Connecticut western news., 1875-06-11
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To be long liver in the world, one must show deal of pluck. ,-
 Seth Green says fish can't hear, but we've seen lots of fish here i'll this town.
 An advertisement is silent agent, but it is an unremitting, untiring, everlast- ing, never-take-no for -all answer appeal.
 Nothing adds so much to the safety of hen-roosts and corneribs as to hang some one about twice per week, says a. Georgia paper.
 The whale tribe, which became nearly extinct before the coal oil harvest now begin to blow and blubber with renewed vigor. q t., ,sou.
 A New Hampshire woman committed suicide "to let her husband know how good it was to have funeral and hired 1 girls around" .....
 One can get a piece of bologna three feet long in Hamburg for four cents, and yet Germans will immigrate to this stingy country. e v '' l'@
 It is fashionable for St. Louis men to wear small pillows across their chests, to make the shirt bosoms swell out like schooner's topsail,
 A Jersey City merchant puts acid on the boxes around his store door, and it's painful to see young men walk off and try tolsmile & smile. 1al8 N.s>
 A letter-carrier might swear by the horn spoon that he hadn't read your postal card, and yet you'd have an in- ward feeling of distrust. nr -fsn
 If you want to teach school in San Francisco you have to buy hats for the board of education, parasols for their wives, and fee three or four aldermen. 7o The editor of recently demised Leavenwerth paper says in his last edi torials: "We went into the business de- termined to run it or bust. We busted"
 It's mighty mean trick for Q New Yorker to get g newly arrived Swede to turn an ice cream freezer for, an hour under the impression that there's music in it. ,..,'..,-.o,-,,-s
 Latin and Greek are all right, said Delaware farmer as he halted his team, "but gimme a man who can plowaround an apple tree thout touching the roots. ''
 Agassiz used to contend that he could see beauty in a cobble-stone, but he'd have got over that if one of the boys had dropped "donick" on his head some night. yrrf e9seutn9 8dT The, Council Bluffs Nonparett is au- therity for the, statement that the grass hoppers, out West are in the, habit of gathering around tho railway stations te see. who comes to buy seed wheat.
 It was not poetical, but 1t came from the heart when an old lady, standing beside Summers grave the other day, remarkedi "Well, the poor man won't have to help put down any carpets this year. -...,....,..-... o,i. ai .I...s
 Governor Law, of Connecticut, in 1747, wore 0 silk robe woven in his own State, and manufactured from material raised upon New England soil, and three years later his daughter wore the first American silk dress. .., a.6a
 Jefferson said, in contemplation of the end of his official careers: t"I have the consolation, too, of having added noth- ing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands as clean as they are empty" 2 An old man called on portrait painter with view of having his daugh- ter's face transferred to canvas, but when told that it would cost him fifty dollars or more, he stood in tho door. and remarked "Do. you take me for Iunat1cE why, l got my Wnole noss barn painted over two coats, last week, for twenty -one dollars !"la8s"t,a ll
 The effects of the famine in Asia Minor are still most distressing. Houses are torn down in order, by sale of the materials, to get pittanoe for bread. Many farmers are without seed wheat for 1875. The statistics of two hundred villages show that population of 70, 900 has decreased nearly one-half in two years The Turkish government is ma king feeble efforts to relieve its subjects.