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Connecticut western news., 1872-04-12
Facts and FancieS.

They call whiskey bugle paint" in Cheyenne.
 The rats in Cleveland breweries at night get as drank as humans.
 An old saving is that whether a man marries or not, he is sure to regret 1t.
 Honiton lace parasol covers over black silk are the latest novelty in that line.
 Six of the foreign diplomats at Wash ington are married to American wives.
 Long and wide sash ribbons are com inc in fashion again for house and street costumes.
 A Western teacher lately caused the death of pupil by pulling his ear out by the roots.
 Fashionable young ladies consider evenings at home as the greatest "bores' in existence. -.....
 The principal amusement of Ameri- cans in Paris is in looking in at the shop windows. ... -. .a.....
 Cotton is native of India, from whence it was first brought to the United States in 1789, =. ...-.....
 Sir Walter Scott said that the battle of Waterloo created in the British em- pire 15, ,OOO widows. A sad commentary upon victory. Pointed and scolloped founces are the latest style of trimming dresses, and make the ladies look like small peram- bulating awnings. a
 A grocer had pound of sugar return ed to him with 8 note stating, "too much sand for table use, and not enough for building purposes" E....... A combination of newspaper proprie- tors in England is contemplated for the purpose of amending the law of libel and defeating vexatious actions. The Westminster Revie,U says: "Drunk- enness is the curse of England-a curse so great that it far eclipses every other calamity under which we suffer. .''
 This is the way they put it now: MT. Clementon, talented "equine abduc tor'' of Minnesota, was prevailed upon to attend a C necktie sociable lately. A Spanish paper states that at bull fight, one of the picadors, who was mounted on velocipede instead ot horse, was never once knocked down throug ghout the whole proceedings.
 A fashion journal considers how we | shall furnish the parlor, and solves the problem by describing how an inventive husband made beautiful sofas and otto mans out of packing boxes, stufting tte seats with straw and cotton, and coyer- ing with chintz. rr all"
 Methodism is becoming huge in ex- tent and vast in numbers. In the cen tenary year, the various branches in ! America were estimated at 2, ,0O0,0Q0 of people; now the two largest bodies in the United States now reach that num- Der. while all the branches in Canada and the United States embrace popu- lation of 2,50O,O0O. One-ffth of the inhabitants of. the United States, or s,OO0,OOO, are under Methodist infu- ence. -.= .-r... -.,-..g-
 The Ohio liquor law which enables the wives ot drunkards to recover dam ages from the sellers of liquors is being used as an instrument of blackmail: Dissolute husbands and unprinelpled wives at Columbus, have combined their talents to make a handsome income from the saloon keepers. The husband gets drunk, and the wife straightway demands of the sinful publican the payment of twenty. twenty-five, or fifty dollars, as the case may be, on peril of a suit for damages This law evidently needs a little doctoring. ..a..... .f
Connecticut western news., 1872-04-12

A FRUIT TREE.-The sago-palm of the East Indies ranks, if it does not outrank the date-palm as food producer. It is truly an extraordinary sight, says Wal lace, after describing the process Of mak- ing sago- bread, to see whole tree-trunk, perhaps twenty feet long and four or five
 n circumference, converted into food with 50 little labor and preparation. A good-sized tree will produce thirty bundles of thirty pounds each, and each bundle will make sixty cakes of three to the pound. Five of these cakes are a days allowance. A single tree will thus supply man with food whole year. The labor to produce this is very moder- ate. Two men will finish tree in five days, and two women will bake the whole into cakes in five days more but the raw sago will keep very well, and can be baked as wanted, so that, as he estimates, a man in ten days might produce food for the whole year. If he has to buy his tree and pay for the labor at the usual rate, the total cost of h1s years food will be about twelve shillings.
Connecticut western news., 1872-04-12

INsAEITY.-It. is curious fact that in the United States the ratio of insanity is greatest among our foreign residents. Thus, in the United States the propor- tion of insane to the population is 1 to 1,031. Of our native born people the insane are l to 1,261 of foreign immi- grants as-1 to 496.. This is bad enough, but in California the difference is even much more marked. In that State 1 in 489 of the whole people are insane i; among natives, in 858, among for eigners, | in 284. If the same propor- ton prevailed in the whole country, the insane of the United States would num- Der 1855, ,76O, instead of 37, ,382. Proba- ply the principal reason for this differ ence is to be found in the severance of social relationships, and the lack of sym pathy and of friendly intercourse to which the foreigner must necessarily submit when coming to strange land
Connecticut western news., 1872-04-12

