Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-04-17
ODDS AND ENDS.

A highly cultured and very popular pastor of Harrisburg bears the singularly inappro- priate name of Pfuhl.
 A lot in Denver that was purchased by an early settler for s and revolver sold the other day for $10,000.
 Miss Olive Green and Ivory White were welded in an Iowa town recently, Rev. MT. Black performing the ceremony.
 Nine brothers and sisters from family of ten attend ths same school in Clarence, Mich. The eldest is 20 and the youngest years old.
 A redwood tree that was recently cut down near Humboldt, Colo, was 200 feet long and 10 feet in diameter one way and 20 the other at the stump.
 A scheme is under consideration for tunnel ing the volcano Popocatapetl through the wall of the crater, in order to reach the de- posits of sulphur inside the mountain.
 An Omaha paper alluded to number of prominent and influential residents of the city as "old timers" but the types got it 'sold terriers" and the editor had to apologize.
 The body of a squirrel burned to a crisp was found inside a glass globe of an electric lamp at Springfield, Mass, the other day. The query is, how did the squirrel get into the globe?
 A man of letters-fully half of them named Zabediscoffokenonischi,i is getting out specimens of the carboniferous era in Schuyl kill county for the slight remuneration of about $1 day.
 J. s. Margerum, of Washington, Pa, has an English gun that was made in 174S It was taken from the dead body of a British soldier, who was killed in the retreat from Concord, Mass, April IS, 1775.
 The Pilgrim wharf at Plymouth has been used for coal yard for years The lease ex- pires soon, and the Pilgrim society proposes to make some radical changes. Plymouth Rock is at the end of the wharf.
 An army officer living at Orchard, Neb., is said to have discovered plant common to the country which has the property of con- verting milk into butter-one pound of the former making the same amount of the latter.
 There is still on the statute books in Rhode Island a law forbidding the smoking of 8 cigar on the main street of any city in the state, and in Vermont the smoking of a cigar on the street on Sunday is made misde- meanor.
 Says an imaginative statistician: eff Texas were circular lake and France a cir cu1ar island, the island could be anchored centrally in the lake out of sight of land, twenty-two miles from any point on the en- circling shore." A fisherman at Orrington, Me-, recently made queer catch while fishing for smelt During the big storm he was on the river and lost an ax and shovel through the ice. The two implements were what he found in his net so long afterward It is said that there is postoffice for every 1000 men, women and children ill the United States, and that if the expense of carrying the mails was paid directly by the people pro | rata, each citizen would pay an average of l eighty-fve cents year. Yellow diamonds are made blue of the purest water, for the time being, by being colored with a common inGclible blue pencil, l capitalized by rubbing with cotton on linen. l A magnifying glass will fail to show the fraud, but alcohol, turpentine or benzine will wash off the color.
 Broad Ripple, Ind, has ghost It is in the form of woman, and walks along the railroad track, then out over the water, and disappears directly under the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago bridge. This is I where an accident occurred four years ago l and lives were lost.
 An aged preacher of Middletown, Conn, claims to have travelled 76, 600 miles, preached l over 4, 800 sermons, performed the marriage ceremony 876 times, the baptismal ceremony 1,253 times and delivered 556 funeral dis
 courses The largest sum he ever received
 for years labors was $500.