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

Items of Interest.
 "Let no single man escape" is tho leap year motto of the ladies. .
 Sunday boots squeak worse than every day ones. So do Sunday Christians.
 Over $18, ,O00, 900 are invested in var ious enterprises of the grangers in the Uuited States.
 Paris proposes to name one of her streets "Feb. 20," in honor of the late Republican victory at the polls.
 A tract of 1000 acres of land on Maple river, Dakota, has been pur- chased by Eastern capitalists for great wheat farm.
 A St. Louis woman says it is no worse to encircle lady's waist with your arm in ballroom than to hug your friends sister on the back stairs. No worse 2 Why, it is not as good
 They tried to get rid of the pastor of an Illinois church by reducing his salary to $200 per year, but he took the motion kindly and replied: Why, I lived through last year on $75 in cash and a bag of meal l" ... -..,...
 The mayor of Fordwich, England, is dead, after an uninterrupted tenure of office for twenty-eight years. It is the rule in the borough, if any person refuses to accept the office of mayor, to pull down his house. ,s-~.. .l...
 The mayor of Fordwich, England, is dead, after an uninterrupted tenure of office for twenty-eigh years. It is the rule in the borough, if any person re- fused to accept the office of mayor, to pull down his house.
 The price of cattle in Texas is about as follows: Yearlings, $4 and $4. 50; COWS, $7 and $9; beeves, $14 and $15. But large herds are often gathered upat figures much lower than these.
 In Anoka, Minn., recently, six-year- old girl was overheard telling her play mate that she had attended church so- ciable the evening before, and thsst lit tie boy had kissed her while they were engaged in play, but she said: ''That's no harm, cause it was our preachers boy, you know"
 An old Scotch laird, at an election ball, had attired himself in splendor for the occasion. The candidate, who was going round, of course, showing civili- ties, said: "I dinna ken ye, B., yon'-e so braw." "Na," said the old squire "and daresay yell no ken me for an- other seven years 1" '.' -.'
 Toxophobia" is that peculiar state of mania which makes 8 person believe that he is being poisoned. The number of persons affected with this curious de- mentia. is much larger than would be supposed. In about sixty cases record ed in an English medical journal, only two were obviously insane in other re- spects. ...
 Thus talks an old farmer about his boys: "From sixteen to twenty they knew more than I did; at twenty five they knew as much; at thirty they were willing to hear what had to say; at thirty-five they asked my advice; and l think when they get to be forty they will acknowledge that the old man does know something"
 The editor of the St. Thomas (Can. ) Tunes says that he found two young fox cubs that he placed under the care of cat, and that not only did the cat adopt them, but the old fox comes to the door every night to leave food for them. One night the fond parent left seventeen chickens that he had contracted for at the residences of neighbors.
 "It does not speak well for the intel ligence of the public," says the London Lancet, "that the stamp duty on patent medicines during last year yielded an increase of 913, ,949 over the produce of the previous year. It is scarcely credi- ble that the passion for consuming un- known quantities of unknown drugs should be so strong as the thriving trade in nostrums indicates"
 "You see, some people has good luck, and some people bad luck. Now, l remember once was walking along the street with Tom Jellicks, and he went down one side of it and l went down the other. We hadn't got more'n half way down when he found pocketbook with $216 in it, and stepped on a woman's dress and got acquainted with my present. wife. It was always so" he said, with 8 siah. "that Tom Jellicks was the lucki- est man in the world, and I never had no luck.
 John Cottrell, of Clark coul.;y, Ill.,, drove his two stepsons, aged tcven and ten years, out into a cold snow storm. They started, scantily clad, for an uncle's residence fifteen miles distant. Tn younger was exhausted when half tia journey had been made, and fell dow Il in the road. The other tried to carry him, but could not and then laid him under the shelter of fence, and trudged on until he came to house where he was taken in. The seven year. old was dead when found.
 During 8 recent performance at a Paris theater, a man and his wife had a quarrel on the stage-the woman in a rage of jealousy, the man trying to pur. } suade her that she was too suspicious and too passionate. Both were acting with great spirit, when the wife moved her arm too near candle, and her mus lin dress was in flames in an instant. Both actors kept their presence of mind, however. The husband extinguished tbe fire, and, proceeding with his part, 7 interpofated; You see, my dear, Twas rig''f, ,ou are ready to flare up for tho least thing" |,