Connecticut western news., 1874-04-10

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 Duluth has city ordinance which prevents man from keeping more than two tame bears. f.-...a
 State prisoners are expensive luxu- ries. It takes ninety-fve men to guard Marshal Bazaine. sa .....,y ..f
 A deaf and dumb man belongs to the Baltimore fire department, and is one of the best members.
 The Eastern oyster refuses to spawn in the Bay of San Francisco. Hegrows very fat and then dies.
 A German professor has undertaken the task of counting the hairs on buffalo robe one by one.
 A Pennsylvania boy cut his throat, but that din't kill him. He couldn't eat anything, and that did. .
 It cost London four lives and twenty four broken bones to do honor to the royal bride and groom. ...,y,
 Peach growers are already beginning to complain of tho effects of the cold upon the coming crop. 2@.-
 The total weight to the window weights to the United States Hotel, Saratoga, is thirty tons.
 Rhode Island has passed the law giving discharged convicts one-tenth of their actual earnings. r.. Only so far as man is happily mar ried to himself is he fit for married life and family life generally. ...l.,.
 Michigan. has Mormon revival, in which some of the most wealthy faml- lies have been converted. ' -''
 Nature provides no reserved seats for the rich and dainty. When there is ice on the pavement they sit where they can. l... .--. s'.g.. G..r
 There are said to be more false alarms of fires in cities, and mistakes about storms predicted by Old Proba- bilities. .,
 A Kansas rocking chair broke down the other Sunday night, severely in- jured young lady and broke young mans leg. .,5 sHa
 A new simile.-The Jenkins of a western paper describes one of the belles at recent party as g graceful little toad" -
 M. Digne, French billiardist, in a recent game at Bordeaux, "jawed" the balls and made the extraordinary run of 2,300 points. de.. is 'i-.'
 The whole production ofthe precious metals throughout) the world during 1773 is estimated to have been worth $219, ,o00,0 900. ...ss s.sl a.u- | The women in the West have accom- plished more for temperance in the past six weeks than have previously been et- fected iE six years. a ,.. .-..,e.
 Two thousand square miles of su- perior yellow pine timber, now wholly untouched by the axe, are about to be opened to market in Florida.
 A judge of one of the St. Louis courts recently delivered a. very wholesome lecture to his bar on the needless repe- tition of words in their pleadings.
 They found some land in Iowa, the other day, of which the owner was not known, and in twenty-four hours every tree on that land was cut down and hauled off.
 At Fort WrangeIl, Alaska, the average temperature during the winter has been thirty degrees below zero. The coldest snap was in January, when the mercury congealed. a.- ID oY.I gf,
 Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us and .endeavor, to excel them by avoiding what is faulty, and initiating what is excellent in them. "..
 The Courser-JourrsoI says T" We don't need phrk in Louisville. The man who says that we do has never known what it is to sit and tip g cane bottom chair, in front of livery stable.
 The Boston Pilot admonishes Irish men that the man who "drowns the shamrock " on St. Patrick's day does his best to drown the teachings of his church and the good name of his coun- try. .' D. r.o, 'a f.," ."t, .so'
 Here is a comical advertisement : "To the Credit Drapery Trade. Want ed, a young man, to, be partly out of doors and partly behind the counter" What will be the result when, the door slams " '~
 Eli Love, of Wayne county, Ohio, recently climbed tree to shake down a coon. Eli, however, fell down him. self. and his dogs mistaking him for the game, tore, him badly before they discovered their mistake.
 A New York man living on a. farm ill Alabama was ordered by the yKu; Klux to leave, but instead of so doing he re- mained and shot three of them: His neighbors expressed their gratification by electing him County Clerk. &sF
 At juvenile party, one little fellow, rejoicing in the ,splendor1 of his new clothes, went up to another with the triumphant remark: ttYou, ain't dressed as well as I am." "Well," retorted the other, ''I can lick you, anyhow"
 The castle from which, the capital of the Gold Coast takes its name, is not @ very formidable affair. It is feared that discharge of the immovable;guns with. which it's ramparts are armed would result in tumble-down of the whole edi6ce. ,.-.-.~......,
 The Committee on German of the I Washington School Board recommend the study of that language in the pub lie schools, on the grounds that 1t will render the nation more homogeneous, allure German youth to our excellent schools, and promote business.
 In Colorado, the iai1s are, built of odo5e-sun- dried bricks and spades are furnished to the prisoners so that they can cut their way in at night with out disturbing the guards. The plaE IS particularly useful where convicts are in the habit of, keeping late hours. A MT, Nichols adyertises cinA a Lon don paper, "I tried your, application for total deafness of the left ear and it took it away :" and he adds that his daughter tried it for toothacfeI and it took the tooth out. aa Wonderful medi- cine that is to. say, if MT, Nichols s statement is not tooth in. ,,-fr,-.,; A bill reported favorably to the Peun- , sylvania Senate, aiding the enforcement of the marriage laws, empowers clergy men and others having authority to join persons in wedlock to swear the