DOLLY WARDEN SUITS. who object to the gay chintz colors of regular Dolly Vardens, says a fashion joulnal, will find at the furnishing houses sum- mer suits that retain the fashion of this garment without it's pronounced bright ness. For instance, there are cannbric and percale suits with skirts of white ground striped with black, while the polonaise is white strewn all over with black flowers. The trimming is broad stripe of black percale with white braid, of open, 1acelike pattern, laid on it's edges. The skirt has theinevitable kilt pleating, wide row at the bottom edged top and bottom with black, and two or three narrower rows above. A pretty effect is given the polonaise by putting deep triangular facing of the material inside the front of the skirt, and turning it back eas revers. Buff percale suits with black stripes on the skirt and black flowers on the polonaise are made in the way just described also gray suits with white stripes and flowers. The Dolly Warden organdies, with pale buff, pea green, or black grounds covered with gay flowers, are among the most effective of the chintz-fgured fabrics. These organdies hang softly, and their pale transparent grounds look very pretty over black silk dresses. When made in elaborate fashion, and trimmed with two rufaes of the material, they cost $35.
Connecticut western news., 1872-04-12
How Coal Originated.

By far the most valuable of all the gifts hidden by Nature beneath our feet, and yet always most generously offered to us whenever they have been needed most urgently, are the vast supplies oi fixed light and heat stored up below for thousands of years. Perhaps long be- fore man himself existed, in days oi which no other records remain but the silent testimony of the rocks, forests of luxurious growth covered every lowly valley, crowned every inland lake, and fringed the low shores of the great oceans. They sprang up, they grew and hourished, and no band gathered their fruit, no axe threatened their mighty trunks but storms came and tempests, volcanic erEptions and violent upheav- ings, and they were laid low in an ins- tant, and covered with ashes and sand Then new generations rose upon them and their race others followed, and thus the work of incessant destruction and as persevering regeneration went on through countless ages. Hence, in some places 150 successive forests, each sepa- rated from the lower by 8 few feet of sand and clay, have been found to have grown and fallen in turn, one lying above the other. They did not vanish, they did not even decay but, beneath them the red, glowing heat of our globe, above them a burning atmosphere and thick canopy of clouds pouring end less rains upon the surface, they changed gradually into vast deposits of coal
 And when the fuel became scarce upon the surface, and men cast anxious glance, about them for new means to create the heat without which existence was impossible on one-half of the globe
 and to procure the light that is inde. spensable to the enjoyment and the use
 fitness of life, these immense treasures, stored up since time inmemorial, were revealed to them, and ample supplies oi both heat and light guaranteed foi aoea. .--L ! : :. .-LR ....L. . L-nu U
Connecticut western news., 1872-04-12

DEGRADATION, There is absolutely no bottom to the pit of degradation into which men voluntarily throw themselves. IA saloon-keeper, named Holmes, in Galvas ILL, was on 8 continuous drunk for ten, days, during which time his horses were left to. starve in barn we'll stored with hay. The famished animals devoured their manager, stalls, and each others names and taals until they had not strenth to gnaw, and then sank down and died,
Connecticut western news., 1872-04-12

a ACCIDENTAL HANGINa.-A daughter of John Morrison, aged eight years, went to her fathers barn, in Warren County, N.
 Y.. to look after hens. The hay mow was separated from the main barn by a rough partition, and in order to look in to the mow the girl probably stepped up- on a projecting board and put her head through small opening in the partition, where she was found by her father short ly after; hanging by her neck and quite dead. After getting her head through the opening, the board undoubtedly slipped from beneath her feet, and thus caught by the neck she was strangled to death, ..- .,- -... .-.. .....-.st siui
Connecticut western news., 1872-04-12

STARs.-The number of stars visible, to the naked eye, in the entire circuit of the heavens, has been usually estimated at about 6,00O; an ordinary opera-glass will exhibit something like ten times that number !; comparatively small tel escope easily shows 200, ,090 while there is reason to believe, not less than 25, ,O0O,- 900 stars are visible.
Connecticut western news., 1872-04-12
Sweetheart.

