Connecticut western news., 1872-10-25
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 Vermont makes 19,oOo,ooo of slate pencils yearly.
 Cashmere goats do better in Califor- nia than India.
 A civil marriage law is to Do intro. duced into Germany.
 An exchange says that Kansas Kiowas would scalp a seal skin trunk.
 The fruit of Kansas this year is est,- mated to be worth $2, 500, 900.
 Calumny will soon starve and die of itself if no one takes it into lodge.
 Praise the sea, said wise old George Herbert, but keep upon the dry land.
 The difference between October and November is, that while October leaves fall, with November the fall leaves.
 This is Western: "Kemp's brewery, with 1885, ,000 of prospective lager, went up ia fiery chariot at Dubuque last week."
 Pere Hyaciathe was lately treated 10 funeral by his ex-associates Of the Dominican order in honor of his mar riaee.
 Late Haytian advices state that the import duties of the island have been iR- creased 25 per cent, and the export duties 20per cent.
 There were no competitors at an Hi nois fair for premium of $10 offered to the oldest maiden lady who would state her age.
 A Michigan man of sixty lately cele- brated his wedding and dropped dead from heart disease few minutes after the ceremony.
 The Oregon Legislature elected M. c. Mitchell to the United States Senate he receiving forty one votes, Corbett twelve, and Prime four. .. .... A man in Michigan got off rail road train lately without waiting for it to stop, and immediately joined the 'in- numerable caravan"
 A young lady studying French, and finding that "belle" meant fine," told somebody in letter that we had great deal of bell-weather lately.
 A determined onslaught is being made upon the gambling houses of Germany, five noted saloons in well-known water ing-places having recently been closed.
 An exchange notes that, "In North western Kansas there are four men to one woman" In New England factories there are often foremen to 100 women.
 There are over one thousand old dis
 used mining shafts within the city limits
 of Dubuque which require securely cov-
 ering up. Pleasant place to drop in,
 Dubuque. %
 One line of the celebrated tapestry at
 Plymouth, worked by Miles Standish's
 daughter, reads: "Incline my 'hart' to
 sdoe' thy will" What "deer" girl she
 must have been.
 A one-armed man in Salem, lately ap-
 piled for divorce on the grounds that
 the hand he had given his wife in mar
 riage, was lost, and that the contract
 was therefore void.
 In South Bend, Ind, they use small packages of quinine for change. As
 everybody takes it, they look upon it the same as legal tender, and it passes off without difficulty. ... A lady about to marry, was warned that her intended, although good man, was very eccentric. We'll, she said, if he is very unlike other men, he is more likely to be good husband. -.-| Economy is wealth. A well-regulated Newark family ate hash for breakfast in 365 different styles last year. and the r | UObuSE III COuoCIuChOV9 ChobACu w F display Q $90 lace handkerchief. It is reported that Worth, the Parisian milliner, is bankrupt. It is profoundly hoped so. Bankruptcy would be poeti- cal justice upon the man who has been the means of bankrupting so many ua- fortunate husbands. .......... ... :. , A strange death occurred near St. , Omer, Ill. Ayoung man named Roberts ) began bleeding at the nose, then at the ) lungs, and finally the blood oozed out of , the pores of the skin. In this condition he fingered three or four days, when he 7 died. s.... .... t An awful accident occurred at Atlanta, l Ga. While Samuel Carley, of Dekalb l County, was driving his wife and three , children to church, tree fell across the 3 wagon and killed the lady and one child, , and wounded, probably fatally, the other 7 two children.
 7 An English gentleman who has just l returned to the city from fashionable l watering place, where he passed the B summer, states hat he lost E115 there,
 Thusly: Five hundred dollars (s100) in
 gambling, and fifteen pounds in flesh,
 from dissipation. .a r.. .a< Governor Randolph, of New Jersey, received the first telegraphic despatch that was sent over the wires in his State. It was a despatch to make the head and heart of young romantic manhood swim 5 It was from a lady, and consisted of but one word-"Yes."
 F In the shoe shops of Lynn, Mass, are f some venerable relics of the past. For I instance there is lap stone that has |, been used in the same shop for 127 years, F and lap which has been used on the , same bench for 69 years. The latter belongs to John Chase. ,t.g ..-'us |. : The U. s. Treasury Department de- cides that yellow sheathing for the con- v struction and repair of ships can be : entered free. It had been held to tho l contrary; but it was found that it could not be manufactured here, because the proportion of copper and spelter cannot be ascer tained. ...i atH .t.F - . The Maine farmers have been blessed t with an abundant hay crop, and prices 9 range one half less than they did la5t X year at this time, The potato crop will r not be heavy on account of the large f quantity of rain that has fallen, which 5 in many localities had occasioned rot. 7 There is large crop of apples. '"s The Greenbush Gazette is responsible
 for the following: A prominent citizen
 of th1s village went home few nights
 since at late hour, and gently tapped !. on the door. "Who is it?" inquired his K better half To which very proper in u quiry the heartless man replied by ask 5 ing "who do you expect at this. hour oi | the night?" --L- fs.. 2 EscAPED.-A despatch from Puerto U Cabello, Venezuela, states that the Gu. ban steamer Virginius escaped from that