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Connecticut western news., 1872-03-01
To Shave Scientifically.

As men continue to shave and to be shaved, we transfer to our columns the following brief essay upon shaving, which is from the pen of celebrated authority
 "Never fail to well wash your beard with soap and water and to rub it dry, immediately before you apply the father, of which the more you use, and the thicker it is, the easier you will shave.
 "Never use warm water, which makes a tender face. In cold weather place your closed razor in your pocket or un- der your arm to warm it. The moment you leave your bed tor bath) is the best time to shave.
 "Always wipe your razor clean, and strop it before putting it away and all ways put your shaving g-brush away with the lather on it.
 "The razor (being only very fine saw) should be moved in sloping or saving direction, and held nearly fiat to your face, care being taken to draw the skin as tight as possible with the. left hand, so as to present an even surface, and to throw out the beard. .
 "The practice of pressing on the edge of a razor in stropping it soon rounds it the pressure should be directed to the back, which should never be raised from the strop. If you shave from heel to point of the razor, strop it from point to heel ; but if you begin with the point in shaving, then strop it from heel to point.
 "If you only once put away your razor without stropping 1t, or otherwise perfectly cleaning the edge, you must no longer expect to shave well and easy, the soap and damp so soon rust the fine teeth and edge.
 "A piece of soft plate-leather should always be kept with razors, to wipe them with.
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-01
Fashion Notes.

A new style of glove for ladies is made of opossum skin; it is very soft and durable, and can be worn in full dress.
 4 basket of flowers is considered by gentlemen to be Q very pretty and ap- propriate valentine to send young lady friend.
 Basque of different color and ma- terial from the skirt and overskirt, are fashionable for indoor toilets.
 For rough-and-readv wear, black Eng fish water proof cloth, trimmed with Hercules braid, makes the most service able costume.
 Gold jewelry, which IS never used in deep mourning, may be permitted when the mourning is light enough tO admit of white, but even then, to be in good taste, it should be associated with jet. T
 Indoor dresses are made up much palmer than formerly. Overskirts are frequently omitted, and the toilet is con. sidered complete with plain demi- train skirt and stylish basque.
 Blue can be worn with variety ot colors, and gray and brown as well.
 The hair is worn less puffy and frizzy than formerly, although the short curls over the forehead, so generally becoming have in no wise been abandoned.
 The skirt of a velvet dress, to be in perfect taste, should be moderate train entirely devoid of gerniture.
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-01

THE GENERAL ORDER SYsrEM.-It will be 8 matter of rejoicing to the importers of New York to hear that the present troublesome general-order system is to be done away with. Collector Arthur said in answer to the question whether he had received any orders from Washing ton to discontinue the general order system, "I received orders some time ago to look into the matter and suggest some plan which might be adopted in place of the present system, and in pur- suance of that order I have suggested various changes to the Secretary of the Treasury. The present system will only be continued until new plan can be ap- proved. which will probable be in a short tune, as the Secretary and myself are in correspondence on the subject. Until approved by the Department it would be premature to state what the features of the new plan will be. N. r. DGpeT.
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-01
CnriOSitieS of the Bible.

A man who was condemned to solitary confinement for life in prison, relieved the tediousness of the years by ascertain ing the following facts:
 The Bible contains 3,5s6, 4S9 letters, 773, ,692 words, 31, ,173 verses, 1,1S9 chap ters, and 66 books. The word "and' occurs 49,277 times the word "Lord" occurs 1855 times {; the word reverend" occurs but once, which is in the 9th verse of the 111th Psalm. The middle verse is the 8th verse of the 18th Psalm. The 2lst verse of the 7th chapter of Ezra contains all the letters in the alphabet except the letter J. The finest chapter to read is the 26th chapter of the Acts of Apostles. The 18th chapter of 1T. Kings and the 37th chapter of Isaiah are alike. The longest verse is the 9th verse of the 9th chapter of Esther. The shortest verse is the 35th verse of the 11th chapter of St. John. The 8th, 18th, 2lst and 31st verses of the 109th Psalm are alike. All the verses of the 136th Psalm end alike. There are no words or names of more than six syllables.
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-01

The Sons of Successful Men.

