Connecticut western news., 1873-08-29
Items of Interest.

Petroleum used for cleaning guns, it is said, effectually protects them from rust .
 The monument to Colonel Ellsworth, at Mechanicsville, is fast approaching completion. tf.a.
 Philadelphia has thirty marriages 0 day, which argues something more than brotherlv love.
 Omaha is utilizing "monte men by making them work on the streets with ball and chain attachment.
 A young Englishman has recovered heavy damages from 0 tailor who sent him an insolent dun on postal card.
 Daisy Bruze killed his brother, Dan Bruze, near Hazlewood, Kentucky. Both men were rather notorious char acters.
 The Georgia State Fair offers 0 thou sand dollar prize for the best drilled military company from the North and South.
 An escaped convict who wants em- ployment advertises that he has had considerable experience in the "hide business"
 There have been 22,295 claims pre- sented to the Southern Claim Commis- sion; the amount claimed is more than $56, ,000,000. ... .t..
 Feeding Indiansl on paper" r" is a Western phrase which means the draw ing of rations by dishonest agents for bogus Indians.
 Brown, of Halifax, N. S., has agreed to row Biglin for $1,000, allowing the latter $550 for expenses. The time has not yet been fixed. - .e
 A man in Colorado has shipped a hundred prairie dogs East, with the in- tention, it is thought, of raising the animal for the market. -...,..
 The Elmira Advertiser says that Ga Lockport girl, whose father is worth $100,000, is cooking on canal boat, for the romance of the thing" .+@
 At the diamond mines of the Wilkes barre Goal and Iron Company an ex- plosion occurred by which two men were killed and two injured. .ad
 "Oh, George your sister is @ nice girl, but she does dress her head up so." "Yes," said George, ''but it's the fash ion-there's nothing in it, you know"
 "stealing money is serious busi- ness out here," said Colorado paper, "but you can kill man, and all they ask is that you don't leave him in the way" ''2 s
 The editor of an Illinois paper thinks fishing, as general rule, don't pay, "We stood it all day in the river last week." he says, "but caught nothing until we got home." .....r..,
 "Men are easily deluded," says the ex-Empress Eugenie {; "they are duped on every hand the same arts succeed with them all, and the woman IS genius who strikes out new way to get the better of them" -. ......,...
 An contemplating Edinburgh trades man thus poetically advertises his wares
 Scots wha hae wi Wallace bled.
 Scots whom Bruce has often led, aa
 If you want graceful head ,... t.-., Gang to Box the natter.
 bio Lewis convulsed Utica audi ence by some advice to married men. He was talking about the eye. To the unfortunate benedicts he said !: "Gaze into your wife's eye closely and you will see yourself looking exceedingly small" The illustration took immensely.
 meat reply was that given by stut terine man the other day, when telling a story to some of his friends. "Speak it plainly man." said one. ca-ca- can't" he answered, "bu-bu-but I wa- wa-want you to understand that if m- m-my tongue shutters, m-m-my mind don't shutter" .... -.t
 The total loss from the Portland (Oregon) confagration is $l l5S, ,675, and the insurance on it $241, ,000, in the following companies London, Liv- erpool and Globe, $41 ,000; Firemeas Fund, Union, Home, and Mutual, of NewYork, $50, GOO each !; Imperial, $6O,- GOO; Phoenix, of Hartford, $2O, 900.
 Ivan Turgenieff, in his novel, "Di- mitrl Roudine," has not al few good say ings. of which we clip the following: {" it is true. a woman did offend me-" continued Pigasoff, "and yet she was a pood. n very good woman" "Who was it ?' sMy mother" "Your motherl How could she offend youT "By bring ing me into the world" a.'e. '''-"'" There seems to be an unusual num- Der of persons drowned while bathing this season. Almost every day reports of these casualties are received. Peo- ple trust themselves too. confidingly to water. It is harmless and very use- full creature if you do not put yourself in its power, but if you do 1t IS 8 treach- erous and unmerciful monster. 7z"m
 At Oswego Falls, the other day, while three boys were playing in a grove, two of them became angry with the other and attempted to hang him. The mode of inhicting death not succeeding as rapidly as they desired, one of them to a house to borrow an axe with which to behead the victim. An alarm was given at once, and the neigh bor reached the scene in time so save the boys life. .'s5 @tj 7.s,sraa
 The following curious specimen of Japanese English was received by the of San Francisco rail road, from a gentleman in Japan, who wanted to inquire into the possibility of introducing street cars in Yeddo: "Sir-I heard that you were railroad company. I hope street cars that will make build in ours capital city. There fore I will beg you to give me, if be rule of company, maps of railways, Picture of Gar or writing which rela- ton between the office and Government about the make railway. I will do great happy to you if I will make the build it, because there is now the Iron line and cars" ...: te7ga5s