Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-11-14
WATERBURY EVENING DEMOCRAT, WEDNESDAY, NOV A. lss8
STRAY BITS.

The Chinese word for "hash" is the longest and most difficult word to pronounce in the language.
 On a wager, E. S. Hall, of Lowell, Mass. |, held his arm out straight for one hour and fifty minutes.
 In Berlin heavy wagons are not allowed on certain streets In Paris any carload of rat tling material must be fastened till it can't rattle.
 A man in Newark, N. J., is playing a game of chess with his cousin in Australia by mail They have been at it for five years The Newark man now sees defeat staring him in the face
 The White House at Washington derives it's name from the fact that the Virginia freestone, of which it is built, was painted white to conceal the discoloration caused by smoke and water.
 High up in the topmost branches of large tree that was felled near Winchester, O., recently, petrifed fish was found. It is supposed to have been dropped by an eagle or some bird of prey. Twenty young men in a Pennsylvania town formed football club. In three months fourteen of them had broken bones, three were crippled for life and one druggist sold them SIS worth of ointment.
 A thief at St. Louis attends funerals, and while the ceremony is in progress secretes himself and awaits the departure of the procession. Then he emergeS, bundles up the valuables and steals away.
 More than a sixth part of the land of the globe and nearly a sixth part of the popula- tion of the world are under the control of Great Britain; Russia ranks second in terri torial extent and the United States third.
 Amos Marsh, a colored man of Orange, N. J., drew $15,000 in a lottery, and his first step was to abandon his old wife and give a white woman s, 900 to marry him. He said it was no use to have money unless be could get into society.
 Chester policeman who undertook to | confiscate a flock of geese which he found running at large was fiercely attacked by one of the number--a gander-and finally fled, leaving the pugnacious bird and its compan- ions to roam at will
 At Central City, Colo, a retort containing $40, in gold was placed in bank for safe keeping. The gold was all produced in a single day by one mine. The amount is the greatest ever taken from any mine in the same length of time.
 Twenty-one apples picked by New Hol- land, Pa., farmer completely filled half
 
 actly one pound, and the largest one pound five ounces. The entire lot tipped the scales at twenty-four pounds. In Cuba a woman never loses her maiden name. When married her husbands name is added to her own, but she is always called by her Christian and maiden names. Children take the name of both parents but place the mothers name after the fathers.
 A shelf which was thrown on the field of Gettysburg more than twenty-five years ago waited long time for it's victim, but found him at last the other day. An old soldier, who ought to have had a better knowledge of shells. forced red hot iron into it, with the natural result
 According to the census of 1Ss0-s1, the last one taken, there were at that time 90, ,9S0, ,626 widows ill India, of whom 669, 900 were under 19 years of age, and PTS, 900 under If years. According to the native custom none of these widows are at liberty to marry again. The same census gave the total female population at 99, 7C0, 900, and of these only 20O, 900 were able to read.