Connecticut western news., 1874-07-24
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Is "bit bya dog grammatical asks an exchange. Try it once and see.
 The various newspapers of New York city own about $15, ,000,00 worth of real estate.
 A Newborn, s. O., naturalist believes that the catfish is the male and the eel the female of the same species.
 Toast at railway dinner "Our Mothers, industrious tenders, though they often misplaced the switch"
 It is O criminal offense in France for young lady to have in her possession photograph of the Prince Imperial.
 Burglars have become so bold in Indianapolis that the citizens are going to organize and protect the police from danger.
 Macon, Mississippi, is willing to make affidavit that bride within it's limits is nursing her first born babe at the age of sixty.
 No wonder Delaware strawberries are high. One man there had to buy $16 worth of strawberries.
 In Iceland they have no titles-not even the plain "Mr." or "Mrs." A man is simply Sigurd, or whatever else his name is, and his wife or daughter is Ingerbord. ..rt'...
 An Oregon journal described re- gently elected member of Congress from that region as a jolly social man of some ability, "but hitherto too lazy to be- come known"
 Innumerable frogs have lately ap- peared at Lone Tree, Nebraska. Hun dreds are crushed by wagons on the streets, and people cannot step without treading on them. ...aa .-,r...
 Southern Congressman are adopting the old style of publicly presenting their claims to their constituents for reelection to Congress through cards in the newspapers.
 Said Mrs. A. to Mrs. B.: "Dont you think that MI. O. has 8 remarkable stock of common sense ?" "He ought to have," replied Mrs. B., " for no one ever saw him use any,"
 John Burns, of Saline county, Mo-, is alive becausehe is temperance man. Had he drank the whisky from the flask into which the hired girl put strychnine he would be dead.
 When occasion requires, one of the Milwaukee policemen can move with astonishing rapidity. The other night he ran mile in three minutes under the belief that burglar was after him.
 A Prince of Italy, whose domain was of small extent, ordered a person out of it in twenty-four hours. "The Prince has been liberal, for can quit it in half an hour," answered the banished man.
 But for the press, how hard it would be for genius, learning and eloquence to find an audience for the utterances of it's imagination, erudition and brilliant words; so largely are types the lips of the mind. "'lo 'i
 The great strike in the North of Eng land, which lasted six weeks, is at an end. At full representative meeting held at Saltburn-by-the-S the Cleve- land miners accepted the employers terms. '''-'
 A district schoolmaster in one of the upper counties of Michigan was asked what algebra he perferred, and he re- piled, "Oh, I ain't particular-most any kind that will just peel the hide when you strike." G., -.-...
 A young lady engaged to be married, but getting sick of her bargain, ap- plled 70 1r1enQ to nelp ner uubIe tne knot before it was too late. Q ssOh, cer- tainly," he replied. -'It's very easy to unite it now, while it is only beau knot." .-.. .. ..o ..., .r-.3 eaf
 A hostler, upon going to confession, was asked by the priest if he ever greased the horses teeth that they might not eat so many oats. He re- piled "No." Next time he came he confessed he had. On the priest ex- pressing astonishment, he said,l 1T did not know it could be done, holy father, until you told me-"