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Connecticut western news., 1886-01-27
They Had Met Before.

A short time ago a gray haired old man was in one of the hotels of Gen. tralia, H., when stranger got off a train which had just arrived, and passed through the waiting room. He eyed the old man closely, and over the face of tho latter there dashed look of recognition.
 "Pardon me-" said the stranger, "your face has a familiar look, yet cannot place you. Perhaps I am mistaken"
 ''Oh, no," said the elderly gentleman. 'T know you are not mistaken. I know you like book"
 "Indeed?"
 "Yes, sir. You used to board with me-"
 ''Is it possiblea'' said the stranger.
 "Yes, sir, and you left without paying your board"
 "That, sir, cannot be-" was the indig- nant mans answer, as he became more and more confused.
 "And," continued the old man, ''you left in the night and neglected to take your luggage
 By this time the stranger was furious. He grey red with anger, and intimated that only the gray hairs of the tormentor saved him from violent treatment.
 "oh, you needn't get mad," said the old gent, remaining rrovokingly cool. "You did all these things, and 1 can prove it,'
 ''see, here, old man, who the deuce are you, and where are you from3"
 'I, sir, am Capt. Jack Warner, and you are Quartes1naster Murphy, and you escaped from Libby while was quarter master of that institution"
 "Great Scott !" was the strangers ejac- ulation, as he warmly clasped the hand of the old ex-Confederate. "Are you, indeed, the old commissaryq We'll, 1did board with you while, and gave you the slip, too," he laughingly continued. Quartermaster Murphy belonged to q New York regiment, and was captured and sent to Libby. It was the practice | of the Confederates to allow prisoners who had been practitioners of medicine to attend the sick of the prison hospital They were given the freedom of tho prison, to come and go at will,
 One day green sentry would not al low these men to pass, when he was sharply reprimanded by Capt. Gibbs and was told that those men who wor< ribbons on the labels of their coats should pass unmolested.
 Murphy overheard this and took ad vantage of it. He had some red lining in his vest, and, tearing off a strip, h' pinned the physician insignia on his coat and, watching an opportunity, he go past the guard and escaped over into the Union lines Cincinnati Commercial Ca | xette.
Connecticut western news., 1886-01-27

The manufacture of base balls ill this country has become an important indus try, and an ingenious one, too, according to the description given of the process; First, there is little hard rubber ball, around which there is wound strong blue coarse yarn, and when this reaches prescribed size, it is firmly wrapped with white Venetian yarn. The balls are now placed in an oven and baked until the moisture is taken out of them and they are reduced in size, this making them solid. They arc then coated with cement, which causes the balls to retain their shape, and they cannot be knocked crook ed. After this comes some fine blue yarn, and around the whole is placed fine white gilling twine. The balls are weighed, each to have certain weight, and the covers are put on, these being made of the best horse hide It consists of two pieces, each cut in the shape of the figure 8. By bending one section one way and the other in an opposite direction, a com plete cover is obtained. This is simple and effectual substitute for the former method of covering with four pieces of leather.
Connecticut western news., 1886-01-27
The Tune the Old Cow Died Of.

In Scotland and the north of Ireland this saying is very common in the mouths of the peasantry, though all who use it may not understand it's origin. It arose out of an old song: There was an old man, and he had an old
 COW,
 And he had nothing to give her, So he took out his fiddle and he played her
 tune
 Consider, good COW, consider; This is no time of year for the grass to grow, Consider, good COW, consider
 The old COW died of hunger, and when any grotesquely melancholy song or tune is uttered the north country people say: 'sThat is the tune the old COW died of London AgriculuraI Gazette.
Connecticut western news., 1886-01-27
AmeriCa'S First Railroad.

