Connecticut western news., 1874-05-22
Items of Interest.


 Don't strain your voice soolding your children. The little wretches won't ap preciate your sacrifice
 When have married people passed through the alphabet of loye2 When they reach the 6a-6e. g' 'fart e'
 A great step is gained when child has learned that there is no necessary connection between liking thing and doing it. .... -s,... e..o 4a...
 "She don't know enough to boil wa ter" is the latest estimate of the ca pacity for domestic duties of the girl of the period. ssai sAN~
 In weighing the characters of men we must penetrate the envelope of affec- tion and assumption which many ha- bitually wear. ..srrea #-f
 Scoff net at the natural defects of any which are not in their power to prevent. Oh 'tis cruelty to beat cripple with his own crutches. @- ..+
 A woman in Indiana claims divorce on the ground that her husbands mother beats her, and her husband is afraid to interfere. .Et la daaars
 Nature is frugal mother. and never gives without measure. When she has work to do, she qualities men for that and sends them equipped. .
 This country sentto England between Jan. 1 and March 3l, cheese to the value of $2, SIC, 230-a gain over the same time last year of $400, 900.
 A man at Weston, Mo-, fired in the dark at man who was stealing his corn, and next day the county sheriff was around with his arm in @ sling.
 It will save you from thousand ills
 To die when you are youngi,
 If you go before you cut your teeth,
 You'll never bite your tongue.
 The third class of naval cadets at Annapolis are to be deprived of their {" hazing," which has always resulted in the dismissal of the ring leader.
 The worst feature about this crema- tion business is that some winter morn ing. in a fit ot philanthrophy, your widows second husband may empty your ashes on the icy pavement for the benefit of pedestrians. ... "An OK does not taste as good as an oyster, but it can run twice as fast, :" was the result of boys effort to write a composition on oxen. Another defined panegyric as "something good for baby when it had the stomach-ache.
 The San Francisco liquor dealers having organized are to raise g large ann to fight agalnst the interference of the crusaders with their customers in the interior and against "local op- tion." Both questions are to be combat | ed in the courts. 71G sa
 As two children were playing to- ,ather. little Jane got angry and pout- eJ Johnny said to her, "Look out, 9a, gane or nj take seat up there on uonr iips." "Then," replied Jane, quite cured of her pouts, "ill laugn' and you'll fall off" "a ".
 An Alabama paper reports curious death of 8 child. She had been sent out to cut some meat on blocks of wood used for the p plrpose, and falling asleep was soon covered with red ants whlcn bit and stung her so severely that fever and death ensued.
 The new style of oath is out. Mrs: Marrowfat ordered her husband to peel tbe onions for dinner before he left the house. and MT. Marrowfat, bringing down his fist upon the table with much emphasis, observed: May l be ere mated, madam, if do l" s n. ..
 Sylvanus thinks it would be good thing to say, when the Governor blows up and calls you as obstinate as a mule, "Like enough, when you have an ass ass for your father" Sylvasnus4 4 ooes Sss n0o no mean to try this himself. lie nas no occasion. Any boy who wants it may have it.
 A Detroit gentleman brides himself on his fiue fowls, and his nelghooT IS equally vain of fine coach dog. The dor worries the life out of the chick ems. A few days ago the owner ot the dog received the following note s Friend-You keep dogs. l keep chickens. If my chickens worry your dogs, shoot 'em." -..r r-t.-.. 4.