Connecticut western news., 1873-04-04
Facts and Fancies:
A maiden speech : "Ask papa.

OnO V0SS0l CdpbuIou OI,OOO oSuAo HI fourteen days in the Bay of Newfound- land.
 The Apache Indians murdered two settlers in Arizona, horribly mutilating the bodies.
 Another of the Bank of England swindlers has been arrested-this one at Jamaica.
 "Fancy Men"-Men who fancy them selves. (N. B.-There are @ pretty lot of those about just now)
 A Minnesota youth hit his horse with a gun to make him go. The horse went, the gun went, and three fingers went too.
 Some sixty head of cattle of Law renceburg, Ind, were poisoned by some miscreant unknown. Forty-nine head are dead.
 An active bachelor in Maine claims to be 1O2 years old but as he "makes his own bed" according to local paper, so he must lie.
 The Saxon Second Chamber has re- solved, by 116 against 12 votes, to pre- serve the present system of trial by jury in all criminal cases.
 When Brigham Young's children sing "Father, dear father, come home" the effect is said to be wonderful. The old man comes home without delay.
 A funeral procession stopped and put out fire on the roof of house in Pennington, Me-, and then solemnly continued on its way to the burying- ground.
 According to the Spanish proverbs, four persons are wanted to make good salad: 8 spendthrift for oil, miser for vinegar, a counselor for salt, and a madman to stir all up.
 The first mule taken down the west shaft of the Hoosac Tunnel was brought up the other day, after three years of residence in the bowels of the earth. His spirits were as gay as ever.
 Three, hundred liberal Catholics of Geneva have signed letter requesting Frere Hyacinthe to assume the pastorate of a flock there the service to be not quite so high-as-in-the genevine Roman Church.
 The Illinois House of Representa- tives, by vote of 163 to 4, adopted 0 resolution severely censuring the Illinois Congressmen who voted to increase their salaries at the end of the late term of Congress.
 The last fashionable kink is popcorn parties. It is claimed that they not only keep young men from another kind of corned parties, but that they are very suggestive of a question they ought to pop.
 There has been discovered in the debris of the fire at Rolling Fork the charred remains of four human bodies, and another is still missing. The fife is believed to have been caused to con- ceal their murder.
 The Baltimore plasterers have de- cided to demand $3. 75 per day from the 31st of March until the 28th of June, and $4 per day thereafter until the 29th day of November, and then 40 cents per hour until the last of the following March.
 The Chicago Post says ': elf Miss Anthony would only advocate an educa- tional or moral qualification, how glad we should be to embrace her-views." ;" Hang it, mango the whole hog while you are at it. Embrace her and her views too.
 The clipper ship Serica, engaged in the tea trade, has been wrecked near Puraceles. Out of crew of twenty nine, including the captain, only one man was saved. All hands at first es- capped on a wraft, which four days after wards went to pieces.
 The snowfall in Maine, as reported for the Maine FI1r1aer by the State College of Agriculture, during the three winter: months just closed, amounted to S2. 50 inches. The snowfall during the corresponding months of last year, was 57.00 solid inches.
 A Frenchman's invention for prevent ing suffocation by choke-damp in mines is tin knapsack which is filled, at Q supply pipe in the mine, with air, and is easily carried on the miners back. A successful experiment. was made with it in the Paris Catacombs.
 Among the bills passed by the XLIId Congress was one prohibiting the use of the word "NationaP' by banking houses. save those which are regularly | incorporated under the laws of Con- gress The penalty of noncompliance with this law is fine of $50 for every day the word remains. A boy of ten years old and girl of nine, living in Detroit, started out into the country the other day to get married. They footed it out four miles, and then having called upon 8 farmer to ask if he didn't want to let them live in part of his house after the marriage, he took them in charge and brought them home
 The fastenings of the trapeze broke from the centre pole in a circus, while two gymnasts were performing upon it ] in Nashville, Tenn. With scream ot terror the men were dashed to the ground, and one of them was taken ur for dead. He was subsequently restor- ed to consciousness, but is seriously Ii not fatally injured.
 The native Sandwich Islanders are rapidly going the way of all flesh. The last census shows that while for the last six years the births on the islands o1 children of foreign parents have exceed ed the deaths of the same, the deaths among all classes of the native popula. ton have exceeded the births at a rate that forebodes the extinction of the native race within thirty years.
 After @ stove has been polished it car be kept looking very well for long time by rubbing it with paper ever. morning. Rubbing with paper IS { much nicer way of keeping the outsid' of 8 tea-kettle, coffee-pot, and tea-po bright and clean than the old way O washing them with suds. Rubbing i the best way or polishing knifes, tin ware and spoons they shine like ney silver. For polishing mirrors, win dows, lamp-chimneys, etc., paper i better than a dry cloth. The biological ability of hen we hay
 never seen before stated. Does tn
 reader know how many eggs your he t of average industry and capacity can la 3 600, we are told, which, in the naturs } course, are distributed in the folloT,n VI !, proportion: First year after ter birth, l6 1d