Connecticut western news., 1872-11-29
Items of Interest.

How to put horse |" on hls meetle
 Shoe him.
 Nsckties of very gay colors are once
 more fashionable.
 Dubuque is said to be the best-dralneo city in the United states.
 Bill Shanks says that. courtshlp IS
 bliss, but matrimony IS blister.
 The tools are to be removed from the bridges over the Thames at London.
 Elk City, Kan, offers $40, 900 in bonds
 to the first railroad that reaches the town.
 Railroads have now three gauges-a
 broad gauge, narrow gauge, and mortgage.
 Trieing to define love is like trieing
 tew kno how you cum tew brake thru
 the ice; all you kno about it iz yu fell in
 and got tucked.
 Prince Hassan, eldest son of the [Khedive of Egypt, who has finished hls Oxford career, will soon depart on
 three years tour around the world.
 The eilded gambling saloons at Ems
 are closed, to the great indignation of
 many old habitues. The royal degree
 forb1dding further gambling was read
 on the 29th of September.
 They will have the gospel preached in
 peace at Yorkville, Tenn, If they have to
 fight for it. A gentleman named Starkey
 was promptly shot on the spot for dls-
 turbing meeting there.
 The blossom cannot tell what becomes
 of its odor, and no man can tell what
 becomes of his influence and example,
 that roll away from him, and go beyond
 his ken on their perilous mission.
 Strange to say, Louis Napoleon desires
 to take up his abode in Germany, and
 has asked the German Government if
 he might do so. He was answered that
 his presence there would be unwelcome
 The effects of the suppression of the liquor traffic are already visible in Dan-
 bury. A woman who one month ago
 hardly knew where to get bread for her
 children, now has complete set of new jewelry,
 The Duke of Bedford has given MT.
 Boehm an order for statue of John
 Bunyan, to be presented to the town
 in whose Iail the st Pilgrims Progress"
 was written during its authors thirteen years imprisonment.
 At one of the New York up town
 churches slate, containing list of
 the weddings to be celebrated during
 the week, is hung in the vestibule every
 Sunday for the benefit of the young
 ladies of the congregation.
 Colonel Titus c. Rice, @ recluse who
 had been living on an old barge at For !, tress Monroe since the war, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head. Some twenty years ago he was , prominent citizen of Richmond, Va., and l colonel of the famous !" Black Horse Cavalry" 7 The father of a boy whose veracity IS ) not so marked as his back, asked the ! teacher why it was his son didn't have Q
 better acquaintance with figures, and
 was considerably electrified when the
 teacher tenderly observed, "I really
 don't know, unless it IS because figures , won't lie." 2. MT. Cornell continues to lavish money upon his university. He has commenced the building of an extra workshop for the purpose of supplying the manual labor students with increased means of earning support. It will be provided with machinery and an expert foreman ; as teacher. A smart lad in San Antonia, Texas,
 recently took his stand by the side of a blind organ grinder, and, hat In hand, solicited aims. When his hat was nearly filled by the sympathetic passess- by, he walked of, leaving the orgenist grinding away, utterly ignorant of the whole , transaction.
 The Prussian Government has decided , that the danes au Sacre Ceur de Dieu, an Order imployed chiefly in the relig- ious instruction of Catholic girls aud f children, is to be considered as akin to the Jesuit Order undes the late act, and , the members are consequently to be , expelled forthwith.
 It is said that the Mikado of Japan is going to England to look for wife. The young emperor is tall for an Asiatic, about five feet ten inches high, of digni- fled bearing, slightly built, of darker complexion than the majority of higher } class Japanese, with thin, composed face, somewhat Mongolian in cast, full lips, and dark eyes.
 Unfortunate cattle owners on the
 Mexican frontier will be pleased to learn that letter has been written to Matam- oros by President Lerdo and the Mexi- can Foreign Minister, stating that the , Frontier Commission will strictly inves- tieate complaints as to cattle stealing, and that the Mexican Government will ;; aid that of the United States in putting | an end to-all disturbances.
 :, The rapid increase ill value of real
 estate in New York, is shown ln the . fact that Fifth avenue lots, near Central Park that sold for $20,000 five years age.
 now command from $6O, ,00O to $75,0C6.
 The cross streets between Fifth and l Sixth avenues have not been behind One gentleman, who five years since , paid $1O. .OoO for a lot, this season gave 3 S35, GOO for the adjoining one. :, The new King of Sweden went ence a iaacoqsito with 8 friend to Malme. f The two were robbed of all the money . they had, and, In consequence, were un- - able to pay their hotel-bllls: The lrate
 landlord called them swindlers and o thieves. and threatened to have them e arrested. Their merriment at this treat ! ment increased his wrath, and they barely ! escaped personal violence at his hands. f The Empress Josephine was very fond = of perfumes, and above all, musk. Hel
 dressing-room in Malmaison was filled r with it, in spite of Napoleon's frequent :. remonstrances. Forty years have elaps. t ed since her death, and the present own Il CT of Malmaison has had the walls o1 s that dressing.room repeatedly washed @ and painted; but neither scrubbing ncl v paint has been sufficient to remove thu
 smell of the good Empress's musk, whicl continues as strong as if the bottle which U U contained it had been but yesterday re 5 moved. h It is interesting to find that the SO d called silver mines of Athens, from tho