Connecticut western news., 1874-04-03
Items of Interest.

Delightful Patrons of Husbandry" Female match makers.
 A Georgia paper has for it's motto: "It is not rank, nor birth, nor state, but get up and get, that makes men great" '.. a- aaas4ss geors gAP .TGs
 In England recently man attending the funeral of his father was arrested for an offense committed fourteen years previously. -...T--.
 An undertaker's shop in Philadelphia recently bore the following cheering in- scription "Gone for 6 dead man back soon." u.,.1 a. .r.y t.aw sr
 The Supreme Court of Mississippi has afimred the legitimacy of children born of marriages between white and colored persons. ....s. T.. ....... It is believed that the bottom price of rails is reached. The railroad, com panies now contract for rails at $60 to $63 at the mills. IhSaa1l . ieom-&
 The handkerchiefs, over which there has been such a furore for 1ieckware, are going out rapidly. Windsor ties are taking their place. e,s7 g -etgae
 The strongest glass will sustain two thousand pounds to the square inch. It also has been known to twist a mans leg so that he couldn't walk. sH." '''"
 When women war against rum and beer, and close for aye each drinking place then shalt the salty, silent tear roll down each lunch.fend's face. a
 It was western landlord who posted the notice in his dining-room that mem- bers of the. Legislature would be first seated, ard afterwards the gentlemen.
 The majority of the hands on Texas ranches are Mexicans, who are good and steady workers. A Mexican will not allow hIs wife or daughter to work.
 Rector's daughter(to Sunday scholar) -"Oh, you have an elder brother how old is he ?" Schoolboy-" Dunno, miss, but he's just started Q swear ing" @ ''a i,.'.''
 "The Man with Two Wives" is said to be "drama of great domestic in- terest." That may be, but it must cer- tainly be without any domestic prin- ciple. l......-. ..l,
 Put this down to the credit of rum. A man in Wisconsin went home to whip his wife, and was so drunk that he fell through the cellar stairway and broke his neck. sl, aas. frsg Ua sug' vgas
 The Maryland Legislature has made it unlawful for children under sixteen years of age to engage for more than ten hours out of twenty four in factory labor. sa BYE ,-'sY' '.i .-s i'i.-
 Texas has two new legal holidays, the 2d of March and the 21st of April. The first is the anniversary of Texas in- dependence, and the second that of the battle of San Jacinto. .,.,sF.....,
 The once formidable. New Zealand chief To Kooti has become physically wreck through continued drunken ness, and pleads for liberty to settle where he !" "can have cells and rum."3
 We have had almost. every shape of parasols, and nowwe are.informed they are to be flat, e L0 Japanese, and so in- expensive that numbers can be owned, to match every costume. Just this of it 7't -
 It is surprising how much it takes to make man happy. There is man in Indiana who is now living with his fifth wife. seventeen children, and three mother-in,law.I And still he is not happy ai gu.faba.y e'it.5 .s7gis rso.
 MT. Brady, who after the chief off, cers of the Pennsylvania had been swept overheard by heavy sea took command of the ship and brought her safely into port, has been appointed her captain. '' A-'
 A number of physicians and others are being prosecuted in England for ate tempting to defraud life insurance company by obtaining policies unknown to the persons whose lives they sought to insure. r ,s--.-rl 10 sastr,e al4
 Peter Macnally, lame Dublin attor- ney, wanted to be enrolled in 8 yolun- teer crops. "You'd never do, Peter" said the officer to whom he applied for admission "the more we told you to march, the more you'd halt" Ftu's1
 The Maryland State Grange requests manufacturers and dealers in agricul- turd and farming implements of all | kinds to discontinue the practice of de- manding exorbitant pay for separate pieces or parts of such, when needed for repairs. --.saah'.zi.1 .o a;tiia4zi-
 There is difficult gentleman in Kal- amazoo, Mich., who refuses to pay his school tax. He takes the ground that schools have no right to- teach any lan- guage save the English, and that when French and Latin are taught nobody is obliged to pay any part of the expense. According to the Greensburg tPa.) Argus, John Keller, of Unity, has dis covered where the potato bug lives in the winter. 3 Grubbing on 8 piece of land the other day, he unearthed count less thousands, very fat and equally healthy, and all ready for the summer campaign. '-.' i'4'i ''2 a'" "