Connecticut western news., 1872-04-19
Facts and Fancies.

Wolf scalps are legal tender with which to pay taxes in Arkansas.
 A fashionable reporter of the West says, "Miss H. wore no jewel but con- sistency."
 The practice of wearing veils over the eyes is said to be very injurious to the sight.
 The large number of young ladies suffering from dreadful bunions has rather sent French heels out of fashion.
 A Detroit woman marched her way ward daughter out of disreputable house the other day at the muzzle of a pistol.
 The woman who is "worth her weight in gold isn't such great match after all. The average feminine avoirdupois would only balance about $50, 900 in the precious metal. ... ." Says Josh Billings "Thare ain't but phew khan stick a white handkerchief into the brest pocket ov their overcoat without letting little of it stick out just by acksident.
 The meanest liquor dealer yet discov- cred fourishes in Winona, Minn. He hired poor woman to make some shirts l TOT u1m bI1Su OlSGb ucI plll py uCI husbands whisky account. @ r. It's no use when 0 man feels "blue" to console him by sayin :" Everyone has his skeleton" because in his individ- ual case he thinks himself the represent ative of a whole anatomical museum. | A gentleman of Ellsworth, Me-, made bet with his wife that he could undress, go to bed, get up, dress and then undress and go to bed again while she was pre- pairing to go to bed. He won his bet.
 Progressive teacher to pupil of the pe- riod-" Sary Jane Hooker, just take that chewing gum right out of your mouth. Little girls who chew gum in school need never expect to become President of the United States"
 l A young factory girl at Amesbury,
 Mass, was recently sent to lunatlc
 asylum because she had fallen so violent
 ly in love with young man that it was
 not safe for him and the young lady that
 he proposed to marry. ,a.
 A doctor and military officer became
 enamored with. the same lady. A friend
 asked her which of the two suitors she
 intended to favor. She replied that Cit
 was difficult for her to tell, as they were Sucn Klu1ng cIeaIureS.
 A servant girl told her master the other
 morning that she was about to give his !, wife warning and quit the house.
 "Happy girl would that could give
 her warning and quit the house, too ]"
 was the brutal response. ....
 A French countess seized philoso
 pher at the supper table and exclaimed.
 sWhile they are cutting up the fowls
 and we have got five minutes to spare, do tell me the history of the world, for l want to know it so much" It is related of quarelsome gentle man in Pikee County that had been [ignominiously cuffed and kicked by rival bruiser, he explained his defeat by saying, "He come to me so sudden, l , did't have time to get mad"
 AWestern paper predicts that one of it's State Senators twill live and be ) honored and beloved by the State when the tall prairie grass refuses to sigh Q sad and plaintive requiem over the } graves of some of his defamers." Where does the money come from to pay for the wondrous displays that are made at openings asks a city journal. Gorgeous reception-dresses labelled , "only $30O;" modest suits, $150 linen
 suits, of which one wants at least half 8 dozen, $75. ....... -....... Philosophers are made of just such , men as the one whom the wind robbed , of his hat. He didn't chase it at all 1; he l simply appropriated the covering of the 5 loudest laugher near him, at the same : tine fetching him blow that made his t nose bleed. ..e E -.- A Western paper relates Q touching 3 tale of aspiration for knowledge. A youth and maiden leaning over the : front-yard gate. Time night. Fair 2 Lunar and several stars studding, gazing l at the same. The maiden breaks the 0 poetic silence: Henry, dear, oh how ,. would like to study Botany ?" A person who was called into court , for the purpose of proving the correct : ness of a doctors bill was asked by q F lawyer whether "the doctor did not : make several visits after the patient was e out of danger" "No," replied the wit l, ness, CT consider the patient in danger 't as long as the doctor continues his visits. '