Connecticut western news., 1876-05-26
Items of Interest.

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 Buckwheat flour will remove grease spots from carpets. A chattel mortgage will do the same thing, and remove the carpet to boot.
 Liverpool is to be supplied with water from Lake Windermere, at an estimated cost of 10,000, 900 for daily supply of 10, ,O00, 900 gallons.
 There is an establishment at Passau on the Danube, where eggs are dried. omelettes and for making pastry.
 A fashion journal says 'swaists are to be longer this year ;" but as long as they are not broader, young men with short arms will manage to get around them. ~
 A shrewd old Yankee said he didn't believe that there was any downright cure for laziness in man ssBut," he added, -"I've known a second wife to hurry it some.s d-ITft9I1'A .A
 A New York doctor says that three bottles of stomach bftters ought to kill the strongest man: If they fail, to do so the consumer may know the bitters are not worth anything. ~.. .'~ '..-.'.'- ..'..g Michigan has got him The man who hasn't written to a newspaper to offer his services as Centennial correspondent lives in Michigan and can be seen for fifty cents per head. ao r, 8.awa 3"Can there be anything brought into ] this House," asked disgusted member, "that will not be repealed, sooner or later 2" One of the opposition sug- gested "a skinned orange" af
 H4xvv ,,. 1oo.kI1 g.., i. cans, two hundred bottles, sixteen old baskets, ten barrels and box full of old boots and shoes ever got into back yard IS more than any one man can cipher out. ...'r l..-.., --.-.
 The price of cattle in Texas is about as follows Yearlings, $4 and $4.50; two-year olds, mixed, $6.50 and $8; COWS, $7 and $9; beeves, $14 and $15. But large herds are often gathered up at figures much lower than these. B..
 A youth of Lafayette, Ark, recently undertook to frighten &. doctor by the name of Westbrook by presenting @ plug of twist tobacco at his head. The doctor, thinking that it was pistol, drew his revolver and shot the boy dead.
 A Franklin Ny.) man lately took a live bee into his mouth along with some honey. He then refected-t Chew bee or not chew bee, that is the question: here his tongue happened to touch the hot end of the aggressive insect, and he decided negatively. ..,'.,..q ,.....,
 Boys in Burlington, Me-, spattered blood on bridge one night and fired pistols, and for the ensuing week the town was excited over these false indi- cations of tragedy. One of the jokers has confessed, and all have been sound by whipped by their parents. .r-...
 Two tramps in Westchester county stopped at the house of lone widow and one went in to beg, Very soon he Ssss GIs bsoT I eye o no'd did dS you nSs sss anything, JackS" "Yes,s growled the the sufferer, "I've got the widows might"
 Here's an argument in favor of cheese. Prof. Peck says that in this country, where cheese is least used, one physi- clan to every five hundred persons is re- quired. In Switzerland and countries where it is most used, only one physician is needed for every ten thousand per sons. a.'.. .Ha g... s.
 At Leipzig there is school reader printed, now in it's eighth stereotyped edition, which describes Niagara falls in one chapter. It says of the cataract that it might be supposed that it was not navigable, but that some Indians do in their canoes venture over the falls in safety. ... ...yz e,.....a a.....
 "You cannot keep me down, shouted a somewhat windy orator at 8 public meeting "though I may be pressed below the waves, I rise again; you will find that come to the surface, gentle men," "Yes," said an old greaser in the audience, "you come to the surface to blow" F.. e. I-af 4a vaT .aqyI
 A certain servant maid was left-hand- ed. Placing the knives and forks upon the dinner table in the same awkward fashion, her master observed that she had placed them all left-handed. "Ah, true indeed, sir, and so [ have-would you be pleased to help me turn the tableP" tr... .......-.--.--.
 A writer urges the use of camels in Fillmore's administration the experi- ment was tried by the War department at cost af $30, 900, brother of Admi- These animals were lost sight of in the war, and it is thought that they found their way into menageries. & au....
 Hens eggs hatch in from nineteen to twenty-one days; turkeys in from twen, ty-six to twenty days; ducks in twenty-elght days; Guinea fowls in twenty-fv to twenty seven days pea fowls in from tWenty-eight to thirty days geese in from thirty to thirty-two days. Fresh eggs will hatch from one or two days sooner than those two or three weeks old. .r.ssss n.r.
 He isn't six years old,g and he said: "Please, sister Sarah, can't I have an other piece of that nice custard pie you made9" "Why, deary, you are too full for utterance now; look at that lus- cious dumpling on your plate not half eaten" {" Oh, we'll, sister, know the dumpling side of my stomach is full, but the custard pie side feels rather empty yet. That other piece of pie is missing" ..' '-'s
 Au English doctor travelling in the East was excessively anxious to increase | his reputation at home by learning cer- tain rative methods of treating disease, of which he had heard wonders. On | one occasion, when on the confines of the great desert, he asked an old shiekh: "What do you do with sick people when they can't sleep9" He received the very practical reply "We set them to watch the ecamels." ..,.. a. 5.et .t....
 The iron prov of the old steamer New Jersey is lying at the Pennsylvania rail road company's yard at Perth Amboy, N. J., and is to be sent to the Centennial exhibition in few days. When she first came from England she was known as the R. Fl. Stevens, but was recharter- ed as the New Jersey. She was the first steam vessel that crossed the. Atlantic,