Connecticut western news., 1873-10-24
Items of Interest.

Items of Interest.
 Don't get sour. Fermentation alway
 means decay.
 Over 100, 1000 persons attended tn
 Northern Ohio Agricultural Fair.
 A steam thrashing machine out il
 Iowa lately burned up 300 bushels O
 wheat.
 The author of the saying that "yol
 must take man as you find him." wal
 8 constable. @" -Na"
 A block of thirteen new buildings ir Sullivan, Ind, is called the "Southerr ] Confectionery" ....
 A certain man has watch which he claims has gained time enough to pay for itself in six months.
 Paducah, Ky, has nine thousand in. habitants and seven newspapers, beating any other city in the South.
 The Washington Chronicle considers balloon ascensions public nuisances, and wants law made to prevent them.
 "Long sweet'nin'" and "short sweet'nin' are respectively syrup and sugar among some of the mountain people. ....
 Alabama has 22 farmers igranges Ar kansas, 26; Georgia, 86 Louisiana, II Mississippi, POP {; North Carolina, fl; South Carolina, 133; Tennessee, 66; Texas, 8; Virginia, 8. The Italian residents of Philadelphia have determined to erect a monument of Christopher Columbus. The statue will, it is proposed, be twelve feet high, and cost, with the pedestal, s19,- 900.
 The San Jose, California, Farmers Club is considering the advisability of importing girls from the East for ser wants. The cost of bringing the girls out is estimated at seventy dollars per head.
 Advices from Africa announce the capture of white man by the natives while proceeding westward on the Congo river. From the description of the man MT. Charles Livingstone believes it IS his son. "- '-
 Leather made from the skin of the white whale, it is said, is now regular article of manufacture at some of the villages in Canada. It is both fine and durable, and shoe thongs made of it are said never to break.
 In Japan man aged 30 recently con- mitted suicide by hanging in fulfill ment of VOW which, when IT years of age, he had made at Buddha, namely: that if at the age of 30 he had not be- come famous he would die.
 ooh 1" exclaimed poor sufferer to a dentist, that is the second wrong tooth you have pulled out "Very sorry, sir" said the laundering opera tor, {" but as there was only three when began, I'm sure to be right this time."
 A man named Warner had his leg broken at Lexington, Mo-, and being in great pain he begged of some one to shoot him. MT. Curtis, one of his neighbors, obligingly complied with the request, and is amazed at finding himself arrested.
 The Burlington and Southwestern R. R. Company of Iowa has prohibited the use of intoxicating liquors by it's em- ployees. The order is occasioned by the alarmingly increasing number of railroad accidents caused by the drum kenness of officials.
 The colored operatives in two of the tobacco factories at Richmond, Va, mo-
 
 ating the difficulties of the present financial situation, they are willing to work for two or three weeks without drawing their wages. ...-
 Jones was thrown into state of won- der by the sign, "ladies' felt slippers" which he discovered when passing @ shoe store. He can't understand it. He says children felt slippers in his day often enough, but ladies generally wore them, except when they were removed for cause. t..-
 The Philadelphia Press states that member of the Society of Friends thus one of his sect who had oined 8 regular church upon the new organ in the latter. "Why, thought hee objected to such things as music n worship?" "And so do, was the 'eply; "but if thee must worship God y machinery want thee to have. the oest." . "&-
 A city paper relates the following between two bell boys at he Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York; Pat asks Mike, "What's this suspen- ion of the banks ?" "Hist ye P Mike i've cents" "Yis." "Ieave it wid ne." "Yis." "Next day ye want it, nd ye ax nae for it." "Y1s." "I tell e, No, sir, I've used it mesef.'
 The Greenfield Gazette says the Hoo ac Tunnel has ghost, and if one of he miners should oversleep or get be- ated, nothing will induce him to enter he tunnel (which is always dark alone 0 overtake his companions who have
 TT -sl | ages and visit for the next day, when @ will be sure to join his gang. The host does not reveal himself to rowd, which goes to show that he does ot differ from other ghosts.