Connecticut western news., 1875-10-22
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It IS B6LGer to D0 W1bS AuU uOb bOou so than seem wise and not be so.'
 Louisiana's new census shows 20, ,000 more colored residents than white. A learned newspaper publisher in Tennessee calls his place of business 8 printery. .se. .- ...esG 3fa.
 Oontentment is said to be better than riches, but the latter is good enough for ye writer. ...., -...,,,or
 Contributions are being raised in the United States and England in aid of the Christian sufferers in the Turkish colo nies. %di
 Postmaster General Jewell says the dispatch of mails iu the United States under the new arrangement is now un- equaled. .t,.s... .,..., ..,,uay
 It was observed of deceased lawyer that he had left but few effects, to which lady remarked that "he had but few causes" t4
 The result of the trial of Westervelt in Philadelphia leads to the belief that Charley Ross is alive and will yet be re- turned to bis parents. e ta N
 If it be so very hard to find bald head ed consumptives or bald headed lunatics, it is next in order to ascertain if there be any bald-headed suicides. .,t
 Mrs. Ex- President Lincoln, who is staying with her sister at Springfield, Ill. accosts every one with: !" Now you don't believe me insane, do you 2'a
 England has settled claims on account of the .Abyssinian war amounting to over $45, ,OO0, ,000 and has others aggregating $150, 900 still under considerations
 A philosopher observes: Trying to run Q household without love is like running railroad train without grease, and many shot box" is inevitable.
 A traveller says: In Utah you can feed your hogs on her acorns, scald them in her hot springs, scrape them by driving them through, her sage brush, and pickle, them in her Salt lake.4of . A Lewiston (Maine) merchant has in his window 6 sample of combs of the style of forty years ago, and which is again becoming the thing. It IS nine inches across and eight inches infheight.
 The shameful wrong of giving an ab- surb name to a helpless infant is illus trated in Ohio, where .Epaphroditus Bogardus is running for the Legislature, and having a hard time of it in the news papers. a1 nt2eia2s1 Ani q i'a
 A model will was recently presented fer probate to the probate court at Ply mouth, properly executed and witnessed. The following is 8 verbatum Q copy: "July 12, 1875. I give all my property to my wife. .,.s.ao,,,
 Think of playing 7,944 games of checkers in year This is what James Wylie has done during the last twelve months. There were thirty two lost, four hundred and ninety-fve drawn i; the balance was all victory. . naglw
 In return for the delicious beverage of coffee which western Europe first had from the Levant, France has, now sent thither first invoice of 500, 900 pounds of chickory. Even in Arabia there will be no pure coffee after this. D inAi
 Sixteen ladies of St. Petersburg have formed society whose members: :abjure silks and costly raiment, and, devote the money thus saved to educate poor Chil- dren. Already nineteen of these are maintained in various institutions. @
 A Richmond man will exhibit at The Centennial tho whole process of rnanu- facturing tobacco from the leaf to the plug; and thousands will at the same time and place practically illustrate what is done with the plugs afterward. ,dl
 Slang is both strong and weak. Its strength consists in the ability to ,ex- press in it, sharp and nervous and fuu, the idea1intended to be conveyed. Its weakness is in the fact that it. is the language of the unre6ned, theIunedu- cated, the low. ar ea hrs
 By the best grinding miller gets from a bushel of wheat from twelve to four teen pounds bran and shorts, one and a half to two pounds middhngs [never more than two) one pound waste, no second grade flour, and forty three to forty five pounds in the fine four qasw
 The mode of punishing criminal vin Thibet is rigorous. slightly. They bury him to the neck, in the earth, so that all is impossible, keep his mouth forced open with spike, and then drive all kinds of horrible insects to take refuge in the mouth, ears, and eyes.
 A Chicago capitalist named Holden has just gone into insolvency for large His assets consist only of personal property and his personal pro perty consists only of a $50 suit of clothes, $20 cane, a BIO wateh-chain and two finger rings valued at $2.'i'boa A man rushed into the office of the census bureau in flaming heat, and in- quired "Have the returns for Ward Five been all made up9" "Whyf" asked the clerk. "Because we've got Q new hired girl down to our house, and l want to get her into the list instead of the one that's down now" sata| s7s3
 Now put up the little stovepipe |" ah*
 With meek and christian grace,I .stad
 Stuff your mouth up with your nose-wipe,
 Smear the smut about your face;
 Wish the house was gone to thunder, in
 Cuss little, while you can, y.st raaH,
 Kick the reservoir asunder,
 Stick your foot through aapan-- i' hotlh
 Gone to meet your mother-ln.ls~. dy0w
 Nostrum vendors advertise in England 8 "sure cure for the opium habit" This nostrum has been found by analysis to contain two grains per'dose of the sulphate of morphine. The dose is to be taken threo times day. Thus the victim takes the equivalent of thirty-six grains of opium in day to cure him of the habit of taking opium. irn.a
 Charles Dickens is dead, but the man he saw in the penitentiary at Philadel- phia-describing him in American Notes" as "a picture of forlorn atfiic- tion and distress of mind "-still lives, at the age of seventy-fve, and has just been sent back to his old quarters for the sixth time for his chronic offense of petty theft, which has kept him in jail full half his long life.
 Baudelaire and Munger dined at country inn. There was spiders web in the window near them, and just as they sat down n beautiful green fly was caught iu it. Munger, with the impulse of poet, would have saved this victim from the hideous spider, but Baudelaire said "Tel me, first, by what right you deprive this honest spider of the