Connecticut western news., 1873-10-03
Items of Interest.

Items of Interest.
 The grain cars that arrived in Chicago
 one day last week, would make train
 l24 miles long.
 George Slosson scored 2,0O0 points at fonr-ball billiards in one hour and fifty minutes at Chicago.
 Let men laugh when you sacrifice de- sire to duty if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.
 A fire in Chicago destroyed GA houses, all but one of which were of wood, an d were mainly residences. The loss is $250, ,0O0.
 A Mississippi lady cut the Governors autograph out of her album, and made It do duty as the signature to a pardon for her son in the Penitentiary.
 Six roughs penned Natchez report in an alley, and were thinking how they would batter his head, when four of them fell into an old sewer, and wo- man scalded the other two.
 The New York Herald says the $500 greenbacks have @ six toed genius on the back. They might have a split cared rhinoceros there for all we would know to the contrary.
 We are glad to announce, on reliable authority, that the earth is perfectly solid. This will be welcome intelli- gence to those people who have always moved around as if they expected to fall through every moment.
 Scarfs of thin white India cotton and of bamboo, with gay Roman bars for borders, are tied around black or white hats worn in the country by young ladies. Those with black striped bor- ders and fringe are also very stylish.
 Certain ladies in Springfield, Yer mont, have formed dress association, the members pledging themselves to wear Ca neat. sensible style of cos- tune" and "not to change the fashion except when an improvement is made." .a
 George Byass colored, whose trial in the Bergen County Court at Hackensack for the murder of the white girl, Della Corcoran, has just been ended, has been found guilty of 'manslaughter in the third degree" ten years in the State Prison. ..s
 A chap who has owed us seven dol lars for almost as many years. came in yesterday to consult our taste in the matter of a present to his oldest son. He was quite anxious to know if @ row boat would beas suitable as harp with gilt eagle on top, .@
 A Troy gentleman and his wife went home little earlier than they expected to, the other night, and as they wcco passing the parlor windows, the half smothered voice of their daughter was heard, crying: "Now don't, Charlie; just see how you have mussed my hair"
 Rev. w. P. Watkins, Methodist min ister at Waterloo, Iowa, was made tenn porarily insane by the combined effects of anxiety about his wife, who was dan gerously sick, and efforts to give up the use of tobacco, to which he had long been a devotee, and went out and drowned himself. .. u5 t-
 Prof Agassiz, at Penikese, was so delighted at an egg found in the body of fish, that, in trimming away the flesh, so as to show the egg in its bed to better advantage, his hand trembled so that he could hardly use it, and then, with "soft, happy, boyish whistle" he continued the dissection.
 An English writer recommends that potatoes rot only be stored in a dry place, but wherever practicable they be from time to time to the fumes of burning sulphur. This he declares will retard the progress of disease and prevent further infection without in my manner iniuring the tubers for 'ood. .t.s. # sat sfuaaIt
 A religious contemporary tells how 'ystematic penny-giving recently saved church in Wisconsin which was em- ,arrassed with debt of $10, 900, that it would have been impossible to pay in he ordinary way. The pastor divided he debt into penny shares to be paid laily for five hundred days;, and it was ifted forthwith. f... r--.
 To remove warts, simply allow a sec- nd person to wet the fnnger on the nd of tongue, rub the wart two. or three ines, taking the finger off with jerk, nd a0iU the wart off at the same time. 'here must be tUiU about it's Our in- ormant says that he knows people will augh. at this remedy, but he does not are, since he knows it is effectual. MT. J. M. Shaffer, in his report of the owa State Agricultural Society, notes he following concer1 ing sheep and 'ools: The number of sheep in the tate in 1872 was 53l, ,926, worth $1,- 75, 77O. The entire wool clip will hard 7 exceed 1,500,0 1000 pounds, Divide mong the eighty-five mills, al,d it caves to each but 27, ,664 pounds; and lis is one of the reasons why these lills stand idle half the time.i
 The highwayman who attempted to ob United States Paymasterz Irwin in ansas, and was shot in the attempt by ieut. Wetmore, was formerly a United tates officer, Capt. Geo. w. Graham, the cavalry. He was some time since ismissed the army for speculating with overnment funds and other miscon- uct. Lieut.. Wetmore, who shot him Id saved the paymaster, is the son of New York merchant, a Second Lleuten- 1t in the Sixth Cavalry, and graduated om West Point, last year. R An absent-minded smoker named ancy, undertook to whisper something
 importance in the ear of old MT. eynolds, Saturday, but in his absent thickness neglected to remove his ci- IT, the fire end of which was driveu right to the old gentleman's ear MT. Key olds jumped straight up in the air bout six feet, and on coming down ,lit Yancy's nose by well directed ow. Yancy picked himself up, and arted for home, declaring in. rage at he'd be hanged before he'd tell old eynolds what he was going to.
 
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