Connecticut western news., 1872-02-16
FActS and FAncies.

A polonaise of Chantilly or gu;pure lace is very stylish worn with colored or black silk costume.
 A farmer at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has herd of nine elk that he is training and breaking into farm work.
 Tight lacing caused a lady of Unadil- la, N. Y., to burst blood-vessel two days after her marriage.
 A gentleman in Kentucky was recent ly killed in playful scuffie by the sharp point of lead pencil penetrating his skull.
 At trial in Wilkesbarre the other day it was testified that vein of coal one foot in thickness will yield one thousand tons to the acre.
 An engineer ran over man at Marys vile, Indiana, and the jury, instead of bringing in the conventional verdict of nobody to blame," has actually found him guilty of manslaughter.
 Since the December report of the Az ricultural Department no information has been received to change the esti- mate of the cotton crop, which was at that time given as 3, 400, 900 bales.
 The family of MT. J. M. Ball, of Sut- ton, Vt.. were taken sick about the same time, which proved to be the result of poison, occasioned by the use of water running through lead pipe recently laid down.
 An old lawyer says that the three most troublesome clients he ever lad were young woman who wanted to be married, a married woman who wanted divorce, and an old maid who didn't know what she wanted.
 A New Haven paper says that a "girl' in that city has been engaged to be @ member of every Yale graduating class since 1857. .Girlhood must last pretty long time in that place, and be of fear fully persistent character.
 A company of chairmakers in Temple ton, Mass, are furnishing one solution to the labor question. A party of work men have saved 8 capital of $10,000 formed 8 cooperative company, and bought mill of their own.
 There is German lager-beer seller in New York, who has not been outside his place of business for several years. He has grown so enormously stout from beer and indolence that he could not possibly be got through the doorway.
 MT. AIanson B. Farwell, weII-known citizen of Augusta, Me-, has become in- sane, and has been sent to the Insane Hospital. The particular form of his insanity is the fancy that he is immense ly rich, and he gives checks freely for $1O0, 900 to $200,000 to anybody who asks
 Fisk's brain weighed fifty eight ounces. Daniel Webster's weighed fifty-three ounces and half. Cuvier had sixty four ounces and half, while Professor Abercrombie possessed sixty-three. Rullof, the murderer, who was executed at Binghamton last spring, had fifty-nine ounces of brain.
 Des Moines, Iowa has youthful Sam son of twenty years, who shoulders an iron rail twenty-four feet long, and walks off as though it was pine pole, and will in diameter and two feet long across his left arm and bend it up like copper wire. He weighs l50 pounds, and lifts 1875.
 If a very sensational-looking story in one of the morning papers is true some of the daughters in New Brunswick, N. J., have very peculiar way of exhibit ing their filial devotion. According to thls story two daughters got their sire with rum and molasses and then saturated his room with kerosene and set it on fire.
 The tura-table of the new Rock Island bridge weighs one hundred and fifty tons. It is supposed to be the most massive piece of machinery of it's kind in the world. It is certain that nothing in the line in this country approaches it. The principal circle, composed of six segments weighing six tons each, and the base circle, are in their places.