Connecticut western news., 1875-11-19
Items of Interest.


 Items of Interest.
 Men who swear in their sleep should not sleep in church. ... The olive crop in southern Europe is short, and oil is held at higher prices. Oregon has a new town called Pay Up. It is said to good place for settlement. A girl being accused of trifing with her lovers feelings replied: "I plead iilty."
 The apple crop has been so large in England that cider sells for penny a quart at country inns.
 A modern essayist defines gossip to be the "putting of two and two together and making five of them"
 An old farmer in Iowa has an odd way of protecting his daughters. He rubs their teeth with an onion.
 When the preacher quotes: " Be not wise in your own conceit," he closes for many the only door to wisdom.
 A Chicago girl worth $s, ,000, 900 is out doing house work in order to know how to govern her own mansion when she | gets one.
 F. O., a candid man, advertises as fol- lows in a Chicago paper want wife that has got the stamps looks and age no object.
 Governor Dingley is constantly re- ceiving letters from Maine farmers who have gone West and want help to get back again. ........
 "What is the chief product of Africa ?" inquired teacher of boy. "Sources of the Nile and big explorers" was the triumphant reply. A man who has travelled says that it didn't take him long to find out that the brakemen own all the railroads and the clerks all the hotels. .-.l The past summer has been noted by meteorologists as being cooler by five degrees than the average seasonfor more than eighty years past.
 An itemizer, puffing certain style of paper collar, says that its peculiar finish " makes it thoroughly respiration proof. !" It must be regular choker. .m.s
 "Mike, have you settled that affair with Lews yet 2" Yes, he kicked me off the stoop last week, and since thnt he has stopped bothering me-"
 A doctor at Montreal has sued hisland- lord for $20, 900 damages for ill health, caused, he alleges, by the unhealthiness of the house in which he resides. . Look out for swindlers operating in the rural districts, making contracts for {" fire-proof roofing pitch, and getting promissory notes for the same.
 During the great Texas cyclone, Sep tember IA IS, there was not single An af sorhk, r. bance of telegraph wires experienced. When your blood is warm and your temper hot, Don't fly" just then, you had better not; Reflect for 8 moment, count one, two, three, Then count it it again and see how you'll be- Keep cool
 Sewing has been taught in the public schools of Boston for twenty-three years, and it is now discovered that 1t IS illegal to expend public money for that pur- pose.
 Shoe dealer-"I find we have no number twelve shoes, sir; but here is @ pair of large nines." Customel- "Nines 1 Do you take me for Cinde- relleri" r-f
 They killed so many fatted calves and heeves at the late funeral of the Khe- dives daughter that the butchers of Alexandria have since raised the price | of meat.
 "I don't say that the eggs you sold me the other day were bad, said man the other day to his grocer, but l think the hen that laid them must have been pretty sick" .... .ra-r Two hundred and sixty-three years ago Sir Henry Walton said in 8 letter to | a friend: An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of the commonwealth.
 It was weakness of MT. Ami Jackson to take drop too much, and his habitual soliloquy when fuddled was: "Am l Ami, or am I not Ami2 If l am not Ami, who in thunder am I2"
 Thomas Owens, who must have been very hungry, recently paid $7.25 for one bowl of cRcwder, five eggs, and five sau- sages. He stole them from saloon in Palmer, Mass, and the court fixed the price. .aa
 At Ashland, Oregon, George Miller has been exhibiting a steer nineteen hands high, twenty feet from tip to tip, and estimated to weigh, with fat, 5,Oet pounds. He is really an elephant of Q steer, and his name 1t is "The Lost River Ranger"
 An intellectual horse of Salem, Mass, who had no foolish pride about his breath, took to eating onions, and is now free from his "epizootic. The horse doctors there had never before heard of such remedy, but it proved efectual all the same.
 A correspondent of the Bridgeport Standard feelingly says : The year is fading and no mistake, and yet, as 1t fades, there is beauty in it all that IS thoroughly pleasing and enjoyable. Whats better than pumpkin pies, spare ribs, Bartlett pears and buckwheat pan cakes Let Ter fade if she wants to. Let Ter fade
 According to "The Wreck Register and Chart for 1S73-4," justissued by the British Royal Life-boat Institution, it appears that there were 506 lives lost fne,n wrecks, casualties, and collisions on or near the coasts of the United King dom. The fleet of the association, con- sisting of 250 lifeboats, saved 713 lives from various shipwrecks. - l Thn Do~nSc nnrcnhoIA