Connecticut western news., 1873-08-08
Items of Interest.

lce-water one hot day last week, anC
 died in a few minutes.
 German authority has prohibited th,
 importation of cattle from Russia, be
 cause of the prevalence of the rinder
 pest.
 Adopted at late meeting of the Pa
 irons of Husbandry Resolved, tha
 every woman is amiss until she is mar
 ried."
 Extensive gold mines are reported tC
 have been discovered in the district o
 Famatina-R -Rioga, in the Argentine Re
 public.
 Eastern salmon fishermen say that
 the catch this season has been the most
 plentiful for twenty years. Like reports
 have come from Oregon.
 The lronnaonger says that stove-lus.
 ter is blacker, more brilliant, and more
 durable when mixed with turpentine than with any other liquid.
 How to live on nothing year and lay by something-Borrow more money than will cover your expenditure, and never pay. Lots of people do it all the time.
 A bill has been ir rtroduced into the British Parliament for the amendment of the jury law, so that the agreement of eight out of the twelve of the jury shall secure verdict.
 A man who had been knocked sense- less and had his skull fractured, in In- dianapolis, was left lying without at tention all day, on the charitable suppo- sition that. he was drunk.
 The officers of the lost City of Wash ington, according to their own state" ment, did not know that the vessel was laden with steel rails, or did not know where they were slowed.
 The population of the United States is now increasing at the rate of 1,000,- 900 annually. The greater portion of this increase is in the West, where it amounts to OO,OO0 annually.
 A Memphis jury having convicted 8 man of murder, now finds that the SUD- posed murdered man is living. The question is whether the verdict shall be or the man allowed to murder his victim.
 A correspondent of the Courier-Jour- aaGI holds that the cholera has never prevailed as an epidemic in a granite country, but in calcareous or limestone districts, where the water contains or ganic matter.
 We hope MT. Newman, of Greenwich, was laboring under a delusion when he told his fellow legislators at Hartford, that "four-ffths" of them owed their seats to the men who stood behind bars and mixed drinks.
 An Ohio father who sent h1s daughter to university where both sexes are ad- stay there, but he can't see that she learned much except to sigh about the house like sick kitten.
 The new postal card does not seem to be understood in Augusta, Ga. A young man of that city received one, and after tearing at it for some time, said to friend standing by: "See here, Jack, I can't get the darned thing open."
 Two men disputing about the pronun- ,iation of the word !" either "-one say ng it was ee-ther, the other i-ther- agreed to refer the matter to the first person they met, who happened to be ln Irishman, who confounded both by " it's nayther, for it's ayther."
 The Bracken County (Ky) Chronicle 'ays :" One of the most interesting fea- ures of the picnic at Locust Ford, on he 4th, was the dancing of regular Old Virginny Breakdown by the wo candidates for the Legislature, W. T. Marshal and Uncle Vince Ham iton."
 A shrewd clairvoyant in Maine has earned handsome fee by pointing out he exact spot on Jewell's Island where Captain Kidd's treasure lies buried, md avoided exposure by assuring her lupes that whosoever first touched the hidden wealth would infalibly be car jed off by Satan.
 The Rochester Chronicle says: "An xcellent article printed as editorial in he Hudson Register and making two hirds of 8 column, is marred by the occidental omission of @ slight reference O this paper which should have ap- ,eared either at the beginning or close if it. The fault of the pressman doubt ess."
 A loathsome, ulcerous disease has broken out among the cigar smokers in California. Investigation has revealed he fact that among eight thousand Chinese cigar makers there are great many afflicted with this disease, which s, of course, inoculated through the igars which they handle to the mouth if the smokers.
 A Detroit paper tells that lady pas enger on a Michigan avenue car tainted way, and after camphor failed to re- tore her to her senses a man opened is knife and cut her leather belt, 7hich parted with loud snap, when he lady opened her eyes. The belt 7as drawn so tight that the man could carcely work the knife blade under to ut it.
 The following curious advertisement } from an English paper: Wanted, ora family who have bad health, a sober, teady person in the capacity of doc or, surgeon, apothecary, and man mid fife. He must occasionally act as but er, and dress hair and wigs. He will ometimes be required to read prayers, nd to preach sermon every Sunday. good salary will be given.'
 A machinist died lately at the age of fty-four, in Rhode Island, who had cen unable to do any work for twelve ears, and who had never received over 1. 50 per day wages, and yet he left mug little fortune of $15, 1000, all from is own earnings. He was not penuri- us, was married, had one child, and 1ucated her, lived comfortably, and 1essed neatly. He merely saved small ms, beginning with $200 when he be- ame of age, and added the interest of is deposits to the principal.
 There is in Paris 6 woman who has 'r the last fifty years supported her slf by an industry of which she enjoys le monopoly. She supplies the Gar en of Acclimatization with food for le pheasants, which food consists en- rely of ants eggs. These she collects
 the woods, and receives about twelve ancs for what she brings from each of er expeditions. These last three or