Connecticut western news., 1876-04-28
Items of Interest.

.. Items of Interest. o, :- Romantic death-A young lady drowned in tears. .a1r ot- .c
 The monotony of life is wearing. Any change is better than an empty pocket. San Francisco has 8 population of nearly 270,000, according to it's latest directory. .. ..,-.. O..
 The latest in the form of parting salutation is "WeI, uf don't see you agin, hello."
 Five thousand butchers in uniform will parade in Philadelphia on the open ing of the Centennial.
 A Mexican girl living at Tuescola has three well developed arms. She can do up her hair without cramming her mouth full of hairpins.
 Two young men were digging grave near Chattanooga, Tenn, and while they were at work in the opening tree blew down and killed them.
 Five thousand workmen in the coal mines of North Derbyshire, England. have struck work in consequence of @ proposed reduction of wages.
 Representative Williams, of Indiana, cured his consumption by driving Q blind yoke of oxen around the farm. His voice is now two miles loud.
 A physician boasted at dinner that he cured his own hams, when one of his guests remarked: "Doctor, I'd sooner be your ham than your patient.
 "Thou Hast Loved Me and Left Me, for twenty-five cents" is the latest Caso of heartless desertion, and may be seen in the window of music publisher.
 San Francisco has adjourned her schools for want of money. The chil- dren now go around throwing stones at heathen Chinese to their hearts con tent. 'ar.4 .1t..t.
 There are 100000 worth of shoe pegs made yearly in the United States, most of them in Massachusetts, re. quiring 100000 cubic feet of white birch. 7 .'..r ." .-.l
 There are said to be in St. Louis county, Mo-, unmarried females who own property worth an aggregate of SIS, ,0OO,O00 Go West young man, go West
 In the English House of Commons the increase of penny on a pound in the income tax was agreed to by a vote of one hundred and thirteen yeas to to fifty-two nays. -.. 'a'a
 We ought to live, says Dr. Hall, five times as long as requires to get our growth. We ought to weigh twenty times as much at thirty-fve as on the day we were born. "".
 If a generous but ugly boy gives his younger brother "60" for stealing one of his apples, and that night the apples give him "sixty 2, how many apples did the younger brother receive 2
 Mother" said Ike Burlington, did you know that the iron horse has but one ear 9' cone ear merciful gracious, child, what do you meant" "Why, the engineer, of course."
 "No man was better inocuIated to prejudge pork than my husband was," says Mrs. Burlington "he knew what good hogs were, he did, for he had been brought up with 'em from his child hood"
 An American started a, bank in Alaska a while ago. but the natives couldn't get checks, drafts, exchange, and discount through their heads, and so they took all the money the banker had and called it square.
 Large orders have been received ill England for steel rails for foreign rail roads, and works which have been closed during several months are about to be put in operation again in conse- quence. ..-t.,-. ..... a..
 T. J. Megibben, of Paris, Ky, has lost the short horn bull Second Duke of Oneida, for which he paid $12,000 at the New York Mills sale. The COW, the Duchess of Oneida, for which he paid $25, ,000, had died previously. 3i1l
 They have brought things to a pretty fine point in the Boston custom house, where 8 coin check for one cent was issued. It is directed to the assistant treasurer of the United States, and bears the signatures of the collector and deputy collector. D sh.t q ,r3as.
 A little neglect may breed great mis- chief for want If nail the shoe was lost for want of shoe the horse was lost and for want horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy; all for want of little care about horseshoe nail.
 A schoolmaster at Exeter, England, punished 8 boy by beating him with a green willow rod, and in some manner happened to destroy one of the little fellows eyes. He was tried on @ crimi- nal indictment, and sentenced to five years penal servitude.
 The children of school age in England and Wales, that is from three to thir- teen, number 5,374, 301, or twenty-three per cent. of the whole population. The amount expended upon primary educa- tion during the last ten years in Eng land, Wales and Scotland is 49, ,918,277.
 Some people seem to be extremely sensitive. At one of the churches in Norwich, according to the Bulletin, one Sunday the minister read the prayer for a person in deep affiiction, and man who had just been married got up and went out. He said he didn't want pub lie sympathy obtruded on him in that way.
 In Burmah if two married persons are tired of each others society, they dis solve partnership in the following touch ing but conclusive manner. They light two candles, and, shutting up tl.eir hut, sit down and wait quietly until they are burned out. The one whose candle burns out first gets up at once and leaves the house (and forever), taking nothing but the clothes he or she may have on at the time all else becomes the prop erty of the other party.