Connecticut western news., 1872-08-09
Facts and Fancles.

The less power man has, the more he likes to use it.
 Goldsmith maid trotted mile at Saratoga in 2,19.
 A Tennessee horse thief, between 70 and 80 years of age, has been sentenced to the penitentiary for 21 years.
 The Railroad Conductors Life Ins Go. lost S19.200 the first week in May by the death of SIX of it's members.
 Emma G. Hayes has been voted a pair of gold bracelets as the most popu- lar young woman of Salmon Falls, N. H..
 Placam for smoking car: eff pas- sengers expect to rate as gentlemen, they must not expectorate upon the floor"
 The official price of the French loan which has just been issued to meet the demands of the new treaty with refer ence to the evacuation of France by German troops, is S4 francs 50 centimes.
 A woman kicked to death, boy fat ally sta bbed, two policemen assaulted, four people feloniously attacked, and one man robbed on the public highway. is New York city record for one day.
 A highly sensitive soul in Wheeling, w. Va, hung himself the other day be- cause dinner was not ready when he came home. He was a drayman by oc- cupation, and left family to take care of themselves
 The official trial of a road steamer on the Erie Canal was made in presence of the Canal Commissioners, and proved 0 complete success. The engine drew three loaded boats at double the speed of boats drawn by horses.
 At certain church fair, set of Cooper's Works was promised to the individual who should answer certain set of conundrums. A dashing young fellow was pronounced the winner, and received 0 set of wooden pails
 Hair, or even straw mattresses, are more healthy to sleep on than feather beds. Never put children on these heat ing beds. Keep their sleeping rooms very clean and well aired, and do not cumber them with unnecessary furni- tue.
 The Massachusetts Press excursion party had a pleasant time, during their trip a committee was appointed to confer with the New Hampshire Association in reference to a joint excursion next year. Tie old board of managers were re- ele cted.
 The meanest man yet discovered has turned up, of all places in the world, in Germantown, Philadelphia. The par ticular manifestation of total depravity in his case is propensity for cutting off the tails of COWS whose owners have in any way offended him.
 The London correspondence gives a hint on the argument prepared by the British agent md submitted to the Tribunal on the Alabama claims. The direct claims of the United States are cut down to about $8,00O, ,000, and even the justice of them denied in toto.
 Two men named Seymour were shot on Chateaugay Lake, while lying asleep in their boat, by one Schultz who says he mistook them for deer which he was still-hunting. One was grazed in the arm by the ball which entered the back of the others head, inficting danger ous wound.
 When O Hindoo wants to get up an elaborate course of false swearing, he always takes care to have rehearsal with his associates of all the circum- stances which are to bealleged to have occurred. In this way an air ef exact ness and reality is given to the narrative which could not otherwise have occur red. tt.
 The escape of King Amadeus was narrow one. One of the horses attach ed to his carriage received no less than seven bullets. Three of the would be assassins and twenty. seven others who are accused of being their accomplices have been arrested. The failure of the attempt created great joy in Rome and all the Italian cities. r-fa.. .....,
 There is @ hotel in California com posed of ten hollow trees, standing few feet apart. The largest of these is sixty five feet around, and is used as bar and kitchen. For bed-chambers there are nine great hollow trees, whitewashed or papered, and having doors cut to fit the shape of the holes. Literature finds a place in a leading stump dubbed |" the library" r.--...-..
 According to reliable statistics recent ly published, it appears that the aver age life of certain animals and birds IS the following The hare lives 10 years i; the cat, 10; the goat, s; the donkey, 30; the sheep, 10 i; the dog, IA to 20 ; the OK, 20; the SOW, 25; the pigeon, 8 ; the turtle dove, 25 the partridge, 25 i; the raven, 100; the eagle, 100; the goose, 150 years. aa t
 In opening the trial at Dublin of pris- oners charged with burning MT. Justice Keogh in ef6gy, Baron Deasy remarked that such insolence would not be tole- reted in the great republic even dur,ng Presidential campaign stating also, What must have been an agreeable circumstance for the learned Justice to contemplate. that the outrage was witnessed by thou ,onda of ,oeopfe with 6 savage sattstae.