Connecticut western news., 1871-07-28
Facts and Faucies.

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 There are only 3,OS4 spoken languages.
 The four seasons-mustard, salt, pep per and vinegar ..- r
 There are said to be 90, 1000 shoemakers in Pennsylvania. .. .,ar ...1
 Fanaticisms are the blazing-up of e-textured minds. -...,
 They who have true light in themselves seldom become satellites.
 A "Washoe Zeyphr" waited railroad train twenty feet from the track.
 Poetry seems to know most of Gods world, History of the devils world.
 One hundred and forty -four breweries '-a"r Indiana supplied with malt pro- ducts.
 A bad marriage is like an electric ma chine, it makes you dance, but you can't let go. -'''
 A drunken farmer ont West recently chopped down 800 apple trees, to "spite Betsy" sas a.9.. .1s r.-i'
 An Oregon toast over 0 glass of the ardent, Here's what makes us wear old clothes" .. ...9r
 Shot guns are cracking merry through out the grain fields in the WestT-Caws and effect. T,
 The Chicago papers grow still more 1uarrelsome, and offer great inducements for clubs. t~
 Ambition often plays the wrestler's trick of raising a man up merely to fling him down. " .'. 'it
 Madness in and about Paris has been very much on the increase of late Who can doubt it ?a-.., ey-# -'ao. In Wyoming the bride furnishes the ring and the license, and the blushing bridegroom falls into mysteries,
 A cynical lady, rather inclined to fiirt, says most men are like q cold-very easily caught. but very difficult to get rid of
 A lady in Pickway, Ohio, packed away her silver ware in an old clothes bag, and forgetfully sold the lot for three cents 0 pound. ,.- t--.i ..
 "My enemies can do nothing against me-" said M..; "they cannot deprive me of the faculty of thinking rightly or act ing we'll" ............. ...-..4
 If man throws huge stone at his wife's head, would he escape punishment on the plea that he only meant to rock her to sleep. -'.'- .s".''
 Fragments of human beings, blown into the air by steamboat explosions, are spoken of in Arkansas as atmospheric phenomena" p-a3 nuh
 Some Indiana boys hungering after eggs, conceived the idea of frying thom in the nest. Their father is negotiating for 8 new barn.
 The sun shining through Q slightly convex pane of glass ignited, box of matches in house in Canandaigua few afternoons since. .h&'. Among the public observances of the Fourth in Burlington, Iowa, was brick laying match between aghalf breed In- dian and Caucasian. aaa!ae , The man who this year pays. the high est tax in Portsmouth, N. H., twenty years ago drove charcoal-cart into the city for his indigent father. , Mobile, Ala, has found new material r for street-paving in cypress shavings. It , is said this road will remain firm and solid from eight to ten years.a A Paris natter, whose stock was rid dled with bullets during the siege, now sells the damaged goods at fabulous prices as souoenia;s of the war. Near Marseilles they manufacture in
  paper is very white, strong, soft and , flexible, but said to be much liked in , Southern France. ''''" 5 The Southern Methodist Church, re- r porting last year 5S6, AIS members, re- ported also 21, ,O02 infant baptisms, or 5 about one infant baptism for every twen- weight members. fnf i.ga ...st That is a long fence the Burlington | sc l,,,1 , will put up not less than two hundred - miles of board fence this year at a cost /; of $175, ,OOO to $200,O0o. 7.i
 It is now safe to say that the grape crop in California is out of danger from any source, and the product of wine in g this State for 1871 will not fall short of . S,O00,OC0 gallons, while it may reach : 9,OOO,OOO or possibly 10,000,00o n When a man is unable to tell the time , by his watch, because there are two hands, and he doesn't know o"wlich to ' believe,'' it tolerably sure sign that he y has partaken of more refreshments than his nature requires, 7. ..,.e-... . A French circus performer lately nd '. vertised to jump, from the centre of . London Bridge at certain hour, and great crowd assembled to see the thing | '- and put 0, stop to it by arresting the
 man on charge of attempted suicide. '. A grunbler who was loud in complaint t because of the degeneracy of the times, ,- got this left-handed- sympathy: "What j.; you say is undoubtedly true 1; for re- l, member that, when I was q boy, $ heard my father say that, when he was e boy, he heard my grandfather say the
 same thing. 99 G0.iF' u ".@#
 A hoax was practiced upon the Aus n tralians recently, which represented that |. a pira tical expedition was fitted out in \ San Francisco to make a descent on the if Colonies. Much excitement, expense if and preparation for defense was the con- 70 sequence, when it was discovered that the a report had originated with two boys. Il Ayoung lady member of the choir in
 a church in Lyons leaned too far over the gallery during the sermon, on Sun sd' day, to look at new bonnet or some IS thing of the kind, and losing her bal VI. iance, fell 7headlong, plump upon the 6 head of deacon, bounding thence into W the aisle, very much demoralized, but
 not seriously hurt