Connecticut western news., 1890-02-05
SUPERFICIAL SURVEY.

A splendid new organ of colossal size is to be placed in St. Peter's at Rome.
 It requires twenty two volumes to regis ter the different cattle brands of Arizona
 Thirty German sculptors are working on thirty new monuments to Emperor William l.
 / The Baldwin Locomotive Works expect this year to turn out not less than 1000 locomotives.
 : A cat set Greenburg house on fire by lighted lamp. port dentists office the other day, smashing things in the office. sS The international electric exhibition to be held at Frankfort has been postponed until the spring of 1891.
 :. The oldest inhabitant is great on parallels. He now remembers that the winter of 1899 and 1880 was just like this one.
 Maine represents legally . general prejn- dice. The state has 8 Jaw prohibiting a man from marrying his mother-in-law, z Cuba wants independence. The little island ought to have it. It has been the dependent of old Spain long enough.
 Puck has noticed that t'the man who is sure he can't be wrong is always the very one to find that it IS the impossible which happens.
 The women of Milford, Me, have pre- sented to the town 8 hall which they paid for themselves hy giving entertainments and fairs.
 Chicago is trying to develop an art side to life. Verstchagin's pictures arc now on faY in hat nf noo fo see them.
 There has been an extraordinary epldem- fc of suicides in the German army of late. In one month twenty eight officers shot themselves.
 The condition of a certain cat in Lomoine. Me, is literally at sixes and sevens. She has seven toes on her hind feet and six on her fore feet.
 A genealogist has discovered that the McGinty is a lineal Adescedant of the ia nous Thorwald Mac Gunta who discovered Boston in 11O4.
 The municipal authorities of Calcutta re- gently presented an address to Prince AL bert Victor of Wales It should have read "Get out"
 Last summer the queen of Italy attained the loftiest point ever reached by Euro pean sovereign by the ascent of the Breithorn, 1s, 7S5 feet. .....--..-- At Tucanche, in Guatemala, the boys in a school recently seized the master and hanged him in the school house. None of the culprits were arrested.
 The Mexican government has lately or dered 100000 grape cuttings from Cali fornia, and will distribute them free to all who wish to plant them in Mexico.
 The Philadelphia Times says: "William Black, the English novelist, makes $8, 600 a year ba his pen. Pugilist John l.. Sullivan pays about that sum annually for gloves and cigars" ...t-
 In heft the evolution of the locomotive has been more than sevenfold. In Stephen sons time it weighed about seven tons. Now the weight of the average locomotive is about fifty tons.
 They find ice on Mount Mcclellan, Cal. which they suppose to be 5000 years old. A geologist said recently that there were evidences that ID an had been on earth for that period of time.
 Save your stamps. Every letter that goes to Tennyson asking for his autograph is thrown into the fire. Autograph people and tuft hunters have never had much sue cess with the laureate.
 Dan Slute, the ssDan'' of .tInnocents Abroad" has failed in the blank book bust ness in New York. Perhaps it was Mark Twain's scrap, book which stuck him. Mark never sticks himself
 An aged woman in Elmwood, near Gin cinnati, being taken ill White out driving, request her driver to take her to the office o1 an undertaken whom she knew well. He die SO, and she died few minutes after her arrival.
 William Hammond, of Wilkesbarre Heights, aged seventy nine, has worked continuously in coal mines for over seventy years, having commenced with his father in Wales when he was eight years old. He is hale yet Perhaps no more significant evidence of the onward march of civilization could be | afforded than the lighting by electricity o1 the palace of the Guicowar of Baroda in India, and that, too, on a scale of .unstint- ing splendor.
 West Australia now wants lepislative autonomy, and number of delegates have been sent to interview the home govern. ment on the subject. Of courSe John Bul | will see the propriety of granting to Aus tralia what he refuses to Ireland. 4 Miss Kate Sanborne has an original idea | Once week she is going to lecture to the | busy society women of Boston on the chief | points current in the intellectual world giving them the gist of what is going on 1T the magazines and newspapers, both foreign and domestic.
 Although the Yellowstone Park is full of springs and streams they contain no hsh. l NI,s l-9 Al.a ! which obliterated life when it was forced out and has since kept the fishes out by the lava which has produced waterfall fl every stream.
 AJapanese surgeon advertises as follows ''Surs Try and bone setting have been prac ticed successfully by my ancestors for thu past seven generations. Indeed, l may claim to a certain amount of their accumu lated experience transmitted to me in writ ings and otherwise"
 The late Thomas Parker, of Washington became so attached to a cane which he hac carried for years that he kept it in bed witt him all during his illness, and before dyinl expressed wish that the favorite stick bt
 buried with him. His wish was carried out, the cane being put in the coffin.
 Astronomy is one of the exact sciences
 When Sir. J. Herschel was defending tn
 character of astronomical science in viey
 of an error of nearly million miles il
 estimating the suns distance, the corree
 tion was shown to apply to au error obser
 vation so small as to be equivalent to tn
 apparent breadth of human hair at dis
 tanco of 125 feet.
 A peculiar result of the drinking of ice
 cold water from spring in Stonington Conn, Is reported. The water flows fror
 crack in high rock, and the veins of
 man who drinks from it begin to swell, an he looks and feels as though he were abou