Connecticut western news., 1877-02-09
Items of Interest.

Items Of Interest.
 A recent census places the population of Paris as 1886, 738, gain of S4,956 since 1872. That of Marseilles is 31S,- 742.
 Therea are 72S granges in Pennsylvania, an increase of ninety during the year. The membership aggregates about 10000.
 A grocer had a pound of sugar return ed with note stating: Too much sand for table use, and not enough for build ing purposes.
 The opinion that Weddings day fol lows appropriately after Choose day is put forth with due diffidence by the Phil adelphia Bulletin.
 A Boston man committed suicide be- cause Tilden was elected. A Sedalia (Mo. man has committed suicide because Tilden was defeated.
 A New Orleans thief lately sent back the stolen clothes of an under sized cit izen with a note saying that he would wait for his victim to grow.
 Duels are foolish. and life is a span,'
 Passing swiftly away like bubble
 Pistol and bullet have settled their man
 But they never have settled his trouble.
 A Londoner, seeing an advertisement headed American Steam Safe Com pany," remarked that he was glad the Americans had made steam safe com pany -"
 A man can't throw water on his front stoop in freezing weather without giving rise to the suspicion that he expects Q visit from his mother-in-law or poor re- lation.
 Judge Hoar once said of lawyer He has reached the superlative of life. At first he sought to get on, and then he sought to get honor, andnow he is trying to get honest.
 A young woman in Rochester, N. Y., has sued for damages a, man who kissed her. A man who can't kiss woman without damaging her ought to pay for his awkwardness.
 Dion Boucicault recently told a friend of his that the whole number of dramatic pieces which he had put upon the stage is 367, and that they have yielded him not far from $3, GOO, ,000.
 In Scotland it has for long time been usual to blazon on mans tombstone the symbols of his trade. A sugar cone in- dicates the grave of a g. ocer an ax and saw, with hammer and nails, occurs on the grave of 0 carpenter an awl and hammer on that of @ shoemaker.
 About this time farmers are sitting in the evenings by their comforting fire sides, with q pitcher of cider, plate of apples and pan of nuts before them. In the interim between then eating and drinking they look solemnly upward and exclaim :: "W hat awful hard times p
 Of the 6O,OOO Chinese in San Fran cisco, about 750 attend the evening mission schools. Three hundred have joined churches. Seven hundred are members of Christian societies and are studying Christian doctrines. Nearly 1000 regularly attend Sunday-school. "Yes fun is fun," the old man said, as he
 brushed away tear,
 And wildly clutched his pantaloons-the portion
 in the rear
 "But putting crooked pins and sich in per
 sons easy chair Is rather more, SNOW to gosh, than mortal
 man can bear J!
 Ransalvation, the little boy thought it was. It bothered him, especially as as he heard it sung very often. And so he asked his Sunday-school teacheN The mystic word turned out to be part of the line Glory, honor and salvation. But the lad said he wished they would sing it palmer.
 "Ullo, Eyed! What on earth are you walking about with that beastly sausage under your arm for?" Fwed: Well-aw-the fact is, the othaw day saw in the papaws that a fella'd been sent to the workhouse-aw-becau he'd got no visible means of subsistence. Put me in a regular blue funk, you know So got this sawsage to protect myself" t.
 Apples being so abundant this season, the sheep may be treated to @ feed once a week. There are none of our domestic animals who feel the change from green food to dry so sensibly as the sheep, and they need feed of turnips, apples, cab bage or something of that kind quite often. This prevents costiveness or stretches, an ailment common to sheep in this country but unknown in Great Britain, where trlrnips are fed daily. Salting sheep is quite as important in the winter season as in any other. Indeed, all animals should have access to salt daily.
 A church in Hanover, H., played a pleasant little joke on its pastor.- They told him he had better take a holiday for two or three weeks, and, like sensible man, he took it, and journeyed into far country. When he came back he found the old pulpit gone, and a delightfully."- fashioned new one in its place. His elders greeted him with roll of ''soft more than sufficient to cover all the expense of his jaunt. This way of treating & minister is better than the donation party nuisance, which generally brings the suffering pastor lot of mis- cellaneous rubbish which he can neither use, sell nor give away.