Connecticut western news., 1875-05-28
Items of Interest.

"Eight years this spring" is about as old as horse gets to be-. ,.-...
 The "speck of war; is one of the poorest "specs nation can engage in.
 A seeker after home sends us an ad vertisement for "plane board" He must be carpenter.
 In some of the French cities the per son whose house gets afirc has to pay the expense of the engines coming out. .r,.
 The terrible power of appetite is illus trated in the case of the young man who drank up an entire millpond which his father left him.
 The London Ne,os says @ caricaturist renders as much service to party as 8 speech, and yet no one thinks of ranking caricaturist with politician.
 A Texas woman has learned to use the lasso so deftly that she can stand In the door and haul the hat off the lightning rod peddler while he is unfastening the gate.
 The Rochester Democrat says that Mile. Plaster, young French actress, IS coming over next season, We presume all the young bloods will be inclined to court Plaster. ,.t.
 At spelling match in Candia, N. H., Q few evenings ago, Deacon Ezekiel Lane, eighty-three years old, spelled down all the young folks and took the first prize.
 A Swede died at San Rafael, Cal,, a few days ago, who had lived there for eleven years, and no one knew his name, his tongue being paralyzed and he un- able to write. Fog. =.
 New Hampshire girls always read the "weather probabilities first to see how the weather will be the coming Sunday night, and then carry in wood accordingly. ..,i.-i..
 Some men who brag a good deal about their "energy arc eternally on the go, and never accomplish anything. Their energy is like the energy of the tumble bug-simply restless. m ..., When Sheridan was asked at an amateur play which performer he liked the best, he replied: 'The prompter; for I saw less and heard more of him than of any one else. .. d.. e..II
 A genius thus defines the difference between men and women: A man gives forty cents for twenty-five-cent thing he wants, and women gives twenty-five cents for forty-cent thing she does not want '.- "..'' '.-~
 The island of Cuba has been damaged to the amount of $25, 000, 900 to $50, OOO,- GOO by the guerilla war which has been soing on for several years, and which may continue until large part of that beautiful island is ruined. r. aa'-
 "Shall women leave their children at home2" asks Lucy Stone. That depends upon circumstances. If a child can make itself comfortable with basket of shay ings and box of matches, perhaps the thing would be permissible. ...-
 A hotel landlord, who is sadly troubled, has placed in his washroom an inscription from Dante: "Who enters here, leaves soap behind" and says If he catches the culprits, they'll realize all the horrors of the bottomless pit.
 Charles Reade says that he has been presented with the magnificent sum of eighteen pence as the sole recompense the copywright law afforded him for the free circulation of copies of his works Tn the Dominion of Canada for 0 whole year. .. rt
 In Scinde, when female child is born to one of the princes it was brought to him in Dunbar, and if he did not ap- prove of it it was put under the cushion upon which he sat and extinguished by the gentle pressure of his paternal weight.
 A New Orleans womans insanity in- duces her to shout "Stop thief l' when ever she secs anybody running in the street, and several staid old men, upon starting briskly for a horse car, have been chased and captured in consequence of her outcries. -. .." I'
 She used to keep bits of broken china and crockery piled up in convenient corner of the closet, and, when asked her reason for preserving such domestic lumber she shot lurid glance at her husband, and merely remarkedi lie knows what them's for. v r.ls..} 5~5.,qo .
 Professor Baird will have a whole building in the Centennial devoted to an exhibition of fish and fish culture, and the models of every boat, vessel and seine used in capturing the fish. The Swedish government has appropriated $100, ,000 for 0 similar object.
 "May I leave few tracts4" asked a medical missionary of Q lady who re- sponded to his knock. "Leave some tracks9 Certainly you may,' said she, looking at him most benignly over her specs. "Leave them with the heels toward the house, if you please.
 There were 2,271 vessels built in the United States in 1873; and in 1874, PLAY. The highest number previous to the war was 2,047 in 1855. As regards steamers, the highest number built ln any year before the war was 281, in 1854, while last year the number was 4O4. ....E.....
 "Gentlemen," cried conductor on the Savannah and Montgomery railroad, "please not squirt your ana-6er in this ke-ydr. It is dirty practice. If you want to squirt go into the forward ke-ydr and you Kim squirt as much as you please" the squirters with drew.
 The Free Masons of Iowa are very much exercised over @ recent decision of the grand master that dancing i'll the lodge rooms is inconsistent with the good of the craft. Two subordinate officers have been deprived of their positions for violating the spirit of the decision.
 It was discovered that deaf man car ried off the honors at 8 spelling match. Sympathizing with his infrmity, the annunciator had given the champion the words to be spelled on slip of paper. After the exposure by man who was all ears, the success of the deaf man was not so pronounced.
 A happy-go-lucky individual who was attempting to make his way through the street in Syracuse while under the in huence of excessive potations of whisky, was inquired of by policeman Twhither he was going. Holding up tooth brush and toothpick, which he was tightly clinching, be simply remarked: