Connecticut western news., 1874-03-13
Items of Interest.

in New York city.
 Paper as building material has be- come 8 great success.
 The cost of the London underground railroad was 91, ,000, 900 per mile.
 Avoid contest if possible, for you can never be sure how contest will end.
 In Japan labor is 750 mons q. cents) day of four hours work in the mines.
 The doctors work fills six feet of ground, but the dentists fills an acher.
 The State of Pennsylvania has val uation of seven thousand millions of dollars.
 Rochefort proposes when hs gets his pardon to come to America and start a daily paper.
 The narrow way of life is broad enough for men who carefully, gently, evenly walk in it.
 A Kansas couple paid their marriage fee in butter. They belonged to the creme de la creme.
 It is proverb in the West that it is timber into prairie.
 A beautiful woman, said Fontenelle, is the purgatory of the purse and the paradise of the eye.
 Stanley now declares that he did find Livingst one, and it is impossible to prove that he didn't.
 The coal question-Who's to tote it up out of the cellar when Biddy resigns you, or your wife?
 The Congregationalists of the far West have decided to establish their central university at Colorado Springs, Col.
 The Communist platform is pithily expressed as follows: "Every man who saves money must be made to divide with those who have saved none."
 Queen Victoria telegraphed that cher heart bled for the afflicted pa- rents," when she learned that Captain Charteris had been killed in the Ashan- tee war.
 The following question is respectfully addressed to the clergy Whether person who sits in the gallery of the church is responsible for deeds done in the body?
 The radicals of Rome are urging that the church buildings of the city, monu- ments of all kinds, and the Vatican library and galleries be taken poses sion of by the State.
 It has been calculated that in Eng land the loss of cattle from disc ases propagated by the introducing of for eign animals has been fully $25, ,000, 900 for each of the last thirty years.
 The Massachusetts Legislature is considering, and will probably pass 8 law forbidding the employment of fac- tory women and children more than sixty hours a week, or ten hours a day.
 An editor, who speaks with the air of man who has discovered new fact by experience, says that the new way to prevent bleeding at the nose is to keep your nose out of other peoples business. ....
 Happy indeed are they whose inter- course with the world has not changed the tone of the holier feelings, or broken those musical chords of the heart whose vibrations are so melodious, so tender, and touching in the evening of age.
 Aurora, Indiana, is very particular town in some respects. For instance, if a stranger stops there over twenty four hours he is waited upon and must prove that he is not likely to become 6 county charge or they will make him leave. ...' -- .n
 Two data are given from which to es- timate the value of fowl for the table or market. A table fowl should be all breast, with short limbs and small bones also, fowls are in perfection for the table only before they have attained maturity. '..a
 Philadelphia will have several new hotels in time for the Centennial, one of which will be on Arch street. It is pro- posed to transform 6 row ot private dwellings on Walnut street into one huge hotel, but property holders in the neiehborhood don't like the idea.
 The Sioux City Qa.) Journal says : "Last winter the aggregate number of prairie chickens shipped from Sioux City to the Eastern market was about 25,0OO. Thus far the present season there have been over 35, 900 purchased by eur dealers. The ruling price is from s. 90 to s per dozen.
 The San Francisco Alto says: It don't cost much to get to California now. Emigrant trains on the road carry pas sengers for $6O, currency; the ocean route, via Panama, has been reduced to $11O and $100 in the cabin, and $50 ln the steerage, all currency. Round cabin trips are announced for $200. ' +~
 A Nevada Judge, after the jury had been impaneled and counsel ready to proceed, pulled out revolver and ju- dicially remarked, elf any man goes to frolicking around in this court room during the trial of this cause I shall in, terrupt him in his career" The strict est decorum prevailed in that court room.
 The latest addition to the convent ences of the fashionable church is a dressing-room for wedding parties. According to the report of 8 wedding ceremony which recently took place i1 for the occasion with mirrors, tables. chairs, brushes, powders, and haii pins." ..,f '.. .F -:' '.1
 Tennyson writes to one who had tempered with his verse: l object to variorum readings. When the car penter has made his table, why should we treasure the chips and when poem: have been rejected, why not let then be rejected ? And as for biographies illustrations, it seems to me that these had better wait till my death."
 A young lad fell into a mud-puddlt off curbstone in Detroit the oJhel day, and he was bowling and wailing when another boy came along, and re marked: Humph guess l wouldn' howl just because I fell in the mud. "That hain't what I'm bowling about, blubbered the boy. "I'm crying 'caus, my brother is sick"
 A very promising young iournalis remarks that "when. an enthusiastic