Connecticut western news., 1872-06-07
Facts and FancYeS.

Facts and FancIes.
 In Council Bluffs, it is illegal to throw scraps of paper in the streets.
 All the light dresses this season are looped with large black velvet bows with long ends.
 Twenty-four orphans of Burlington, Iowa, mourn the decease of one and the same father.
 An Australian has false eye made of an emerald and diamond. He considers his sight priceless.
 A woman named Joy died lately in Wa bash, H., at the age of 1o7. She came near being a joy forever.
 The feather edged crepe ribbons are very much used this season for sashes, neckties and bonnet strings.
 The unfavorable season has caused great falling off in the production of maple sugar and syrup. The quality of the crop, too, is very inferior.
 Human nature is the same everywhere. It is remarked in New York that horse car conductors on six-cents lines refuse to affiliate with their five-cents brothers.
 The Swedish government offers prize for an essay on the best means of put tting stop to the rapid increasing emigra tion of the rural population from that coun- try.
 The true motives of our actions, like the reed pipes of an organ, are usually concealed but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in front for show.
 An Indiana paper has this scandal: Owensburg, Green County, shipped 120 to be manufactured into seventy year-old Bourbon. The process will occupy about AS hours.
 It is said that persons affected by the concussion of a stroke of lighting can be saved in most cases by reactionary reme- dies, such as the rapid dashing of cold water over the victim, and the application of friction.
 The Young Mems Christian room at Cincinnati are fiued up with an "amuse- ment room," in which ample space is given to the playing of croquet, game which is nightly pursued to the latest permissible hour.
 A little six year old son of MT. Weber of Sandwich, Illinois, is almost an expert with firearms as grown man. He pass- ed ball entirely through his little hand and deposited it safely under his left optic without previous practice.
 els the spirit of Israel Putnam dead?" is the way in which Shawneetown ([ll.) paper calls upon the residents to rise and slaughter the wolf which has dis played abnormal activity in competing with them in the raising of mutton. h Grundy County, Iowa, has more large farms than any other county in the State. One man has farm of 6,00o acres, an- other of 2,040 acres, another of 1920, another of 1900, and several others of 1,2Oo to 1,300 acres.
 There are thirty-fve thousand deaf and dumb persons in the United States, and forty -four institutions for their educa- tions, each containing on an average about one hundred and fifty pupils, near ly all supported by the State govern ments.
 A clergyman, having made several at- tempts to reform a prohigate, was at length repulsed with "It is all in vain, doctor, you cannot get me to change my religion" CT do not want that" re- piled the good man, T wish religion to change you."
 Adulterated coffee can be easily detec- ted, even if the taste is not sure index. If tea-spoonfu1 of genuine ground cof- fee be thrown into tumblerful of cold water, it will float upon the surface. Substances used in adulterating coffee will sink at once.
 The committee of the Maine Editors and Publishers Association, to whom was entrusted the matter of making ar- engagements for the annual excursion, have decided on July 9 as the day of de- parture from Portland, and Mount Des- ert as the objective point " of the ex- petition.
 Women in Austria perform the duties of bricklayers' laborers, and may be seen carrying hods of mortar and baskets of brick up high ladders. More than this, they dig and wheel barrows of "ballast" almost as nimbly as the men. They chor wood, they carry water, they offer to black your boots in the street, and perform many other little offices, which, according to our notions, do not and should not come under the denomina- tion of women's work"