Connecticut western news., 1875-12-03
Facts and Fancies.

t If all things are for the best, where d the rations for the second best com from9
 The customs of an enslaved people ar, part of their servitude, those of ire, people are part of their liberty.
 The American railroads, on an aver age, cost per mile $6O, ,425, while the
 British roads cost over $1S0,000 pel
 mile.
 Many workmen in Canada have beer
 thrown out of employment for this win
 ter, and many of the new settlers are re-
 turning to England.
 A woman purchasing some cups and
 saucers was asked what color she would
 have. Why, I ain't particular" said
 she; "any color that won't show dirt. "
 There is bullfrog farm in south,
 eastern Wisconsin, thirty acres of swamp
 fenced in, and the proprietor sends thou
 sands of these featherless birds to New | York.
 One of the Latter Day Saints has in
 old Milanese dancing girl for one of has
 wives, and Brigham Young's cook is an
 Italian who owns @ small harem of
 twenty-eight wives. ... .
 If the ark had been manned by a
 MlssissAt pi steamboat captain, he would
 have been very unhappy during the en- tire voyage, because there was no op- position ark on the river to race with.
 An Arkansas man ate pint of sawdust few days ago on bet. An intelligent physician, who was called in, told him that he would have pain in his lumber region if he stuck to such board as that.
 Tom presented his bill to his neighbor Joe. "Why, Tom. it strikes me that you have made out pretty round bill here, eh 2" "I'm sensible it is round one," quote Tom, "and I have come for the purpose of getting it squared r
 News from Japan says that there is serious cause to fear that the pebrine, the disease in the silkworm which wrought such havoc with the silk crops of Italy and France, has attacked the silkworm of Japan in more than one district. .f ....-. ... ...4-a N.
 A young lady, about to be married, insisted on having certain clergyman to perform the ceremony, saying :" He always throws so much feeling into the thing and wouldn't give a fig to be married, unless it could be done in O style of gushing rhapsody. f
 There is rising boy in Springfield, Ill. His father said "Now, Georgie, you may take your choice-go with me to visit grandpa, or have new veloci- pede." The urchin scratched his head, and answered: "I'n go and see grandpa, and make him buy the velocipede."
 They are arresting folks out in Shelby county, Iowa, for playing billiards. The courts call it gambling when the loser is expected to pay the expenses of the game, and for such gambling one Peter Rock, who runs billiard hall, has been compelled to meet the penalty-pay a fine.
 A scholastic professor, in explaining to a class of young ladies the theory accord ing to which the body is entirely renew ed every seven years, said {: Thus, Miss B., in seven years you will no longer be Miss B." "I really hope shant," responded the girl, modestly casting down her eyes.
 At Shreveport, La., Dr. R. G. Mo- Williams, ill a convivial company, placed , bottle on his head, and requested some of the party to shoot at it. Cicero Ste ohens did so, and the local paper re- marks: The late Dr. R. G. McWilliams, when not under the influence of liquor, vas quiet gentleman.
 Forty-four Syracuse ladies, living on ,ne street, subscribe $3 apiece toward he purchase of books, which are circu- ated regularly from house to house un- il all have read them. No member is Illowed to keep a book over week. A 'ear's reading is secured by this method, nd at the end of the year the books are old at half their cost. ....
 Somebody has undertaken to demon trate that fences are an expensive folly, hose in the United States having cost r, ,300, GOO, ,000. Their annual repair, appreciation, and interest at first cost is ut at $400, ,0O0, GOO. In Pennsylvania hey cost an average of $11. 40 per acre n Rhode Island $19. 50. They also some ines prove very expensive to politicians rho bestride them.
 Western Massachusetts is interested a big serpent, which travels from one arge pound to another, living on frogs nd fish during his journey. He has cen seen lately near Huntington will lge. His dimensions are as follows length, from thirty to forty feet; di- meter, one foot mouth, when open, as large as water pail" Color, a listening black. Voice, between hiss nd bark. The following precaution is suggested y Western exchange In retiring for he night spread newspapers loosely up- n the stairways and in front of the door 'ays and windows. The noise produced t the dead hour of night by treading on newspapers, or attempting to emo them from the pathway, be the ne b glar ever so stealthy and expert, SUI cient to give almost any sleeper otic If the presence and whereabouts f kho ,,sI,;orLA