Connecticut western news., 1874-09-18
Items of Interest.

They say that self-raking reaper in
 Iowa nets leg day.
 How to stop 0 cock-fght-Let all
 parties present claim fowl.
 According to Dr. Maginn, no cigar smoker ever committed suicide.
 Rev. c. B. True was married the other day in Connecticut. Hope he | will.
 "Oh, mister, please find the captain
 We must be in danger. The man at the wheel turns this way and that, and has evidently lost his way"
 "A Tennessee man wrote his will on 0 paper collar, and it passed through the probate court as we'll as any other will, though little unhandy about filing.
 Duncan Ross, an old gentleman of Portland, Me-, has a suit of clothes which he bought 36 years ago. He has been married in it four times, and con- siders it pretty good suit yet.
 "That dog of yourn flew at me this morning, and bit me on the leg, and I notify you that I intend to shoot 1t the first time see it." "The dog is not mad" "I know he's not mad. What has he got to be mad about It's me that's mad.
 It is said to be favorite pastime in Chicago for young men to get together in groups, and when they see lady's feet coming guess who the owner is, before she gets in sight. Even the dullest of them has all the time he wants for a guess.
 Recently in Columbia county (Ga. church, when the congregation arose to sing, pistol fell from the pocket of one of the worshippere and wounded MT. Peeler, who remarked as he was being carried out, Take care you don't make me drop mine."
 Among the archives of Missouri, is @ resolution passed in 1924, and still in effect, requesting the Govel nor, Lieu tenant Governor, Judges, and other State officials and members of the Gen. eral Assembly to dress in clothing, the growth and manufacture of Missouri.
 Chicago wants to have the next Worlds Fair held there. "In the first place." says the Boston Post, cit isn't certain that the next world will have fair; and in the second place, those who'd be likely to attend it will prefer Q more pious town in which to celebrate it."
 To feed New York and its adjacent population, according to Prof. Mans field, requires annually 600,000 head of cattle, 5000 sheep, 1000, 900 hogs, 2,000, ,000 barrels of flour, and 800,000 barrels of corn and rye with milk, fish, fruit, vegetables, and groceries to cor respond.
 The Prussian War Department has issued orders to grant valid certificates of incapacity for military duty to those Germans in the United States who, in consequence of disease or disability, should wish to establish legal claims for exemption from military duty at home Prussia.
 A married woman in Greenville, Mich., for the fun of the thing, put on pantaloons and went out driviug. She had not been out long before she ran over and nearly killed an unfortunate man who was trying to cross Q street, and the police immediately seized her. Her husband got her out of her trou- ble, but the story of her disguise had to be told.
 A speculative Scotch gentleman, wanting to dispose of some bees, to at- tract purchasers printed the following placard Extensive sale of live stock comprising not less than forty thousand head, with an unlimited right of pas turage." The ingenious trick succeed ed to win admiration, for his stock brought high prices.
 Thimbles are made from coin silver, hence the business is much effected by financial variations. The dollars are melted, rolled to the required thick ness, and cut into the required size. The disks are then moulded around a bar and the sides are welded. The pol ishing, decorating, and indenting are done upon lathe. ..o
 Riches never showed pair of wings more from tip to tip than in the case of Goal Oil Johnny, the whi- lom millionaire of the oil regions, who, after rising from the humble position of ox-teamster to the wealth of prince, has again subsided into agricultural and is glad to blow all day to make dollar or two.
 Ballooning experiments have been made recently at the Woolwich Arsenal, England. On one occasion after the balloon had ascended thou sand feet, the aeronauts tried new steering apparatus, but it failed to effect the course of the balloon, al- though it enabled the aeronsuts to make it revolve to the right or left.
 A fashionably dressed young man was seen fourishing his hat on one of the towers of Notre Dame, Paris. He threw it down, and then jumped after it. He was picked up quite dead and 80 mutilated in the face that it was thought useless to expose the body in the Morgue. From a passport found on him it appeared that his name was Emile Jean Christian Hubert, born in London.