Connecticut western news., 1876-08-25
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in Japanese bathing establishments for women.
 When Turkish woman does wrong she is sewed up ill bag and dropped into the Bosphorus.
 The rector of Mold, Fliutshire, Eng land, has been mulcted i'll $4,000 dam ages for breach of promise to marry his sexton's daughter.
 A man is supposed to be wandering somewhere in Pennsylvania with two live alligators in his possession. He took them from Philadelphia.
 1t is estimated that there is about s10,- 900, GOO in gold coin in circulation in California now, against half thu. amount at the time of the panic.
 Tho coefficient of friction of leathe belts over wooden drums is O.47 of tke pressure, and overturned cast iron pull leys 0. 28 of the pressure.
 The Western dairymen met in con- vention the other day, and the toasts were all darnk in milk. What 8 dis gustipg sight it must have been for a brewer.
 A person who was sent to prison for marrying two wives excuses himself by saying that when he had one shs fought him, but when he got two they fought with each other.
 A Massachusetts clergyman received thirty cents for @ marriage fee tue other day. The groom offered him twenty cents at first, but finally added ten, "though times is hard"
 Wasn' it rough on Ella, just as she was telling Fredrick at lunch how ethereal her appetite was, to have the cook bawl out Say, will ye have yer pork and greens now, or wait till yer feller's gone"
 The high winds in San Francisco blow dust into latent grease spots on cloth ing, and make them visible. Bootblacks carry little bottles of ammonia with which to obliterate the spots, and in that way increase their income.
 Children reduced to almost the last stages of cholera infantum, when they are unable to hold any other food on their stomachs, will greedily take strong beef tea, salted and made palatable- and will often recover on that treat ment.
 A traveller staying over night with Texan farmer, whose estate was miles in extent, said to him "You must have begun life very early to accumulate such all estate as this" 'Yes," replied the farmer, CT began life when I was mere baby"
 A ragged boy was, years ago, cared for by benevolent young man Tn Balt1- more, who has just married. The boy grew Up intelligent, educated, and enter prising. Mark the power of gratitude. A few days ago he eloped with his bene- factors wife.
 A natural curiosity called "Indian We'll" in the town of Huntingdon, Conn.,, is muck visited by picnic parties. This we'll is about twenty feet deep and almost perfectly round, and it has been hollowed out from solid granite by water from brook.
 An artificial chicken hatcher is exhib- tied in Cincinnati. It consists of large glass box, holding four hundred eggs, on wire trays. The temperature IS regu- lated so accurately that it never varies half degree from one hundred. The machine works well.
 Nothing will undermine one's faith i'll the sincerity of friendship more com pletely than to have friend ask you to sstake something" and, after the glasses have been emptied to hear him ex- claim, as he runs his hands deep into his pockets "I've got on my other pants.
 "Kine John was announced for production in a Western theater, and the manager posted the cast in the green room. He noticed one of his actresses examining it closely, after which she turned to him and asked who wrote the piece. He said Shakespeare. "Good- ness p she exclaimed '" has that man written another play9"
 The Chinese woodchoppers who went up in the waterspout at Eurka, New, escaped unharmed. They were en- camped in the bed of the canyon seven of the thirteen got of the range of the flood; five tumbled down into the valley below, and one was washed two miles. Tho miners aver that nothing short ot an earthquake will kill Chinaman.
 "This, dear girl," said wise little lady, tapping with her parasol one Of the big torpedoes in the Centennial Government building, "this is won derful invention for rescuing people. They put them in and close it up, drag gine them ashore through the surf where ordinary boats could not go." Uninquisitive ignorance is the proper frame of mind for the full enjoyment of the Centennial Exhibition.
 A wealthy resident of Holland died in 1891 leaving large estates but no heirs of his own body. The property was ap- propriated by William of Orange. These estates are said to amount to SIG, 900, 900, and have been withheld from the proper heirs, whose descendants have now taken steps to recover the same. Several of these heirs are in this country, one of them being Christian Metzger, 8 stone mason, of Buffalo.
 A gentleman passing Ly tho gaoi of country town heard one of the prison CTS through the grating in his cell sing ing, in the softest and most melodious tone, that favorite song: Home, sweet home." His sympathies being very much excited in favor of the un- fortunate tenant of the dungeon, he ln quired the cause of his incarceration, when, to his disgust, he was informed that the fellow was put in gaol for wife beating.
 East Kingston, R. l., has a modified Enoch Arden case. Charles A. Osgocd went to Canada eleven years ago, leav- ing wife and two children, and, not returning, the wife married again, bore two children and died. O4good ap' peared Sunday and claimed his daugh ter, now fifteen, but paid no attention to the son. The girl refused to leave her stepfather, and, after giving her new clothes and kissing and being kissed, the disconsolate father wandered of again.
 At the Paris conservatory of music is a young man with an almost phenomenal tenor voice. He can sing the highest