Connecticut western news., 1874-05-01
Items of IltareSf.

Never mind where you work care
 more about how you work. ,.--s...-.-,
 An orange tree in vigorous growth
 yields from 800 to 2, 900 oranges every
 year. ...s .-.s-- HaF ,a
 Any candidate for office in Omaha
 who wears shirt collar is considered 0
 bloated aristocrat. .s...
 Sweden contains eighteen cotton
 mills, running one hundred and eighty
 thousand spindles. Ta Young ladies who faint on being pro- posed to, may be readily restored by whispering in their ears that you were only joking. | Mrs. Burlington wants to know if it were not intended that women should drive their husbands, why are they put through the 6ridGI ceremony ? als As in letter, if the paper is small and we have much to write, we write close so let us learn to economize and improve the remaining moments of life. s... ....'-
 The Persians believe that all dia- l monds fell from heaven during the earliest stages of the world, and are therefore entitled to religious venera- tion. r. M s5 .r g r'.ssr -.e.s-~r
 PROT. H. R. PALMER of Chicago, Prof. l.. O. Emerson of Boston, and other noted teachers, hold four weeks Musical Institute at Dunkirk, N. r., beginning July 19. ...-,. ...,-
 And now, the Icelanders are begin ming to seek homes in the United States. They are said to resemble the Scotch in appearance, and are a bright, healthy-looking class. s.el .as't =.
 Prepay your postage. Bushels of printed matter on which postageis in sufficiently paid are every week deposit ed in the general post-office, and there detained and ultimately destroyed.
 A custom house officer in San Fran cisco having casually mentioned that there was case of small .pox next door to him, was promptly, gwen six weeks vacation, to his great satis- faction. ..., ...,.- ..- sl, r-,.rtrt.. raa.
 Experienced sheep men in different portions of California are of the opin- ion that the losses of sheep this winter have been so great that all the increase by way of lambs will be required to keep the numbers good. ry-vU .sr= A boy in Greenfield, N. H., told his father that he guessed be could make that hen quit setting, and his father told him to go ahead. The boys plan was to set fire to the nest, and in carrying it out he burned the barn and all it's con- tents. -.. ..'. ~.ac4i.a
 The question, What is shyster was raised in St. Louis libel suit. Ao- cording to one of the witnesses, the word was first nsed in the Chicago Democrat, and was originally, as now, intended to designate Q pettifogging lawyer. ~a @ .*
 The time is with us when the femi- nine dweller in the suburbs will say to her little girl, "Susan, go in and ask Mrs. Smith if she won't keep a few of those hens at home. I've just planted my seeds and can't have all those fowls here at once."
 The Richmond Journal has this :- Wanted.-A few hundred young men who part their hair in the middle of their craniums, to stand in front of the First Baptist church, Broad street, to stare the ladies out of countenanca as they emerge therefrom. ..+'.r..-.
 In the Tuba County Hospital, Cal, interesting experiments have been made with magnet for the cure of rheuma- hASA hIu PaIdlJ BIS. A large uOrSesnO0 magnet is used, and one case of paraly- sis has been almost cured, and several cases of chronic rheumatism relieved.
 A Boston tailor having reminded debtor that he hadn't paid anything on for long time, and that he the tailor) must have some money, as he was very short, received this re- freshingly cool reply: Note received. If you are very short why don't you sell one of your horses 7. ,..... ...',.... ....,.