Connecticut western news., 1872-11-08
Items of Interest.

Precious stones are now Initiated with great success.
 A Californian has bar of native gold worth SIP, ,67S,75.
 A young lady in New York lately paid $250 for having single dress made.
 When a man has no mind of his own, his wife generally gives him piece ot hers.
 A Coxsackie, N. Y, butcher can kill and dress four sheep in thirty three min- utes.
 He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass him. self.
 Toleration is the silken ring running through the pearl chain of all the vir- tues.
 People who are always wishing for something new should try neuralgia once.
 The journals of Rome state that the architects attached to the works at the Pr@torian Camp have discovered sub terranean vaults of immense extent, having ramifcations in different direc- tions.
 For the first time in the court annals of Maryland, man has sued woman for refusing to marry him. He lays his damages at $3, ,000, and the woman now should keep her promise just to punish such fool.
 The last census in Paris showed the number in that city to be 1,S07,573. Of these, 2,5O0 only avowed themselves freethinkers; but it is hinted that very much larger number would have done so ho6 thnu told tba fr11th The Agricultural Department at Wash ington states that the dogs oi the country cost at least $50,0oo,o0 annually, and they, with all the agricultural press, demand protection for sheep from worth less CUTS that belong to no one.
 The Pope is hard upon the marriage state, for he wittily said, on hearing that Father Hyacinthe was married, "The Saints be praised, the renegade has taken his punishment into his own hands. The ways of Providence are inscrutable."
 At a session of the Spanish Cortes Deputy protested against the bad treat ment to which, he said, the Csrlist pris- oners were subjected, whereupon Gen eraI Cordoba, Minister of War, denied the assertion of the Deputy, and main tained that the prisoners were properly treated.
 A Kentuckian, who fills kerosene lamp while it is burning, lately had 8 quarrel with neighbor who frightened his children by pointing revolver at them, as to which was the biggest fool. The umpire decided, on general grounds, that there was no difference worth speak ing of.
 In 6 rush to catch fly, at Constan- tine, Mich, the other day, two small boys came in collision and each had the unconscious satisfaction of having knocking the other senseless. When :esuscitated, one had lost all his teeth, and the other had broken nose and 8 split lip.
 When man thinks that nobody cares for him, and that he is alone in cold and selfish world, he would do well to ask himself what he has done to make anybody care for and love him, and to warm the world with faith and generos- ity. Generally those who complain the most, have done the least.
 An acorn suspended by a piece of thread within half an inch of the surface of water in hyacinth glass, will, in a few months, burst and throw root down into the water, and shoot upwards its straight and tapering stem with beautiful little green leaves. A young oak tree, growing in this way on the mantle-shelf of room, is very elegant and interest ing object.
 One of the saddest sights at this sea- son of the year, is young man who has waited on the outside of some popular church of cold evening until he is chill ed through, only to see the object of his hearts best affection walk of with some rascal who has been inside all the time toasting his sinful shins at the stove. It is trying to one's nerves.
 When an Arab widow intends marry ing again, she goes the night before the ceremony to pay visit to the grave of her first husband. There she kneels and prays him not to be offended. The widow brings with her donkey laden with two goats skins of water. Pho prayer ended, she proceeds to pour the water upon the grave, and having we'll saturated it she departs. Il THE HARD LOT OF THE ENGLISH LA