Connecticut western news., 1875-08-20
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The Black Hills are spoken of as a place where men go in miners and como | out minus.
 A schoolboy's aspiration" Oh, how I wish I was fountain, for then could always be playing
 If you have grievance on your mind, you may tell it to your friend, but first be sure he is your friend.
 English pointers and setter dogs, to the value of over $100, ,OO0, were import ed into the United States last year.
 A thousand flashes of lightning were counted in an hour during the great storm on the 7th of July at Geneva, Switzerland.
 A Minnesota man who wanted to see how bees worked in the hive can man age to squeeze number twelve hat on his head now.
 California wheat is never shipped in bulk, but in bags. It is estimated that IF, ,OO0,00 bags will be required this year. About 15, ,000,0 were used last year.
 The Niagara Falls Register says An Elmira excursionist took 8 trip under the Horseshoe fall, and on his return found that his sense of hearing was entire ly gone.
 A proverb writer says "True manli- ness begins at the point where one con- prehends, grasps, and masters what dis tresses him, and uses it for his own pur- pose." This must be the green apple and watermelon era in boys life.
 A mournful cadence marked the voice of one of our prominent business men few days since, when, referring to the many wasted opportunities of his life, he remarked : If had not, many time and oft, been an ass, I should now be an Astor."
 4 tramp who called upon @ Danbury woman was shocked to hear in answer to his appeal for food No 1; we've got nothin' for the likes of y1u. Washing ions monument isn't finished yet, and everything we've got to spare must be given for that"
 On Grand Menan, one of the islands off the Maine coast, the manners of the inhabitants are primitive, and it Is said that many of them still adhere to the garb of the eighteenth century. The island is consequently favorite summer resort for artists.
 A father fearing an earthquake in the region of his home, sent his two boys to a distant friends until the peril should be over. A few weeks after the father received this letter from his friend: "Please take your boys home and send down the earthquake"
 It is stated that even the intelligent and educated classes in New Orleans are not wholly free from the foolish belief in voudouism, and an instance is given of @ lawyer, who was recently afflicted with St. Vitus's dance, who was more than half inclined to attribute it to sorcery.
 No two sides of any human face are precisely alike. It is the same with every limb; no pair of limbs are fashioned alike. One hand is almost always larger than the other; so with the foot, the leg, and the arm. But the greatest of all marvels is this: never were two human faces alike.
 A plague of rabbits has visited the ranches on Fish creek, New, totally de- vastating the crops, having destroyed more than one hundred acres of barley. The ranchers made an attack on them night but it seemed to make no differ ance in their number, and they swarmed into the fields the next day.
 Tramps arc the most common complaint throughout New England. The general report is that they will not work, and will steal. The mayor of Fitchburg, Mass, has issued proclamation declar- ing that the city is full of professional tramps, and ordering that all such per sons be arrested as common vagrants and he requests all citizens to refuse food to them, and to call the attention of the overseers of the poor to them.