Connecticut western news., 1875-04-16
Items of Interest.

Two men who had not seen each other for seventy years met in West Newbury, Mass, the other day. .ooao} 1"'27 Eai
 Mysterious Little Johnny--"I I heard somebody crying in there, and it, wasn't ma nor the doctor." B Sissy-"h Maybe it was the kitten" .r,,, t....r ...,.t a.-..l ..,g,
 Luny Thayer has been, justice of the peace for over thirty years, and has never had decision reversed. I-.- A baby in Milwaukee has been chris- l tened ''Zero," in honor of the cold Sun day upon which he was bofn. .9a' ls H21!7'
 At Grand Rapids, Mich. "a man sud! denly fell dead at a burial service just as the coffin was lowered into the grave oua A traveller, putting up. his horse in New Albany, Ind, disgusted the stable keeper by ordering "one cent aworth of hay" .,'..-.. .. .' 'r...-,. ',' ,,. A Missourian had discovered new method of tanning skins. She is @ schoolmistress, and does it beauH fully. iasmnr9yo2 '1
 Editing Mississippi paper, remarks Western editor, means buckshot after the first month and funeral after the second.
 James Mair, of Lake Shotok, Minn., drank half vial of corrosive sublimate, supposing it to be alcohol, and died a terrible death. awa. 3 7ii stsih'2s gid aJ
 A Chicago deputy sheriff was refused free admission to a Chicago theater. By way of revenge he impaneled the nanae ger on petit jury. gsp, ,..ls ei,ij,r, ss,
 "The Thunder Bay, Booming Com pany is the portentious name of q Detroit lumber firm, It must do a lightning business. 'o'i' saj ;I'la0o2 gal
 An Illinois Granger is about to lease $500 acres of land in Monroe. county Miss, upon which fifty Illinois families are expected to settle.lsye b1a ,v7,npoo
 In response to an inquiry, ",How shall I keep my husband at home even ings9" the reply is made: Take 8 club and try to drive him out l''- '"' 'o NN'S.
 Mark Twain says. To the poor whites along the Mississippi river chilfs are'a merciful provision of Providence, en- abling them to take exercise without iex- ertion. i5var s.yJ .-lns,,4. sii bgs h A twelve-year-old girl is on trial in Brownsville, Tenn,, for the motiyeless killing of three children. She fed them rat poison "just to see them die, !" as she explains. '"S jS la7'a 'a'1s'. e2ilo
 Forty thousand coal miners of Penn sylvania have suspended labor. during the last three months rather thnn yield to reduction of wages proposed by their employers. Ig ,.,,;r8ausy Of .vsb
 At the Atlas Works, Pittsburgh, Pa., they are making the largest shears ever constructed in this country. They will weigh forty tons, and will shear cold iron five inches thick. Lsgs. s1 ,i322 baR 2ut
 A boy who will yell like Tartar tta drop of water, gets on his shirt band when his neck is being washed, will crawl through a sewer after ball, and think nothing of it. .slrwnxs, 4.syf
 The death is announced of Maximin Giraud, the shephard of La Salette, one of the two witnesses of the alleged apf pearance of the Virgin Mary on the 18th of September, 1846. 'Hal '2A' ..--7..''a
 A newspaper personal informs MT. Arthur Taylor that if he will stand at a certain corner of a street at two o'clock next Tuesday, he will see his unole, to whom he owes some money. .,y }o gys.s
 At the end of an Indiana marriage ceremony recently the bride advanced gracefully to the clergyman and re- quested him to announce the hymn: "This is the way long have souRht"lE
 In 1874 England consumed 830, 900 tons of sugar, or about 57,2 pounds per head of the population. The United States in the same. period. nsed ITO, 600 tons, or forty-four pounds per indi;- vidual. - .,,...-i ,g..r I'z 4y.al siff
 Thompson is not going to ask any more conundrums. He recently asked his wife the difference between his head and hog's head, and she said there was none. He says that is not the right
 An old maid don't know what it Is to bend over the childreh's little white bed, softly pat their curly, heads, and hear oiic of them growl out 1" Now, then, Safs keep your hands off'n me, or I'll bat .ySp in the eye" .,a r.,t' ,.. ,-rl.f.y q gIs.l,i ssa
 The newest dodge among thelso-cailed fashionable milliners in New York is to send by express to their customers a Glove of bonnet" for inspection, knowing very well that the bonnet will not be returned. l.' ~ ZHgl g04 gSl
 A young divinity student was recently married in St. Louis, and immediately at the conclusion of the ceremony started for Germany to complete his education. 1l16 UIlll6 WILL DStoS ullC UllllC \bMO 1SSNIGi in an Illinois seminary. '''H" ~ Cincinnati is, with one exception, the most densely populated city in the Uni ted States New York averages 114-72 persons to each dwelling house; Cincin natl. 8.91; Boston,. 8.46; Jersey City, 8.37, and Chicago, 6.70. .+ ..a .y...,
 A flood in the Tennessee river removed the soil to depth of several feet from q field in Blount county. When the water had sllbsided the area was covered with human skeletons. The site was that of a long-forgotten graveyard. tl.--- --sTsaa5 ;p
 A fashionable visitor thus addresseda a little girl: 'sHow do you do, my little dear9 every we'll, I thank you, ; she replied. The visitor then added: '" Now, my dear, you must ask me how l do,," The child honestly replied "I don't want to know" 'ii-'''..- ''' 3'..|'
 Aunt Emily (who thinks that two's company and three's none) )-"I thought mamma told you, before she went out, to go down stairs for the present, Mabel" Mabel (who thinks three bet ter than one)-"W We'll, so l did, ,Vbut I did not find the present; so here am again."
 "I say, landlord" said Yankee, "that's dirty towel for man to wipe on.'' Landlord, with look of amaze ment, replied: "Well, sir, you'remighty particular. Sixty or seventy of my boarders have wiped on that towel, this morning, and you are the first one, to find fault
 A precocious boy was asked which was the greater evil of the two, hurting another's feelinos or his finger. He said said the gratifed questioner, "and why is it worse to hurt the feehngsS"