Connecticut western news., 1873-06-06
Items of Interest.

Meat in London costs double what it did forty years ago.
 The Georgia cotton mills are sad to be paying twenty-five per cent divi- dends annually. s.
 Matrimonial.-AIt is no good now-a- days for & man to offer his hand, If there's nothing in it. .r'...
 The latest bonnet is @ trifle higher than freight on the railroads, and as graceful in proportion.
 Few persons, probably, as rule, sleep SO soundly or enjoy so much un- disturbed repose as night watchmen.
 A little chap six years old, who can not read, astonishes Gainsboro, Tenn, by solving intricate mathematical prob lems.
 Philadelphia turns out more carpets per annum than all other parts of the United States and Great Britain com bined. +| =."'f i7s7 s@
 A New Haven landlord got rid of an obnoxious tenant the other day by re- moving all the doors and windows in the house.
 The limb of the tree on which Cullen, the murder of Aroostook County, Me-, was hung is to be deposited in the Bos- ton Museum.
 It is said that no less than half mil lon dollars worth of gold is annually consumed by the photographers of the United States. -ra-, .s- ... l.- e.-.
 A thief recently snatched $20,000 from collector of the Cienfuegos Rail road in the streets of Puerto Principe, Cuba, and got away with 1t.
 A share in the business was promised cashier of bank recently. "Does that include the embezzlements ?" he modestly asked of the astonished direc- tors. e ..,,u.. .-....-. .-- An Albany paper says: " Ballston girls romantfcafly firt with Curley, the bond robber, through the grated win dow of his apartment, in the jail at that place." .-e "4i.
 Last year the quantity of beer pro- duced in the United States was 2, ,159,- | 17O barrels ninety two half-pint glasses for every man, woman and child in the country.
 The number of men in the United States of the military age-that is, be- tween the ages of eighteen and forty-fve years-was, in 1870, 7,570,487. The number of men who were of the voting age was 9, 443, ,001.
 General Contreras has been nomina- ted to the command of the army of Madrid. Quite right. If any rule is | likely to suit Spain, now that every thing is turned upside down, 1t is "the rule of Contraries.'
 The pleasure yachts of the New York Yacht Club cost $2, ,OOO, 900. The yachts connected with other clubs in and about New York are valued at $1,000, ,000 more. The Eastern Club, of Boston harbor, owns $400, ,000 worth of similar craft. ..rf .-....., ..-.-.----
 The town of Londonderry, N. H., holds it's charter on the condition of giving the Governor of the State peck of potatoes every year, and pays the penalty of it's corporate existence regu- 1arly. It is an old custom, derived from the mother country.
 Dr. Mackenzie Bacon has published the results of his inquiries into the misuse of the phrase softening of the brain," and the habits of physicians of associating the term with certain de- gree of fatuity, or declining intelli- gence. Dr. Bacon says that of all the cases received into his asylum with this diagnosis, in not single one was such lesion of the brain found to exist on post mortem examination. -ss4 s.' ..
 It turns out that the fishermen con- stitute the healthiest classin Massachu- setts. They are the finest looking men, the most robust, and with capacities for great endurance. Their diet, while actually engaged in their vocation, con- sists of fish, pork, potatoes and hard bread, with fresh meat but rarely. It is said to be the custom of invalids from the rural districts, suffering from chronic indigestion or incipient poth- isis, to make an amateur fishing voyage, and often with excellent results. e..