Connecticut western news., 1873-08-01
Items of Interest.

How to keep up in the world-Never get down. ....s
 The Lisbon, N. H., gold mines yield $50 to the ton of ore.
 Absense makes the heart grow fonder of some one else.
 In Michigan one peacock can van quish an acre of potato-bugs.
 If I were in the sun and you were out of it, what would the sun become ?- Sin. '... ...,
 Memphis has a population of sixty thousand inhabitants and LOGO liquor saloons.
 There is an omnibus in Cincinnati that has killed thirteen persons in its eventful career.
 Monroe, Wis, boasts of having fur nished four Fourth of July orators to bore other towns.
 An old man at La Crosse, who had been blind seven years, lately had his sight restored by fit. r'....t
 The same mule that killed a man at Lexington. Ind, was permitted to haul the widow to the funeral. .....-
 A religious sect at Laconia, N. H., udS TSNlNSu Uu0 pLdSOlCO OA Pup4SAJ washing each others feet.
 Raspberries are said to give a rich red color to those that eat them. It manifests itself in the nose.
 A swain at Salinas, Gal, had to leave his bride waiting while he rode 120 miles to get marriage license.
 There is represented to be great ac- tivity in organizing Farmers Oranges in California. There are nearly 100, ,000 farmers in the State. '''
 We read that there are in Chicago's new hotel, the Grand Pacific, fifty-nine flights of stairs, thirty-eight miles of wire, and ,070 doors. asN B..
 A young Californian wno became in toxicated for the first time recently, felt so keenly his disgrace that he took strychine and died. ..
 The projected tunnel through the Rocky Mountains is to be nearly fifteen miles in length larger than the Mont Cenis and Hoosac combined. 4 "al
 The Red Hook Gazette, of Glyndon, Minn., announces that it is published nearer the North Pole than any other paper in the United States. ....,
 A Buffalo girl attempted suicide on account of the degraded character of her father and mother. Parents are @ great trouble to young people nowa- days. ''.'' -. ".'-" . .. .'lsT
 Young men with 8 disposition to "burgle," will be interested in know ing that full set of burglars tools, in- cluding revolvers and slungshots, costs about $1 1000.
 A bare-footed Ohio girl, who walked ten miles to hire out to hoe corn, was admired by widower worth $6O, ,OO0, and the two are one now. Isn't there lesson in this :?
 There are now seven persons in Mary land who have been convicted of mur- der in the first degree, of whom six have been sentenced to death on the gallows, and one is awaiting sentence.
 Norwegian girls who have been do- ing kitchen work in Iowa at $35O week, are hiring out to work in the harvest fields at $2o $3 per day. About ten cents 8 day was their figure " at home." .fH h
 The most thoroughly ventilated man in Oswego, says 8 Kansas paper, is horse thief whom the boys followed around for a while. He has nineteen buckshot holes in his left breast and twenty-one in his left arm.
 An Atlanta doctor advises persons afraid of cholera to stand on their heads for one minute three times a day. He argues that this arrests abdominal de- pression, and would be a healthful gymnastic exercise at any time. 'N
 The New Albany Tnd.) Ledger says that within the past six years nineteen men have been lynched in that vicinity, all within the limit of five counties. Five of them were hanged, at different times, upon the same beech tree.
 A horse thief named Howard, lately hanged by vigilance committee in Missouri. was ascertained to have been member of that committee. hJ The regulations of the committee demand in such cases that the offender shall be dragged to the place of execution by the tail of horse, an act of cruelty that was literally carried out in the case of Howard.
 A father of fifty children is vouched for by one of the most trustworthy and respected citizens of Waco, Texas, int letter to the Aduance of that place, which says that by his first wife he had thirteen children by his second, eigh- teen by his third, ten by his fourth, six by his fifth and surviving wife, three and that thirty-fve of his nu- merous progeny are still alive.