Connecticut western news., 1894-06-21

Street was commenced last Friday.
 The grounds around Junius Rhoades' new house and Mrs Harlow Roots new house have been nicely graded.
 A physician says that there are but three known tobacco takers" The African goat. the hideous tobacco worm and the rational creature-man.
 The teachers and pupils of the Ca naan Academy and some of their friends went to Twin Lakes on Thursday for picnic and spent most of the day.
 The compositors and proof-readers get much blame for the few errors they make and little credit for the many blunders they rectify.-Priuter's Ink,
 The men and boys going in swim ming and exposing themselves to people on the highway are notified that they will be prosecuted if they do not desist.
 Major s. A. Bennett left yesterday for Pompton, N. J., where 1t is under stood that he is interested in some manufacturing enterprise. He will re- main there for an indefinite period.
 A subscriber wants to know what kind of caller the pheasant caller" is the newspapers speak of as having been in to visit them from time to time. We La hn man or woman who calls in to pay his or her subscription.
 -"Old Glory" was displayed from number of places in town last Thurs day, yet it was amusing to note the anxiety and curiosity of some people at the appearance of the flag until their fears were quieted by telling them that June 14th Is Flag Day.
 Mrs -, while cleaning house, asked her husband to nail up some l; he refused; she looked tt at him, told him his conduct vas without Il, then beat him with her Bas~ until he saw N. He now lies in ,tose state, and may soon be fit subject for disS.
 -Vircbow and other authorities on hygiene have discove ,ed that the acid of vinegar is rather intolerance to di- gestion than anything else. Lemon juice is the correct thing. Besides the little cells Tn the vinegar sometimes re- main as parasites in the alimentary canal. -Messrs Freeman, Pease, Lermond and Lorrigan have recently made per manent improvements on the sidewalk on Elm street between St. Joseph's church and the railroad crossing. They also built new and substantial foot bridge, with a railing on each side, where said walk connects with the high way near the crossing.
 -Apropos of the miserable habit of borrowing papers by persons too stingy to subscribe for them which prevails in country districts, is the following good anecdote which we heard the other day: In answer to boy who came to a house to borrow paper, the man who sub scribea for the paper said: ''Tel your father to send me his dinner; I only want to eat it."-New Milford Gazette
 Bill Hart and Mrs Ella Ford, of Canaan Valley, were brought before Justice Roberts yesterday, charged with keeping disorderly house. M 8 Ford was required to give $500, bond for her good behavior and Hart was re- quired to give like bond to appear for trial in the superior court, and, failing to give these bonds, they were taken to Litchfeld jail in the evening by Constable Drake.
 The editor of the NEWS recently re- ceived letter from the Rev E. H. Roys, pastor of the M E. church at Walton, N. Y. Rev. Roys is native of Canaan; and Canaanites feel interested in him and his work, therefore we take the liberty to quote few lines from his letter as follows: "I have been in Wal ton over a year, and we are not in our new church yet. We began building within eight weeks after coming here and it will be dedicated about the first of August. I will send you the papers | giving an account of the dedication services. We are to have one of the finest churches in the Conference. The |
 style of architecture is Romanesque. I wish you could make it convenient to to visit us about the time of opening !"
 The Rev and Mrs Frederick Thompson held their annual reception at the Canaan Academy on Thursday evening. It was beautiful moonlight night and the attendance of invited guests was large. The evening passed very pleasantly in conversation and dancing, excellent music being furnish ed by Baldwin's we'll known orchestra of Great Burlington. Mrs Hodgson, of New York city, the elocutionist, enter tained the company with one of her recitations; Messrs Brette Morton, Del gado and Max Morton repeated their minstrel solos and little Miss Annie Thompson sang two songs and recited a piece in her very pretty way. Delicious refreshments consisting of ice cream, cake and lemonade were dis pensed.
 -Ex-chaplain of the state prison at Wethersield, Rev E. F. Atwood. for merly of Bridgewater, Ct, writes to us that "having been released from state prison" he has purchased a house and barn, No. 590 Garden street, Hartford, where, Providence permitting, he will reside for some time to come. The