Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-08-23
SOMEWHAT STRIKING.

A GENTLEMAN of Athens, Ga, has Q pigeon that is trained to do almost any thing he tellsoit. It can play on the piano, waltz, march and crow like a rooster.
 THERE is man living in Georgia eighty one years old who has never taken a chew of tobacco nor smoked cigar, never was drunk, never Sworc and never married.
 A SWEET girl graduate" :" in Hemingford, Ncb., lectured last season on "The Bright Possibilities of the Broom" She made & grand hit. Last week she was married to MT. Bro0me.
 MRs. BooTH, of Washington County, Tenn, died recently i'll the log house she was born in, ninety-cight years ago. She had n all that time never been further than five miles from home.
 CARSON, Nev., reports an aerolite weigh ing ten tons that is streaked with horn silver, and fell upon race course, narrow ly missing a jockey who was exercising colt there Ut the time.
 PROVIDENCE, R. l., lately advertised that he " wanted to sell his wife for cash or ex- change her for a good worl1-horse," and further warranted her to be forty-one years old, and as good as the majority of church going geople."
 IRE youngest greatgrandmother on rec ord in this country is Mrs. Mary Ann Wall ace of Bagdad, Fla, who was mother at eighteen, grandmother at thirty-four and now at fifty the mother of a grandmother
 PETER BUCHANAN, a young lad of St. Cloud, Mlnn., breaks bone every time he falls. His bones arc so brittle as to snap under the slightest blow, and, although only six years old, he has sustained sixteen fractures of the arms and legs.
 IN New York City some time since little girl swallowed an open penkife handle first. A. stomach to remove the knife, which opera tion was successfully performed and the girls life saved.
 A NATURAL soap well has been discovered near Buffalo Gap, D. T. The soap is skinned from boiling spring, and hardens by ex- posture to the air. It is a mixture of bo- rax, alkai and oil. The quality is excel lent, and the supply is believed to be inex- haustible.
 A WRITER in the Century tells of piece of good fortune coming from the somnam- buIsuc habit. A young woman, troubled and anxious about prize for winch she was to compete, involving the writing of an essay, arose from her bed in sleep and wrote paper upon a subject upon which she had not intended to write when awake, aud this essay secured for her the prize. AWONDERFUL mechanical figure is the cork of citizen of Bridgeport, Conn. It's about the size of the average sixteen-year- old youth. An exhibition of its ability was given to number of New York gentle men, which included the removal of watch from its pocket, and then, after listening for the tick, the announcement in an audi ble tone that "i it's just S:3O, gentlemen" Alter that the timeplece is returned to the pocket.
 DURING rain and thunderstorm at Fort Valley, Ga. the other night, lightning struck negro house inthe edge of the town, drove a splinter of wood in woman's arm, knocked boy a complete somersault, turned the cradle over containing the baby, knocked all the chickens of the roost, tore the block loose from the yard dog, and, strange to say, there was not any one killed, but no doubt everything was badly stunned for g. few minutes.