Connecticut western news., 1873-10-10
Items of Interest.

Items of Interest.
 A man died lately at Nashville, from the bite of |" small spider having small red spot on his back" t...
 A hearty response has been made to the afflicted people of Shreveport, La., from all sections of the country. ,s
 When female neighbors quarrel now a-days, they don't spring for each oth- CTS hair. Things have changed.
 Very few horses eat corned beef, but we saw one standing the other day be- fore store with bit in his mouth.
 A full-freighted schooner, the name of which is unknown, suddenly sunk in the Mersey, carrying down all on board.
 A New York chemist says he can re- landlords have had ten years the start of him.
 The yellow fever is reported at Full ton, the terminus of the Cairo and Full ton R. R., also at several of the smaller towns in Northern Louisiana.
 No actor has yet been able to counter feit that expression of joy which man shows when discovering @ ten-oent stamp in his paper of tobacco.
 A tea merchant at Peoria had his ad vertising wagon follow funeral pro cession, and it was very properly tip ped into the ditch by the mourners.
 The man who doesn't like Mount Washington, because he can't stand the climb it, should keep quiet. He will find it precious hard work to run it down.
 Bath, Me-, has built and launched thirty-seven vessels of various rigs and tonnage since the beginning of the year, and has nineteen others now on the stocks. t'sa. ."s
 Three years ago @ person was privi- legged to view all parts of the Falls of Niagara by paying fifty cents to cross the bridge to Goat Island. Now 1t costs $11.6 ........
 A pensioner of the war of 1872, who has since received d government allow ance of $240 and has never spent cent of it, is new said to be the richest man in Rockingham county, New Hamp- shire.
 Woolen fabrics associated with velvet or of corresponding shade are to be preferred this season to costumes made entirely of silk, comparatively few of the latter being visible among the fall importations. ...-.. ..ta
 The New York Central Railroad Go. is going to build at Albany two hog pens, each 700 feet long by no feet wide, -and has advertised for proposals for masonry, sewerage, carpenter work, plumbing and slate roofing.
 A peculiar throat disease in Luzerne county, Penn., is mentioned by the Scranton 7yn,es of Saturday last as hay ing proved fatal to upwards of sixty night.
 A doctor of Portsmouth protests against the tolling of bells at funerals. He thinks the sound has depressing effect upon the sick, and can not prove source of much enjoyment to the de- parted. .. .,
 How the heart of Horace Greeley would have been delighted with the little piece of cable news, that one hun dred tons of American bar iron sold at Liverpool at s11 10s., thus underselling the, English market.
 The engineers on some of the Penn sylvania railroads amuse themselves by earring tame trout in the water tanks of their locomotives, where they are said to flourish, spite of the constant motion to which they are subjected.
 An Essex street man bought Q pig Saturday. "What do you feed your pig?" asked neighbor. Corn" he said. "Do you feed itTin the ear ?" asked the friend. t'Do you think am 8 fool?" said the Essex street man, sarcastically. '-1 3.' "' t.
 There was violent storm on the Black Sea whichTproved very destruc- tive to shipping. Seventy vessels were wrecked nsar the mouth of the Bospho- rus, and nearly all on board perished. At one point on the coast over two hun dred and sixty corpses have been washed ashore. t"
 Farmers will be interested to know that an agriculturist has discovered an insect that will destroy. the potato bug. There is one slight objection to this new bug, however. It bores into the potato to lie in wait for the other bug. Natu- rally the potato suffers. The agricultu- rist fondly hopes to discover another bug that will destroy the bug that de stroys the potato bug. .. 5res
 "The Human Frog" is the name given to a deformed inmate of the Orleans county poorhouse, near Albion, in N. Y. State, who was born in the building twenty eight years ago, and has never but once moved outside it's yard. His legs and arms are con- tracted in such way that he hops around after the manner of the animal from which he takes his name, and his only enjoyment consists in "lying Ill the sun covered with muck and dirt"
 A medical man, discoursing upon sleep, makes this remark: "One man may do with little less sleep than an- other; but, as a general rule, if you want clerk, lieutenant, a lawyer, a physician, legislator, judge, Q presi= dent, or pastor, do not trust your in- terests to any man who does not take on the average eight good solid hours of sleep out of every twenty-four. What ever may be his reason for it, if he does not give himself that, he will snap some time just when you want him to be strong"
 A Chapter of CaIamities.