MT. Barnet Le Van, a prominent rail read man, is authority for the statement that railroads were first introduced in Pennsylvania. ''In September, 1909,'
 he states, ''the first experimental track in the United States was laid out by John Thompson (the father of John Ed gar Thompson, who was afterwards the president of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, civil engineer of Delaware County, Pa., and constructed under his direction by Sonerville, Scotch mill wright, for Thomas Leiper, of Philadel- phia. It was 190 feet in length, and graded one and one-half inches to the yard, The guage was four feet, and the sleepers eight feet apart. The experiment with loaded car was so successful that Leiper in the same year caused the first practicable railroad in the United States to be constructed for the transportation o1 stone from his quarries on Crumb Greek to his landing on Ripley Creek, in Della ware County, Pa., distance of about one mile. It continued in use for nine teen years. Some of the original founda- tions, consisting of rock in which holes were drilled and afterwards plugged with wood to receive the spikes for hold the sleepers in place, may be seen to this day" ..@'.
Connecticut western news., 1886-01-27

No positive estimate can be placed upon the value of the animal production of eggs and poultry. There are thousands of dozens of eggs consumed annually of which no accounts are kept, to say noth- ing of the carcases, which render it i'm possible for the census taker to record. The sums given as the value of poultry and eggs are, therefore, only estimates. It has been claimed that the value of the poultry interests exceed those of the dairy or any class of live stock, but the claim is disputed one. We may ven- ture, however, to estimate that each in dividual in the United States consumes poultry and eggs to the value of five dol lars per annum; and with our population fixed at 5O,OOO,OO0 the sum reaches $25O, GOO, 900. If only two dollars be al lowed as the value of the poultry and eggs consumed by each individual we have the large sum of s1OO, 900, oOO But we have good reason for believing five dollars nearer the amount than the smaller sum. Estimating the average price of eggs at only 12 cents per dozen, we still have a large margin in chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys. Whatever the amount may be it is sufficiently large to demand con- | sidcratiOn
Connecticut western news., 1886-01-27
SaW tho Head Man.

As President Eliot sat in his sanctum in University hall the other morning, busily at work, his secretary came in and announced that there was a gentle man outside who was very anxious to see the president of Harvard University on some very important business. Other matters were put aside and the stranger was shown in. He proved to be man of middle life, from the west apparently, with way of going right to the point. He began by looking the president over and "sizing him up."
 "Are you Dr. Eliot, the president o' Harvard college2"
 'T am, sir"
 "The head O the hull thing9"
 "Yes."
 "President O the scientific schoolf"
 'T am."
 President O the law school9"
 "Yes. sir"
 sPresident O the medical schools
 "Yes."
 'eThat's it then" said the visitor, ian Dye come to the right place and you're the man I want to see. I'm from the west an Eve come more'n 5000 miles, an' money ain't no object to me-"
 He rose with great enthusiasm and stripped off his coat and vest.
 ''I've got something the matter with me. doctor" he went on "It's been troublin' me for years, an I'm bound to find out what it is. Money ain't no ob-s ject, as said. I want you to examine my chest, an don't care what it costs. Here we go."
 The president had some difficulty in explaining the situation, but finally suc- ceeded in turning his patient over to si professor of the medical school. -[ Boston Record.
Connecticut western news., 1886-01-27
HUMOROUS.

Home nule-The baby's.
 No man can be beautiful in ear-muffs.
 It is a curious fact that rich relatives are apt to be distant ones.
 How can you make an overcoat lasti By making the undercoat first.
 ''What is your idea of loSe, MT. Sin nick7" "Three meals day and well cooked"
 A base ball player elected to the legis lature is said to have been very successful in catching the eye of the speaker.
 A woman never so fully realizes her dependence upon man as when she under takes to sharpen lead pencil.
 Mary Qo departing young man)- "Adieu, adieu." Mary's little brother "That fellows adieu'd, ain't he2'
 Japanese girls bronze their lips, and it is significant fact that they always re- quire rebronzing on Monday morning.
 The wealth of our language is shown by the fact that ''hang itup" and "chalk it down" means precisely the same thing.
 The scientist who says that person could not live over five days without water, is suspected of being milkman.
 "Metals are more active," wrote the market reporter whose wife had hastened his exit that morning with flying dat iron.
 A poetess says "He gazed upon my burning eyes and fled" This would seem to indicate that he was not mem Der of the fire department.
 Literary man Qaughingly)-Yes, l took to literature naturally. Twas vaccinated from quill, you know. Friend (grimly) The world would have been the gainef if you had been vacoinated from pick or shovel.
 "How do you do, Marya Pve been trying to catch up with you for half aa hour. knew you just as soon as scs eyes on that bonnet. I've known it ~ 1 long as I can remember" It is such re. marks as this that fill the female heart with bitterness.
 A New York man with a vermihon nose was tormenting lady about her l age. "Just look at. mel" he exclaimed, "don't I look as if was just out of my teens9" "Yes," she replied, with look of triumph, "of your canteens." His nose was quickly put out of joint. A tailor once numbered distiches,
 Thinking thereby to get riches,
 He sang all night in numbers, Kept folks from their shlmbers, t Yet all the while counted his stitches.
Connecticut western news., 1886-01-27
The Value of HiD.POckets.

