Connecticut western news., 1873-02-07
Items of Interest.


 The National Educational Society is
 to bold its thirteenth annual meeting at
 Elmira, on the fifth, sixth, and seventh
 days of August next.
 A Virginia paper describes fence
 which is made of such crooked rails
 that every time pig crawls through he
 comes out on the same side.
 The only will of the late Samuel N.
 Pike, dated the 18th of October, 1866,
 divides his entire property, said to be
 worth $2,500,000, among his wife and
 four children.
 A calf from native COW, sired by 6
 thoroughbred Durham, will be two-
 thirds Durham. so much preponder-
 ence is there in the breeding qualities
 of high bred stock.
 A Chinaman who had become snow
 blind while working on the Central Pa-
 cifc Railway applied at a San Francisco
 police station for official permission to
 have himself shot.
 A country paper in Minnesota wants
 to know who swindled the Indians out
 of "sucn an internal cold country as
 Minnesota is, and who deluded the
 white people into it.
 The Emperor of China is reported as
 highly incensed against foreigners,
 owing to the dastardly attempt of some
 unknown parties to assassinate him by
 means of explosive candles.
 The La Crosse Democrat building has been sold to satisfy the judgment for alimony rendered against Brick
 Pomeroy in the divorce case. His dl- vorced wife bid it in at $11, ,000.
 Life is like roll of costly material passing swiftly through our hands, and l we must embroider our pattern on 1t as
 it goes. We cannot wait to pick up
 false stitch, or pause too long before we set another.
 It is announced in France on high medical authority that the milk of COWS affected with the "foot and mouth dis ease" commonly proves fatal to infants, even when mixed with nine parts of F healthy milk.
 Major Browns command has had 6 , fight with the Apache Indians at the national Notifications on Salt River,
 thirty miles above Fort Mcdowell, in Arizona, killing fifty-seven and captur- , ing twenty of the Indians. The late Emperor of Austria, when Liszt had played before him, went up ! to compliment him. [" have heard Liszt and Thalberg and Chopin" he , said, gravely "but l have never seen any one perspire like you" y Famine fever has again appeared in s London. It is now probably 9 contin- t uation of the outbreak in 1862, when, l having disappeared from the kingdom 9 for thirteen years, it suddenly revived t and lasted through the two following = years, dying out in 1871.
 q A sewing circle was quickly broken a up at Gardiner, Me-, the other day by f the innocent remark of 8 lady present : | "I always had great desire to know l. how case of smallpox looked, so l d called on & sick lady this afternoon, l, just before coming to the circle. l. Three men from a wrecked brig in
 Apple River, N. B., were drowned 1n e smooth water within cables length of s the lighthouse a few weeks ago in the 't absence of any ife-saving apparatus, U the Government having refused even to e9 supply the ight-keeper with boat. e One of the Berlin papers lately con- e tained an article on England. It con- Il siders the invasion of Khiva, certain ,t negotiations between Prussia and Por. n tugal, and the threatened annexation o1 k the Sandwich Islands by the United ,f States as so many direct attacks on En- e gland
 A young couple in Wisconsin were
 so thoroughly bent on matrimony that
 they rode twenty-three miles in an oper " wagon when the mercury stood seven ,s teen degrees below zero to obtain @ cer l. tifcate. They froze ears, hands and 3, feet. Still they joined their frozen d hands.
 IS In Lutterworth, England, two days k before Christmas, three clergymen, sit IS ting as magistrates, sent @ woman 7e y years old to prison for seven days fol a. the crime of having "broken a stick 1t from farmers hedge, thereby infiict IS ing damages to the amount of one d penny"
 's According to the late census, tht 'e average number of hands employed il ct manufacturing establishments during r. the year ending June 1st, 1870, wa' pr 2.O53,98S Of these, 1,615,59 were re males above sixteen years of age; tn, t. balance were females, children ant 'e youths. 'n In the Catholic churches of the town a.. 10 and villages of Poland e is an everyda. UT occurrence, especially during Lent, tc :e see women lying flat on their faces in tn ,5 middle of the church with their arm III III stretched out so as to form cross dur 1il 1n ing the whole service, 8 long sermon ,o, ,o included.
 ad At a ball given in Philadelphia on "Then you are fond of dancing, sir ,le said pretty girl to her partner "Ol he the contrary, Miss, I detest it." "Bu at this is our fourth polka, if I don't mis is- take ?" "True, but the fact is, my doc nd tor has ordered me good precipitation e. at any cost"
 he A farm of 2,OOO acres, in connectio
 with Danzig, in Prussia, has been irri
 gated by the sewerage of the town
 which has 100000 inhabitants, the re
 suit being fine crops of rye-grass, pota w. toes and beet-root of enormous size CT The land before was partly forest an a partly sandy desert. A Boston gentleman who could nc lS waltz offered young lady $400 if sh oii would allow him tohugner just as muc a1I II as the man did who had just waltze a with her. It was @ good offer, an n, showed that money was no object ,S him, but they put him out of the hous I ,oi so hard that his eyes were quite black, he A lover once wrote to 8 lady who ha at rejected him, saying that he intende he to go "to some secluded spot an Int breathe away his life in sighs!" to 'whic en the lady replied by inquiring whethc le. they were to be medium or large sig ali The man has not since been heal nd from.
 oh The Mississippi basin, which has bl lily one natural outlet-that by the moutl nd of the Mississippi-is great fertile I
 zion of 2,079, ,254 square miles and oa population of 22,554, ,211. It produce 1 od in 1871, l, ,O35, ,O94, 5s4 bushels of. graf gel ge 3,o11, ,996 bales of cotton, 22s,7l3,S