Connecticut western news., 1876-01-07
Items of IntereSt4

The richest man in Vermont only counts up trife over $100,0o
 Gray fur is very popular trimming this season for dresses and cloaks.
 Nearly all the coal mines in Wyoming Territory are worked by Chinameu.
 MT. Moody says that "the devil goes to church more regularly than any body"
 Three Michigan editors have left their offices for the pulpit during the last year. ..i
 In 1874 in the cemeteries near New York 2S,668 people were buried. In 1873 the number was 29, 107.
 The strike of the Sydney (N. S.) coal miners is ever, and the men have re- turned to work at the reduced wages. The recorder at Montreal sentenced four of the rioters at the city hall to six months Imprisonment each at hard labor.
 New York city authorities are trying to break up the lottery business by arrest ing all the small ones and letting the big ones go. .. .ae
 The base ball mania is prevalent in Southern Kentucky, and the Nelson
  make up the nines."
 In May, if he lives till that time, Pic Mono will celebrate the fiftieth anniver- of his consecration as bishop in the church of which he is now the head.
 A wearied young lady hastened the departure of tedious caller by remark ing, as she looked out of the window: "I think we are going to have & beauti- full sunrise"
 The British court of common pleas decides that a person formerly a proctor's clerk, now living mainly un an allowance from his mother, legally may describe himself as gentleman" .z'E5 AiD
 A hunter of Brainerd, Minn., while out in the woods recently, discharged his gun to clear out the barrel, and un- known to him fine buck happened to be in range and was shot through the heart.
 Young ladies who are accustomed to read the newspapers are always ob- served to possess winning ways, most amiable dispositions, invariably making good wives, and always select good hus- bands. ..... When French army officer is con- victed of felony his epaulettes are torn of, his sword is broken, and private steps from the ranks and kicks him. After that the civil authorities take care of him: -aa a...a ..as. The way they built church at Olaren- don, in Canada, was that the gentlemen paid for the building, the young men for the painting and furnishing, the ladies for the carpets, and the young ladies for the lamps.
 The Vienna academy of sciences, says La Nature, is occupied with a question which concerns the entire world-the decrease of the quantity of water in springs, rivers, and watercourses, which is now taking place to hh an extra ordinary extent.
 "And canst thou always love thus, Alfred," she murmured. "even when age has crept upon me and left his traces [" There was pause on his part, but twas only monenty, when he re- piled, in tone of doep remonstrance, "Can duck swim 2" ...a aeHhEr..v
 A Western journalist, whose wife has just presented him with twins, and who, for this reason, was compelled to neglect his paper for one day, wrote. the day after, the following excuse:. We were unable to issue our paper yesterday in consequence of the arrival of two extra males.
 Tutor" What can you say of the second law of thought" Student--"It cannot both be and not be. For ex- ample, tho door over there must be either shut or open. It can't be both shut and open. Tutor" Give another illustration" Student-"We take the case of another door," .. .a L