Connecticut western news., 1876-09-22
Items of Interest.

Items of Interest.
 Flooting and pleteing done" is an Eighth ave. (New York; sign.
 Last year the sum of e343,257 was raised in London by the dog tax.
 "Be content with what you have," as the rat said to tue trap when he left his tail in it.
 "Mrs. Robert c. Mason, of Gilbert vile. has presented her husband with @ third pair of twins I" She is brick Mason.
 Listz recently played one of his own compositions for an American musician named Boise, and Boise's criticism is: He played it in a way calculated to make ones hair defy hair oil"
 There is growing conviction in the minds of smokers that @ vest pocket should be made deep enough to entirely hide a cigar from the scrutiniziug gaze of the man that never has any.
 A Kentucky farmer says that his old SOW is in the habis of chewing of grape vines that grow upon convenient trees, and, with the tree end in her. mouth, swinging over the fence into cornfeld.
 A granite block weighing thirty tons was recently taken from the quarries near HalIowell, Me. Another block weighing forty tons issoon to be brought out. twill require forty oxen to move it.
 An eminent New York physician at- tributes much of thc prevalence of diphtheria to the common practice of turning down the wicks of kerosene oil lamps until they emit a strong smell of oil.
 One person of every 259 in Cincinnati dies by suicide. Sixty-two per cent. of the self-murderers are German. The proportion of the sexes is five men to one woman, and the mostpopular method is hanging.
 Fevers have been engendered at Mon- treal by burning collins which were ex- humed from the old burying ground at the new canal basin. The bodies in- tered in the coffins were those who died in 1S47 of the ship fever.
 A man in Buffalo pulled off his coat and jumped in the canal to save woman from drowning, when D pickpoclket stole his pocketbook from the coat, and the woman swore at him for pulling her hair in his efforts to save her life. .
 The Oldtown Indians, who live near Bangor, Me-, have law requiring every body to be at home by nine o'clock in the evening. One of the Indians was caught out at ten o'c.ock the other night and sent to jail for thirty q dys.
 The English press is greatly interested in the shipment of beef packed in ice chests from New York to Liverpool. If the experiment. succeeds, American beef can be placed il the English market at price twenty-five per cent. below the current rate.
 When 8 common school teacher in the West found upon lis examination pa- pers the question How does ship at sea find it latitude and longitude ?" he arose to the occasion and promptly wrote "It finds it's longitude hot and it's latitude kold." n,T..
 Up in Rutland, Vt., man has just had piece of window glass more than two inches long taken from his leg, where it had been for e'ehteen years. It may truly be said t',ot during that entire period he has never been abso- lutely free from pane.
 A little boy, six years old, and little girl, eight, were looking at the clouds one beautiful summer evening, watch ing their fantastic shapes, when the boy exclaimed : |" Oh, Minnie, I see dog in the sky 1" "Wel, Willie," replied the sister, |" it must be sky terrier"
 Carrier pigeons have been put to an ingenious use by physician on the Isle of Wight. After visiting his patients in each village, the doctor writes out his prescriptions, affixes one to the leg of Q pigeon, and sends the bird home. Thus the prescriptions are made up at once, and the medicines are dispatched speedl- ly to those living at distance.
 A lawyer was out sailing at Yarmouth few days since, and as the boat went bowling along he enthusiastically ex- claimed "This is worth dollar a minute |" About fifteen dollars worth later this same gentleman was bending over the taffrail, faint and limp, casting his bread upon the waters, and declaring that he would never go out sailing again.
 A tailor and his son were in the olden days doing days work at farmhouse. The prudent housewife, to secure a good days work, lighted candles when daylight begun to fade. The tailor OOA found them that invented workin' by caunlelicht." "Ay," replied the young snip, Cor daylicht either, father."
 John Anderson, the first man who as- cended the great South Dome ill the Yosemite valley, California, lives alone in small house near the saddle of the dome. He is hard at work constructing staircase of thousand steps up tue dome. He hopes to have an elevator running Ill time, and is also working on model of a steam car that shall carry passengers up the almost perpendicular walls.
 Patient to his doctor" And 1t is req ly true that shall recover? ?" !" In fallibly," answers tho man of medicine, taking from his pocket paper full of figures. "Herc, look at the statistics of your case; you will find that one per cent. of those attacked by your malady are cured" "Well," says the sick man, in an unsatisfed manner. "Well, you are the hundredth person with this disease that have had under my care, and the first ninety nine are all dead.