Connecticut western news., 1873-04-25
Facts and Fancies.

Moonlight is merely the beautiful old age of day.
 Reports from the Newfoundland seal fishery are satisfactory.
 There were 76O steerage passengers on the steamer Atlantic.
 Sassafras tea is becoming @ fashion able beverage in Pittsburgh.
 In Boston they call founding hos pitfalls asylums for anonymous infants,
 A Lawrence young lady wants to know why men never notice any but large feet.
 A physician says mosquitoes have in their veins some of the best blood in the country.
 A woman has been sentenced to be hanged in Manchester, England, for killing her child.
 Nixon, who killed Pfeifer in New York, has been sentenced to be hung on the 16th of May next. Nurserymen say the season has been very unfavorable for the early packing and shipping of trees. A Washington belle speaks five differ ent languages, but cannot bake a loaf of bread to save her life.
 Milwaukee papers publish the choking to death of man in boarding house by piece of meat in his throat. A St. Louis, Mo-, belle, who was mar ried the other day, was presented with thirty-two castors and fifty butter knives,
 Congress incurred an expense of last session, and yet didn' t show off so we'll
 Another deposit of brown hematite iron ore has been found in South Shaftsbury, Vermont, near an iron fur mace. #.. | The practice of hissing dramatic | performance was first introduced at the | Theatre Francais on the 18th of Janu- ary, 1886.
 It is the general belief that decent, respectable man is safer on the outskirts of the Modoc camp than on New York street car. .-
 At St. Paul, Minn.-the place whither they send people to be cured of oatar- rhal diseases-a man recently sneezed his spine out of joint. | One of the latest Parisian fashions is band of black velvet worn around the hair, upon which are sewed gold flies, bees, and other insects.
 George Bidwell, one of the men al- legged to have been implicated in the frauds on the Bank of England, has been arrested in Edinburg.
 Fashion is rarely useful. It scorns utility. That of wearing the hair loose- ly down the back is now going out just as hy-time begins to dawn.
 Said @ woman to a doctor for whom he was weighing two grains of oalomel for child: "Dinna be so mean wi it it is for poor fatherless bairn.
 Miss Faithful thinks that many | American girls who profess to be highly educated, are merely "dipped into Q weak solution of accomplishments"
 Congressmen ought to feel their oats, An Indiana farmer has discovered that it will take 3O,OO0 bushels of them to pay the annual salary of Representa- tive.
 The "Pub. Docs." printed by the Government in 1872 cost the producers of this country the enormous sum of S2. .436, ,052. 49. They were worth about $45 all told.
 A fashionable New York gentleman | UQ1ukS UudU II lhulSS WOulu OAlJ ub0 their powder-puffs more sparingly, men would get through the season with only one dress-coat.
 It occurred to Tennessee orator, not long since, to close an eloquent perora- tion by referring to the corpse of & murdered man as '1ying wrapped in the soliloquy of his own blood"
 Among the presents at an old-fashion. ed wedding in Indiana the other day was gallon mug filled with beer, The bride drank first, and then all the women present followed her example. When it came to the men there was nothing left. The bridegroom filled an old fashioned, long-stemmed pipe, took the initial whiff, and then all the men took a long pull each in his turn.