Connecticut western news., 1877-01-26
Items of Interest.


 The hats which the ladies pull down over their eyes are known as the "What's the matter with you ?"
 The average age of sheep is ten years ; COWS, fifteen hogs, fifteen, and horses, not used as beasts of burden, twenty.
 Said a man to another: "Don't forget the baby give my love to him." Said the other man: "'E ain't i'm, 'e's 'er."
 A London newsboy found a $2, 900 dia- mond which he carried about Ill his pocket for month without knowing its worth.
 The Iron Age says that paper wheels have run over 300, ,000 miles and promis 8 to last one or two thousand more with out n new set of tires.
 Citizens of Fort Griffin, Texas, cap- tured eleven men who were trying to run off twenty-seven head of stolen horses, and hanged them all in the woods.
 Many do with opportunities as children do at the seashore-fiH their little hands with sand and then let the grains fall through their fingers till they are gone.
 Some physicians now claim that the general prevalence of diphtheria is due in q great degree to the gas which is thrown of from coal stoves ill ill ventila- ted rooms.
 If, as was the case in "a lottery itiga- tion. /" in New York, a stoekholder in lottery fails to get his own share of the money, what are the chances of the ticketholder
 In nearly every city throughout the country the exits of theaters have been | ols 1~r axYo.,,;,nI c.nnn thn Prnn1flxyn disaster, and in most of them alterations have been ordered. ,-.--
 Don't put the point of your lead pencil in your mouth. The frequent practice has resulted in the ruin of health, and in many cases ill paralysis and death
 Besides it is vulgar habit.
 So far this year, not less than 36, 900 head of beef cattle have been driven
 from eastern Oregon and eastern Wash
 ington down toward the Pacific railroad,
 the greater part destined for San Fran
 cisco.
 Johnnie, on being demonstrated with
 for coasting on the sidewalk and making
 it dangerous to pedestrians, said ,: ,'' 'Tis no worse for folks than for the boys;
 they have to walk up with their sleds,
 don't they ?"
 A Philadelphia policeman, convicted of
 murder, Is to have new trial because at
 the time of the deed, in the language of
 the judge, "his reason had been torn up
 by the roots and judgment iostled from
 her throne.
 Many farmers boy goes into some
 city and struggles along until middle
 life, with nothing to show for his labor
 except that he has thoroughly learned that half starved lawyer Is less to be envied than well fed farmer.
 The people often make blunders in their choice they are apt to mistake presence of speech for presence of mind 1;
 they love so to help man rise from the
 ranks that they will spoil good dema-
 gogue to make bad general.
 Colorado, the youngest of the United
 States. contains more than double the number of square miles in New York i; and Texas is more than twice as large as Colorado. The figures are New York, fl, ,OOO square miles Colorado, 1O5, 900 ; Texas, 247, ,000.
 . She wouldn't stand to have Q tooth
 pulled for one million two hundred } thousand dollars, she said, and yet she 3 walked the streets all day in tiny gaiters. 5 two sizes too small for her, and thought 3 nothing of it but then nobody saw the 3 tooth, and several saw the gaiters. , A married woman, now an inmate of 3 a poorhouse in Illinois, has brought l suit against her father and brother, who . are wealthy, to compel them to n oport l her. She was once the belle of h r vii l cinity, and after short time of married 3 life was deserted by her husband. While Dr. James Adams, of the Lon o don hospital, was removing the lower limb at the hip joint from a boy, an alarming collapse occurred, and the pa 5 tient sunk fast. The operator instantly Il had eight ounces of blood injected from , his arm to the boys, and then completed the operation. The boy is doing we'll. 3 About 1,2OO Icelanders have immi- I grated into Manitoba and settled on e Lake Winnipeg at a place which they - call Gimli. The colonial government e has given them land and helped them to t get over. They are very unlucky, how V ever; this winter, numbers of them, es- 2 pecially children, having died of small | pox.
 e Four wars within the last fifteen years t have cost Great Britain upward of Gl6, f 900, 900 sterling. The Persian expedition g cost g9OO,000 The outlay on the Chi e nese war amounted to to, ll4,OUu. sIhe t New Zealand war, which did not extend s beyond the year 1866, was covered by - 9765, ,O0O; and the Abyssinian war entail f ed the expenditure of 9S,0OO,O0O or e e9,000,000.
 e It is a fact worth thinking about that e Africa is three times as densely popula- e ted as America. The estimated number s of inhabitants in Africa on about eleven
 and half square miles of territory is
 more than twice that in America on about
 fifteen and a half square miles. In
 America the average Is five and hali t people to the square mile, in Africa, 8 seventeen and half. a The number of pilgrims who assembled e last year at Mecca is stated to have been l. 14O, 900. Of these 40, 900 were conveyed Il by sea, and the remainder by caravans across the continent. The whole number IS is below the average of former years, the IS falling off being accounted for by the $ French government having forbidden the IS pilgrimage from Algiers ill oonsequenct l. of the prevalence of cholera in Syria.