The general practitioner is frequently asked by anxious parents: ''What shall do for my boy; he is getting so awfully s.oop-shoulderen that 1 am afraid he will get COT sumption; will have to get him brace. What kind would you recommendg"
 It requires no extended argument to prove the importance of a well expanded chest Apart from the incalculable ben efits to health, an erect carriage and graceful movements attract the attention of the most humble. It causes them to correct as far as they are able, in their children any tendency to awkward, stepping or ungainly positions. Apart from the coat and inconvenience of ex- pensive instruments, but few meet the requirements. In many cases better results may be obtained by attending to a few simple details, within the reach of every one, in the ordinary clothing. The boys pockets are to him very important part of his dress, and the natural tendency is to keep his hands in them. When not actively engaged, there they are usually found, and if the pockets are properly placed, they will inadvcrt- enty cause him to throw back the should CTS and much or less expand the chest For instance, the jacket or overcoat should have what is called breast pock cts, the opening should be high and as far back as possible, parallel with and in the line of the body, instead of low down and transverse as usually found in the ordinary jacket or overcoat.
 The pants should have what are called "hip-pockets," and no other. It will then be apparent that, whilst the hands are in the pockets better, if not per feet, position will be assumed and the boy spared the many admonitions to
 "keep your hands out of your pockets, 3 haa tho accompanying box on the ssrs-- Medical sna Aareases Rapcrter.
Connecticut western news., 1886-01-27

Hog cholera was carefully studied last summer by several pork raisers in Kan sas, where the disease ragged part of the time. One of them resorted to ''home treatment" as he called it, and he says it succeeded in bringing every member of his infected herd around all right. The mode>of treatment he thus describes: "As soon as the animals were taken sick I turned them out of the pens and began to drive them to warm up their blood. The first day drove them three miles and the second day two miles. They would vomit freely while being driven. After the second day they showed signs of im- provement, which continued, and finally all the hogs recovered.' An Abbeville county (S. O. farmer, whose hogs have never been attacked by the disease; attrib- utes their immunity to quart of turpen- tine slops which he gave them weekly.
Connecticut western news., 1886-01-27

The Chicago Times says that "the bald head of Senator Isham G. Harris is a striking object to the visitor looking down from the strangers gallery of the United States senate. deep scar, run ming in semi=circle across the top of the skull, marks the energetic efforts of a Federal cavalryman to end the southern CTS career on the battlefield of Shiloh: MT. Harris, as governor of Tennessee, was with Albert Sidney Johnston throughout the two days conflict, and it leader expired.'
Connecticut western news., 1886-01-27
Lincoln md Old Seth Kinman.

A goodly crowd was gathered about Old Seth Kinman, the famous California hunter, in the comfortable reading-room of the International Hotel last spring. Seth was in the best of storytelling moods. He said: "When Abe Lincoln was elected I made up my mind I'd give him a cheer knew him, for he and my father fit together in the Black Hawk war. When I started to Washington I took an Injun along to exhibit him. I give shows on the way. That blamed Injun petered out of my hands at Oswego, N. Y. The people fed him so much that he fairly busted. We'll, old Abe got wind O me and sent for me. Christ Lloyd, who was Clerk of the Penn sylvania House of Representatives then, went to Washington with me from Harris burg. said to him: Now, old man, I'm going to present this cheer to old Abe myself. I don't want nobody to waw. waw for me this time.' And did. Old Abe was just tickled to death, too. He shuck hands with me, and on the sly he took me outen the East Room and give me a pull at some nice old Bourbon. Then afterward l showed him old Cot ton Bale,' that's the name of my old Kaintuck rifle, and he took it up, sightcr it at an imaginary bar and said: Seth, that's the kind of artillery I was raised on.' Then I brought out my fiddle, and he sot me to playin,' and I give him Gray Eagle old Zip Coon,' Gal On a Log and The Arkansaw Traveller He jest roared all the while. Poor fellow was ill Ford's Theater the night he was hit.-Ean Frdncisco 1la.
Connecticut western news., 1886-01-27
The Banana.

