Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-05-09
LAUNCHED AND AFLOAT.

James O'Neil has made nearly quarter of million with sMonte Cristo"
 The Donnelly cryptogram and the keely motor look enough alike to be twins.
 And now the emperor of Brazil IS seriously ill. It's a bad year for mon archs.
 Mike Kelly, the base ball champion, told President Cleveland that he commenced as poor Irish boy, with no start in life and only one suspender."
 The detective paid visit to the hotel where the Siamese embassy was stopping. He came away with sigh of disappoint- ment. s'I looked at them foreign nabobs mighty close," said he, sadly, "snd Tascott warn't among 'em.''
 Under the head of "New Arrivals" the Atlanta, Ga, Journal publishes local column announcing in elegant and com plimentary phrases the birth of every new baby in society" Matthew Arnold didn't know much about journalism.
 Buster" the son and heir and only child of Chauncey Depew is a prodigy. He is only eleven and speaks three languages fiuently. At one moment he may be heard talking German to his governess, and the next reeling off French to his mother at about the gait of Maud s.
 Unless somebody has been "journaliz- ing' again, little Willie Altemese of Funk hammock, Pa., IA years old, killed 300- pound bear and two yearling cubs with an axe inside of 10 minutes the other day, and then went on with his wood chopping as though nothing had happened.
 James Dolan, tramp, and claiming to come from Duchess county, N. Y., slept ,sl,4 !, n.1o ,,&.., Danbury. He was found fast asleep by the proprietor, and when asked who gave him permission to sleep there replied, "The Lord" The residuary lord, how ever, kicked him out.
 When young MT McNeill, of Carthage, N. O., was informed at the door Saturday evening that Miss Ida Poe was entertain ing another young man in the parlor, he sent in word that he wanted to see her a moment, and on her appearance in the doorway shot her, inficting serious wound. Then he fled the town.
 The New York World reports (perhaps humorously) that Colonel Elliott F. Shepard has instructed the Mail and Ex- press staff that hereafter they must not write for any other paper or publication whatsoever, even after office hours, but that all must devote their individual at tention to the paper, canvassing for ad- vertisements between times, upon which 'the usual commission will be allowed
 Harry Phillips explains that Sullivan (John L.) didn't start the six day pedes- trians at New York because the managers wouldn't pay but $200 for his services, whereas his price was $500 "When l began to talk money" John himself says, ''the New York fellows were way off. l can get more out of an orthodox Sunday school picnic any day. I am showing for money, and am not in business for my health-not this year." s..
 An amazing fish story from Caryrs creek, in the mountain Lehigh region of Pennsylvania, is told in the New York Sun-how lonely fisherman was aston ished to see bear come out of the bushes and drink, and how the fisherman man. aged to catch the bear with his hook, which he dexterously contrived to get the bear to insert in his own nose for that purpose. That fisherman probably had a better bait than Ben Butler proved to be.