Connecticut western news., 1890-07-09
ODDS AND ENDS.

A dumb woman at Martha's Vine yard owns and manages a small schoon- CT, living in it with a kitten and huge Newfoundland dog for company. She supports herself by fishing and her lob ster pots, and by peddling thread and buttons and such small wares along the coast when the fishing season is over.
 Among the various charity societies of Moscow there is one for the endow- ment of poor brides. The funds of the society are constantly increased by the gifts or bequests of benevolent persons, but only the interest of the money Is used for the designated purpose.
 Bermuda has reached the latter place. It's length is STA miles, and throughout it Is of much greater weight than has hitherto been used. A careful survey of the bed of the ocean will be made, so as to discover the most suitable pod ton for the cable The temperature at different depths will at the same time be determined.
 A process for marbleizing silk plush without pressing or embossing it has been discovered. By this process the light and dark effects are reversed when looked at from opposite points. The finish is nicely preserved and does not give the appearance of having been wet, as shown in many goods of this character. There are sixty-four churches of the Church of England, besides those of other denominations, within quarter of mile of St. Paul's cathedral Most of them have more seats than there are residents in the parish. Many of the clergymen live far from London. One. whose income is 91, ,050 yeax has not visited his parish for fourteen years It is said that there are thirty-nve kinds of granite in Maine, each of which possesses distinctive character istics readily recognized by workmen acquainted with monumental and pulling stones. There are all shades of what are termed white granite, the most beautiful of which is the Hal lowell, together with the red granite of Red Beach and the black granite of Addison.
 ''The Passion Play" at Ober-Am- mergau was discovered" by English men in 1850, when two Oxford fellows, who were staying at Bad Gadstein, heard of it by chance and decided to be present. They lost no time in de- scribing it to their friends in Oxford, and Dean Stanley, then an Oxford tutor, visited the play and wrote de- scription, which made it well known. A theatrophone has been set up in Paris, whereby persons at distance can hear the performance at any par ticular theatre or concert. At present the apparatus only communicates with one house, the Nouveautes, but 1t will soon be extended to all the theatres and halls, and connected with the chief hotels, clubs and restaurants. By dropping half a franc into a slot people will be provided with five minutes en- tertainment, longer hearing being charged in proportion.
 The larynx of the great tenor Gayarre, who died not long ago in Madrid, was removed after his death, and was found to be of such peculiar formation that it will probably be preserved in some Spanish museum. Gayarre received $1, 400 night in opera, the largest sal ary ever paid tenor, and his fortune is estimated at $500, 900. He was the son of blacksmith and a common workman when his voice first attracted attention, and he was only 40 years old when he died.
 The vatican is garrisoned by a com pany of eighty gendarmes, including officers, and by 8 company of seventy five Swiss guards. The pope has also, for state occasions, his pApal guards, composed of former officers in the pom tidcal army, and the guarda mobile, or corps of gentlemen-at-arms. These last two corps serve gratis, but the gen. darmes and the Swiss guard have to be paid at the rate of about sixty centimes man per day, besides being lodged, fed and clothed.