Connecticut western news., 1872-03-01
Facts and Fancies.

Let your lungs take air of themselves.
 Black silk and muslin aprons have come in fashion again.
 Three Texan horse thieves. were hung at Baxter Springs, Kansas.
 The latest style of kid gloves for full dress have fifteen and eighteen buttons.
 Demi-trains for full dress and house wear have entirely superseded the court train.
 Jet bands and ornaments are very much used at present for ornamenting the hair.
 Chine silks are to be the most fashion able style of dress goods for full dress next season.
 When man has "no mind of his own" his wife generally gives him piece of hers.
 Five feet five inches is said to be the perfection of height for woman and five feet eight inches for man.
 There is a farmer in the West who, years ago, when boy, blacked boots for a living. He now owns three dogs.
 It is said the more clumsy, awkward, and ungraceful a man is, the warmer his heart and more sensitive his feelings.
 Six months is nowadays considered to be the extreme length of time that an engagement should exist before marri- age.
 A Cleveland youth had to pay $50 be- | fore he got clear from the rash action of giving girl bottle of "I love you" perfume.
 Henry $. Evans, State Senator from the Fifth Pennsylvania District, died at | Westchester,> Penn. His death creates tie, for the second time, in the politi- cal parties in the State Senate. Alphonse (who has had an attack of mother-in- -law): "Parbleu, madam, it is not ze trouble zat your daughter is my wife. Non It is because she is not an orphan when she is married to nc P A little boy, after watching the burn ing of the school house until the novelty of the thing had ceased, started down the street. saying, "I am glad the old thing is burned down ; I didn't have my jogfry lesson, nohow."
 | The projector of a new Taper at Atlanta, Ga., having declared that he will " condemn the wrong and applaud the right" the Era says the task will keep him as busy as a school-boy with hornet in his trousers.
 A young wife on being lately asked what she should do in case her husband should fail, replied, 'Live on arms to be sure. I have two and he has two, with hands at the end of them" We will ven ture to say that couple will never fail.
 The Limberger Fire Insurance Com pany has inserted in it's printed applica- tions the following questions 1. Do you keep Q COW? 2. Is it female COW 3. Is it a farrow COW? {? 4. l. 1t kicking COW 5. Is kerosene used 1n milkingP | MANS LOT. How changing is the lot of mani | From bad to worse is natures plan; Some pleasures in our youth we share,
 But ere our prime is marked by care; In age worn out, we pant for breath, And fear eternity in death.
 The town of Londonderry, N. H., holds it's charter on the condition of giving the Governor 0 peck of potatoes every year, and pays the penalty of its corporate existence regularly. It is an old custom, derived from the mother country.
 A new style of hats for gentlemen has been invented, which resembles an or Qlnafy beaver, put IS uueu lnSlue Wltn thin plated steel, the object being if q man is attacked in the street at night he can either ward of, or give blows, with this veritable crush hat."
 An exchange says in the course of 8 brief editorial explanation to poet whose contribution is declined: We cannot print your poem on GA Drowned Boy" In the first place you speak of your subject as C floating in the water" and in the second as "lying on his bier." Which is it, water or bier ?