Connecticut western news., 1871-11-24
Facts and FancieS.

Facts and Fancies.
 Coming to grief-Meeting trouble halt way.
 Light employment-Building castles in the air.
 The grandest verse in existence-The universe.
 A woman voted in Detroit and nobody objected.
 Cool proceeding-An ice man eloping with nice girl.
 It is easier for man to be engaged than to be engaging.
 Itis no uncommon thing for hot words to produce coolness.
 A Wisconsin Justice of the Peace granted himself divorce.
 Thunderation Samuel " is the name of famous Western Indian fighter.
 Sponge paper is now manufactured in France. The materials used are ordin- ary paper pulp and finely divided sponge.
 The army bakery in Washington is said to furnish soldiers with four pound loaves of bread for each pound of flour used
 An indignant gas consumer says that there's no use in abusing the gas com panies, for they've always vile retort ready.
 A physician has discovered that the nightmare, in nine cases out of ten, is produced from owing 8 bill to the printer.
 The largest salary paid to a railroad official in the United States is $50, 900, and President Gowan of the Reading Road gets it.
 The Massachusetts mills have sent an agent to Hong Kong to employ coolies for operatives. A cargo of them is ex- pected at Salem.
 Smoking is very much on the decline in England. At the universities not one man in five now smokes, whereas few years ago at least four in five did. | Danton said to his executioner:-"I have had good time of it; let me go to sleep then you will show my head to the people it is worth the trouble" An. epitaph on tombstone reads: | Oh, fatal gun, why was it him That you must kill so dead :? r Why could you not have missed your aim, And fired above his head2 | Over the door of cobbler's shop in Savannah, Ga., appears this legend " Boots and shoes is made hear-ladies and shentlemens repaired. Kun in hear."
 Gan you realise Mrs. Malaprop's be- wilderment at hearing her grandson read from an article in the paper, about Rome: 'sThe ground is 50 parched that 1t is full of fishers "
 In England the extent of land covered with trees has increased forty thousand acres in the last thirty-fve years, and tree-planting is encouraged among land holders by liberal premiums.
 A fellow feeling: Indignant Old Lady" Guard do you allow smoking in this compartment 2" Obliging Guard Flaw, weel, if nane Q the gentlemen object, you can take a bit draw O the pipe" A man in Ohio, who was acquitted ot murder on plea of insanity, secured the lawyers by giving them a mortgage on his farm but now repudiates the mortgage on the grosnd that he was in sane when he made it. 1 A bashful young man was escorting bashful young lady, when she said. en- treatingly, "Jabez, don't tell anybody you beaued me home." "Don't be afraid" replied he, "I'm as much ashamed of it as you are." That set- tied it. "Ma, why don't you speak ?" asked little Jake. "Why don't you say suthin' funny ?" "What can I say 1? Don't you see I'm busy frying dough nuts ? Say suthin' funny, indeed "Wal, yer might say Jake, won't yer hay cake 2 That 'ud be funny for you."
 The most hopelessly incurable form of insanity, says Dr. Clouston of the Asy- lum at Carlisle, England, is that which consists chiefly of a monomania of sus- picion of poisoning, with hallucinations of hearing. It is only by being taken in time that such case is ever cured.
 It has become known that no legal inn pediment exists to the marriage of Alexis with an American maiden, as the Rus sian Royal family are not limited to roy al blood. This is very encouraging to our bellies, who are thinking how " Mrs. Alexandrovitch would look on paper
 A young man named Stricker commit ted suicide at Leayenworth. His father was kindly remonstrating against his dissipation, and remarked that he would rather follow his son to the grave than see him drunkard, when the young man replied Here goes, father," and instantly put pistol to his own head and discharged it.
 A friend reports this of family to which, during the past Summer, he paid delightful visit in Chicago "The husband was shot and killed in his own house by burglar on Saturday night 1; the house was burned on Sunday night {; and now the news comes that the wife perished, with the corpse, in the con- f1agration that annihilated store, dwel- ling place and everything.
 A lady teacher in Sunday-school recently had occasion to illustrate les son on faith, by the story of child who was told by his father to drop from an elevated place into his arms The father could not be seen by the child, yet, when commanded, it dropped, Upon | the teachers asking her class what was shown by this story, g bright little fel- 5 low immediately replied, "It showed he lhad pluckn