Connecticut western news., 1874-02-13
Items of Interest.

What is the keynote of good breed- ing? B natural. f zr'-s9.
 From an estimate based on it's new city directory, New Orleans claims population of 230,985. ......,.s.
 A recent writer declares that mortal1- ty among childres increases as the tlm- Der of the country is cut away.
 In England and Wales there are l9,- 4S3 places of religious worship, occupied by 131 different denominations.
 One thousand three hundred and eighteen vessels were lost on the lakes of the United States last year, worth, with cargoes, $4,000,00O. -s.
 A New Haven journal says the ultra temperance men are starting new se- cret order to be called "The Champ ions of Prohibition. .@@
 Miss Susan B. Anthony petitioned the United States Senate to remit the fine imposed on her by Judge Hunt for illegally voting at Rochester, N. Y.
 The new Minnesota Legislature has $4, GOO to $500, and refused to appro- priate any money for postage stamps.
 It is proposed to import bumblebees into New Zealand. The bees are to be moved while dormant, the nests being surrounded by ice during transporta- tion. a#.. 5s-'
 A child born in Fairfield, Vt., re- gently to the wife of MT. Burton Web ster, is of the fifth generation, its great great -grandmother being still alive at the age of 90. at
 "The arrangements of nature are ad- mirable," exclaimed young lady, dur ing the late high winds. "The same wind which disarranges our dress blows dust in the eyes of would-be ob- servers" ..# .-ar. ... ..a
 "Would that I could call her mine !' exclaimed the hopeless suitors for the hand of Lady Caroline Guest, of Eng land, who has an annual income of million and half dollars from her coal mine in Wales.
 The number and extent of New York State banks have almost doubled within six years. The capital on September 13. 1873, was $26, ,95S, 890; loans and discounts, $71, ,O73, ,544 due depositors, $7O, 763, 491 ; total resources, $ll6'- 536, 734. .... .s .--..
 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. .r.a sa.'t
 Two Irishmen were in prison-one for stealing COW, the other for stealing a watch. "Hullo. Mike, and sure what o'clock is it ?" said the, COW stealer. "An' sure," said the watch stealer, I've no timepiece handy, but suppose it's jistabout milking tlme."o'9.
 We are willing to believe that Cali fornia miner fond of whisky took drink by mistake of quicksilver, but we are not willing to believe in the accom- panying statement, that "the miner has been kept busy ever since breathing on panes of glass to convert them lnto mirrors. -..i1. i. a-1't .yil.
 The world failing to end in accord ance with the last prediction of the Ad- ventists, their newspaper organ comes out in new type and every preparation for permanence. s''.After all" says It's editor, ssmay it not be true that we are the simple-minded, foolish people the world at large esteems us to be, and our 1aN
 hopes mere dreams ?" "aas..ts gsG
 A large number of the Russian Men nonites will leave for America in April next. They are selling their farms at very great sacrifice in order to escape. The Russian government has already ordered a draft of six men to the thou sand for military service; the order has alarmed the Mennonites and hastened their preparations. Those who have arrived here have settled in Minnesota and Kansas. u n ..... .u..,l G'.H o1Asq
 A newspaper in Southern California advises greater cultivation of the fig tree because the fruit is so good for hog feed. An acre of figs will fatten more hogs than will an acre of corn. All that is necessary is to stick fig cutting in the ground, and in three or five months the plant will bear fruit-three crops year-and in three years the tree attains the size of a twelve-year-
 A Workingman's Cooperative Asso- citation was founded in Fall River, Mass, in 1867, with thirty-ive mem- bers, and paid up shares amounting to $2, ,124. The association has now over two hundred members, a grocery store, butchers shop, and boot and shoe store has erected this year large block, 70, by 40, on 8 leading street, and containing three stores and ten tenements, and since December, 1887, the total profits have been over $3l, 900.