Connecticut western news., 1876-09-01
Items of Interest.


 Upward of 5000 newspapers are read by the people of the United States.
 Charlotte, Mich, claims 10 be the healthiest place on earth. There hasn't been death in that town in fourteen years. @ ..4 VI. --.
 "Ma, dear" said an intelligent pet, "what do they play the organ so loud for when church is overG Is it to wake us up9" .....
 The family tree of Texas family shows branch on which several mem bers have been nung for borrowing horses.
 The only way farmer can get little even with a city visitor is to borrow his silk umbrella to wear while he is getting the COWS. v-...
 A young poet of the realistic school writes "Time marches on with the slow, measured tread of man working by the day"
 They had a bread famine at San Fran cisco on the fifth of July, owing to the patriotism of the iourneymen bakers, who refused to bake on the centennial fourth. ..- .. .... T.
 Rice culture in Louisiana employs 30, GOO people on l, 200 plantations; pro- duces crop worth $3,000, 900, and de- velops business to the extent of $10,- 000,O
 In 1792 the first canals of the United States were built in Massachusetts. These were short ones on the Connecti- cut river, one being two miles long and the other three. .... .... ..
 The old mania for Persian cats with long tails has again broken out among the Daimios of Japan. An enterprising captain of a merchant vessel sold three Q short time ago for $3, 200. " ' .-
 A novel method of electioneering was adopted by couple of residents of Monroe, Mich, who have agreed to run foot race, the loser to vote for the others candidate for the Presidency.
 The Chinese question on the Pacific coast has assumed a more serious aspect since it has been discovered that immi- grafton from China has been the means of intoducing leprosy into California.
 The Corpus Christi CTexas) Times has been studying human nature. It says:
 To owe, IS human, "...
 To pay up, divine. r.
 Kansas is bound to complain. Last year she sent out grasshopper mission aries begging for bread. This year she says there are not men enough in the State to harvest the enormous crop of grain.
 It is calculated that tho whole popula- tion of Maine could stand on an area of twenty-two acres, or an area of l,OOO square feet, giving to each man, woman and child space of one footby eighteen inches.
 According to recent letters from Bull garia, the Turkish troops have butchered not less than twelve thousand people within the last few weeks, and burned scores of towns. Women and children have suffered tearfully.
 It may be of interest to the top of your head to know that the Sioux scalp song runs as follows:
 Hoo. hoo, hoo hi vi!
 H;-yah, hi-yah, hi,yi
 Hoo, hoo hi-yah, hi-yil
 Thackeray said: "I can't help tell ing the truth as I view it." In which he was not whit more virtuous than the rest of us the only trouble is that in this enlightened age we can view the truth in any light and shape that we want to.
 A Bremen paper insists upon it that live potato bug has been captured at that port lately, having worked its way over to Europe in some empty corn sacks. The police got possession of 1t and placed it for exhibition under closed glass.
 A post 2nortenl examination in Pitts burgh, Pa., the other day, after mys- terious death, revealed forty-two stones in the liver of the subject. They varied from an inch to an eighth of an inch in diameter, and doctors pronounce the case unparalleled.
 A very daring Kentucky girl lately rode her horse close up to tue edge of d yawning chasm and proudly defied any gentleman of the party to follow her ex- ample. Not soul stirred except one youth, who boldly backed his horse into the same position, and standing on his head in the saddle dared her to do the same.
 A butcher of some eminence was in company with several ladies at game of whist, where, having lost two or three rubbers, one of the ladies addressing him asked :" Pray, sir, what are the stakes now2" To which, ever mindful of his occupation. he replied " Madam, the best trump cannot sell lower than ten pence ha'penny pound"
 General William H. F. Lee, eldest son of General Robert E, Lee, turned his sword into pruning hook after the war, and is now one of the most substan- tial farmers in Fairfax county, Va. A local paper describes him as having " just passed our office, sitting behind Q fine pair of mules that seemed to know that a master hand held the ribbons"