Connecticut western news., 1873-11-28
Items of Interest.

Items of Interest.
 "Boy, what's become of the hole I saw in yo UT pants the other day ?" Young American, carefully examining his unmentionables-" It's worn out, sir."
 According to the estimate of the Street Commissioners, the cost to Bos- ton of widening and improving streets in the district swept by the great fire is $5, ,O70, ,000.
 A Missouri farmer was told by Q fortune-teller that there was a lake of coal under his farm and he spent nine thousand dollars to find out that he had been fooled.
 The manner of advertising for hus- band in Java is by placing an empty fower-pot on the portico roof, which IS as much as to say: Young lady here Husband wanted.
 "Where shall I put this paper so as to be sure of finding 1t to-morroWF induired Mary Jane of her brother Charles. "On the looking-glass" was her brothers reply.
 The Chicago ZVnaes would be obliged if publishers and writers would under stand that brevity is not only the soul of wit. but the essence of wisdom. "A big book is tank, short book IS spring."
 Potatoes on many farms are stll i'll the ground. Make an effort to get them out at once. Nothing is to be gained by delay. The days are getting shorter and the weather colder and more un- certain.
 Over four hundred acres of land have been bought in the town of Brighten, N. Y., for 0 colony of Dutch people ex= pected there soon. The land cost one hundred thousand dollars, and will be sold to them by auction.
 At 8 meeting held by several of the leading merchant tailors of Boston, It was resolved to publish in two of the daily papers a list giving the names sand residences of such customers as are dil- atory in paying for the goods furnished them.
 The work on the Hoosac tunnel has been carried so far that the workmen on each face can hear the blows oi the drills on the other side of the thln in- tervening barrier, and in a few days passage will be opened through the mountain.
 A bright-eyed Italian boy stopped with his organ before dairy window, and, after playing for while, examined the rotary churn which was there Tn operation. "My churn is the best, he said, at last. It makes bread ana butter yours only makes butter"
 A new item in the fashion of ladies' dress was accidentally introduced in one of the churches Sunday. A lady wear ing an elaborate Elizabeth ruff-black silk, lined with sky satin-wore directly under the chin small paper on which was marked the price-$l 20.
 At Bannavie, the parish schoolmas- ter, out of curiosity, put the question to the scholars, "What is nothing ?" A pause ensued, until an urchin, whose proclivities for earning penny were we'll known among his school fellows, got up and replied, "It's when man asks you to hold his horse and just says thank ye."
 The farmers of Martin county, Minn., denounce "the practice of paying county officers extravagant salaries to enable them to put on style and play croquet at the expense of the county. If county officials would confne them selves to the harmless pastlme of cro- ouet, there would be less need for the extravagant salaries.
 An English paper relates the follow ing curious incident "It IS now eleven years since live bee got into the ear of MT. Reed, the baker ot the Woburn work-house. A few days since, when his ear was syringed, extraord1- nary to relate, forth came bee 1n as perfect a state as when alive, even to the wings, the wax of the ear having preserved it from decay"
 A Justice of Guthrie county, Iowa, decided in the case of a citizen who brought suit against his daughters lover for ejecting him from his own parlor one Sunday night, that courting is necessity, and must not be inter rupted, therefore the laws of Iowa wild hold that parent has ho legal right in room where courting is afoot and so the defendant was discharged and the plaintiff had to pay the costs.
 The new Trinity College buildings at Hartford are to consist of four quad rangles, and they will contain within them nearly four acres of ground. The plans contemplate furnishing accommo- dation for three hundred students, though at first dormitories for only one hundred and fifty will be erected. The plans have been prepared by London architect, and the architecture is to be the early English which fourished 1n the thirteenth century.
 A gentleman cab driver, MT. Sack vile Gwynne, has recently died in Liverpool. He was the son of Col. Gwynne, and was connected with an old Carmathenshire family. Owing to family quarrels he voluntarily exiled himself some time since and became regular cab driver. He was liked by his associates, but treated strangers with reserve. He died at the age seventy-three, but almost to the las was to be seen on the cab box.
 A suit is about to be brought in Ind;- ana to test the question whether the statute forbiding persons with visible mixture of negro blood to marry white is or is not in conflict with the Civil Rights law and recent constitutional amendments. The suit is in behalf of Edward Brown of Indianapolis, con- victed last spring of marrying white woman, and sentenced to five years in the penitentlary. The result will be looked for with interest, as there are several other States in which similar law exists, and some in which 1t is en' | forcad.