Connecticut western news., 1872-02-23
Facts and Fancies.

Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
 The idle hour is the devils oppor- tunity.
 Zero, of all virtues, made his choice of silence. ....
 There are sixty-seven women who are editors and reviewers in Paris.
 Which has most legs, 8 horse or no horse? No horse, because no horse has five.
 Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctu- ality.
 A bill has passed both Houses of the Wisconsin Legislature making election day legal holiday.
 The death of Ex-Senator Grimes, of Iowa, has called forth very general expression of sympathy throughout the Northwest.
 cone thing" says an old toper, " was never seen coming through the rye,' an that's the kind of whisky one gets nowadays"
 An Iowa chicken that was bitten by rattlesnake, saved it's life by standing iH mud-puddle for two days, and dipping its head in the water every few minutes.
 A locomotive attached to Q freight train exploded near Schwarzburg, Wis. Wm. Fiel was instantly killed and Ed. Ransom, fireman, was fatally scalded. Why is the letter R very unfortunate? Because it is always in trouble, wretch edness, and misery, is the beginning of riot and ruin, and is never found in peace innocence or love.
 The Chicago aid Society has used $1, ,573, ,639 19 in relieving the distress of some 9,895 families, of which 3,S10 are able e-bodied, 2,37S widows and deserted, and 3,707 sick, aged, and infrm. Marriage is like brilliant taper's light Placed at the window on a summer night, Attracting all the insects of tho air | To come and singe their pretty winglets there Those who are out butt heads against the pane, And those within butt to get out again.
 "Indeed, you are very handsome" said gentleman to his lady-love. "Pooh! poohl" said she, "so you would say if you did not think so." ".And so you'd think" he answered, Y" if did not say so."
 An exchange announces as an appro priate toast over 0 glass of ardent, as "Here's what makes us wear old clothes" That's the most sensible toast we have heard for some time-it's temperance lecture in seven words.
 Rev. Peter Cartwright, the noted Methodist divine, was stricken with paralysis, at his home in Pleasant Mills, Sangamon County, H., and is speech less. He is eightyseven years of age, and has been sixty-eight years in the ministry.
 Profanity never did any man the least good. No man is the richer, or happier, or wiser for it. It commends no one to society. It is disgusting to the refined i; abominable to the good insulting to those with whom we associate ; degrad- ing the mind unproftable, needless, and injurious to society.
 The first Russian newspaper was pub lished in 1703, and Peter the Great was the senior editor. The imperial auto crat not only took part professionally in its editorial composition, but in correct ing proofs, as appears from sheets still in existence, on which are marks and alterations in his own hand.
 A minister at colored wedding, wish ing to make some humorous remarks, said, con such occasious as this it is customary to kiss the bride, but in this case we will omit it." To this ungallant remark the indignant bridegroom very pertinently replied, "On such occasions as this it is customM y to give the minis ter $1O, but in this case we will omit it. !"
 A pretty, bright little juvenile friend, some five years of age, named Rosa, was teased a good deal by a gentleman who visited the family; he finally wound up by saying, "Rosa, l don't love you. " "But you've got to love me, said the child. "How so?" asked the tormentor. "Why," said Rosa, "the Bible says that you must love them that hate you, and I : am sure that hate you!"