Connecticut western news., 1873-07-18
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 , fellows at Vienna, says correspondent averaging fully five inches more il , height than the Austrians. '
 A sacrileglous horse broke into g Pittsburgh church, and kicked around
 among the pews and things till it run
 up bill of $500 for damages. wa The retiring editor of 8 Kansas paper
 "valedicts himself as follows :---" If
 have said anything through the columns
 that I am sorry for I am glad of it. To
 my friends, I thank you for your liber-
 ality, and to my enemies, you can go to
 the devil n.
 meeting at Dover the other day, at
 1873 was given at PISA, 730 baskets
 This estimate is over 100, ,000 baskets
 more than that of last year, when the
 yield was 500,000 baskets more than
 the estimate. With an equal margin,
 the crop this year will be very large.
 Washington's Headquarters at Morris
 town, N. J., sold at auction, was pur-
 chased by ex-Governor Randolph, MT.
 W. V. Lidgerwood, of Morristown 1;
 George Halsey, and General N. Hal
 tention of the purchasers is to hold it
 for the State until the Legislature
 meets, when, if so desired, they will
 transfer it without profit.
 Saying smart things without regard
 to their exact fairness is one thing, to
 say them oNly in the interests of the | f1.11f fn fox.
 difficult. Journalists especially, often
 let their itch for writing pungent para
 graphs lead them into giving false inn
 pressions. The good writer is the one
 who puts matter in its truest light
 rather than the one who flashes the most
 wit around it.
 A Worcester man claims to have con-
 structed the smallest steam engine in
 the world, with boiler holding three
 drops. The engine, boiler, governor
 teenths of an inch square and i've
 eighths of an inch high, and contains one hundred and forty-eight distinct parts. The longest screw is one-eigh- ieth of an inch, and the smallest about
 tne-thousandth of an inch in size. -"
 Efforts will be made this autumn by the Episcopalians of Boston to com mence the erection of cathedral in that city. The new Bishop will proba- bly, give his earnest support to such an undertaking. At least one million dol lars will be required to erect such an ediice on some central location. As cathedral would have daily morning and evening service constantly main- tained, it needs very central and con- venient location.
 An Ohio paper states that some of the articles of commerce sold as lard is really corn meal larded. The process of manufacture is to melt the lard and then add the meal, stirring the mixture well together. When meal is sixty cents bushel, and lard twelve and half cents pound, it is evident that the profits to the manufacturer must be inn mense. The Yankee wooden nutmegs and basswood hams compare favorably with this specimen of rascalty. .l.sa'.
 Always marvellous stories will be told to support impossible theories. At Ironton, Ohio, young person was drowned. Search was going on for the body, when an old woman appeared and asked that an unwashed shirt of the boy should be thrown into the river, declaring that it would disappear directly over the place where the body was. Need we say that it was thrown in !; that it did disappear, and that the body was brought up just in that spot with graphing hook?
 The esfant terrible of Washington family, whose sister Eliza is shining belle in society, was allowed a seat near one of the distinguished guests at 8 dinner-party given by his father, the other day, and in the midst of the mer- riment, he startled the company by pro- posing the conundrum, "Why is father like the devil ?" A painful pause en- sued, and as no one ventured to answer, he shouted out, Because he is the father of Lize!" Probably no boy in the country was ever put to bed quicker than he on that occasion.
 A Rhode Island farmer, driving into Woonsocket few mornings ago with 8 load of produce, had occasion to cross @ railroad. He heard train coming, but thinking he could cross before it arrived, he whipped up his horse into run, and struck the track Unhappily there was slight miscalculation on his part as to the time and distance. The engine smashed his wagon, killed his horse, scattered his garden truck, and threw him about fifteen feet, though not injuring him severely. He says that hereafter he will let the train go by. ..... ... ..
 Two men came from the extreme northern part of Rhode Island the other day, for the purpose of digging for gold and silver in what Is called Quaker's Hollow near Salt Lake, Wakefield. These two men, with strong faith in dreams and fortune-tellers, worked, as men only work for the treasures of this world, through the heat of the day and into the evening, but how much treasure they succeeded in digging from mother earth is not known, but they were seen to drive at break-neck pace through the village late in the evening in close carriage, and some say that they had a large chest filled with the filthy lucre.
 It seems, even now, that when any man either loses his wits or desires to, acquire little notoriety, he goes to the nearest police station, delivers himself up, and declares he is the murderer of MT. Nathan. This has become so com mon in many of the towns and cities of the West that the police consider such D self-accusation as the precursor of deLiriuna tren,ens. One of the fancied Nathan murderers went to the Leaven- worth (Kausas) station, the other day, with the stereotyped story, which so ir- ritated the policeman in charge that he told the fellow "that business is played out" and forcibly elected the self-im-, agined assassin from the premises.
 The young ladies of Vassar College include horseback riding and rowing among their other accomplishments. On the bosom of the little lake at the foot of the College hill there is quite . cluster of boats, and the fair browed, saucy eyed girls make themselves much at home on the water. They pull an easy oar, and in the boats look the