Connecticut western news., 1875-10-01
Items of Interest.

The meanest towards are those who do not dare to do right. -.r..n
 Quills from the pinions of one goose often spreads the pinions of another.
 The man who can invent a lazier amusement than croquet will make his fortune. r''- .
 Tn the neighborhood of Ypsilant, Mich, farmers are shearing sheep by machinery. y..- gt 9d
 There was only one count at Saratoga this year and he left hotel bill of $29O for the landlord to count up.
 Your tailor is the man most likely to overdo things. It is frequently after he has brought suit that he brings suit.
 , Gather ye roses while ye may,
 Old time is still a-fying; e
 And the same flower that smiles today
 Tomorrow will be dying.
 William Doudican, of Lafayette, Ind, died the day after his wife, apparently solely from grief. He was thirty-one and she was twenty-nine. r.-,. ngsi
 Reversed saucers, with pictures paint ed on them, are now worn as breastpins. The size of the porcelain is limited only by tho shoulders of the wearer.
 Milwaukee is called the beer capital of America. It is city of 100000 inhabi- tants, and during the month of June consumed 29, ,327 barrels of lager beer.
 The young man whose pants have been the most mercilessly torn by thorns is the one who is the most urgently solicited to climb trees and fix swings.
 A man called on @ dilatory debtor and politely said:, (. If you will pay me the amount of my bill immediately, you'll oblige me; if not. I shall have to oblge you" r.Fi a.f .t.T" $ aat'A T2'
 A South Hamilton book agentltalked fifteen or twenty minutes about the merits of book to an old man, and the old man remarked at the close: "What2" He was deaf. ........ .... ....t..,,,,
 There are eight completed Bessemer steel establishm ents in the country, and according to the From Age, "every one is ruu6ing to it's full capacity and IS full of orders" s..t 5r.a.4.f ENaGisat
 A disease which is proving very fatal to children at Chaumont, Jefferson coun- ty, N. Y., is pronounced to be diphthe-- ria, resulting from the presence of typhoid pneumonia. r. -....t.,.ag
 A clergyman of the Church of Eng land has been sentenced to five years penal servitude for causing false entries to be made in the church register con- cerning the death of one of his parish toners. ayHs.r qua ns b8lsag9lut
 The worst case of selfshness that we have ever been permitted to present to the public, emanated from Q youth who complained because his mother put bigger mustard plaster on the younger brother than she did on him. algN
 Some one has been calculating that for the last two years two million men and women have been desiring employ ment in vain, and that the loss to the United States by their enforced idleness amounts to one-half the national debt.
 There were only two drawbacks to the enjoyment of the Goethe celebration at Gilmore's Garden. One was thatH' the bust of Goethe was not to be seens and the other that the speakers could not be heard Otherwise the affair was great success.
 A Cincinnati paper attacks the HSrdId for using the word "gents. ""= But the Herald is right. There are"egehts, plenty of them They carry ittae'canes, eat with fork only and smoke to. excess. The world would be wilderness with out its agents" .t ,,o.ts, sev
 Some of the Pennsylvania, newspapers have been giving their attention o lat lately to old gravestones in their respective neighborhoods. The oldest thus far found, it seems, is in the Lower .Rrovi- dence burying ground, which records death occurring in 1711. na;4aseasb
 A gentleman in foreign parts, who had murdered his father and mother, his wife, and few other relatives, trusted that the jury would take as an extehuat- ing circumstance the fact of his having attained the age of fifty without ever having committed such acts before.3
 A lady says: {" In these days of peaches in plenty it is well worth while to know that they will preserve much with knife, which dis olors them, they be dipped for an instant in hotwater, and peeled in the same way as toma- toes." 2. .-.en u .lH1 alli Gs
 An inquiring English tourist walking along the streets of New York found his progress stopped by barricade of tim Der. "What is Shat for 9' said he to person in the street. "Oh, that's to stop the yellow fever" "Ah, l see, :" said tbe Englishman; " it is the Ameri- can board of health. .=a .a4u a,4
 A tramp called at O house in Norwich, the other day, and after being fed, asked if the man of the house was at home. "No," replied she who served him, "but I'll let you know mighty quick that the woman of the house is at home, !" and, taking down an old sword, she started for him, but he escaped. ,yf
 "Sure,"' said Patrick, rubbing his head with delight at the prospect of Q present from his employer, 'tI always mane to do my duty" 'I believe you, replied bis employer, "and therefore shall make you present of all you have stolen from me during the yeae."S "I thank your honor," replied RatyT" and may all your friends and acqualHtances treat you as iberally." ... ?. nal,a
 A child was brought before humane magistrate, according to Japanese story, charged with the capital crime of killing wild duck in the immense pre- serves of the Shogoun. The magistrate expressed the opinion that the duck was only stunned, and gave the parents a day to cure it, in which case the child would be acquitted. This comforted the father but little, but the mother sensibly went and bought the finest live duck she could find. which the magistrate accepted with @ smile. .,.
 The Boston Globe wants something explained: The south shore, in the vicinity of Black rock, has of late been visited with an innumerable host of moths, commonly called millers. They took possession of rooms, which were accessible by the windows being left open, ip such numbers that it was the work of days to get rid of their presence. Their origin is a mystery, but they entered