Connecticut western news., 1871-11-10
Facts and Fancies.

Facts and Fanctes.
 Leaves have their time to faIl-just now.
 Browns blight young children as frosty nights blight young plants.
 Who ever saw anybody near a fire who didn't want to play poker?
 A doctors motto is supposed to be "patients and long suffering"
 A learned writer asserts that, after all, energy quite as often drives of disease as it brings 1t on.
 In libel suit against newspaper at Little Rock, Ark, for $30, 900, the plain tiff attained $l in damages.
 The champion sexton of town in Maine has dug a thousand graves, and officiated at twelve hundred funerals.
 The first daily newspaper in Virginia was printed in 17S0, and its subscrip- ton price was fifty dollars per annum.
 The latest style in wedding cards is very long and narrow, of heavily glazed pasteboard, with 8 monogram or crest stamped in silver.
 One of the coats sent to the Boston Young Mems Christian Association, to be forwarded to Chicago, was labelled "My wedding coat" ...u.E .......
 The latest style of bridle head dress is wreath composed of small white ostrich tips. The bridal vail is trimmed with vines of lilies of the valley and jassa- mine. "
 A young man having late railroad disaster in his mind has broken his en- gagement with young lady, because she wears train and is negligent about her switch. .
 The Chicago lake crib is two miles from shore, and yet the keeper had to keep the top of the building continually wet to prevent it's igniting on the night of the fire. .s sf =. Six West Point cadets have been dis missed for hazing, and the authorizes positively refuse to revoke the dismissals from the Annapolis Naval Academy for the same offence @
 An old Bachelor, who bears his lonely state with much equanimity, says: |" It is better to be laughed at for not being married, than be unable to laugh be- cause you are. '" ... ... ....-..E. ... A railroad employe, on being nudged with contribution box while asleep in church, the other day, woke up enough to remark, 'I work on this road" and returned to his nap. -r..HH a
 New n1Gy cent and dollar revenue stamps have just made their appearance. They are made of linen paper, colored blue, with scroll work, and bear htho-
 "aph of George Washington.
 A young lady requested to be released from her marriage engagement on the ground that when contracted she be- lieved her lover 8 "duck," but has since found him to be @ goose.
 The arrivals of vessels at Boston, dur
 g nine months of the present year, exceed those of the same period, last year, by 447, showing considerable increase in the foreign commerce of that city.
 THn cost of the war in Cuba during the past year has been $62, 1000, 900, and the Colonial deficit for the year amounts to $11. 100000. The Spanish Govern ment asks for a credit of $20, ,000, 900 for military purposes ... .E.s... ..
 Mrs. Leary, of Chicago, stoutly denies the story that the great fire was caused
 
 in her stable while she was milking her COWS. She says the stable must have been fired by incendiaries. She always milks by daylight. .s, ar .a.
 One cord of wood cut and split fine and corded up beneath a shelter while it is yet green, will furnish more heat after it has become seasoned than two cords of the same kind of wood which has been continually exposed to the alternate influences of storms and sunshine.
 "Mack," of the Chicago RepubRcaa, is jocose under his misfortunes. In pointing out the difference between Theodore Thomas fugacious fddlers and Nero, he explains that one fiddled while Rome burned, and the others roamed while their fddlers burned.
 Experiments made on board an iron built sailing vessel, provided with iron rigging and lower yards of steel, and with two pinnacle compasses on her poops, and third placed between the mizzen and mainmasts, the lower part of which was all of iron-the 1eviations of the needle were respectfully fifty-six, twenty-four, and thirty-fve degrees.
 The following g characteristic funeral item IS from the Kansas City (Mo.) Times: "The funeral of Mike Williams, shot by Wild Bill, at Abilene, took place in this city on Sunday, Wild Bill paid the expenses of the funeral" The Chattanooga Times adds: ''Mr. Will iams, we have no doubt, deeply regrets his inability to thank Wild Bill for his liberahty." '5a # .ta-' Tt .tt.a
 A young lady sitting at window, tossing in her hand what might have been ball of white yarn, attracted the attention of middle-aged chap on the street, whose gallantry prompted him to hold up his hands for catch. She ac- commodated him. The article proved to be an egg, and alghted on his nose but it is not to be supposed that the lady. knew it was bad one . IA Louisville wife, wishing to get rid . of her husband at short notice, sent him into the cellar with kerosene lamp for a pitcher of cider. She gave him just tune to get the cider in one hand and the lamp in the other, and then shouted " murder. She had calculated well. The doomed man sprang up the stepe, the lamp fell. and-the woman was free.