Connecticut western news., 1872-02-09
Facts and Faneies,

Spasmodic love-a neuralgia affectaI tion.
 Some sons are chips of the old block head.
 A great virtue in seaman-wreckless- ness.
 M. F. Gilman, of Carver, Minn., was frozen to death.
 Doctors generally agree aboutbleeding their patients.
 The oldest bores on record-the Es- trusean augurs.
 There are ten million of COWS in the United States.
 The most tasteful hare dresser in the world-the cook.
 SteanaRis servant that some times blows up its master.
 An ungrammatical judge is apt to pass an incorrect sentence.
 A farmer has no right to pull the ears of his corn. It Is unkind. Teachers who get into preserves very often find themselves pickled.
 Any fool can make woman talk, but it's rather hard to make one listen.
 A watch fitted with secondhand need not necessarily be secondhand watch.
 A dreadful story teller once asserted that his voice was still for truth, and so 1t was.
 bachelors face is often the worse for wear-a married mans for wear and tear.
 We suppose that there is quite as large { an amount of crdJT upon the land as there is upon the water.
 "What's in a dress ?" says popular writer-Sometimes Q great deal and sometimes precious little.
 An old Indian once said, ''White man cheat me once, white mans fault; white man cheat me twice, Indians fault.
 A celebrated barrister wanted to know what any one could see ridiculous in his wig. Only the head, they mildly told him.
 Nineteen panoramas of the Chicago fire. and none of them such as dweller in Chicago would recognise, arc on ex' hibition.
 The doctors of Berlin have found new remedy for small l-pox, called .Ayioi, which they have used in the hospitals with uniform success. The wife of @ California clergyman, during heightened absence Of her lord, supplied his pulpit and attended to all her household cares beside.
 A Chinaman, who had his nose bit off in fight in San Francisco, had it care fully packed and sent back home, to show his friends one of the American customs.
 A country paper, in speaking of the good things in the village where 1t IS published, says: "We are proud ot the impressively solemn appearance our un- dertaker. A smiling undertaken IS 8 hideous incubus on the growth ef place."
 Three hundred thousand seamen, more or less, are employed Ill American vessels. Most of them are robbed daily from the time of their landing till they sail again but bill is now before the Senate to remedy these evils. Let us hope it will pass.
 The London correspondent of the Leeds Mercury says the postal authorities have now under their consideration an invention by which the handwriting of persons telegraphing a message will be transmitted Dy tue te1oS1upu' Aho An vention would greatly assist in prevent ing and detecting frauds.
 A lady giving the account of leap year ball, says: "It was attended by many hundreds of handsome ladies, end an exceedingly promising set of gentle men, each of wh~m engaged a women to dance with them, to the utter oblivion of former contracts. Consequence was no particular system and good deal of confusion"
 Discoveries which promise to be as in- teresting as those of the old lake dwellings, in Switzerland, have recently been made in the South of France. Among the Py- renees mountains, at short distance below the surface of the ground, the re- mains of ancient cities have been found, which are presumed to belong to pre- historic age. The houses are of the same character as those of the Swiss lakes. Investigations are making, the result of which has not yet been an nounced.
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