is explained by the abundance of lava, which obliterated life when 1t was forced out and has since kept the fishes out by the lava which has produced Q waterfall in every stream.
 AJapanese surgeon advertses as follows: Surgery and bone. setting have been prac- ticed successfully by my ancestors for the past seven generations. Indeed, I may claim to Q certain amount of their accumu- | lated experience transmitted to me in writ ings and otherwise" l The late Thomas Parker, of Washington, became se attached to a cane which he had carried for years that he keptit in bed with him all during his illness, and before dying expressed e wish that the favorite stick be buried with him. His wish was carried out, the cane being put in the coffin. A French electrical journal estimates that the total length of the telegraph wires uncluding submarine cables) of the world in use at tho present time exceeds half a | million miles. Four-fifths of the land wires are in Europe and America. All the sub marine cables together give a length of S9, | 050 miles
 Astronomy is one of the exact sciences. When Sir. J. Herschel was defending the character of astronomical science in view of aa error of nearly 4 million miles in estimating the suns distance, the correc- tion was shown to apply to au error obser- vation 30 small as to be equivalent to the apparent breadth of human hair at dis tance of 125 feet
 A peculisrity about the blind is that