Connecticut western news., 1872-03-08
Facts and FancieS.

Colorado is often called the Switzer- land of America.
 A Cleveland coroner has adopted as a badge miniature kerosene can.
 There were 192 marriages, 3s7 births, and 561 deaths in New York last week.
 A man died suddenly from intemper- ance; and Western jury found that "deceased came to his death by drinking between drinks.
 A tree which was cut down last week in Kansas contained two bushels of beets and three hundred pounds of beautiful transparent honey.
 An undertaker's office in Indianapolis recently bore this cheering inscription on the front door: "Gone fer dead man-back soon."
 Four ladies and one gentleman were referees lately in Plymouth County lawsuit-the first instance of the kind in Massachusetts,.
 New Hampshire has 7693 32 miles of railroad, built at an expense of $26, 750,- 817. Vermont has 711.35, built at an expense of $3S, 493, ,213.
 California is going into the tree busi- ness in earnest. She has hired State tree-planter at cost of fifteen thousand dollars year and expenses
 A little boy in Minnesota, has been scalded to death by an explosion produced in hot mince-pie which threw the contents over his face and neck.
 A California statute, after passing through the hands of a revising com mission, declares "al marriages of white persons and negroes or mulattoes void.
 A child in Buffalo, the other day, tied crape on the door knob to see if the carriage would come to take them out riding, as it did the family across the street. .t.
 The editor of the Catskill EIcamiaer has received the following: "You are respectfully invited to Sprise on We'd nesday even, meet at -. Bring some headcheese and candy"
 A man in Kansas City hotel short time ago blew out the gas on retiring, and soon after he rushed down stairs full of indignation, to ascertain if there was "glue factory next door"
 An Iowa man fogged his wife unmer- cifully because she took an old coat on which dog was sleeping, to protect her | pare J06U bll0 COltl uOOT Wuu0 bn6 stood by the stove to dress herself.
 A Liverpool magistrate essays to cure the drunkards brought before him, not only by imposing very heavy fine on each, but by collecting the names and addresses of the employers of each and threatening to publish the list.
 At Bowerstown, Ohio, a desperate young man named George Clark, living at that place, shot his sister with rife because she threw snow at him. The ball passed through the girls right thigh just below the hip joint, thence nearly through the left thigh. Clark was ar. rested.
 A soldier was sentenced, for deserting, to have his ear cut off. After undergo ing the brutal ordeal, he was ordered out of the courtyard to the tune of the "Rogue's March," He then turned, and, in mock dignity, thus addressed the musicians Gentlemen, I thank you but have no ear for music"
 A Southern paper advertises as fol- lows Wanted, at this office, an able bodied, hard-featured, bad-tempered, not-to- -be-put-off and and-to-be-bac1ked- down, freckle-faced young man to collect | for thls paper; must 1urnlsn ms own horse, saddle bags, pistols, whisky, bowie-knife and cowhide. We will fur nish the accounts. To such we promise constant and laborious employment.
 The Albany Journal says the New York State Fish Commissioners have made a mistake in assuming trout to have become scarce in the waters of the Northern Wilderness, and so stocking them with bass and pickerel, saying that they have "by this single bit of pis- editorial cannibalism done more harm than they have done good by all their other useful labors since their organi- zation.