Connecticut western news., 1890-06-11
ODDS AND ENDS.

In Victoria, $. c., no mason or stonecutter will work on building where Chinese help is employed.
 The Canadian labor unions have recommended the government to es- tablish scheme of compulsory in- surance for the working classes.
 A 5-year-old child in Lafayette, N. J., was so deeply affected by the death last week of his grandmother that he cried almost continually for four days, when he burst blood vessel and died before medical assistance arrived.
 The famous diamond cutting estab lishments at Amsterdam are closing one after another, owing to a rise in the price of raw diamonds Ten thou. sand Jews were employed ill this in- dustry, and 1000 are now out of work.
 The secretary of the English mis. sion to lepers in India intends visiting India shortly, with view to promot- ing the establishment there of asyluma for lepers, as we'll as of homes for the children of leprous parents, that they may be early separated from the dan- ger of contagion. The most fashionable street of Der lin, the famous Unter den Linden, is said to be now the best lighted thor oughfare in the world. It has three lines of electric arc lamps, which are separated by two rows of lime trees. The wires which convey the electricity are underground.
 To give vividness to 1, 1000, 900 years, Darwin, in Origin of Species, !" page 2e9, gives this: ''Take a narnQw strip of paper, sS feet 4 inches in length, and stretch it along the wall of large hall then mark off at one end the tenth of an inch. This tenth of an inch will represent 100 years, and en- tire strip 1000, ,ooO years.
 President Henry Rice of the United Hebrew Charities says that 2b, 900 He- brews have come to this country an- nually for the last four or five years. Of these 17,O00 or IS, ,O00 came from Russia, and only 600 or 700 from Ger many. Not many of them were skilled mechanics, and very few en- l tered lines of business.
 A petition is being circulated among the students of the Georgia State uni | versity, the object of which is to change the custom of making Satur- day half holiday and carry on the regular recitations through that day and make Monday holiday instead As it is now, students are compelled to study on Sunday in order to pre- pare for their Mondays recitations. A Dutch retired captain named Tin dal has presented to the chamber . memorial calling attention to the peril ous position of the Hague sin case of war. It is so near the coast that 1t could easily be bombarded by a fleet. The Hague, which is an open town, contains the ministry of war, cannon foundry and garrison of 10000 men.
 The Portuguese government has ordered by decree that saccharin, whether alone or mixed with any other product, shall be sold by chemists only on the prescription of a legally quail fled medical man. Every contraven- ton of this enactment, as we'll as the employment of saccharin in the manu- facture of sweetmeats and drinks, h made punishable by definite penalties.
 A new departure in the salmon trade is reported from the Pacific coast, where German firm has con- tracted for forty carloads of salted salmon for shipment to Europe. The fish will be treated with just enough salt to keep it in condition during transit. On arrival in Germany it will be freshened, and then packed in tins for sale on the continent
 Those who find it difficult to keep polished hardwood floors spotless are advised to keep number of broom covers handy. These covers are made of outing cloth or canton flannel, rough side out, and are simply bags a little longer than the sweeping part of the broom and slipped over it and tied with draw string snugly about the handle. A ruffle, both for looks and as dust. catcher, is set in across the bottom.
 A woman missionary on the Congo writes that the Sunday service lasts from two to three hours and the little children, getting tired, run outside to play, disturbing the worshipers and cultivating irreverence. One of the royal princes at Mandalay, before Theebaws downfall, would know how to sympathize with these little black folks He was asked what he thought of church dedication he had been induced to attend. Well" he re- piled, 1T wish they had cut it in two. It was very long time to be without cheroot."
 A conference held in Berlin has de- cided that in Germany children shall not be employed under 12 years of age, and then only for six hours day up to fourteen. Women and children are not to be employed in mines, and working on Sunday is to be prohibit ed for women and children. It Is probable that the continental work people of both sexes will be greatly benefited as a result of the confer ence.
 The most northerly railway in the world is that one now building be- tween Sweden and Norway It runs from Lulea, a little town at the top of the Gulf of Bothnia, to Elvegaard, fort on the Atlantic in the ford of Ofoten. The works are frequently stopped on account of the severity of the climate, but it is hoped that the line will be opened in 1891. It is . | British enterprise. owned and con-