Connecticut western news., 1891-11-12
ODDS AND ENDS.
Paris has 1S1, 900 foreigners.
 England has 12. S93 Irish soldiers.

Colorado bids fair to rival California in fruit growing.
 Try swallowing saliva when troubled with sour stomach.
 Lake Erie produces more fish to the square mile than any body of water in the world.
 Of the immigrants to this country Germany sends more than twice as many as Ireland. Africa is now completely encircled by submarine cables, which make up altogether length of IF, 900 miles, The man who invariably whistles does little thinking. But he keeps other people thinking, just the same.
 The shoes worn by Luther at the diet of Worms are preserved with reverent care in the Historical museum at Dres- den.
 A temperature of 22O degrees below zero has been produced by a bath of carbon bisulphide and liquid nitrous acid Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian pa triot, has just entered his 'ninetieth year He is in fair health in his Italian home.
 | Nelson Oleson, a rich Swede living near Monett, Mo-, killed himself be- cause his wife wouldn't make bread to suit him.
 ~ Auctioneers' fees in this country and l 1>xr T-o France and Holland the purchaser pays them.
 Japanese artists produce colors of ex quisite beauty, as we'll as great mallea- bility, by adding to their ornamental bronzes little gold.
 The first steel car for postal purposes was run 27O, 900 miles and went through l five slnashups at cost for repairs of l only forty-two dollars.
 Clean piano keys with a soft rag dipped in alcohol.
 Chloride of ethyl is being successfully used as refrigerant and local an@s thetic.
 A barn roof is not meant as tobog gan slide, and shingles are rather hard on trousers.
 The true prince will find it easier to have him believe.
 The new Argentine Pacific railroad has one stretch of road 211 miles long without curve or bridge.
 Soiled wall paper may be cleaned by first brushing the dust off and then rubbing down with pieces of light bread.
 Uncle Sam has 46. 900 oil wells.
 Some cigarette hands make 2,000 a day.
 Savannah claims the oldest American theater
 Many of the new hatpins have light weight silver heads.
 Next to good range 8 good clock is of paramount importance in the kitchen.
 Washington is the only city of its size in the United States which has nc factory girls.
 Londoners pay between $35O, O00 and $400. 1000 a year for water sold under the name of milk
 To clean willow furniture use salt and water. Apply with a nail brush and scrub thoroughly.
 The present plans of the Japanese government will double the navy o1 that country within six years.
 The number of eggs in a six pound eel in November is fully 5000, 900. Un der the microscope they measure eighty to the linear inch. ,
 To keep nickel silver ornaments and mounts bright rub them with wooler cloths that have been saturated ill spirits of ammonia.
 A Georgia farmer is living with his sixth wife. Each of his five other wive. died on the Friday preceding the seconc Sunday of the month.
 The carp is about the only cud chew ing fish, the coarsely swallowed foo6 being forced up to their throat teetf for complete mastication.
 Vaseline, taken half a teaspoonful al time, cures cold.
 The best spice is. hunger, the best stimulant is exercise
 The only thing that will use ar enemy up completely is love. Love never fails
 Women professors and lecturers are : to be added to the faculty of Michigan university. The output of gold{rom Venezuelan mines in 1890 amounted to more thar $1, ,OOO,O ,O0O ; The headdress of the shah of Persia , is one mass of diamonds and other pre- cious stones
 The largest railway depot in tht world is at Birmingham. England. | ) covers eleven acres. The debt of the Argentine Republic is nearly $7oo, 900, ,o00, or about S16! for every inhabitant
 Don't worry your brain about thu ' man in the moon, but study the mar in your own overcoat
 Nubian horselnen hold the reins witt their big toes, and Chinese boatIner pull their oars by the same means. , It is said that harvest hands in Min J. nesota, Dakota and Montana are beins , paid $2. 50 to $4. 50 per day and board. : The leaves of the so called American aloe are made into razor strops, and arr also employed for cleaning and scourin! pewter
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