Connecticut western news., 1874-04-17
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 The man who pardons, disappoint
 his foe.
 None knows the weight of another'l burthen.
 , Wherever the speech is corrupted, SC is the mind.
 Diligence is fair fortune and indus try good estate. Friendship is love, without either flowers or vail.
 When you have no observers, be
 afraid of yourself.
 To those whose god is honor, dis
 grace alone is sin. ...-. ..-.
 To @ gentleman every woman is (
 lady, in right of her sex.
 He who chatters much to no purpose
 climbs tree to catch fish.
 He that finds a thing, steals it if he
 endeavors not to restore it.
 The ancients dreaded death; the
 Christian can only fear dying.
 A laugh is worth hundred groans in any market.-ChGrIes Laanb.
 Many mans vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities ru11 wild.
 The grangers of Perry county, Ala bama, are about to start large cotton factory .... ...-.,as.
 A hungry man does right we'll to eat the egg, for he might starve before 1t got to be bullet. ...
 A remarkable spear-head and silver plate have been discovered in an Indian grave in South Florida.
 It is @ common thing, in the voyage of life, to mistake, like Sinbad, 6 whales back for an island.
 Our prayers and Gods mercy are like two buckets in a well-while one ascends, the other descends.
 It is curious that in circulating h- braries fiction almost always comprises just about seventy-fve per cent. of the circulation.
 Texan journals are calling attention to the extensive live-oak forests in that State, into which their railroads are penetrating.
 Thirteen men were drunk at Holyoke the other day, and the 1rDnscrtpt says that they "got higher than the height of an absurdity."
 A measuring circumference of ten and three quarter inches by seven and quarter inches. ...a ...
 Electric butter is the latest novelty in the dairy line. A pint of milk is said to be made into pound of butter in less than one minute.
 The largest man in Tennessee has just died. His weight was one thousand and forty pounds. They will bury him in the Mammoth Gave.
 A man who has lived next door to e school-house for ten years says he can see no sense in calling any one Ca gen. tleman and Q scholar"
 Now then for the oldest overcoats A Bridgeport man comes to the surface with @ coat on his shoulders in its thirty-frst year of active duty.
 A Brooklyn girl of six summers says the reason the man on thenew fractional currency looks so mad is because he is only put on ten-cent stamp instead of fifty-center. ..E
 At Virginia City bystander, witness sing an accident iu which a man fell under the cars and had both legs cut off, himself turned instantly gray, tainted, and died from the shock.
 MT. Gardener, of Montgomery Co., Virginia, said at recent farmers meet- ing that he supported his family on forty acres of land. and cleared six dollars besides, last year.
 A Vienna journal contains thefollow- ing advertisement "Anna Agrikoi, sick nurse, watches dead bodies, re- pairs straw chairs, applies leeches, and makes pastry, desserts and delicacies.
 When Tennessee father walks into & newspaper office with 8 shotgun on his arm and says, " My darter has writ some poetry which want you to publish" how's feller going to plead press of matter
 Captain King, of Texas, formerly of Vermont, has an inclosed pasture of 70, GOO acres, though he owns about 15O, ,OOO acres of land in Nueces and Duval counties. The entire stock held by him at the present time is 5Q,000 head of cattle, 20, 1000 head of sheep, and 10, 900 head of horses.
 A Western paper says that the way to kill off the poets who offer to write pieces gratuitously is to accept their efforts, hand them to the worst com- positor, and let the rroof-reader correct. them according to his own ideas of prosody. This is warranted to destroy the strongest poetical fever in three weeks.
 A wag went to the station of one of ,he railroads one evening, and, finding the best car full, said in @ low tone, ;s Why, this car isn't going l' Of ,ourse this caused general stampede, md the wag took the best seat. In the midst of the indignation the wag was asked "Why did you say this car wasn't going ?'' "Well, it wasn't then," 'eplied the wag, "but it is now"
 The Christian Uaaon replies to @ ,uery as to whether it Ys~wicked to lance "It is wicked when it is wicked, md not wicked when it is not wicked. n itself it has no more moral character han walking, wrestling, or rowing. Bad company, untimely hours, evil lances, may make the exercise evil ,ood company, wholesome hours, and lome influences, make it @ very great benefit" .-.-. -; A physician, writing to the Philadel- ,hia Press, says that angina pectoris is rare affection, and usually spares indi- ldualS under n1Uy yearS or aBe. The nost reliable remedy is one compara- ively we'll known among leading phy- icians, but not yet admitted to phar- nacopoia-nitrate of amyl, prepared " heating fusil oil and nitric acid in he same crucible. It should be, ad- ninistered by inhalation, and it's effects re immediate.
 - .-. PovERrY.- children were recent " fo,1nd in a small rear rnnnn in Avan.