Connecticut western news., 1892-08-25


 w. H. Camp has transformed the interior of his store and made decided improvement.
 We are soon to have fractional cur rency again in denominations of 10, 15, 25 and 50 cents.
 On Monday, the Saratoga excur- sion train passed this station with five cars pretty we'll filled.
 David 0. Whittlesey was guest at Judge D. T. Warmers camp on Mt. Riga last Friday and Saturday.
 -OE Sept. 7th Prof J. E. Skiff will resume giving music lessons in the different towns in this vicinity.
 Mrs Caroline King and her son Fred, of Georgia, visited Mrs Levi Beebe at Falls Village last week.
 Why don't somebody remind the sweet suspendered girl that gentlemen consider it quite out of the question to appear in company in their suspenders?
 A girl of sixteen walks as if she owned the earth, and after she has been married few years she walks as if she were carrying it on her shoulders. - Go- wanda Herald.
 The legend Corporations have no souls"may not be true in every instance, nevertheless the following is true: Any corporation that has no soul certainly ought not to have body.
 The readers of this paper are warn ed against swiudler who is soliciting subscriptions for musical magazine. The agent soliciting subscriptions, gets a dollar from the subscriber, but the magazine fails to turn up.
 Here is the driest fish story of this or any other season: "A farmer near Martinsburg, Mo, plowed up a perch in his field some time ago, and when he placed it in tub of water it revived and swan about as lively as any fish,"
 The dwellers on the sea shore i'm proved the opportunity to see the Berk- shire Hills last Thursday. The excur- sion train from Bridgeport to Pittsield consisted of 12 we'll filled cars. It pass ed Canaan going north about g. 30 am. and returned about $40 p. m.
 A man out in New York state had a clause inserted in his will setting aside $1OO to pay for paper to be sent to one of his neighbors for life as the neighbor had been constant borrower of his pa per, and the dying man didn't want him to bother any of his neighbors as he had bothered him.
 If people are growing more unself- ish, as optimists say they are, why do the first passengers who enter railroad car, invariably select the shady side for themselves instead of seating themselves on the sunny side and thus thoughtfully leaving the shady seats for the benefit of later arriving travellers?-New Milford Gazette.
 As Miss Prudence Belden was fas- tening trailing vine on her piazza last Thursday evening she slipped and fell heavily to the ground where she lay for some time calling for help. Finally, finding it impossible to make anyone hear, she managed to get into the house, suffering great pain. The next morning Dr Camp was called and found she had broken no bones but had strained her self severely. She was laid up for sev- eral days.
 An exchange observes: Banks are supposed to benefit the people in busi- ness in their towns. And in doing so they must not always be so very, very rigid as to gilt-edged security. A mans life Is as much a guarantee. and a safer one, than all the land, gold or personal property he may have. He can dispose of them and cheat his creditors; but his honor and reputation once lost through his own misdeeds are forever gone, and his credit gone for all time. The premium list for the tenth an- nual exhibition of the Pennington Val ley Agricultural Corporation at Cherry Park (near Canton, Conn) has been issued. The exhibition will be held Wednesday and Thursday, Sept 18th and 29th. Cherry Park is the most at tractive and convenient exhibition ground in the state. The cattle show and fair are always excellent and the races are exciting. For copy of pre- mium list, address E. A. Hough, Col linsville, Conn.
 A CLOSE SHAVE. Last Saturday morning as passenger train Mo- 10 from Millerton on the PR. & NE. road was approaching Union depot in this village, hog engine started at full speed to run from the depot to the yard near the Black berry river west of the station When the locomotives came within sight of each other each engineer re- versed his machine and succeeded in preventing head on collision, although the engines were only about 10 feet apart when they came to full stop.
 A man calling himself Paul S. De Fontenoy was in this village last Thurs day asking assistance. His story was that he was Frenchman and only spoke French and German and had got temporarily out of funds. He was try ing to negotiate loan to get to Balti- more. Unfortunately for him he was recognized by a lady who had once as-