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Connecticut western news., 1877-07-27
French Chickens.

It is probable that few persons out of France are aware of the extent of what may be termed the "poultry-in- -dustry" of that country. According to statistics given by one of the French papers. France supports at the present time no fewer than 4O,OOO,OOO hens, re- presenting, at an estimated average of 3 francs 50 centimes each, 100000, ,OOO francs ($2O,OOO,OOO). These 10000, 900 hens give birth annually to 1OO, ,OOO, 900 chickens, of which it is found expedi- ent to put aside 10000, ,OOO each year for product purposes. Accidents and disease again reduce the number of chickens destined for consumption to 8O,000. 900 which. putting their average value at 1 franc 50 centimes apiece, may be estimated as worth 10000, ,O0O francs 24.OOO,OO0). To these figures must be added the further value due to capons and fat bullets, which may be stated as 6,00O,O francs.
Connecticut western news., 1877-07-27

RGindrOps and HaiLstones. the particles of water or ice which consti- tute a cloud or fog are all of the same sIZe, and the air in which they are sus- tained is at rest or is moving unin- fOrmly in one direction, then these particles can have no mo tion relatively to each other. The weight of the par ticles will cause them to descend through the air with ve,ocities which depend on their diameters, and, since they are all Of one size they will move with the same, velocity. -
 Uuder these circumstances, therefore the particles will not traverse 1tile spaces which separate them, and there can be no aggregation so as to form raindrOps or hailstOnes. .'..........'. '.,...
 If, however, some of the particles of the cloud or fog attain a larger size than others, those will descend faster than the others, and will consequently overtake those Immediately beneath them; with these they may combine so as to form still larger particles, which will move with greater velocity, and, more quickly overtaking the particles in front of them, will add to their size at an increasing rate- 5.E
 Under such circumstances, therefore, the cloud would be converted into rain or hail, according as the particles were water or ice. 8 9 @@ The size of the drops from such a cloud would depend simply on the quantity of water suspended in the space swept through by the drop in it's descent, that is to say, on the density and thickness of the cloud below the point from which the drops started. This is the actual way in which rain drops and hailstones are formed.
Connecticut western news., 1877-07-27
A Lion Story.

Sometime ago, in Tunis, Sicilian of Rinaldo's circus excited general admi
 ration by his manly beauty and feats of strength. He was in the habit of overcoming lion during the perfor- nance, which, however, was trained to succumb. The bey of Tunis, hearing of this, sent him an offer of thousand ducats if he would kill a lion which he possessed. The proposalw was accepted, and on the day appSinted, the bey and alarge company gathered round the pit where the lion was kept. The beast had been there t hree days without food, as fund various. The iron door of the pit opened, but instead of the athlete, trembling dog was thrown forward, which tin1idly took refuge in a corn CT. The lion, who was at dis tance, turned in surprise at the hum ble intruder. His tail ceased to lash his side, his roars ceased, and he sat with paws extended, contemplating his victim. Propelling himself forward upon his belly, he finally made spring. The dog, however, who had watched him with vigilent eye, sprang in the opposite direction. The lion seemed astonished at missing his prey, but after rolling over few times made another jump, which was also avoided. Pity for the dog induced the 'bey to order cord to be lowered for him, and while the lion was gyrating prepara- tory to renewed spring the dog intel- seized the cord with his teeth and was drawn up. As he ascended, the lion sprang again, but was too late. At this moment the Sicilian appeared, calm and fearless. He was in a rich circus costume, and carried a heavy mace. He took his position in the same corner previously occupied by the dog. At first the lion did not per ceive him, but, on turning, his eye ex- pressed a vague inquietude. He slow ly withdrew a few steps, watching his enemy with a furtive and sidelong glance. The Sicilian, on the contrary, looked straight in his eye and watched every movement. The lion evidently had misgivings, but, impelled by hun ger, sprang upon the man with terri ble roar. The Sicilian slipped aside with agility, and, before the paws of the lion touched the ground, violent blow from the mace on the head laid him. insensible, The mace was raised for the death blow, when the bey in- terposed. He offered the man another thousand for the life of the beast. It was accepted and the lion was allowed to recover. t
Connecticut western news., 1877-07-27

