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Connecticut western news., 1871-08-11
Iced Water.

During the hot season the excessive use of iced water is one of the most pro- life sources of disease and sudden death. In very hot weather, when water IS ren- dered extremely cold by the use of ice in the cooler, no person should drnk it in that condition, but should pour in, or draw from the hydrant, as much water of the ordinary temperature as will modify the iced water to about an October tenn perature. Then he may drink without damage. Nothing is worse for the teeth than extremely cold water and many 8 man has acquired dyspepsia by its bad effect upon the stomach. Not few have suffered from compositions which were dangerous or deathly. We remember q boy, smart, black-eyed, and handsome, who was connected with our office. He was just old enough to be wise above that which is written. Being one day re- monstrated with for drinking two or three glasses of water as cold as ice could make it, he replied tartly, "Water is never too cold for me I never feel the slightest injury from its use." The weather was extremely hot, and if ever cold water could be used at any time,
 that, of all others, when the system was overloaded, was not the time to use it so copiously. The next day he was not in the office, and the following day he did not come. The third day about noon he made his appearance, and looked as if he had had chills and fever for three months He drank no more iced water that summer, and probably got lesson which will last him his lifetime. It is a wonder it'did not kill him. A word to the wise is sufficient. - Chronological Jou7mak
Connecticut western news., 1871-08-11
The Fair of the American Institute.

[ The annual exhibition of the Amer1- can Institute, to be held at the Rink in New York in September and October next, promises to be of more than usual attractiveness. The managers have made arrangements to exhibit the machinery in motion, that visitors may be enabled to understand the various processes of manufacture. A large amount of money has been appropriated for premiums to the successful competitors in floral, agricultural and horticultural products,
 The exhibitors of successful specimens will be presented with ac certificate in addition to the premium. Specimens for competition are to be entered on the 11th, 18th, or 18th of September, before noon, and each series must be kept in perfect condition forfour days. We un- derstand that specimens of any fruit or flowers exhibited may be renewed, and the fresh specimens will be entitled to an award The highest money awards for flowers are twenty dollars five dollars for the best floral design, and twenty dollars for the best case containing plants.s A premium of fifty dollars will be given for the best collection of pears, and forty dollars for the best collection of apples. There will also be minor awards for the best specimens of grapes and vegetables. .... ..,.t,. ........fj .'r5 .
Connecticut western news., 1871-08-11
Pride. Turn Outs and Poverty.

Man wants but little here below, and woman wants 8 great deal more, am sorry to say, writes 8 watering place correspondent. I confess it, my sex are and hard to please. speak of them generally. There are exceptions you occasionally meet one who Is not ambitious of living above her husbands means. You see more of them at Sum- mer resorts than at any other place. These people will talk, no matter where they are-they will exhibit their temper and bad breeding, no matter where you meet them. Try to dam Niagara with lady's fan, but never try to stop her tongue. I say it, who shouldn't say it, it can't be done. have case in point. Just before the arrivals from New York the other afternoon Mr.-and Mrs. were seated on the piazza as Mrs. F. -, from the Continental, drove by in her carriage and livery.
 "Charles," said his wife, gazing wist- fully at MT. F-'s establishment, "Why can'tw have carriage as we'll as other folks 2"
 The husband moved uneasily in his chair and responded, Simply, my dear, because we want to live within our means"
 sBother about means p rejoinded the naughty and thoughtless wife. ''We ought to live as well as other people, !" she continued.
 ''So we do, my dear, and will in the long run" mildly added the good-natured Charles.
 "I am sure we ought to live in as good style as the S--s, the F-s, the M -s, the P-s, the C-s, and 8 dozen more might mention. We ought not to appear mean"
 ''Mean p he exclaimed, showing much temper-'' We want-we want," he nut tered, "there is no satisfying woman's wants, do what you may" and he abruptly arose from his chair and took the direction of Chamberlain's Cottage.
 How many husbands are in similar dilemma How many houses and hus- bands are rendered uncomfortable by the constant dissatisfaction of wife with present provisions How many bright prospects for business have ended in bankruptcy and ruin in order to satis- fy this secret hankering after fashionable necessaries |? Could the real cause of many failure be made known 1t would be found to result from the ambition of women to live above their means.
 "My wife made my fortune," said MT. D., gentleman of great pos sessions, the other evening, "by her thrift, prudence, and cheerfulness when I was just beginning"
 "And mine, poor soul she is dead, '' said MT. R, a widower "lost my fortune by useless extravaganza and re- pining when was doing well"
 What world does this open to the influence of our sex over the future pros perity of their families. Let the wife know her influence and try to use it wisely
Connecticut western news., 1871-08-11
WaIting.

