Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-07-21
WATERBURY EVENING DEMoCRAT sAlURDAY JULY 2 1888
ODDS AND ENDS.

New York finds that an electric plant fer the execution of dogs will cost but $500.
 The first Chinaman to receive pension has just been placed upon the rolls. He was injured while serving on a man of war.
 The canning of shrimp is becoming great industry in New Orleans. Fully l00, 900 cans day are packed there during the season.
 The government is trying lobster culture n the Pacific coast. The first Atlantic in- stallment has been anchored at Santa Cruz.
 Land in New York city is so dear that it does not pay capitalists to build houses for rental. Many houses that sell for $40, 900 will not bring $2, 800 year rent
 An effort is being made by the New York Working Women's society to have the fac tory inspection law amended so as to give women power to act as deputy inspectors.
 The largest load of spruce lumber shipped on the Erie canal in many years, if not since the canals were opened, is on its way to Brooklyn. The load consists of a0S,O95 feet.
 For every 1000 inhabitants the United States runs trains (, TOO miles annually, while the train mileage of Great Britain on the same basis is 7,500; Belgium, 4,5Oo; France, 2, 1850; Germany, 3,25O.
 
 the rails from the historic Yale college fence, presumably with view of securing them relics, before the whole thing Is taken down by order of the college author ities.
 All the life saving stations on the Atlantic coast of Long Island are to be connected with sach other by telephone, and those isolated from the mainland are to be connected by telephone or telegraph with the nearest will lage.
 Professor Roberts, of Cornell, urges the importance of a complex diet for man, and especially the use of concentrated products, such as beef, milk, butter and cheese Only on such food is it possible to reach the fullest perfection of physical health and intellectual development.
 By the old method the steel wire from which watch springs are made was heated to the proper temperature and immediately plunged into oil In the new process the wire is immersed ill the oil bath first, and is then brought, by means of an electric cur rent, to the desired degree of heat.
 The largest bunch of grapes supposed to have been raised ill California weighed nine pounds, but it is said that much heavier punches have been gathered in some vine yards and thrown into the wine press Watermelons weighing from fifty to eighty pounds are often sold in the San Francisco markets, and one exhibited last fall weighed 115 pounds
 Thirty thousand dollars was voted by con- gress the other day for firing morning and evening salutes to the flag, which brings out the curious fact that the powder left over from the war lasted just twenty-three years The last barrel was used early last spring, since when no salutes have been fired at any military post except West Point, Fortress Monroe and Fort Riley.
 Near the old Indian burying ground at the mouth of the Walla Walla river has been found a medal which was given to Yellepet, famous chief, in 1906, by the explorers Clark and Lewis. On one side of the medal is the in scription, "Peace and Friendship and a pipe and tomahawk in relief. On the other side the face of Jefferson is ro be found, and the words, ''T. Jefferson, President U. s. A, 1S01"
 The danger of somnambulism is we'll known A writer in The Century tells of a piece of good fortune coming from the habit A young lady, troubled and anxious about a prize for which she was to compete, involv- ing the writer of an essay, arose from her bed ill sleep and wrote paper upon sub | ject upon which she had not intended to write when awake, and this essay secured for her the prize.
 A peculiar incident of history is the fact that two Jews of Bagdad have bought the entire site of the ancient city of Babel, the great capital of Nebuchadnezzar The pur- chasers are two brothers Effendi, one of | whom was elected member of the Turkish parliament which convened in 1878. It is re- markable that two Jews have become the heirs of the gardens of Semiramis and the palaces of Nebuchadnezzar, or what is left of | them.
 One of the most thoroughly equipped and highly accomplished centenarians on record is reported from San Diego, Cal Jeffrey Gordon is his name; he is a negro, and he was born ill Boone county, Va, on June 16 1773. He is still vigorous, and his memory so good that he remembers to have seen Washington when he was president, and also Jefferson, and to have helped build the cot ton bale Notifications at New Orleans foI 1 Gen. Jackson.