When, first, thy winning grace found; When, after, grace with love was crowned !; When, later, love was marriage-bound; Il
 Twas all thine, Sweetheart. By all the joys that love has grown; By all the comforts home has shown; By all the happiness we've known;
 I am all thine, Sweetheart. While love shall be our daily sun; While hand ln hand our work IS done; While life shall hold us still as onel
 I'll be all thine, Sweetheart.
Connecticut western news., 1872-04-12

A journeyman maker of pill boxes says that many of the manufacturers of what are called "patent pills . prefer to have the boxes made in the fiimsiest manner, so that they may soon go to pieces in the hands of customers, thus insuring the loss of their contents and consequent frequency of recourse to the ministering charlatan,
Connecticut western news., 1872-04-12

TR1oHNA.--A young German named George. Mechlin died, in Utica N. Y, from. the effects of trichinosis. About six weeks ago the deceased and one Por- nesina and his wife, with whom he boarded, and fellow-lodger named Deisenholt, were all seized at the same time with violent vomiting and diarrhea.
 Deisenholt, after suffering for several days great pains in his muscles, died, as it was supposed, from inflammation of the bowels. Mechlin's symptoms were also mistaken, and he was declared by the sapient physicians who attended him to bez suffering from typhoid fever, and was treated for that disease. The real malady was not discovered tlll few days before his death. Of the two remaining victims the woman has recovered, but the man still lies in critical condition.
Connecticut western news., 1872-04-12

FOXES AS SHEEP -HERDERs. The Stock ton (CaI) Republican vouehes fo- the following story People often wonder at the remarkable instinct displayed by well-trained shepherd dogs, but what will they say when we tell them of 8 band of sheep that is guarded by foxes alone. The story seems improbable, but of it's truth we have the most undoubted proof. On Whiskey hill, four miles from Milton, may be seen, almost any day, 8 large flock of sheep herded by foxes.
 These guardians of the little lambs are three in number-one a gray fox and the other two of the species known as the red fox. In point of intelligence these novel shepherds are said to greatly surpass the best trained shepherd dogs.
 They perform their work well, and from morning till night are ever on the alert. The gray one seems to control, and in a great measure direct, the actions of the Other two. A gentleman informs us that he yesterday saw the gray fox pursue and attack hog that had seized lamb and was making off with it. The contest was short and sharp, and resulted in the hog dropping the lamb and beating a nasty. retreat. The fox picked up the apparently un-injured lamb and carried it back to the flock.
Connecticut western news., 1872-04-12

' A BOSTON paper makes the surprising assertion that whipping post, set up in the Common, would find plenty of use, if all the respectable Boston gentle7 men who habitually insult ladies received 8 few lashes for their impotence,
Connecticut western news., 1872-04-12

COLLECTING DEBTs.-An enterprising citizen of Cincinnati has undertaken to collect old debts in new way. He has established an agency for the benefit of creditors who meet with difficulty in procuring settlements of their little bill, and for the accommodation of his dun ming agents he has had constructed a gaily painted wagon bearing in bold let ters the legends, Protection Agency" ," and "Bad Debts Collected" In this wagon he placed two burly collectors, one to drive and the other to present the bill, both armed. When the wagon stopped before door a crowd was pretty sure toicollect, if the agent did not; and everybody in the neighborhood of the debtor was made aware that somebody held bill against him that he was not disposed to pay. The scheme appears to have worked without trouble in Gin cinnati but when its originator extend ed his sphere of operations to Coving- ton, on the Kentucky side of the Ohio, the collector was fined fifty dollars for carrying concealed weapons, and i'm mediately afterward arrested for provok- ing breach of the peace. In the trial of the first case the Court decided that it is unlawful to compel the payment of a debt by force or violence, or by ex- posing the debtor to infamy, contempt, or ridicule in the community.
Connecticut western news., 1872-04-12

CLEANING 0AsKs.-A correspondent, writing to the American Farmers Club says that he has known very foul cask to be entirely cleansed by filing it with dry earth and leaving it four or five days. The earth treatment, followed by scaId- ing lme.wnter, will sweeten anything.
Connecticut western news., 1872-04-12
CARps.-The Chinese carte ok risite is

CARDS. Chinese carte de risite is a curiosity. It consists of huge sheet of bright scarlet paper, with the owners name inscribed in large letters-the big ger the most exquisite. For extra grand occasions this card is folded ten times, the name is written in the right hand lower corner with humiliating prefix like "your very stupid brother" "your unworthy friend who bows his head and pays his respects" etc., etc., the words your stupid taking the place of our "yours respectfully" It is etiquette to return these cards to the visitor, it be- ing presumable that their expense is too great for general distribution,
Connecticut western news., 1872-04-12

Prospective brides should never an- nounce that they will not exhibit their presents It has bad effect on some peoples generosity.
Connecticut western news., 1872-04-12
Notable Events.

