Connecticut western news., 1872-07-26
Items of Interest.

Iowa has eighty-two county agricul- tural societies.
 Executions for murder will hereafter be by shooting in Austria.
 The arrival of locusts by the million is chronicled in Indiana.
 A dark colored, red headed fly is eating up the potato-bugs in Illinois.
 Several of the boats on the Erie Canal are owned and run by women.
 Twelve bankrupts at Montreal ascribe their losses to concerning wheat.
 A Flemish army surgeon recommends wooden shoes to prevent rheumatism.
 The value of the gold in existence in the world is estimated at $5, ,O0O, ,OO0, ,O0O.
 It costs & man $7 at Bellows Falls, Vt., for refusing to aid an officer in arresting rioters.
 A man in England recently died from a rupture of the liver while he was lying in bed.
 Topeka employs Mexican with his lasso to capture COWS which violate the ordinance.
 The largest iron steamboat ever built on the Mississippi has just been lanohed at Dubuque.
 Almost all the great productive enter prises of the country now have their especial organs.
 A Maryland man has 300 acres of watermelons. Last year he made $14,- 900 from them.
 Lenox, Mass, has large creamery" at which milk, cream, butter, cheese and ice cream are disposed of in huge quan- titles.
 A terrible accident occurred at the coal mines in Lunaville, O., by which nine men and boy were smothered to death.
 The temperature in Richmond is in dcated by its effect upon paper collars. It is now reported at "three paper collar heat"
 The official statistics credit California with 22, ,634 farms, of an average size of 492 acres, and rural population of about 100000.
 In New Orleans, Prof. La Hache died and his daughter was hopelessly blinded | by drinking water that had passed through leaden pipes. Russi, has ar army of 1,173,S19 men, which costs her annually $1Sl ,500,OOO; and Germany has 1, ,l52,0 soldiers, costing her $90, 375,000 ! Heard county, Ga., is prepared to tes- | tify under oath that it has heard artlcu- late speech from tEe lips of an infant nine days old, child of one Mrs. Sprad- lin of that ilk.
 It being found recently at @ Minnesota trial of a saloon keeper that two-thirds of the jury were saloon keepers, the District Attorney thought he had better withdraw the suit. ...-=..
 At recent dinner in Harley street (by no means one of the most fashion able streets in Dondop) the flowers and the desert cost 9200, the peaches alone being 12 guineas dozen.
 A Terre Haute, Ind, paper speaks thus: "This is the bountiful year. The small fruit crop is immense, the wheat crop is huge the oat crop is promising, and the baby crop is unparalleled.
 A Kalamazoo judge fined reporter for sleeves. The reporter, however, proved to the satisfaction of the court that he had no coat, and the fine was remitted.
 No ornament so appropriate for din ner-table or mautel as vase of flowers. If small quantity of spirits of camphor is placed in the water contained in the vase, the color and freshness of the flowers will remain for long period.
 A colored woman at Georgetown undertook to make little child eat some dry bread recently, using her thumb to assist in forcing the food down. As ihe result of her humane efforts the chlld choked to death, after suffering terrible agonies for fifteen minutes.
 At East Walpole, Mass, Mrs. Smith went into field near the house to see a COW which had just given birth to calf, when the animal rushed upon her and gored and trampled her so that she died the next day. The horn of the animal passed entirely through the arm of the unfortunate woman.
 Thursday has been the luck this year in the United States as a holiday. Washington's Birthday occurred on Thursday Fast day April A was on Thursday Decoration Day (May 30 was on Thursday and, last but not least the Fourth of July has just happened on Thursday. All this may have a deep political significance, but we don't think it has.