Connecticut western news., 1890-09-03
LOCAL NEWS A SPECIALLY.
ODDS AND ENDS.

ODDS AND ENDS.
 An English member of parliament has patented an invention in which electricity is made use of for improving the extraction of gold.
 The circulation of the Salvation Army journals is over 600 900 copies weekly.
 A colored woman was so frightened during a thunder storm that, as she expressed it, she ''trembled like an ashpan."
 Aside from the Morosini collection the handsomest diamonds in Saratoga are those worn by the wife of ex-Mayor Grace, of New York.
 ''Should we keep our vests in the vestry2" asked Gilroy Yea" replied Larkin; land our coats in the coterie, and likewise our trousers in the pantry"
 Dr. Gatling, of Hartford, Conn, the, inventor of the famous gun. is n com paratively old man, but still keeps busily at work with his plans and con- captions.
 Life has it's compensations for most people, but for his compensation the undertaken has to wait for death.
 The Duke of Edinburgh and Bis marck are hobnobbing and drinking water at Kissingen, and the Prince of Wales and Chauncey M. Depew are swapping stories ct Homburg
 
 A grand turning cupola eight meters in diameter is to be erected in the Vatican garden for covering the pho tographic equatorial instrument which is to be used in connection with map ping out the stars.
 Manslaughter in the first degree is punishable by imprisonment for not less than five or more than twenty years. Murder in the first degree, and arson in the first degree accompanied by homicide, are punishable by death.
 The Babylonians emballned their dead in honey, and discountenanced cremation, which they believed to be nothing but sacrilege to the sun. At the end of the Bulgarians' Palm Sunday feast at the cemeteries they will not eat the remnants, but leave them on the graves for the dead who are expected during the night The late Duke of Portland used to shelter himself from observation while walking in his park by hiding under huge umbrella. The back of his Lon- don residence was guarded by wall so high that the neighbors could not see the dukes house, much less its inmate when he was walking in the yard. A well known lawyer of Toronto who is about to be married ordered his wedding suit, whereupon 1t was at- tached by a lady to whom he owed &41, the payment of which he had sys- tematically cvaded. His wedding gar ments are now in the hands of a court official, and will be put up at auction l if the matter is not settled. l The accomplishment of the man who could speak four different languages with his hands tied behind him is sur l passed by Quaker gentleman of whom western paper says that not desiring to see the terrible pictures of battles and bloodshed in a popular magazine he Tread the magazine clear through with his eyes shut"
 There has recently been current 8 l story to the effect that the venerable mother of Lieut. Cushing, the hero of the blowing up of the rebel ram Abe marie, is a pauper, dependent upon charity, in Boston. This is declared to be a baseless falsehood. Mrs. Cushing is living at St. Louis in easy circum- stances.
 One of the latest proposals is to lay pipe line for supplying New York with milk, as Pittsburg and some other cities are supplied with natural gas or oil from the wells. The lacteal supply, of course, cannot be got by boring, but it is to be collected at various points and sent along the pipe for distribution in New York. It is said 8 company is being formed with ;l capital of about $750, 900 to carry out the scheme. I