Artistic Dentastry.-Dr. j. Allen, a well known dentist of this city, has re- gently shown us some very fine results of his process of enameling plates for artificial teeth, on which he has expert mented the past thirty years. The plates are of platinum, and the enamel is so artistically and continuously ap- piled that every characteristic of color and form of the natural parts IS accu- rately reproduced. At the same time, by carefully disposing the teeth in their support and by the addition of Ingenious arrangements for sustaining the muscles, Dr. Allen has succeeded in restoring to the face the natural ex- pressiOn and fitness, usually lost by the change of the features caused by the absence of teeth. The artificial sett exhibited to us deserve high rank as a product of art; and the process has already won the commendation of the dental profession as we'll as awards as the three last International Exposi- tions. EE
Connecticut western news., 1877-07-27
Never Knock Under.

No, never! Always rally your forces for another and more desperate assault upon diversity. If calumny assails you, and the world-as it is apt to do in such cases-takes part with your tra- ducers, don't turn moody and misan- thropic, or worse still, seek to drown your unhappiness in dissipation. Bide your time. Disprove the islander if you can; if not, live it down. If poverty comes upon you like a thief at night, what then2 Let it rouse you as the presence of the real thief would do, to energetic action. No matter how deep- ly you may have got into hot water always provided you did not help the father of lies to heat it-your case, if you are of the right kind of stuff, is not desperate. nor is it in accord with the divine order and sweep of things that life would have no difficulties which an honest, determined man with heav- ems help, cannot surmount.
Connecticut western news., 1877-07-27
TOuriSts' DiSenchanfme

The Christian Weekly touches upon the timely topic of "Tourists' Disen- chantments.' It's words certainly ac- cord with the experience of many trav- ellers:
 We all start with preconceivel notions concerning the many objects of interest to be seen abroad. Most of them are incorrect, however. And finding this out is rather rough, some times, to ones vanity. But it is better to be right, certainly than to be wrong. Westminster Abbey is wonderful in stereoscope, but it is inexpressibly worn and dirty inside. Swiss moun- tains are beautiful; but you cannot sleep below the second story of the pie turesque cottages without the risk of a fever. The Alpine passes are surpass- ingly sublime; but there the beggars are what beggars description.
 Paris is the most exquisitely built city ill the world; but they peddle poor water there at so much a pint. The dress of the Italian peasantry has all
 
 represent, and then in addition for lornness and filth that do not appear in the pictures. The battlefield of Joshua seen from Upper Bethoron is one of the finest landscapes on the globe; but the old shiekh's house, from the roof of which you behold it, reeks with odors more than unspeakable. The Coliseum is splendid old ruin; but all the moss covered stones are full of green lizards, and the patches of green are fairly alive with various vermin. Even Mount Olivet, so bright with reverent Illusions at the home distance, is discovered to be hot overhead, desolate underfoot and verdurelesse everywhere.
 Thus almost all one's cherished con- captions are rudely shocked when he reaches the fact. Tn very discomforts of journeying render him querulous. There is needed certain fixed power and rigorous exercise of abstraction all the time when viewing the scenes, so as to discriminate between what is histor- ically sublime and what is actually dis e6ANOooASs " AO4ulASS Guo CdtIuluS, sitting process of after-retlection to reach fitting conclusions that are valu- able.
 Most travellers are really disappointed with the first sight of almost all things they went forth to see. They were smaller, narrower, lower, than tn ey imagined; they were rougher, ruder, dirtier than they supposed. All the glamour they had been wont to fling around given scene or object vanished when they at last stood before it. But afterward-an hour or day, or week or year-afterwards, out came that old ideal again, but this time finer than before-because truer and more real. Then the new vision passes into mem- ory worthier and more beautiful.
Connecticut western news., 1877-07-27
How to be Handsome

