Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-02-03
HERE AND THERE.

Maine has fourteen cities, and Waterv1He will soon be added tothe list.
 The average Mexican laborer supports his family on ten cents per diem, invested ln corn end beans.
 Iowa This is the number given in the report of the state superintendent for 1887.
 A low estimate puts the number of persons supported by all the forms of employment furnished by electricity at 5,OOO,OOO.
 The "Great She' is the name of the latest gold mine speculative company in London. The mine is said to be in South Africa
 During 1887 eleven and one-half tons of postage stamps-nearly TIC, ,OOO, 900 in number were sold at the New York post office.
 A Greek named Dimitrius Antippa has just died at Constantinople at the age of l15. He knew Robespierre, and possessed several of his letters
 There were not fewer than 3, 459 matricu- lated students at Edinburgh university last year, and the value of the scholarship and bursaries which were disposed of was SIC, ,OOO. A train on the Alabama and Great Southern railroad dashed through a drove of fifty mules at Akron recently and killed eight of them outright The locomotive kept on it's way without leaving the rails.
 One hundred and twenty bull fights were given in the City of Mexico during the past year. Seventeen bull fighters were wounded, and one professional and two amateur fight CTS killed.
 l The prize for the effectual destruction of | rabbits offered by the New South Wales gov ernment is being warmly contested. Already l S86 inventions have been sent in to compete | for the S250,O00
 The Corean never cuts his hair, and he 1 wears it in braid down his back until he gets married, when he has the right to curl 1 it on the top of his head. A man is not SUD- posed to be man until he can wear his hair on the top of his head.
 1 The champion Benedict" of the civilized world is Francois Sauron, wood ranger of Saint Paulien. He is 6S years old. and on Jan. 10 was married for the sixth time to 8 l widow of GO. His last four marriages have occurred in the last four years.
 More and more paper is taking the place of woodwork. Paper doors are now largely | substituted for wooden doors. The paper doors arc better for the reason that they are lighter; they do not shrink or swell with changes of weather; they are made from sin gle sheets of paper nodded into any desired pattern, and they are not dearer than wooden doors.
 A Hartford man started good fro in a sheet iron stove in his office, forgot to close the draught, locked the office door and went to drive. When he came back he found the fire out; but it had made itself felt before going out. Everything in the room was scorched, apples on shelf were baked. and 6 dog that had been locked in was dead, evi dently suffocated.
 A rival to Dakota for the championship ir low temperature is Wercbojansk, in Siberia Tho mean temperature in 1885 was 30 degs below zero, For January and December il was 63 degs. below, and for July it rose to 6t degs. above zero. The lowest temperature ir July was 39 degs. above, while in January fall to 90 degs. below zero was experienced This attractive winter resort is in latitude 6, degs. 34 mins., longitude 133 degs. 51 mins.