Connecticut western news., 1898-06-09
NEWS BRIEFS.

Sunday morning man was found dead in haymow Ill barn at Amenia. N. | I. He had been seen wandering around the streets for about a week before and the coroner's jury rendered verdict of death by pneumonia, superinduced by alcoholism.
 I The old expression Fl Hobson's choice" will henceforth have a new meaning. It will be a story in two words of a man who chose to risk his life for his coun- try's sake and who thereby gained his eountry's praise and undying fame.- New York Herald.
 Ono of the uses for which balloons may be employed is the investigation of the sea bottom. It has been found by aeronauts that frequently the bottom is clearly visible from a balloon through the water. This fact has recently been made use of to recover & torpedo boat which had been lost of Toulon.
 Miss Helen Gould is not the only per son who has given Uncle Sam a lit in the way of cold cash. A thousand dol lars each has been sent to the treasury by a man and a woman of the city of New York, and gift of S200 came from & Pole in Nebraska, who wrote that he owed more than he could ever pay for the freedom afforded him in the United States. Also a British subject, in Eng land sent S5 "from a humble admirer" of the goyernment.-Springfeld Re- publican.
 Typographical Union. No 6, of New York city, has started eighty of its Idle members at farming at Pelham Bay park. Each man received half an acre to look after. They began by planting ! potatoe seed, and in few days they will put in corn, tomatoes and turnips The money derived from the sale of tue produce will be given to each of the printer farmers according to the num- Der of days work put in.
 Little Johnny Ryan, aged four, was killed by being run over by trolley car at Poughkeepsie last week Saturday. The coroner's jury promptly discharg- ed the motorman who was held to an- swer to the charge of manslaughter in the second degree through mere formal ity.
 It is thought that Edward Ritter of Poughkeepsie was on the ill-fsted Jane Grey, which sank last Thursday about ninety miles northwest of Seattle, Wash,
 A man named l. Buckner committed suicide in St Louis and left note say ing that he gave his body to any medi- cal society that will cremate it or de- stroy it with chemicals after it had served its purpose. He did not want his relatives to have anything to do with his body.
 It has been found in Germany that lightning rods do not protect high fur naces. the electric discharge preferring to pass to earth by the column of heat ed smoke, which of course is rich in carbon, a conductor of electricity. It is partly for this reason that so many smoking chimneys are struck by light ming and to sit by a fire place is danger ous.
 An English syndicate has just invest, ed 5000, 900 in Kentucky coal lands.
 About Sl97, ,000, 900 has been given or | bequeathed in the last five years by wealthy Americans to build or support schools, hospitals, libraries and picture | galleries, No church, state or muni. cipal grants are included in this sum; it represents personal contributions only | Christian World
 | An attempt was made to wreck train at Poughkeepsie last week Monday evening. The engineer had his engine we'll under control however, and applied the brakes promptly, thereby saving 8 good many lives. The attempt WAS male at the entrance of trestle.
 One of the greatest engineering fests of the century, the trans-Siberian railroad | is so far advanced that an express train will soon be run from St. Petersburg tn Nizni- Udinsk, distance of about 5000 miles. The railroad when finished will | terminate at Vladivostock, g distance oi 9l2 miles from St. Petersbury.
 A wealthy man of Springfield, O., eager to serve his coutry, enlisted as 8 | private and now belongs to the Fifth regiment, which is commanded by his former coachman, Col. Chas. Anthony.
 Prof. A. E. Dolbar is responsible for | the statemen. that tue variation of speed in the chirping of crickets depends so i closely on temperature that the height of the thermometer may be calculated by observing the number of chirps in 8 minute.
 Those who keep their fingers on the pulse of the trade say that the value oi advertising in newspapers was never more clearly demonstrated than during the recent dull season. when those who advertised persistently were practically the only ones who did any business.
 Chicago claims the largest flag in the world. It is 75 feet long and 4U feet wide and contains 500 yards of bunting On one side are large portraits of Wash ingtoD, Jackson, Robert E Lee and Grant, and on the other side are Qeca tur, Paul Jones and Perry.
 An exchange remarks that the gold bugs make the laws, the straddlebug' make the platforms, the humbugs make the speeches, and the doedlebugs en dorse the whole thing; while the tum bugs do the voting, the slickbugs get tho offices and the moneybugs get the game
 There is new song going the rounds of the press and 1t runneth this wise "We don't want to buy at your place we don't want to trade there any more you'll be sorry when you see us go tC some other store. You can't sell u. any stale goods, we have opened wid, our eyes: we don't want to trade at youl store. (why?) cause you do not adver tise.