Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-06-28
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 A railroad will soon be built from GifFst Aas tocommunicate with the rest of Spain
 Great pearl discoveries arc reported in tha Gulf of Mexico. One was sold Tor 140,0u francs -st@f'H 4s
 Maurice Guignard, workman at St Ouen, in France, has inherited $4 ,O00, ,00o through his wife a ots'f
 At the age of IS Edward Blewett, of Ere worth nearly $1,0oo,Oo0
 The master tailors In the British army complainthat shey have very little chance of pronotioas and they want . change
 There is ,0o1 in New York, awaiting the order of John Anthony Barnes, who lefu Boston in 1869 and has not since been heard from. gus atAi.
 Walter Cooper, prominent English gypsy, died recently, and his body was drawn to ths churchyard by favorite mare. The mare was then sacrificed.
 The London and Northwestern railway has decided, 'in deference to the prejudices of ita American customers, to institute the system of checking baggage. ae "
 Three hundred London cabmen recently struck against paying guinea a day for their cabs, and succeeded in having tho price reduced to sixteen shi11ings.
 In the first five months of 1888 there wers laid 2, ,2n miles of railroad. The south con tributes nearly onethird. Californiahas 279 miles and Georgia is next with 196.
 The last French rifle, as described, has a ball so small that . soldier can carry 220 rounds, shoots with new smokeless powder, and it's bullet pierces a brick wall eight inch es thick at 500 yards. sa
 There was such glut of southern vegeta- bIes in the New York market the other day that thousands of crates were emptied into the harbor. This was done to secure de- mand for the next arrivals.
 The Liverpool and Manchester Ship canal, which Is to cost e80, ,O0O, ,O00, and be built in seven years, will be dredged by German dredging machines, as the English contractor finds nothing in England to equal them.
 The mammoth timber ship at the Finger. board, Nova Scotia, is about two-thirds built. MT. Robertson states that there are 21 900 pieces already in this ship, and he ex- poets 1000 pieces will be required to finish 1t.
 The English farmers have turned against the sparrows as pest to agriculture, and are offering rewards for their destruction. It is asserted that these vicious birds cause loss to agricultural England of $40, ,000, 900 to $50, 100000 per year.
 Two young men of Racine, Wis, locked the door of the Methodist church in that city during tho service, and it became necessary for deacon to climb through window and unlocI, the door before the congregation could be released. fra
 It appears that besides having ships with no gums, England has cavalrymen with nc horses. For example, the Third regiment oi Household cavalry has but 800 horses for 1 300 inen, and If, 900 dragons and hussars have but 10000 horses In the German army the usual proportion is 1000 horses to 700 men. isa'A2af5l o%a'' '-'" '--+
 Moscow Jackson, a sleeping car porter on the Central Georgia railroad, has been in the employ of southern railroads since 1888. He was 8 slave and sold by his master to the Macon and Western road, now g part of the Central, and was for eighteen years put down among the valuable assets of that cor. poration. +@~'@T N~F>'%"'F
 The skaleton of an Indian who was killed in what is known as the ''Kilburn fight" o1 1755, was recently plowed up in field near Walpole, N. H., where tho fight took place It was in this famous encounter that twe men, two women and two boys defended themselves for six hours against 400 blood thirsty savages s7's5 2-af7 @
 The expression "dark horse, now in sucf general political use, first occurred in Lort Beaconsdeld's Young Duke" Here is the paragraph: "The first favorite was neve, heard of, the second favorite was never seer after the distance post, all the ten-to-one. were in the rear, and dark horse which hal never been thought of rushed past the grane stand in sweeping triumph" When the United States Fish commission steamer Albatross was in the Straits of Ma gellan, where she spent a month making col lections, she ran out of ice. So she steanet into Eyre sound, where icebergs are oftei found floating, made fast to nice berg, GU l off big blocks of ice, which were clear ant solid, and took on board six tons, whicl lasted until she reached Panama. 71 The African explorer, Lieut.. Kund, th leader of an expedition which started iron 1 Battanga into the interior last November l and reached lat. degs. north and long. ! degs. 30 min east last February, was recentl, 1 attacked by hostile tribes while crossing th Tsannaga river on his way to Cameroon l Both he and his companion, Lieut.. Tappen beck, were wounded by rife shots, but thei 1 S.>s, of