Connecticut western news., 1875-04-02
Items of Interest.

Troubles are like dogs, the smaller they are the more they trouble. you
 A dressmaker's apprentice spoke of her cross-eyed lover as the fellow who's looks are cut bias. ..,.
 A minister said: was never of any use until I found out that God did not make me for great man. !e -''A -A' x
 Despite acts of Parliament English women and girls of tender years continue to labor in the brick fields like slaves
 It is said Egypt is the home of the fragrant onion. There is this about the onion, you can always tell where it is.
 Whatever else may be doubted, it cer- tainly cannot be gainsaid that the past winter has been a !" big thing on ice.
 Never in the history of the horse, it is said, has the market been so dull or the prices so low as at the present time.
 One good little Boston boy has earned $2. 30 in three months by taking castor oil and rhubarb when his mother wanted him to. ...... at t,., ,.,,,s,,,s,, tsf,
 A Connecticut girl married q ,Chinaman to spite her mother, but after the third thrashing she returned home to spite the Chinaman. r't''''' '"A 't'''
 A Cleveland man puts waste papers into his letters, so as to make them weigh all that will pass for three cents. He does this to revenge on Uncle Sam,
 We are all living too fast. The man who is always in hurry generally has his own work to do over again, besides being liable to trip up and find himself sprawling in the mud. ' o1g'-a ''l-3" Miss D. sends us poem, an exchange says, entitled, afI' Cannot Make Him Smile.p We cannot publish it unless she gives us the name of the young man. All the young men we weArkknnow know " "smile." ,
 Northern Iowa ,amusements-a sam pie, from the Sioux City Jo,tr1adl: That was cold joke the girls at the Depot Hotel played Oh 8 young man the other night. They filed his! pillowslip with snow. ta -+r .ecig7 ia9iboiisr sdi
 A Western paper tells Iao story ofaa subscriber who rode into town, sixteen miles, through frightful storm, to pay his subscription. He was badly frozen, but cared nothing for that, the editors heart was so happy. '3'" !s7Io! oa Hoos
 Said mutual friend to the young wife of an old gentleman: "You would pity your husband if you saw, him tearing his hair. Come, send him one gentle word by me. What, shall Isay to him 9"' ".Teu h;m only to tear out the white ones. ".,n ,..,.
 A negro girl of oglethorpe county Ga, was married when eleven years of age and had a child when she was twelve. At the age of twelve that 6hildy was la mother, making the woman c grand' mother when she was twentyfourb years old, .sgs yisF. .e...sa5.. f .w5llo7 lr'Y
 Enny, bizness that iz lawful iz honor abel, and no bizness, simply, eyer made enny one respecktabel Buty is a woman prerogative, but Nbuty in a man iz the next kalamity to being @ fool The man who kan think kan neverqget lonesum. l,.fGgG. |! s.I.u yqay u9gG ssdisicH
 Senator Andrew Johnson ridicules the idea that he secured his election. by the payment of $1O, 900, and says that since the failure of Jay Cooke X Co.,. by which he lost $70, ,000, he has never had money enough to pay for an election at the usual rates. '" f'4" ia-. 'asboTD
 We learn with great pleasure from the Scientific American that the manufac- ture of porcelain is carried on in this country, and that the ware now produced, in the neighborhood of New York is in many respects equal to the best inn ported. -.'a .1. .s taA ''a-'f o''@
 A Texas editor is trying to keep society straight in his town, and when he sees anything he doesn't like he speaks about it. To one young woman he says: We, suggest to certain young lady. of our village to hold her peace, unless she can talk without trying, or seeming to try, to shake her chignon off when she wags her tongue. It adds no force torhers words, and looks out of place to us. ssu. g
 The statistics of the famine in Persia are truly appalling. In Damghan, "a telegraphic station east of Teheran, only 29O families remain out of 1000, and in Teheran itself two hundred persons died weekly of starvation and typhus. The district of Turbet Hadri lost 20, 900; the district of Selzwas, 24,000; of Nischapur at least 10000; Hamadan lost between 25, 900 and 50,000; and in Kirmansche alone 5O,OO0 perished of hunger. Nes- enid, out of q population of 45,OOO, lost 10000. aa" ,,-'.-l- .. .-, I-l- ---'' .''7''a'4