Connecticut western news., 1875-04-09
t. Items of Interest.

1ne laW 1s not cneaps altnougn b IS always had at cost. ...pio ,5H s ,a
 A Spanish proverb says, "A kiss 1 without mustache is like an egg with out salt." @ tE994 #ri t'S.la2 0.
 Howe, the inventor of the sewing -ma- chine, was destitute at thirty, Q million
 aire six years later. - ltS,T 13 4aa5.,i,
 The new edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica" is set up with the type com- posing machines. Std15s aeN ..sA
 A careful medical authority estimates {, that a man with sore throat swallows ten times to where well man swallows once. ....-,i ,.,' ,,,,t a,
 A man may forget, his business, his |, family and all the sacred obligations of life, but he always remembers where he got that counterfeit bill. rj k9e,s-o 7fsa4 a.I
 That was @ mean man out in Kansas ll that took the gold filings out of his wife's teeth, the other day, and sold them to a 2 pawnbroker to buy collar for his dog x |.
 None are so fond of secrets as those ' who do not mean to keep them, Such persons covet secrets as spendthrifh does money, for the purpose of cireula- tion. .ral sal u. 4gf0 ;Bvir
 If you want to see & man struggling to do several things at once just watch kim g trying to put on his overcoat and rubbers and yet keep his head bowed while the D minister is pronouncmg the. bene edction. v
 "That clock, stranger, said g Michigan a farmer, "was the best kind of a clock up to six months ago, when my daughras ter began to have beaux, and now tho 3a blamed thing is always 1.-two hours ? slow"
 For the accommodation of customers there is attached to Parisian dry goods { stores 8 pleasant refreshment room, handsomely frescoed, and without money or price one may have simple lunch for the asking. .sasagA A
 A scientist has just appeared who says, he can tell the origin and history of people by simply looking at their feet. He thinks that the site of the present city of Louisville must have once been occupied by elephants. r.a .tg.9 las,p edI
 The Wisconsin institution for the edu- q cation of the blind was last spring de. q, stroyed by fire, and Professor H. Little has just died from injuries he received while making heroic efforts in the Resoue' of the helpless inmates on that occasions
 Quiet place for an invalid or student in Garner, Hancock county, Iowa. The q. signal man counts that day lost whose low, declining sun sees not score of dog fights lost and won. Everybody who stops at Garner must be n tarryer. iT 14
 The blue flame from coal fire has a temperature of $500 degrees Fahren- heit, the flame of hydrogen of oxyhy- drogen $500 degrees. The temperature {. of the electric spark is unknown, but it is supposed to be about 22,000 degrees Fahrenheit. ...
 One may often hear in Italy the do claration made that a sicGrss may be hired for ive-and-twenty francs to exe.- q cute another's revenge, if there is a. reasonable chance that the out-throat mercenary may escape detection, or get off with his life. F ..,.-. -..r.,.,,. .,,.-.r
 A fastidious gentlemen when break fasting with friend, and partaking for the first time of tripe, which was slightly picked, as is the Eastern fashion of pre- D pairing it, asked, "What kind of meat e is this 2" "Sour stomach, was the appetizing reply. .pss. .i.l lad div
 The Secretary of the United States I, Navy has received, in a registered let ter, thirteen dollars from an ex-marine in New York, who says that is the value of the outfit of clothing which he carried. away in deserting in the spring of 1870, after months service. rt-.a q avsi ssysH
 The volunteer corps of Great Britain t are to be sun noned out on Q day and v hour to be hereafter designated, simul- taneously throughout the entire king dom. This is to be done ill order thnt the government may know how many " can be assembled at any time. "Ai 70
 Argue not with a man whom you know . to be of an obstinate temper, for when a he is once contradicted his mind is r barred against all light and information; argument, though ever so well grounded, provokes him, and makes him even afraid to be convinced of the truth. .9 '
 cit is of no use to avoid the issue," 4u said learned judge to broker, "your { case will be settled by the issue of bench warrant " "Warrants, warrants, bench warrants," said the broker, con slllting his latest reports, "how much on the dollar are they worth now2" s'"
 A life insurance company has refused" to pay $10,000 policy because the in- surer committed moral suicide, having procured the policy in reply to a message from friend in the unseen world to the effect that he would certainly die upon certain day and hour-which he did.
 A boy broke into Hartford store. committing 0 burglary, and leaving "Wild Harry tho Modoc chief, is on q tare, "sscrawled on sheet of paper and 3 on the storekeeper's day-book. He is in jail now. His crime seems directly traceable to reading blood-and-thunder stories. ...i-.\ ..... .-.
 A nice question :of taste. Jeweler- "What kind of chain would you like 2" Young Man-"Well, don't know, hard ly. What kind of chain do you think ! | ought to have; that is, what style would T be the most becoming for young man who carries groceries to some of the best families in town9" ..,
 The London Telegraph thus compli- ments intelligent Englishmen If a body of one hundred Englishmen, pos- ' sessed of ordinary intelligence and education, were to be selected at hap hazard, we risk little in saying that not five of the number would be able to state of-hand how many States there are in the American Union.
 Mention is made ill the FdncSer's Gazette, London, of numerous instances where the crops of poultry were opened and cleaned without injury to the birds. Once in Scotland one of several, ducks swallowed thimble dropped by "kilt- builder, "whereupon, not knowing which duck had it, he caught the one nearest at hand, cut and turned it's crop out; it F wasn't there, and he sewed it up; thenllg he caught another, and secured his prop T erty, after which the surgeon and sub- jects went about their business as though nothing unusual had happened.