Connecticut western news., 1894-07-26
Albert Bullard is very i'll with ty.

Albert Bullard is very ill with ty- phoid fever.
 -Winsted is noted for base ball cranks and runaway horses.
 A watch and a man to be any good must have some ''go" to them.
 The ladies of the NJ. E. church will Serve ice cream and cake at the church parlors Wednesday evening, Aug. lst
 -Messes Joseph and George Futile, of Newark, N. J., were the guests of J. s. Adam for a short time during the past week.
 It IS proposed to lay out street over the present right of way from East Main street, near Bennett's hill, north to the P. R. & N. E. R. R.
 An statistician estimates that during the course of an ordinary life the aver age man will eat seven four-horse wagon loads of food more than is good for him.
 Conductor Peter Garvey has been reinstated in his old place as conductor on the P. R. &. N. D. as the result of personal interview with Receiver Sher- wood. ...... .
 Mrs John Rodemeyer returned on Monday from her visit at Bethel. Her daughter, Mrs Stone, accompanied her home and will remain in Canaan awhile.
 Until further orders every passen- ger train on the P. R. &. N E. road will stop at Twin Lakes Station, and also at the picnic grounds, on signal or when the conductor is notified.
 -LosT. On the evening of July Is, at the Pilgrim church parlors or in the street, small leather pocket-book. Anyone returning the same to Miss Bridges will be suitably rewarded.
 The mercury registered. from 9S to 100 degrees in the shade last Thursday, and from 99 to 1O5 degrees last Friday The shower Saturday night came mighty near being 8 "dry one," as it hardly laid the dust, but it cooled the atmos- sphere. .
 We did not donbt J. NJ. Roys, statement in regard to huckleberries on Beartown mountain, nevertheless last Monday he brought us two quarts of the berries as sample and also brought some of the bushes with the berries growing on them.
 The board of examiners of Wellesley college has voted to accept Mis- Grace M Roraback, of this place, as student at that institution, without ex- |amniation, on the certificate of the Canaan Academy that she has pursued the required studies.
 The Bolivar Breeze thinks thusly: Here is Latin proverb which the average young man ought to read three times day for one year. Opportunity has hair in front; behind she is bald. If you seize her by the forelock you may hold her; but if suffered to escape not Jupiter himself can catch her again.
 When you see youth who will do any kind of work, no matter how men ial if may ho rokbar kbon ba ;1Io yo, can make up your mind that that fellow amounts to something. That young man who would starve before he would do anything beneath what he conceives to be his dignity, is not made of the right stuff to cut much of a figure in this world. Don't be afraid of any sort of work, so long as it is honorable.
 Girls, don't fail to make yourselves as pretty as possible. Dress as we'll as you can afford to. The pretty, we'll dressed, sweet-mannered woman rules the world, says fashion writer. That is true, adds the Ansonia Sentinel, but, girls, don't get the idea into your heads that It Is necessary, to bo pretty, to be extravagant. Prettiness doesn't come by purchase. A 19-cent dress can set off pretty face as we'll as the costliest silks, Over-dressing is one of the evils of our modern civilization. Simplicity is the element of prettiness which all true men recognize and appreciate. Bear this in mind, girls.