Connecticut western news., 1894-05-17
ODDS AND ENDS.

If the doctor orders bark, has not the patient a right to growl:
 A house at Canton, Conn, that was built in 176O is still occupied as dwell ing.
 The rose of Castile is the national flower of the swarthy and fiery Span iard.
 The first famous German brewer was Herr Knausten, who wrote handbook on his art in 1875.
 Horses are so plentiful in Chilli and Buenos Ayres that it is not uncommon for beggars to ride.
 True modesty avoids everything that is criminal, false modesty everything that is unfashionable.
 The real happiness of life cannot be bought with money, and the poor may have it as well as the rich.
 There is talk of running trolley ob- servation cars across Niagara falls sus- pended 50 feet above the water.
 Imitation may be the sincerest flat tery, but an up to date girl doesn't think so when she is presented with paste diamond
 Racine often said that the suffering he endured from one adverse criticism more than outweighed all. the pleasure he enjoyed from the public applause.
 Pope owed his accuracy and polish of style to hint from a miserable poet named Walsh that the English poetry of that day was deficient in elegance.
 A bomb was recently found near the Roman coliseum. While stands the coliseum Rome shall stand" said By ron, "and when Rome falls-the world"
 Raynaud, a very voluminous author, persuaded a publisher to issue a 90 vol ume edition of his works. It was done and ruined the publisher, who died in poorhouse
 Scarron was for many years victim of acute rheumatism. He could use only his tongue and his hands. All his bril- liant works were written on a portfolio placed on his knees.
 Vondel was the Dutch Euripides Most of his tragedies are on subjects drawn from the Scriptures In the De hverance of the Children of Israel" the principal actor was the Almighty. A French author, noted in his own time, produced in the seventeenth cen tury a folio volume on Noses" in which he described all kinds and told what sort of nose every saint in the cal endar must have possessed. When Malherbe was on his deathbed, an unlettered priest was picturing to him in ungrammatical language the joys of heaven. Hold your tongue, said the dying grammarian. "Your wretched grammar disgusts me with them" Gutta percha was first introduced into Europe from Malaga in 1852. The an- 4,000, 900 pounds.
 An employee of Washington hotel is able, it is said, to wash and dry over 1000 dishes an hour and put them in their proper places. More beer is drunk in Munich than in any other town in the world. A quart and half per day is the average per head of the population. With the exception of Belgium, whose debt has been incurred for internal i'm provements, every European national debt is in great part war debt.
 The cost of the worlds wars since the Crimean war has been SIS ,265, ,000, ,O00, or enough to give $10 gold piece to every man. woman and child on the globe. The very earliest carvings now extant are those f0und in tha eayes of aa Nouo- tier and La Madelaine, preserved at Paris, bearing representations of animals as seen by the prehistoric men.
 Statisticians estimate that in Great Britain there are TOO millionaire families, 9,650 families every rich," 14S, ,250 fami- lies ''rich," 730. 500 in moderate circum- stances,' 2,008, 900 struggling to keep