Bowling was famous old English game, and was very common as early as the 18th century. Charles I. played at it, and it was daily sport with Charles IT. at Tunbridge.
 The first bank was established in Italy in sos, by the Lombard Jews, of whom, some settled in Lombard street, London, where many banks have ever since been located.
 The first piece of artillery was invent ed by German, soon after the inven- tion of gunpowder, and artillery was first used by the Moors at Algesiras, in Spain, over 500 years ago. .-s.. ...
 The oldest and largest chain bridge in the world is said to be that at Kingstung, feet road from the top of one lofty mountain to another. .. Calico, the well-known cotton-cloth, is named from Calicot, city of India, from whence it first came. Calico was not known in England at all until as late as the year 1881. Among the Romans all men of full age were obliged to marry, and it is even a modern law of England which inficts a fine upon all the bachelors in the king dom of twenty years and over. Women never appeared upon the stage among the ancients :; their parts were represented by men until as late as the year 1862, when Charles II. frst encouraged their public appearance.
 Glass bottles were made in England about 1858, but the art was practice6 by the Romans in the year 79, A. D.. as they have been found plentifully among the ruins of Pompeii. ..l
 The first book ever printed was tht Book of Psalms, by Faust and Schefer A. D., 1457. It was printed on ont side only of the leaves, after whicl they were, in the binding, pasted bacl to back.
 The bayonet derives it's name iron the place where it was invented, Bay onne, in France, and was first used il battle as weapon by the French il the year 1903, and soon became uni versal.
 The practice of insurance is of great antiquity, and was known in the time of Claudius Caesar, A. D. 43. It i certain that assurance of ships at SCI was practiced as early as the year 4 A. D. 70
Connecticut western news., 1872-04-12

EDUcAT1oNA1. There are ill the United States 51 normal schools, supported by 2s different States, having a51 teachers and 6, 334pupilsgo4o supported by eoun- ties, with sa pupils i: 162 city normal schools, with 112 teachers and 2,002 pu- plls all others, 43, supported in various ways, with 80 teachers and 2,5O3 pupils making a total of IA schools, with AS teachers, and 1O,921 pupils. There are also S4 business colleges scattered through 67 States, having 166 instructors and 3, 46O pupils. n. ass.., e.itsa s..5 T
Connecticut western news., 1872-04-12

- NEEDLES. There is a needle factory in New Haven where the whole process
 is done by single machine, without the manual labor ofany person. A coil of steel wire is put in the machine, cuts it off at the required lengths it cuts the steel pieces consecutively, punches the eye holes, countersinks the eyes, and .grinds the points-a1d, in fact, does everything until the needles drop out completely formed.,f Another machine picks. them up and. arranges them heads and points together, and third piece of mechanism puts them into paper. One of these machines occupiesno more room than an ordinary table and each of them turns out from 30,O00 to 4O,0OO needles a day. ,-,.s, tr... ,.., ,-s lilo. 1ra ...zG .I
Connecticut western news., 1872-04-12
Special Notices, 50 per cent. ia advance of the

Special Notices, 50 per cent. iR advance of tue above rates.
 Cards in Business Directory, occupying five lines or less, $500 per year; over five lines, LOO per line.
 Regular advertisers to pay quarterly. Tran sent advertisements mast be paid for Tn ad- vance.
 Notices of Marriages and Deaths free of charge All additions to ordinary announce nents 10 cents per line.
Connecticut western news., 1872-04-12

