Connecticut western news., 1874-03-06
Items of Interest.

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 A thin slice of lemon is supposed to help the flavor of tea. ...ia5s
 There were $1, ,327, 533 cases of boots and shoes shipped from Boston during the year 1873. .,..
 The Ashantees have accepted the terms proposed to them by Sir Garnet Wolseley, will pay round sum, and the war ends. ...
 The Cincinnati 7Sn1es says that at the wedding of Victoria's boy and Alex ander's daughter the brides presents were elegant and reckershay.
 A man can send telegraph message from Lands End, in England, to Kirk well, in Scotland, distance of seven hundred miles, at the low cost of one cent word.
 A pamphlet has been issued in Paris going to show that the son of Louis Napoleon, being old enough and wise enough, ought to be immediately called to the throne.
 The Governor General of Canada has offered gold medal for the best gentle man skater and silver one for the best lady skater in the coming tournament. He is more generous than gallant.
 Any boy can learn to chew tobacco by being hopeful and perseving, but un- less his hips are fully;.developed he can not wear pants without suspenders, and have his shirt foam jauntily out over the top. .....-..,
 The princess Marie, wife of the duke of Edinburgh, is chief of the regiment of the fourteenth Lancers of Jambourg, and her title is colonel; but she will hereafter, as heretofore, issue her or ders merely to the marines.
 The people near Farmersyille, Liv- ingston county, Mo-, were scared near ly out of their wits, few days ago, by the fall of an immense @rolite. It now lies imbeded in the ground, and is said to be about twenty-five feeet in diam eter. ..'.. ..rr
 The series of fourteen "extras issued by the New York Tribune are undoubtedly the cheapest and best popular scientific publication in the world. The Tribune will send free to any applicant circular giving the full contents and details of this remark able Library for One Dollar.
 A correspondent of the Gardert gives this description of pretty table orna- ment -" I was much struck lately with the wonderfully beautiful effect pro- duced by simply placing a handful of heads of wheat in vase of water. Each grain sent out bright green leaflets, and continued to replenish the fading ones for weeks together. #-s".
 Never be above your business, no matter what that calling may be, but strive to be the best in that line. He who turns up his nose at his work quar- rels with his bread and butter. He is poor smith who quarrels with his own sparks; there is no shame about an honest calling. Don't be afraid of soiling your hands; there is plenty of soap to be had. '.-r,. ...-
 Tom Sankey was hanged in Mont gomery,. Alabama, recently. The Advertiser says" The Sheriff stepped upon the scafold and adjusted the moose around his neck. While doing so Tom said in tremulous voice, 'Good-by, my friends The cap was then drawn over his face, and with his face now hid frem view he sang aloud, "Hang me high and stretch me wide, and let the world see how died ? " 't'v
 Very odd excuses are put forward in courts of justice; but this, from Cham 6ers's Joat, qaGl, surpasses all: "A French Republican, condemned tor death for murdering his wife and child with out extenuating circumstances, demur- red to the sentence, because capital punishment had been abolished in France for political offenses; and he had killed his wife and child for no other reason but because they were Le- gitimists. e.. ....,sfb ,,, E..-.,4
 In the British medical naval report just issued, fatal case of poisoning by tobacco is mentioned. A boy on the implacable had frequently been.a re- proved for chewing tobacco, and on several occasions swallowed pieces to prevent detection. On the night of his death he was heard breathing, stertor1- ously, and efforts to arouse him being vain. he was taken to the sick bay. His pupils were insensible to the light, and his pulse beat feebly. He died in two or three minutes after. Two small pieces of tobacco were found in his stomach. ...t..,r, ,..;y
 An old Parisian beggar, famous for his success, thus explains the business "rules !" to which, he says, he invari- ably adheres: !" II never ask aims efone who has dined, as 'rosbif renders a man selfish, nor of stout men, as it bores them to stop, nor of any one, put ting on his gloves, nor of a lady alone, but always of any one manifestly going to dinner, of people walking. together, as their amour. propre makes them generous, of officers in grand uniforms, and of people apparently seeking favor from the government-they think that a gift will bring them luck.