Connecticut western news., 1874-02-27
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 Chief-Justice waite's grandfather reached ninety. His father was eighty at the time of his death. Both were judges.
 The Siamese twins had contracted to travel ill the United States for the com ing season, and were to receive $200 per week.
 Housekeepers in Lewisburg are spared the trouble of blowing up their servants, kerosene being used there for kindling fires. '..
 Wilkie Collins can't see how an Ameri- can can wash, sit down, eat dinner and pick his teeth in seven minutes, but it's all in practice. .u.efa ..-s.1s
 Seventy-five per cent. of the sickness of New York, and probably ninety per cent. of crime, come from the tenement house population.
 An Indiana farmer drew $400 from the bank, suspended it in the we'll to baffle thieves, and then fell in and broke his neck while tying the rope. .~
 A Western gambler, about beginning the matrimonial game, so far controlled himself as to say in the announcement of his wedding, |" No Cards." .... F.
 "Whv do you set your cup of cof- fee on the chair, MT. Jones ?" said landlady at breakfast "It is so very weak, madam, I thought I would let it rest"
 They say that the American nation is not iovial and hilarious; but if you want to disprove it just slip down on the icy pavement where the crowd is thickest. ... ...-
 The present population of New Or leans is estimated at 230, ,985, an increase of 39, 567 over the census of 1870. This makes it the eighth city in the Union, or next to Boston.
 Quilp thinks it rather remarkable that while several thousand feet are re- quired to make one rood, single foot, properly applied, is often sufficient to make one civil. .- ea--...
 In the reign of King Charles the Sec ond the population of London, accord ing to Sir William Petty, did not ex- ceed 350, ,000 souls. It is now verging upon four millions.
 It is averred that the reason American girls refuse to enter domestic service, is that they object to anything ap- preaching menial employment-what they seek is hy-meneal. M..-rr
 The cans in which fruits and meats are put up are sold by soldiers on the plains to Indian squaws, who wear them in strings to hear the soothing music of the tins iingling together.
 A Southern writer describes scrub aristocracy as those who, having been risen from a state of obscurity and pow erty to wealth, boot-lick those above them, while they scorn the honest and poor. -.,.t
 Mankato hes established @ new cus- tom-a dance for the benefit of news. paper. The inauguration of this plan of relief was for the benefit of the Beo- bachter, German issue, and was not success.
 There is strong, able-bodied woman in Grand Rapids, Mich, who has not been three blocks from her house but once in twenty-five years, but she can be heard whispering to her children three miles. ....t fr.
 Old Phin. Teeple of Preston, Wayne county, Pa., is seventy years old, though remarkably vigorous, and looks hardly fifty. Since eleven years of age he has killed 2,985 deer and 43S bears. His favorite hunting ground is in Pot ter county. .'-.... ,as,tn -aa
 Marrying is pretty serious business; but when a couple go to a graveyard, and at night, to be married, as q Penn sylvania couple did, the proposition is unavoidable that they ought to have been divorced some time before the ceremony. "- C Ea..
 A sensible man: Lamartine was asked by friend if he did not spend too much time in advertising. "No," was the reply, advertisements are abso- lutely necessary. Even divine worship needs to be advertised. Else what is the meaning of church bells ?" .......
 The Northwestern railway have sent a circular to all the newspapers pub lished in towns in Illinois through which their line passes, declining to issue any passes to newspapers in. consideration of advertising, and agreeing to pay for all their advertising in hard cash.
 The Flutes of Indian Territory are represented as suffering severely this winter. Much of the time without fires, they crouch in their miserable huts on the bleak hills, and live on frozen food. Nothing but natural ,toughness could carry them through the season alive. A little boy living near Kankakee, Ill, was amusing his brothers and sis ters by twisting towel around his neck in imitation of hanging, when m turning around his feet slipped. He fell the length of the towel, which was firmly attached to roller. His neck was instantly broken. ..-.-5 g . ea- T 1rn which was printed about himself in the Middlebury (Vt0 Register, Where upon he visited the editor with an open jack-knife, but speedily retired bathed in ink. of which four bottles full were showered upon him. He protessed himself perfectly satisfed' t., ..-
 The series of fourteen "extras !" issued by the New York Tribune are undoubtedly the cheapest and best popular scientific, publication in the world. The Iribuoe will send free to any applicant circular giving the full contents and details of this remark able [" Library for One Dollar, ..5a
 A country paper exclaims : 'Iives there a man with soul so dead, ,s who never to himself has said, I'll pay be- fore I 90 to bed, the debt I owe the printerP Yes, there are some we know full we'll, who never such tale could tell, but they, I fear, will 60 to---well, the place where there's no winter"
 A correspondent of country paper complains of a young lady sohool- teacher who permits one of the big scholars to sit beside her and kiss her occasionally. The probability is that he has struggled for the position and sudden affection for the proprieties. 'j We consider about the middle oi February the best time for transplant ino broad .laaved eYerQreens. and we