Connecticut western news., 1875-05-14
Items of Interest.

Hack drivers ought not to complain oi dull times-their business is always driv- ing. e-.eT rs.za"
 Two new words, minimizing and maxi mixing, have just appeared They are the offspring of minimum and maximum.
 "Why did you name your dog Backi' "From necessity. He IS always running away from home, and how could VIC help calling him Backf"
 Some one asked AIeck Stephens why he wore two overcoats, and he replied that it was because three made him somewhat uncomfortable. rfs 1 There is an average of five " lost ohI- dren picked up every day in the streets of Paris, and the larger number of them are purposely abandoned.
 valenciennes lace is brought out in new designs this season. The patterns and quaintly- wrought edges. as3aa
 The latest thing for fun is . cracker match. The one that eats the most crackers in five minutes takes the prixe. Five crackers in four minutes IS the best time made as yet. If you think you can beat that, try it.
 Now VIC know what stag whisky is. The Washington Capital says 1t is so celied because its label represents stag drinking at the running stream; and they who know say that some of the water went into the whisky that should lave gone into the stag.
 One of Brigham Young's wives told him the other day that when she heard that the Sultan of Turkey had seven hundred wives, she felt mortified to think that her husband had allowed an outlandish foreigner to beat him, SO bad ly in that line. There is pride for you.
 "I should think you would be ashamed to pitch into that little boy, said pedestrian yesterday as he caught big bootblnck cuffing Q small newsooy. "Ye would. hey l" sneered the led e he gave his nose wipe. Dye think Ia go for big boy and git all pounded upH" -.........1 -.i,.,.,,,,',-,.,
 els your name Jonesi 2" inquired Detroit man, as he pulled the bell nt door. "Does it say Jones on the door plate 2" angrily inquired the man. point ing to his name on the plate. Do these letters spell JonesG'" 'I dunnes Ere piled the stranger. "I'm no judge ot spellin and know Jones lives in this ward somewheres.
 A citizen of Nora Springs, Iowa, died and was buried in his usual clothes. After his burial certain promissory notes and some money could not be found, and it was thought they might have been left in his pockets. A few days since his child died, and on digging the grave by the side of it's fathers, the fathers grave was opened and the notes and money recovered. sl Hl av1dh
 One night two men got into wurdy controversy, which waxed quite hot and finally one of them challenged the other to a square fight. The challenged party | flibustered around and endeavored to avoid committing himself on this issue, but finally, pressed by the othersl he positively refused to fight Not that I'm any coward" he said, "or that I'm afraid of you, but was allers an unlucky man in fight" .'- I'D 'l '''.,..l
 The Springfield Repsiblicdn says five French tramps applied to truck master in Pittsfield the other day for work bargain was struck, and "t the boss took them to an inn and gave them Q dinner. This ended, one of them said: "How much, sair, did you say you give us day2" "$1,2 "Indeed We no work for dat. We got enough to eat now, an we can tramp another day r And they passed on. 85atl di nsin
 An art critic who wns the personal friend of the late David Roberts, R. As published sharp attack upon certain pictures of his, just exhibited, My dear Roberts," wrote the critic m e private letter, '" you may have seenpmy remarks on your pictures. I hope they will make no difference in our friendship. Yours, etc. ,--." My dear---,fswrote the painter in reply, :" the next time l meet you I shall pull your nose, 1hope it will make no difference in our friend ship. Yours, etc., ID. Roberts.s ol
 A correspondent describes arenark- able well in Morgan county, KyEe ennk nineteen years ago to the depth of thirty three feet, which during the dry season in summer affords seventeen test, of water of an excellent quality. With the fall rains, however, the quantity gradu- ally decreases until the well becomes entirely dry, and in wet season likh tho present contains not so much as gallon of water. The dryer the summer the greater the quantity of water which 1t affords, and the wetter the winter tho less. .' .--" '..''-@"
 A private in the United States in- fantry, stationed at Cheyenne bagency, writes to friends in Chicago that the troops made up purse of over $500 for the two German girls captured by, tho Indians of that agency from another na- tion and brought into camp. Catherine. tho elder girl, says Stone Calf, one of the chiefs who captured them, was good friend to them. They were in c0p- tivity seven months, and when recov- cred Stone Calf gave them forty buffalo robes. .,r..s...tl..rg .,, ..r.,.,fs