Connecticut western news., 1875-05-07
Items of Interest.

Items or Interest.
 The young man who did not spell we'll had sick spell.
 Persons fed largely on oatmeal always have good teeth.
 and all other days.
 Dr. Storrs poetically styles rain clouds "the wandering cisterns of the sky"
 Vinegar, boiled with myrrh of cam phor, and sprinkled in a room, corrects putridity.
 When suffering from cold, it will be found advantageous to put cotton wool in the ear.
 How to dissuade people from marry ing-Send them to the seaside, and they will be always hearing the moaning of the tide.
 A hirt had on offer of marriage the other evening, and, rushing up stairs, said: Mamma, am l engaged to any body now9"
 Somebody suggests that if anybody wants to send transient newspaper from one city to another-say from New York to Brooklyn-.the cheapest way would be to send it "via Liverpool"
 "No," said she, leaning out of the window and addressing herself to her back door neighbor this morning, "we don't expect to do much at house cleanin' this year until after the Brooklyn trial is over."
 To a deputation of uneasy Lorrainers Bismarck recently observed: "Gentle- men, Prussia is like flannel waistcoat- rough to the skin at first, but, when one has it on, warm, wholesome, and com fortable."
 British law believes in "propputy." Many houses were rendered uninhabita- ble by the great explosion in Regents Park, London, last year, but the judges decide that the tenants, though thus put out of doors, must pay the rent all the same.
 Podgering" is 0 new word with which the English language has been enriched. It is derived from Q certain Mrs. Podgers, who is continually in trouble with London cabmen as to their fares, summoning them before magis- trates.
 Sam Evans, of the Ottumwa Qowa) Democrat, an exchange says, can mean der up to the cemetery and gaze upon the tombstones of three departed Evanses, former helpmates. and when he returns home alive Mrs. Evans stands in the door and yells: "Been up there again, hey ?"
 If you write down the figure 5 and twenty-one cyphers and call the unit tons, that is, they say, the weight of this world of ours. For instance-5, GOO, ,000, ,000,- 900, 1000, 100000. If there were some unit of weight that represented millard of tons there would be five thousand millards of that weight.
 There Is o woman in Paris who goes about the streets watching for man to tumble down with apoplexy. Then she rushes forward in great distress and goes with him and the police to the station, takes care of him etc., and steps out of sight before he recovers his senses, when it is generally found that his watch and portemonnaie have disappeared.
 A little boy living at Libertytown, Md, thought he saw dog the other day under stack of straw in his fathers barnyard, and resolved to "burn him out" If the wind had not fortunately changed its direction at the right mo- ment, his scheme would have resulted in "burning out" his family, also, and perhaps the whole neighborhood.
 The Paris Figaro thus neatly answers an anonymous correspondent !: A note, written by female hand, asks us why, ill polite society, etiquette allows a lady to pay visit with her veil down. l really do not know, madame; but l would bet 1t is the ugly ones who set the fashion, and that it is only the pretty women who make inquiries about it.
 The weather in Australia this winter has been excessively hot. In Melbourne, on Jan. 22, the thermometer stood at III in the shade. A gentleman on Soldiers hill, near Ballarat, placed a school slate for while out of doors, then spread some butter upon it and breaking an egg thereon, in few minutes the egg was perfectly cooked, as if done in the ortho- dox pan over fire.
 After the Franco German wnr the Grand Duke of Coburg- Gotha said to Bismarck that the decoration of the Iron Cross had been distributed too freely. "Well," said the prince, cit has been given on one hand to brave fellows who earned it in battle, and, of course, justly given; on the other hand it has been given out of pure courtesy, as to your highness and to me, and we had better not say to much about it.
 Camel coal is one of the purest in ex- istence. It is of rich, satin black ap- pearance, and under heat splits into plates orlayers, until thoroughly united, and burns completely to ashes. The term is Lancashire brogue for candle, pronounced canl by the miners, because it ignites and burns like n candle. It is claimed that the only really pure mine of camel coal ill the United States exists in Clarion county, Pennsylvania.