Connecticut western news., 1874-09-11
Items of Interest.

Chicanery-to palm off old hens for fricasseed chicken.
 Country boys now walk around under apple trees, looking for the ball at they lost.
 Jones says that why he isn't married is because that when he wooed she wouldn't. .0.a...., t.Ia
 In order to secure physical beauty young girls are recommended, to eat meat once day, pickles once week, and sweetmeats once year take daily cold bath, and walk five miles every day. '"'9''
 There are forty-two catacombs m and around Rome, with galleries i've hun, dred and seventy eight miles long, and it is estimated that from four to seven millions of bodies have found sepuA- ture therein.
 At recent sale in Zeiglersvillef Berks county, Pa., wagon was sold that had been standing long enough in one place to permit walnut tree about five inches in diameter to grow up through the bed of the wagon.
 Some more photographs of the Prince Imperial have been seized in Paris. By means of chemical preparation they were rendered invisible on the card, but on being dipped in water they became clear and apparent.
 Deaths take place the world over, at the rate of one every three seconds, and births at the rate of one every two seconds. There is sense of profound relief in the thought that every time a man goes out of the world, baby and half are coming into it.
 Naturally enough they don't like paper money at Gold Hill, Nevada, and the newspaper there is savage upon "the very bad and dirty notes of the national banks which have been in cir culation long enough to cover them with grime and make them unwhole- some to look at, and unhealthy to ham, de-" . ...' asr ..G'.
 Two soldiers were talking together, when one asked the other, "Where was you enduring the war ?" The other replied, "I was twenty-four months in the army, sir. Yaas wal, whey was you enduring that time ?' CT was twenty-three months in the hospital" "And whey was you enduring the other month ?" "I was looking for the hospital" nl... ..
 An old man and his wife saw about @ dozen hacks at the door of depot, and about 8 dozen hackmen shouted "hack l' at them. The man took it all as a high compliment, and turning to the old lady he said: "I tell you, mother, they think we are something great, or they'd never had all these car riages down here to meet us. I won der how they knew we was coming.
 A standing antidote fer poison by oak, ivy, etc, is to take handful of quick lime, dissolve it in water, let it stand half an hour, then paint the poisoned parts with it. Three or four applications will never fail to cure the most aggravated case. Poison from bees, hornets, spider bites, etc., is ln- stantly arrested by the application of equal parts of common salt and bicar- bonate of soda, we'll rubbed in on the place bitten or stung. .......
 An instrument of torture in use in the English schools is thus described |: "The rod is composed of long wiry birch twigs, loaded with buds, and bound tightly together at one end, making a weapon three or four inches in diameter at one end, and perfect broom three feet long. The offender is birched on the bare skin the wiry rods and their buds cut deeply in, bringing blood and leaving wounds which remain for weeks" yA #f T7i1..