Connecticut western news., 1890-05-28
ODDS AND ENDS.

About 3O,0oO plants and 12,0o0 shrubs are to be set out at the stations along the Old Colony railroad
 The latest experiments made with carrier pigeons in connection with va rious European armies show that the normal velocity of the carrier in calm weather and for a short distance is about 1,21O yards minute With very strong wind in the direction of the flight bird has reached 1880 yards a minute. .....e.
 There are many very warm spots on the torrid zone, but Bohrin, by the Gulf of Persia, seems to be, as far as temperature goes, absolutely without a rival. For forty consecutive days in July and August last year, which was by no means an exceptional sea- son, the thermometer was known not to fall lower than 100 degs. Fahrenheit, night or day, and often ran up as high as 128 degs. in the afternoon.
 One reason why English comedians are so popular socially is because they are, as rule, all around entertainers. A music hall comedian who can sing and do nothing else cannot command much of salary, but if he is able to dance, play musical instrument or two and give an exhibition of legerde- main he is pretty sure of adding ma- terially to his income.
 Scotch manners can occasionally be odd. A Glasgow gentleman, in escort ing some ladies home from a dance, found diamond hairpin in the bottom of the cab and handed it to one of the ladies. The owner advertised, and the young woman who had taken it from her escort received a reward of 91O. Then the young man applied for a share of the money, and she refusing he carried the question to court. The court allotted him 95.
 A schoolboy recently scalded his leg from knee to toe As there were no signs of healing the attending surgeon chloroformed greyhound puppy to death, shaved it's body, skinned it, and grafted the skin on the boys leg. The healing was rapid and the color of the | grafted skin was uniform and very similar to that of the normal skin.
 Some idea of the support which Eng lishmen give to artists whom they con sider great masters may be had from sales of paintings by Sir John Everett Millais. In 1877 ''The Knight Err rant" brought at auction $7,5OO, in 1886 "The Vale of Rest" fetched $15,- 900, and in 1888 the enormous sum of $20, 900 was paid for 'sThe Northwest Passage"
 A little white bearded man named Widows, now clerk in the treasury department, was one of Patti's first managers. Windows is noted chime ringer. He paid the 13-year-old child who was destined to become world renowned diva $1OO week for singing in concert troupe with which he l toured the country.
 While Robert Wilson, living near Columbiana, Ala, was blowing in an old field last week he unearthed tin box containing $65O in gold and $2s in silver. The place was formerly owned by an old gentleman who always buried his money when he got drunk. It is supposed there is more somewhere on the farm, as he was wealthy, and all his money has never been accounted for.
 Some missionaries in Africa are greatly troubled by the fact that the natives are not at all eager to adopt the dress of the white men. Not even the converts are willing to wear the amount of clothing which, according to missionary ideas, is essential to re spectability.