Next to the inquiry, "What becomes of the pins :? ' an interesting question would be, What becomes of the sons of successful men ? A few men and few firms are in the hands of the founders i; but these are the exceptions. The old name and the old trade generally passes into the hands of others. "Do you see that man shoveling in coal? We'll, his children, and children like his, will jos tie your pampered sons and rule this land," said an old New Yorker, the oth- CT day. The old names have ceased in the pulpit. The famed men of the bar seldom have successor. The eminent jurists carry their honors with them to the grave. Merchant-princes are oblit- erated. The reason is clear. The fath- CTS laid the basis of business one way, and the sons build another. Men that earned their fortunes by hard work, by diligence that knew sixteen hours toll, by personal attention that were their own book-keepers, salesmen, cash iers and porters, are followed by sons who do as little as possible who dele gate to others all the work they can, and who know more of the road thah the ledger. Famous hotel men were gentlemen, men of intelligence, men who were the equals of the best in the land, and who never sunk the gentle man in their trade. Young men who fling the examples of their sires to the winds and it easy to squander valuable name, run through fortune quicker than it was earned, and find themselves, while young, at the point from which their fathers started. One thing is quite marked in New York. It is the fact that the heavy business is getting into the hands of foreigners heavy impor. ters, the great bankers, and much of the trade of value is slipping out of the hands of Americans, as the trade o1 England has got into the power of the Lombards.
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-01

AN EXTRAORDINARY ABDUcT1oN.--Mr. Strong, last season, made several hun dred ascensions, some of which were fraught with narrow escapes. In the ascension which MT. Strong made from Shcllbiar, Mo-, he met with peculiar adventure. All was ready for the aerial trip, and just as he was about to step Into the basket, some of the ropes let go, tripping him up, and he hung by his legs, tangled in the cords. For mo- ment the balloon swayed to and fro, and Mir. Strong grasped at the first object that came within reach, and that was lady, catching her about the waist, just as the balloon leaped into the air. Up they went in this strange position, with the crowd looking on in breathless horror. The lady thus unwiliingly taken up tainted and hung dead weight in his arms, but MT. Strong kept his presence of mind, and at last made the descent. landing the lady safely amld the cheers of the assembled throng.
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-01

AN ENGINEERS ExPER1ENcE.-Accord- ing to the Niagara Falls Gazette one of tie night engineers in the New York Gen. tral yards at Suspension Bridge expe- rienced two radically different sensations in very brief period of time few nights ago. While running his engine he ob- served a man on the track in the imme- diate front, but too late to give the signal of warning before passing the spot. The ponderous machine YVES stopped as soon as possible and the trembling engineer took the back track with gloomy fore bodings to look up the corpse. His feel ings can probably be better imagined than expressed when he met the object of his search coming to meet him with fists doubled up, and other indications not favorable to the bodily comfort of the engineer. A speedily executed right-about-face movement was made, and the engineer outdistancing his wrath full pursner, reached his engine and fled ingloriously from the scene.
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-01

JAPANESE JUaenERs. .-Bayard Taylor tells the following story. ''I was wit ness to some astonishing specimens of illusion. After a variety of tricks with tops, cups of water, and paper butterflies, the juggler exhibited to the spectators large open fan, which he held in his right hand, then threw it into the air, caught it by the handle in hls left hand, squatted down, famed himself, and then turning his head in profile, gave loud sigh, during which the image of gal loping horse issued from his mouth. Still flaming himself, he shook from his right sleeve an army of little men, who presently, lowing and dancing, vanished out of sight. Then he bowed, closed the fan. and held it in his two hands, during which time his own head disappeared, then became visible, but of colossal size, and finally reappeared in it's natural d. mansions, but multiplied four or five times. They set jar before him, and in a short time he issued from the neck, rose slowly in the air, and vanished in clouds along the ceiling."
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-01
The Sensation of Freezing.

A young man in Ohio having under taken drive was severely frozen. Here is the way in which he describes the sen
 sation After having proceeded about three miles on my journey my feet be- came very cold. By stamping my feet upon the floor of the buggy imagined was perfectly warm, as my feet trou- bled me no longer, and the cold sensa- tions through my body ceased. I, how ever, felt dull and sleepy, like man who is drunk. I didn't care for any thing At this point believe began to freeze, and ought to have known it, but felt so comfortable that I did not examine my situation. After l had driven about three miles further my hat blew of, but, being in hurry to reach Paris, did not stop to hunt for it. When had proceeded perhaps mile further, letting the reins lie in the bottom of the buggy, and paying no attenion to my driving, my horse shied off the side of the road and ran upon 8 rocky pile. l then attempted to get the lines and pull him off, when I discovered I had lost the entire use of my right, and could barely use the left hand with this one attempted to pull him eff the rocks, but the buggy wheels being locked, l could not do it. I then got out of my buggy, and in doing so struck the bridge of my nose across the wheel and cut it severely. I then went to the head of the horse, took hold of the bit and at tempted to pull him around, but he would not move. I then commenced to unharness him, with the expectation of pulling the buggy off the rocks my self, feeling all the tune very sleepy. When had almost completed the task of unhitching the horse from the buggy the desire for sleep became so great that could bear it no longer, and I laid down upon the rocks by the side of the horse and went to sleep. I must have lain there some fifteen or thirty minutes, when was aroused by the boy who found me. Upon his asking me where he should take me, told him to Paris, still not being aware of my critical con- dition. Upon arriving in Paris my feet were put in cold water, which entirely, I think cured me, as they do not hurt me. My left hand does not give me much pain, and I think will be all right, but my right hand was badly frozen, nothing seemed to do it any good, and I am afraid I shall lose three if not all four of my fingers. When I arrived in Paris I could give no account of myself, but the next day I remembered every incident.
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-01

