Connecticut western news., 1872-05-24
Facts and FancIeS.

Does it hurt joke to crack itf Silk culture is attracting much interest in. Florida.
 A western poet calls the dew the "per- spiration of the moon."
 Sweet Vengeance is the classic name of town in Yueba, Cal.
 The largest things about ladies bon- netsat present is their price.
 With the majority of mankind forgive ness is but form of forgetfulness.
 The present cost of living in Paris is nearly twice what it was previous to the | war.
 A baby in Detroit swallowed a watch last week, and the doctor says its symp- toms are like those of tick douloureux. There was little maid, When their neighbours hens had laid Their eggs in her fathers garden, She used to sell them, so She bought some calico,
 And made herself bowling Dolly Warden. A good old man, who died Tn New Hampshire, left $1, ,000, the interest to be expended in warming the church he had attended. ... "Gone where white man can open on Sunday" is the inscription left in the window of a deserted barber-shop in New Bedford, Mass.
 Why is Q man who makes addition to false rumors like one who has confidence in all that is told him ? Because he re- lies on all that he hears. If you have been on street car when it ran off the track and was dragged over the cobbles, you may easily know the sensation of California earthquake.
 It IS said that spinsters have better chance of success against widows in tho race for husbands than bachelors have against widowers in the race for wives.
 Two hundred thousand persons, on an average through the year, each Sunday, resort to the various lager-beer gardens and other places of recreation and re- freshment Tn and around New York city.
 A Burlington, Iowa, baby is immortal ized by the following epitaph: |. Beneath this stone our baby lays, He neither cries nor hollers He lived just one and twenty days, And cost us forty dollars. A lady writer says, elf women were as particular in choosing virtuous hus- bond as men are in selecting virtuous wife, moral reformation would soon be- gin, which would be something more than froth and foam."
 A young man asked @ young lady how old she was, and she replied "G times and times added to my age will ex- ceed 6 times and 4, as double my age exceeds 20' The young man thought she looked much older. A Saltwater hen has gone into the pea nut business. After laying two eggs, each measuring6 1-2x7 3-4 inches-largs enough for goose-she produced couple of pigeon eggs, and finally conclu- ded her efforts by laying fac sinsile of peanut.
 attached twenty-five hens and three tur- keys, the property of member of his congregation, to recover the sum of $10, subscribed by him for the support of the minister. He won his case, but an appeal was taken.
 A man hundred years old went to have pair of shoes made. The shop keeper suggested that he might not live to wear them out, when the old man re- torted that he commenced this one hum dred years good deal stronger than he did the last one. .-.... A Tennessee electrician claims to have invented method of propelling railway trains by electricity at the rate of 100 miles an hour. It is to be hoped that the road on which such an experiment is tried will keep both it's tracks and its switch h-tenders as straight as possible.
 While indulging in Q tremendous yawn lately, Anton Ochler, aged twenty three years, wood engraver, residing in Williamsburgh, threw his jaw out of place. He was taken to the Park Hos pital, where Dr. Hardy, with good deal of difficulty, yanked his jaw back in- to place. . .....-r '.,r.s. .-.-
 During the conference at Worcester, the following dialogue was heard be- tween two newsboys 'I say, Jim, what's the meaning of so many ministers being all here together ?" "Why," answered Jim, scornfully, !" theysalways meet once year to exchange sermons with each other." @ W a When you find a newspaper on ball room floor, it isn't always proper to pick it up and wonder where it came from and ask unnecessary questions concerning the peculiarity of the folds. We know of young man who did that net long since, and he couldn't get another girl to dance with him during the evening.