A pound of bananas contains more nu-
 triment than three pounds of meat or
 many pounds of potatoes, while as food
 it is in every sense of the word far snpe-
 rior to the best wheaten bread. Although
 it grows spontaneously throughout the
 tropics, when cultivated it's yield is pro-
 digious, for an acre of ground planted
 with bananas will return, according to Humboldt, as much food materiaJ as thirty three acres of wheat or over one hundred acres of potatoes. The banana,
 then, is the bread of millions w'no could not we'll subsist without it. vn Brazil it is the principal food of the laboring classes, while it is no less j, ,rized in the island of Cuba. Indeed, in the latter country the sugar planters grow orchards of it expressly for, the consumption of their slaves. Every day each hand re- ceives his ration of salt fish or dried beef,
 as the case may be, and four bananas and two plantains- The banana-it should be called plantain, for until lately there was no such word as banana is divided into several varieties, all of which are used for food. The 7lutino 1 manzanita is small, delicate fruit, neither longer nor stoutcr than a lady's forefnger. It is the most delicious and prized of all the varieties of the plantain. El plotino guineo called by us the ba- mana, is probably more in demand than any kind. It is subdivided into differ ent varieties, the principal of which are the yellow and purple bananas we see fo,
 sale in our market but the latter is SC
 little esteemed by the natives of the
 tropics that it is seldom eaten by them. i El plattno grsAde-known to us as sim
 ply the plantain--is also subdivided into
 varieties which are known by their savo1 and size. The kind that reaches oru
 market IS almost ten inches long, yet on the Isthmus of Darien there are plantains
 that grow from eighteen to twenty-five inches. They are never eaten raw, but 1 are either boiled or roasted or are pre-.
 pared as preselves.-HotelRegister.
Connecticut western news., 1886-01-27
For a Nervous Cou9h.

Dr. Brown Sequard once gave the fol- lowing directions to a person afflicted with nervous cough: Coughing can be stopped by pressing on the nerves of the lips in the neighborhood of the nose A pressure there may prevent cough when it is beginning. Sneezing may be stopped by the same means. Pressing also in the neighborhood of the ear may stop cough ing. Pressing very hard on the top of the mouth inside, may have good effect. And I may say the will has immense power, too. There was French surgeon who used to say, whenever he entered the walls of his hospital: "The first patient who coughs will be derived of food to- day" It was exceedingly rare that a patient cough then.
Connecticut western news., 1886-01-27

bound that it was two or three emlnutes before could move. The spectacle was even more horrible when I stepped out and secured stronger light, nd'directly my nerves were so unstrung at theirecollec- tion of what had occurred that I rushed out of the cave into the open air. As gained the outside it struck me that the Indians had doubtless left one of their number to watch the horses. AS went down the ravine l determined, if this was the case, to attack him, with the hope of wiping out the whole party.
 When crept out of the ravine another bloody spectacle awaited me. The h. dian ponies had been hobbled to prevent them from wandering away and none of the party had been left in charge. The grizzlies had come upon the horses first, and every one of them was dead on the grass, and horribly mutilated. They had not been killed to satisfy hunger, but to gratify ferocious whim.
 After few hours, during which time Ireturned to my own camp, to find every thing safe, I re-entered the cave and se- cured the firearms of the dead redskins. The stuff at their camp fire consisted of blankets, robes, ammunition, and powder. While none of the party were in war paint, there was nothing to prove that they were out on hunt. They had perhaps defeect> ed from some march to discover what had caused the smoke.
 Four weeks later when patty of hun. ters from Boise City, headed by Capt. Hall, stumbled in on me, turued over to them, as relics of the singular. three-cor- nered fight, the firearms, bows and arrows, the claws of the grizzlies, two full suits oa buckskin, three scalps of white men, and enough pipes, beads, knives, charms, and feathers to start museum. These relics are still on exhibition in the Sheriff's office at Boise, and bear witness that have given you truthful narrative Ne,o York Satn.
Connecticut western news., 1886-01-27
Great ExDectAtiOnS.

