Connecticut western news., 1873-12-05

may be foury, and that she may never be thrashed by her husband.
 A girl at Lawrence, Mass, who lost her speech some time ago, has been frightened. into the recovery of it by the explosion of kerosene lamp.
 Mrs. Livermore is our authority for saying that thousands of women are married to men for whom they don't care 8 copper, that they may get 8 home.
 Michael Sullivant, the great Illinois farmer, lost 10000 acres of corn by frost, and has only half crop on 15, 900 acres. He has discharged 150 farm la borers.
 At Portland, Me-, recently, black smith, while pairing horses hoof pre- paratory to shoeing him, found cent lmbedded in the hoof and covered by the frog.
 A one-armed man has just been mar ried to a one-armed woman in Detroit but we trust both will remember that thrice is he armed who hath his quar- rel just. .4
 The Boston Gas Company knows trick worth two of watering its stock.
  sumed at time whenhe hadn't a burn CT in his house.
 "James Magin," said Kansas Jus tice, as he closed case, "you have been convicted of hollering smurder when there was no murder, and I fine you $2O."
 The reputation of 0 man. is like his shadow; it sometimes follows and some- times precedes him; it is sometimes longer and sometimes shorter than his natural size.
 The Clay county, Ohio, Register says that yesterday the cold wind went whistling up the trousers of many loafer, asking what he had been doing all summer"
 MT. Davis, of California, found box containing $40, 900 in gold, and he be- came so excited over it that he dropped dead. People should beware how they find $40, ,000.
 The Milwauke papers are talking about an unsuccessful merchant who went from Wisconsin to Illinois. They say the last State of that man was worse than the first. .s.
 The squirrels of Contra Costa county, California, destroy, on an average, one dollars worth of grain per acre. The losses of nineteen farmers this year aggregate $9,672. -..z.s ......
 A little boy has been fairly driven from Danbury school by the disgrace full persecution of the other scholars, who taunted him with the fact that his father had been New York jury man. ..#..
 Over the shop-door of the butcher of an English village is a sign-board, representing 8 man in black coat brandishing hatchet, and underneath this inscription "John Smith kills pigs like his father."
 Speaking of hard times the Dayton (Ohio) Joua7aal undertakes to show that in that city of 33,000 inhabitants, 3D. 300, 900 is spent in whisky, malt liquors and tobacco, of which $1, 1000, GOO goes for whisky, while only $462, ,000 is spent for bread.
 Joseph Farrady and his friend Charles Dodge went to San Francisco theatre. They went out to take drink between the acts, when Dodge suddenly became ill and died. Farrady seems to have thought he would be accused of poison Ing his friend, and blew his brains out.
 Malone, of the Jackson Cash Book, has now tried his hand at improving on the old couplet, "In Adams fall" Sc. Malone says: .-..- "a'.s'
 "If it hadn't been for the sins of Adam,
 We poor creatures wouldn't a had 'em;
 Owing to Adams very sinful manner, All suffer, and that's what the matter with Hannah"
 The Mining Journal recommends the use of pulverized fuel in the manu- facture of iron. It states that the iron made in this manner will bear greater tensile strain when relocated and rolled once than that which has been relocated and rolled three times by the ordinary process. ......r
 Up to the 1st of October the receipts of grain at Buffalo footed up 49, 500, 900 bushels, or about 7,000,0 GOO bushels greater than last year at the same date {; but since that time they have fallen off largely, and many vessels in Chicago, as well as canal boats in Buffalo, are already laying up for the winter for lack of freight at living prices.
 It is said that in one of the early regiments that went out in the late war, the father of one of the staff of- ficers called upon the Colonel just be- fore the regiment left, and requested that his son might be allowed to keep 8 COW during his term of service, as he had been accustomed, from his boy hood, to drink great deal of milk. l The hard-hearted Colonel, however, said he would undertake to wean the calf. ... .-.........
 Gen: Ryan was great ladies' man, and created a sensation while promen- ading the avenue in Washington, with his military cape, large Texan braid hat, long curling hair, &c. He always carried heavy cane, and was generally accompanied by an unusually large bloodhound, which was terror to many pedestrians. He frequently had difficulties in the hotel Hobbies, gener- ally following up discussion of Cuban matters in that way. 4 ..,.-. .
 In Japan every house mustbe decke6 with flowers on New Years day; and, tc supply the great demand, the shops are full of dwarf peach-trees, bearing double blossoms, and growing in large chins vases and pots. The Japanese garden CTS have a peculiar talent for raising dwarf plants and trees, and so genera is the national fancy for such miniature products of vegetation, that the toy ano fancy shops abound in very minute ant delicate limitations of plants and howera l cut out of colored paper.