Where the manor-heuse garden is tangled the
 most, lI-.f- r.t By the door in the peach-tree wall, .. .t,. You bade me farewell--for an hour as you
 thought But we parted for onceand all. Through the long white glare, how the peonies
 famed, In the noon of the July day, ' " AS you crossed the grass with the gold on your
 hair, And the crickots leaped up where they lay Oh, the wearisome mouths of waiting in vain, Ever stealing my youth from me, t.s..g Ever straining my eyes through the darkness, Ever stretching my arms OCT the sea d" For the fire of that sultrysummer sun Has burned down so deep in my heart, % Though years and the autumn bring calmness,
 my dear, I am scarce now content to part. 8' For still when the July noons are come, And the holyhocks grow tall, -..r I walk and dream dreams as we dreamed, my
 dear,s! h,Lz .ll esys l. .f.s. g. t.... |.-. Under the peach-tree wall. When the passionate life-strife Is over, The folly, the chill, and the paiu, A shadow, in shadowless noontide, Perhaps may walk here again.
Connecticut western news., 1871-08-11
Crop Prospects,.

The condition of the cotton, corn and wheat crops for July, as ascertained at the Department of Agriculture, has al ready been published in advance of the printed report
 Pototoes.-It appears from the latter, which has just been published, that the indications are that the crop of potatoes will be a full average. It has had to contend with the drouth and the late frosts in many of the States devoted to it's culture, with grasshoppers in some of the Eastern States, and the Colorado bug in nearly all of the Western States :; but to offset these unfavorable conditions, the season as a whole has been favorable. There is an increase in the aggregate acreage. The rot is not reported, and the farmers, knowing the perils to which usual diligence in caring for it.
 G7uss, &c.-The season has been un- favorable for grass, owing mainly to the prevalence of drouth. The drouth of last season has also had an unfavorable will be short hay crop. In Maine, where hay is leading staple, the yield will not exceed two-thirds of an average crop. In the New England and Middle States the conditions os clover, timothy and pastures is reported below the aver age. In most of the Southern and West ern States, and in Oregon, the pastures are above the average, and the condition of timothy and clover where grown is equally good. In California clover and timothy have had fine growth, while pastures are in relatively low condition. In sections where pastures and meadows have partially failed it is not yet too late to supplement them with corn as 8 soil ing crop.
 Apples -Frosts iii April and May fol lowing the remarkable early opening o1 spring, greatly lessened the prospect ot good crop of apples. A short crop is indicated in all the States where they are most largely grown, probably three fourths of an average.
 Pedches have escaped with less damage and in the States where special attention is given to the culture the yield will be unusually large.
 The report makes no mention of suga and tobacco.
Connecticut western news., 1871-08-11

A BIT OF THE GRoTEsoUE. Grotes que scenes are constantly occurring in Paris before special tribunals appointed to de- eide between landlord and tenant. What is your trade ?" said justice of the peace to tenant in the Seventeenth Arrondissement, who pleaded inability to pay his rent. Perfumer," was the answer "and a bad trade it is. Bad trade, indeed p exclaimed the landlord : " his pieces of soap cost him two sous, and he sells them for fifteen. He is well able to pay" "That's false," roared the tenant "the trade is bad and who ever thought of washing under the Commune ?" The judges only remit rent in cases where 1t can be shown that the tenant was heavy loser through cessa- ton of business.
Connecticut western news., 1871-08-11
The Prisons of Siberia.

