Connecticut western news., 1872-12-06
Items of Interest.

Right principles will by no means suit wrong practices.
 All the difference. ancients urned ng.
 Sin never comes alone. One evil thought leads often sad and disgraceful end.
 Vanity is never at its full growth till it spreadeth into affectation, and then it ] is complete A French society has decided that it prolongs the lives and increases the hap piness of dogs to make them work. Wendell Phillips says: "Put an American baby, six months cid, on his feet, and he will immediately say: MT. Chairman,' and call the next cradle to order."
 Farmers children are the hope and the life of a nation. If they grow up intelligent, moral, patriotic, there is hope for the country for continuance of free institutions.
 An item is going the rounds stating that Detroit sailor refused to ship on board vessel after seeing Q rat swim ashore from her, and that the vessel went down the very next trip.
 The man who produces the largest yield to area cultivated, with the least expense, and increases the fertility of his soil, is the most scientific farmer, how ever ignorant he may be of the fact. There is nothing which contributes more to the sweetness of life than friend ship there is nothing which disturbs our repose moro than friends, if we have not the discernment to choose them well.
 A man in Kent County, Michigan, has been engaged for a long time in mak- ing pure strained honey out of the juice of basswood, and common sugar, and the people thereabouts have just found him out ....# ...
 A man will die for want of breath n five minutes, for want of sleep iE, en days, for want of water in week, for want of food at varying intervals, de- pending on constitution, habits of life and the circumstances of the occasion.
 An Indianapolis girl is afflicted with mania for stuffiug small articles into her ears. The doctor who is treating her has washed out five pieces of straw, two of coal, an apple seed, two small chicken bones, a piece of gravel and 0 black beetle.
 A Kansas county court has decided that on Indian trader who took squaw after the Indian fashion was thereby legally married to her, so that the chil- dren inherit his property. The decision will affect great many persons In the West, and the case will be carried up.
 The oldest inhabitant in eastern Texas has never seen such dry season as this. Small streams that were never known to cease running before are now nearly d ed up, and Trinity is so low 1t can be forded in many places by horsemen ma crossed by footmen on logs and rocks.
 Never talk of your percentage, for If 1t is honorable you virtually acknowledge | your claims to rest on the merit of others; or if it is mean you wish to show that some- thing good has at length come out of Nazareth or if it is neither your conver- sation can be interesting only to yourself. At recent Lima exhibition clock made by Peruvian was exhibited, quite wonderful in its way. It was fifty feet seven inches wide. It marks the weeks, the seasons, years and centuries; it shows the courses of the sun and moon, hoists up and lowers daily the flag of Peru, and presents pictures commemorative of the great events in the history of Peru. It strikes the hours and quarters of hours, and plays certain tunes at stated periods.