Connecticut western news., 1893-01-26
Local News.

house was begun yesterday.
 Miss Mabel Watson now has 54 scholars in her dancing classes.
 Nothing like getting used to any thing-zero weather for instance.
 Umbrellas have had long vacation and have not put in full days work during the past two months.
 You have not kept up with the fashion unless the water pipes in your house have frozen and burst.
 Joseph H. Vaill. Connecticut's ex- ecutive commissioner of the World fair, started for Chicago yesterday.
 To be popular wagon maker means a busy life. This is G.H. .Pasmore's case. Peo- pie will have Pasmore. The reason2 He's a good workman.
 Last Sunday wrecking train from Hartford gathered up remnants of sey- eral recent wrecks along the line of the P. R. & N. E. road.
 During the past week or two the young folks have greatly enjoyed coast ing down the hill in s. A. Eddy's lot east of the school house.
 Prayer meetings were held in the Methodist church nearly, every evening last week, being continuation, as 1t were, of the week of prayer.
 William Nisbet, the enterprising Winsted dry goods merchant, has rent ed the store now occupied by Larkin X Sparks, and will soon add this to his present store, which is too small for his increasing business.
 A new ice house has been built and filled near s. A. Eddys farm barn. Frank VanDeusen has built and filled a new ice house on his lot on West Main St. He will deliver ice next sum- mer to limited number of customers.
 The Rev Robert Hunt, of Pawling, N. T., will be interested in this item which we clip from an exchange: "Lon- doners are so we'll pleased with fresh Florida oranges that the hope is express ed over there that the recent experiment of shipping them direct from Florida to England may prove so successful that it will become the custom
 The cold snap has been terrible time for freight brakemen. A gentle man, who lives by the Twin Lakes, told us that one day last week, while train was stalled" near his house, he found brakeman completely benumbed and doubled up with the cold. The brake man was ready to give up but was re- vived by cup of hot composition tea prepared by the gentleman's wife.
 The idea has been started that con- tagious diseases can be com mmunicated by paper money, and it is proposed to apply to congress to pass law requir- ing the banks to forward notes more promptly to Washington for redemp- tion. This is all very we'll, but at the same time. if any of our subscribers see by the little yellow labels that their sub scriptions are in arrears and wish to pay, we will risk the contagion.
 MT William Watson has niece in Springfield, Ill., who recently sent him birthday present in the form of a Lin coin souvenir spoon. On the bowl of the spoon is engraved correct repre- sentation of Abraham Lincoln's monu. ment at Springfield, Ill. On the han dle of the spoon is engraved repre- sentation of the house in which "OId Abe" lived when he was first elected president. Mir Watson's initials, also the initials of the donor, are engraved on the spoon.
 The Fair Haven correspondent o1 the Shore Line Times says:
 The cold spell has resulted in at least one valuable scientific discovery; to wit that frozen water pipes may be made tc "give down" their contents if galvan ized-iron pail is placed under the faucet The theory is similar to that which demonstrates that gun-bafrel will mol rust if piece of zinc is firmly fastened thereto; the details of it's working out are the discovery of Roland Warner who, however, is loath to converse up on the subject until he shall have pro tected the secret by patent or otherwise
 A new way of petty swindling has just come to light. It is done in this manner. Your express agent informs you that he has O. O. D. package fo; you and that the bill is $1 90. You tak' the package, and upon opening it yol find small box, which contains bras finger ring with piece of glass for set ting, the whole thing being worth at th' very top notch, three cents. This rev dose originated in Chicago, from whence these packages are sent out. Severa have been received at the office in thi place, and we learn that the express offices along the Harlem railroad are il your express matter.-Brewster Stand ard.
 We are inclined to think that D Camp feeds too many oats. Last Sat urday morning his black horse was yer, frisky and impatient to start after be ing harnessed to the carriage. Whil the driver was standing on the ground and holding the lines, the horse sudden ly decided to give circus performance and it plunged forward throwing tn driver down and dragging him in th snow few feet when the lines slipped from the drivers hands. Away wen the horse and carriage over younl