Connecticut western news., 1873-06-20
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 vention is to be held in St. Paul, July 16.
 At wooden weddings in Montana, clubs are among the gifts to the married pair.
 MT. McHale shot MT. Gordon, in St. Louis, because the latter refused him a drink.
 It cost Buffalo man 4.87 to cut of the tail of sturgeon before the latter was dead.
 A sensitive youth in Pennsylvania lately killed himself because his friends laughed at him.
 The bill abolishing religious corpora tions has been passed by the Chamber
 of Deputies at Rome.
 The Memphis baby show attracted more single than married people. They were more interested.
 A Michigan farmer has written MT. Bergh to know if folding doors in hog pens will be the fashion this summer.
 A woman at East Jaffrey, N. H., has had an exact picture of a juniper tree printed on her leg by flash of light ming.
 A Swede woman of St. Paul recently astonished the natives by carrying an oil barrel through the streets on her head.
 William Seegar, State Treasurer of Minnesota, has been impeached and re- moved for corruptly misapplying the State funds.
 Suicides are becoming so common in Paris that some of the papers have an- nounced their intention of not noticing "ordinary cases"
 Notoriety is a flash esteem is flame. The first is soon kindled and quenched the last is gradual and en- during illumination.
 Prince Edwards Island has consented to join the Dominion of Canada. The island is to have six representatives in the Canadian Parliament.
 The Bender family formerly lived near New Albany, Ind, where they committed a number of murders. They went from Indiana to Kansas.
 A Boston lager-beer saloon posts this notice: "Only those liquids will here be given to friends which our immacu- late Legislature considers healthy"
 An American writing from Vienna says: "Tell intending visitors to re- main at home for two months. They may then enjey their visit to compile ted exhibition.
 It is a remarkable fact that the mo- ment woman writes letter she is frantic to put it into the post-office, al- though she may have been putting of writing for six months.
 po- /4o 1oJx x,;e;ko,N GCToo o6o~ there's gal over there winkin' at mev' her!'' Boy-"But if I don't look at her she'll wink at somebody elsep'
 The heads of the Chinese companies are sending dispatches from San Fran cisco to Hong Kong, reading: ''Stop all passengers no more work here no food no houses ; many sufferers.
 A chap given to statistics, estimated that over two thousand toes were frozen during the past winter, by young ladies keeping their beaux lingering at the gate, instead of asking them into the parlor.
 A Memphis jury, having convicted man of murder, now finds that the sup posed murdered man is living. The question is whether the verdict shall be or the man allowed to murder his victim.
 A society at Bayville, Ga., resolves upon the death of a member, "that we may buy all our groceries and tobacco of his estimable wife, who has our sym pathy in this dark hour, but who should at once restock the store for the spring trade"
 Lord Campbell, the Marquis of Lorne's brother, who has become part ner in the famous banking house of Coutis & Co.,, London, Is said to have put into the firm not less than g, ,500,- GOO of his fathers, the Duke of Argyll, money.
 Japan seems to be the missionary field of the future. The Propagation Society of England is about to send two clergymen there to open missions, and the Urited Presbyterians of Scotland are moving in the same direction, hay ing already secured forty-fve thousand dollars as fund.
 Edmund Munger, speaking of the time when he was boy, says it was the custom of school children as you passed the school house to make bow; but in these later days, as you pass a. school house, you must keep your eye peeled, or you will get a snowball or a brickbat at the side of your head.
 A couple who were married in Rut- land, Vt, the other day, gave the off cial who performed the ceremony fifty cents. This was pretty cheap, but as it was afterward found that, under the State laws the official had no authority to marry them, they think he ought to refund or send along competent sub stitute.
 A clergyman in Davenport, Iowa, ex- changed pulpits with pastor in Q not distant city few Sundays ago, and meeting at the railroad crossing they had brief chat together. They carried satchels just alike, and when the car- bell rang, each caught up one and start ed for the train, to find on reaching their destinations that they had ex- satchels and sermons.
 Speaking of the late Elias Howe and his great invention, agentleman who for merly resided in New Haven says he had for a neighbor master mechanic who had done much toward perfecting the sewing machine, and who from actual knowledge could give the cost of the different kinds now most in use. The Howe machine, table included, cost $9 the Wheeler & Wilson, $7; the Singer, about $7 the Wilcox & Gibbs, $5 from which it would seem that somebody must be making incredi- ble profits from that indispensable little affair. ..' ,1 ro "r .
 Some colored divers brought up from Mobile bay last week fragments of the exploded boiler of the steamer Franklin, which, thirty-six years ago, went down with many lives. The operations of the negro. divers, as described by the Register, are interesting. With long ;ronyointad ,,ola tbav oyo obo,,t ;,, o