Connecticut western news., 1872-06-14
Facts and FancIes.

Texas pastured s,651 ,s1e cattle in the year 1871.
 Lawrence, Mass, employs IA, 900 op- eratives in her manufactures.
 The cost of the British Navy for the year 1S72-3 is estimated at 47,000, ,0oo.
 The yearly amount of tea consumed in the United States is 40, GOO, ,00o pounds.
 Delaware will peach-us l, 25o, ,000 bask- cts this year, the product of 5000, GOO peach trees.
 A boy at Terre Haute, Ind, jumped into the river after his hat and was drowned.
 Thousands of acres of sugar beets are being planted in the vicinity of Free- port, H., this year.
 Two petriied joints of sharks back bone have been dug from depth of forty feet in Michigan.
 Mrs. Ayres, of Birmingham, Eng. has been fined $100 for giving a poor servant girl good character. A quiet man rang his neighbours door, bell one night. "Is the gentleman inf" he asked of the servant. 'I don't know. Did you wish to see him particularly" "Oh mol I merely wanted to tell him his house is on fire"
 A man incarcerated in the Tombs has been figuring in chalk on the walls of his cell. It reads "In New York City the spires of 942 churches, worth $41,- l30,000, point heavenward. Pm here for stealing a loaf of bread for my starv- ing child"
 Ancient mariner Ito credulous yachts man )-"A'mir Lord Nelson Bless you, I know'd him served under him. Many's the time I've as'ed him for bit O 'bacco, as might be astin O you and says he, 'Wel, ain't got no 'baceo,' just as you might say to nae, but here's shillin' for yer, says he p
 A man in Florida, whose creditors were numerous, was in the habit of carrying his unpaid bills in the. breast-pocket of his coat A few days ago ruffian tried to stab him, but the bundle of unpaid bills intercepted the knife, and saved his life. Moral Don't pay your bills, but keep them in your breast-pocket.
 In 1896 the Dutch explorers in Nova Zembla built wooden hut. A fishing expedition has recently discovered this building, and in it one hundred and fifty objects of interest, among other things books which, after nearly three hundred years, are in good state of preservation. The collection is to be placed in the Mu- scum of Amsterdam.
 Periser, Boon and Roudin, the three men who were tried on the charge of participation in the most outrageous acts committed in Paris, during the reign of the Commune, and convicted and sen- fenced to death. were executed recently at Satory. They exhibited no emotion whatever at the last moment, and died crying "Vive Ia Commune"
 A curious case of spontaneous com- bustion is noted in Reading, Penn. A gentleman, after oiling some woodwork, left the piece of flannel he had used in 8 bowl with small quantity of linsaed oil. and placed it on the second story balcony in the open air, intending to use them again. The following morning he found that the flannel had taken fire and been wholly consumed, the ashes remaining in the bowl. At an examination of his flock by Scotch minister, man was asked. "What kind of @ man was Adamr "Ou, just like ither foulk p The minister in- sisted on having 8 more special descrip- tion, and pressed for more explanation. "Weel," said the respondent, he was just like Joe Simpson, the ehorse-couper." 1 :" How so ?" asked the minister. "Weel. naebody got Ony one thing by him, and mony lost"
 Mustard is mixed with flour, and poor flour at that, to give it bulk and weight. Honey, unless bought in the comb, is pretty sure to contain liberal dose of molasses, and is made as we learn, by an ingenious process which involves TO re- course to bees. Horseradish has the sting taken out of it by liberal additions of grated turnip, @ harmeless article, it is true, but nevertheless somewhat high at horseradish price.