Connecticut western news., 1875-03-05
Items of Interest.

VII AhASASSeS
 There is grate prospect, as the pris- oner said in peeping out of his cell win dow.
 What is that which has a mouth and never speaks, and bed and never sleepsi A river.
 A California man pounded his wife, was fined $90, and he sold her silk dress to pay the fine.
 Don't skate into air-holes. Most of them are filled with water and are sx- ceedingly damp.
 The construction of the Panama rail road cost eighty two thousand human lives, from deaths by malaria.
 No matter how poor man is, he can always get plenty of good advice. It relieves the man who gives 1t.
 A wag, being asked the name of the inventor of butter stamps, replied that it was probably Cadmus, as he first brought letters into Greece.
 A Kentucky paper speaks of man who had a narrow escape from sun stroke, he having stood only two feet from a man who was struck.
 A few evenings ago, while the bells in a Catholic church at New Orleans were ringing for vespers, a little boy who was watching the sexton was killed by some castings giving way and falling upon his head.
 Said Missouri preacher: "There's powerful sight of giggling back thar in the corner, and it's got to be stopped, or the Lord will delegate me to open the door and throw some one out l" 1t was stopped. ..,'.z- .r ... .r ,z.r
 A rich officer of revenue the other day asked man of wit what sort of ., thing opulence was. "It is thing" replied the philosopher, (which can give rascal the advantage over an honest man." @
 Another London idea has crept into New York-that of having one's door bell answered by a spruce little boy in uniform and gilt, known as "buttons:" It is requisite that "buttons should drop his h's. .:... 7.-.g ...t ,5
 What married women want is more rest. Then why don't they take 1t in- stead of lying awake half the night to lec- ture their husbands, and getting up first in the morning to find something for the next lecture. '.-'" 'F.
 Father, what does printer live ont ,"Live on -the same as other fclks, of course. Why do you ask, Johnnie s'' ."Because you said you hadn't paid any thing for your paper; and the printers still send it to you"
 At printers festival, lately, the fol- lowing toast was offered Woman, Second only to the press in the dis semination of news. The lsdies are yet undecided whether to regard this as a compliment or otherwise. .........t .
 MT. Ruskins, in private letter, has written as follows: \" wishit were known more generally that, for the last twenty years at least, have been, contending against all hope of reconciling art with the smoke of manufacture. -.
 The winter of 1841 was famous through out New England as much colder than any which had preceded it. The snow, which covered the whole country as early as November 18th, was still found the next April covering the fences.
 A bar of gold one inch square will sus- tain a weight of fifteen tons net; a bar of silver of the same size will sustain twenty tons; a bar of copper eighteen tons; Q bar of charcoal iron thirty tons; a bar of lead will only carry about four tons.
 Col. Bodden, who is very fat, being accosted by Q man to whom he owed money, with "how d ye2" answered, "pretty we'll, I thank you; you find hold my own." "Yes, sir," rejoined the man, "and mine, too, to my sorrow."
 An exchange gives this eulogy pro- nounced over the coffin of Q deceased Tennesseean: "Thar lays man who'd give his last chaw of terbacker to a starvin' stranger, and then pay him fur spittin'." A great and good man, cer- tainly. ....... .,... ......
 The Syracuse Standard justly re- marks: People who send us communi- cations" for publication ARE request ed D not to "quote" and ,taderscore so MUCH. THIS is about the sody A good deal of "matter" would LOOK if we printed it as it is written. ... A man named Muybridge, who had killed the seducer of his wife, has just been tried and acquitted in San Fran cisco. The jury scorned to take advan- tage of the plea of " emotional insanity, but boldly acquitted the prisoner on the ground that he served the seducer right. .......el
 At dancing party in Western Ken lucky, to which several women came with their babies, some young men changed the clothes of the infants while their parents were dancing, and mixed them up generally. The following day there was a great row, and as the families lived miles apart 1t took several days to unmix the children.
 A Vermont schoolmaster says he never felt unequal to any demand in the line of his profession, excepting on one occasion, when farmer brought his fifteen-year- daughter to the school, and walking up to tho masters desk, said, "Thats my youngest gal, and if ever you catch her slidin' down hill with the boys I just want you to bounce her."
 When lady slips on the sidewalk she gracefully sits down, and that's the end of it. A man, however, always tries to catch himself on the other foot, drops all his bundles and uses his arms for balancing pole, struggles desperately for about ten seconds in Q vain endeavor to recover his equilibrium and fiually goes sprawling like collapsed windmill; then he swenrs.
 In Sicily woman who seemed dying from consumption, but was without many of the common symptoms of that disease, was found, by the use of the laryngoscope, to have leech firmly ad- herent by both extremities to the walls of the air passages at their upper DOT tion, and so the difficulty of breathing, speaking, coughing, etc., were easily ex- plained. It was got out by surgical operation.