Connecticut western news., 1873-02-14
Facts and Fancies.

ne Empress EuBenle VIII remain III England.
 A Newport man married his step mother the other day.
 A large proportion of the sheep in the Northwest are going. to the dogs.
 Iowa is the fifth state in the Union in the number of newspapers published.
 Louisville, Ky, is trying to get rid of her gamblers, but still encourages lotteries.
 Massachusetts has one mile of rail- road to every four and three-quarter square miles of territory.
 The U. s. Senate killed the Webb Australian Subsidy bill by laying it on the table by vote of 33 to 31.
 A Vermo mt hotel keeper has invented lady clerks. When a guest wants infor. nation now he always gets it and plenty of it. -
 Lucca is accredited with this re- mark: "I never see so pad Q plaiz as SC Philamadelfy to gif one so sore troat."
 It is now fashionable for ladies and gentlemen, when walking in the streets to lock arms, whether they are engaged or not.
 The editor of the Atlanta co. a) Weekly does not like the editorial "we." He says, :" It makes us feel as if we were twins"
 A gentleman from Ireland being asked by New York belle if he ad- mired small waists, responded, "not in the laced" .
 When q man presents himself before e public audience, it often happens that his body is inclined to sink, while his head swims. ....
 New York city still ponders and per- plexes it's brain how it shall get from one end of the island to the other inside of ten hours.
 To such height was the snow piled in Minnesota that a man could walk from the second story of the hotel there upon the drifts.
 Several Paris journals announce that the trial of Marshal Bazaine before the special court-martial will begin in the latter part of April.
 It is 0 general remark that all classes of persons are ever ready to give their opinions. The lawyers must be except eu-Cney SCH tne1TS.
 Dean Swift believed that no person in conversation should talk over half Q minute without pausing and giving others 6 chance to srike in. ..... Santa Barbara, Gal, has an apple tree which bears three crops a year, having always on it's branches ripe ap- pies, half grown apples and blossoms.
 Americans read more newspapers than any other people, but do not read moro books. Probably because the average newspaper is better than, the average book. .'... .
 Austrian prisons are not so bad after all. Every inmate is obliged to attend school regularly and popular lectures arc delivered to the prisoners on Sun days md holidays.
 The proceeds of the $500, ,000, 900 United States g cents which has been negotiated, will go to the redemption of the United States 5-20s of 1862 and 1864, in the order of their issue.
 The clerk of San Francisco lawyer guarded against the possibility of for getting the secret of the combination by writing it upon n piece of paper and pasting it upon the knob of the safe.
 Miss Theresa Bailey, ono of the pas sengers lost by the recent wrecking of the British steamer Germany off the mouth of the River Gironde, France, was then on her way to America to be married.
 A new dish is grape leaves fried in egg batter; it is called French dish. A contemporary remarks "We can't think of anything that would be more delicious than fried grape leaves, unless it is @ theatrical poster on toast.
 For the third time sentence of death has been pronounced on William Foster, condemned for the willful murder of Avery D. Putnam, with Q car hook in New York. Foster was sentenced to be executed on the 7th day of March next,
 X singular case has just come to light in New Orleans. A man was discovereR in the streets tarred and feathered, and, when taken to the police station, said he had been thus used by a party of men, and then robbed of seventy-throe @ dollars. --t
 The German emigration to America flowed in a voluminous current during 1872. One hundred and thirty-nine thousand of the children of Fatherland embarked at the ports of Bremen and Hamburg for the United States in the twelve months.
 Some of the stories told of the terrib- ly fatal effects of the late storm in Min nesota are almost incredible. One paper reports that sleighing party of six young couples, with their driver, were all found frozen to death, buried almost out of sight in the snow.
 A young man in Southampton, Eng land, ayers that he has been three times locked up for offences committed either by his own wrath or person in sub stance extremely like himself. l le young mans life has become 0 bane he would gladly end were be not aiming to thrash the fellow that looks so jolly like i'm. ...r
 Ohio papers tell pathetic story of little boy, twelve years of age, who was adopted from Home for the Friend less, and was made cripple for life through the effects of fever. He be- came languid, fearing that he was too great burden to his benefactors, and obtaining possession of some rat-poison, swallowed it.
 Charles Lamb tells story of gen. tleman who had purchased No. 1,069 !; passing lottery office, he saw a placard announcing that that number had come up @ G20,0o0 prize; he walked around five blocks to cool his agitation before entering the office; on going back again, he found that he had mistaken 10, ,069 for 1,069. @ t
 The Great Eastern Circus was sold at auction in Selma, Ala, fewsdays ago. The elephant was bought for $10, ,000. Six bay horses brought s. 400. The den containing the ioness and cubs, $5,0S5. The Bengal tiger and leopards, $6,000. The buffaloes, $400 each. The ring horses sold at from $500 to $1 ,000 each.
 John Agie, Chinaman, who does not understand Ennlish wns questioned