Connecticut western news., 1890-07-02
ODDS AND ENDS.

ODDS AND ENDS.
 A new and popular development oi electrical science is the electrical hair curler. It is said to be equal to the most exacting demands of the feminine coiffure, and the beard or mustache can be curled in any style in two min utes.
 The British census will be taken in 1891. The cost of the census of Great Britain in 1881 was f172, 900 for pop ulation of 26,000,000. For England and Wales the cost per 1000 of the population was 94 15s 5d in 1884, ris- ing to 25 5s. I'd in 1871, and G6 12s. Cd. in 1881.
 During the Franco German war the ladies in England were busy making paper cushions, which they sent to France to be used for the wounded ir the hospitals Hundreds of thousands of these cushions were sent and were of great service
 Damaskeening is producing upon steel blue tinge and ornamental fig ures, sometimes inlaid with gold and silver, as in Damascus blades It is so called from Damascus, which was cele- brated in the middle ages for this class of ornamental art.
 A very ancient Egyptian papyrus re- gently discovered at Kahun was evi- dently part of medical treatise and contained this prescription: Great ment of woman who is pained in her legs and in all her limbs, as one who is beaten. Do with regard to her thus: Let her eat grease until she is cured"
 At the celebration of the f1ftieth an niversary of the invention of the post. age stamp, held recently in England, a stamp was shown worth 100 guineas. It was from the British Guiana collec- ton and showed a rude postmark on pink paper.
 In 1914, when the Thames was frozen, printing establishment was set up and many collectors rejoice over a little volume entitled "Frostiana; or, His tory of the River Thames in a Frozen State. London: Printed on the Ice in the River Thames, 1914"
 A well digger living in Talbottom, Ga,. was hired to clean out we'll. When he came out of the we'll in the evening it. was noticed that his jet black hair had changed it's color from black to a bright yellow or golden shade The cause is unknown TI,o of T,<9.. ,~,,1. Der balls in different countries Gin doz- enD is: Germany, 2,85O, GOO; France, 9OO,OOO; Russia, 75O, 900; England, 63O, 900; Austria, 52O, 900; America, 5O0,O00; Italy, 45O,O00; total, say, 6, 800, ,000 dozen. The demand for Ger man balls is increasing yearly. Ger many now exports to England about $50, 900 dozen and to America about 900, 900 dozen.
 s4Asnecklace of great antiquity was found some time ago in the course oi some excavations on Lord Homes property at Dundee, Scotland This necklace was claimed by the crown as treasure trove but the treasury after much deliberation has returned it to Lord Home on ,ondition that he pre- sents it to the museum of antiquaries at Edinburgh.
 The discoveries made by Stanley show that the Nile is the longest river l in the world, being at least 4, 100 miles in length. Were the Mississippi regard ed merely as a tributary to the Mis- souri, as some geographers contend, the latter would surpass the African water course, having a length of 4, 500 miles. It will be seen how dangerous it may be for untidy children to scratch eacl other through the report of seventy eight examinations of the impurities un- der finger nails recently made in the meteorological laboratories of Vienna. The cultivation produced showed ''thirty-six kinds of micrococci, eigh- teen bacilli, three sarcinB and various | varieties; the spores of common mold were very frequently present." Trackmen grading for the Delaware and Hudson's new double track, while excavating on the northwest corner o1 Broadway and Van Dorn street, Sara toga, few days ago, uncovered the old Kellogg we'll, a relic of the early settlement of the Upper village" Il was covered over about quarter of a century ago. It was located in Van Dorn street and had 8 pump in it until fracas concerning the custody of the l pump handle caused the death of Ofh cer w. w. Mitchell while endeavorine to serve a legal process on the party 1 havino it