Connecticut western news., 1873-01-03
Items of Interest.

Items of Interest.
 An Indiana paterfamilias whose spouse has filled his culver with twelve sons and fifteen daughters wishes te know if that isn't sufficient cause fer Q divorce.
 A writer claims to have demonstrated that sea water contains gold in solution in the proportion of one grain Of gold to one ton of water. Unfortunately this enormous amount of gold in the ocean is destined to remain there.
 A saw has been lately on exhibition in New York for cutting stone, which con sists of steel-plate armed with dia- mond points. The saw will cut through five feet of brown stone in an hour, arfd other stone in longer time in propor- tion to it's hardness. .....s5.
 One hundred and sixty-one persons have died in England during the past ten years, whose personal property alone exceeded five million dollars in each case. Only ten of them left this small amount the rest ranged from that sum up to fifteen millions each. s -.'es The time has come when the ques- tion of false weights and measures must be met squarely and settled. When the public refrain from buying fraudulent packages, the dealers will quickly re- form, and not before. By taking this course, the public will be @ law for themselves. .... .e.r
 The London Lancet says the medical their surgical instruments from rust by o >f r111so oo11 op1 nISvA oil in equal parts, smeared over them. How the acid can increase the effect of the oil is not plain, but, if it really does 1t, the plan is worthy of adoption.
 MT. J. Hind, the astronomer, believes himself to be on the track of planet which revolves between Mercury and the Sun, having period of revolution of nineteen days: On the 24th of March next there will be general search madefor the stranger by all astronomers, conjunction of the supposed planet with the sun being then expected.
 At the London Geological Gardens, after several disappointments, young hippopotamus has been safely brought into the world. The infant prodigy is pounds, is of a mahogany color, takes
 
 and enjoys life and makes its keeper anxious by remaining under water for fifteen minutes at time.
 A new sect has sprung up in London, whose members call themselves the Rowling Repentants. They have al- ready made some noise in the world, and are the victims of prosecution. People object most lliherally to their peculiar style of devotion, which is to howl perpetually day and night. The police, however, break in upon them while thus engaged, and haul them be- fore the judges and cast them into prison, and strive to make repentant howlers of them. -
 A California paper describes the dis who are supposed to be survivors of the Aztecs. They dwell on the great trail from the Colorado to the Rio Grande, and live near the so-called dia- mond fields of Arizona. There arc 2,OOO souls in these villages. The peo- pie are friendly, cultivate the soil, pos sess manufactures, and @ certain sort of civilization. They worship Great Spirit, who they believe inhabits the sun.
 Much study is evidently being given to American affairs by the conductors of English journals, and the fruits are very apparent. For instance, in an article in the London Telegraph of late date we find the following state ment: One of the most singular of the numerous products of California is fig brandy. From seven trees there were produced last year two hundred pounds of dried figs and twenty-five gallons of brandy. The brandy was sold at $5a gallon and the dried figs for twenty five cents pound.
 A strange incident occurred recently at the Poultry Show in New Havep. The judges were examining large male fowl belong to MT. 0. A. Crosby, of Danbury, and had just got through handling him and had placed him back in the cage, when he dropped down and died. It is thought that his death was caused by apoplexy, induced by the ex- from the cage. MT. Crosby had but a for him, and was waiting for the judges to close their examination. ...s-.
 The Laugh of Woman. "A woman has no natural gift more bewitching than sweet laugh. It is like the sound of flutes on the water. It leaps from her in clear, sparkling Till, and the heart that hears it feels as if bathed in cool, exhilarating spring. Have you ever pursued fugitive through trees, led on by a merry laugh---now there, now lost, now found? We have, and we are pur-' suing that wandering voice to this day. Sometimes it comes to us in the midst of care or sorrow, or irksome businesss, and then we turn away the evil spirit of mind. How much we owe to that sweet laugh it turns prose to poetry 1t brings sunshine to flowers, over the wood in which we are travelling; it touches with light even oursleep, wMch is no more than the image of death, but is consumed with dreams that are the shadows of immortality. .a''o
 The New Steam Pump.