Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-06-11
STRAY BITS.

| HAv 0tI0s i A land owner at Elko, New, is seeding hi ranch to tea.
 The income of Oxford university for 1sS was $326, 900.
 The British Order of Odd Fellows shows membership of 1000.
 Silver has turned up in South Africa to degree to produce new mining fever.
 There are fourteen recent graduates Yale college engaged in journalism in New York.
 Two-thirds of the tobacco plants in west ern North Carolina have been killed by re cent frosts.
 sLingua" is new language which threat ems to drive out Volapuk It Is based ol Latin roots.
 London has eight homes for poor working girls, where they can get three tolerabl' meals a day for $1 week.
 If all the land was leveled into the sea tn. water would flow over the entire globe witl an average depth of one mile.
 A barber of Newburg, N. Y., has inventee a chair which registers the number of per sons who sit in it during the day.
 At least 4,OOO lady teachers from the coun S~SS pected at the convention at San Francisco il July.
 A man with weakness for statistics has made the calculation that a society girl ir dancing eighteen waltzes of ordinary dura tion goes distance of about fourteen miles
 At Fernandina, Fla, @ band of negro bur glars got themselves up in white ghostly gar ments. and, passing as spooks, robbed the of was caught
 The United States consul general to the Sandwich Islands reports that large mum Der of lepers, or persons giving evidence ot leprous tendencies, emigrate to the United States yearly.
 Cases of abduction of handsome and at cago as to lead to the belief that the city has an organized band of kdnapers always or the lookout for prey.
 Under the laws of Iowa railroad passen ger who sticks his head out of car window and has it knocked off by-a switch bar is guilty of misdemeanor, and can be sent te jail for three months
 Burglars who operated on the postoffice and the station of the Monticello, Port ter wis and New York railroad, at Monticello J, behind tools worth at least $2O.
 Glasgow will soon be the second city of the United Kingdom. Its boundaries are to be extended so as to include number of popu. lous towns, and it is estimated that it will then have population of nearly S00,000.
 The highest recorded balloon ascent was by Glaisher and Coxwell from Wolverhampton. England, on Sept. 5, 1862. They rose to the h1:rr oT VIA IL. in 1900 balloon ascensions only fifteen deaths have occurred.
 A tooth which measured ten inches ill length, fifteen inches in circumference and weighed ten pounds was taken from the beG of the Withlacoochee river in Citrus county Fla, last week by William Bertine. He also found some leg bones.
 Surprising are the antics of lightning at times. In Murphysboro, Ills, it wrested q knife from the hand of a cook working in 6 hotel, whose chimney the lightning wrecked and knocked down a newspaper reporter Neither of the persons was injured.
 Mir. Kennan gives one good idea of tn, enormous size of Siberia by stating in The Century that is territory would contain tn, United States, including Alaska, with all o the states of Europe, except Russia, and ther. would still be BOG, ,OOO square miles to spare.
 The most valuable manuscript in Amer ica, judging from the price paid, is in tn, possession of John Jacob Astor. It is tn, Sforza Mlssal, for which $15, 500 was paid. Il is dated in the Fifteenth century and com prises ASA pages of vellum bound in red mo rocco.
 John Elinnsman, of Jersey City, died abou two months ago and was buried by his em ployer. It was believed that Elinnsman hat no money, but the other day $500 was fount in the pockets of an old pair of trouser which one of his former fellow clerks wa about to sell to a junkman. The official report on Russia for 1885 show that the population of the empire is 109, 900, GOO. There were 6,264 deaths by violence 5000 fires, 2,ST distilleries 132, 900 wine an beer shops, 245 sugar refineries. universi ties, 38, ,531 orthodox churches, ,287 Catholic 7OS Protestant, 349 synagogues, and 3,95 mosques.
 Michael P. Barr was newsboy in Wash ington not long ago, and three years ago h enlisted in the naval service of the Unite l States at seamen's wages-5O cents day Last week he was appointed a master sai maker at $15O a month, and his first act WE to make over to his mother one-half of h pay as fast as it accrues. 4# The skeleton of an Indian who was kille in what is known as the 'Kilburn fight" ( 1755 was recently plowed up in field neo Walpole, N. H., where the fight took plac It was in this famous encounter that tw men, two women and two boys defende themselves for six hours against four hun dred bloodthirsty savages. ., 1 A native of Finland named Runen WE sent two years ago by the government to tr to discover the art of Persian carpet wea' ing. He finally obtained employment in small factory in Smyrna, where he acquire the desired information and made desig
 of the loom A Persian carpet factory h,
 now been established in Finland, and gre'
 results are expected.
 !! DAUGHTERS OF EVE. l. The empress of Japan is rapidly becomir
 proficient on the piano.