Jones came into the office of the Aus tin Water Works Company. He. was mad. His eyes gleamed with baleful light.
 "What is the mattersH asked the clerk.
 'I want to tell you that I've found an- other fish in our water"
 "How large was the fish?" asked the clerk, blandly.
 About an inch long. It's a shame and an outrage"
 "My dear sir, do you think that we can furnish you with whales ninety feet long everyday for e1O yearg- Siftings.
Connecticut western news., 1886-01-27
No Wonder the Widow was Alarmed

Bill Drawbar is the kindest- hearted man that ever twisted a brake; hc wouldn't hurt a kitten. Nevertheless he scared poor old Mrs. Lone, the widow, so bad that she had nervous hystcria for two weeks, and then married Deacon Fourscorc because she was afraid to bos alone. You see, Bill was making up train 73, and just as Mrs. Lone star ed to cross the track at the upper end of tn yard, Bill yelled to the other brakeman: "Jump on her, Ben! Jump on her as she comes down; cut her in two, and run her down the siding behind the e!eyatorl Now, then, catch herp And then tho poor old woman gave one feeble little screech for mercy, and fainted dea~ away, and poor Bill can't imagine we&1 ''ssart her. ."--faAv vsndsr's Gstds,
Connecticut western news., 1886-01-27
Intellectual Hair Dressing.

Miss Angelina fo Miss Belle, her rival, just now surrounded by bevy of admir- ers)-"Oh, dear, do tell me how you do your hair up so charmingly! What do you do it up on It looks so intellect ual"
 Miss Belle (who wears her hair hishA "Well, I'll tell you, dear 1 genssally do it mp over brains, nna tswsetly) Idon't think you can buy thefs at tI1, hair stc.es: s:''s=B9ssss Journal,
Connecticut western news., 1886-01-27

A French hair dresser in St. Louis has applied for patent for process by which passengers can be taken after a rapidly moving railway train without stopping the cars. But this is not alto gcthcr novel, since passengers are occa- sionally so taken off and their careers cut shorter than ever the St. Louis barber cut bo;,.
Connecticut western news., 1886-01-27
In the Hallway.

"say, MT. Gogglesop, what do you come to our house so often for2"
 Gogglesop, patronizingly: 'Now, Tommy, you must ask your sister Clara that when she comes into the parlor-- just ask her"
 "Well, did, and she said she'd bo blsst t she nkew. ."--5rsstlvn Un+sns
Connecticut western news., 1886-01-27

Chicago promises to be the theatre in 1892 of worlds fair which will eclipse everything of the kind ever seen before. It will commemorate the ser vices of Columbus in finding this con tinent 400 years ago, and will incident ally boom the hustling city which nestles between the prairies and the lakes.
Connecticut western news., 1886-01-27
THE FAMILY PHYSICIAN.
Advice to Consumptives

Consumptive patients are advised by a pupil of Licbig in the Apothoke Verein to of sulphur arc melted on a hot stove. The first ten days brings increased cough and irritation, then these cease and the patient improves rapidly. Persons with catarrh and in early stages of consumption apply to enter chemical factories where large quantities of sulphur are evaporated daily, and are cured in a few weeks by the inhalations. Cholera and epidemic diseases are never found in such factories.
Connecticut western news., 1886-01-27
In After Years.

In after years. when buds that scent The air to-day heath snows are bent, And when the gold-emblazoned sky, That seems some proud Kings canopy, Is like torch-lit funeral tent; And when lifes sweetest days arc spent, And one by one our joys are rent From us, and song is changed to sigh
 In after years I shall not moan, but be content If only some dear dream be lent Of youth and loves wild ecstacy; If may see in memory The day twain lives in one were blent
 In after years.
 -Nctc Orleans Times DemocrQi
Connecticut western news., 1886-01-27
Local News a Speciality.
Jife's Lesson.

"Which is the way to Temple Fame7" Inquired an eager youth, "And how to gain the honored name, And where the mine of truth ?o Through life he pushed the race begun, As only genius can, To see full glory reaped by one Who toiled for bread and man.
 70. c. BlPnden fn the Currre,t.
Connecticut western news., 1886-01-27

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