Connecticut western news., 1874-08-14
Items of Interest.

Potatoes are three cents apiece in New Orleans. rs e.*g
 Some of the United States pap CTS want baldheaded President next tim c, because they have not had one sine @ Martin Van Buren. ~.I s.y yi
 When water becomes as common in England as is ale, says the Danbury man, the finest drainage ever invented will not save the country.
 A Pennsylvanian bet $6, GOO he could eat fifty quarts of peanuts in twenty five hours. He got away with forty, and then death got away with him.
 The School Board of New Boston, Texas, has "Resolved, That we cannot indorse the action of our school teacher going in swimming with the scholars"
 The cursory glance of traveller around him as he passed through Fort Wayne convinced him that the town has more red headed girls. than the whole State of Massachusetts,
 The season of the year approaches when the reflective man will cross his hands under his coat tails and wonder how they manage to get 8 peck of peaches into six-quart basket.
 An Idaho schoolmarm has introduced & new feature in her school. When one of the girls misses word the boy who spells it gets permis sion to kiss her. As result, the girls are fast becoming poor spoilers, while the boys are im- proving. .... ...f r.,.
 An Iowa paper reports the following as the actual form of a marriage service in town in that State: "Join your right hands. Do you want one an- other?" (Ehey both answer D" Yes.") "Well. then, ha0e one another. You're man and wife" .r,y.r-, ,ao}
 The London Standard newspaper has just expended s60, GOO in the purchase and equipment of number of Hoes perfectinR presses, each of which can deliver 12, ,00e perfect copies per hour. The two editions of the StGndGrd, morning and evening, average about 120, 900 copies. r, ,. ,,-, .-,,,,fr,r,
 "What's your business 2" said the magistrate of a police court, the other morning to prisoner. t' I'm an obser- vationist, your worship.n s"An obser- vationist 1 what is that ?'gl tsOne who looks around in the daytime to see where he can steal at night, if it pleases your worship" ..,,,...r.' '-.,.t
 A Minnesota man has written letter protesting strongly against the "out- rageous inaecency of oarsmen wearing sleeveless shirts while out practicing in front of St. Paul We have often thought of this thing, and wept over it. A lady has right to wear a, sleeveless shirt, of course but there, there! this is dangerous.
 That was ludicrously sudden de- scent from the sublime to the ridicu- lous where clergyman preaching on the "Ministry of Angels E suddenly observed CT hear a whisper l" The change of tone started one of the dea- cons, who sat below, from drowsy mood, and, springing to his feet, he cried: "It's the boys in the gallery "
 The sugar beet planters near Bright their fields battling against the army worms. Each turkey eats on an aver. age 600 worms per day, making total Notwithstanding this heavy loss their numbers seem uudiminished. The query now is, where do they come from? r.-.--,s .-.-', hrsa
 A ludicrous incident occurred on steamboat the other day. The captain was accosted by an aged colored lady, who came up on the boat, and who was blind, and was asked to subscribe something toward her maintenance. 1 The captain asked her why she came to him first, to which she replied, !" Case, sah, see you's 30 good lookin, an allus want de hansorne men down fust." the captain subscribed at oncess
 Youthful simplicity is beautiful, bat it may become exasperating.s9A A school teacher wishing his pupils htol have a clear Idea of faith, illustrated 1t thus :: "Here is an apple--you see it, and I therefore know that it is there; but when place it under this tea cup you have faith that it is there, though you no longer see it." The lads seemed to understand perfectly and the next time the, teacher, asked them, ,,,s, ]" What is faith ?" they answered with one accord, :" An apple under a teaicup t"u9
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