The legal wife of Brigham is: |
 I. Mrs. Mary Ann Angel ........
 His polygamic wives are:
 II. Mrs. Clara Decker, l fs;stors,
 III. Mrs. Lucy Decker, \'''''''
 ". Mrs. Emeline Free. ...........
 V. Mrs. Harriet Cook. .... ......
 VI. Mrs. Twiss. s.................... VII. Mrs. Eliza Burgess .......... ,. VIII. Mrs. Susan Snively. .,..........
 TX. Mrs. Lucy Bigelow...
 X. Mrs. Harriet Barney Seagers. ]. XI. Mrs. Martha Bewker. ......... ~XII. Mrs. Margaret Pierce. ... ... YOUNG XIII. Mrs. Amelia Folsom. ........ i XIV. Mrs. Mary Van Cott Cobb. F..- XV. Mrs. Eliza Ann Jay Webb. .... His "proxy" wives are: .. H XVI. Mrs. Emily Partridge. ........ XVII. Mrs. Zina D. Hunting ngtonJacobs XVIII. Miss Eliza R. Snow.. ' IThese were formerly s'sealed" s.,.:- to Joseph Smith, and are ....- now proxy" wives to Brig ham. .fH Also XIX. Mrs. Augusta Cobb. .........
 [who was "sealed to Joseph
 since his death.l .. Besides these there may very likely b other ladies tsealed" to Brigham, but myself know personally no more tha 1T. NE.o
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1872-11-29

ssEHE SMITHs.''--John Smith,
I9ain John Smiths not very higll
sOundlHs / It does not suggest aristoc-
raCy; lt Is not the name Of any hero
In tiie-away novels; and yet q good.
strong and honest. Transferred to
other languages it seems to climb
the ladder Of Fcspectabillty. Thus in
Latin 1t isJohaniles SNnlthlis; the Ital-
Ian smOoths 1t OffintO Giovanni Smith;
the Spaniarls render 1t Juan Snlithus;
the Dutch adopt Is as Hans Schmidt
the French flatten It out into jean
Smeet, antl the Russian sneezes and
barks JOnlotf Smitt0wiski. When
John Smith gets into the tea trade in
Canton he becomes J0van Shimmit /;
If he chambers about Mount HeCla, the
ICelanders say be Ii Jahn Smithsoc; Ii
he trades among the Tns0arOras he be-
comes Ton Qua Smittia III Poland he
Is known rs Ivan Schmittiweiskie /:
should he wander among the Welsh
mountains they talk Of ihon Schmidd;
when he goes to Mexico he Is booked
as SOntli F'Sniittii II Of classic turA
he fingers among Greek ruins he turns
to Ion Smlkton; and in Turkey he Il
utterly disguised Is Voc Sect.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1872-11-29
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The 81. louis DsmOmm ls authority
for this little story.
Ed.n Ii i brakeman employed oh
the Chicago, Alton and st. Lotiis Rail
road. He was married only few
weeks ago. His wife has been wear
Ing q piece Of red flannel round het
neck for the last ten days and COM
planning Of wry neck. This Is how
II came TO pass
ED. bad Just been doing extra
duty, taking 1 sick trends train iD
addition 10 his own, and 70 had not
been IN bed for forty y-eight hours. Az
q matter of course, he was nearly woni
out, and as soon as bis supper had beeh
eaten, he went 10 bed. 10 sleep, per-
haps 70 dream. He was soon locked
IN the arms OF Morpheus. and Mary;
and dreaming. Again bis foot was oti
hts native platform, and be heard the
warning toOt Of the whistle for brakes:
| The shadowy train bore him swiftly
on; the telegraph posts deeted past
quicker and quicker the whole COM
try fed by like panorama mounted
on sheet-lightning rollers. In bis
dream he heard far or another roar,
and swinging out by the iailinGs he
saw anotIler train coming at lightning
speed around the curve. Both trains
were crowded with passengers /; IN an
other moment they would rush together
and from the piles Of Fuih / Gfy 6f
| agony would shIyer 70 khh tinglins
stars from tho lips of the MANNED and
dying. The engineer had seen their
danger, for at that moment, In bis
dream, he heard the whistle calling
for brakes sound loud and and earthly.
With The strength Or desperation be
grlpped the brake and turned It down.
There was a yell Of pain, and "Ed."
woke to find himself sitting up III bed
and holding his wife BY the eafs, haV-
Ing almost twisted or her head.
That's how \ Eds" wife came to
wear d piece Of red flannel round her
throat and complain Of wry neck.