Connecticut western news., 1872-12-20
Special Notices. 50 per cent. in advance of the
Facts and FancIes.

Anger makes dull men witty, but keeps them poor.
 A good hetel-kecpcr is man that one can always put up with.
 Tcrre Haute now has house in which crockery is myster;ously smashed. Nebraska expects to have received 75,- 900 emlgrants by the end of the year.
 Detroit people use their passenger depot for Church and Sunday school purposes.
 A man can't move in good society in Duluth until he owns twelve corner lots.
 If thou sayest that the lion is an ass, go and put halter on him. Arab Proverb.
 The poorest education that teaches self control is better than the best that neglects it.
 A Peoria man put all his property into the hands of his loving wife. Result, tue P. NJ. died alone in his stable, Q deserted human wreck. fa...,
 It is better for man to be an advanced oyster than a degraded god for in the former case the path is upward, in the lat ter it is downward.
 M. Thiers has consented to remain President of France, if the Ministers would withdraw their resignations, to which the latter agreed.
 The Madoc Indians have attacked the Tule Lake settlement and killed three men. The women escaped on foot to the adjoining settlement, nine miles off.
 It is said that in Louisiana, since the war, more money has been paid for |" the 1rlnks" than the entire cotton crop of the State produced during the same period.
 The Swedish laborers at work on the Boston and Maine extension in Maine are valuable acquisition to the State. They are neat, tidy, frugal, and make excellent citizens. William II. Bumsted, undergoing i'm prisonment for malfeasance in office, was pardoned by the New Jersey Court of Psrdons, the pardon to take effect on the 1st January. ....-.e
 A great many gentlemen wear little bright colored feather tips in their hat bands. and some few devote whlt seem like moderate sized feather dusters to the same ornamental purpose.
 Cummings dualin manufactory four miles north of Milwaukie, exploded kill ing four persons and badly wounding another. The article manufactured is more explosive than nitro-glycerine. At recent county teachers institute in Iowa, one-thlrd of the teachers were unable to spell correctly the name of the capital of the State, and over one- half could not spell the words given.
 The London despatch saying that the 1 United States steamships Colorado and Yantic were going to Zanzibar to coop | crate with the British expedition against the slave trade is denied in Washington.
 THE fact of the rapid development of | gooseberries in size is one of great inter- est. It is about fifty years since the scientific cultivation of this fruit was commenced, and gardners may almost be said to have created new fruit by pro cess of selection since that time. A POLITICIAN at Whitewater Wis, wrote two letters after election. One was to his son, containing the single word "Hurrah," the other full of con solation to weeping friend who had just lost his wife. In his excitement he | got them mixed in directing and the re- suit can be imagined.
 GAIL HAMILTON recently made an ex- | cursion down the St. Lawrence and up the Saguenay. She did not enjoy it, but says, philosophically :-" Neverthe- less, I am glad I went to Saguenay. Something is accomplished when you have found one place in the world that you never want to go to again."