Connecticut western news., 1874-12-11
Items of Interest.

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 The proper salutation when you meet writing master is, "How do you flourish ?"
 A Minnesota man makes the winter seem short by giving his note payable in the spring.
 A governess advertises for situation as teacher. She says she is mistress of her own tongue"
 Wild pigeons are so numerous in some parts of Missouri that they sell for ten cents dozen.
 The soil found around the slopes of Vesuvius Is said to be an antidote to the potato disease and other fungoid diseases of plants.
 Instances of men who go down on a piece of orange peel and get up and think as much of themselves as they did before, are rare.
 We are told that "the smallest hair will throw shadow" And so it does. It throws a shadow over your appetite when you find it in your victuals.
 The running horse Longfellow is held to be worth more than $50, ,O00, the above mentioned price having been
  day.
 "I lighted fire that I can't put out," was the accurate statement of Q ten year older when he ran into the house for help after setting fire to & haystack.
 The Icelanders employed by the Victoria railway, Canada, do not make very good railroad builders. Having been unused to steady work at home, they need training. But they are will ing.
 Alcibiades will be surprised to.learn from San Francisco paper that he was the fellow who was once voted against on the ground that his reputa- tion for justice had become an awful bore. r.,.,t
 The Kennebec river dealers have shipped 235, 900 tons of ice, this sea son, requiring over 500 vessels. About 200, 900 tons are left on the river, the largest amount held by any one com pany being 25,0O0 tons.
 Paris possesses a new culinary won- der. It is "patent butter" It is not made from cream, but apparently from the ordinary fat of slaughtered animals: It is cold at half the price of the real butter, and will keep sweet year.
 It is said that "beef is only three cents per pound in Oregon, while collins are $1OO apiece" Thus the temptation of the Oregonlan to eat him self to death is providentially counter acted by the high price of funeral
 At one of the depots in Detroit was a family of seven persons, out of money and not knowing where to go or what to do, and they bore names as follows " Hortense," '"viola," Augustine" est. Clare," Percival," "Clemen- tine" and "Flora Belle" .-.
 A Texas reporter tried to interview Santanta on his way to the penitentiary, but "fire flashed from the old chiefs eyes, and he said, gutturally, that he had headache, had slept little the night before, and was hungry" The retired cheerfully andpromptly.
 Eight hundred and thirty young girls applied at New York theater in an- swer to an advertisement for one hun dred young ladies to dance in the ballet. Many of them were beautiful, and among the number were six who had taught school and had given music les- sons. ..'.t a-s
 What think you of the prices charged to hear Patti, says Paris correspond ant, you who grumble at paying $3 a seat to hear Nilsson, Maurel and Gam panini Boxes at the Italiens, from 1s25 to $40; single seats in the par quette, BIO; balcony, $12 second tier the same, and third tier $6. tfe.|
 Two little girls were playing on the footpath, in Paris, when one pushed the other, so that, falling in the car riageway, she was crushed by van her comrade ran away in fright, but was knocked down by an omnibus, and picked up dead. Both corpses were carried away on the same bier.
 While ten men. watch for chances, one man makes chances, while ten men wait for something to turn up, one turns something up so, while ten fall, ,ne succeeds and is called a man of uck-the favorite of fortune. There s no luck like pluck, and fortune most avors those who are most indifferent to ortune. ... 2. 7.t
 Young man, never aspire. Remem- ,er what happened to the young fellow vho hallooed Excelsior so. He was nice young man and had wealthy con- lections. But he wouldn't mind the id man, nor heed the maiden who lsked him to call on her.. Naturally he vas found frozen stiff, still shouting Excelsior" ,. yh.. -.. A bill in the Vermont Senate was to pay 8 bear bounty. The unfortunate rapper had set his trap in the winter, put had forgot to visit it until the next Ipring. He then found the remains of l bear, but so oderiferous and de- composed that he could not find the. ,ars of bruin to present to the town