Connecticut western news., 1872-07-05
Facts and Fancies.

Facts and Fancies. France used war balloons in 1794.
 A St. Iouis hraMer is named Hop.
 Riches are wings with w1ies> even assess fly. .......
 The swine are many, and the pearls are few.
 Who lives for himself alone, lives for a mean fellow.
 Gild a big knave and little honest men will worship him. "
 "Family dismemberment" is West CTS expression for divorce.
 A dandy on shore is disgusting {; but swell of the sea is sickening.
 Why is laundress like an insu t ? Because she gets up your collar.
 Old maids are fond of pairs, but oan- not endure any reference to dates.
 Twelve hundred and fifty dollars made the ancient sstaIent." It takes some tall ent to make $1, ,250 nowadays. 1t has been found that in nearly every civilized country the tree that bears the most fruit for market is the axle-tree. The various charitable societies and | institutions in New York State received last year $2, 500, ,000 from various sources. Worldly friendships are like coffee grounds the oftener they are drawn upon the weaker they grow.
 l The Enterprise, @ new paper at Knightsville, Ind, is going to Chew to the score, let the slivers fly where they choose" l Gardeners mind their peas, actors mind their cues, but sextons, who ought to be very mindful of their p's and as, oftener give most of their attention to the keys and pews.
 Learn to labor and to wait-for the wait- CTS in some of the first class restaurants get from twenty to thirty dollars week in fees, besides getting very comfortable salaries.
 A brute named Besancon, of Lasalle- vile, Indiana, ordered of 0 blacksmith, & few days ago, an iron collar and chain, with which to restrict the liberty of 6 gix-year-old boy. .t
 A baby lately had the misfortune to swallow the contents of an ink bottle.
 It's mother, with wonderful presence ot
 mind, immediately administered box of
 steel pens and two sheets of foolscap paper,
 and the child has felt write inside ever
 since.
 A Welsh paper in Pennsylvania says ot Greeley "Blp gully Il Greeley mlffn
 drmpl tamppl nypunlttrir wrut wemulzo
 gunnozlt" This may or may not be true.
 We shall await certain der .-opments be-
 fore we venture to decided whether It 1s
 not. The neatest thing in the suicidal line is to fill your mouth with gunpowder and then ch.6 upon pefcussion caps until the
 explosion comes. The kind of man who
 tries this never spells the adjacent furni. ture with brains and "sich;a for obvious reasons. .ae#5H. } Bridal fans containing the different terml
 of endearment used by the husband during
 his courtship, are all the rage in fashiona' able circles now. When the happy mar gets cross or forgets his promises, threat to lose her fan usually fetches him down l to his work again. a.t'ts@-a In a recent debate member of the :, California Legislature exclaimed " The | Honorable gentleman from Calaveras County is undoubtedly person of great abilities, man of talent, natural born genius but there is one thing which defy him to do, and that is, to bite th' bottom of c Jayimg- pon soithoat snautts'aq hs' mose."
 Thirty years ago farmer near Norwich hired 8 twelve-ye year-old lad named Shep' herd to work on his farm, and has em , ployed him ever since, his wages for the past twelve years having averaged $30(
 per year with board, and previously less f This spring the hired man bought the
 employers farm for $12,000, and paid e $11, ,O00 cash, being the amount he hao saved during the time.
 r In New York there is mill whict l makes from paper such articles as mill , pans, cups, bread pans, washbowls, etc. t which are said to be superior to wood ol s metal. The paper being pulped, IS press = ed to shape, dried, enameled, and sub iected to heat that would destroy some e utensils of the kind. The material Il : light and easily handled, and does no
 rust, shrink, leak, or easily break. Come show us the rose with it's hundred dyes u The lily without blot, , s The violet, deep as your true loves eyes, & And the little forget-me-not. r Or as botanists would say: The rosa deschenhaultiana, come, show us ll The Lllium sepalisalbs, white, II With the Viola ranunculifolia endow us, .- And the wee Myosotis palustris height. The Belfast Jo,u'pal says, among 10 T of salmon in the market there, recently n was one that had no head, having los IS that important member in Q curiou l. manner. The men who had nets set of n the shore of Sears Island noticed by tn d commotion of the floats that, a fish hat }, struck one, but before they could get oi g in their boats, seal had seized the fisl
 by the head and torn it completely off e The animal then went under thenet and e tried to pull the salmon out, as wat e shown by the marks of its teeth.