Connecticut western news., 1873-04-11
Items of Interest.

 He who talks, sows; he who listens, reaps.
 Brown check patterns will be largely used in materials for gentlemen's wear this season.
 The Welsh miners lost, it is said, some SC, GOO, ,000 by their late unsuccess- | full strike.
 A Memphis man took smallpox from clothes that had been kept in trunk | for six years.
 The Erie Rrailway depot at Pavonia Ferry, Jersey City, was injured by fire with loss of $279,000. A correspondent out West is surprised to find almost every other mans nose having the look of the blushing cran- berry.
 The New Orleans Times says that the daily interest on what that city owes is $4,O00. Nice old town to hold real estate in.
 The Virginia State Library has &C., quired a Revolutionary relic - the original pay roll of the British forces under Cornwallis.
 A band of counterfeiters of Spanish and Mexican coins have been arrested in Panama. Their work has been in progress long.
 Great agitation prevails among the | Polish peasants in Russia through an unfounded report that serfage will again be introduced.
 It is the general belief that decent, respectable man is safer on the out skirts of the Modoc camp than on Q New York street car.
 A juvenile Frenchman lately attempt ed to kill his father III order that he might be the only son of widow and so escape conscription.
 An amendment to the Porto Rico Slavery Abolition bill, providing for gradual abolition, was rejected by the National Assembly of Spain.
 The subscription price of the Li6eriG Advocate, @ monthly paper just started at Monrovia, is "one bushel of unhull- ed coffee per annum in advance"
 A Kentucky paper, in reporting a wedding, says that the bride was not particularly handsome, but her father threw in seven mules, and the husband was satisfied.
 A dramatic critic overheard gentle man observe to another in stall at the
 
 woman; old and parched as she is, they say she still turns mems heads." "Yes; the other way, was the reply.
 The society editor who was kicked out of house in Washington the other day, took sweet revenge in stating that the wife of the kicker appeared at ball at tired in @ lovely pongee skirt made of government drawers for infantry.
 f IL I.
 acted that married women may receive
 directly from their employers the
 wages or compensation for labor per
 formed by them, and that the money so
 earned shall be free from the debts and
 control of their husbands.
 A bill has passed the Tennessee Leg
 islature amending the tippling laws of
 the State, leaving the question to the
 vote of the people of the different dis
 tricts wards, &c., on the 1st of June, whether they will allow tippling-
 in their respective localities. A. woman in Providence was called
 to the witness-stand in court with 0 baby in her arms. Not wishing to tes- tify in the case, she secretly pinched the baby until she was suffered temper ary absence from the room to soothe it's wailings, when she trudged off beyond , recall.
 The Newburg, Ohio, smokers are searching for the chap who was so hard up that he had to sell his fifty dollar :, meerschaum for five dollars to get 1 money to take him home. He sold F hundred or so quietly around town and l then left hurriedly. The scene, when the purchasers exhibited their prizes next morning, was queer. An old bachelor said "there's darned sight more jewelry worn nowadays } than when I was young. But there's one piece that always admired that I don't often see now" "What is that?" asked 0 young lady. GA thimble," was the reply He was regarded with con , tempt and scorned by every lady in the room for the rest of the evening. !, In their Chestnut Circular, Messrs.
 Storrs, Harrison x Co.,, give the follow
 ing figures showing ''the number of trees to an acre at equal distances: {: Five feet each way, 1,742 six feet each
 way, 1,200; eight feet each way, 6S0 :; ten feet each way, 430; twelve feet each way, 325; fifteen feet each way. 200 eighteen feet each way, 135; twenty
 feet each way, seventy. A rich old fellow who owns more } houses than any man in Toledo, was l waited upon by committee for a sub- scription to rebuild the fence about the 5 cemetery. His reply was characteristic , as we'll as humorous. "Gentlemen, l i have always made it a rule in my busi- l ness never to make any repairs until the 5 tenants began to complain. 5 An amusing scene was created in the l U. s. Treasury by the presentation on t Tuesday of a protest against the United States for non-payment Gin gold) of q = $1OO legal tender, which its owner had. q presented at the Sub-Treasury in New = York and asked for the specie thereon. : Being refused, it was sent to Washing l ton in due form, through notary. U U Be careful how you go to sleep at an . . auction. A gentleman settled himself in comfortable chair, and, his senses
 soothed by the auctioneer's lullaby,
 soon dropped asleep. When his nap l. was over he left the place. The next If day he was astounded at the receipt of }, a bill for several hundred collars worth s of carpets and other things. The auc- s tioneer had received his somniculous g mods for bids.
 a A singular incident occurred in a : Bangor school the other day. little . girl purchased bottle of ether for her n mother, and took it with her to Il the seminary. During the session she 5, passed it around to her young com 1T panions, and, in consequence of ire e quent whiffs, five pupils succumbed to ' anesthesia, and were carried home more u or less insensible, while the air was so II full of the volatile fluid that an unusual ', drowsiness was felt by all present. ir Adam Harper, of Georgetown, Ky,
 xv1o hro,Yobk a suit for &6(O OCO dam.