Connecticut western news., 1872-10-18
Items of Interest.

London.
 Oxy.hydrogen gas is used to light the street lamps of Buffalo.
 It is safe to eat sausages whenever pig is cheaper than dog.
 St. Louis has 31 flour mills that use 60,0o0 bushels of grain per day.
 The Oregon Senate Committee have reported gross frauds in the State print ing.
 Cafe keepers say that the use of ab- sinthe is steadily increasing among the younger society men, the set just coming in.
 search of good place to stop, that no one has been murdered there for three days.
 Pere Hyaciathe was lately treated to funeral by his ex-associates of the Dominican order in honor of his mar riage.
 Late Haytian advices state that the import duties of the island have beeu in- creased 25 per cent, and the export duties 20 per cent.
 We cannot gather grapes of thorns, so we must not expect kind attachments from persons wholly folded up in selfish schemes.
 It is stated that of the 364 railroads in the States, only 104 pay dividends, the other 260 never pay anything at all to the stockholders. In the murder case of Mrs. Laura D. Fair, at San Francisco, after being out nearly sixty hours, tho jury rendered verdict of acquittal.
 A wife wrote to her husband, absent in California, that the longer he stayed away the better she liked him. Rather equivocal, that. ."
 The Oregon Legislature elected M. O. Mitchell to the United States Senate he receiving forty one votes, Corbett twelve, and P rime four.
 There were no competitors at an Hi nois fair for @ premium of $lO offered to the oldest maiden lady who would state her age.
 A colony of communists 1,500 strong is established in Iowa on tract of land com prising 3O,000 acres, which they very ap- propriately call "Amania." ....
 Raw beef chopped up fine with onions is new "feed which Germans consider a cure or preventive of dyspepsia as well as of lung diseases.
 English boots and shoes are now in great demand in the American market. They are not handsome, but broad, con- fortable, and we'll made.
 Henry Clay, after he lost the Presi- dency by an iniudicious letter, said that it was better to ride fifty miles to sec @ man than to write him word. ~.
 A Terre Haute woman's pet puppy re- gently swallowed diamond ring from her finger while she was feeding him. He was considerably ''cutup" about it soon afterward.
 The postal treaty between the United States and the German Empire for the exchange of postal orders is now in op- eration. Seventy-one cents, gold, has been fixed as the value of the German thaler.
 A model bill, made out by an old farmer against his neighbor, reads as follows: "Neighbor A, Dr. to B to horse and wagon goin' to mill once since and twice before, one dollar" -1...
 It is computed that $75, ,Ooo, ,o0O worth of fuel is burned yearly in the United States, and that $1O0, 100000 worth of lumber is used annually in building and in manufactures. .....-.., ,... The smallpox is reported as raging furiously in many places on the Pacific coast of South America. The disease is said to be unusally virulent; and at Santi- ago, Chile, also. ..- f s..
 A lady in Portland owned a deg that gave birth to litter of twelve pups. After their birth the dog arranged seven on one side and five on the other, and then strangled the seven. ...-. A....
 It is reported that the cupola of St.. Peter's, at Rome, shows unnistakable signs of decay. A Commission of Papal architects and engineers has been appoint ed to examine it.
 A Lowell girl claims that she won her husband by a stratagem. He fell in the river, she grabbed him, and when he came to the surface he was very much excited, and proposed marriage. .v .-+. . Nothing is more indicative of the earn estness of life than the sight of well developed male creature spending eight hours day in trying to wear out dry goods box with the seat of his pants.
 One of the amusements at Chicago picnic was to place silver dollar in Q dish containing about an inch of molasses and let squad of boys compete in trying to take out the piece with their teeth.
 President McCosh, of Princeton Col- lege, says he has never asked for dollar for the college, and does not wish that when he dies the text shall be: "And 1t came to pass that the beggar died and he was buried"
 It is said-aUe have not tried the experi- ment-that by. setting glass fruit jar on folded towel, thoroughly soaked in cold water, the fruit can be poured in boiling hot, with no more danger of breaking than with tin can. IA. auat .--- In one of his recent discourses the Rev. George O. Harding says: "John, Wesley preached forty-two thousand sermons, at the rate of fifteen a week. MT. Wesley never had clergynan's sore throat, or . years leave of absence, with all expenses paid" --a - A couple who were divorced twenty three years ago, the wife meanwhile having married another husband, were re- married in Colorado. On hearing of the death of his successor the first husband renewed hls suit and the lady returned to her earliest love. .- 1a#'
 That was sly old Scotchman, who on marrying Q very young wife, was rallied by his friends on the inequality of their ages. sShe will be near me, !" he replied, ''to close my een." "Weel remarked an other of the party, "I've had twa wives, | and they oDened my cen" -...
 A Carlinville Ill.) wife becoming angry because she could not have the last word in dispute, recently put her sick hus- band out of doors at midnight and in a thunderstorm. In the morning she found him on the stoop dead from exposure. She