Connecticut western news., 1873-09-12
Facts and Fancies.

cent. Tn the London m8rKeG, owing uo the great supply.
 A $5,OOO libel suit against country paper Tn Illinois has been settled by tho payment of $15.
 A bull in Daviess County, Ind, com- mitted suicide because he was whipped by another bull.
 The thermometer stood at 100 degrees in the shade at Walla Walla, Oregon, for seven days, recently.
 Persons caught in France with pieces of the castings from the Vendoms Col umn are sentenced to a years imprison- ment.
 Lexington, Ky, offers to exempt from taxation for ten years any manufactur- ing establishment employing fifty or more hands.
 The Chinese military authorities at Tientsin have forbidden the soldiers to smoke opium, and punish them severe ly for so doing.
 The diversified industry of New Eng land finds representative in the Dan- bury man, who repairs jewelry, bleeds horses and digs wells.
 A boy in Danbury after being bitten by horse was asked by gentleman if ne was muCn nurb, r0plleu bIlue buo horse was only fooling."
 In the San Francisco city prison, re- gently, a cherry root pipe was discov- cred in one of the cells, in the stem of which were concealed four fine steel saws. The Vermont Central R. R. furnishes several of the conductors and engineers with first-class watches, costing $150 each, and they are charged to those who hold them.
 A Trenton (Mich) girl of sixteen, the other day, jumped from the cars while under full motion, and picked herself up and climbed rail fence before the train could be stopped.
 There is a bridge in Japan made of bamboo. It is single span of 60 feet, 100 feet above the water, and without railing. It sways in a manner that ter rifles nervous pedestrians.
 Give your reader creqlt for some little intelligence-for at least enough to know when word needs to be em- phasized without having the fact thrust down his throat by Q tipsy squad of reeling italics.
 A citizen of Hartford, Ct., recently left sum of money, the interest of which is to be expended in providing the inhabitants of the city poor house with dinner every New Years and Thanksgiving day.
 The frog needs no ether or chloro- form to keep him quiet strange to say, 0 dip in lukewarm water for half a minute will so completely deprive a frog of sensation that he may be cut to
 pieces and feel no pain.
 A New York lawyer made 8 telling point for his client when he said that he did not keep gambling house within the meaning of the statute, because in- stead of men playing at a game of chance they played at Ca dead sure thing"
 Many of the COWS about Cairo and vicinity are going blind, temporarily, however. The cause is thought to be a wild weed that resembles the common thistle, which comes in contact with the face of the cattle, while hunting the grass on the commons.
 A man who is "afraid of bees, and does not like to come near them," had better not engage ill aPiculture. The winged workers bring their richest stores only to him who enjoys their company, who considers their ways and comprehends their wants.
 A John Bull, conversing with an In- dian asked him if he knew the sun nev- CT sets in the Queens dominions.
 "No," said the Indian. Do you know the reason why ?" asked John. Be
 cause God is afraid to trust an English man in the dark" was the savage's reply.
 The Clinton (Mo.) AdUocate says
 there are more farmers around just now than was ever known before. Some gentlemen who never handled any spades but the "Jack," or raised any corn except in glass, are now claim
 ing to bave been lifelong agricultu-
 rists.
 A man has committed suicide off
 Shakspeare's Cliff, at Dover. When third of the way up the cliff he sat down on the grass, and after taking off hisIhat put two large stones and a card in 1t, lay down on the edge of the cliff, covered his face with his hands, and relied over , sideways. Pleas do not like strong and fragrant . odors, such as lavender, musk and
 thyme. An application of chloride of 7 lime will expel them from rooms, but r carpets should be taken up and shaken and the floors washed with solution of the drug. Carbolic acid soap is the ) next best thing. It is told of young gentleman whom r maiden liked, but her father didn't, that at reasonable hour the old gent 3 mildly interrupted that the time for re" , tiring had arrived. "I think you are l correct, my dear sir" answered nine t teenth century, modestly, "we have 8 been waiting for over an hour for you , to put yourself in your little bed" The g father retired thoughtfully. 3 A clergyman, who had come through n some strange vicissitudes of life, was charged at the Birkenhead (England) Police Court, the other day, with having
 been found asleep in a field at West
 Kirby. The prisoner had been at one
 time Rector of Luckington, and he
 stated that, through mining specula- tions, he had lost G7, ,O00, and had beenl a obliged to go abroad. On his return e he could get nothing to do, and he was grant. The magistrate ordered the , discharge of the prisoner. q A curious accident occurred during Q : recent thunderstorm at Oil City, Pa. f The lightning struck an oil-tank, capa- ble of holding 10000 barrels of oil, but 9 containing about 5000 at the time of q the occurrence. The bolt struck the l top of the tank at the edge and ran g completely around the periphery of the g top, cutting off the head of every bolt f that fastened the top to the side. The y top was raised about two feet by the @ concussion, and the oil took fire, send !. ing the immense body of flame high in : the air. In an instant the top fell back
 to it's nosition instantly smothering the