Connecticut western news., 1872-12-27
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Facts and Fancies.

A lOyl6SS llt6 IS WOESc OO u0dt bhdu Oho of active grief.-Fabcr.
 Dead bats from the caves are used as a fertilizer in Kentucky. .... The heaviest speeches don't always have the greatest weight.
 Thirty persons were lately poisoned by sausaees at Coral, Mich.
 A haystack quarter of mile long is the pride of Wschita, Kansas.
 A woman in Portland, Wis, lately came to her death by pairing corn too closely.
 The assessed value of property lu Min nesota has increased $2O,00O,0OO in the last year.
 Ia Windsor County, Vt, fourteen di- vorces have been granted annually for forty years
 The late John A. Griswold, of Troy, left an estate valued at from three to five millions.
 A California man is manufacturing watermelon syrup, and thinks his experi- ment success.
 General John A. Dix has presented his resignation as Q director of the Erie Railway Company. ... A Marseilles hairdresser has been sued for 2000 francs damages, because he impcrtunatelv dyed lady's hair violet instead of red.
 Several of the London gas-stokers who were summoned toappear on charge of conspiracy have been sentenced to six weeks imprisonment.
 Cactus has become dangerous plant in California. It is being mede into false curls, and there is no estimating the headaches it will cause.
 Are blacksmiths who make living by forging, or carpenters who do 8 little counter-fitting any worse than men who sell iron and steel for living.
 The bequest of MT. Horace Hawes, of San Francisco, of S1.000. 900 to found 6 college, has been declared invalid on the ground of the testator's insanity.
 A man at Etna, Illinois, lately took young lady out riding and brought her back dead. He has disappeared, and is suspected of having murdered her.
 Tue Tribune, h looking over a list of members elect of tho Iowa Legislature, finds that tsere will be in that body Lyon, a Bullock, two Foxes, and three Drakes. .....
 A Kentucky man in the depths of despondency was lately made happy by finding in an old drawer forgotton certificate of the deposit of $1,376 in Knoxville bank.
 Elder of Fourteen: 'Where's baby, Madge9" Madge: "Tn the other room, l think, Emily" Elder of fourteen: "Go directly, and see what she's doing, and l tell her she mustn't." .-Y If you have talents, industry will i'm prove them; if moderate abilities, indus try will supply their deficiencies. Nothing is denied to we'll directed labor nothing is ever to be attained without.
 The wealthiest farmer m the world is the Khedive of Egypt, who oultivates nearly million acres, Is said to have 4,000 steam-plows, and whose yearly income amounts to nearly $50, ,oOo, 900.
 A young lady declined taking part in private theatricals inferior to the part offered to another young lady, because the father of the former was Colonel in the war, while the latter's was only 8 Major. -' ---& In the coming trial of the Tichborne claimant MT. Digby Seymour, O. O., will be the leading counsel. He receives 1000 guineas retainer, and 50 guineas 8 day ''refresher" during the continuance of the trial. '-5o'-@~s The report recently circulated through the newspapers of the death in France of Lotta," the we'll known address, is contradicted by that lady herself in letter to manager of one of the theatres in Chicago. .. ..... . ,,-v
 The Sultan of Benouw recently caught sixteen of his subjects who had been en- gagged in piracy on the cost of Borneo, and after beheading them stuck their heads upon poles by the shores as warning to others. t .t aal
 William A. Lent, of San Francisco, has commenced suit against Philip Arnold, John Slack, and others connect ed with the diamont case, for $350, 900; and attached valuable property of Ar mold at Elizabethtown, Ky.
 An old Iowa gentleman and his wife went to Chicago the other day in search of two missing daughters, and stepping into theatre for an evenings relaxation to their great surprise found their prom. ising offsprlngs skipping it in the ballet.
 A letter from Sergent Bates thanking the people of England for the respect shown the American Aug, and for the generous and unreserved greeting he received during his march through the country, is published in the London pa- pers. ..--.aF.T
 The reform Church National Synod the United States suspended from the ministry aud from the church the Rev. Henry Kepper, of Illinois, on the ground that he married after obtaining divorce, which, though legal, was not procured on Scriptural grounds. aa.slA ao One oi the little pleasantries of the "gods'' at the Dublin Opera House con- sists in throwing on the stage bouquet to which piece of twine Is attached. When the prima donna goes to pick up tho nosegay it is suddenly drawn up again, amid the roars of the "daities." -4 l Children "play horse" with great . attention to details. AOne very young woman up town cut up her mother s toilet cushion, ruined q carpet and nearly scalded confding younger brother to death, treating him to Q bran , mash for ''play epizootic." !" -@ [ Eleven men have been killed by the 5 Modoc Indians, in northern California , thus far. This does not include those :, killed in battle. Mrs. Bratherton defend e ed her house for three hours. The In Q dians fed, and she. was rescued the next e day by the soldiers. The troops are on e their way to the scene.
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