Connecticut western news., 1874-10-16
Items of Interest.

It is 8 German boast that no Amerl- can, Irishman or Englishman can sell lager and make it pay.
 It is now announced that Captain Kidd was no pirate at all, but very deserving man, who was impressed on board piratical craft and forced to do duty.
 An editor in Illinois returns humble and hearty thanks for the gift of centipede-" it being the first cent of any kind which we have received for weeks"
 The Prince of Wales will probably be made Grand Master of the British Freemasons, an office made vacant by the conversion to Rome of the Marquis of Ripon.
 MT. S. Loman went fishing in the Stanislaus river the other day. He was going to fish with giant powder car tridges, but the first one exploded and tore hls hand to pieces.
 In giving geography lessons down East, a teacher asked 8 boy what State he lived in, and was amazed at the reply, drawled through the boys nose "A state of sin and misery"
 Washington Irving once alluded to man of superior pomposity as Ga great man, and, in his own estimation, 8 man of great weight. When he goes to the west, he thinks the east tips up."
 Recent statistics show that of 485,- GOO households of Switzerland, 465, ,000 possess landed property, and of the en- tire population of 2, 400, ,0OO, about 5O0,- 900 only have no landed possessions.
 The following beautiful ode was com- posed entirely in Michigan
 Little Charley Ross
 Was playing in the road
 Long came some williams,
 And off with them he goed.
 A French paper says that not one American in hundred has hand some chin. This is due to the fact that so many of our fellow citizens give nearly all their time to the cultivation of cheek.
 A California stage coach recently had it's top cut completely off while 1t was on the road, by coming in contact with low set telegraph wire. The driver was severely injured, and all the pas sengers slightly hurt.
 A day or so ago the daughter of 8 German grocer in Rochester, N. Y., was married. Her father, with pride and spice of humor, placed placard in the window, bearing this device {: "This store is closed on account et some fun in the family" ... .aa
 If you want to realize the height to which feminine eloquence can mount, go home and find your wife in company with atable covered with jars of canned fruit, and ask her why she has her hand wrapped in cloth.
 Bring up child in the way he should go. A French youth was re- gently put on trial for murdering his mother. The murderer was found sguilty," with extenuating circumstan- ces, the only ground for which was, that he had never received any educa- tion.
 In London they have 8 new article called "butterine. Some deluded thief stole firkin of it, thinking it was butter. Before the magistrate < description of the article was required, when the thief was discharged from custody as more honest than the owner.
 One of the wretched lunatics confined in the Poor House of Milwaukee is a telegraph operator, and she spends most of her time in telegraphing to her husband in Ireland, her finger being worn down to the bone in her constant tappings against the wall, in her imag' mary dispatching.
 In 1882 what was known as the "Wicked Bible" was printed and issued. It derived it's title from the fact that the word "not" was accident ly emitted from the seventh command ment by one of the intelligent compost, tors of that period, and an act o1 Parliament ordered the destruction oi the whole edition. ....... =.
 Gambling was invented by the Lydians when under the pressure of g great famine. To divert themselves from dwelling on their suf'erings they invented dice, balls. tables, &c. It if added that, to bear that calamity the better, they used to play whole day without intermission, that they might not feel the effects of the want of food The invention intended as remedy fol hunger is now @ very common cause for that evil