Connecticut western news., 1875-06-25
Items of Interest.


 Truth is like an emetic-hard to take, but bound to come up after it's down.
 When lady makes you pair of slip pers, she wants you to put your foot in
 They fine a man for peddling water in Louisville-that is, if he colors 1t with milk. lr -
 Sweden has no national debt, and it's surplus revenue last year amounted to nineteen millions of dollars. ;a) {
 It is estimated that the strawberry crop in Cumberland county, N. J., will reach half million quarts. if f-. ...,.
 If young man does not turn out to be all that is expected of him, he should be sued for breach of promise.
 The Empress of Japan cautions her young lady friends about "talking loud 1y on the street like the vulgar American girls. ''.'i "-H '''7- 'rsaal t sa
 It's bad year for expensive cattle. The Duke of Geneva has just died in Kentucky, valued at $10, 900 shortly be- fore this occurrence. a..l ..
 One of the great causes of hard times, says that keen observer, Barnum, is ''number of soft hands waiting for light work and heavy pay"
 London is ahead. It has more Jews than Palestine, more Scotchmen than Edinburgh, more Irish than Dublin, and moro Catholics than Rome. -.
 You know yourself tha there is cer- tain period in every boys life, when he'd rather be ring master in & circus than President of the United States. ..
 On the plains of Texas is found ht- tie flower called the "compass flower. which in all changes of wind and weather points its leaves invariably to the north.
 A music teacher up town apologized for her bad spelling by adding post script to her letter as follows: "You must exkews this letter, as I pla bi noat butt spell by ear." ...s n.....
 The Patrons of Husbandry are strong in the Oregon Legislature, having seven teen of the thirty Senators, and fifty y-four of the sixty Representatives belonging to the order.
 We don't like to crowd the mourners, but now that Oshkosh is clean burned out and has got to begin over again, why wouldn't it be a good plan to give the place Christian names
 The conductors of one of the grammar schools in Nashua, N. H., have discover ed useful method of teaching grammar and rhetoric. The pupils are awarded two marks for every error found in 8 10. cal newspaper. .#H The Duke of Edinburgh is the only one of Queen Victoria's sons who is not member of the Masonic order, and his father-in-law, the Emperor of Russia, is one of the few sovereigns of Europe who oppose Masonry. a TaalHaH IP
 A ferryman while plying over a water which was only slightly agitated, was asked by timid lady in his boat whether any people were ever lost in that river. "Oh, no, l" said he, 'we always find 'em again the next day"
 The three richest men in the British House of Commons are self-made men, with no family arms. One is Sir George Elliott, who made $2, 250,0 900 last year. The others are Messrs Fielden and Her mon, worth $1, 800, ,000 a year each. & at.'
 Here is an extract from a letterwritten to her lover by Montgomery (Ala.) girl "For your sake, darling, have Qu1t chewing gum would you have quit gum for me :? would not have quit gum for any other person in the whole worldi"
 Miss Jennie Collins, of Boston, who is very practical person and does great deal of good in an unobtrusive way, says the chief enemies to the working girls are s'those who spend money on foreign goods." How far wrong IS she ]
 According to the last census in Eng land and Wales, the females of the popu- lation outnumber the males by upwards of half million but above the age of twenty-five the males exceed the females in number. While there were 400, 900 widowers, there were S73, 900 widows. Above the age of ninety, females number two to every male. .-...... ..is.
 There were 2,271 vessels built in the United States in 1873; and in 1874, 3, 147. The highest number previous to the war was 2, O47-in 1855. Asregards steamers, the highest number built in any year be- fore the war was 281-in 1854-while last year the number was 404. Compar- ed as to tonnage, the shipping built ln 1859 was 156, ,601 tons in 1874, 432, 726.
 At sale of old books, manuscripts, etc., held in New York, specimen of Edmund Burke's penmanship and his portrait sold for five dollars and fifty cents. Autographs of Patrick Henry, Wash ington Irving, Lafayette, Macau- lay, General Philip Schuyler, Robert Southey and Rev. Leigh Richmond sold for from two dollars and fifty cents to four dollars apiece.
 During the session of the Reformed Church Synod in Jersey City, Dr. I'm bries of the Presbyterian church made speech advocating the union of all Protestant denominations for lhe purpose of checking the encroachments ofpopery, and earnestly exhorted that the Biblo and public schools be defended against Romish attack. In the course of his remarks he said that the appointment of cardinal in this country was contrary to the constitution. H:s