Connecticut western news., 1892-03-17
Local News.
St, Patrick a day.

No horses in this vicinity wore fly nets last Monday.
 Harry Nichol started up his lime kiln last Tuesday.
 -One of the most popular isms of the day is rheumatism.
 Master Howard Bierce is recovering from tho German measles.
 --Trne this is leap year, but girls should look before they-propose.
 -"Get of the earth" said western cyclone to barn, and the barn got
 What we need and need bad is more tenement houses. They could readily be rented.
 -Only from five to ten degrees above zero Monday morning with March zephyr ta) on deck.
 --Z E Thorpe. of New Hartford, is in Lewis Rhoades' barber shop. His wife came here yesterday.
 Thomas Abbe, of Abilene. Kan.. spent Sunday in town; he has come east for about t-o weeks on business.
 A resident of Norfolk says tie wind blows so strong in Norfolk that 1t takes two men to hold the hair on the third mans head.
 Salmon Barlow has recently done considerable work on the abutments of the bridge which he will build. over the Blackberry river, near his quarry.
 -Rhoades < Stanton 5 saw mill mach inery arrived this week; the engine came last week. Their first job, near Clayton, covers about 27 acres of wood- land with much heavy pine timber.
 -On the fourth page will be found Mir E. T. Buffers second letter in It. gard to hauling through freight over Spanlding's summit On the same page will be found our reply to said letter.
 Alderman Ives, the marketman at Winsted, received hog from Millerton. N. '. last Saturday. which weighed 86l pounds. It is evident that Mir Ives '.is bound to go the whole hog or none," and not sell "white oak hams.
 The Rev Dr Hiram E ldy.s 70th birthday occurs today March 17.) On his 18th birthday about forty of his neighbors caned hin. At this writing we have not learned of any plot to be sprung on Dr Eddy on his 79th birth day.
 We are indebted to Hon. R. Jay Walsh, secretary of state. for copy of the Register and Manual for 1892" It contains an additional map of Connecti- cut, on which the relative importance of the towns is indicated by the size Of type.
 Tho death of the Hon John F. Winslow, . brief sketch of whose career Is published elsewhere, brings to mind the fact that the iron which Griswold & Winslow used in plating the Monitor was made by the late John A. Bsckley, at his furnace in North Adams, Mass.
 There is school-mistress. not one hundred miles from Norfolk, who goes ont to play with the children at recess. She has been seen sliding down hill with three boys on double ripper. and, ss for base ball, the boys say that "teacher" is mighty good to pitch, but is comparatively worthless at the bat.
 -Dr J. D. Clemans celebrated his , birthday last Saturday. One of the ways in which he observed the occasion was by an act of charity in Inviting the senior editor and wife to dinner. It is needless to say the invitation was &C., cepted. and the epicureau dinner was epj"yed and also tue games of crokiuole which followed. D. We have inst received from R. A Studley, secretary of the Hous .tonic Christian Eudeavor Union, long re, port of the meeting hell at Kent Feb. 18th. As it issnearly month since the meeting was held, and we also mention cd the meeting at the time, we do not feel warranted in crowding out news items to make, room for Mir Studley 's report; furthermore his report has al- ready been published in other papers.
 = Comicsl Brown drew a fnll house It town hall last Saturday evening. h fact the word full" describes the con- ditionof Certain men present who were . nuisance and who ought to have been arrested for loud talking and for other. wise sunoying and insulting the actors and the majority of the audience Nothing but a desire to avoid scene prevented the constable from arrestinR the offenders on the spot. The law abiding part of the community think i, . is high tima that ! wholesome lesson be taught the class who make practice oI disturbing public entertainm ents.
 In October 1884 Jess than II years sgo) Frederick H Nash, of Westport Connw published a pamphlet containing -:.Ye names < ages of all Ye Old Folk in every Hamlet, City and Town in Y State of Connecticut, now living. witt ye sketches of Twenty Living Centen arians. The list contained over 6OO'
 names. No age of less thsn 80 year
 was recorded. The aggregate of thei
 ages was 498. 900 years; their average 8:
 years. The number of names coul,
 have been made to exceed 20, 900 by ad
 ding those who were 70 years and over
 To gather said list of names entailed
 vast amount of labor, correspondents
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