Connecticut western news., 1897-05-20

Tt is said that the trouble with prohibition is that it is ahead of public sentiment. That's what's the matter with the ten commandments Living Issues.
 The cottage on West Main street, Stockbridge, Mass, known as the Roadside Cottage" owned by Joseph H. Choate, has been rented for the summer to Howard Lapsley, of New York.
 On the first day of May, people in the Northern states dance around a May pole; but it seems that at Lake Helen, Fla, they dance around an alli- gator. Read the item with the caption "Young Lady, Chickens and Alligator.
 -S. A. Kemp likes to have people inspect his gardens. He already shows the third crop this season in his hot bed. He has raised 1000 tomato plants, and has sold GOO of them. We suppose the remainder are for Canaan's "4OO."
 Mrs Rutheda P. Hunt, of Lenox, Mass, is contemplating trip West this month. Her travelling companion is to be Fred S. Brown. At Ashley, Ind, Chauncey M. Hunt will join the party to go to Mir James H. Ferriss', Joliet, Ill.
 Francis D. Gaylord, trustee of the estate of the late Lyman Dunning, will hold an auction at the Dunning place at East Canaan on Friday the 18th inst. at 10 a. m, at which will be sold a large quantity of household furniture and farming utensils.
 Prof. Coles, of Kingston, N. T., warns the farmers that army worms will make their appearance again in great numbers this summer. His remedy is to plant on thigh food days. when grass, grain and vegetables may withstand their attacks.
 Many bicyclists habitually leave their wheels where they will be expos ed to strong sunlight. This will very soon take all the life and elasticity out of tire, and do it more damage than many thousand miles of hard riding would. d.-Pawling Chronicle.
 Mrs s. w. Barnes and son Albert went to Pownal, Vt. last Saturday to visit relatives week. Albert intended to ride his bicycle from Canaan to Pownal but owing to the strong north west wind he concluded to wheel it'' only from Pittsfeld to Pownal.
 An esteemed subscriber renewing his subscription for another year gives us dose of taffy in this original style. He says, "Our house without the NEWS would be the same as an egg without salt" We did not know that anybody regarded us as the ''salt of the earth
 A local paper beats the world as an advertising medium. A hand bill at. tracts attention by accident. The news paper carries your messages to wait ing audience. The fence rail ad. is corpse that can only be looked upon by few neighbors. who have to go near it.
 Tt is very rare indeed that bigger speckled trout are taken from brook than those caught by Lew Rhoades and J H. Roraback on Thursday. Rhoades had two, each of which measured 16 inches and weighed two pounds and Roraback had one which weighed II pounds. Old Isaac Walton would never have got over it if he had ever happened to catch such trout, Our astronomical friend, whose communication we published in our issue of the 9th inst, calls our atten- tion to the fact that his predictions have been verified. He says "How does it strike you that Jupiter on me- ridian with moon means rain? Mon- day, May 10. .54 p. m. Jupiter and the moon shook hands and the black clouds and pouring rain told the rest"
 Henry s. Weaver had narrow es- cape from being burned out Sunday night about midnight. At that time he | discovered fire under the stairs in his wood house and also in his workshop in the same building. It required con- siderable effort to extinguish the | flames. The insurance company will allow $50 for damages. Mir Weaver is sure that the fire was of incendiAry origin.
 The attempt to rid certain of these parts of foxes has brought to light the fact that there are sportsmen in this vii cinity who like to hunt foxes, in the season, as we'll as our own Nimrods do birds. An amusing incident transpired over the digging out of four young foxes and one old one recently by some of the Sandtown colored population. Falls Village fox hunters heard of the deed and interviewed the farmer on whose land the outrage occurred. The Falls Village men were mad and they told the good farmer that they were go- ing to kill the triggers" and wanted to know if he had any objections to their burying the bodies in the holes that the foxes had been dug out of.
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