Connecticut western news., 1893-01-19
Jack Frost is a good friend to the

D. U. Beckleys.
 Our representative, Albert A. Hub bard, is member of the joint standing committee on State prisons.
 -Ex- Conductor G. s. Colt of the Housatonic has been chosen clerk of the Bridgeport board of charities.
 -One plan proposed in Millerton to secure town hall there is to organize joint stock corporation to build it.
 Our Huntsville correspondent in- forms us that Miss Frances Bigelow, of East Canaan, is teaching school at Low CT City.
 Miss Maggie Ivory, of East Canaan, is learning to telegraph under the tuition of Miss Murnane in the Union depot telegraph office.
 MT and Mrs D. l.. Peirce went to Vineland, N. J., on Tuesday to attend the diamond wedding of Mir and Mrs Irenus Elton which occurred yesterday.
 Rev Elisha Whittlesey officiated and preached in the Episcopal church at Lenox, Mass, on Sunday, 1n the ab sence of Rev MT Grosvenor, the rector.
 The report, that the citizens of Sal isbury decided to hold ratification meeting when the burning of their beautiful railroad station became gen. ally known, is denied.
 We don't hear any of the cronic kickers saying much because we don't have any winter weather like we used 10 have years ago. Guess they're frozen up.-Deep River New Era.
 At the close of long prayer by father who had prayed for poor fam fly, his son said: Father, if I had as much wheat in the barn as you have, I would answer that prayer myself. "-Ex- change.
 In this village the mercury regis tered 150 below zero Monday morning; 140 below zero Tuesday morning; 160 below zero Wednesday morning. IL was 190 below zero at Clayton on Tues day morning.
 When writing from Vineland, N. J., under date of Jan. 18th to renew subscription to the NEWS, Mrs Darius Rood remarks: Thermometer down to zero Wednesday morning; unusually cold for New Jersey.
 An exchange takes occasion to insist on the importance, in order to keep the lungs in healthy condition, of often filling the lungs to their fullest capacity and then allowing the air to escape slowly through the nostrils. ....
 Since the recent presidential and state election we hear men say: "I am out of politics. Don't cry, don't cry ! Take philosophical view of the sltua- tion. Remember it is better to be out of politics than out of flour or out of health.
 The Hartford Courant almanac for 1893 is beautifully gotten up, printed on fine paper with superior Illustration s representing scenes in the life of Col umbus and the buildings at the Worlds Fair. It also contains much useful in- formation.
 Rev Father O'Connor celebrated Mass at St Joseph's on Sunday for the first time. Hereafter there will be ser vices in this place every Sunday. The new choir of girls and boys sang very sweetly during the celebration, although they have had little practice.
 Even mouse, they say, can tell the difference between butter and oleo- margarine. This is terrible reflection on the knowledge and practical experi- ence required of candidates for the ap- pointment of dairy commissioner, says the Democratic Windham County Tran script.
 We have been notified by John c. Richmond that Sheriff Henry J. Allen, of Torrington, will send garden seeds, free of all expenses, to anybody who will simply ask him to do so by letter or postal The seeds are from the Ag- ricultural Department at Washington. DC.
 A Norwalk farmer gives the follow ing timely recipe for the cure of frost bite: "Make a very strong infusion of hemlock boughs and apply while warm to the parts affected. It will immedi- ately allay all burning and painful sen- sations." Another remedy for frostbite, and one the NEWS can vouch for, is to thaw out the frozen member by either applying or soaking it in kerosene oil.
 The meeting of the literary society last Friday night was we'll attended. A paper on California, by A. P, Freeman, was read. s. A. Eddy read poem by Bret Harte. The debate was an inter- esting one on Resolved that the West offers better opportunities for young man starting in life than the East. J Messrs Lester Adams and Frank Stew ems for affirmative; G. W. Pasmore and Lester Root for negative. The result of the vote may be summed up in the well-known words of the late Horace Greeley. "Go West, young man."
 The Winsted Citizen in recent issue publishes some very good fish stories. There is, however, a gentleman in our town, whose word nobody would dream of questioning, who says that he once had what he calls "pickere dog" The gentleman used to take the