Connecticut western news., 1876-09-15
Items of Interest.

Items of Interest.
 Why is a dogs tail like the heart of a tree9 Because it is furthest from the bark.
 Takers should speak the truth because it is good, and not because it is dis agreeable.
 There is a mill at Bingham. Mass, which was built in 1643, and is still in running order.
 A Liverpool lawyer has been com pelled to pay damages for having given bad professional advice.
 Why is a mad bull an animal of con- vivial dispositioni Because he offers horn to every one he meets.
 The mother of Lieut.. Sturgis, who was killed in the Custer battle, has be- come insane from grief. He was her only son.
 The entire coffee crop of the world last year was 900, 900. 900 pounds, of which the United States imported over 300, COG, 900 pounds.
 A lady says it is no worse to encircle lady's waist with your arm in ball room than to kiss your friends sister on YN not half so good.
 According to we'll known physician, cit is dangerous to go into the water after hearty meal" And it would be very 6shy one man would get if he did go in after one.
 Why don't your father take news paperR" said gentleman to @ httlo urchin whom he caught in the act of pilfering one from his doorstep. "'Oause he sends me to take it.
 A Boston servant girl utilized the telegraph wire that passed over the flat roof of the house for a clothes line, and every Monday the b,ys had a deeply scientific argument as to what ailed the chemicals.
 Mrs. Henry Holt, of Nashua, dropped dead in fit while looking at her hus- bands face in the coffin an hour before his funeral. They had been united in marriage nearly half century, and in death were not divided.
 It was not many years ago when all the skates used in the Cnited States came from abroad, chiefly from Ger many. Now, @ Massachusetts, company is filling orders for niclrle plated skates to be sent to Germany.
 The letter carriers of New York re- gently presented to Postmaster James @ petition 5000 feet long, containing the signatures of 50,000 persons, and pro- testing against the reduction of the salaries of the carriers.
 A Yankee counsel, who was defending a man on trial for wife murder, sought for some euphonious and innocent phrase with which to describe his cli-' ent's crime, and finally said: He winnowed her into paradise with fence rail"
 A few days since the poor Empress Charlotte escaped from the Chateau de Lacken, where she is still under care. After finding her it was difficult to make | her return, and she was induced to do so at length by the stratagem of fling ing flowers before her, as she is very fond of flowers.
 Adam and Eve escaped two serious annoyances of modern lovers. In the first place, Eve had no mamma to make iudicious inquiries as to Adams social position and prospects of patrimony, and Adam had no "governor to see that he did not throw himself away on portionless girl.
 John Stuart Mill once said, privately, that there ought to be Q gradation of electoral power, so that the more learned man the greater number of votes he would have. Louis Blanc replied that if MT. Mill could at a public meeting convince 600 ignorant men how they ought to vote, he would thereby cast 600 votes.
 The latest arrangement to insure tho honesty of car conductors is turnstile. The front platform of the car is closed entirely no person is allowed to ride on the back platform, each being com pelled to enter the car through the turn stile, which stands in front of the door way, and registers the number of those passing through.
 Sentencing @ criminal to be hanged 6 Missouri judge recently delivered him. self of this considerato reflection: "If guilty you deserve the fate which awaits you; if innocent it will be qualification to you to feel that you were hanged without such crime on your conscience; in either case you will be delivered from world of care."
 In the Mediterranean and on the coasts of Newfoundland the devil fish has sometimes body length of six or seven feet, with tentacles from twenty to forty feet long, and two years ago one was discovered by some fishermen near Baffin island, Connemara, the arms of whi h measured ten feet and the tentacles thirty feet.
 Suppose, Belle," said 0 poor but honest youth to girl, suppose that young man loved you dearly-very dearly-but was afraid to ask you to marry him-because he was very timid -or felt too-poor-or something what would you think of such casef" "Think 2" answered the girl, immediate ly. "Why, if he was poor should think that he was doing just right in keeping still about it." The question