Most people would like to be hand some. Nobody denies the great power which any person may have who has a handsome face and attracts you by good looks,. even before a word has been spoken. And we see all sorts of 2 devices in men and women to improve their looks. -.z- ',
 Now, all cannot have good features they are as God made them-but almost anyone can look we'll, especially with good health. It is hard to give rules in very short space, but in brief g these will dO:s =n. -a., ia ..-l. ...
 Keep clean-wash. freely. All the skin wants is leave to act freely, and it takes care of itself It's thousands of air holes must not be closed. 4 .*
 Eat regularly, and sleep enough-not too much. The stomach can no more work all the time, night and day, than horse. It must have regular work and rest. @ =-i--.
 Good teeth are help to good looks. Brush them with soft brush, especially at night. Go to bed with cleansed teeth. Of course, to have white teeth 1t is needful to let tobacco alone. All women know that. Washes for the teeth should be very simple. Acid may whlten the teeth, but it takes off the enamel and injures them.
 Sleep in cool room, in pure air. No one can have a cleanly skin who breathes bad air. But more than all in order to look well, wake up mind and soul.
 When the mind IS awake the dull sleepy look passes away from the eyes. do not know that the brain expands, but it seems so. Think, and read, not trashy novels, but books and papers that have something in them. Talk with people who know something hear lectures and learn by them.
 2 Men say they cannot afford books and sometimes do not even pay for a newspaper. In that case it does them little good, they feel so mean while reading them. But men can afford what they really choose. If all the money spent in self-indulgence, in hurtful indulgence, was spent in books or papers for self-improvement, we should see change. Men would grow handsome, and women too. The soul would shine out through the eyes. We were not meant to be mere animals. Let us have books and read them, and sermons and heed them.
Connecticut western news., 1877-07-27
Habits.

Like flakes of snow that fall unper- ceived upon the earth, the seemingly unimportant events of life succeed one another. As the snow gathers together so are our habits formed. No single flake that is added to the pile produces a sensible change; no single action ere ates, however it may exhibit, a mans character; but as the tempest hurls the avalanche down the mountains, and overwhelms the inhabitant and his hab- itation, so passing events, acting upon the elements of mischief, which perni- cious habits have brought together by accumulation, may over throw the edifice of truth and virtue.
Connecticut western news., 1877-07-27
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 Size of a Japan Quince.

This is known as shrub plant of floral beauty, and elegant hedges are grown from it. In rich soils, however, by itself and left untrimmed, it will, in 8 few years, become g. broad spreading feature of beauty, twelve feet high and twenty or more feet broad, with thous- ands of flowers. The old scarlet variety may be planted, and.two years there- after grafted on it's various branches with other. varieties, of colors from pure white to deep blood red, and form, in few years, gem of transcendent
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Connecticut western news., 1877-07-27
Blue Sleep.

The sleep of perfect rest is dreamless "a kind of sleep not procured by laud- anum, chloral, or any other drug. Re- member this, young people, at the be- ginning of your lives. Do healthy work enough to weary you, and you will sleep healthy sleep, and be doubly sure of good old age. The Neeo York Times remarks:
 One of the pleasantest of the. quaint fancies that Sir Arthur Helps scattered freely through Realmah was that of buying sleep. In that strange country where ''tired natures sweet restorer'' could be bought, there were three grades of it, of corresponding prices, of which the costliest was of a pale-blue color. This plunged, or rather sank, the happy buyer into profound and dreamless sleep; whereas the cheapest kinds only procured the lighter form of rest and forgetfulness which we call slumber.
 Like almost all of Helps fancies this shows an intimate and sympathetic knowledge of the everyday need and cravings of civilized human nature. Strange as it seems. sleep is the great est need of man, next to air. He can live on very little food and drink, but any continuous reduction of his hours of sleep, even in moderate proportion, results in insanity or death. We have said that this is strange; and is it not so-that the greatest boon and the greatest need in life should be absolute oblivion? ?-that to enjoy, indeed to en- dure, two-thirds of life we must pass one-third, or nearly that proportion of it, in state of absolute unconscious ness? For sleep to be perfectly re- freshing, should be dreamless.
Connecticut western news., 1877-07-27
The Force of Capitalization,

