Connecticut western news., 1872-06-21
Facts and FancIes.

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 The word love in the Indian language is "sc schemleudanourtch
 Minnesota whisky sellers hove been fined $50 for selling liquor to habitual drunkards.
 A new bug has arrived in the Western States He bores into grape vines and kills them.
 An Indiana patriarch has lived to form the acquaintance of his great-great-great grandchild.
 The British iron product is about $500, ,000 tons year, and the American about 2,0O0;OOO tons.
 Virginia has voted constitutional amendment striking out the usury clause.
 | Locusts are in Tennessee in immense numbers, and the woods are alive with them.
 A Janesville, Wis.,, girl frightened her serenaders away by falling out of the window.
 Dr. Bartol says the real thief of the world is he who consumes more than he produces.
 The convicts at the Michigan State Prison are building new wall around themselves.
 An insane asylum at Troy has small theatre attached where amateurs give performances.
 Some of the largest steamships burn eight hundred tons of coal crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
 Judge Hoar once said of @ lawyer: "He has reached the superlative life {; at first he sought to get on, and then he sought to get honor, and now he is try ing to get honest"
 Startling developments have come to light in St. Paul, Minn., exposing an at. tempt by Mre. Robinson to bribe members of the grand jury not to bring in any indictment against her.
 An attorney in that delightful coun- try, New Mexico, gave weight to his ar- gument before jury by threatening to put bullet into the brain of any man who should dare to intimate that his client was guilty.
 The figures in the absolutely latest style of Dolly Warden are so delightfully."- large that it takes two young ladies to show one of them properly. They have to go arm in arm and keep step or else the effect is spoiled.
 messed in Portland was performed lately. A priest of the faith came on from New York, and went to the slaughter house, attired in his official robes, to kill an OK. for the food of the faithful. Walter, 0 five-year old, was surprised at breakfast by the presence of diminu- tive egg, served for his special delecta- tion. He thus accounted for the egg's smallness "Mamma, think the chicken was learning to lay" It is estimated that there are 400 saloons and groceries in San Francisco, which dispense annually 10000 barrels of lager, 5UO,0 gallons of wine, and ,00O, GOO gallons of the more stimula- . ting fluids, the total value of which is SIG, ,000, 900.
 A young lady in New Hampshire has just secured position as school teacher upon the following certificate "This |. is to certify that Tanner Moves stands on medium with other girls of her age and sex, and, for what I know, is as good as folks in general"
 Billy Brennan, while playing cards in San Antonio, Texas, said, as the game turned against him, "May Christ para lyze me pa favorite expression of his. No sooner had the words escaped him than he fell down in fit, from which at last accounts he had not recovered. , Little Johnny Moore, away out in Monroe, Mich., went to o picnic, and like foolish little boy that he was, tried | A< o,< Io hsr,o oio1r of course, and he threw himself on the wet grass and lay there long time. The result was he had congestive chills and died. .....
 A physician was called te see dying infant, in Mobile, and found that the parents had previously engaged the ser vices of Voudou woman, named Ellen Drake, who scarified the child's back, and made it swallow the blood that flow ed, mixed with quantity of the mothers milk.
 A Boston bride, whose groom remon strated with her at the wedding for in- dulging in rather indiscriminate be- stowal of her maiden kisses on number of her male friends, remarked with natu- ral naivete that the gentlemen in question had been in the habit of kissing her all her life, and she didn't see why they should stop now.
 The last of the Marshals of France who have undergone Q capital sentence was : the best known and most celebrated of them all, Marshal Ney, shot on the 7th of December, 1915, for fidelity to his old and treachery to his new master. Mar shal Bazaine is the first Marshal ot ' France arraigned on q charge of bad } conduct in face of the enemy. The great pyramid weighs 12, 760, ,000,- GOO tons, if anybody wants to know. According to Herodotus, it took the labor , of 100000 men twenty years to build it. To show the mechanical value of modern improvements, pr. Lardner af- firms that 4S0 tons of coal, with an en- zine and hoisting machine, would have raised every stone to it's position. ) Here is good thing on the tater 5 bugs" Three. men comparing notes : F One says "There are two bugs to every 3 stalk" A second says "They have cut down my early crop, and are sitting on f the fence waiting for the late crop to come up." "Pshaw P says the third,
 "you don't know anything about it. l
 passed @ seed store recently, md the
 bugs were in there overlooking the books to see who had purchased seed pOta- toes