Connecticut western news., 1873-09-26
Facts and Fancies.


 The Oneida Communists are overrun with applications for admission.
 The latest floral offering in Philadel- phia is boquet frozen in the centre of block of ice.
 The U. s. Registered Letter Depart ment earned the government $S5, ,OO0 net profit the past year.
 On some of the wooden railways of Canada trains have been run at the rate of thirty-five miles an hour.
 The most bashful girl we ever heard of was the young lady who blushed when she was asked if she had not been counting sleep. ".. .
 A decree has been issued at Havana that on and after Oct. 1 half of the du- ties on articles of luxury imported into Cuba must be paid in gold. r..
 The London Morning Post says that during the last ten years 2, ,302, 234 per sons emigrated from Great Britain; of these, 76S, 165 were English. Ht
 The new forts around Paris have been begun. There will be twenty-two of them. It is said that when erected the siege of Paris will be impossible.
 Daniel Drew, Thurlow Weed, and Governor Dix, of New York, draw $9 per month from the United States Gov ernment as pensioners of the war of 1872.
 The Norwegian papers publish an ac- count of the discovery of the bodies of eighteen sailors, who were surprised by the ice to the north of Switzbergen and frozen to doath.
 The steamer Jay Cooke, plying be- tween Cleveland and Putin Bay, ran down yawl boat containing nine men. Four were drowned and one had his shoulder broken.
 One of the best puns ever made by the late Phoebe Gary was this: Why was Robinson Crusoe's man Friday like rooster? Because he scratched for himself and C1usoe." a.
 This sad and serious obituary is from Philadelphia paper: Samuel was 8 good child his temper sweet, his as- pect mild, and when he breathed the vital air he often soothed his parents care. ...- A few evenings since coarse upstart having at party exhibited his lack of gentlemanliness in the presence of witty young lady, she remarked, "He's almost perfect brute; all he lacks IS in- stinct. .,..H
 Brigandage still fourishes in some parts of Italy. News from Salerno an nounces the dispersion of a band near that city, its chief Manzi, notorious brigand, with six of his. compatriots, being killed. ...... A gentleman was complimenting a pretty lady in the presence of his wife. ''It is lucky did not meet Miss Hop- kins before I married you, my dear" '" "Well, yes. it is extremely lucky-sor her," was the dry reioinder.
 A country exchange notes that the foliage of many apple trees is disap- bearing. On searching for the cause green worm about four inches long, with single sharp horn, is found. A little care in exterminating these worms will save the trees. .s. A recent railway traveller in Kansas | ceports that hundreds of tons of buffalo bones have been gathered by thesettlers and piled up at the stations awaiting shipment East, where they will be used for making bone-black for the sugar refinery, or ground for manure.
 An order was recently received at 8 Canada hotel to reserve five hundred rooms for party that would soon ar rive, and when a modest Bridgeport man with four friends arrived on the scene, his remarks were not compI- mentary to the telegraph company.
 The first libel suit in Fiji has result ed in victory for -four side." The Fiji Times was prosecuted by the Gov ernment for stating that the officials were endeavoring to incite the natives against the whites. The jury acquitted the editor, and audaciously added that the charge was true. }-II
 During the late war Dr. -, entering the hospital surgery, met Paddy Doyle, the orderly, and asked him which he considered the most dangerous of the many cases then in the hospital. "That, sir, said Paddy, as, with an indicative jerk of the thumb, he pointed to wherey on the table, lay new case of surgical instruments.
 As fashionable young lady, fresh from the boarding-school, came to her honest old fathers breakfast table, in- stead of speaking English and saying, "Good morning." she spoke French and said, "Bcn jour" 'tOf course the bone's yours, if you say so," responded the practical old gentleman, as he hand- ed her the ossifed portion of beef steak, ...
 O." gasped fat Mrs. Weighty, as she ascended the stairs of her new resi- dence, 'I really cannot run up any more stairs" "Of course not" an- swered her husband; "but if the stairs were made of dressmakers' bills, you could run them up very easily" 'I do detest puns," exclaimed Mrs. Weighty, the next day, recounting the conversa- tion to friend. -|
 MT. Fitzjames Stephens, one of the editors of the P0lI Malt Gazette, was a candidate for Parliament from Dundee, and this was the way in which he ad- dressed the voters " If you don't want me, don't have me ; leave me to return to London to my ordinary business. l stand here before you as candidate, not to spend money, because l have not got it, and if I had would not spend it."
 A correspondent at Munich, where there were, at last accounts, several cases of cholera daily, mentions the curious circumstance that the rocks and crows which hitherto flew abont the church steeples, and thronged the trees of the public promenadss, have suddenly left the city, and 1t is asserted that the same thing happened in 1886 and 1854, in which years the capital suf- fered from severe visitation of cholera