Connecticut western news., 1890-07-30
ODDS AND ENDS.

ODDS AND ENDS.
 Sixty thousand blue gum trees have been planted this year on one ranch in Los Angeles county, Cal.
 Women have recently been admitted into Greenwich observatory, and four have joined the staff of the astronomer royal. Their duties will require at tendance at all hours of the night.
 If all the persons whose names are in the new government blue book were to form line four abreast it would take ten hours for the procession to pass the White House.
 Georgia has plenty of room for inmi- grants. There are ia Pierce county 400, ,9S7 acres of land, of which only 12,11S are improved; Ware contains 117,903 acres, of which 10, ,0S7 are i'm proved; Wayne 249, 900 and 9,997 i'm proved; Appling 857, O75 and 1a 352 i'm proved. Other counties mako simi- lar showing.
 The government statistician of New South Wales, T. A. Coghlan, has esti- mated the population of Australia at the beginning of the current year to be 3,7S6, 79S. This is an increase during 1889 of S,995, or 9.1O per cent. The population of New Zealand is now 620,- 279, an increase during the year of 12,s99. s
 According to the East Asiatic Lloyd there are 7,905 foreigners and 474 for eign business firms in Chinese ports.
 Great Britain has there 3,276 citizens and 290 firms; Germany 596 citizens and p firms the United States 1,O81 citizens and 27 firms; France 551 citi- zens and 20 firms.
 Coffee is brewed by electricity in g
 Berlin cafe. In the center of the room
 are several large glass jars, through which passes platinum wire in spiral form. The electricity, on heating the wire, speedily raises the temperature of the water in the jars to the boiling point, and prepares the coffee in the sight of everybody. Lastly, @ small electric railway transmits the coffee to the various tables, so that the guests 1ut1y uclp UllC1llSc1NSS CO OlAcAI An eight wheeled railway church has been finished at Tiflis, in the factory of the Transcaucasian Railway company, for use along the line. It is surmount- ed by a cross at one end, and at the other there is handsome belfry with three balls Besides the church proper, it has apartments for the priest. It can comfortably seat seventy persons. The altar is made of carved oak, and the church furniture was made in St. Pe- tersburg.
 An enthusiastic entomologist is re- ceiving daily from the local Gneman the moths which find their way into the arc lamp globe in an adjacent street | during the night. Birds are fearlessly building their nests in the hoods of the ! lamps, and we are told that an electric I light superintendent in Nashville re- ceived unique present from colored | workman in the form of sack full of | honey bees. The swarm was found in
 the hood of an electric lamp, where 1t
 had settled the day before.
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 States steamer Galena, has been trans ferred to the flagship Baltimore, along with whatever goes with an able sea-
 man. Billy left the Galena most un- willingly, and it looked for a time as If ! the drill known as abandon ship" ! would have to be ordered as the only l means of getting him over the side. Billy was especially skilled in this evo- lution, and he always fearlessly leaped l into the cutter when the signal for 1 abandon ship was given.
 A state grant of 5000, 900 marks has just been made for the extension of the
 telegraph and telephone lines in the
 German empire. Of this 3, O99, $50 marks are to be devoted to the town tele- phones already existing, 606, 900 marks l to the erection of new ones, 1, ,928, 900 marks to new telegraph lines, princi- pally in the country; 761, 900 marks for
 improvements in and 87, 800 for exten-
 sions of the pneumatic postal services
 in Berlin and Hamburg.
 At Dion convict under sentence
 of twenty years penal servitude was 1 rer1nrtted to leave his prison and marry
 his sweetheart. He returned to prison 1 after the ceremony, and in two years l time his wife will be able to join him
 in New Caledonia.