Connecticut western news., 1873-09-05
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Facts and Fancies.

Facts and Fancies.
 In Alabama they are fighting the
 caterpillar with Paris green. ~
 The latest song has been translated
 into Chinese. It goes this way:
 Mar chingalong, s... .
 Wear mar chingalong."
 San Antonio has meat extract com pany which congresses twenty-eight pounds of beef into one pound of ex- tract.
 The Georgia State Fair offers thou sand dollar prize for the best drilled military company from the North or South. 5. Ite
 Blue linen is worn so universally that the young ladies at our summer resorts suggest charity school in their azure uniforms. .. .. ...,..
 Chicago is talking about celebrating the second centennial anniversary of the discovery of the site on which she is built, which occurs this month.
 A Georgia "cracker" was offered $4 per day to labor, whea he exclaimed, "Sir, dye suppose I'd work when I've jest discovered fresh coon trackP"i
 Punch sarcastically says, Education produces great results in the United States. It is said to make good child ren even out of the Cincinnati boys"
 Medicis collarettes are the latest in lingerie. They are collars with rutfs attached. We don't like their name. It is suggestive of mild type of chol- era. -a'7 siE
 Spanish proverbs :-" who has nothing to do, let him buy ship or marry wife," "From many children and little bread, good Lord deliver us. " A fool is never great one unless he knows Latin"
 A pair of horses in Oxford, Mass, are said to be so intelligent as to work a moving machine without the aid of driver, taking straight track and turn ing at the proper corners as well as if directed by human agency.
 The London Aduertiser says the re- port of the Committee on Coal, may, in unofficial language, be summed up in three lines: "We do not know how coal came to rise to its present price, and we know still less how it can ever be brought down again"
 Pope Plus TX. is reported as so fully restored to health as to be able to re- sume his usual food and exercise. He retires little before midnight, and rises at half-past five o'clock, attending during the day to ordinary ecclesiasti- cal duties as before his illness. .
 Indian corn for growing chickens, it is asserted by experienced poulterers, is not profitable feed. Indian corn meal, it is asserted, does not make bone. Ground oats, barley meal, meat scraps and curd of new milk, turned with ren- net, are recommended instead.
 The Troy Times offers this seasonable advice !" Look not upon the cucumber when it is wilted, nor green apples, nor other unwholesome truck, for though pleasant to the eye and agreeable to the taste, at the last it biteth like the stom- and stingeth like the cholera .4u.~e !, ..'.r I. r.,sl.,
 A promising young student of nature in New Orleans amuses himself with stuffed rat, which, from his place of he draws across the side walk when people are passing. Women shriek when they see the rat, and men violently attack it with sticks and umbrellas. ..a
 The carpet worm is new pest just 1t is of dark color, less than half an inch in length, and covered with fine hair It makes havoc with carpets in short time. It is said that fine salt and fine cedar chips sprinkled on the edges of carpets will protect ;hem from its ravages. .-..... x, tI.,
 Comparative statement is made of the value of land in London, New York, Chicago and San Francisco. In the most central business locations land in London is worth $135 per square foot, S113 per square foot in New York, $36- Y per square foot in Chicago, and $22 ,er square foot in San Francisco.
 The San Diego World says that the 'bject of the James expedition through he Colorado desert is the acquisition if large bodies of land for trife, irri- ,ating them, and reselling them at nore sensible and practicable than the ornia to Utah. ~ & .s,.l .ssslseG
 Professional men in St. Louis know etter how to conduct their quarrels han the bloodthirsty duelists of the outh. Colonel Bland lately receiveda rossly insulting letter from Dr. Good in, and instead of blandly inviting him 3 come out and be shot, the Colonel ook a cowhide and belabored him ill he public streets.
 The new act to prevent the adultera- ion of food does not seem to work alto ether smoothly in England. Taking le cream from milk is held not to be a adulteration, and as the case is not rovidedfor in the Act, though there are lenty of penalties for adding to milk, ellers of skim milk,go unharmed. Some ldges hold that water is harmless lulteration, and fail to convict for the SC of Simpson" the slang name for 'r water. "s -aES& A Spring field lady communicates to le pubic this warning to young ladies. oming from church, few Sabbaths 90, noticed my little boy of seven lst what took to be admiring glances ter little miss of his own age, even ng after she had turned into another rect. Referring to it, soon after, he piled: "No, tell you what; wasn't oking at her, I was looking at her hneps My-e-e, wasn't she bumped p wouldn't marry her, all bumped 9 behind like that p |'
 The Times of India, published at alcutta, contains an account of the cath of huge boa constructor which fested some grounds at the foot of Hills. It appears that the eature was regarded as sacred by the .tives, who would not molest it, al- ough only on one morning when Dr. ,hnson and MT. Pennington, with eat danger to themselves, brayely lnted it up and shot it, it had swal- wed child. The animal is about feet long, and its stuffed in is to be deposited in the Madras