Connecticut western news., 1874-08-28
Items of Interest.

A Boston lady in California says that
 the big strawberries on the Pacific coast
 have but little flavor, being 8 cross be-
 tween turnip and dried apple. ".
 In an obscure street on the east side of New York city there dwells an old Tyrolese woman, on the top of whose head there grows wen which has near
 Iy attained the size of the head itself,
 and keeps growing.
 In Sweden strong cloth is manufac-
 tured from hop stalks. The stalks are gathered in autumn, and soaked in
 water during the whole winter. The material is then dried in an oven and woven as flax. The buds of hops can
 be used as an esculent, and when boiled will do as substitute for asparagus. The tendrils, when young, may be used in the same way.
 | A runaway couple went to Eugene City, Oregon, to get married. The | clergyman and clerk both wanted proof that the young lady was of proper age. Strategy, which has proved so efficient in other scenes, was resorted to. The l figure IS was placed in the bottom of the shoes of the maiden, and one who was in the secret affirmed that she was over SlkuU6Sus bAOu6nV oAAo license and the clergyman-they were made happy. ... .. There is q spring near Colusa, Cali fornia, which emits carbonic acid gas of the rankest power; the water is ice cold, but bubbles and foams with the gas. No living thing can be found within 100 yards of it. Birds that fly over it drop dead. A lizard few feet oL 11s11aJ in fSuo YoinrfnS It would kill a man in twenty minutes. One who stood over it five minutes felt dull, heavy, aching sensation, and his eyes began to swim. aa ..f'." ... -s.---
 It is 8 good thing for women to be able to swim. Example A short time since, in England, two boys went to bathe near Kings Cross, from boat near shore. One got beyond his depth, and would certainly have been drowned had not the cries of his companion brought Miss Eliza Shaw, an excellent swimmer, to the water, who instantly plunged in as she was, and caught the boy just as he was sinking. England is thanking her for it. "
 Some of the railroad managers have determined to enforce an observance of the law which says, ''It shall not be lawful for any person, other than those connected with or employed on the rail road, to walk along the track or tracks of any railroad, except where the, same shall be laid along public roads or streets" Several arrests have been made on the line of the New York Gen. " tral. The extreme penalty IS one years imprisonment and $250 fine. ..E .It
 The students of Bates College, a Bap- tist institution at Lewiston, Me-, pay their way by working through the sum mer season as hotel walters at the Glen House, in the White Mountains. The four classes of the college number to- gether about one hundred young fel- lows, and forty of them have found work at the Glen House this summer. One guest was so much pleased with their honest, manly bearing, that on going away he left $500 to be divided among them. .. .... .H.
 A philanthropist got hold of 6 'royal" Indian at Western agency the other day, and after preaching to him two hours on the blessings of civilization, rigged him in an in-ftting suit of store clothes. gave him some soap, a towel, and a fine-tooth comb, and turned him loose, with the admonition to go and lead decent life, like a white man. The untutored child of the forest obeyed the injunction by getting royalty drunk that night, and next morning the philanthropist found the whole out fit done up in bundle and left in his front door-yard. Y. ,....-.. ..l..... .... ,