Connecticut western news., 1872-10-04
Special Notices, 50 per cent. in advance of the
Facts and Fancies.

A promising y'oung man is all very we'll better have paying one.
 California wheat growers will this year realize an aggregate profit of $2O, ,O0O, OOO.
 A Lenox young lady has helped load and unload fortv-one loads of hay this season.
 A Chicago doctor asserts that there are 15, 900 habitual drunkards iu that city.
 Anrexperimentalizing Californian got a hundred pounds of opium out of an acre of peoples.
 The increase in the number of lunatics is causing considerable uneasiness through out England.
 Raw beef chopped up fine with onions is new 'sfeed" which Germans consider cure or preventive of dyspepsia, as well as of lung diseases.
 English boots and shoes are now in great demand in the American market. They are not handsome, but broad, com fortable and well made.
 An old lady who heard that young friend had lost a place by mis-demeanor uncharitably observed that "there was allers woman at the bottom of it,
 Hers is the heading of one of the Canton, Miss, papers introducing a sen sational article; "A carousal, an epistle. cowhide, pistol, and skedaddle.
 They pretend in New Hartford that Q man there fell from fence and dislo- cated his hip, but that in crawling away he fell again and adjusted the fracture.
 The longest bridge in the world is said to be on the Mobile and Montgomery Railroad, over the Tensas and Mobile rivers. It is fifteen miles in length, and has ten draws, one for each navigable channel.
 It is related of Arnauld, the Jansenist, that he wished his friend Nichole to assist him in new work. Nichole replied: "We are now old; is it not time to rest?" 'sRest?" exclaimed Arnauld; ''have we not all eternity to rest in?"
 Describing the Inebriate Asylum at Wards Island, the New York Tribune says: Within the past four years about one hundred women have occupied rooms in the asylum. Of these nearly one-third have been ladies moving in the highest circles of society. They were all middle-aged, and nearly all had been married"
 The heat in Switzer1and Is repofCea to have been intense during the past season. Cattle have gone to their stalls at daybreak for shelter; and the danger from avalanches has been so intensified that. warned by instinct, the chamois of the mountains left their precarious haunts, and mingled with domestic herds in the valleys.
 A New Hampshire paper says A man from London Centre started last Friday with a load of hay for Concord. His wife advised him not to smoke his pipe on the way, but he laughed at her. Pretty soon he came back with most of his clothes gone, his hair and eyebrows singed, and the iron work of his cart in 0 bag upon his shoulder. Then his wife laughed"
 An idea of the vast wealth and the command of the wealth of others pos sessed by the great bankers of Europe, may be inferred from the fact that the Rothschilds' subscription to the last French loan amounted to S550, ,0C0, ,000, and that of the Earrings to $220, ,000. One gentleman alone, member of the House of Commons, put down his name through the Rothschilds, for $40, 100000
 A series of experiments instituted to test the average loss in weight by drying, shows that corn loses one. fifth, and wheat one-fourteenth by the process. From this the statement is made that farmers will make more by selling un- shelled corn in the fall at seventy-fve cents than the following summer at one dollar bushel and that wheat at $1.30 in December is equal to $1.50 for the same in the following June. This esti- mate is made on the basis of interest at seven per cent. aAd takes no account of the depreciations of vermin. These facts are worthy of consideration.