Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-07-26
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 Irrigation has produced great crop of musquitoes at Los Angeles, Cal.
 A mining claim on Douglas island, Alaska, has just been sold for $2, ,5O0,0 900.
 A carpet has been laid down in siusic hall, Cincinnati, that measures 2,600 yards.
 The skeleton of a peddler, murdered twenty years ago at Indianola, Neb., has just been discovered.
 It is predicted that the iron product of Washington territory will soon exceed that of Pennsylvania
 Forty-five gamblers, s1,692 in money and a great amount of gamblers paraphernaia were captured in a rcid at Tacoma, w. T.
 Philadelphia hotel men calculate they give away $5,0O0 worth of stationery a year to letter writing fiends who don't pay the hotel a cent.
 A Court street, Boston, gents furnisher re- gently manufactured for customer dozen collars, size g, and two merino undershirts, size 52.
 It is estimated that the total number of books in all the American public lsJraries is 21,OOO,OOo.
 An ancient canoe that was hollowed out by means of redhot stones has been found in central Norway and sent to the museum at Christiana-
 At Wolf Island, Lake Ontario, the shore is severed with dead potato bugs, which have been washed up by the waves to the depth of two or three inches.
 Col Casey says that the proposed bridge Gcross the Hudson at Jersey City will have span of 2.sOO feet. The Brooklyn bridge span is but 1,500 feet
 During twenty-two weeks of this year g, ,126 patents were issued by the United States patent office, but of this number only fifty three were issued to women.
 There are 621 newspapers printed in Berlin. Fifty-four are official papers, 70 political, 165 have to do with literature, science and art, 217 are commercial and 30 religious.
 A bottle, thrown overheard from the steamer Celtic, June 80, 1SS6 was picked up 2S2 days after in the harbor of Rivadeo, Spain, after voyage of 1,050 miles.
 A western man is selling large quantities of an ink which he calls 'lovers' ink" Its peculiarity is that the writing in which it is used entirely disappears after twelve hours
 tribe in the palm region of the Amazon cradles the young in palm leaves A single leaf turned up around the edges by some na- tive process makes an excellent cradle, and now and then it is made to do service as a bath tub.
 MT. Boyd, of Collinsville, La, must be set down as fast man, however exemplary he may be. Lately he hauled lumber, built a house and moved into it all in the space of a day and night, which certainly beats the record up to date.
 At ball in London, considered one of the best of the season, the staircase was hung with double wreaths of pink peonies; the alcoves were lined with red roses in baskets, and in the ball room the great chandelier was effectively wreathed in flowers.
 Portable electric lights, arranged to hang on button of ones coat, and with a para bolic reflector to concentrate the light, with storage batteries weighing one and half pounds each, are made to enable persons to read in railroad cars by night.
 One of the attractions of the Paris exhibi- tion next year is to be an immense model of the terrestrial globe in the Champ de Mars. It will rotate on an axis, and will give an idea of the dimensions as we'll as be accu- rately constructed on a scale of one-mill- ionth.
 Owing to the destruction of the cemetery of Waring removal of Beethoven's remains was necessary, and the skeleton was exposed to view. It was found that the cranium was unusually large and that the teeth were fine and strong The hands had quite crumbled into dust.
 In the rolls of the British parliament 1445, is petition from two counties setting forth that the number of attorneys had lately in- creased from six to twenty-four, whereby the peace of those counties had been greatly in- corrupted by lawsuits. They asked that the number be reduced to fourteen. No more dunning by postal card Under recent instructions from Postmaster General Dickinson, "anything in the nature of an of fensive or threatening dun, apparent upon an envelope, outside cover or postal card, or con- | veying the suggestion that such dun is in closed, must be excluded as non n-mailable" Aluminium is coming into use as mate | rial for dental plates. It is nearly as light as rubber; but little more than one-eighth | the weight of gold; has neither odor nor 1 taste; is not affected by the elements of food 1 or the secretions of the mouth, and costs, l bulk for bulk, about one-sxth the present l price of silver.
 1 At a recent meeting of workingmen in l England, held at the suggestion of officials l of the Established church, for the purpose of l discussing the relation of the church to the masses, it was suggested that while the clergy preach the Gospel Of Calvary, they should live the Gospel of Galilee, and bishops with e15, 900 a year salary were declared to l be hindrances.
 The names and locations of the navy yards in the United States arc as follows: Charles town navy yard, Boston; Brooklyn navy yard, Brooklyn; Gosport navy yard, Nor folk, Va; Kittery navy yard, Kittery, Me
 League Island navy yard, Philadelphia;
 Mare Island navy yard, San Francisco; New
 London navy yard, New London, Conn.
 Pensacola navy yard, Pensacola, Fla Wash
 ington navy yard, Washington, D. c. l The popular idea that razor needs rest 7 occasionally has a scientific foundation in I the case of fine razors. The grain of the best l Swedish razors runs in a diagonal direction from the upper end of the outer point to to-
 ward the handle. Constant stropping will
 twist the steel until the grain sets up and
 down, and steady use draws the grain still
 further over. When it gets into this condi
 tion it cannot be kept sharp; but, if laid
 away and left alone for awhile, the grain | will reSnrn fs first position and ha he