Connecticut western news., 1875-09-03
Items of Interest.

There is great crop of oranges this year about Sacramento. " @A'#h s,'t
 Senator Boutwell's farm is the largest in Middlesex county, Mass. 'i|4
 A Blackfoot Indian cannot be divorced from his wife, so he is obliged to kill her when he wishes 8 separation. ,ira
 They have just dissected an elephant in Philadelphia, and they found that his stomach was ca sac six feet in length.
 Bad writers are requested to write on both sides of paper. Their efusions can then be rejected under excuses not hurtful to the feelings of writers.
 The baggage smasher at Saratoga does the best he can, but with five hundred trunks arriving some days, he is com pelled to let some of them go after merely pulling off handle or breaking g hinge. R.: s-."I hta" @~'' Ai
 A furrier, lamenting in an advertise ment the tricks played on the public by unprincipled men in his own trade, earnestly requests ladies to bring to him their skins, and have them convert ed into mufs and boas. .,...,..,-f
 Madame MacMahon is proving very successful in collecting subscriptions for the sufferers by the Fl ench inundations. She has received already about $2,500,- 900. The viceroy of Egypt sent $2, 900, and Prince Henry, brother of the King of Holland, $500. 5........r..-.,.,i-.
 "Our terms are five dollars per day, with moderate charges for extras, said the insinuating young man who wore the diamond pin at watering place hotel, to sensible looking stranger; H we rho l@o, 4r1 guest" The stranger said he "guest not" ..,. .,,re rt s.t;,.
 A little boy eighteen: months old, while playing in his fathers yard at Stratford. O. w., was knocked down by cock and spurred several times about the face and head before his mother could rescue him. One stroke of the spur penetrated his brain, and he died 8 few hours afterward. ..4 -sw
 A SpitN dog, which was thrown into the harbor of New Haven by some boys few days ago and was rescued by Captain Eldredge, of the steamer Pas time, has become so attached to the boat and the captain that he will not leave them, but is constantly on board, showing his gratitude by every means in his power. .....-...... .,.t.. t..5. A Bridgeport man has ahabit of carry, ing cartridges and tobacco promiscu- ously in his pockets; he loaded his pipe with tobacco, as he supposed, the other day, and lighted it.. The fact that loud report, 8 scorched face, burned tongue, and 8 broken pipe followed lighting, convinced him that he had also rammed cartridge into the pipe,
 The late Swiss Gen. Dufour was noted for his pluck on tho field of action. In a little bout with an enemy on one occasion, he exposed himself and his staff to rather keen fire, when an aided -de-camp reconstructed, with. this remark: "General, don't you. hear the bullets whistling about us; we had certainly better retire l" 'Yes, sir, I do; and if should retire, as you re- quest, I would hear my soldiers whistling." ............. .assay
 "Oh, yes, gimme ten cents worth of hair pins, added an up-riyer farmer, as he was about to leave store, and, while they were being handed down, he con- tinued "It's ha'r pins to-day and rib bons tomorrow and toothbrush next day. The gal is always wanting some flim-fam thing, and shouldn't be sur prised if she'd some day get up. and want me to bring home one of them combs with brass back YRS ia-V@