Connecticut western news., 1873-06-13
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The devil never tempted man whom he found judiciously employed.
 Drug stores in Indiana sell whisky on Sunday under the name of "laven- der."
 Great men and great institutions may be beyond the most of us, but great ac tions are for us all.
 Fourteen persons were injured by the overthrow of an accommodation train near Janesville, Wis.
 Little woman (hugging her new dolD. "Isn't she darling? I'd give her to you, only-she's my own l"
 Country liquor dealers in Massachu- setts are sending their beer barrels back to Boston draped in mourning. Cincinnati has determined upon an- other musical festival, to take place in 1875, and to have Theodore Thomas as director.
 A farmer in the San Joaquin Valley, Gal, has put in thirty-eight thousand acres of wheat, and this, too, upon his own land.
 Details of the murder of Dr. P. R. Baker, of Warren, Me. fasten suspicion upon Miss Mink, in whose house the body was found.
 The real wants of nature are the mea- sure of enjoyments, as the foot is the measure of the shoe. We can call only the want of what is necessary, poverty.
 The United States Consul at Belfast, Ireland, writes that during April $500 of the flower of the youth of the agricul- tural districts left that port for the Uni ted States.
 The chap who could do all the busi- has been compelled to advertise at last "Sheriff s sale."
 A Little Rock editor is pathetic about the loss of exchanges, and says that anybody may steal his wardrobe, eat his luncheon, or take his empty pocket book, if only his exchanges can be spared. .'.
 A Sparta (Wis.) boy amused his leisure hours by boring hole through the dam just to see the water spurt. His satisfaction was great when the valuable mill up above went through fifteen hours later.
 A Vermont man who caught the small pox four years ago and communicated 1t to some neighbors, has just been sued by them for damages on the ground that to his carelessness was due their infection.
 The Postmaster General has inter- dicted the circulation through the mails of newspapers having any writing on the wrappers except the full address. | It is not lawful to add initials, nor even to write one newspaper on the wrap per.
 A Troy minister and one in Cortland, for year or two, excited comment by their frequent exchanges. The mystery has been recently removed by the mar riage of the Troy clergyman to lady in Cortland, and that of the Cortland man to a lady in Troy.
 A Nashville young lady explains that she writes to the man she likes best only once Q day, and says she doesn't think that any too often, now that the days are too long. She is willing to admit, however, that it would be too frequent for the short days of winter.
 A lady travelling in Europe writes: "A German professors wife will appear at her ease in her wedding dress fifteen or twenty years old, and entertain you in your own language while you sit per fectly ignorant of the language of the country where you are visiting"
 These postal cards put man at the mercy of his waggish friends as we'll as his malignant enemies. A Philadelphia merchant, of strict honesty and exact business habits, was informed the other day, per card, that if he did not settle that small bill for washing, Miss Null lony would bring suit therefor before an alderman.
 A Pittsburgh merchant declares that he knows of thirteen first society ladies who steal his goods whenever they can get chance. In this connection 1t may be mentioned that it is well-ascer- tained fact that wealthy Washington women frequently pilfer laces and other costly articles from the dry goods stores when they have the money to pay for them. The Chronicle says that the shopkeepers have hitherto spared the suspected "ladies" out of compassion, but will hereafter nab them without pity.