Connecticut western news., 1872-07-19
Facts and Fancies.

A deposit of few more hundred mil lion tons of guano has been discovered in Peru.
 Some children have died in Tennessee from eating fish that had eaten eater pillars.
 Vigilance committees for the eradica- tion of lightning rod men are being formed in Indiana.
 A pistol scene during the performance of farce in Washington, resulted rather seriously. The ramrod having been left in the weapon, man got hit in the head, and the injuries he received were quite dangerous.
 The States, paying the highest amount of taxation annually are New York, $48, $50, ,Ooo; Massachusetts, $24, ,992. 900; Pennsylvania, 1928, 52l. .000; Ohio, $23,- 526. 900; Illinois, $21, ,821 ,000. These are all which pay over $20, ,oO0, 900 of tax Q year. -...
 It is mentioned as curious fact by old woodsmen that the beech and syca- more trees are never struck by lightning, though found in close proximity to oak, hickory, and trees of other species that have been scanned or torn to pieces by the subtle fluid.
 A wealthy old lady in Detroit has taken a notion to peddle oranges and figs, and goes about the streets retailing her wares, dressed meantime in elegant clothes. She is partially demented; and if her friends do not allow her to follow her mo- tions she becomes violent.
 Two snakes, about eight inches in length, recently issued from the mouth of son of MT. Frank Hummer, of Sand wich, N. F. The lad is thirteen years old, and has had nearly three hundNed fits a year for the last five years. He has suffered terribly, and has nearly lost his mental powers. A clerk in grocery store in Manches- ter, N. H., lsst week undertook to ascer- tain the cause of the head of hogshead of molasses bulging out by striking 1t with mallet, when loud report ensued, and he was thrown violently across the in a flood of molasses. a .aE M ;
 The increase of birds is not confined to any locality but is general; and it is un- doubtedly attributable to the legislation on the subject, and to the change in public sentiment which causes the waaton destruction of the harmless and sweet songsters to be regarded as vulgar and cruel. A gentleman connected with Boston bank as clerk recently robbed the bank. They called h1m s'fellow" and other disreputable names at first, and some ln- timated that he was thief-for they thought he had stolen only few dollars: but it now turns out he took SS5 ,0OO, and is not thief at all, but defaulter. He has been bailed out for the good of so- ciety. g @
 A youth in an eastern city was enam- ored of young lady in that town, but was too bashful t, pop the question in person, so he V en to Pittsfeld and tele- graphed to her, "Will you marry mel" He waited an hour or two in fever of anxiety for the reply, and got it in this brief but pointed sentence: No you fool, you;" and he had to pay for his lady-love's despatch besides. A man passed through Worcester, Mass, last week Sunday, who had tray eled nearly four thousand miles in four | months, on foot, on his way to Boston. He carried with him gun and woolen blanket, a haversack and canteen. He declined the proffered hospitality of n citizen, replying that he did not ask any one for his living. When he left Nevada he had $150, some of which re- mained unspent when he was in Wor- cester. -.
 A couple of young ladies in New Ha- ven lately visited the Sheriff s office in his absence, and one of them seeing a pair of patent spring handcnffs on the desk, concluded to try them on. When the treacherous cuGs had closed on her wrists with spring, she learned to her dismay, that the key used to unlock the ssbraceiets" was in the Sheriff s pocket, and that he was out of the city. It was not until gallent youth had hunted up detective officer who carried du- piicate key, that the young lady could be released from her self imposed im- prisonment. .. a-.a .a.