Connecticut western news., 1874-03-20
Items of Interest.
A great head has great cares.

A great head has great cares.
 If you want to make hustle in the world, take five newspapers and & piece of tape.
 A sensitive Californian killed himself because the Legislature wouldn't change his name.
 A lady is now distinguished by her plain costumes on the street. It has come to this at last.
 Strapped shoes will probably be fashionable during the coming spring and summer. The prettiest are finished with silver buckles.
 Justice Haines of Chicago has de- cided that editors are professional men, and that their scissors, paste pot, &c., cannot be seized for debt.
 It is said that lthis will be a tough spring. We must have a tough spring once in a while or we would run short of certain grade of spring chickens.
 A party of college students, made up from the ranks of Yale, Harvard and Amherst, propose to set out next July to trough it" through England, Scot land and Ireland.
 It is mortally aggravating to boy with @ hard snowball in his hand to chase another boy mile fer the pur- pose of hitting him, and then to miss him by about eight feet.
 A Wisconsin legislator demands that travellers by rail should be weighed and made to pay so much per pound by weigh of fare and this, we take 1t, is positively the newest idea.
 San Francisco talks of confscating it's gas works. The city government has instructed the city attorney to do what he can to that end. The monoply of darkness has become unendurable.
 The books of the British consul in Chicago show that the direct shipment of grain for the last year, not including flour, from that point to Liverpool, amounted to more than 1,5OO,OOO bushels.
 An eccentric old fellow who lived beside graveyard was asked if it was not an unpleasant location. "No," said he; |" never lined places in my life with a set of neighbors that minded their own business so stiddy as they do."
 Game is on the increase Tn some parts of Massachusetts. Hampshire county, settled nearly two hundred years ago, reports the reappearance of the otter and Canada lynx, and minks, red foxes, raccoons, hares, and squirrels are abundant.
 Among the latest London novelties for the dinner table in the locomotive grog service is miniature train to run round the table, in front, the engine with fires lighted supplies hot water, and its wagons carry freight of cigars and bottles of cut glass.
 A Chicago man lately received 8 telegram from his wife, who is in Ger many, saying that she had gave birth to daughter. He was so pleased at the news that he gave orders to baker to distribute 500 loaves of bread to the poor each day for ten days.
 Boars and wolves have increased to an alarming extent in some parts of Franco. The district laying between them, the boars destroying the crops and the wolves attacking live stock, and sometimes even persons.
 The compulsory education bill, which has long been before the New York Legislature, provides that any child under sixteen years of age, found in the streets of New York city, may be com- mitted as @ vagrant, unless proof be given that he attends some school.
 He took her fancy when he came he took her hand, he took kiss; he took no notice of the shame that glowed her happy cheek at this. He took to com ing afternoons he took an oath he'd ne'er deceive; he took her fathers silver spoons, and after that he took his leave.
 A Nebraska journal invitingly says "Who says farmers cannot get rich in this State? Fifteen years ago young man came to the State without dollar in the world. Last week he went out of the State, carrying with him the sum of $1. 38, the savings of fifteen years of frugal life. Come West, young man, come West !" .....
 The figure of the Japanese young woman up to the age of fourteen, or as long as she has the free use of her limbs, is model of symmetry. When she reaches the age of sixteen, without having done any thing to impair 1t, she is 8 wonder to the eye, and remains so until twenty five, or possibly Q little later. Then she ceases to charm for certain period in any way, excepting by her manner, and that is generally pre- served to the last. .'f A.. .l.
 The following advertisement, which recently appeared in Hessiau journal. shows the condition of Protestant ministers in some parts of the Old World
 "A minister's wife, aged forty-two years, the daughter of one of the supe- rior clergy, desires, having previously obtained her husbands permission, to obtain employment as cook, in conse- quence of the pressure of circumstan- ces. She has so far brought up five sons and two daughters that they are independent of her, and believes her greater experience will command better wages than those which either of her daughters could obtain. The name of this unfortunate person is known to the editor."