Connecticut western news., 1872-11-15
Facts and Fancies.

woman.
 San Francisco has 5000 places where liquor is sold.
 A herd of 200 antelopes was seen late- ly in Kansas.
 Sewing machines are run by water power in California.
 Spotted short veils or veilettes have quite gone out of fashion.
 Large pearls are the correct. thing Ill shirt studs for full dress.
 A disease called the "stranglcs" Ais killing California horses.
 The potato crop of Newfour dland is nearly destroyed by blight.
 A religious convention recommends Saturday as a universal payday.
 Some ladies have their pet dogs dyed to correspond with their toilets.
 A Troy two year old got Q piece of peanut into its windpipe the other day, and died therefrom.
 Sixty-ive new colors in dress materials have been introduced to the notice of the feminine world this Fall.
 Tight fitting sleeveless jackets of vel vet will be much worn over street costumes of silk during November.
 Pride and vanity are purveyors of trouble and danger; proud persons are neither safe nor happy.
 A man in Bloomington, Illinois, lately had bullet dug out of his arm which he had carried about for more than ten years.
 Tho complaints recently made by the communist prisoners Of tad treat ment by their jailers have been officially refuted.
 Apropos of Mrs. Fairs lecture engage ments, the Louisville Courter-JouF7,Gt thinks she could make more money by teaching pistol shooting.
 A prominent Boston physician was fined $50 in the municipal court for neg lecting to give notice of small po1 case he was attending. Roussel, another prominent Commun- lst. has been found guilty by court martial of the charges brought against him and sentenced to death.
 The ceremony of laying the corner stone of the first insane asylum for homeopathic treatment in America has taken place at Midaletown, N. Y. Switzerland has 26S head of cattle to. every l, 1000 acres, and 557 to every 1000 inhabitants In Spain there are only 39 head of cattle to every 1000 acres.
 A serious riot occurred at Demerara,
 West Indies, in which the coolles rose against the planters. The police had to be called out and fifteen coolles were killed.
 Did you ever run about until the precipitation trickled from your two brows looking for your pen and spectacles
 one of which was behind your ear and
 the other on your forehead?
 A landlady who rejoiced to find that
 she could rent her upper rooms to couple without children, writes to learn
 how long it requires for middle aged
 man to become an accomplished clog
 dancer.
 "A man who never reads the papers IS
 earning @ comfortable living by. getting
 on iuries; he has stopped sending his
 children to school, preferring to instll
 into their young minds his own progress
 sive principles,
 Ia Russia, alcohol and brandy are
 largely manufactured from mosses and lichens. The quality is said to be ex- ceedinplv good. and many distilleries
 are making profits of one hundred per
 cent by this novel industry.
 The Common Council of Chicago approved the assessment of city taxes for 1872. The total valuation therein shown is $2s3, ,47S, ,920. This is probably about seventy per cent. of the real value of the .. various kinds of property included in the assessment.
 A man named Heally put two charges of shot and powder into a gun, Saturday . to shoot cat with. The cat hasn't since
 been seen, but Mr. Heally's right shoul- , der is about three inches out of plumb, } and he has two new places to smell } through.
 Alarming reports have reached Rome
 respecting disastrous lnundatlons on each side of tue river Pc, and the min ister of public works has left the city to 3 visit the scene, but up to the present l time rno details have been received of damage or loss of life. ! A novel yet simple device has served l to destroy an unpleasant echo in the new court house at Bloomington, Ill. Three or four small wires were stretched across the room at a proper height. The theory is that the wires break the sound
 waves and prevent reverberation. The samples of ribbon lately introduced 2 on the London market are said to be of : unparalleled beauty, finish and variety. Under the single color of blue as many as twelve different and distinct shades are produced. Some of the sashes and scarfs F are marvels of judicious coloring and , effectiveness.
 Some capitalists are soon to make Rome l much more attractive as place of fashion 8 able resort. A whole quarter is to be built t in the erandest style of architecture, and ] two canals are to be cut to bring the salt 3 waters of the Meditcrr mean to the city, 3 so that there may be sea baths, and race , course is alsoto be established. The overflow of the river Pc has caused excessive damage throug bout the plains of Lombardy and Piedmont. Whole l villages have been inundated, the inhab- itants driven for safety to the highlands, 5 and all their crops and stock swept away. The Minco and Ticino, atf1uents of the Pc, have also overhowed and t created much disaster. The reported discovery of diamonds in Arizona and Colorado appears to be l. now quite we'll authenticated. Several
 packages of stones have been tested in
 San Francisco and proved to be dia' o monds of the first water. Denver is a naturally ablaze on the subject. Some = go far enough to think that the diamond , fields of Colorado will eclipse even her r wealth in silver and gold. | c. To = suits are again commanding the attention 0 of the people of New Orleans, this time t with prospect of speedy termination ol a hnr lonn nrntrncted hattle in the courts.