Connecticut western news., 1876-03-24
Items of Interest.

Items of Interest.
 Out of 52, ,465 primary school teachers in Prussia only 3,8S1 are women.
 It is said that more ice Will be housed this winter on the Kennebec than ever before. a '"
 The skin of the common house cat is rapidly rising in favor for pur-pusses of dress fur. .s....... -...a .-s l.gsI .
 It cost Pennsylvania round $l00, 900 to suppress the riots in the coal regions last year. ..t .....,..-,-.s -4-.rrt..e ...
 It is said figures won't lie but the | figures of some women are very decep tive, to say the least.
 The London Times calls the Constitu- tion of United States the "inost sacred document in the whole world. ."a3alfH'1
 A jury in a suicide case lately found the following verdict: !" We. the jury, find that the deceased was fool. sr
 They have new way of putting 1t in Philadelphia John Jones picked poe kets on the cars and will not go to the Centennial.
 When you see strange Italian boy breaking windows, you may know that his father, who Iaends glass, will be along directly. alza1.7 yaY Ii I t
 A hungry man desires situation imam eating house has had some experience, and is willing to work and make things generally useful to himself. ..,-.-,
 Mother" Charlotte, how do you like your new teacher ?" Charlotte" Oh, she's splendid teacher. She don't core whether we know our lessons or not"
 Salutatory of the editor of the Madi- sonville (Ky.) SosahDest: !" Good morn ing. We intend publishing apaper, If you don't like it, you needn't read it"
 Language was given to men and women that they might communicate their wishes and say pleasant things to each other with it, but it has been great ly abused by lying. G 'g'E .8i sa.ts5
 Mrs. Swisshelm hits the mark in let ter to the Chicago Tribune, in which she says: "We need a religion which means sixteen ounces of sugar for 8 pound, and no sand in it.
 The day has gone by when you can chain grasshopper to an astronomers telescope, and make the star gazer be- lieve that he has discovered @ new breed of horses in the moon. -.,.r s'.g fe asaais.
 Miss Fannie Palmer, of San Juan island, was lost on the Pacific. Her body has been found. The waves car ried it 150 miles and cast it up on the beach almost within sight of her parents house. a4# a. -ty 1ii1 5A5."
 An exchange prints specimens of Walt Whitman's forthcoming book on poetry. It is like all his other poetry don trhyme worth cent-unless you would call "purple " and ''smokestack " good rhyme.
 An English newspaper writer describes New Orleans as city of many tongues, and pays itspeople fine compliment by declaring that lady may walk alone by day or night from one end of the city to the other and not be insulted., .,rs.,,,,.
 A bright little three year old in Hart ford having become a little mixed be- tween her religious instruction and her nursery rhymes, gravely recites: "Ihe Lord is my shepherd, and he lost his sheep, and he don't know where to find them" -...t..n .n.. o..r, .ra fs;ty
 In the days of our fathers, when a man suddenly dropped outof the community, they used to drag the neighboring ponds and examine all available hang ing places in the vicinity. Nowadays the first steps are to examine his, bank account. -1 s0'i bee .n=G5aggqE.53
 He was Parisian. They asked him what would be the most horrible thing to him. He said, after long reaec- tion ." It would be to be guillotined without knowing it, and to come to my self all of asuddent and see myself in a glass, headless." !" 1 'na s.eb '..' .ts.!g
 Hardwick, Mass, still retains the an ciept custom of levying direct '' minis ters' tax" The members of the Con- gregational society are regularly assessed on the basis of tie town valuation, and their tax bills are presented and collect ed in due form. #i 9t. aaE..l
 John o. Adams was once asked what he most lamented in his life. He an- . swered: "My impctuous temper and yituperous manner of speech, which pre- vents me from return ing good for evil, and induces me, in the madness of my blood, to say things that afterwards mn ashamed of" "ar e'.a' 2Gif8 4r@,Tas
 To clean and restore the elasticity of cane chair bottoms, turn the chair bottom upward, and with hot water and & sponge wash the cane work well, so that it is well soaked; should it be dirty, use soap; let it dry in the air, sud it will be as tight and firm as new, provided none of the canes are broken. ... S,
 It frequently happens, wrote travel or in the wilds of Buenos Ayres, that the owner of thousand oxen and horses, and five times as many sheep, has not a bed in his house, and is too lazy to take the wool from the sheep's back to spread on the ground beneath him. The skull of an OK serves him for seat, and the horn for a cup, and this is all his house hold furniture.