Connecticut western news., 1875-10-29
Items of Interest.

aa Items of Interest. h
 An Indiana man says it's poor philoso phy for husband to upset tho table tS
 spite his wife. Some one must pur
 chase new dishes. -r2 sat fn sta
 Hackmen are the best hearted fellow
 in the world. They never see Q lon,
 man making his way home at night
 without asking him to ride. ,,tsvaa
 Miss Wallace of York county, Pa.,
 took teaspoonful of laudanum to ease
 pain, and slept, without once waking
 for five days and five nights.
 There is. a man in Iowa who can
 honestly say that he never opened another mans letter by mistake. 70 His name is John Pfafaelkaefingarr.
 Ia 1S74-75 the total number of ,piI- grims going to and returning from Mec- ca amounted to 15,342, an increase of nearly 5000 over the previous year.
 The youngest Jesse Pomeroy on re- cord is reported from Digby, N. S., where a boy aged eighteen months nearly beat his baby sister to death with ourling-iron. sn9aiq 9moa 1l
 Mrs. Smith, of Kansas, said she'd like to see court which could make her reply to any question she didn't want to, and she went,to jail for fourteen days rather than answer. e,I -o-,
 The crown princess of Germany conn mands as colonel a regiment of hussars, and during recent maneuvers before the emperor she appeared mounted at the head of her cavaliers. tt 1'n'aI
 The postmaster at Okahumka (Fla. ] has pet turtle. He fed him from his hand few days since. A sufficient time has elapsed to digest the thumb, and the turtle is still alive.
 A New Hampshire paper states as e singular fact that " the town has never had mill in her midst" This probably accounts for the headvertisementi in another column of a mill-in-her wanted. ns-
 A young man who wore pair of very dirty gloves to party explained honest ly and promptly, as a reason for doing so, that the smell of benzine used in cleaning gloves was very disagreeable.
 A lady in Batavia, N. Y. herself ninety one years of age, has sister living aged eighty one, and four brothers who are eighty nine, eighty seven, eighty five and eighty three years old respect ively. aaa"4t.
 A pair of stairs that ordinarily are solid as rock will straddle in the joints and creak and crack together with all the fervor of thunder clap when one is at tempting to climb them noiselessly at night. ...- .......... f..,...-.....''..,,.
 The Minneapolis Tribune is puzzled about the approaching hard winter. 1t asks: "Will Indians work 2" Yes, and with very little capital. Ten cents worth of plug tobacco will set one at work for 8 week. f.. ..a.a ...a .H,st a4 iJg
 A. R. Snow, of Medina, N. r., adver- tises that he will prosecute any woman who steps foot on his premises, and long lines of women march around his house and talk to him from the outside of his fence. 1
 A doctor of France has invented by means of which an over-anx- ious mother may assure herself from day to day, or even from hour'to hour, that the baby is doing satisfactorily as re- gards its increase of weight. ,.a
 Billy Emerson, the, negro minstrel, makes $25, ,000 year. Ralph Waldo Emerson, the philosopher, makes $900. The latter has frequently deplored the fact that he couldn't get his head to hit 8 tambourine right in the middle. ta
 Small boy in grocer's store" do you sell these fgs2" "Two for three oents." ">Well, les see; that's one for two cents and one for one cent, ain't it9" '' Yes." "Well, I'll take the one cent one." Yes, yes, young man, eat all you want"
 A professor asking his class "What Is an aurora2" A student, scratching his head, replied: !" Well, professor, | lid know, but I have forgotten" '' Well, that is sad, very sad" reioined he professor; "the only man in the world that ever knew has forgotten it."
 A Westerly, R. l., clergyman married | couple the other night, received his lee and sent them away, apparently sat sfied, but, day or two after, the bride groom returned and said that he had ,ome to pay more, as the woman had turned out much better than he ex- ,ected. ,.. ... .... nr
 The following method is used in Ger many for the preservation of wood: Nix forty partschalk fifty resin, four inseed oil, melting them together in an ron pot then add one part of native 'xide of copper and afterward one part # sulphuric ncid. Apply with brush. When dry, this varnish is as hard as tone. ...l ..- .
 A remarkable article calleo nsh -four las been brought forward in tho last ew years. It is not as yet manufactured n any great quantity, as the article is till new in the market, and consequently here is no great demand for it. The Iour is prepared from dried fish of the irst quality; it is thoroughly desiccated, nd then ground in mill.
 Corn cobs are extensively used in Europe for fire lighters. They are first teeped i'll hot water containing two per ent. of saltpeter. and after being dried q high temperature, are saturated with fty per cent. of resinous matter. These ghters, which are sold at from $3 to $z he thousand, are employed with advan- age and economy in private houses and pr lighting furnaces. .......-... ...,
 A gentleman of Birmingham, Conn.,, ,ho was visiting the optical works at hat place with some friends, the other ay, concluded to furnish himself with
 new pair of eyeglasses, and tried on everal pairs, as he supposed, one of hich, he finally declared, suited his yes better than any he had ever had. lis friends smiles caused him to ex- mine them closely, when he found that ley were fine pair of frames without lasses,