Connecticut western news., 1872-01-05
Facts and Fancies.

To protect the chest-Put lock omit.
 The voice of nature-The mountains peak. |.
 If small boy is lad, is big boy ladder :?
 Fee Simple-Money given--to @ quack doctor.
 How to tell the weight of fish-by his scales.
 Paradoxical-In surgery the lancet is always applied in vein.
 A ton of straw makes eight hundred and fifty pounds of paper.
 The ruins on the north side of Chicago are now called Slab Town"
 A doctors motto is supposed to be Patients and long suffering."
 When does 8 man have to keep his word When no one will take it.
 In putting the "best foot forward" always use the right, or it will be left.
 Barley goes up as beer comes down. and man who ales is called malt treated.
 Many young men are so improviden { that they cannot keep anything but late hours.
 A line of stages is now running from Duluth to Superior City, eight miles, on the ice.
 It is all very we'll to say, ''take things as they come," but suppose things don't come?
 The Seventh Day Baptists have & membership of about 1000 in the United States.
 "Matilda, what animal comes down from the cIouds?" "The rain, dear Augustus.
 Mexico is said to be like the earth, be- cause it has a revolution every twenty four hours.
 Why is 0 man who can't learn by ex- perience like 0 laurel? Because he is an evergreen.
 A celebrated author says that no letter is ever commenced without the first page being an apology.
 The skirts of dresses are not trimmed as much as formerly, many of them be- ing made entirely plain.
 French dressmakers say that an Amer ican customer is worth more to them than three of their own countrymen.
 The bill appropriating 4,0O0,0 900 for the construction of public buildings in Chicago has passed both Houses of Con- gress.
 Gloves of undressed kid are worn with muffs, and kid gloves, without stitching and with four gilt buttons, are the most stylish for full dress. ,..r s..
 A lady, wife of one of our prominent citizens, appeared recently at ball with a necklace, earrings, and bracelets com- posed of ten and twenty-dollar gold pieces, fresh from the mint.
 An old rhyme says:
 "There are five reasons why men drink :: -- Good wine, friend, because I'm dry,
 Or lest should be by-and-by,
 Or any otber reason why"
 A Hindoo once boasted that he had never taken human life, when some one officiously showed him morsel of his daily food under microscope. The poor fellow died soon afterwards of starva- tion.
 The cattle in Texas will die by thou sands in consequence of the severe winter. It is computed by local journal that the west Texas cattle interest has lost in stock, from the present cold snap, over $4OO, ,OO0.
 No one ever sees lady in the streets nowadays with a clean, fresh-looking dress, the detestable habit of wearing the dress so long as to sweep the filthy streets making them look slovenly and dirty in the extreme. ...
 A Asexton, being very familiar with physician, was asked whether he had en- tered into partnership with him. "Oh, yes" said he, ''we've been together for some time; I always carry the doctors work home when it is done."
 A man in Rockingham, Virginia, has in his possession chicken, one of whose feet is shaped exactly like the human hand. There are fingers and nails all complete; the hand and foot being soft and feshy, and altogether different from any chicken foot that has ever been seen before.