Connecticut western news., 1890-05-07
ODDS AND ENDS.

Black coffee is now suggested as cure for consumption.
 The gold of the world in coin and wares is Il, 900 tons, worth $7, 700, ,000,- GOO. The annual loss is two tons; the mines yield yearly 121 tons. .-.
 At St. Malo, France, between and 4 o'clock in the afternoon, many per fectly reputable inhabitants saw three suns. all in row, above the western horizon. The sky was very clear at the time. asz. aa. ,-. 5.-
 To buy a mine for a bad debt of $50 and sell it within dozen years for $1.O0O,OOO sounds like a story of the old bonanza days It is the fortune which came to the Montana man who owned the Lexington mine.
 An electric railway in Siam has been incorporated and will be built at once from Bangkok to Paknam, distance of thirty miles. This road is to cost $4OO, ,OOO, and Siamese capital will alone be used. An electric light com pany has also been organized and the plant ordered for Bangkok
 A new miners electric lamp, weigh ing only three and one-half pounds and capable of giving one and one half candle power light for ten hours, has been made by an English inventor. The accumulator of four cells is con- tained in wooden box five and one half inches high, in front of which, in a strong glass dome, is the lamp bulb and reflector.
 A New York philanthropist has in vestigated 560 complaints against gaa companies, all charging chicanery or dishonesty, and he reports that he did not find one single instance where a company willfully sought to defraud. He adds that no business in the world is conducted on more straightforward principles.
 A young Chicago man whose firm sent him to Louisville to look after their interests after the recent cyclone there returned last week. In his ex- pense account was an item that read like this: Carriage, $45." The young gentleman felt embarrassed when a member of the firm asked: "What did you do with the carriage2 Did you fetch it home with you?"
 The trunk of a rose bush growing al Ventura, Cal, is said to be three feet in circumference and the first branch 1t throws out is twenty-one inches in circumference. It runs over lattice work, and though more than wagon load of boughs have been removed il covers space of about 1,2O0 square feet. It yields thousands of flowers and is IA years old.
 Some experiments by Professo, Haeckel, of Marseilles, show that kols is a drug of extraordinary power o1 stimulation. The colonel of a regi ment at Perpignan, dosed with kola made the ascent of the Canigon noun tain, 9,137 feet, and felt quite fresl after his climb, which lasted twelve hours. He only halted once, and fol twenty minutes, and ate nothing.
 Cock fighting in this country never produced such a big affair as recen international cock fight at Roubale Belgium, in the beginning of April Thirtyeight Belgian and Frencl sporting societies made entries. Int bird of the Society La Patte Cassee from Emilghen, Flanders, won tht first prize of 1000 francs. It was tn. seventh victory of his career. The birt of the Society Salembier, from Belle gagn, won the second prize of 5O( francs and three other Bel gian societie won 225 francs.
 A passenger car on the Louisville and Wadley railroad performed { new feat in railroad running by run ming on two tracks at one and thu same time. While drilling the trai1 the front trucks jumped the switcl and took the right track, while thu rear trucks failed to jump and tool the wrong track and continued on th' main turnout until both ends of tn, car were nearly even. When the con ductor called halt he found his ca in rather an awkward position.
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