Connecticut western news., 1874-01-09
ADVERTISING RATES:
Items of Interest.


 Hope lives for ever, but her children die one by one.
 A genius is popularly supposed to be one who can do anything except make a living.
 "By George" is considered an oath in Canada, and he who uses it may be fined $10.
 The recent cold and wet weather has caused considerable mortality among the sheep in Nevada.
 A long g-suffering husband of Syracuse, N. Y, has paid $1O, ,000 for goods stolen by his kleptomaniac wife.
 An owl lately flew into house in Jacksonville, Fla, and attacked the lady thereof, biting her severely on the ear.
 By a recent fire in Stockholm, ill Sweden, sixteen ballet girls were burned alive. Three were killed by jumping from windows and five were dangerously hurt
 A Chicago lawyer sues a newspaper of that city for damages for being called shyster. Webster forgot to mention the word, and now the lawyers are pug zled to know just what it means.
 Some of the Mississippi Oranges, in order to induce white men to settle in that State, have promised to furnish every white family coming into their respective counties with forty acres of land rent free for five years.
 Postmaster Rufus King, of Silver City, Idaho, having pleaded guilty to embezzlement, has been sentenced to six mohths' imprisonment in the Terri torial Penitentiary, and to pay fine of $2,OOO.
 A test case is said to be preparing in Chicago, in which man is charged with refusing to be vaccinated, and hav- ing the smallpox in consequence, en- dangering the lives and health of his neighbors.
 A Cincinnati lady offers to bet that there is not fashionable girl in Gin cinnati but would rather stay from church than wear pair of single-but- ton gloves.
 The sufferings of the settlers in North western Iowa prove to be much greater than has been believed. The number of families is said to be over one thousand who are actually suffering from want of food.
 A Chicago man has suggested two cent postal cards, which will enable man to receive an answer without cost to the man who writes the reply. It would cost no more to print two-cent cards than the present style.
 The best thing which has been said of the death of Judge Nelson by any body, is the following obituary, com prised in q single sentence, in the New York Star: ''The sudden death of Judge Nelson will take many by sur prise but the grand old man 9OaS rcady."
 The members of the Webb family, recently arrested in North Corolina, under suspicion that they were the Renders, who are suspected of commit ting number of murders in Kansas, have had an examination and been dis charged, no evidence being brought against them.
 Orange county butter had reputa- tion one hundred years a go, as appears from the following advertisement which appeared in Zenger's New York Weekly Journal of November 4, 1773: "To be = sold by Peter Lynch near der Rutgers Brewhouse, some very good Orange Butter. It is excellent for Gentle- women to comb their hair with"
 The word of promise. Inferior crea. ture-" You make all your arrange ments, madam, to do this and do that without ever consulting mo! Do you forget, madam, that I am your husband the husband whom you promised to love, honor, and obey?" Superior crea- ture (engagingly)-" Well, we'll, little man, it's no good being cross about that. promised, of course, but you know I never meant it !'
 Old Ned is dead. He was connected with the Louisville fire department for twenty-five years, and his strength and faithfulness were remarkable. He slept and ate in his engine-house, never leaving it by day or night except for fire duty, and on such occasions he drew the hose cart alone and unaided. His mental calibre was very small, and he could neither read, write, nor even speak yet he stood high in the estima- tion of the company, who fed and cared fer him ill return for his untiring ser vices. At Q fire on a recent inclement night he caught cold, and the next day he died of lockjaw, surrounded by his sorrowing comrades. Old Ned was horse.