Connecticut western news., 1873-07-04
Facts and Fancies.

Bees lately stung little boy to death at Lake City, Iowa.
 A woman's modesty is like her color extremely becoming if not put on.
 A man at Galesburg, H., has been fined $10 for cutting off his wife's hair.
 AS sixty is to one, so are potato bugs to potatoes in Kentucky, according to the papers.
 The people who spend most money at water-places are the old men with young wives.
 A man may as we'll expect to grow stronger by always eating, as wiser by always reading.
 What requires more philosophy than taking things as they come? Parting with them as they go. It is startling fact in natural his- tory that children who are "perfect little lambs " usually grow up to be "mutton heads."
 What more precious thing can a man have than the first love of an innocent girl-with an undivided interest in four teen lots.
 Chicago has q married couple who have lived together for seventy years. This singular conduct is accounted for on the ground of spite.
 A new Texas paper announces it's re- ligious position thus "In religion we are conservative, and we intend to adhere to the cash system"
 Some person asserts that five New York ladies have gone to Paris this spring for the express purpose of hav- ing their faces enamelled.
 A widow in Maine has lately worked out her tax on the highway, and the surveyor said she did her work better than any man in the town.
 During the warm weather the princi- pal occupation of the girl of the period " seems to be sitting on the stoop waiting for the "coming man.
 The Mayor of Philadelphia has quit wandering around nights to see if the police do their duty. The boys got to shooting at him as he crept through the alleys.
 It is asserted that the leading hotels in San Francisco pay thirty three per cent. more for water than for flour, not reckoning what is charged for that mix ed with their milk.
 There is startling belief that Cap- tain Jack, in an interregnum of his melancholy, has confessed to Hooker Jim that he is the real author of "Bet- sey and are Out"
 So many of the county fairs in Ken lucky were failures in their pecuniary results last year that very few will be held in the State this season. Some of the counties will combine and hold con- solidated fairs.
 Eleven Yale students, who had been out serenading boarding-school, were arrested by the New Haven police one night last week. And the charming pupils in the boarding-school had left for their homes the day before.
 The culture of rice is prohibited with in one mile of Savannah, the radius be- ing known as the "dry culture lmits." Twenty three squatters were arrested the other day for violating this provis- ion, and ordered to destroy the growing crop.
 Figurative party.-"So long as / am Man, Sorr, what does it matther to me whether me Great Gra'adfather was an Anthropoid Ape ornot, Sorr!" Literal party. -'"Haw! wather disagweeable for your GoOate- -G,0G'adnaother, wasn't it ?''
 Edward H. Roswell, a murderer of the Mcfarland type, at Hallowell, Me-, has filled twenty pages showing why he should be pardoned. He cites these and other cases to show that, had he been a rich man, he would never have been convicted.
 A Texas paper tells of man who brought in for shipment to St. Louis eight hundred wolf belts. He kills the wolves by putting strychnine in the car casses of animals killed for the purpose and left on the prairies. It often oc- CUTS that he finds as many as forty dead wolves about one of these carcasses.