Connecticut western news., 1876-10-27
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Itelas uf Interest.

People who don't pay their taxes are not allowed to vote in Georgia.
 A good watch, in your wakeful mo- ments, will always be on it's guard against you.
 A noted philosopher being asked by Q friend how he kept from being involved in quarrels, replied: By letting the angry person having it all to himself"
 The chief glory of American liberty is the impartiality with which it guaran- tees to every public man at least one chance to deny that he is burglar or horse thief. @
 The committee of the Will county (Ill.) baby show limited the entries to thirty babies, the chairman declaring that he could not stand the abuse of more than twenty-nine women.
 A remarkable flight of swans, flock fully mile and half long, and mum. bering not less than 10000, was seen to pass over La Sale, along the Illinois river valley, recently. ..-
 This is not from "Daniel Deronda. "She was plump and beautiful, and he was wildly fond of her. She hated him, but, womanlike, strove to catch him" What was he? A flea.
 The salmon product of the Columbia river, Oregon, will this year reach the enormous total of 40,000.000 pounds, and the amount canned for shipment will yield $3, GOO, ,000. ..r
 It was New Jersey wife who said: oMv dear, if you can't really drink bad coffee without abusing me, how is it that you can always drink bad whisky without abusing the barkeepery"
 A bright little girl, having been asked to write sentence introducing the word "carrion," presented the following to her teacher: Bad children often car rion in church, when they ought to be quiet"
 He now thinks it is unsafe to leave plotting paper around the office. His wife found this on piece: a.-..
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 The Amazon river is navigable for 5000 miles by vessels of large size. It has four tributaries, which are united by @ network of natural canals. Two thou sand miles from its mouth its channel has depth of three fathoms, and for 2,6OO miles there occurs no fall to inter fere with the smooth passage of ship ping. ......
 It is apt to shake mans confidence in his wife to awake in the early morn. ing and find her sitting on the edge of the bed going through his pockets. And it is apt to shake a woman's conh- dence in her husband to find nothing in those pockets but lager beer check, a | ,osao, 0R hnlAorv,o a vnrlaEv show ticket, and 8 perfumed note signed "Ever yours, Julia. A realistic reporter of the Philadel- phia Times, describing the crowds at the Exhibition on Pennsylvania day, says "The people moved into the buildings like a fox's tail seen dlsap- bearing through an inch auger hole through which it is drawn by pair ot horses on the other side, and they moved out of the buildings like minced meat out of sausage stuffer. l.-
 Prizes ranging from $1 ,000 to $4O0 for the best five acre plantation of trees have been offered by the Massachusetts society for promoting agriculture. The competition is restricted to poor and wornout land, or that unfit for other agricultural purposes, and the planta- tions must be made during the spring of 1877. The prizes are to be awarded during the summer of 1857.
 A circus that travels in Texas has an uncovered canvas inclosure. At Brack- ett tree overhanging the ring was occU- pied by men and boys, who thus saw the show free of cost. A performers feat included firing a revolver on horse back, and at the first discharge a specta- tor fell dead from the tree. Thereupun the circus men were mcbbed, and escaped by practical use of their skill in horsemanship.
 An Englishman who insulated his bedstead by placing underneath each post broken off bottom of glass bot tle, says that he had not been free from :. rheumatic gout for fifteen years, and that he begun to improve immediately after the application of the insulators. A local paper, quoting this item, wisely adds: "There's many fellow who could cure his gout, if he would break off the bottoms of his glass bottles in time."
 Not one person in 0 dozen can tell the names of those whose busts are to be found on postage stamps. The bust on the one cent stamp represents Franklin; twos, Jackson; threes, Washington; fives, Taylor; sixes, Lincoln; sevens, Stanton; tens, Jefferson; twelves, Clay; fifteens, Webster; twenty -fours, Scott; thirties, Hamilton; nineties, Perry. The seven, twelve and twenty-four cent stamps are not now issued, but many of them are in circulation.
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