The old story of bomb-shell filled with water and left to burst by freezing, upon the plains of Abraham, near Que bee, may now be superseded as an illus tration of the power of frost. The men at Western dock-yard were surprised to find one morning that the paddle wheel of steamer in the dry-dock had fallen from the shaft, and was broken in two pieces. The hub of the wheel, about fifteen inches long, was slightly hollowed out at the centre, to admit of its being slipped on without difficulty over any uneven portion of the shaft end. This recess was full of water when the boat was placed in the dock, and the keying had been so close that the liquid-about a pailful-was ex- posed to the9frost. As the water con- gealed under the sharp wintry atmos- phere of the night. it expanded and burst asunder the five-inch walls of iron. and the broken wheel fell with acrash.
Connecticut western news., 1877-07-27
SCIENTIFIC.

Composition .tor GoVeriad Boilers rassd Steam # PtDlng.-The process has been employed for some time with great success for preventing the loss of heat from steam pipes, domes of generators, cylinders. of steam engines, etc. It consists ln covering the same with a mixture of sawdust (no matter from what wood@ and ordinary four paste in very liquid state. The sawdust being added to make thick paste, and ap. piled according tosthe following direc- tlons, will form 8 compact mass, the adnerenoe Of which is very great when applied eOn clean surfaces or wrought or cast Iron; but on copper pipes it is more difficult to apply the first coat: in Wnlch case It lE necessary to wash the copper pipe to be covered with clay wash made with pottef's clay until it forms thin coating, after which the sawdust and paste will adhere firmly. It IS very simple to apply; any ordinary necessary. Lay on five successive coats one fifth of an inch thick, each layer making, when finished, one inch thick. Let the pipes or other objects to be covered be kept warm by the aid of 8 little steam, and let one coat be per- fectly dry before applying a second. Should the pipes be outside, exposed to the open air, give them three or four coats of coal tar to make them water proof, but if inside building it is not necessary. It is we'll to pass the saw dust through a riddle, to cleanse it from the coarse fragments of wood which are always to be found among saWdust. There is no contraction in drying the composition, therefore no leakage. Steam pipes so covered, the correspondent believes, lose less heat than when covered by any other pat ented process sold for that purpose. It IS much less expensive, and much more efficient. The sawdust is to be found in most factories, scarcely of any value. With cwt. of flour (about $3.75 worth) he says he can cover as much surface as formerly with $20O worth of the composition he was then using, which cost him at the rate of 75 cents or $1 per cwt. It's lightness renders it still more valuable for such purposes.
 There is very little expansion or con, traction in the pipes, being well pro- tected; therefore no leaky joints-Ter- tile M0nut ...,o r. ',..... ... ...-..-l5
Connecticut western news., 1877-07-27

Italian girls trained up as models fer painters now get as much as $4 a day in Paris. In their native land the highest wages they earn is $1 a day. As they are the best models among all nationalities, there is growing demand for them in the French capital.
Connecticut western news., 1877-07-27

B BREEDING INSTEAD OF PURCHASING Cows.-No one will deny that one es- sential requisite to success in dairying is to have good cows to the business, and in considering how this is to be obtained it is evident that the surest way is to rely upon breeding animals upon the farm where they Iare to be used, rather than purchased at ran- dom from ldroVes, providing that a Kind or race of animals can be found that will transmit desirable quali- ties or exceAeneies from generation to generatiens with reasonable certainty. Experience teaches us that we cannot rely upon the common stock of the country to obtain from cultivated breeds which have been long bred in reference to special qualities, and have in conse- quence fixed type in this regard. I think our dairymen need not look be- yond four or five breeds of thorough
 bred cattle for obtaining desirable re- suits, namely, the Shorthorns, Ayre- shires, Devons, Attorneys, and the
 Dutch or Holsrein cattle. There are other breeds more or less famous in the districts where they originated; such as the Galways, the Kerrys, the Herefords, the Bretons, the Swiss and other Euro pean rarities, some of them, at least,
 when transported from their native dis
 triets, have not given such satisfaction.
 on the whole, as the .breedsI 1 have named r+ # i- fE fta45s4aF a.'. l.s==
Connecticut western news., 1877-07-27

