Connecticut western news., 1875-02-12
Items of Interest.

An American pianist named Kitten is afording amewsment to lovers of music in Italy.
 A Baltimore girl, worth $45, 900, wants to marry some young man who has learn ed a trade.
 Signs of spring. The possible form of the spring bonnet begins to agitate the female mind. M tG.., s} .0. 0.s..'
 Make out your bills and them collect them. The first is comparatively easy not so the last. -+ ltl
 The Bishop of Carlisle has pronounced himself in favor of the administration of the cat to wife-beaters.
 Col. Long, of the Khedive's army, who lately performed such prodigies of -valor, turns out to be a former, Maryland editor.
 He who goeth it blind sitteth down up- on the bent up pin while the observing man scanneth the chair seat before he squatteth. "a 'r gad ls,'#E ..'-'7
 It has been noted that of the eight bishops chosen by the Episcopal church since October last, five are under forty years of age.. .;....- ,~,,.r ..,;s. .by,t
 A Chicago paper says that "no gentle llitu OI 1ttCty VIII lStNS bl ODSIb houpO until the curtain is down and all the au- dience has passed out. |" t.,l..'.n
 One by one the roses fade. It is now boldly denied that men who wear long hair are possessed of any more talent than men who have. it shipped close. 4 ui
 The Belgian government offers q reward to coliery owners, who, during period of ten years, shall have the fewest men killed by explosion and similar accidents.
 My name is Somerset writes 8 punster. '" I am a miserable bachelor. cannot marry, for how could | hope to prevail on any young lady possessed of the slightest notion of delicacy, to turn a Somerset ?" .,,..., a.,.,,., #...,r. ~. A Cicero lawyer pictured the mean ness of an opponent by saying that if his soul should be placed inside of a mustard seed, it would have as much playroom as a woodchuck would have in the State of Connecticut. Hs tl~e @1a 5a.I"
 A subscriber to one of our city dailies expressed his financial inability to con- tinue his subscription by saying that if Onondaga salt was selling at twenty-five cents barrel, he couldn't pay for enough to pickle jaybird. .. s.-.. s.'E t'H A gentleman entered bachelors room, and, looking round, said: 2" Very snug-rather too, snug--buta !, suppose they are large, enough. for bachelor" "Yes," said the bachelor, :" but SUD- pose if had D better half I might have had better quarters. 'e'A X '-. ''.s -1
 Talking of doctors, bills, the Medical TSnses urges that they be presented monthly, inasmuch as they would be paid more willingly when the memory of the recent peril and the physicians skill Is still fresh than when time has worn away the vividness of the impression s| If you should invest in Q lottery al ways dream three nights in succession, immediately preceding the day of the drawing, that your number drew the capital prize. A Bridgeport man did this, and the very next day he saw an announcement in the paper that--the drawing had been postponed for three months.
 "This sudden sound caused Buford to start; the arms which had been about to hurl Arthur away relaxed, quilted their hold of him, and Rosalie's boy fell and disappeared from the assassin's sight. TThe continuation of this fascinating TO- nance of sea and shore is only tobe found in the Weekly NesU York Ipecdc, to be found at all the news-stands. l-Courier- Journal. f'- ! ....5 ,gu.lag ..l 1. Usra
 The latest chromo story comes from down East, where a Sunday school teacher said to one of her pupils "Johnny, why don't you invite your friend Billy to come to Sabbath school with you?" Johnny looked up, with a grin full of intention and equally full ot teeth, and said: 1T know yer, teacher. You want to get Billy into the class, so's you can get a chromo for anew scholar. |, A woman named Interbeitz, at Niagara Falls, was fatally burned by the explo- sion of @ kerosene lamp which she was trying to extinguish. Her clothes caught fire, and she tried to save herself by run ming out of the house and rolling in the snow. Before the flames, were extin- guished she was burned almost to crisp. Her daughter, in endeavoring to put out the flames, was badly burned, but will recover. r'',' '. '-.
 The modern house, isexcept in afew special instances, a colder place to hive III than the houses of & century ago. The req son of this is obvious enough. A cold house almost always means badly pullt house. Either the walls are too thln, or the woodwork does not fit properly, or the doors and windows are badly arranged,or the fireplaces are not constructed so as to give enough heat. Of these defects the first and last are the most universal and the most important. @-