Connecticut western news., 1874-08-07
Items of Interest.

The greatest object of curiosity to woman is the dress of another woman
 Dairymen at Elgin, H., are import ing Holstein COWS, believing that by crossing with American breeds greater yield of milk can be obtained.
 A Chicago paper thinks it would be a good plan to cut the heads of of all persons dying, so that there would be no danger of burying them alive. Mrs. Sarah Jones, who died in De- Kalb county, Georgia, recently, at the age eff ninety-three, leaves more than four hundred living descendants.
 "I'm not in mourning" said young lady frankly to a querist, "but as the widows are getting all the offers now-a- days, we poor girls have to resort to artifice. "' ....-..,f,.
 A fourteen year old boy at Lancaster, Wis.,, was recently bitten in the finger by rattlesnake, but picking up dull axe he cut off the member and escaped the virus. / .,H. ~rai D gn.ausI
 A lady at Evansville, Ind, died from fright because two of her children were bitten by a dog. The New York Alder men would call this 8 clear case of hydrophobia. . .+ "'.."t
 Tomatoes were first used in this coun- try as an edible in the year 1919, but they did not come into general use un- til more than twenty years subsequent to that date. ,.'-,. ..... fo-,-
 A soda-fountain at Streator, H., was recently charged with arsenic, instead of marble dust, and nine pereons who partook of the soda before the mistake was discovered had a narrow escape from death. i.us. la3jl at9G.s.I
 The wage-receiving laborers are far from majority of the laboring popula- tion of the world. Agriculture absorbs race, and in this country the bulk of the agricultural population consists of actual proprietors. .a .i'Ld a"i
 Everybody will have feeling of re- spect for the Rhode Island girl who, being about to graduate at seminary recently, refused to accept the appoint ment of valedictorian because she could not stand the expense of such a dress as she would be expected to wear.
 It is related of Sir James Simpson, the celebrated English physician, that the Duchess of Buccleugh drove up to his door and sent her footman to tell him that she waited without. "Tell the Duchess" he replied, ." that Dr. Simpson is engaged with washer woman." .E " .@''h.7.
 In the railroad accident in Cennecti- cut, one man was found with car lying across both ankles. He was speech less, and it was thought dangerously injured. The car was lifted, and. to the astonishment of all, the man quietly arose and walked away without saying word until he had gone about fifty feet, when he swung his hat and cried, "Hurrah for our side r But soon a reaction came and he tainted, and was carried to a neighboring house to bs cared for.
 A Louisville merchant lately received the following apology from debtor The firm of - busted up February 2, 1874. I supposed MT. H., who was carrying on the business, had paid you up. MT. H. has left here gone over into Georgia. For myself, I am unable to pay anything, not hardly able to live through the summon. I am now nearly barefooted. The seat of my pants is worn out and I am unable to buy any more, and big family to take. care of. Yours, respectfully. ~-'.' .... ..-..., ....
 The Chicago Tribune has been ex- amining into food adulterations in that city. The special field selected has been an analysis of the groceries sold at the leading grocery stores in that city. Specimens have been bought from vari- ous establishments, in the usual course of trade, of sugar.. coffee, tea, soap, syrups, cream of tartar. baking pow ders, etc., and they have besnsubiected to analytical tests by a skillful chemist. The result shows that every, article tested is adulterated to greater or less deoree ".i -.. ,.,. .i Ht--.t ,@N.h4'-s