Connecticut western news., 1873-07-25
Facts and Fancies.

ing of all garments i; it is seldom worn
 out.
 Over 200 New England spiusters went 3 to Utah last month in search of frac- = ii 'nal matrimony. Two licenses to sell opium in Hono- 5 lulu were recently sold at auction, and were bought for $2S, 1000. ,, pr. Holmes, being asked by young :, physician what sign to put on his door, 7 replied. "The smallest levers gratefully ,, received"
 , Imitation meerschaum pipes arc now made out of pototoes soaked in diluted sulphuric acid, and afterward dried under great pressure. Cincinnati is confident that it contains enough kerosene storehouses and whis-
 key distilleries to take the shine out of Chicago and Boston in the matter of
 great fires one of these days. A Portland, Me, frut-dealer received
 bite the other day from young tar
 antula that had been brought from
 Cuba in bunch of bananas The
 wound was very painful, but not fatal.
 It has been decided by the Postmas-
 ter General that nothing shall be pasted
 on postal card, such as newspaper
 clippings, &c. The Department agrees
 to cary only the card and whatis written
 on it.
 In digging we'll in White Plains,
 Nevada, recently, stream of water of
 boiling heat was reached at a depth of
 eighty-two feet This is probably the
 first artificial we'll of boiling water ever
 made.
 A Troy lady had returned to her last
 week, without any explanation, an
 enameled breast-pin, which she lost
 twelve years ago. Her faith ia human
 nature has been increased correspond
 ingly.
 The fate of the Kentucky man who
 purchased his coffin at auction dozen
 years ago, and was recently entirely
 consumed in a lime-kiln, is said to have
 delighted the hearts of the local under
 takers.
 An exhibition is announced in Paris
 of specimens of the art of "paddling,"
 and of other methods whereby artificial beauty and unreal charms are success | fully imposed upon credulous and de-
 voted men.
 It is suggested that persons who go about with their Cashmere shawls turn ed inside out to show that they are genuine, should adopt the custom of walking on their heads, to show that their boots are soled. MT. Thomas Allen has offered to give the Athen@um, in Pittsfield, Mass, $50, ,000 for the erection of @ stone build ing for its uses, provided his associate trustees will see that en equal sum is raised to endow the institution.
 The culture of rice is prohibited with Tn one mile of Savannah, the radius be- ing known as the "dry culture imits.' Twenty-three squatters were arrested tho other day for violating this prohibi-, tion, and ordered to destroy the grow ing crop.
 It is related that Frenchman took lodgings in Paris recently, one of the conditions being that he should be call ed every morning and told what day of the week 1t was, what was the condition of the weather, and under what form of government he lived.
 A conscientious Pittsburgh man promised his wife the other day that he wouldn't drink another drop as long as he had a hair on his head. That very night he had his head shaved smooth, and then got drunk with proud con- sciousness of having faithfully kept his promise.
 "Saratoc trunk on the brain," is now fully recognized by the medical faculty as malady peculiar to the fashionable women of New York. A brilliant im- beetle says that the trunks have an ad- vantage over the women, inasmuch as they wear their own locks, which the women don't.
 The women of Pittsburg arose at four o'clock Monday morning recently, jn- tending to do the weeks washing early; but just as the clothes were thoroughly soaped the Water Commissioners cut off the water, and during the rest of the day the women held meetings with Mrs. Nexdor.
 The public debt statement shows reduction during June of $2, ,145, ,l59 S9. Coin balance. $87, ,507, 402 69; Currency balance, $9, 783, 529; Coin certificates, s39, ,460, ,0O0; Special deposits for the of Legal Tenders, $3l, ESQ., poo Legal Tenders outstanding $356,- 100000.
 That was very touching incident hat of the little school girl who refused ,o define the word clown as ta low, vul- gar fellow," and for her stubbornness vas punished with the ferule and de- 'ained in play hours, all to no reforma- ory end. The little child's father proved 0 be clown in a circus.
 The costume of young lady now days Is 8 curious mixture of styles. The arrangement of the hair is Greek, he ruff is Eizabethan, the jacket Louis Quatorze, the fan re- presents the Trianon epoch, and the ewelry is probably Moorjsh or Etrus- an.
 Chicago politeness is thus depicted y the Post: "During dog days the rue gentleman may be recognized by he alacrity with which he gives his eat on tine sunny side of a street car to he first handsome young lady that gets n board, while he goes out on the hady platform for a smoke"
 Several members of the Elmira, I~Y., Farmers Club state that in their xperience Alsike clover makes one rop of nice sweet pasture in 8 season, ut the second growth amounts to al- lost nothing. The President said that ay from it, when bright, was no better elished by COWS than damaged red lover.
 The New York correspondent of the 'hicago Tribune writes: Speaking, he other day, to gentleman well ac- uainted with public men, .on the sub- ect of their capacity and habits of 'ork, he remarAhd that the hardest 'orker he had ever known was Caleb ushing. Cushing told my informant nat, for twenty-five years, he had spent eventeen out of every twenty four ours in intellectual notwithstanding, or writing-giving himself ut seven hours for rest and recreation, ushing has an extraordinary constitu- on and the most vigorous health, and eceives such pleasure from absorbing rental occupation Chat it has by long ! ablt become second nature to him. le is now seventy at 1east and of lata