Connecticut western news., 1871-08-11
Facts and FancieS.

The three great conquerors of the world are Fashion, Love and Death.
 Let your expenses be such as to leave little balance in your pocket. Ready money is friend in need. %2hFtf
 Hearts may be attracted by assumed qualities but the affections are only to be fixed by those that are real i.afslf
 If thou wouldst live long, live well for folly and wickedness shorten life. is
 Quiet house weddings will be the cor rect thing this fall and winter. tA sensi- hle fashion at last }u l,.e 6 3p ,riui ~ a The gentle spring and the mellow au- tumn go for nothing with the soldiers only give them good March weather , Q What an unlucky suitor did-He wooed and she wouldn't. He cooed and she couldn't. -.., o-,,, ,..... s.,-....,
 !, The majority of women at seaside .re- sorts spend seven hours out of the twen- ty-four at thelr toilets. '.'
 An old gentleman being asked, what he wanted for dinner, replied "An ap petite, good company, something Go eat, and clean napkin" sl9'p9i7s g'19a9
 A Wisconsin man applied for a'divorce on the ground that his wife had become weak, and [" couldn't work on the farm as she used to" "rl .,,,hs.r,, gs. !, .,fji l...i a Benefit your friends that they may love you still more dearly i; benefit your enemies that they may become your friends. V'
 Smiles and Browns. is always in your power to make an enemy by smiles what a folly, then, to make an enemy by frowns. . a's. s.HH.'" "a-. | .-'."r E Education is incompatible with self indulgence, and the impulse of vanity is too often mistaken for the impulse of nature. s......Ia......,t..... ...,.......:,.,.,1
 . Difficulty excites the mind to the dig nity which sustains aud finally conquers misfortune, and the ordeal refines while it chastens 7s@"N
 True Friends. Value the friendship of him who stands by you in the storm swarms of insects will surround youlin the sunshine. s araysas aHln'am sdt
 Fate and necessity. We cannot con- quer fate and necessity yet we can yield to them in such manner as, to be great CT than if we would. t,.,. .,,;,, vc
 Keep Away from Bad Habits, s,-No,per- son ever got stung by hornets who kept away from where they were It is just so with bad habits. 'kis '@' |si14' Si"nEi
 q Rowing Love. What is the love. of a restless, rowing man ? A vagrant stream that 'dallies with each flower on its bank, then passes on and leaves them all in tears. ., is,,,e.t..ta.r5 h,t. evsr styr. N. ,g Persons who live in perpetual suspicion live the life of a sentinel never relieved, whose business it Is to look out for and expect an enemy, which is an evil not very far short of perishing by him.
 A young lady died in Nashville, Tenn, recently, leaving a pet mocking- bird. While the bird was sin9inga few days before she died, the lady said. "i Hush, birdie, you annoy me."t From that time the bird has not uttered single note, ii The phenomenon known as ft milky sea-" is confined wholly to the tropics, and almost entirely to the East Indies. It occurs at night, the sea, appearing, a vast surface of snow, rather than milk, and being partially luminous. d. 1tis very rarely seen, but its occurrence is well authenticated. tu Go,'a@.77 snign'b A young hopefuIs mother reached7tor him with her slipper, the other, evening, for hooking the jelly and, after the dusting she was surprised to hear him laugh over it, aud demanded the cause of it. |" I was thinking how had fooled you it was Carrie who hooked theje jelly"
 "How many children have you ?" asked gentleman of one of his labor CTS. looking around in surprise upon the family. "Better than dozen sir." q only make out eleven," said the gentle man. ssFaith, an isn't that better than dozen, when one has to feed 1'em " exclaimed the honest fellow. n.
 At all times in this wintry life the presence of those we love is like gleam of sunshine through the clouds, lighting up one particular spot amid the shad- ows, and giving warmth and lustre and loveliness to all beneath the ray. The passing gleam seems still brighter than the full sunshine. :r.
 Content converts everything near it to the highest perfection it Is capable of. It irradiates every metal, and enriches lead with the properties of gold; it heightens gold into flame, flame into light, and light into glory a single ray of it dissipates pain and melancholy from the person on whom it falls. In short, it's presence naturally changes every place into a kind of heaven. A. '7i''s
 Little Evils.-It seems to be a law of our nature, intended perhaps for our preservation, that little evils, coming home to ourselves, should affect us more than great evils, at distance, happening to others but they must be evils which we cannot prevent, and over which we have no control; for perhaps there is no man who would lose his little finger to save China :. NI n.--.r-la--. ., rat.R-