Connecticut western news., 1871-08-18
Facts and Fancies.

Minnesota has ten railroads in process of construction. .si
 To keep water out use pitch, to keep water in use pitcher. ..ast elI
 The chickens in Iowa are dying by hundreds of a mysterious disease. :.
 A good sermon is like kiss. It re- quires but two heads and an application.
 The principal wheels in gold watch are sold at three hundred per cent. profit.
 They bathe now in the Chicago river, for the first time in the history of the city. ','''.
 What gentleman with any sense of propriety can ask fat woman to lean on his arm. '- ."-.
 Tn the public schools of Munich, Ger many, gymnastics have been introduced as an obligatory instruction. a.:".. ..-
 A church in Benton County, Ind, ex- pelled five of it's members recently be- cause they were Freemasons.
 Thus far this year the Chicago stock yards have contained 532, ,964 cattle, l. 693, 159 hogs and 349, 855 sheep.
 A man climbing liberty pole at Fort Leavenworth got hitched near the top, and it was six hours before they got him down.
 It just takes 267 curls for the head of city belle. The barber begins at 10 in the morning, and gets through about g at night.
 If you want to eat such pudding as your mother made when you were boy, you must somehow revive a boys appe- lite and palate. ..
 One-half the Mormon population of Utah were born there. About one-third of the remainder were born in other parts of the United States, and two thirds in foreign countries.
 A new member arose to make his first speech, and in his embarrassment com menced to scratch his head. Well, exclaimed Sheridan, Che has got some thing in his head after all.'' ....n.
 Here is the first free love VOW as final ly adopted "We promise to love each other, and to live in the same brown stone front till we are tired of each other and see some one we like better"
 After rolling all night in your berth at sea, till you are miserably sick, 1t is irritating to have a steward open your door in the m orning and ask if you will not have fresh roN for breakfast.
 A vail has gone up, and Is now trav cling with great rapidity around the board, at the prices charged at the fash ionable watering places. A general and immediate reduction is the clamorous cry. o.s...,. .--.. ..'
 A correspondent of an agricultural pa per asks "Where can wool be profita- l. @E that there is no place where it can more profitably be grown than on the back of a sheep. .4-..' f'
 A little bit of thing had just got back from a party, and was asked by her mamma how she had enjoyed herself. 70, mamma ]: she said, "I'm so full of happiness-I couldn't be happier without I was bigger" -~..' The papers of Chicago appear to have muscular men in the chair editorial. One of them says he was never so happy as he was the other day, when he knocked down a rowdy who intruded into his sanctum, and then threw him down ) stairs.
 After many years of observation, the RevoLution has discovered that, as rule, woman is expected to be found fault with and adored courted, married, quarreled with, deserted, divorced ; played with, plagued, and only really venerated when she becomes 8 mother and goes to heaven. A correspondent comes to the defense of women against the current notion that they are peculiarly addicted to gos- sip, alleging that in country grocery store, among barrels of molasses and piles of salt fish, more gossip is talked by men in one evening than in all the houses in the town. '.' r -'i' - ~