Connecticut western news., 1890-09-10
ODDS AND ENDS.

There are natures 30 gracious that the patience and kindliness of good breeding seem theirs by inheritance.
 Mrs. J. H. Taylor, of Poquetannuck, decided to discard an old pin cushion, but curiosity prompted her to disem- bowel it first. She recovered just 434 needles that had been lost therein.
 A western Massachusetts dentist Is said to have small boy sit in his office and yell at the top of his lungs occa- sionally It lends an air of business to the establishments.
 Sydney Smith, in his youth, was very shy. He cured himself of the disease by making two discoveries: first, that people were not employed in observing him; and next, that the world estimated a man at his true value
 An Astoria man is 73 years of age and capitalist, and is willing to run a mile race with any man of his age for a purse of $1O,OOO.
 The projected railway up the Jung frau goes to a height of 13, 900 feet, far above the lowest limit of perpetual snow, and it is proposed to tunnel the mountain the entire distance.
 Howard Taylor, the expert tennis player and winner of this years Water bury cup, is still young, despite his length of service on the tennis field. He is but 24, having entered Harvard at 16. He graduated in 1886.
 Rev. Dr. Wayland, who has been called the Chauncey Depew of Phila- delphia in the matter of after dinner speaking, is six feet one and one-half inches in height, has dark complex ion and heavy eyebrows. His physical appearance is much like that of Abra- ham Lincoln.
 Waterbury, Conn.,, has adopted an economical plan for securing new sign boards on the principal thoroughfares leading into the place from the adjoin- ing country towns. The selectmen have authorized an advertising agent to erect thirty-six of these boards, on condition that the town is put to no expense. The agent has sold the advertising space on twenty four of the boards to two merchants.
 Of the three prizes offered by Public Opinion for the three best essays on the importance of the study of current topics as 8 feature of school and college education, the first prize $50. was won by Rev. Hamilton Bartlett, of Provi- dence, R. I. the second. of $50, by Re becca Shively, of Chambersburg, Pa, and the third, $20, by Frank Morton, of Clarksville, Tenn.
 A Greek woman who died at Limfer. opol, Russia, lately, is said to have been 112 years old. She was working in her garden to the last moment. Be- coming tired she lay down to rest, and passed away without a struggle. There are many centenarians in the Crimea. Three years ago there was in Kertch an old soldier whose dismissal from the army dated from the time of Katherine II, and whose authenticated creden- tials put his age at 128 years
 A little 2-year-old girl of Brooklyn, while playing on the second floor, managed in some way to fall out of the window, and would no doubt have been severely injured but for the fact that she pulled two pillows with her that were on the sill She turned over in the fall and struck with both pillows underneath her. After short cry she got up and resumed her game, this time, however, in the street.
 Although Rev. Sam Small is D. D. and the president of a university, he can't get certificate of church mem. bership. He lost his membership in the Methodist church when he joined the Episcopal church, and then he lost his membership in the Episcopal church when he went back to the Methodist church. Consequently he has no pa pers of any kind to show, and may have to join the local Methodist church in Ogden, Utah, on probation.
 The Albert medal of the English So ciety of Arts has been awarded to Dr. w. H. Perkin, F. F. s., flor his dis covery of the method of obtaining col bring matter from coal tar, 8 discovery which led to the establishment of a new and important industry, and to the utilization of large quantities of g previ- ously worthless material"
 A pretty story comes from England about a poor shepherd who was also geologist, geographer and an admirei of Stanley. Stanley's publisher met this man while walking on Beachy Head, and was charmed with his learn ing. The shepherd offered the publish CT pound-pretty much all his hard earned savings-and asked if it would pay for Stanley's book, promising to send the balance of the money as soon as possible. The publisher says the shepherd shall receive his money back again and a copy of Darkest Africa with Stanley's autograph in it.