Connecticut western news., 1873-08-15
Items of Interest.

lu0 Wdy LO IOTScb h1 SOAnAOA miseries-wear tight boots.
 Geometry promises to be popular study in the colleges next year.
 A bad marriage is like an electric machine it makes you dance, and you can't let go. .'t
 The Mayor of Rock Island, H., is the richest man in the city and won't pay his taxes.
 New Hampshire farmers are said to be organizing granges of Patrons of Husbandry in some localities.
 A Troy man is spending $2, ,0O0 in a lawsuit about five and one-eighth inches of land.
 A circus rhinoceros, while being re- moved from a fiat car at Charlotte, Mich, fell upon a man and killed him.
 A St. Louis man went all the way to Boston to get swindled out of $1 ,00C. He might have gotten off much cheaper at home. .,..r
 Twenty-eight Chinese students from eleven to fourteen years old, have been scattered about Connecticut and Mas sachusetts. .'..' ''r
 A Scranton household is enjoying an era of peace. The lady of the house put her tongue to aat-iron to see if it was hot. .pG.. .t -,,...
 The paper-mills at Poland, Me-, ac- complish the conjuring trick of pro- ducing every month 150 tons of paper from 125 tons of rags.
 We never knew a man to be elected to an office of trust who carried horse- chestnuts in his pocket as a preventive of rheumatism. .-. ..a la
 A. T. Stewart is said to be worth $100, ,000, 900, and thinks he would be rich if he had gone early into the real estate business. . ..s,. .,.,. .I ....
 The sunshine which warns and cheers our hearts, exposes the weak spots on our Sunday suits. That's the only objection we have to sunshine.
 A writer in a long ago copy of the Brooklyn Monthly, says "The judi cious mixture of printers ink with the arterial system tends to longevity and content. ..-..- -..,,.-s
 Notwithstanding the popularity of the postal cards not an instance has yet come to light where they have been used in arranging the preliminaries of an elopement. E'
 MT. Bailey, of the Danbury NeeOs, says the females he saw on the Plains looked like an Eastern woman who had a large family, small wages, some debt, and a cold on her lungs.
 Since the cutting down of the ex- change lists, there has been much use- less handling of useless newspapers avoided, and the exchange fend has to some extent discontinued his visits.
 When two men who are digging Q we'll commence to argue the action of those dissatisfied members of the Lon don Archaeological Institute who seeded and founded a new Anthropo- logical Society, you may know they are not attending to business. ......-
 They have & very fine mocking bird at the Nashville Post Office now, who: does the whistling for the whole estab- lishment, thus relieving the clerks from that duty and enabling them to devote all their time and energies to asserting and distributing the mails. .,a .
 Colonel T. w. Higginson (formerly clergyman) says, in the Woman's Jour- aal: "When lawyer says foolish thing in an argument he is pretty sure to find it out; but clergyman may go on repeating his foolish things for fifty years without finding it out for want of an opponent" as ..f
 Lexington, Ky, has incarcerated James Turner who is charged with thirteen murders. He ran at large dur ing the war, staying whom he might, and has been in the same line Of busl- ness since. He is worth quite fortune, but has kept on numbering from naturally cruel disposition.
 A convention of all the Shaw family scattered through the New England states is shortly to be held, for the pur- pose of determining whether they are descended from the Shahs of Persia, and, if so, whether they cannot take up claim to proprietorship in the pearl fisheries of the Persian Gulf.
 A coroner's jury impanelled to as- certain the cause of the death of notorious drunkard, brought in yer dict of "Death by hanging-round a rum shop" In California @ coroner's jury, under similar circumstances, rendered a more courteous verdict Accidental death while unpacking glass"
 An observing woman says she was never so much inclined to laugh at church as Sunday, when, walking down the broad aisle after service, she saw that every woman ahead of her was using her left hand in arranging that portion of her dress adorning her back, and before she was aware of 1t found herself similarly employed.
 A stone merchant of New London took it into his head to perform dan gerous feat last week. Having cut the stone intended for the top piece of the new spire of the Second Congregational Church, he straddled it and was pulled up on it to the top of the spire, where he aided to adjust it in it's place. The spire is the tallest in the town.
 When you see man who is hasten ing across the street to avoid D team, step on piece of mud, and lose his balance, and come to the earth, and tear the skin from both his wrists, and smash his head against @ post, you want to shout as quickly as possiule: "The more haste the less speed" Then you want to pick up your feet, and get out of that neighborhood.
 A West Chester, Pa., merchant set steel trap in the cellar to catch rats, and the next morning it was missing. Afew days thereafter aboy saw strange cat enter the celler carrying piece of meat in her mouth. She went behind Q lot of empty barrels, and presently re- turned without the meat. The barrels were removed, and there was cat eat ing the meat, with one leg fast in the missing trap.
 A man named Clark, who was put in the Massachusetts State Prison for life, in 1861, on charge of arson, was par doned out, ten years after, on show ing that he was in all probability falsely imprisoned, the condition of his release being that he should be recommitted if