Connecticut western news., 1876-06-23
Items of Interest.

They who weep over errors were not formed for crimes.
 There are 7O,O00 children living on boats in England, who receive no edu- cation.
 President Grant, it is said, expects to make tour of the world at the close of his term of office.
 A Texas man returned napkin to @ hotel waiter with thanks, saying his cold was not very bad.
 Affianced young lovers in Philadelphia are turning the Centennial season to ac- count. No less than seventeen weddings were announced in ohe day.
 "Now, waiter, what's to pay ?" fish," "Only brought up two, sir" "I had three-two trout, and one snleH."
 Edward Dolan, conductor on the Michigan Central railroad, has gone mad with joy on discovering that his wife had unexpectedly inherited a fortune of $250,O
 A resident of Gloucester, Mass, is preparing to cross the Atlantic alone in sloop-rigged boat fifteen feet long, five and half feet wide and two and half feet deep. ..-. a.
 The pigeon shooting match in Lon don between Ira Paine of New York and Captain Patten, the English crack shot, resulted in tie-each killing twenty one out of thirty birds. ..-..
 CT could kill you for two cents" shouted an enraged man to an offending neighbor. It was an ugly threat but it sounded good. It shows that we are getting down to aslte 6eIletna prices.
 A down East editor says The ladies spring hats are pretty, and worn on the upper edge of the left ear, which makes one look arch and piquant, like chicken looking through crack in the fence.
 A little son of Eli Ellerbe, while play ing in yard few days ago in Rock ingham, N. O., was attacked by roos- ter, which pecked the little fellows head so badly that it caused his death.
 A Western paper said Talkabout the wind blowing the grasshoppers away. One of them faced a gale for an hour, and then yanked shingle off house for fan, saying it wds awfully sultry.
 It is not an unusual thing, nowadays, for pedestrians in Kentucky, where meat showers occur, to witness wild eyed men gesticulating slzyward and yelling: "No more corned beef Send down some quail on toast." .... ?. ~.sra..,
 A market, Monday morning, man buying strawberries. Suddenly a thought strikes him, and he says: "I hope these berries were not picked on Sun day g" Market man" No, sir; but they grew on Sunday" a.r,
 Jasper county, Texas, produces an ex- cellent quality of tea. The plant grows unusually large, and it will require but small plot of ground to furnish a family with this expensive and yet al- most necessary article. ~ aa'# 1.'
 "Are you professional drummer" said country merchant to chap who was travelling that section with patent tack hammers for sale. "No. sir, I'm not, i" was the reply. " I'm only 9 ham mer- tour salesman"
 A girl in Pittsfeld having been struck dumb by the firing of cannon, one of the papers of that city declares that number of married have, i'll nconsequence, invited the artillery companies to prac- tice near their premises. eLf aa
 The Long Island railway company put 120 newly imported Chinamen at work relaying therailso of the Rockaway branch. The Celestials live in the cars along the route and receive seventy cents per day, with which they are amply satisfied.
 "John," said fond little wife, en- Enthusiastically, pointing out to her hus- band little shop in fashionable street, "when you die, I'm going to take the life insurance money and buy that little place and set up, as mil liner" ..-,.,
 Miss Linda Gilbert, the New, York prisoner's friend" during the past year received 500 books and $l, ,472.65 for prison libraries from charitable per sons. One hundred and thirty dls- charged prisoners received employment through her agency. f f#s e-~
 Not long ago billiard player in Lon don in lighting his cigar accidentally let his match fall on 0 billiard ball, which at once begun to burn with flame that could not be extinguished. It was ap., parently an ivory ball, but was made ot celluIoid, mixture of gun cotton and camphor, compressed and dried.
 Although the camel haJ the most beau tiful eyes of all quadrupeds, it boasts of ugly teeth and 0 vile temper. Two un- suspecting keepers at the London Crys- tai Palace lately found this out when dromedary suddenly attacked them, and tore the ankle joint of one out of its soc ket, so that the foot had to be amputated.
 A Missouri farmer, arrested unJustly for obtaining money by false pretenses, tried to kill himself in his cell, and his friends, who had already insured his speedy release, induced him to sign promise that he would not repeat the at tempt. After his discharge he wrote out his opinion that the agreement had terminated with his imprisonment, and hanged himself.
 A boy named Fairchild drowned him self near Mazeppa, Minn., through fear of whipping from his father for mls- demeanor at school. When his father was notified that the body had been found, he went to the spot, gazed at the body, seemed greatly agitated, and won't away. Neither he nor any of the family went near it afterward, and the body was buried by the neighbors. The next day he carried a grist of grain to mill, came back by the burying ground just as the body was being inferred, stopped and looked moment, and drove home.