A glance into one of the prison cages of Siberia discloses very curious pic ture. Most prisoners wear the convict garb, which is as ugly here as in other countries a kind of cloak with sleeves, of dirty drab color, disfgured by the letters s B (Siberia) on the back; these letters being inlaid in yellow cloth. A shapeless cap of the same material as the cloak completes the costume, which seems to answer its purpose very well, for the cloth is thick and firm. Even under that uniform garb many national types may be distinguished {; from tbe stolid, f1at-faced Finnish tribes, some of them almost like the Esquimaux, the sharp features of the Jew, and the beau tiful face and form of the Circassian mountaineer. The wearing of the prison garb seems not to be obligatory even with the greatest criminals, and many of them wear entirely or in part their own clothing; the Circassian, the national cloak with it's rows of cases for cartridges sewn on the breast-cloth, and
 the shaggy fur cap; the Tartar, the pointed felt hat over the skull-cap which covers his shaven head, and the long castan the Russian peasant his greasy great-coat of sheepskin. Most prison CTS have good, well-shaded boots, which guard their ankles against the friction of the chain others wear the national foot clothing of linden-bast over the linen rags they tie round their feet and legs.
 The only chains worn are letters attached to the two ankles, and lifted up in the middle by means of 8 strap fastened up to the loins q believe by agirdle.) These chains are not very heavy, and the pris- oners walk freely enough with them !; yet the clinking of the irons makes one shudder. Such chains are worn only by those who are sentenced to hard la bor, while those who are sentenced mere ly to Siberia wear no chains whatever.
Connecticut western news., 1871-08-11
ANOTHER FERROUS ATLANTIC VOYAGE

ANOTHER FERROUS ATLANTIC VOYAGE. Capt John Meiks who, in 1867, cross ed the Atlantic on life raft, is prepar- ing for another voyage to Europe on Q smaller raft of similar construction. The raft is composed of inflated India rubber tubes which, when not filled with air, fold up in 8 comparatively small compass. but when inflated will carry all the persons that can crowd on it. The raft on which Capt. Meiks performed his last voyage was 25 feet long by IS feet wide. He then had two men with him. A canvas tent was erected on the raft, and the three crossed the Atlantic, arriv- ing safely in England in forty days. Capt. Meiks is now having another life raft made 15 feet long and 15 feet wide, on which he intends going to Europe, accompanied only by boy. He will be ready to start about the last of August from New York, and will take with him sixty days provisions. He intends talk ing the direct steamers track, and is confident of success.
Connecticut western news., 1871-08-11
Baby Dear.

 Where did you come from, baby dearr Out of the everywhere into here. Where did you get your eyes so blue2 Out of the sky as came through. What makes the light in them sparkle and spin? Some of the starry spikes left in. Where did you get that little tear2 Hound it waiting when got here. What makes your forehead so smooth and high? A soft hand stI oked it as went by. What makes your cheek like warm white rose2 I saw something better than any one knows. Whence that three-cornered smile of blissP Three angels gave me st once kiss. Where did you get this pearly earP God spoke, and it came out here. Where did you get those arms and hands? Love made itself into hooks and bands. Feet, whence did you come, you darling thingsi From the same box as the cherubs wings. How did they all come just to be you? God thought of me, and so grew. But how did you come to us, you dearP God thought about you, and so am here.
 Good Words for the Young.
Connecticut western news., 1871-08-11
A Whaler,s GOurtShin.

