Connecticut western news., 1874-03-27
Items of Interest.

Revenge converts little right into great wrong.
 The tongue-the latch-key that lets out the mind.
 Books, like friends, should be well used, not abused.
 The fate of the child is always the work of it's mother.
 Nothing more precious than time, yet nothing less valued.
 Plant the crab tree where you will, 1t will not bear pippins. The ways of women-Anywhere from ninety to two hundred pounds.
 Plain dealing is jewel; but they that wear it are out of fashion.
 Those large and awkward looking fans will not be in vogue next summer.
 It is almost impossible to detect the new artificial flowers from natural ones.
 One of the new collars is called the Empress. It is of linen edged with lace.
 No less than eighteen different shades of green are shown in summer goods.
 Three sisters own and operate Q Maine fouring mill, and they are mak- ing money.
 A youth of Cairo, H., killed himself because he had been found out in $25O dedication.
 Tight sleeves and round waist con- tinue the rule for all ordinary dresses intended for house wear.
 It is said that the difference of two farthings pound in the price of rice in India brings on famine.
 Black silk suits trimmed on the waist with revers of black velvet and black bows down the front are handsome and stylish.
 Mir. Joseph Longworth has given $50, 1000 in five-twenty United States bonds to the art school of the Cincin- nati University.
 The first thing Q promising youth said to dog presenting his nose at his heels, was: "Go away Do you think I'm bone ?"
 "Now, Johnnie," says grandma, "I want you to sit as still as a mouse" "Mouses don't sit still, grandma" Sure enough.
 Judge John T. Brown was so remorse- fully frightened at the certainty of be- ing exposed as a defaulter in Alton, that he killed himself.
 If you invest money in books, and never read them, it is the same as put ting your money into bank but never drawing either principal or interest.
 A juryman remarked, ".May it please yer honor, am deaf in one ear" "Then leave the bex," replied the judge, Ga juror must hear both sides"
 Chinese laborers are reported fail ure in Georgia. They have been em- ployed in digging canal, but have proved inefficient and will soon be sent of.
 A new style of boys trowsers has been invented in Boston. with Q copper seat, sheet-iron knees, riveted down the seams, and waterproof pockets to hold broken eggs.
 The late Dr. Livingstone's success as an explorer was largely due to his stern, self reliant habits, his great power of organization and detail, and, above all, to the sway which he was able to -exer- else over the natives.
 They tell about man in Maine who refused to get up and light the fire, and as his wife said she wouldn't they re- mained in bed thirty y-seven hours before the matter was settled. Our sympathies are, of course, with the woman.
 A lady aged seventeen is suing for divorce, her husband being in the regu- lar habit of remarking, truthfully, but with heartlessness rarely reached by the most of his sex, that she doesn't know tea-kettle from tiat-iron.
 An ambitious young lady was talking very loudly about her fayorite authors, when literary chap asked her if she liked Lamb. With look of ineffable disgust, she answered that she cared very little about what she ate, compared with knowledge.
 A correspondent of the Scientific Anaer6cdn states that he has learned from many years experience in a ma chine shop, where over three hundred men are employed, that rag glued on a flesh wound is not only speedy cura- tive, but great protection.
 It is said that if one part of sugar is dissolved in three parts of water, and digested with one-fourth part of calcic hydrate, the resulting liquid will readi- ly dissolve glue warm, and the solution will remain fluid on cooling, without having lost any of it's adhesive proper | ties.
 Good takers are becoming rare now a-days, but are occasionally to be met with. Of one whose conversation is very entertaining but rather discon- nected, a witty lady once remarked, ooh, yes, he's very clever, but he talks like book in which there are leaves occasionally missing"
 Put everything in perfect repair. If you are near a blacksmith and wheel wrights shop you can probably get the work done cheaper and better than by doing it yourself. But when you have to send several miles there are many little things that can be repaired at home in less time than is required to take them to the shop.
 Maine proposes to authorize con- ductors to arrest gamblers who work their trains. An excellent idea; but Ghere ought to be added to it provis- ion making railroad companies respon- sible for the losses of their patrons at the hands of professional gamblers, these gamblers being we'll known ssby the employees of all trains.
 A man in Indiana has had lots of fun out of a valentine, in which he was depicted as mothers pet" This set him in rage he got drunk, abused his mother, whipped his wife because he thought she knew something of it, was discharged from his place in the mill made disturbance on the streets, was arrested, fined about SIS, and sent to jail.
 The St. Louis Democrat says, perti- nently, if rather bitterly "The object now seems to be to so arrange the schools and households of the land that the teacher may simply sit in judgment