Connecticut western news., 1875-09-10
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 Put on "pull-back and tie-up dress" while you may, for the fashion is dying out.
 It depends upon the sun whether or not coming events cast their shadows before.
 Lawyers generally practice what they preach; but then they are paid for the practice.
 As viewed from Goat island, Niagara falls indeed presents a nanny-mated spectacle.
 A block of Straitsville (O.) coal weigh ing five tons will be taken to the Phila- delphia Centennial. .....
 An Allentown (Pa.) young woman's six grandmothers have the bad taste to continue in existence.
 "You must not put a counterfeit nickel in this box," said street car driver. "It is not fare."
 The low origin of person is forgot | ten in @ measure when @ great amount of his money is looked at. t''" The Norweigan settlement in Bosque county, Texas, is said to look like the most thrifty part of the country.
 It is one of the curiosities of natural history that a horse enjoys his food most when he hasn't bit in his mouth. The house fly is happy when in huckle- | berry preserves. He is never discovered, and goes with the berries wherever they go.
 | A murderer in Nevada refused to es- cape when the jail door was accidentally left open, "because he didn't have 8 clean shirt to go in." ..a-i .--.-
 The seals in the harbor of St. John, | N. B., are annoying the fishermen by breaking their nets and stealing the salmon caught therein. ..- .....
 In connection with the overflow of the Ohio river, farmers on the Indiana side complain that "the buffalo fish are climbing and stripping the cornstalks.
 A young lady at St. Paul, Minn., has ten grown up brothers to watch over her, and more men raise their hats to her than to any other ten girls in the city. ... | The Tennesseean now inclines his white hat 8 little further over toward his right ear. Three Presidents of the United States have their graves in his State. -a1| ." '
 "The hardest trial of my ife," said good old Deacon Banes, "was to shed tears at the news that my wife's uncle had died and left her sixty thousand dollars" -... .-4 | A St. Louis man invited twenty guests to dinner, and placed check for $1, ,O00 under each plate. Everybody felt good until it was found that the checks would not check.
 "Sir," said an old judge to young lawyer, "you would do we'll to pluck some of the feathers from the wings of your imagination and stick them in the tail of your judgment. .sers
 The Roman Catholic and Protestant clergymen joined in consecrating, on August 9th, the monument sacred to the memory of the French soldiers who were killed at Worth in 1870.
 A novel kind of theft is reported in St. Louis, where Michael Keenan stole gauge from boiler at Girard avenue quarry at the moment there was steam pressure of 100 pounds. ..g,t.s,
 "It is pleasant thing to see roses and lilies growing upon a young lady's cheek, but 8 bad sign to see mans face break out in blossoms. Joke of the professional agriculturist. ''
 A nice home for lady guest would be residence with Georgetown (Pa.) family, which consists of father, mother and six children, all of whom have been deaf and dumb from birth. u. s-p
 He was rural Jenkins. He was bound to be accurate, and he described the woman's costume thus: "She wore an I II 41,sH, <NtI tINnps ont bias and trimmed endwise. H'@'
 The Wisconsin State census, just taken and published, shows 8 population of 1 ,237, 166, against total of 1,054, ,670 in 1870, being net gain of 182, ,497, or seven and three-tenths per cent. .a1
 Hairdresser toyouthful client: 'tNow, my little gentleman, kneel on this chair, please" Little gentleman (who is hay ing his hair cut for the first time, doubt fully): "And must say my prayers 2"
 AS the ladies walked on the beach, with their long hair down, because otherwise it takes too long to dry, it was the entost terrible who said triumphant ly: Mamma leaves all hers at the hotel" ........
 ooh my friend," exclaimed tenn perance orator, "that ] had window in my heart, that you might look in and see the truth of what I tell you 1" "Wouldn't pain in your stomach do just well 2" asked @ small boy. 7
 The playful young man in Ohio, who snapped pair of scissors the other day too close to young lady's face, and who make amends with wedding ring, con- soles himself with the reflection that she can never turn up her nose at him, any way.
 An exchange says: It looks little risky to immerse growing plant In wa ter at one hundred and twenty degrees for the purpose of ridding it of lice or other insects, but we have tried it with the best results and with no damage to the plants, though it is possible that some very tender-leaved plants may not bear this treatment.
 The grangers of Orange county, N. Y., passed resolutions requesting the farm CTS generally to cooperate in correcting the evils arising from the indiscrlmlnate shooting of small birds and other game, by warning persons by verbal or posted notices against trespassing on their premises, and by using such other law ful means as may be necessary.
 A smart clerk in Nebraska pos office, who had taken two $5 bills from letter belonging to somebody else, afterwards repented and attempted to make restitution before it was too late. But instead of putting in the original money he slipped BIO note in the let ter. Now the smart post-office clerk languishes in jail, and by his sad fate illustrates the mathematical absurdity that twice five is not ten.
 A furniture manufacturing company of Wilmington, Del. has just manufac-