Connecticut western news., 1875-12-24
- ----.|W IfI L. IT Items of Interest.

A good wife is good thing, but a bed husband beats her. .,;..,- ...-s9
 The late elections waited ten Missis- sippi editors into office. ., .t
 Seal-brown stockings are colored with picric acid, an active poison. .h ~,
 If man thinks he would feel letter of, by all means let him of go. -.A'
 There are 65, ,25O beggars in Paris, two-thirds of whom are females. -
 An average crop of wheat in the United States is now about 300, GOO, 900 bushels.
 The Russian government owns 14S salt works, which produce annually about 400, ,000 tons,
 Mrs. Matthew Griswold, of Oonnecti- cut, had governors for father, brother, husband, son, aud nephew.
 Gall a boy John, and he will be steady; call him Charles, and he will deviate into Charlie, and go in for irritation.
 New York youths in their twentieth trembles at the name of America.
 Between five thousand and six thou sand houses in Philadelphia have been registered for Centennial visitors.
 Vice. President Wilson is said to have left an estate worth about $3, 900, and his place in Natick is valued at $2, 500.
 The Belgians are the least litigious people in the world, as it takes an aver age of 27,0O0 of them to support one lawyer. .et a @
 A high Uhlan officer of the Prussian guards has been sentenced to a year and half imprisonment in military fortress for being married to young lady who was not of noble birth. ,-,
 There is @ dispute between Indiana and Kentucky about the ownership of c small island in the Ohio river near Evansville. It will not be squabbled for any the less viciously because it is worth little or nothing. a.,-a ~.ti ai
 A romantic story is told of a Cuban woman who, with her Son of fourteen years, commands 8 detachment of the rebel army. She leads the insurgents in person. dressed in riding habit, and mounted on 8 fine horse, and is as brave as lion. cab l.la ,sA8ssi rli
 The Leck (Staffordshire) Improvement Commissioners have refused to receive into their cemetery the following epi- tsph: "Twenty-one years a dutiful daughter, three years chaste and virtu- ous sweetheart and forty years loving wife," ... ...f .,s...--.t. ..'..I, .,.s.
 Lady to servant: Mary, do not approve of your entertaining your sweet heart in the kitchen" Mary: "Wen, ma'am, it's very kind O you to mention it but he's from the country, you see, ma lam, and I'pc afraid he's too shy and orkard in his manners, ma'am, for you to like him to come up stairs l''
 J. Clancy Dempster, of San Francisco, has chivalrous regard for the other sex. He saw woman in the street surround ed by drunken loafers, who had fright ened her into fits. He drew Q revolver and knife, went to her rescue, shot one fellow, stabbed two, and bore her triumphantly away in his arms. Y
 A man named Nathaniel Lyle snug gled himself into box car on a branch of the St. Paul railroad, between Austin and Mason City, Iowa The car took fire ard Lyle suffered some injuries. He sued the company for damages. swore that Lyle was afflicted with consumption, the result of partial suffocation and roasting in the car. and a jury gave the plaintiff a verdict for $1,- 800. 4' 'as'i.
 Mime Antoinette Sterling. having been invited by Canon Kingsley to Eversley Vicarage, sang to him his ballad. "The Three Fishers" She says: "He had never seen me before, and when l came to that part of the song which expresses the suspense of the weeping women on the shore, heard him say: Go on hats right. But when the suspense was over and the bodies were lying on ;he sands, missing his precious exclama- ions, I looked up and saw him sitting with his face in hss hands, crying at. his 'wn pathetic story"