Connecticut western news., 1872-08-16
Facts and FaneieS.

There are 450 Masonic lodges in Indi ana, and 25, 900 Masons.
 An Albany girl has brought libel suit against her mother
 A wire heated by galvanic current will cut wood like saw.
 A Georgia man lately died from tho effects of scratch from his dog, that.was leaping about in joy at meeting him.
 There are 994 cheese factories in New York, which convert the milk of 2S4, ,000 COWS. The total factories in the United States are 1,261.
 A shooImaster was once asked, "Why are cream and sugar put into tea 7" and answered "To render the acute angles of ten more obtuse."
 According to the index of the last re- vision of the statutes of Maine, 1t is ille- gal to expose veal for sale that is less then four years old.
 Loving wife at the sea shore "The horrid surf makes mo keep my mouth shut" Brutal husband: '"Take some of it home with you, then"
 A larger proportion of white flowers are fragrant than any other color vel  green, orange, brown and black.
 Furnace slag may be made useful by allowing it to run off into moulds. It is said to be equal to natuial stone for building and engineering purposes.
 In 1885 the City Treasurer of Chicago resigned rather than take the responsi- bility of borrowing $2,000 at ten per cent. interest, payable in one year.
 In New Hampshire the Governor ap- points the judges, and they hold their places until the age of seventy, unless removed for good an1 sufficient cause.
 The newest charm is in the form of compass, and about the size of a cent. The oldest charm is in the form of an en- compass, and about the sighs of assent.
 The gambler Morrissey, who lost S25, GOO on Bassett at Long Branch, lost another $25, 1000 in trying to make things even by betting on Longfellow at Sara toga.
 A grocer when complained to about the qu lty of his eggs, excused himself by saying ''At this time of the year the hens are not well, and often lay bad ones."
 A San Francisco paper says: "Two Chinamen collided with knives on Eagle creek q few days ago. One of them has quit mining. His friends sunk shaft and put him in it.'
 The hardest thing in the world for little man to learn is that people don't give themselves the trouble to think about his littleness. This is equally true in it's moral application.
 Southern California has been visited by several cloud bursts, which have done great damage to the growing crops, In one instance n whole vineyard was de- stroyed by the washing away of hill side.
 Wendell Phillips, ill illustrating the precocity of the Yankees, says 'Put an American baby, six months old, on his feet. and he will immediately say, 'Mr. Chairman, and call tn 0 next cradle to order
 On the proposed three feet railroad we shall have 2,000 pounds less on each wheel of the passenger coaches, and from 10000 to 17,000 pounds less on each pair of drivers of the locomotive trans porting them at high speed.
 The St. Louis Dispatch says ''that if twelve New Jersey iurymen sit on case of murder and conclude to hang the mur- derer, which they generally do, that indi- vidual is usually hanged" The fame of New Jersey justice travels out West 1t seems.
 It is said that by the expenditure of $36, ,OOO, ,OOO for levees on the Mississippi River, 7,OOO.000 acres of cotton land and 2,5OO,OOO acres of sugar land would Do reclaimed, the annual product of which, it is estimated, would amount to $150,- 100000 gold.
 "That man," said q wag, |" came to this city forty years ago, purchased a basket, and commenced gathering rags. How much do you suppose'he is worth now ?" We give it up. Nothing" he continued, after Q pause, "and he owes for the basket..'
 Air castles are old as Adam, as we be- lieve there is not a man, woman or child, but what has built or is building them. And they will continue to build and be built as long as there Is living person on the earth the child looks forward to the time when it will have grown up to manhood or womanhood, and tells what it will do and be when it reaches that pas sage in life.
 There is wheat field on the west side of the San Joaquin river, California, thir- ty five miles in length by eight ill breadth with an area of 179, 1000 acres. Estimating the average yield at sixteen bushels to the acre, it would give total yield of 2,S64, 200 bushels, or S6, ,015 tons. This amount of grain wonld load S,601 cars, which, if made up in one train, would reach for over eighty miles.
 The last rat story is from Chicago. In house where the rats had become very troublesome traps had been long set, but to no purpose. Finally some of the family determined to watch the trap. It was cunningly set. Soon a young rat appeared, and was about step ping on the fatal spring when an old rat rushed to the rescue, seized the indiscreet juvenile by the tail and dragged him off to his hole. 70. ...... ..s.a az.--. ...
 Advices from the city of Mexico re- present the kidnapping which is at pres ent prevailing in the vicinity as some thing dreadful. Numbers of gentlemen of rank and wealth have been gagged and transported from their homes, and only a few of the brigands captured. The oo~J,,n& ~e &1a M,ps.tnr s,