Connecticut western news., 1875-06-04
Items of Interest.


 A $5,0OO COW in California was so frightened by the sight of windmill that she dropped dead.
 Husband-What's the use going out this sloppy weather2 Wife-What's the use having striped stockings9 fGar
 The man "whose departure left 8 blank in the house" did not die: he was a census taker, and will return again. .s... ...s.--.5 s..-i,,
 A red-headed, unprincipled woman has been selling the colored people of Boston lotion warranted to make them white. .t 'F.Tn
 There is certain period in every boys life when he would rather be ring master in 8 circus than President of the United States. .......5-.
 An Iowa court has decided that it is not legal for farmer to hitch his wife up with a mule, no matter how anxious he is to blow. .7 H7'
 A Frenchman, intending to compI- ment young lady by calling her 8 gentle lamb, said: "She is one mutton as is small" .. -. t-a
 A Delaware paper says that Hank Wilson passed through its town 8 day or two before. And Hank is Vice-Presi- dent of the United States
 The Milwaukee Sentinel finds that of the eighteen Presidents, twelve were lawyers, five soldiers, and one states man The question now is, who was the statesman2 .. n .' ja
 Senator Andrew Johnson will bring @ suit against the New Orleans 7snaes for libel in asserting that he made use of money to secure his election to the United States Senate. ..--
 A kind-hearted, peace loving ,Balti- more man painted his front steps twenty three times trying to get color to suit his wife, and then she decided that the first color was the best. 4>s ay8
 Jefferson Davis, in an address to the Texas veterans of the Mexican war, en- treated them to be as loyal now to tho stars and stripes as they were, zealous and brave in the defense of their first flag. .---l
 Two Philadelphians had a fight over the question as to how old Adam was when he died, and the police justice made the fine twenty dollars apiece, and remarked that Adam was old enough to know better. ... g / . e..qv,
 A Detroit alderman has horse that can get frightened, run away and pitch everybody out without hurting the vehi- ole. It has accomplished this feat several times lately, and the alderman is very proud of him. .r. .. .t.tgasv r1
 At teachers institute in Ohio recent. ly lady teacher was given the word 1" hazardous" to spell and define, and did it in this style: "H-a-z- has-a-r-d, ard-e double s, ess-hazardess, e fe- male hazard" .a1E f
 Japan makes neat stroke of diplo- macy, when, with childhke and bland smile, she turns over to Russia her half of Saghal1en, and with it legacy of in- cessant warfare with China, the posses sor of the other half. '"
 An intoxicated Indian was burned in 8 Nevada hut, and an account of the acci- dent says that when the fire reached his stomach it fingered there, emitting steady, blue flame until about quart of bad whisky had been consumed.
 The Philadelphia Bulletin never gave credit to the reported death of the Mar quis de Caux. No gentleman, it thinks, would deliberately place his life in jeopardy while he has wife who can warble heavy balance into the bank in ] single evening.
 A couple of disputatious neighbors were contending as to which is the oldest business in the world, when the wife of 1ne of them, with her babe in her arms, ,ilenced them by declaring that the oldest business in the world was the nursery business.
 Great excitement in rich family at ;he disappearance of gold snuffbox, .ichly set with brilliants; and equal when young gentleman of ,ix acknowledged that he had utilized it .s @ coffin and buried it with his pet canary in the garden. e. gtr
 Two years ago Pennsylvania servant yirl was sent to prison for stealing two hundred dollars from her employer. The money was found the other day where the man had hidden it, and now le offers the girl six dollars as recom- oense, while she wants ten thousand.
 It must be rather binding on man ,ne hundred and ten years old to pick up lis favorite paper in the morning and ind quotation like this in the leading editorial: m
 "The good die young; But those whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket"
 It being the correct thing, you know, every now and then to state the where bouts and present pursuits of "Coal )il Johnny" we fulfill that duty by in orming our readers that the dilapidated Jrossus has become 6 granger and now works farm in the vicinity of Pitts ,urgh.
 Business seems to depend upon small hings, and many of them, in Texas. Texas paper: A single queen bee will produce 100, ,OOO bees in season; the 100, ,OOO bees will produce 0,000 swollen leels and the sale of twenty-two barrels ,f arnica.
 Salmon are running so numerously in he Sacramento river at present, and the ishermen have caught so many of them, hat they have become a drug in the market, and are sold by the fishermen ,n the fishing grounds for from fifteen o thirty cents each, and in the city at rom forty to sixty cents.
 There is a man in Paris with great project. He proposes to light that city with one lamp. He wants big lamp md wants to suspend it at proper height by means of balloon. His argu- nent is that all Paris can be lighted on hat plan as well as an opera house. The authorities have prejudice against lis plan, because he boards in lunatic sylum. ...#
 MT. l.. l.. H. Carlysle, New Orleans Ictor, was, recently engaged by an anna eur dramatic association at Kirksville, Mo-, to help them bring out Richard IT," MT. Carlysle has now @ deep ,calp wound seven inches long inflicted oy the maiden sword of Richmond, an 1ntamed amateur named Dick Pickler,