Connecticut western news., 1873-01-10
Items of Interest.

so many Havana cigars as this.
 A Maine breach of promise suit, four teen years old, has, at last been termin- ated by the death of both parties to it. A Chouteau avenue (St. Louis) girl frankly confesses that her advocacy of the woman's rights movement is due to an insane desire to wear red-top boetH and a pistol pocket.
 Mrs. Mary O. Mast, widow of the late register of deeds of Leavenworth, Co.,, Kan, has been appointed by the Board of County Commissioners to succeed her late husband in that office.
 A Georgia woman is credited with having raised a large family, although net out of her teens. It was her moth er-in-law's family, and she did it with a keg of gunpowder planted in the cellar.
 The Khedive of Egypt has ordered the wedding outfit of his daughter to be made in Paris. One of the items of the order is founces of point d'Alenoon at $500 yard, and $30, ,000 of other laoes are to be added.
 A parent in New Albany, Ind, who had fifteen daughters, has poisoned his dog, taken the locks off the doors ard hung rope ladders over his dooryard fence by the dozen, and still the pro- vision bill is as ever.
 Miss Florence Birney, daughter of General Birney, has been learning to set type in the office of the Dedham (Mass.) Gazette for the past six months, and last week she went South to assist ia editing newspaper.
 A maiden of sixty lately died in Vest moreland, England, and left $500, ,000 to Q gentleman who had captured her ma ture affections. The will is now being contested on the ground of irregularity, incapacity, and ignorance.
 An ill-used husband around the lola (Kan. Register office makes this obser- vation: eff Susan B. and her conferees get shut up in prison for illegal voting, we know lots of men who will urge their wives to try voting next time.
 Nettie Clauser, young woman of sweet fifteen, in Angelica, Shawano Co.,, Wis, will give her left hand to her hus- band in marriage, if she ever gets one. Her right hand was shot off last week while she was gracefully caressing revolver.
 A young woman in Virginia, feeling socially inclined toward neighbor the other side of formidable river, and having no horse convenient, made the transit in safety and dryness recently by taking two. chairs and using them as stilts.
 The Cleveland girl who shot Henry Prinz, otherwise known as Harry May nard, the gymnast, whose home was at Syracuse, gets off with no punishment at all, the grand jury before whom the | no11al 1a1,n,v,,,n. ah to have been accidental and refusing to indict her.
 The time has come when the ques- tion of false weights and measures must be met squarely and settled. When the public refrain from buying fraudulent packages, the dealers will quickly re- form, and not before. By taking this course, the public will be law for themselves.
 The London Lancet says the medical
 officers of the British navy preserve
 their surgical instruments from rust by
 a mixture of carbolic acid and olive oil,
 in equal parts, smeared over them. How
 the acid can increase the effect of the
 oil is not plain, but, if it really does 1t,
 the plan is worthy of adoption. The great-grandfather of Thomas
 Edwards died at one hundred and four I teen his grandfather at one hundred
 and four but the father died at the l early age of sxty-seven. His young l son, Edward, now only ninety five. = recklessly committed matrimony with a : chit of seventy. This is what comes of l being an unadvised orphan.
 Noble county, Ohio, a county of 4OC l o1Ynnra poi1oc with o otion nf 90 . '. 900 persons, has not one single grog- I shop. The liquor nuisance was abated ' there in 1870 by the enforcement of the ! Liquor Law. Not felony has been n committed, not glass of liquor sold. f not one person in prison, in that county = for two years; nor have the crimina n courts had @ solitary criminal to try fol e any oFense.
 Innumerable butterflies lately visited s the city of Florence, in clouds so dense ,t say the Italian papers, that the gas
 lights were obscured, and the streets a ]. night rendered almost perfectly dark e The municipal authorities immediatel. 7. ordered fires to be lighted, which at e tracted the insects and burned of thet 1. wings, so that in a short time the street.
 were covered with their white bodies t' h the depth of half an inch, as if with }. fresh fall of snow. js The term horsepower, as applied t. 5. steam boilers, is so indefinite that it ha n come to be regarded by many engineer y as practically valueless. A oommitte ,e recently appointed by the Franklin In % stitute of Philadelphia, recommends
 that its use be discontinued. One of tn le members said that horsepower, as tn % term was used by different engineer IT and boiler-makers, indicated an actua g power, which in one case sometime
 varied one hundred per cent. from ths l. in another.
 'h In speaking of the establishment ,n Holy-tree Coffee-Houses, MT. Beeche IS recently remarked: "Talk of & temper 'd ance reformation---I think that coffe es reformation is needed in this countr, 'n I have travelled all over the length an
 breadth of this land, and only in one n- tive instances have l ever been able IS get cup of real good coffee. As rule Tn cup of coffee Is swindle and a cheai ry and it will be good thing if there ca to be established some places where ther 1e can be obtained 0 cup of pure coffee CT and good bread also."
 LII A great botanican work by Prof. Do r caisneon the genus Pyrus, or pear-tree' m he has just been published at Paris, in tn amo m French language of course. There al ie fourteen hundred varieties of this fru . in the Jardon des Plantes. The authc ho regards all cultivated pears as belongin w ru to one species, divided into six race Itiyy which he names 1st Celtic 2nd. Ge o JIG manic Sd. Hellenic 4th. Pontic; 5tl '"- Indian, and 9th. Mongolan. The pea
 of France, which it seems are used e T." tensively in the manufacture of char he paene aV npein"' gelcns o,,r ~,