Connecticut western news., 1876-03-03
Items of Interest.

There are nearly so,oOO Europeans in Egypt.
 Practiced coastersin Nevada are using sled with but one runner. Two hundred and fifty thousand gal Ions of beer are sold in London daily. There are now more French workmen l in Berlin than there were before the war. A Pittsburgh man has sued dentist for $2, 500 for pulling out the wrong tooth.
 A wife at Xenia, Ohio, offered her husband divorce if he would buy her @ sealskip cloak.
 The Swiss federal council has decided that the civil marriage law does not for bid marriage with 8 deceased wife's sister.
 A Boston journal, in announcing that an actress would play "Nell' in the drama of Nell Gwynne," put an H in the wrong place.
 If you have any friends or relatives in Philadelphia, now is the time to drop them a line, saying you'll be on to see | 'em next summer.
 A great revival has been in progres in Fairfax, Vt. It suddenly collapsed, however, when the minister forbade the boys going home with the girls. "Hard Times-Forty weight Hearts that Beat as .Twenty-four l" That's the way the Lancaster (Pa.) Gazette heads list of two dozen marriage licenses. A report of an Illinois hanging says The sheriff did not wish to conduct the execution, as he was Crain's cousin, but n&a1 k1at ole uIN hang him.
 Some unknown parties placed a piece of poisoned meat in the yard of nearly every dog owner in Fort Valley, Ga., and thirty seven dogs were afterward found dead.
 It is related that two young ladies in Marysville, California, presented their clergyman with turkey stuffed with dollars. His wife will take the stuffing out of that turkey.
 According to the ninth semi-annual report of the Massachusetts Catholic Total Abstinence Union, just issued, there are now seventy-four societies, with 6,S20 members, in the State. A New Bedford woman cheated junk dealer recently by putting about thirty pounds of lead pipe in bag of rags, not knowing that the lead was worth three times the value of the rags.
 "Young man," said the judge, "did you steal that piece of hardware T "No sir," replied the prisoner, "I don't steal hardware. That isn't in my line of business; chickens and coal is my line."
 The Erie car shops at Elmira, N. r., are crowded to their utmost capacity, in turning out passenger cars to meet the extra demand during the centennial year. The men are working nine hours day.
 Don't wax your walnut staircase when you give a party. Too many people | forget the waxing process and come down via the back of their neck and spinal column, and they don't like such whacks as that.
 Turkey has fifteen immense ships of war, which cost nearly $2, GOO, GOO apiece. They lie idle in the Bosphorus all summer, their only use being 60 fire salutes every Friday when the sultan goes to mosque.
 {, Prof. Edward A. Freeman was told when at Ragusa that "every pretty girl is carried off as matter of course" and asserts that 1t was specially toul out
  govinian insurrection. A Frenchman, who has lived in Ameri- ca for some years, says: " When they build railroad, the first thing they do is to break ground. This is done with great ceremony. Then they break the stockholders. This is done without ceremony"
 The North Carolina conference of the Methodist Protestant Church has re- fused to concur in the proposed conven- tion for union between the Methodist Protestant an the Methodist (non- Episcopal churches which were separa- ted by the war.
 The population of Ireland isrset down at 5,412 397, showing 8 falling of of nearly 3, 900, ,OO0 in less than twenty five years. The Roman Catholics have slightly decreased in numbers, and the Episcopalians and Presbyterians slight | ly increased since 1861. | The bill introduced into the Pennsyl- vania Legislature, making 1t penal 1 offense to point 8 gun at person i'll fun is all right; but we would prefer to see a law enacted making the crime of whis- ting in an editors sanctum punishable with death-some pleasant, easy death.
 A young printer having occasion the other day to set up the well known line
 "Slave, I have set my life upon 8 cast!" astonished the proof reader with the fol- lowing version:
 "slave, have set my wife upon 8 caskl'
 An old detective says that if he de- sired to train his son for detective he would first make h1m newspaper re- porter. That beyond any any other business, says this detective, is the business that makes stupid men smart, ordinary men able, and capably men brilliant; and, he adds, that what an experienced reporter cannot detect is not worth detecting.
 The Chinese watch the pearl mussel closely, and when it opens it's shell in sert pieces of wood, hard earth, or little images of their gods. These irritate the fish and cause it to cover the substance with @ pearly deposit. which hardens and forms an artificial pearl. This sort of pearl making is carried on to great extent at Ning-po, and the articles thus obtained are considered very little 1n- ferior in value to the real.