Connecticut western news., 1875-10-08
Items of Interest,

lion of people in London who never at tend church. ...-.
 Instruction in swimming is to be added to the curriculum of the Holyoke, Mass. female seminary. e +''''
 One ordinary handkerchief is not large enough for two persons to sit upon at one and the same time. lieal ly i.aa
 The greatest depth of the Pacific ocean, as found by the British ship Ohal- lenge, was about five miles. ass rfsal
 A French priest has refused two mil lions of francs bequeathed to him by his brother because the brother had led O wicked life. '.'
 The eyes of all the Levys in the world are turned to Paris, where the we'll known publisher left IT. 0O0, 1000 francs, but no will. ui ..af &. .5eatat+ .. ,ssuu
 An inscription on a Franklin tomb stone records the fact that an honest lawyer lies buried there. The tomb stoneis very old. .... ......t.5
 A Baltimore correspondent writes A merchant who does not advertise can no more succeed than a young lady who does not wear a hustle. t a -t"g
 A man really and practically looking onwards to an immortal life, on what ever grounds, exhibits to us the human soul in an ennobled attitude. rFeaf
 How the drivers of four-in-h hand have gone out at Long Branch There was Hembold and Henry Clews, and Sim Leland and Jim Fisk.-Sssn.' '@ e''-+F
 A young lady in York county, Pa, took an overdose of laudanum, slept five days and five nights, awoke much re- freshed, and is now doing well. Eaait
 The Marshall (Ga.) Messenger cries For the Lords sake, friend, don't keep telling an editor how to run his paper Let the poor fellow find it out himself
 A gift-its kind, value, and appear ance; the silence or pomp that attended it the style in which it reaches itArnay decide the dignity or vulgarity of the giver. 4 ., bL ..l.5sa sazf a asssa sYI5s
 Wethersfeld, Conn, sometimes called Onion-town, derived it's nickname from the fact that church bell hung in 1776 was paid for by contributions of onions from the parishioners. S S.. -1,,
 Atlanta, Ga., is said to have more doctors than would be needed if Q pesti- lence was raging, and more lawyers than
 
 plaintiff or defendant in 8 suit at law,j
 It has been seven years since James Woods, of Philadelphia, was sober. The Courier Journal believes that James must be the able unknown who is just now furnishing snake stories for the press. ..,.i.w rr.#i it aa3i aH'2'Is
 "The child has died since," says Pennsylvania paper after giving an ac- count of twelve-year-old girl who had already mastered logic, rhetoric. lgeolo- gy, botany, and the mysteries of mental and moral science. un4 rfarrtrgq Seven men in Fort Wayne, Ins agreed to draw straws to see who was the laziest one, but when the last citizen was reached he refused to draw, on the ground that he was too lazy. to reach out and make the effort. l2 .U8EI8EOJ
 "lSarah, you're good gal, but there aint no gal a-going to call for two plates of ice-cream on me and keep me for her feller l'' were the closing remarks of young gentleman of Chicago upon part ing with his inamorata. a A}' -
 How cheap those Stockbridge coon hunters must have felt, the other morn ing, when daylight disclosed the fact that they'd been watching tree an night wherein was ensconced the family cat of one of the. party 1 .. ....-.. ..,.,
 There was recently formed in St Petersburgh society of ladies who have renounced the use of silk dresses and every other kind of expensive article, in order to employ the money so saved for the education of orphans. ,sg ..r1,
 Mantle, Conn.,, has an embryo Char ley Ross sensation. A note was left at the house of the Episcopal clergyman of that town, threatening to abduct his child if $1,000 were not left beneath certain tree on certain date.
 It was remarked of the Emperor Alex ander I. of Russia that when he entered the church where he was drowned ho was preceded by the assassins of his grandfather, surrounded by the assassins of his father and followed by his owp.'
 Non's HeraId expresses the opinion that no conscientious pastor, for personal profit, will so arrange his literary leo lures as to require his absence from his weekly meetings, or prevent his hearty concurrence with his church in earnest and protracted efforts for revival of re- hgion. ... .s -. ...-l ss.tl 1usos
 A resident of Gahenna, O., ,onamed Samuel Turner, was detected stealing wheat from neighbor and selling it at a mill. His disgrace so preyed upon his mind that he took large dose of arsenic and died. The man was miserably poor, having wife and five children to sup port, which no doubt induced the theft.
 A Kansas City fisherman, who recently had set afoat several lines attached to bottles, and baited with frogs, and had followed them in skiff for several miles down the river without getting bite, was chagrined to discovor that, owing to the insufficient leading" of the lines, the frogs had swum to the surface, and had been sitting on the bottles for the whole distance. .... ...... s..>..
 Legrand and De Gas met in the Paris Bourse. "I promised to cane you-I do so," said Legrand, and he struck De Gas across the face with walking stick. "And promised to shoot you--I do so," responded De Gas, drawing re- volver, firing at Legrand, and wounding him in the head. They were wealthy brokers, and their encounter was the re- suit of quarrel, in which they had made the threats that were subsequently full filled. "
 When Nevada photographer wants to make good picture. he puts the sitter in his place, pulls out navy re- volver, cocks it, levels it at the mans head, and says: Now iist you sit perfectly still, and don't move hair put on calm, pleasant expression of countenance. and lock right into the muzzle of this revolver, or I'll blow the top of your head off. My reputation as an artist is at stake, and I don't want no nonsense about this picture" ,-,
 Thomas Jones, condemned murderer