Connecticut western news., 1891-10-22
MT ID. L. Freeman returned Satur- day from his western trip.

MT ID. L. Freeman returned Satur- day from his western trip.
 The Niagara Falls excursionists re- turned last Friday morning on the train passing Canaan at 9.40a. m.
 Prospect avenue has recently been improved by grading in front of D D. Walters premises and in front of J. l.. Bragg's building lot
 The mason work on E. D. Law rence's house was completed some time ago and last week the carpenter work was resumed both on the interior and exterior of the house.
 President Starbuck, of the Housa- tonic road, is the Norwalk Hours au- thority for the statement that the Dan bury & Norwalk division is to be double tracked to Hswleyville, and perhaps to Danbury, and that work will commence in the early spring.
 Tt is evident that witty "Joe" Vaill still lives notwithstanding he recently retired from the Winsted Herald. In its last issue the Herald says:
 It was 399 years ago last Monday that Mir 0. Columbus discovered America. Ex-Editor 'Valll asserts that full ac- count of the affair was published in the Herald at the time.
 Last Wednesday evening, Isaac Lermond left couple of English strip ed apples at THE NEWS office. One apple weighs It pounds, the other weighs one pound. They grew on 8 small tree in Mir Lermond's garden, a tree which came into bearing last year but which has this season produced several barrels of apples. Many of the apples will weigh pound each. So much for apples; now about apple blos- soms. On Friday morning Pierre Nun dry, of Amesville. (Falls Village) sent to THE NEWS office 8 bunch of apple blossoms that were taken from Henry Thorp's orchard. The apple blossoms and the big apples now lay together on our desk and we presume that Editor Bolles could in them find proof of his pet doctrine of evolution, but on the line of heredity it would puzzle him to trace the relationship of said apple blossoms to said apples or tell which are the parents.
 The Illustrated Popular Biogra- phy of Connecticut, 1891." compiled and published by J. A. Spalding, of No. 226 Pearl St, Hartford. Conn, is is double column volume of 375 pages. or equivalent to 75O pages of ordinary book size. It contains the portraits and biographical sketches of seven hundred residents of the state of Connecticut The majority of the towns in the state is represented in said sketches. The portraits are remarkably good and the sketches are not overdrawn. It gives a fund of information concerning repre- sentative business and professional men of the state, and is valuable book of reference. It has been great under taking to compile the book, yet it sells for $5. .OO per copy. The great insur- ance corporations of Hartford have united in the purchase of nearly thou. sand copies of said book and are now placing copy gratuitously in the Pub lie Libraries, and in the libraries of all the prominent daily newspapers of New England, A copy of the book has beer presented to the CONNECTICUT WESTERN NEWS, for which we sincerely thank the donors and also thank them for theil virtual acknowledgement that HI NEWS, although weekly newspaper ranks with 'all the prominent daily newspapers of New England"