Connecticut western news., 1875-11-26
Items of Interest.

If captains were less wreckless, there would be less wrecks. ...t.t
 In the last nine mouths the value of steam engines exported from Great Britain was over $11 ,000, 900, and last year about $12, 1000, GOO.
 A Cincinnati merchant has pair of shoes made in 1776, during the times that tried mems soles, and he proposes to exhibit them at the Centennial.
 A San Francisco woman vehemently asserts that year-old baby with cup of syrup and teaspoon will not iniure parlor worse in half an hour than will @ man with ten cents worth of tobacco"
 Molasses has often been used for feed. ing stock of all kinds, but if you give mangel wurzel they contain as much sugar as is desirable in cattle food. Sugar (and probably melasses) does in- jure fecundity. .-... tuE
 Many very good people are annoyed by sleepiness in church. The following remedy is recommended {: Lift the foot seven inches from the floor, and hold it in suspense without support for the limb, and repeat the remedy if the at- tack returns. eial4 A thought it right to refuse him something upon which his heart was desperately set, finding that there was no hope for him, burst into passion of tears and exclaimed "Well, then, what did they born me for2" .et r.. lal
 A little miss, upon being one day bantered because she was girl, and having represented to her that boys were much more useful creatures in the world, although they were usually more trou- ble, was asked if she did not wish she were boy. "No, indeed, she quietly replied "I'se worse than most boys now" -.... ,t-...t 3fB sg5
 Eating too often is unhealthy. 1t is weakening and injurious to mix fresh food with that which is partly digested, and the stomach also needs rest after the labor of digesting meal. In grown persons four or five hours should inter vene between each meal. Children who are growing fast need a simple luncheon of bread between meals.
 A boy of five years was the other day playing beside millpond at Spring field, Mass, in company with dog. The little fellow was missed, and the dog was found beside the pond in evident distress In response to the question "Where is Freddie2" the dog jumped into the water, and just beneath that spot the body was found when the wa ter was drawn of What was it, instinct or reason2
 Quite recently short-sighted husband saw large bouquet of flowers on a chair, and wishing to preserve them from fading, placed them in a basin of water. When his wife saw the "bou- quet" half an hour afterward, she gave one piercing scream and tainted on the spot. Her defective-visiened husband had mistaken her new bonnet, with it's abundance of flowers, for freshly~cull- ed bouquet. c' L.-iai
 An old lady residing in Ohio lost the companion with whom she had logged for many years. She neglected to mark the spot of his burial by even stone. Not long after coming into possession of a small legacy, a sister of the deceased said to her; "I suppose yon will now put up stones for Daniel" 2" Her answer thing of Daniel at the resurrection, l guess he can find him without guide board" .--..-t .f # rib ."1F
 At recent pollt1eal Darpecue ln MlH- sissippi five fat COWS were roasted, six barrels of flour were baked into bread and cake, and great quantity of other edibles were provided. The COWS were not roasted whole, as is often the custom on such occasions. A long trench was dug to depth of four feet, and g fire built throughout it's entire length. The beef was cut into huge pieces, strung on hickory poles, and hung over the fire. The roasting occupied day and night, negroes turning the meat on the poles as it slowly cooked. a..-- s5,f
 Physicians practicing in fever districts are gratuitously furnished with the re- cipe that Bangkok doctors guara ntee as infallible. Take small pieces of rhi- noceros horn and elephants tusks, the teeth of tigers, crocodiles and bears; three portions of the bones of vultures, geese and ravens; fragment of stag and bison's horn, and a minute piece of sandal wood; reduce the whole to powder and mix it with cold water on stone. Halt the potion is to be swal- lowed by the patient, and the rest is to be rubbed over his body. ss@