Connecticut western news., 1872-09-13
Facts and Fancies.

Nebraska is negotiating for 10000 Russian immigrants
 A young man of 24, in New Bedford, has son ten years old.
 Apples can be bought for ten cents & bushel in some parts of Illinois.
 A Jewish temple that has cost $60, ,O0c is nearly completed in Milwaukee.
 Rifteen cents a bushel is what they expect for potatoes in Iowa this Fall.
 The Chicago police assert that almost every man arrested has concealed weap- ons.
 An old ram, followed by an entire flock of sheep, jumped into the window of St. Louis store the other day.
 Two Cincinnati newspapers are quarel- ing because they look alike, and buyers often purchase one for the other.
 Rather than pay waiter fee of 25 cents on steamer at Dubuque. Iowa, last week, 0 passenger shot him. A warning to extortionate walters.
 At funeral of little child in Hud- son, N. Y., the other day, the corpse was drawn to the grave in the baby cart in which it had ridden when alive.
 In Massachusetts, forty per cent. of the population are depositors in savings banks-the aggregate being 561, POI, out of a total of only 1,457, ,000 inhabitants.
 Said very old man, "Some folks are always complaining about the weather, but am always thankful when wake up in the morning and find any weather at all"
 Two New York detectives were them selves detected in stealing $1 ,000 worth of jewelry from a lady who employed them. It's the old idea - thieves to catch thieves.
 The knowing ones tell us that the only way to get pure port wine, Is to go to Oporto, raise the grapes, press the wine, put it into the cask yourself and ride on it all tho way home. The following is rather queer adver- tisement, taken from Knoxville paper Wanted-This day, twenty-five persons to lecture me on morality. Reasonable wages will be paid. R. McBath.
 A bachelor says that if you hand lady newspaper with scrap cut out of | it, not line of it will be read, butevery bit of interest the paper possesses is cen- tered in finding out what the missing scrap contained.
 There is a well in Indiana which keeps tune like clockwork. At precisely two o'clock, night and day, it throws up jet of water. It is now over thousand feet deep, and is still being bored with view to ultimate oil.
 The following IS now common in Ilh- nois papers "Notice All women who do not wish their husbands to frequent my house for the purpose of drinking, will oblige me by leaving note at the post-office, box S3. (Signed) )--."
 Some alarm is felt at the prevalence of confagrations in Bohemia. Hardly day has passed since the middle of July without some destructive fire in village or town of the province. It is found that incendiarism is at the bottom of it.
 A street gymnast of Paris, known as Samson's Iron Jaw, whose specially was to pick up weights with his teeth, and throw them over his head, raised bar rel with his teeth and in attempting to dispose of it in the same way fell dead with a broken spine.
 Punctuation is wonderful thing. A man telegraphed to Burlington for a school, "Shall come or is the place filled ?" The answer properly was, " No Place filled on the 17tb." Toe telegraph operator received it, "No place filled on the 17th." He went for it and was minus travelling expenses.
 France has 4, 800, OO0 acres of vineyard, producing 90O,OO0,0OO gallons of wine annually, or an average of 200 gallons | ner acre Of this enormous yield of wine hardly more than two-ninths are exported, leaving about 700, ,0O0, 900 gal Ions to be drank by 38,000,0 ,000 French people, or IS gallons to each person annually. --------