Connecticut western news., 1876-01-21
Items of Interest.

The people of western Georgia are still immigrating to Texas in large num- bers.
 A trust company is a concern which trusts the money of one man in the hands of another.
 It requires less philosophy to take things as they come than it does to part with them as they go.
 eff there is anything which will IT ake my mouth water," said an old topper, "I don't want to see it"
 Mrs. One Who Holds-the- Lodge Pole With Hands was before Dakota grand jury as witness the other day.
 A schoolmaster said: "I am like @ hone-I sharpen a number of blades, but wear myself out in doing it"
 An Indianapolis witness testified the other day that he kept a fire burning in his stove all night to save matches.
 A girl of San Luis, Mexico, struggled with burglar and assaulter for three hours, at the end of which time she killed him.
 The lady who fell back on her dignity came near breaking it; and the man who couldn't stand 1t has taken a sent, and is now quite comfortable.
 Mayor Fulton, of Galveston, Texas, writes to Mayor Cobb, of Boston, that the sufferers from the Texas floods than all the other cities of the country com bined.
 A nice point for casuists has just been raised iu Montreal. Two mon were quarreling on St Francis Xavier street, and A knocked B down, whereupon a horse, alarmed at the struggle, kicked B on the head and killed him. What is A guilty off
 A simple looking country lad, to whose lot fell the leading questions in the catechism, What is your namef" re- piled: "Carrots '" "Who gave you that name9" "All the boys in the parish, sir," whiningly replied the red haired urchin.
 "Charles," said young wife to her husband. as they sat at the window watching the fashionables on their, way to church, "when you die and | get hold of theiusurance money l intend to have fur cape and huff just like that lady has on ovor there"
 In Germany thore is popular hostility to Americans because the latter are sup posed to have favored Fra co in the late war, and because American travellers make hotel living dear. Tho German government and it's newspapers, how ever, try to cultivate friendly relations with us.
 To all whom it may concern. A phi losopher says: never yet heard man or woman much abused that was not inclined to think the better of them, and transfer any suspicion or dislike to the person who appeared to take delight in pointing out the defects of Q fellow creature.
 An enthusiastic young produce dealer, few evenings ago, in serenade to his inamorata thus recorded his high resolves: "Ill chase the antelope over the plain, and the wild spring chicken I'll bind with chain; and the caulifower, so fierce and neat, I'll give thee for nosegay sweet"
 It is over six years since the terrible disaster at the Avondale coal mines in Penn Ylvania, which resulted in death of no men by suffocation. The sum of $155, 146. fl was subscribed throughout the country as relief fund for the families of the victims, and this sum was increased to STA, 222 by interest. The fund has just been exhausted.
 The Baltimore dealers in terrapins keep them in nearly air-tight chests, packed layer upon layer, and deprive them of food. They grow fat under this treatment, although tho fatness doubtless is the result of disease. They must each measure seven inches across the under shell before they are con- sidered fit for the table, and arc then sold at SPA dozen.
 According to recent calculation, Lowell, in Massachusetts, now manufac- lures forty miles of cloth per hour, and fifty pairs of hose per minute The beginning of this enormous business dates back to 1913, when the first at tempt was made in America to manu" facture cotton by machinery. In that year Major. Josiah Fletcher erected wooden factory in that place. He came back to his mother looking very forlornly, with big rod swelling under his left eye, and four or five handfuls of torn shirt boiling over his brooches band. "Why, where on earth have you been9" she asked. "Me and Johrny's been playin'. He played he was pirate, and played I was duke. Then he put on airs and got mad, and - "Yes, yes," interrupted his mother, her eye flashing, "and you didn't hinchS" "No'm. but the pirate ,icked"