Connecticut western news., 1871-07-21
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 Nevada is vegetating in minerals of all kinds. gaf4- sgU
 Mobile exports more oranges than Messina. '. ,... ..-.-.if s.s .pg.asfs
 St. Louis has forty-eight school-houses, valued at $1, 730,00O.
 A Toledo genius starts baulky horses by blowing in their ears. ]'7y
 Boston sells 40,C00 bean poles year to suburban agriculturists. a" 'aI R. An Illinois man breaches Sundays and drives stage week days. nl s..l sl.
 In Heligoland all foreigners are called tskit,'' which in their dialect means dirt. ,....
 in New Orleans recently, woman checked herself to death with pair of suspenders. aiaHEl satgs. sedEt UT
 The Empress Eugenie is in treaty for the sale of her diamonds, which are vlaued at G320, ,000. a.e .,ao eea as ,,,.;,,-
 If you are afraid you should scream when your tooth is being pulled, you should hold your jaw. ''i' 7.y' s7'Is
 A Philadelphia judge has decided that procession has no right to interrupt the ordinary travel on the streets. O
 An exploring party in Wichita county Texas, found an arrow head of pure gold and very fine specimens of copper. ss.
 A man, commenting upon the ruins of Pompeii, said that it was very imposing city, but very much out of repair.
 A patriotic Indiana youth took his fathers COW to the pound. and realised fifteen cents for Fourth of July expenses.
 Bismarck had to kiss sixty handsome young ladies at @ recent reception, and did it without the assistance of clerk.
 A parliamentary speaker lately re- marked that innocence is like an um- brella, when once we have lost it we may never see 1t again. 1' fala saT
 A sarcastic young lady says she never was so much in love with man that two rainy days together in country house would not effectually cure her. -.
 The excess of women in Great Britain, as revealed by the recent census, is ex- citing much attention. The dispropor- tion between the sexes is 9l3, ,162.
 An exchange, wanting to compliment Live Stock Journal" says it is-edit- ed by man whose head is chuck full of live stock. Doubtful compliment, r-,,,
 A heartless old bachelor schoolmas- ter fogged a little girl eight years old, because she said her sister wouldn't have him because he had such an ugly nose.
 Ingenious and thrifty Chicago gamins make money by initiating the wnrble of the cat under the windows of nervous people, and selling the boots and boot jacks that are thrown at them.
 A mother-in-law in Lansingburg, N. Y., is trying to rid her eyes of quantity of red pepper, which in some strange way or other came. through the keyhole of her daughter-in-law's room. sl5 s O!
 The government of Japan has sent several hundred young men to this coun- try to be educated, and in a few years they will carry back with them all that our colleges can give in the way of scholastic culture. F2 afiaa .sj 19a fsF.l
 A little boy, after watching the burn ing of the schoolhouse1 until the novelty of the thing had ceased, started down street, saying eGolly Is glad the old things burned; didn't have my jogfry lesson nohowl" '''-o- -J ''o4
 A Virginia paper is puzzled to know whether whiskey should be spelled with an e. Spelled any way it is bad spell for most people, and it would not be bad to drop all the letters and so get rid of the word, in hope the thing itself would follow. a. a,'-+ ElA29'f It is said that when Brigham Young was asked the other day which son he had at West Point, the conundrum cso staggered him, that he was obliged to re- fer to the family record to solve, it. "Do they miss me at home ?" is not much sung in that family. '@ '- '
 Varlin, who was Minister of Finance of the Commune, was one of those who died with the greatest courage. But, as singular phenomenon, it is related black, turned white in the interval be- tween his arrest and execution. byAeS :
 A man was urged 10 take put policy for the benefit of his wife to the amount of five thousand dollars. He asked his wife's opinion, when she replied with charming frankness. "Why,, my dear, you will, of course, act according. to your own judgment; but, in case of your decease, it would make me more desirable widow" S5NsN raw s..i 2ni
 The IHiaaois I'enependent, edited by MT. Steele, says; .'sA printer last)week proposed to go into partnership with us. His name is Doolitt1e. The firm name would sound very bad, either way you put it-'S Steal & Doolittle, or sDo Little x Steel We can't join. One of us would soon be in the poorhouse and the other in the penitenttary." bs,:aJ eat
 A herd of two hundred and fifty buffa- loes was recently driven into the Missouri river, near the Whetstone Indian Agency. A few reached the left bank in safety, a few others were killed in athe river, and the remainder of the herd perished in the rapid, treacherous river, which at the time was swollen by the flood, and their bodies foated with the current.
 WHAT TT WILL Do.-There is a sharr rivalry just now in Alabama among differ