Connecticut western news., 1873-01-31
Items of Interest.

Advice free gratis to young men---Of all your gettings, get responsibility and good trade.
 Gentlemen's pantaloons upholstered here," is the sign near skating park in Titusville, Pa.
 "We're in pickle now," said man in crowd. "A regular jam, !" said an- other "Heaven preserve us l" moaned an old lady.
 A black bear recently attempted to hug Wisconsin maiden to death, but she jabbed him in the eye with an um- brella, and he fled.
 Is it an approprite thing, now, for the proprietor of skating-rink to put up over the door of his private sanctum, Business office ?"
 The Sacramento Bee states that the Modoc war is gotten up by certain whites for the sole purpose of driving the Indians off their lands, so that the land grabbers can get them.
 The balances in the U. S. Treasury are; Currency, $4, 1S5, ,846; coin, $64,- 519, I'll, including $25, 425, 500 in coin certificates; special deposit of legal tenders, for the redemption of certii- cates of deposit, $27, 150, ,000.
 4 young lady in Western New York has just declined an offer of marriage from Q wealthy lover whose name is Hussey. It is impossible not to admire the spunk of that woman who refuses to be called Hussey for any man.
 A charitable lady of St. Louis sent one of her last years dresses to des- titute woman. She was somewhat sur prised to have it returned with the statement that it was too full behind for the present style, and would she take out breadth and change the trimming.
 "Is Pat Flannigan on board this ship ?" roared Nelson, during Hull ill the firing at the battle of the Nile. "I'm here, my lord," said Erin's son, showing himself on deck. Then" said the the gallant Nelson, looking satisfied, ''let the battle proceed" That story is Pats.
 The cold snap moves the Bloomington Pantagraph to give this advice: "Mar- ry warm-hearted girl, whether cold weather affects you or not. Warm hearted girls are comfortable even in warm weather, and in cold weather they are an absolute necessity to mans comfort"
 They are driving piles by gunpowder at Baltimore. A small cannon is placed Lmuzzle downward over the pile, and a ram having 8 piston fitting the bore of the gun is propelled by small charge of powder against the pile head. The firing is done very rapidly, and good re- salts are obtained.
 At & recent Connecticut wedding, in repeating the words, eff you know of any just cause," etc., the minister look ed at a nervous young man directly In front of him. The fellow sprang up with much haste and trepidation, and blurted out, ooh, no, bless me not the slightest objection, sir"
 A Scranton man who went home, the other evening, and found his house locked up, after infinite trouble man. aged to gain entrance through back window, and then discovered on the parlor table a note from his wife, read ing: "I have gone out ; you will find the door-key on one side of the door, step"
 The Bavarian government will repay the twenty millions of horins deposited by officers of the army as caution money for permission to marry. The law re- quiring caution money to be deposited will henceforth be repealed for all grades above captain, and the amount payable by subalterns will be materially reduced.
 The dreadful snow hurricance which swept over Minnesota and other DOT tions of the West is something quite unparalleled in those regions. How many people perished is not positively known, but the estimates range from 25O to 73S, and hundreds of cattle have also been frozen to death or buried alive in the snow.
 Gold is found in no less than thirteen States of the Union, namely, in Yer mont, Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama. Tennessee, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, Oregon, and California. During the last twenty-four years California has produced the immense amount of $654,- 121, ,449 in value of the precious metal.
 A paper of somewhat sporting char acter is responsible, for a story of the wonderful sagacity of a hunting-dog, which was quietly preceding it's owner along the streets of, New York, when it made asudden point. Its owner, sur prised, instinctively looked for & bird or rabbit, which might accidentally have been dropped on the street, but vainly searched until his eyes caught the words "A PARTRIDGE on an office door, when the mystery was instantly solved.
 Dr. Sylvester said it had come to his knowledge that 30, 900 barrels of apples have already been shipped to Europe this season. He himself sent quite quan- tity to Glasgow, month since, with orders to his agent to hold them till they reached a certain price, even if 1t took till March. When the suggestion was made, that half of them might be decayed before that date, the Doctor declared he had no fears on that score, as he put them up to keep by process which in his experience has proved sure and which he promised to describe at future day.
 Throughout the interior of Africa, and, indeed, some parts of Asia, woman is prized for fatness. Such being the public sentiment, mothers seasonably commence 8 system of die- tetic treatment that makes their daugh- ters irresistible. As soon as betrothed, the girl is cooped up in small room and diligently fattened. If her purch- aser has lost wife by death or divorced one, her anklets are sent forward for the new matrimonial candidate. When she has attained size te fill the pattern rings, she is carried in triumph to her new home.
 The next House of Representatives will consist of 292 members. Of these all but four from Connecticut and three from New Hampshire have been elected. The delegation from Louisiana is in dis pute, and two sets of members will appear as claimants for seats, each hav- ing certificates of election, though from rival returning boards. Leaving the re