Connecticut western news., 1890-03-26
LOCAL NEWS A SPECIALITY.
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resident or wayne county, N. l., got TOT three tons of dried raspberries, raised on nine acres of land :.
 A government bill has been introduced in the German reichsrath to extend the boundaries of Vienna. The measure will double the population of the city.
 The creamatory has now taken the place of the Potter's field in Paris. All un- claimed bodies are cremated in the new establishment in Pere Ia Chaise.
 The site of Andersonville prison is now part of Q large farm belonging 10 @ negro, and the plantation Of Jefferson Davis Is now owned by one of his former slaves.
 St. Valentines Day is rapidly vanishing from tho popular regard. In New York City the mails showed no increase on that account this year, and the valentine deal-. CTS admit that their business is gone.
 Riots have occurred in Switzerland. grow ing out of the prohibition by the govern ment of Salvation army meetings, Many people have been injured and O number of the disorderly Saivationsts have been ar rested.
 A sharp little boy in Georgia who was kicked by a mule, instead of saying naughty words or going home crying to his mother, tied the mule within five feet of 8
 
 him kick.
 A mountain slide at Dixon's Bar, fifty miles from Waverville, Cll., completely damned tho Trinity River. Near San Jose the water rose to the door of house 800 feet above the river. The river is gradual ly cutting new channel
 Stegniak. the exiled Russian nihilist, lives quietly in London with his gifted wife, and the two spend much time in the British Museum, ransacking books and Is rarely seen at the clubs or in society, although he has Q host of friends.
 Sam Wan Kee, tho wealthiest and most influential Chinese resident of Boston, has obtained leave from the government to visit his native land and return to this country. The Chinese restriction law seems to be elastic enough to admit ce- lestal "merchant'' who is not 'laborer."
 George E. Heath, of Hanover county, Va, states that the other morning he went to his hennery and attempted to take 0 hen of her roost, when she flew at his face, pecked him in tho mouth, and took out tooth which had been troubling him for some time, and which he intended having ex- tracted.
 The Viscountess Kingsland, who recently died in London at an advanced age, led very sad life. She was the widow of the last Viscount Kin2sland, who died more than fifty years ago. Through the dis honesty of trustee the viscount was re- duced to extreme poverty, and was forced to earn her living by her needle. A young lady in the town of Minsk, Rus sia, purchased Q pair of gloves, Ia Sarah Bernhardt Immediately after putting them on her hands began to itch. The next day her arms were covered with sores, and a week later she died of blood poisoning. The doctors suppose that the skin belonged to an animal that had some contagious malady.
 Henrik Ibsen, the Norwegian dramatist and poet, has been happily married for over thirty years, but has only one child, a son, who was formerly connected with the | Swedish legation at Washington. Mrs. Ibsen is the stepdaughter of Magdalena Thoreson, the Norwegian poetess. The poet left his native land in 1864, and has since lived in Rome and other Italian cities.
 The eruption of Krakatao in 1883 de- stroyed all animal and vegetable life in the sea around it, and covered the coral reef of the shore under bed of ashes and pumice stone over sixty feet thick. Nevertheless, according to the observations of Dr. Slui- ter, Dutch naturalist, young shore reef is now forming on this volcanic layer, and has already attained the breadth of a meter.
 Brownings grave was made about four | feet deep like the others in Westminster | Abbey. The soil is dry, red sand, tho cofflns arc placed in the earth, and quant- | ity of charcoal is added as sanitary pre- caution. One of the traditions of the ab | bey is that nothing but handful of bones remain after seventy or a hundred years. The actual decomposition is accomplis shed in fifty years.
 A new crime has developed at Manches- | ter. It is called "scuttling," and consists in party of young men and girls lying in wait for obnoxious fellow workmen or for 'scabs," and hustling, beating and kicking them upon the public streets. It has got 80 common that the magistrates have in- 1 ficted severe sententces upon several girls and young men for the purpose of breaking 1t up.
 Miss Martha Coyle of Sharon, Pa, stop ped the runaway horse of David Sanlrey, father of the evangelist, and now comes into court at Now Castle with Q judgment note for S10 OOo which she says MT. Sank ey gave her as reward for risking her life to save his own. David Sankey has been
  is the first they ever knew of the existence of such a note.
 The family of Lyngos have long been fa- nous as bandits in Greece. The most TO-. nowned was the old chief who was killed in 1870 by his nephew, who gained a reputa- tion for daring bravery in the Peloponnesus almost equal to that of his far famed uncle. | He was captured, however, few days ago | and now awaits his fate behind prison bars of one of the villages which he often pill laged in days gone by.
 The Panama Canal is reported completely | finished and navigable between the Atlan- tic and Bohio- -Soldado, distance of twenty l eight French kilometres. The average , depth is twenty seven feet. On the 22nd inst the French commission appointed by l the liquidator to examine the work will sail from New York for Paris, and they are fully resolved it is said, to recommend the prosecution of the work to completion. In the wine cellar under the Hotel de l Vile, Bremen, there are twelve cases of holy wine, each case inscribed with the name of one of the Apostles. 1t was | deposited in it's present resting place 265 years ago. One case of this wine consist ing of five oxhofts of 204 bottles, cost 800 .rix dollars in 1924. Including the expense | of keeping up the cellar, interest on tho original outlay and upon interest, one of those oxhofts would to-day cost 555, 657 ,649 rix dollars. or about 8, ooo,oOo bottle.
 The Bay of Fundy forms cul-de-sac at which the Atlantic Ocean seems to have taken spite, and at regular intervals pour in its waters viciously and with intent to | do all possible harm. Take, for instance, the harbor of St John. In most parts of the world a tide of from six to ten feet Is quite sufficient to satisfy all reasonable de- | mands In St. John hurbor the tides rise