Connecticut western news., 1874-01-30
Items of Interest.

Olu IolKs say JnlS winter IS Ike lSl6.
 Pure air is better than tar for weak lungs.
 Every member of Congress from Minnesota was raised in Maine.
 An assistant clerk of the Illinois House of Representatives is woman-
 A smart Danbury woman does the work for family of nine, milks two COWS and keeps track of thirteen con- tinued stories.
 It is said to be the fashion in Boston, to announce on the invitation cards to gold and silver weddings, that 'no pres ents will be received"
 An observer says that little baby is an easy thing to love, but big baby is hard thing to love, especially if you have to marry her-or him.
 A young girl in Troy who became ex- asperated with her family, took her re- venge by stealing a shawl that she might bring them into disgrace. She was sent to jail for ten days.
 Let every one, the current year es- pecially," says the Mayor of Lowell, "cultivate courtesy, urbanity and har- mony of action." Good crops to culti- vate any year.
 There are large number of sawmills building in various sections of North Carolina. As lumber becomes scarce at the North, the attention of lumbermen IS being turned to the great pine regions iof that State.
 Dr. Cutter recommends the use of Indian meal, heated and placed in bags, as substitute for hot water bottles, nt la l,nk -~1, tains heat better, and does not chill when cold.
 The Spanish Minister of the Interior has issued circular stating that the Government desires to show that order is compatible with the Republic and liberty. Senor Castelar, has refused to cooperate with Figueras, Salmeron, and Margall for the organization of the Federal Republicans.
 Some careful experiments have been made recently on the comparative yield of fields on which covered or uncovered manure has been used. It was found that the field fertilized with the covered manure produced forty per cent. more potatoes and nearly twenty-five per cent. more wheat than the other.
 A Missouri paper says:--" The cus- tom of putting powder in sticks of wood for your neighbor to steel is an old and barbarous one, and when we passed by a house the other morning and saw the family shiver1ng out ill the yard over broken stove, and heard the children crying for breakfast, our heart was filled with bitter reflections on mans lnhu- manity to man."
 Innocence is not virtue, and those who fancy that it is make 0 fatal mis- take. Innooence in simply the ignor- ance of evil; virtue knows 1t, appre- ciates it. Infancy is lovely in it's inno- cence, but life, with its stern realities, demands the strong, ripened vigor of manly virtues to resist evils, to protect its good, to build up character and to bless the world.
 A Virginia farmer lost $50 last year by subscribing for couple of journals, for, to their cost is to be added the time the family spent ill reading and in talking about them, and so he " stopped the papers," Of course he will save the $50 hereafter unless his boys get into some scrape, or patent right is bought, or some other game is played on tho poor man that the papers would have protected him from.
 Here is an Iowa story:-"A young girl near Marengo is wonderfully mark ed by rattlesnakes. Running partially around her neck, side hy side, are two snakes as natural as if alive, and the skin being transparent they seem only lying in wait for victim. On the front of the neck and upper part of the breast are the rattles-as though breastPln- making perfect picture, and shedding regularly every year"
 The wooden pavement is in great favor in London. It is liked because it affords good foothold for horses, is noiseless, smooth, and easily kept clean. The great drawback, of course, is Its perishable nature. But on the re- tail dry goods streets and in the old parts of tho city, all around the Bank, bear the expense of renewal once to every five or six years for the sake in the comfort of its use.