He had been whaler twenty years, and when he gave up the sea and settled upon his earnings, all his friends said they hoped Jonathan Weeks would mar ry some nice woman and enjoy the com forts of happy home. He himself seemed to think it would be nice thing to do, and he made an effort in that di- rection. But they said that the reason why he did not win the heart and hand of widow Burritt was this: It seems that MT. Weeks used to go round there courtingl in the evenings, while. the widow sat patching the trousers of her son, and waiting for manifestations, of Weeks love. Old Weeks would sit over on the settee, getting sleepier and quiet CT every minute. And every now and then he would nod in the land of dreams, and get to wandering off and imagining himself away on awhaling voyage, wake up all bewildered,. and would seize his cane and jab it into the widow before he could collect his senses sufficiently to re- ahze that it was not a harpoon and she 8 whale. They do say that Mrs. Burritt indulged these eccentricities for time with the firm conviction that she would reconstruct that whaler when she mar ried him. But this was never to be :; for one evening MT. Weeks sat dozing on that settee with kind of dim dreamy consciousness of things, in which the room and settee were confused and mix ed with the raging main and the whaling boat. The widow had cold in her head, and she wasjust in the act of mak- ing vigorous use of her handkerchief,
 when the dream of Weeks reached cri- sis, and he yelled out, "There she blows!" :" And he heaved his harpoon at her with such force that he broke her comb into vulgar fractions and knocked her off her chair. Loves young dream was entirely dissipated, and MT. Weeks went home with two handsful of hair missing. He is single yet, because, he says, women have no sympathy and for bearance. '@ it,t
Connecticut western news., 1871-08-11

LOOK OUT.-The San Francisco Bulle- tin cautions people in the Atlantic States against being swindled by irresponsible companies who advertise in the Eastern cities extensive tracts of land ill Califor- mia for sale without owning foot of them- The Bulletin says that every few months many victims visit that office with deeds duly made out in Boston. conveying lands on the Sacramento river, which are not worth the paper on which they are written. People in the East who buy land or other property in California which they have not seen should be sure to have thorough guarantees of the re- sponslbility of the parties with whom they negotiate.
Connecticut western news., 1871-08-11
A fashion writer ca1ls attention to fl

A fashion writer calls attention to the peculiar manner some young ladies have just now of carrying the hands. The arms are held as close to the body as possible, bending them until the back and forepart nearly touch ; the wrists remain elevated, and the hands assume a listless, dropping position which we can only hken to the kangaroo. ,.-''<
Connecticut western news., 1871-08-11

Marriage. man who passes through life without marrying is like fair man. sion left by the builder unfinished. The half that is completed runs to decay from neglect, or becomes at least but a sorry tenement, wanting the addition of that which makes the whole useful.
Connecticut western news., 1871-08-11
A Great California Orchard.

A few days ago it was our pleasure to visit the orchard of John Briggs, located about two miles south of Tuba City, in Sutter county. The proprietor owns 466 acres, mostly bottom land on the west bank of the Feather river. The soil is rich, sandy loam, and composed of the yearly deposits of the river many years ago. No better or richer land is to be found in the State, add the or chard we shall briefly notice promises to be the pride of the Briggs Brothers, who have State reputation as or chardists and frrlit-growers. Before reaching the orchard proper we rode through field of 15O acres of castor beans, growing in the most luxurious manner-which field, by the by, is to give place to new orchard next year, the fruit trees for the same at present growing in the nursery by the side of the field of castor beans, and containing 25, 900 one-year-old budded peach trees, 16, 900 plum trees, 5000 Eastern walnuts, 25, ,O00 California walnuts, 2,0OO apple trees, 500 Italian chestnut trees, etc. Passing along through this forest of young trees, we arrived at the present peach orchard, consisting of 600 trees, two years old, and some of them bear ing this season 150 pounds of peaches. These trees have made remarkable growth owing to the rich ground upon which they are planted, and in another year will make tremendous yield of fruit Passing the peach orchard we reached the apricots, 2,200 Fin number, borne fair crop the present season. %ol 1orhA I1o one respect. The late heavy storm had p-ostrated many of the trees entire, while in others the limbs had been torn off as If tremendous tornado had swept over the place. However, the trees were healthy and stout, notwithstanding the mutilations here and there. We rode next into the cherry orchard, containing three thousand of the most thrifty young trees ever seen on any ground. The different varieties, fifteen in number, gave this orchard 8 variety of aspect, and broke up the usual monotony of the steeple-like formed cherry orchard. These cherry trees were all imported from Rochester, N. Y., about three years ago. Of to the south of this wonderful wilderness are two thousand five hundred apple trees, mostly winter varieties. On returning from the or chard by the wagon road we had entered we visited Briggs Brothers steam power castor oil mill Here we found mag nifcent hydraulic press. with eighty pounds pressure, and possessing a ca pacity of compressing three hundred gallons of oil per day. The mill also contained twenty tons of castor beans, and two thousand five hundred gallons of oil, nicely bottled and cased and ready | for market Califfornid paper.
Connecticut western news., 1871-08-11

