Connecticut western news., 1874-04-24
9 Items of Interest.

Three newspapers in Iowa are edited by ladies' ta~ .;..s .a
 Fifty cents day is the pay of laborer in Quebec.
 Cleveland is now supplied with water from the tunnel under the lake.
 California. has added to the States in which local option laws prevail.
 The boys are thinking of forming e National Association of rnarble-players.
 Remove wax from the ear by tepid water never put hard instrument in- to the ear.
 How doth the little busy politician Improve each shining hour,
 - To scatter hayseed in his hair
 And dust his coat with flour.
 A butter factory, which, according to Q local paper, twill pump four hundred cows," is about to be established in Iowa. atl 20 lta.lS ai D5El4e
 B There is @ prejudice inG human kind against large ears. As the poet says "Man wants but little ear below, nor wants that little long," rr..s.h
 Nine-tenths of the women be- lieve that if one hears 8 dog howl at midnight for three successive nights that there is to be @ death in the fami- ly. ....-....
 Iron Notifications are to be used for the defense of German strongholds, the experiments made during the past six years having proved them to be almost impregnable. cr15...5 ~,s1r
 An Ohio church prohibits admission to tobacco -chewers and a notice is con- spicuously posted in it that every man who chews, whether he 1ehewses or not, must take his leaf. , i9aa sa aTia
 JonesLI wish somebody would leave you, Will, to me in the shape of half a million. Will guess people have left enough of ? me e slreadyt0 yon, Jones, in the shape of Bills. N, ,st4sg
 s Telegraphing is a game that prairie chickens do not understand sand in con- sequence many of them are killed by coming in. contact with wires in their flight in large foeks.soa4.zb RE
 Hereafter no portrait is to be placed upon any of the bonds, securities, notes, fractional or postal currency of the United States, while the original of such portrait is living. 7 ",
 Some fellow, with no respect for the dignity of butter, remarks of the lady who models busts i'm that article of food, that her talents would have re- hected credit upon Greece. laesr
 A French statute decrees that any person animadyerted on in newspaper may claim for his printed .self-defense twice as much space as was occupied by the article to which he takes excep- tion. rssrGa1I h9G a-o1i.iiF .aaf
 r.A A Texas gentleman four years ago bought SOW and four pigs for i've dol lars, branded them and turned them loose. He now enjoys the proud dis tinction of being the a'Hog King" of Texas. 7 -'' !" it .''i''''' e@'"
 The production of coal on the Pacific coast is rapidly increasing. The Mount Diable Mines have averaged Al75, 900 tons a year for two years past, and the lowest prices are $6 25 for fine and $S. 25 for coarse. suE'1 nff s3f>aF t5gg
 Passengers to the Pacific by rail breakfast in Sierras with twenty feet of snow around them four hours later they find wheat four inches high, and the next day see pear and peach trees in blossom. ,H p0taF ,''s" @i
 The boundary dispute between Vir- ginia and Maryland runs back to l663. It involves the possession of the Po- tomac, with its riparian rights, and . about $50 square miles of land, part of which is now immensely valuable on &C., count of the oyster harvest. s-'--'
 There is an old story that St. Peter, when he revisited earth, was obliged, among the multitudinousl changes on every hand, to have q guide through most of Europe, but on entering Spain he dismissed him :" for here, said the Saint, !" everything is just as I left | it." '''' '.'' In his ".Notes on Virginia, !" Thomas | Jefferson sneered at these reports, say | ing "It is claimed that there was prior declaration of Independence in North Carolina, statement having about as, much foundation as the re- port that a volcano exists in the noun tains of the same State. v s.age
 The San Francisco Bulletin thinks the loss in the death off cattle in that country since fall has been over $l, ,OOO,- GOO. The feed has been very scarce, and consequently the cattle were. in no condition to meet the long storms. Shelter is out of the question: GSome individuals own 50, 900. lOf course they cannot be fed. -gs ,r \ ,.sw.
 While the women were praying on the sidewalk in front of a saloon in New Albany, Ky, recently, a fight was 1 inaugurated between some men close at hand, and though oaths and ribal- dry were thicker than blows, one wo- man didn't finish her prayer till the fight was ended but the rest were pale and terror-stricken. rtsa