Connecticut western news., 1875-07-16
Items of Interest.

The California Chinese cure tooth ache by applying coal of fire to the foot. -a4 ..pr.r Fs7s igsfH
 Liberty and Union formed a new CO., partnership, increased their capital and extended their business, June. IT, 1875.
 An Iowa father, whose child was led up to the altar by the man of her choice, give his daughter lead mine US g bri- dal present. .-... aaist
 Senator Sharon, of Nevada, owns real estate to the amount of $7,0O0, 900. Of this sum $3, ,250, 900 is invested in the Palace Hotel. l"H zlt fas
 A raft of logs just run down the Titta- bawassee river, says the Midland (Mioh) Ha1epende,at, was ertwo milesin length and contained 3,251 pieces, sa1 v15
 The highest mountain in the world has been discovered again. 1t IS in New Guinea, and is 32, ,7S4 feet high. They have christened it Mount Hercules.
 An Indiana young woman has gon. blind from using candy paint to, reddeD eyes of other young women, but itwont
 They have just had a blowing match in Mineola, Long Island, and to the thousands of spectators on the ground 1t was much more interesting than horse race. He" "tA1 biu} al
 This hasn't been good season for circuses thus far. Five different cir cuses have been dissolved and the lion goeth about mourning for his leg O mutton. .. ~. ..... ..I .l.r s-.Ir
 Some of the greatest. benefits are those which we are slowest to deteCt, and @ man who moves into quiet neighbor- hood with family of boys is perhaps one of them. -.%
 Among the items of government pur chases for Indian supplies we notice with some surprise that Havana cigars and lace handkerchiefs have been mad vertently overlooked. K sH
 In central Kentucky a mysterious change has come over the tops of the beech trees, the leaves of which have turned brown and apparently died, while the lower parts remain in full leaf.
 MT. Spanks is not going to do, any more in conundruns. He asked his wife why he was like donkey, and she said because he was born so i; and he says the answer is very different from that. .-,... g aHsm 5%
 A physician being asked by patient if he thought little spirits now and then would hurt him much, replied: ]" I do not know that little occasionally would hurt you much; but if you don't take any, 1t won't hurt you at all. '" +.i
 Two millions of people were saved from starvation by the interposition of the Acknowledgements of Bengal in the famine of 1874. The most efficient in- strument was railway rapidly built to connect the threatened district with a richer country. -s,
 Mrs. Harriet Hubbard, woman over fifty years old, was sentenced to pay fine of $50 and costs and to be i'm prisoned six months, at Hartford, re- gently, for stealing flowers from the cemeteries-a practice which has been very prevalent in that city of late. ,s
 A colored philosopher observed while in conversation with friend, "I dusn't b'lieve in having a pardener wen you I've only got small business. If yer make enny thing, why, yer don't git it and if yer lose, yer have to lose 1t all, "Jesso," remarked his companion.
 The well-known ability of the true Briton to mistake humorous statement for one made in all seriousness finds it's latest expression ill the PGIJ AfdU GGzette, which gravely quotes one of the Detroit Free Prcss's police yarns as evidence of tho lghtness of American police magis- trates. a s.frto
 The total amount of advance news paper postage collected in Now York city for the first quarter of the present year was 1884, 4,353, on 3, 745, ,357 pounds of paper. New York city pays 2 little more than one quarter of the entire re- ceipts throughout the United States from this source.
 Prof. w. Stanley Jevons, in tre atise on scientific method, asserts that eff the whole population of the world, say one hundred thousand mili Ons of persons, were to deal cards day and night for a hundred million of years, they would not have exhausted one hundred thou~ sandth part of tho possible deals ot pack of cards. A-.
 The body of John Blackford, an American, has recently been found in large ice block in the neighborhood of Mont Blanc, after several days of thaw. The unfortunate tourist tried three years ago to ascend Mont Blanc without q guide, and was never heard of. His features and clothing are said to be per fectly preserved.
 Mrs. Sarah K. Putnam, a clairvoyant physician in Greenfield, Mass, attended woman who had diphtheria, and scratched her finger with pin while ar ranging bandages around the patients s throat. Tho poison of the disease enter ed the slight wound, and Mrs. Putnam s hand, arm, and at length her whole body became affected, causing death.
 The Milwaukee NesUs says that in that city it is an insuperable objection to female lawyers that they cannot put their feet upon the table and sit so, while they are lounging in the court house, looking on while other lawyers are trying cases. No lawyer is regarded at all up to his business who makes a habit of sitting with his feet on the floor.
 Chicago business man to friend: "Yes, I lost $2,OOO,000 clean in that move on Change. It's pretty tough on man." Sympathizing friend: "Yes, indeed To loso g., GOO, ,00O-enough to set any ono back for life." Business man: "It's hard, mighty hard !; and what makes me feel worse about 1t IS that $500 of the 5000, 900 was actual capital lost" ..-. ....
 Col. D. F. Boyd, who took Gen. Sher- mans place as superintendent of the Louisiana State university when Sher- man resigned the position, after the se- cession of Louisiana and just before the firing on Sumter, has definitely accepted the appointment of superintendent of the goverment military college, near Cairo, Egypt, with the rank and pay of a brlga' dier- general in tho regular army of the Khedive.
 The viceroy of Egypt is about to as tonish the world again. He has resolved to build railroad along the valley of the