In some European countries the young sprouts or shoots from hop-vines, although slightly bitter are cooked and eaten as asparagus; the roots are em- ployed as substitute for sarsaparilla. A farmer in the North of France, through scarcity of other fodder, fed his cows with green hop-leaves, mixed with other substances, and found that it increased the flow of milk.
Connecticut western news., 1877-07-27
Rheumatism Quickly Cured.

"Durang's Rheumatic Remedy" the great Internal Medicine, vii! positively cure any case of rheumatism on the face of the earth. Price $1 bottle, six bottles, $5 Sold by all Drug gists. Send for circular to Helphenstine x Bentley, Druggists, Washington, D. c.
Connecticut western news., 1877-07-27
H1otners mothers. ,rotbers.

Don't fail to procure MRS. WINSLOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP for all diseases of teeth ing in children. It relieves the child from pain. cures wind collie, regulates the bowels, and by giving relief and health to the child, gives rest to the mother. Ee. #t
Connecticut western news., 1877-07-27
szzszsk6RlGULFURAI..

METHOD. - No successful general undertakes march or gives battIe to an enemy without definite plan. No navigator attempts to cross the track less ocean except with chart and com- pass, lead and instruments in perfect accord. No manufacturer can compete In the worlds markets except his fac tory is methodically arranged. No business man can avoid confusion and disaster who ignores method in his &C., counts Practical farming is no excep- tion to this unvarying law. Method is indispensable to successful agriculture.
 Admitting such to be the fact. on general principles, yet how few farmers adhere to it's teachings. how many are blown hither and yon by freak orfancy, ignorance or prejudice-aimless, shift less creatures of circumstance. A me- thodical use of limited resources is more effective than the prodigal waste of grand opportunities The producer who has his business well in hand, who knows his acres and their needs, his animals and their capacity, his hired men and their possibilities, his crops and their possible results, is in position U0 secure all the advantages of the situa- tion. On the other hand, the. farmer who is devoid of system, who has no regularly defined plan of action, who makes no calculation of the forces at his command, nor of the work due from them, is at the mercy ot every contend ing element Like the driver seated behind a pair of furious, runaway steeds, beyond bis control, who is not certain whether his ride will end in speedy arrival at his proposed destina- tfon, or in smash.up by the roadside. Method gives power to feeble resource Method economizes time and space. Method develops the shortest way to accomplish many things by doing one thing at a time. Method has it's tools and Instruments in thorough repair and ready for immediate action. Method has it's forces well in hand, to provide against sudden emer- geney. Method supplies employment fes9ifainy. days or pleasant weather. Method secures results unknown to a shiftless purpose. Method draws the line between success and failure. Method induces thrift and indepen- dence. Method determines the branch efagriculture that offers the best reward to persistent effort. Without method the vacancy is soon filled with failure and, disappOintment.-AmericGa Culti- odtor. "a sl...l.5 la e - .-tlaf -.t7'ssa
Connecticut western news., 1877-07-27

h' BLUE GRASS AND T1MorHY.-A writer on blue grass says: Prepare the ground late the previous autumn, so that it may have mellow, fresh surface in the spring, and very early SOW timo- thy, clover and blue grass at the same time. About two crops of clover and timothy U0UarHeU peIOre the blue grass gets full possession. After that 1t chokes them out. The land is not pastured in less than two years from sowing. a5iz
Connecticut western news., 1877-07-27

"YEs," SAID MT. Squigg, sadly, the other morning, "poor Longstopple, the cotton man, is a complete wreck. saw even his old boots soled under the hammer vastardou