Connecticut western news., 1874-05-08
Items of Interest.

Life is like certain kind of boat race-success depends entirely upon the scults. A,
 The number of hares and rabbits produced annually in Great Britain is said to be 30,000, ,000, supplying 4O,OOO tons of food. ....a
 A Western agricultural editor says, it makes "good garden sass" to let your hens and chickens into your neigh bor's ground.
 A San Antonia (Texas) paper mentions the fact that Mexican woman was in town the previous day, and sold her child for BIO.
 Using cancelled postage stamp caused man to be fined $500 and costs in the United States District Court the other day in Utica.
 A boarding house boy, on being asked by an amateur mineralogist what he thought was the strongest of substances? replied, promptly, " butter"
 Among @ party of Swedish emigrants recently arrived in Portland, Me, was man and his wife. about forty-tive years old, with nineteen children.
 An uncle left eleven silver spoons to his nephew in his will, adding, "He knows the reason why have not left him the whole dozen." The nephew had stolen one.
 The editor of the Leavenworth DaSly Argws touchingly remarks in the obitu- ary of his paper: "We went into the business determined to run it or bust. We have busted" .-
 The Maine people are waking up to the enforcement of the fish laws, and & man was fined $50 the other day for merely bringing salmon to market in Bangor out of season.
 Henry Meiggs is free to return to California. The Legislature have pass ed an act declaring his long forgotten offences to be bygones, which the. Gov ernor vetoed. The bill was then pass ed over the veto. -F
 It is calculated that if the body of each of the 270, 0,678 persons who died in the United States in 1870 was allowed fun-sized grave, the whole would oc- cupy about two hundred and two acres. If they were cremated, the ashes would make excellent manure for about thousand acres. &
 Now here is case of pure innocence. An Iowa railroad employee, whose sig nal lantern, like that of the foolish vir- gins, was left without oil, wrote to the supply officer for "some more of that red oil, not knowing that the color of the lantern globe had something to do with the shade of light it threw out.
 It takes six goats month to feed a large boa constrictor. They are swal- lowed whole, the time, for each being two hours and twenty minutes, during which the reptile makes terrific efforts and disgusting contortions. He then lies in torpid state till his food is dis solved, when he makes known that he is ready for another meal. s
 The newspapers and periodicals pub lished in this country in 1860 numbered creased to 5,971. According to recent statement the number has increased since that time to 6, ,875, more than l, ,000 Of this number 647 are dailies, 5, 175 weeklies, and 1,053 monthlies, etc.
 The movement against railroads in the West operates disastrously on OCT tain industries in the East. The re- ceipts of Western railroads have fallen off more than twenty-five per cent, and the result is that the corporations can- not afford to order the manufacture of rails. As consequence orders are slack in the Troy mills, and some of them will probably close.
 A western paper speaks of the house. cleaning season as that when divine woman has her own way about the house, while the sold man" takes his solemn repast from the top of the -four barrel, and, in sleeping, enjoys, the freedom of the interval between his bedroom and the front fence. It is season of meditation, white-wash, and calm unimpassioned profanity.