Connecticut western news., 1873-03-28
Items of Interest.

Calamity is mans true touch-stone.
 The latest wedding cards are very long and narrow.
 Lightning has been killing hogs in Tennessee within week.
 The frost has penetrated the ground deeper this winter than it has for thirty years.
 A Wisconsin woman lately put &, ,000 in the stove when she went out visiting, and when she came home she kindled fire and burnt it up.
 Why is man who makes additions to false rumor like one who has con- fidence in all that is told him !? Because he relies on all that he hears.
 It is said that more champagne is drank in the United States than in France, because much more is made in the former than in the latter coun- try. ....
 Madame Millieri has announced her intention of suing Captain Garein for 150, ,O00 francs for the wrongful execu- tion of her husband during the Com mune.
 A Montreal man, in fit of drunken rage at his wife, went to the cemetery and mutilated a costly monument she had placed over the remains of her first husband.
 Organized bands of brigands have appeared in the Portuguese Indian col onial settlements, and are murdering the inhabitants and plundering their possessions.
 To be bodily tranquil, to speak little and to digest without effort are abso- lutely necessary to grandeur of mind or of presence, or to proper develop ment of genius.
 Somebody sold dealer in human hair in Cleveland. O. sonna h.-is- tfit5 hoa heen cut from the head of a small pox patient, and the dealer took the disease and died. .,
 A retired actress has been teaching elocution to the children in Carson City, and the old people declare that all theyoung folks say ''beeyoutiful skeeye" and "the noble juke."
 Josh Billings says" Yu kant find contentment laid down on the map it iz an imaginary place not settled yet; and those reach it soonest who throw away their compass and go it blind. !"
 A Nevada paper says that the alkai which abounds in the water is ruinous to brass and iron machinery in Gold Hill. It is necessary to replace stop- cocks, valves, &c.,, about four times a year.
 A MT. Saunders, of Cambridge, charged one David Nichols, of Lowell, of the little irregularity of signing an- other mans name to note and has been forced to pay $1O, 900 for his nasty iudg. ment.
 The Carlist forces are estimated at from 10000 to 12,000. Their tactics are to act in small bands that their enemy may be subdivided. They have plenty of money, but the peasants are already weary of the war.
 "It's aye raining in Greenock" has become a proverbial saying. During last year in that pluvial Scotch town. rain fell on no fewer than 252 days out of 364, the total depth being 96.1 15 inch- es, the largest rainfall on record even in that rainy district. .....
 Doctor Casin, having heard the fa- nous Thomas Fuller repeat some verses on scolding wife, was so delighted with them as to ask a copy. "There is no necessity for that" said Fuller, ''as you have got the original"
 A Massachusetts paper publishes a story that young business man in Do- yer, N. H., has been compelled by the courts to pay 1000 to an old school mate for an accidental injury done him in boyish wrestling struggle fourteen years ago1
 According to the American Manufac- turer, it is claimed that coke can be shipped from Pittsburgh to Sheffield, England, at profit of one dollar per ton. Even the suggestion shows a re- markable revolution in the fuel question in the past few months.
 There are experts on all manner of subjects in these days of litigation. A woman testified at Norwich, the other day, in 6 turkey case and declared that she knew those turkeys "by their walk. their countenances, and their mannero of roosting." She was shrewd observer of the ways of poultry.
 A citizen of Dayton, O., who is visit ing Eastern cities, writes home to the Journal, from Philadelphia "There is just about as much difference be- tween New York and this place, as there is between Dayton and lone farm house. In fact, I think the farmhouse would have the best of it." -"
 There have been 1S7 arrests for mur- der in San Francisco during the past twenty-two years, sixty-seven of them in the past four years. There have been, in the same time, only eleven ex- ecutions-six during the past four years. Fully score of murders have been committed for which no arrests have been made.
 Some one wrote an anonymous letter to Judge Poland, last week, charging him with "going easy" on certain Con- gressmen, because they were Masons. Considering that he is about the only old-fashioned, hard shell, anti-Mason left over in Congress, the Judge thinks this decidedly funny.
 Dr. T. sent by mail bottle of homeo- pathic pellets to patient, with the usual direction to the postmaster, eff not taken return in ten days" printed on the corner of the envelope. He was not a. little surprised to receive on the eleventh day, the half empty bottle, with note from the patient, saying that he had returned them as requested, although they had done him great deal of good, and he should have been glad to have taken them little longer.
 MT. Rufus G. Christian, of North Fenton, reports that wooden pail con- taining about four inches of water was left standing, during one of the recent celd nights, in his kitchen, and it was