Connecticut western news., 1872-08-23
Items of Interest.

Items of Interest.
 The Cleaveland Herald mentions an organ grinder of that city as an old veteran SUI eide inducer."
 A cottage was lately purchased in Eng land for laborer, the price of which was S45O. The cost of the conveyance was exactly S100.
 The Independent is sharply after the New York manufacturing company en- gagged in producing idols for the Hindoo market. to be worshipped by the heathen in his blindness.
 The Irishman being asked by the judge, when he applied for license to sell whis- key. if he was of good moral character, replied: s'Faith yer honor, don't seethe necessity of good moral character to sell whiskey."
 A citizen of Maine, who urges legsla- ton to protect the forests, says that owing to the destruction of the woods in Paris, the average volume Of water in the Little Androscoggin, in that town, is not more then one-halt what it was thirty years ago.
 A set of paper car wheels on one of the Pullman cars running to Jersey City have run over 160 GOO miles of track, and worn out entirly one set of steel tires, which have been replaced. The ordinary wheels, it is said, will run only 9O,OOo miles.
 The crops throughout the entire North west, those at least which have not been cut, have been seriously damaged by very heavy rains recently. Dispatches from various points say that wheat, corn, and oats have been quite generally prostrated.
 The InaparciaL of Madrid, in an article on Cuba, says that since the commence ment of the insurrection $500 rebels have been killed, 70,000 given in their submission to the Spanis. authorities, and 10000 horses, 5000 arms, and 3,OOO swords been captured.
 Owing to several recent railway casual ties, by which moro than twenty persons have been killed, the British Parliament has been petitioned to investigate the causes and to inquire into the general question of railway management, so as to secure more safety to passengers. Two brothers, named Peter and Mathew George, were smothered in Newcomb's coal mine, at Newburg, Ind, by choke damp. Mathew was smothered on at- tempting to save his brother, and two other persons, in attempting to save them, came near losing their lives.
 Tying line lon the end of which is 0 fish hook to large rocket, hitching the hook to a mans hat, and then get ting him to fire off the rocket, is the latest form of practical joking in Troy. It works to the intense astonishment of the victim and the intense amusement of the jokers.
 ) The Maine lumbermen predict that five years hence, at the present. rate of destruction, the forests of that State will be wholly cleared of timber The lum- Der crop this year is estimated at 7,0OO,- GOO, GOO feet. Of this amount the Penobscot lumbermen cut 225, GOO, O0O, and the Kennebec men over lO0, ,OOO,OO0.
 Josh Billing, in his directions " How to pick out & good hoss, Good hosses are skarse, and good men, that deal in enny kind of bosses, are skarser. An honest man iz the noblest work ov God, this famus saving was written, in grate, anguish of heart, by the late Alexander Pope. just after buying good family hoss."
 Good thing on General Sherman While he and his suite were in the Cau- casus they were invited to an elegant breakfast, at which they met large number of official personages. When the visiting party came to leave they were presented with bill for the breakfast, including all the expenses of every one who was present.
 In France, an inventor of boots with which to walk on the water made pulp lie experiment., when, says the account, the boots indeed hoated, but the in- yentor, with his head under water, seemed to be carrying on conversation with the fishes, which would have prob ably ended with hls suffocation If boat had not picked him up.
 The Milwaukee Board of Trade held meeting to adopt measures for prevent ing corners or any other pernicious com binations interferingwith legitimate com merce. A resolution was adopted instruct ing the Board of Directors to report such amendment to the rules of the Chamber as in their judgment shall best tend to prevent these abuses.
 The new United States post-ofice law, allowing small dry parcels or packages to be sent through the post office, at the rate of only cents for each two ounces, although not yet generally known and understood by the public, has already created a large amount of extra work at the post-office, and is likely to prove extremely popular. The express compa- nies are, in consequence, already lower ing their charges upon small articles.
 A story is told of an editor who died, went to heaven. but was denied admit tance, lest he should meet some delin- quent subscribers, and bad feelings be engendered in that peaceful cline. Having to go somewhere, the editor next appeared in the regions of darkness, but was positively refused admittance, as the place was full of delinquent sub scribers. Wearily the editor turned back to the celestial city, and was met by the watchman at the portals with smile. who said: " I was mistaken-you can enter; there is not delinquent subscri- Der in heaven" Let this be timely warning to those who neglect to pay the printer.
 There is always something irresistibly comic in the story they used to tell about foppish passenger on Mississippi boat, who just for little fun jumped on shore at landing and drawing bowie knife, rushed to gawky looking fellow at wood pile, and exclaimed: I've found you at last; you're the man I've been looking for" The gawky looked at him for half second, then straighten- ed out his arms like a jihboom, and knocked the fellow overheard into ten feet of water. Resuming his position