Connecticut western news., 1871-07-14

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 .... Facts and Fancies. l...a
 Mere matter of form--Fitting dress.
 An old miser starved to death in an Albany barn with $85. 60 in his pocket.
 An Illinois gentleman has taken gold medal for raising ,000 varieties of apples.
 There are 36S collegiate institutions in the United States, eighteen being in New England.
 The Lutherans in the United States number 2, 200 ministers, 3,537 churches, and nearly 400, 900 communicants. aIS
 A down-east editor says that since the recent rain the farmers "are smiling like now shingles on 8 patched roof. ia
 The Indiana State Medical Association, at recent meeting, expelled one of its members because he advertised his pro fession. .3.-...r ...-.,.f.. -t .,@ s..
 A boy in Lancaster, Pa., in sliding down pole, caught gold ring he had on his finger in spike and the whole skin, nail and all, came of the finger in tact. . vE 4 ras feat g' G3f3 ssd
 A strong mind is more easily impress ed than a weak one you shall not ss readily convince fool that you are 8 philosopher, as 8 philosopher that you are fool. ,.-. ....@..TT
 In the vestry of the Notre Dame, st Paris, they exhibit a portion of the yertebrse of the neck of the Archbishop | Il A1xA Let still fixed in it. s ... t.eat. las There is now in the State of Masss- chusetts one mile of railroad to every five miles of area. A similar ratio for the whole country would give an aggre- gate of more that 600, 900 miles of line.
 A Bainbridge serenader who mourn fully warbled "I'm lonely tonight, love, without thee, '" had his loneliness allevi- ated by @ number of dogs, who made it lively enough for him for the balance of the night. af -.gs,as sa rs.saa | It is @ comfort to be criticized. Few things please the writer better Censure is better than indifference. When a man finds that woman will not love him, the next best thing is to get her to quarrel with him. g., s hug. .-aaaisEi I The hA0S6S S1LY (d1lSSOuIlD JOuFttQt says that about 500,O00 head of cattle will be received in the western markets this season from Texas. Already 287, 900 Pacific Railroad. ''s'.'A .'.-3
 An Indiana artist was recently fined $4 for sprinkling Scotch snuff on the nous tache of sleeping lawyer. lis said the force expended by that lawyer in sneez- ing would have suficed to have run 8 windmill for week. fl ,...,.,,,9,4i
 The Indian substitute for tobacco is the bark of red willow. It is scraped fine and dried. When smoked it pro- duces no sickness or headache, and the Indians of Wisconsin who use it turn from tobacco with disgust. a, .alia a' A young man in Ohio hung his vest, the pocket of which contained sixty dollars in greenbacks, near a brush heap, which he afterwards set fire to. He was next day enquiring whether the govern ment would make good his loss. '.'s' A gentleman on getting soda, was retiring from the store without the usual little ceremony which follows that oper- ation. "Recollect, sir, said the polite proprietor, '' if you lose your pocket book, you didn't pull it out here. ....l
 A local paper asserts that the dogs of Calhoun, Ga, have become so .habituat: ed to having tinware attached to their | tails that whenever one of them sees a tin kettle lying in the road he backs up to it and waits for somebody to tie it on. A correspondent of the Bangor Whig writes that a horse and COW had a pitched battle Sunday in field. The COW hooked the horse, making @ wound l four inches in length the horse kicked the COW in the head, instantly killing her. '.,r . .... ......,- ,.--..
 The Janesville Recorder says that mis- chievous boys attending the schools i'll their pockets with locusts, and, at given signal, each boy taps on his pocket, causing the loousts to give forth their deafening, doleful cry, as if forty chil- dren had been whipped. ...,....- .-r
 A Louisiana paper, in apologizing for the editor being drunk, says there are so many rattle snakes there that he has to keep "tight' to keep from being poisoned from their bites. He don't be- lieve that tincture of iodine will cure a bite, no matter what the doctors say3
 The following speech is attributed to member of the Legislature of Pennsylva nia "I known womin, MT. Speaker i; I say it with no disrespect; know'um; l have had heap to do with 'um. They'rs useful class, and-and yet with the best of 'um you may have trouble,
 A faithful old dog who had run with, a Louisville fire company for years, and always made it a part of his duty to keep people from standing on the hose at fires, fell victim the other day to misplaced confidence in Q policeman and a piece of poisoned liver. The engine company turned out and gave the old fellow . big funeral; but they did not enjoy it half so much as they would if the funeral he'd been the policeman's. 3 g1.isqs!pai | MR. VAILANpIaHAM is said to ,hayeleft | an estate worth $40 900. . .'.-I