Connecticut western news., 1890-06-18
ODDS AND ENDS.

ODDS AND ENOS.
 An Indian living near Port Discovery bay caught Q salmon in that bay on Wednesday that weighed seventy pounds. This is one of the largest sal mon ever captured in these waters, and strange to say was hauled safely to shore.
 No less than fifteen sparrow nests were found in the ivy running over wall in West Chester, Pa All of them were removed, but some of the birds almost immediately began building new homes, and in the old spots, too
 A lady in Apoka, Fla. has used the same needle for seven years She says she would sooner lose dress than the needle.
 Several young men on Mackinac Isl and have formed a society with cap ital stock of $6, 900, which will be spent on a visit to the Worlds fair and trip around the earth in 1893.
 Vanilla is produced from a species of orchid that attaches itself to walls, trees and other suitable objects The plant has long, fleshy stem, and the leaves are alternate, oval and lanceo- late. The flower is a greenish white. The United States is beyond question a great nation of coffee drinkers The imports from South America amount to over 525, 900, 900 pounds annually, of which 69 per cent comes from Brae gil. The second largest shipper to this market is Venezuela, Il per cent. A Spanish coin was recently found on Burlington (N. J. farm, bearing the date of 1721. It is in excellent con- dition, the letters and figures being as l distinct as when the coin was first is- cent piece.
 The weekly papers of Huntington, L. l., have been for couple of weeks publishing the following notice: Want l ed-A smart, strong and handsome school mistress. None but those who will guarantee to keep the school and use the rod need apply. Term to com mence May 30 in the assembly rooms. l Wages $10 a month and board around"
 The amount of heat given by the moonlight has again been investigated, this time with thermopile of almost incredible delicacy. The results show that the warmth received from the re- flected light of the moon is equal to that given out by 0 candle at twenty one feet distance. Observations seem to show that, although the moons faoe is under the blaze of an unclouded sun for fourteen days, it remains compara- lively cool, and that whatever heating it does receive is rapidly gained and as rapidly lost.
 A remarkable clock has just been set up in the municipal library of Rouen, France. A single winding keeps it run ming for fourteen years. It was con- structed in 1902; underwent alterations in 1916; was bought by the city of Rouen in 1888, and has been recently repaired and set going.
 It is seen from the report of the do- minion department of Indian affairs that the number of Indians in Canada is 121, 520. Ontario has 17,752; Que bee, 13, 500; Nova Scotia, 2,059; New Brunswick, 1,574; Prince Edward Island, 314; Manitoba and Northwest territories, "A, 522.
 A number of wealthy Jews recently offered $200, 900 for the Vatican's copy of the Hebrew Bible, but the pope wouldn't sell. A similar effort to buy this Bible was made in 1512, when Julius II was greatly in need of money, but still he refused S1OO, 900. The near est approach to such price for O book hitherto was $50, 900, paid by the Ger man government in 1884 for the missal formerly given by Leo X to Henry VIII, together with the parchment making that sovereign ''Defender of the Faith. 1" Charles II gave the missal to the Duke of Hamilton and 1t stayed in his fam fly for 200 years.
 Tigers are so numerous in the French possessions in Annam that one official requested change of district because he was tired of administering terri tory which contained as many tigers as inhabitants. In many regions no one thinks of driving out after dark. The French are trying to fight the evil by paying large sums as bounties to tiger slayers, but the Annamese themselves try to propitiate the tigers by consecrat- ing pagodas to them and conferring titles of nobility.