Connecticut western news., 1875-03-26
Items of Interest.

Nebraska's population has doubled within two years.
 The best riddle out: In my first my '' second sat, my third and fourth ate3 In-sat-i-ate .'-" La ssi
 Make the truth very disagreeablo, and there will be found plenty of men ready to tell it. ... .... a.. sa. g9a'-
 Two members of the last Legislature in Maine sported homespun clothes throughout the session. -s.s .si sf v,
 Remorse is preying on an Illinois farmer who shot thirtyfive crows, and found their craws full of chinch bugs. '''
 The man who first proposed tunneling the English channel, eighteen years ago, is living in the greatest poverty in Paris. 5a as...
 Three Georgia sisters whom the war. reduced from great wealth. to extreme poverty went into the sheep raising busi- ness three years ago and are now making money rapidly. -.''I1 '''',.~-
 Six ladies who were girls together sixty years ago, lately had a tea party ill Bur rilville, N. Y. United years of the re- velers, four hundred and fortytwo --an average of about seventy. .53f aaj .ef
 A Pittsburgh woman, looking at n n house to rent, said she liked 1t very ,, we'll, only 1t was so far from the engine house that she would never havea chance to see the steamer run out i1s'1 "i i1''''!
 "Idiot P exclaimed lady, coming out of the theater, one evening, 5as a us gentleman accidentally stepped on her 3i trailing skirt. "Which one of us9'J, blandly responded the man. <, ..-.,,, l, Some one sent a Delaware man by ex-, D, press paving stone weighing thirty-six pounds, and as he opened the box, after paying $11 charges, his voice was heard A clear over in the next county. R, isaso1f
 Patient to doctors after consultation "Tell me the worst, gentlemen yiamq Ie going to die 2" Doctors" We are di5ai vided on that question, sir; but there is !, a majority of one that you will live" ,,..n
 "Why is it," asks an exchange. that nearly every Senator's wife in Washing II u. ton is handsome woman 2" It IS sim ply because nearly every Senator s wife who is not handsome woman is left at A' home. 4a lTa-. aNuJ ja iGdW !Dt
 A London minister, recently taken ill | of smallpox in his pulpity insisted gop ] being carried to the hospital in passing hearse, rather than ill. cab, lest the
 
 others. ''' |'
 "Jennie," said venerable Camero nian to his daughter, who was asking his consent to accompany her urgent and 2. favored suitor to the altar Jennie, it's d very solemn thing to, get ma married; us "I know it, father" replied the sensible , damsel; s'but it's a great deal solemner not to-" ''''' .''' '""' n''@' 'No'
 Persons who contemplate Western or Southern tour are informed that if you want to please an Ohio man, praise hison COWS @ Kentuckian, his horses i; an Ara kansas man, his shooting; g, Kansas man, his dogs an Iowa man, his glrls
 Wisconsin man, his feet ;, a'V1rg1n1a1, his family name and a Tennesseean, his , mule. 5ra .~rd aiiigZond
 Dr. Charles O. T. Gilman, of Salem, f' died of heart disease. He had been jok-@ ing with his wife about the possession of pocket-book, and pursued his daugh- ter, to whom the mother threw 1t, into. D the garden, when he dropped dead. His father and brother also died very sud, It denly of heart disease. '"A '''" ]2'a"
 About six weeks ago literary couple boarding together at Chicago alotef q concluded to marry, and last week thew following scrap of matrlmonla4 talk PeI B tween them was overheard: Shem-1T You lacerate my soul with your vulgar I sneers" He-"You have a supeFhu- man power for evil oyer my sensitive na- ture." ."..ia rs ua.'.ttls1 stsiB si
 Stampers street, Providence, owes its B name to an odd incident in the history of the city. An Indian attack was ward ed off by the ingenuity of some of the townsmen, who ran and stamped on a hill, half mile north of the present" center of the city, and made the ihvad" ing savages believe that formidable force was ready to oppose them. roda jy1
 A large poster, bearing the startling caption, "A man found dead, " was seen. posted in conspicuous place in Texas, the heading having been adopted by MT. Phelps in order to attract special atteA- tion to an advertisement of his merchan-s disc. A few days since his own body bathed in blood, was found at the threshold of his store, he having been assassinated. .,..,-... ..--