NEEDED REoRaAN1zNa. - Artemus Ward, in one of his letters, thus gives his ideas of reorganization "I never attempted to reorganize my wife but once. I shall never attompt to do it again. I'd been to public dinner, and had allowed myself to be betrayed into drinkin' to several peoples healths and wishin' to make 'em robust as possible,
 I continued drinkin' their health until my own was affected. Conscience was, I presented myself to Betsy's bedside late at nite with considerable kicker con- cealed about my person. had some- how got possession of hoss whip on my way home, and rememberin' some cranky observation of Mrs. Ward in the mornin' I snapped the whip putty lively, and in a very loud voice I said Betsy, you need organizin'.' I have come, Besty,' continued, crackin' the whip over the bed, I have come to reoganizo you.' I dreamed that nits that some. body laid hoss whip across me several times, and when woke up found she had. hain't drank much of any thing since and if ever have another reor- ganizin' job on hand shall let it out. "
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-01
SINGULAR. strange case of tempo

SINGULAR. strange case of tempo rary or intermittent loss of vision has recently occurred in Flint City, Michi- gan, to a young man named Charles Spence, @ moulder in the Genesee Iron Works. At the time of the attack he was at work in the moulding room, and was looking under mould, with small lamp in his hand. Suddenly he became conscious of the loss of sight. Upon re- gaining an upright position, his sight did not return, and at last accounts he was almost totally blind during the day time, suffering considerable pain in the eyes. At night, however, he IS able to distinguish objects as we'll as ever in the partial darkness of the room, and suf- fers less pain. As daylight approaches vision fails, and the pain returns.
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-01

DEATH OF FAT MAN-Just one month ago pitiable object was admitted into Bellevue Hospital. His whole body was enlarged to an unnatural extent. He measured five feet six inches round the waist, and his legs were the size of lager beer barrels. His arms and his face were like puff, balls. His body became rough and scaly. lie weighed nearly 800 pounds. The skin was thick, unc- tious and insensible. The man was suffering from elephantiasis. His name was Albert Morrow. Notwithstanding his fearful condition, he was cheerful and at times even merry. He was known among the patients as the Fat Man of Bellevue Hospital. The doctors could do but little for him. His body contin- ued to increase in size, and his sufferings only ended when he died.-N. r. Sun.
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-01
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An English Poisoning Case.

In the trial of Christiana Edmunds in England, for poisoning the mother of the prisoner, was in the witness-box. The unhappy lady, who had all the look of extreme old age, was for long time unable to speak for her sobs. There was something inexpressible pitiable in the story of her life, as she gasped it out in sentences broken with tears :; how her father, whose name she begged not to be asked to tell, had died an epileptic cripple how her husband had gone mad in the prime of life, and died raving lunatic; how her only son had been an idiot from his childhood, and had at last to be sent to Earlswood to die how her eldest daughter had attempted to con- init suicide, and had died victim of hysteria how the prisoner, the child whom everybody who knew her loved," had suffered from paralysis and hvsteria; and how she herself had watched steal- ing over her the symptoms of the hered- itary malady so fatal to her race, uu- til this last horror had come upon the end of 6 life of misery. All this was wrung from the wretched mother by questions gently and kindly put, but yet to answer each one of which was to her mortal agony. And in the midst of it all there came response, sort of vail ing cry from the dock. "This is more than can bear" No counsel can be justified in leaving a case incomplete; !; yet, if sudden inspiration had led Ser ieant Parry to close his case as Mrs. Edmunds was led from the witness-box. it is doubtful whether any verdict but that of not guilty on the plea of insanity could possibly have been returned. Un- fortunately the succeeding evidence weakened if it did not destroy, the pow erful impression caused by the widowed mothers story of her own and her child's life. That story bore the impress of truth, and yet the corroborating evidence was singularly weak, and at the close of the case for the defense the impression left upon the Court was that the plea of insanity had not been made out as forci- bly, as had been expected from the open ing speech. The jury brought in yer dict of guilty, unaccompanied by any recommendation to mercy, and the judge expressed his concurrence with it. Miss Edmunds goes to prison for life.
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-01
ExpEpT TT EsTTNfoNv -There was a fres

