Connecticut western news., 1872-04-05
Facts and FAncieS.

At recent bull fight in Madrid, three horses and two male performers were killed.
 Science shows clearly that man has lived upon this earth for more than 5000 years.
 The first floor of the flat buildings of New York are rented at $5, 900 year, without furniture.
 A fashionable young lady of New York boasted of having dress on which were two hundred yards of lace trim ming.
 A New Bedford gentleman has succeed ed in matching 996 trout from 1000 eggs which is said to be the greatest yield ever known.
 The San Francisco boys play with slings made of wire and rubber, with which buckshot can be driven through half-inch plank.
 An Oriental proverb You can't pre- vent the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you may prevent them from stopping to build there.
 The latest fashion in trimming bon nets is with four or five small humming- ribbons. The next thing will be to have birds nest on the top.
 Le Gaulois relates that ga'nin met on the boulevards fair lady carrying her pet dog in her arms. "Look P cried he. "she carries her dogs and she puts her children out to nurse v
 Large bows of ribbon or velvet, with large buckle in the centre, are worn at the back of the neck of silk or street costumes, with long and wide ends which reach below the waist
 When ladies wish to have dresses or bonnets purchased abroad, they send e full length photograph of themselves, by which modistes judge what would be be- coming, and forward it accordingly.
 The Scranton, Pa., lodge of the Knights of Pythias recently determined to dub Francis Williams Pythian knight, but during the ceremony of in- itiation it was discovered that the Fran cis should be spelt Frances.
 Will some one please send us that item about the Wisconsin girl who blows and harrows and plants forty-five acres of land with her own hands We cannot realize that it is springtime, till we've read that item. We hav'nt read it for ten years.
 An aristocratic lady, after anxious in- quiry as to what would remove paint from her window-glass, was told that s'elbow-greese" was the best thing known, whereupon she naively exclaimed: "Oh ] I'm so glad that I have found out ] l wonder if they keep it at the apothecai ry's!"
 The largest iron casting ever yet at- tempted was successfully made at the Elswick Ordnance Works, Newcastle-on- Tyne, under the direction of Sir Wm. Armstrong and Captain Noble. It was an anvil block, weighing 125 tons, to be used with twenty-ton, double-action forge hammer, for forging thirty-hvs- ton Armstrong gun. .-.. London is the largest city in the world, far surpassing all those of antiquity. According to Gibbon, the population of ancient Rome, in the Insight of it's mag nificence, was 1, 200, ,000; the population of Pekin is supposed to be about 2,000, = GOO; that of London is over 5000, ,OO0, one-twelfth of the population of the whole United States. .r.. I A correspondent wishes the Agricul- f t@rist to expose the manner in which an individual swindled him in an egg trade. He ordered geese, duck and , hens eggs, and sent the money to pay for them. The hens eggs came, and not single one matched. No duck nor goose eggs were received, nor has our correspondent been able to get the mon ey back.