Connecticut western news., 1890-07-23
ODDS AND ENDS.

Hackmen in Baltimore, wanting to discourage Sunday funerals, have ad- vanced rates for this day fifty cents.
 An old gentleman of 1Os years in Bir- mingham, O., recently died from the effects of excessive dancing at his birth day party.
 Western capitalists will establish an immense canning establishment in San Francisco. The capital stock of the new enterprise is S2, 800, 900.
 A Gainesville Ga man has twenty acres planted with cucumbers. He ships them all north and expects to realize not less than $5,000 from his patch.
 An Aroostook Me.) couple were mar ried last week whose combined ages were 29 years, the bride being IA and the bridegroom one year her senior.
 After living happily together for more than thirty years, John Fraser and his wife Matilda. died Tuesday at their home in Brooklyn within one hour of each other.
 John Charvous, reformed cannibal from the Fiji Islands, is lecturing in Georgia. He says he never did any thing in his life that he regrets so keen ly as the eating of his fellow men,
 The nude has noticeably diminished in the Paris salon. It doesn't sell as 1t used to sell, having declined in fashion with the demi monde, and the leading artists are now somewhat careful about warning off by too startling displays the steadily increasing number of young women pupils of recognized respectabil- ity.
 Hypnotism has reached that point that the French authorities think of creating superior council of medical jurisprudence at the ministry of justice, to be composed of medical men and magistrates, who will be required to give opinions as to the responsibility of criminals in connection with the ques- tions of suggestion and hypnotism and of heredity.
 A monstrous chunk of ore was taken from the Mountain Consolidated mine at Butte City, Mont, a few days ago. It was too large to put on 8 two horse wagon and a four horse team was used. The ore is estimated to weigh nearly four tons and is nearly solid copper and silver. It has been bound with hoops of iron and boxed up, pre- paratory to shipment, probably to Eu- rope.
 | movement has at last started against the gates and bars which are still put across some London streets by the ad- jacent landholders. The select com mittee of the house of commons ap- pointed for its consideration has passed the preamble of the bill promoted by the London county council for the re- moval of certain gates and bars on the estate of the Duke of Bedford.
 Pound Keeper Finn, of New York, estimates the dog population of that city at from 25, 900 to 30, 900. During the past year the dog catchers caught 7,468 dogs, 300 of which were redeemed by their owners paying $3 fine, the re- mainder being asphyxiated.
 In 1904 there were thirty-flve trans lations of the Scriptures in existence; since the formation of the British and Foreign Bible society in that year ten millions of money has been expended in the work of circulating the Bible, and there are now nearly 300 transla- tions of the Scriptures.
 In a letter written by Thomas Jeffer- son in 1771 to friend in London there is an order for "1-2 dog. pr. India cot ton stockings for myself at los a pair. " Ten shillings is an equivalent of $2.50 "a big price for pair of cotton stock ings. Owing to knitting machines, cheaper cotton, etc., they now cost about that sum per dozen.
 The present year is the tercentenary of the discovery of the microscope, which in its crude form was due to Jansen, spectacle maker of Middle burg, Holland. The occasion is to be celebrated by an international micro scopic exhibition, which is to be shortly held at Antwerp, when an endeavor will be made to bring together a col lection of instruments which will fairly show the progress of the microscope, from it's simple original form to that o1 the present day.
 A somewhat unusual deposit was made with the Notre Dame Savings bank in Montreal some time ago fol safe keeping. It consisted of a Bible 221 years old. The work is said to be in good state of preservation and to be a Lutheran Bible, published in Amsterdam in 1869 by s. Des Marets, professor of theology in one of the uni versailles of Holland, and his son, who styles himself "a minister of the gos- pei" It is French version of the Scriptures and illustrated.
 The great wall of China, extending for twelve hundred English miles along what was once the whole northern frontier of the Chinese empire-from twenty to twenty-five feet high, wide enough for six horses to run abreast and furnished with @ suitable number of gates and bastions-contains, it has been carefully estimated, more material than all the buildings of the British empire put together.
 A four-in-hand coach race lately took place from Vienna to Presburg. The participants were among the elite od Austrian aristocracy. Count Wimpfel't team was the winner, covering the dis tance in three hours. The first prize was 1, 900 gulden and gold medal; 6 gold medal was the second prize. Vi emma and Presburg society turned out almost en masse to see the race, and