Connecticut western news., 1872-06-28
Facts and Fancies.

A Wisconsin pigeon-roost is 3 miles in length. ....
 They say balky horse can be started every time by dashing cold water in his face. -- -t -. i'''
 A hundred and forty-two bankrupts went into court in one month. Three were farmers. aje El9 EE
 The name "grass widow " is of French origin. It is derived from the French grace, and originally meant widow by courtesy. r.-...
 There are within the Southern Bap tist Convention 455 associations, II, ,168 churches 6,493 ministers, and 893,037 members. s sf
 The Journal O6iciel places the total damages done by the Communists to the city of Paris at about five hundred mil lion of francs.
 The Chicago Post says If the young woman who sends us the poem-sling on "Spring "will communicate her address, she will be exposed. Aa.'iasa .I
 Dr.. Lanahan, the investigator of the Methodist Book House frauds, was ar- rested on complaint of Goodenough, who proposes to prosecute him for libel.
 The marriage service, in the opinion of Western paper, should be made to read, "Who dares take this woman ?'' And the groom shall answer, '' I dare" For shame ....
 A writer from Calistoga, Cal, says positively that he found live "stickle back" in the~ boiling springs there, and that the fish died on being transferred to cold water.
 Ohio is the second of the great cheese producing States of the Union. During the year 1870 the cheese product of Ohio was Al ,3S1, ,038 pounds, and that of butter #, ,020. 554 pounds. sa .a.gi55H 58-r
 A bare-footed, bare-headed little boy astonished worshipping congregation, church and exclaiming, "Where's my pap, the pigs are out r
 An old .sRevolutioner" says that of all l the solemn hours he ever saw, that occu- pied in going home one dark night from widow Bean's, after being told by her Sally that he needn't come again, was the most solemn. ga ss
 A Brazilian marquis, who suspected his wife of over intimacy with young officer, took classic revenge by bringing in to her, one day, his rivals head on silver dish decorated with parsley. He then shot her fatally and afterward him. self. s st t7aa- '1#~ @ 'aAaf A letter from Vesuvius, Italy, says "The trees burn before the lava reaches them, but before yielding, they, or rather their sap, groan and sigh with an agoni- zing lament, as if they felt beforehand the grasp of the devouring monster, and be- vail the lovely existence they must lose" A servant girl at Pittsfeld, Mass, it is related, was so much impressed the oth- CT night by dreaming that some one was robbing the clothes line, that she got up and looked out of the window, when she saw man carrying off some clothes. She was so overcome by the singularity of the affair that she let hlm go and did not tell the story till next day.
 The reports of the workin gmen's com mittee show that over 21, ,O00 men have been on strike in New York, and 3,575 have gone to work on the eight-hour | system. There were besides this some | 5000 carpenters and other trades which do not come under the league, and illus trates very plainly the great upheaving that has taken place in the city, and which now has spread through the coun- try. l42a',l'ias@ M The following note to a school teacher in Troy shows that there is one woman who knows her rights-and knowing, dare maintain them: miss -i want you to kno that am the boss of my boy and when say want him to cum home at recess mean bissness and don't want him kept till school is out if mothers aint to say what they want don about such things its time somebody knode it don't want trubble but am bound to have my rites youaes truely."