KILLED IN BATTLE. Dresdene, Journal publishes an official statement of the losses of the Saxon army, viz 115 officers and 1887 men killed, 2O1 officers and 4, ,18O men wounded. The Saxon contingent took active part in 1Ol battles and encounters the artillery fired 5,521 rounds the infantry uset 5000, 900 of cartridges
Connecticut western news., 1871-08-11
SARCAsuo.-The Rochester

SARcAsrIo.-The Rochester "Demo- crat 1" is slightly sarcastic on railroad line in that vicinity. IL says, that g gen. tleman took the traih a few days since, on what is termed, |" the huckleberry road, running between Avon and Mount Morris After the train started from Avon he discovered that he had leftsa valuable dog behind, button arriyinglat Mount Morris the lost dog was found sitting at the station awaiting the arrival of hlS master,
Connecticut western news., 1871-08-11

IMPORTANT TO TANNERS. chemist says that tannic acid is the anhydrous alcohol of gallic acid, and that the least purified tannic acid is in fact the best. It may not appear to be of much value to tanners to know that they get a peculiar variety of alcohol out of oak and hemlock bark, but all such know. ledge is likely to be turned to good ac- count in the long run. Tanners know that the exposure of the extract of bark to the action of air destroys it for tan ming purposes. Chemists say of this charge that gallic acid is produced, which no longer has the property of coagulating albumen and of rendering gelatine insoluble ill water. If we know the true chemical nature of tannic acid we may devise some method of prevent ing this change into gallic acid, and thus be enabled to make extracts of barks in the forests that will bear transportation and preservation any length of time.
Connecticut western news., 1871-08-11

IN Efingham County Ga., Mrs. Ash, the wife of John H. Ash, killed her three little children and afterward committed suicide by administering a sufficient quantity of strychnine to produce almost Instantaneous death. ~'." Da--t. 2-3"
Connecticut western news., 1871-08-11

Pray Simply.-God loves to have us pray with earnest simplicity. Better in Gods sight are the broken and heartfelt utterances of child than the high flown utterances of those who think themselves wonderful in prayer.
Connecticut western news., 1871-08-11
so,cial Notices 50 ,er cent in advance of the

Special Notices, 50 ,Jrr cent. in advance of the above rates. ,. ..z- . ..
 Ono inch space constitutes square. A.
 Cards in Business Directory, occupying five lines or less, $500 per year; over. five lines, $100 per line. f- m
 Regular advertisers to pay quarterly Tran sient advertisements Tstst be paid Tor Tn ad- vance,
 Notices of Marriages and Deaths free of charge All additions to ordinary a"nounce- ments 10 cents per line.
Connecticut western news., 1871-08-11

DIDN'T COME TO WoRK.-We lately heard of the case of newly. appointed Treasury clerk, who after idling away the first day at his desk, was asked by his chief if he intended to work. ''Work the deuce !'' exclaimed the indignant youth, "didn't I work hard enough to get in here ?" He found, howeve
 that he must ither work or walk"