EXPERT T TESTIMONY. was fresh example of the worthlessness of expert testimony during recent trial for for gery at Taunton. A couple of experts disposed of the prisoner at the bar very summarily. When MT. Henry D. Hyde, of Boston, his counsel, handed the smart est expert four old envelopes and asked him if he could tell whose handwriting was on them, the witness, after taking time to examine them, said that "the superscriptions on the envelopes were all in the same handwriting, and all written by the man who forged the check" MT. Hyde at once took the stand, and taking the envelopes, said, "This one was writ ten by the clerk of the Boston Water Power Company, this one by friend of mine in New York, the third is my own handwriting, and the fourth is the pris- oner's,'' substantiating his statement by producing the letters received in some of the envelopes.-,SpringfeM Republican
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-01

THE SENSATION. arc many stories told of the discomfort felt when any portion of an amputated limb is cramped. A man Tn Springfield, H., had his hand injured 8 few days ago so that it had to be cut off. At first he was not aware that the useful member was gone, and even when he had received that interesting information, insisted that the thumb was pressed down in the palm of the hand in very uncomfort. able position. On examination it was found that the discovered limb was cramp- ed in just the way complained of. There is little doubt of the reality of this sen- sation curious as it appears.
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-01
TO.MOrrOw.


 Tomorrow, a beautiful day.
 Is waiting for you and for me; Bluest skies of soft shining ray
 Are impatient the shadows to flee. Why care if the landscape be sullen and gray Tomorrow will chase all the cloud-racks away. Tomorrow, you say, may be dull.
 With the leaden-hued face of to-day. Wait; it's morrow with measure is full Ofa joy never spilled by delay. If to-day born of yesterday baffle our will Tomorrow, tomorrow is radiant still. Tomorrow is mantled in white
 AS pure as the soft-faling snow That rounds into waves of delight
 To cover earth's pitiful woe. The gale may be signing, the frost-king astray. Yet tomorrow will sparkle in crystalline spray. Tomorrow with roses is crowned,
 A tender-eyed sylph O the May; Flinging garlands of blossoms around
 In child-like improvident way. To-day may be barren, chill in the air, Tomorrow young spring-life will bud every where.
 Tomorrow the birds without fear,
 Fitting back to the woodlands again, Will sing, for the summer that's here,
 A full-throated, ravishing strain. The world now so silent of bird or of bee Tomorrow shall echo with reduent giee. Tomorrow is regal for all,
 With sceptre of love in her hand; The weary but wait for her call,
 To spring to the full-fruited land. Ger the span of to-day we may tearfully grope, But the arch of tomorrow is glowing with hope.
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-01
SUCCESSFUL SURGICAL OPERATION.

SUCCESSFUL SURGICAL OPERAr1oN.- The San Francisco CaA gives this |: During the progress of trial in the Municipal Criminal Court, physician was placed upon the stand to explain the nature of a wound inflicted by the de- fendant upon the complainant. In giv- ing his testimony he described Q novel mode of extracting bullets. He said j: "The bullet entered the right side, a little above the hip, and in probing the wound I discovered where the bullet lay. was compelled to enlarge the orifce of the wound in order to introduce the forceps, and had just got that instrument on the bullet, when the wounded man, who was considerably under the in
 fuence of liquor, struck me powerful blow on the side of the head, which caused me to fall to the floor. He then ran away and when I recovered myself found my forceps, in one cor ner of the room, and near the instru- ment was the bullet, which had been extracted by the force of the blow" The doctor also stated that as surgical operation it was complete success but he did not wish to perform one in the manner described every day in the week.
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-01

LEGACY TO BAPTIST CHURCHES OF MA1NE.-By the will of the late Byron Greenough, of this city, legacy which, in the final result, will amount, it is thought, to at least $25,00O, was be- queathed to the Maine Baptist Mission ary Convention, an organization that has in charge the interests Of the feeble churches of the State This gift, by the sudden death of the testator's widow, has now become available, and will swell the permanent funds of the Con- vention to, upward of $3o, ,00o.-Port- land AdveTtiser.
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-01

SINGULAR CAsE.-A new road to fame has been entered by a gentleman of Flor ence. Casting about to see how he could obtain distinction, he could think of no better way than that of swallowing a fork. He therefore took plaited utensil Of this sort, introduced it carefully into his gullet, prongs downward, and quietly let it drop. After this he went to the hos pital, where he lives at the public cost. He is interviewed daily by doctors and others, and bulletins regular ly appear, describing his condition. The odd fact of the business is that the fork does not seem to give the man the slight est uneasiness. He eats, drinks, smokes, walks abroad and enjoys himself in the most unconcerned manner, and it is even hinted that he thinks of swallowing a knife by way of providing companion for the fork.