Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-01-20
STRAY BITS.

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 STRAY BITS.
 It will take s5o,ooo to break up the Great Eastern, which was sold recently for sS0,0Oo.
 A blind man in Buffalo has just passed a law examination and been admitted to the bar.
 Two hundred thousand infants under 3 years old are believed to be farmed out in France.
 An Ohio man has been charged with mak- ing love and becoming engaged to three sisters all at once.
 Phylloxera and mildew have so damaged the French vintage that the yield will be $500, 900 hectolters less than last year.
 There is such boom in the Argentine Republic that Buenos Ayres has become the dearest city ill the world to live in.
 The price of pedigree Shorthorn cattle has dropped in England from an average of S25O, which it reached a few years ago, to S135.
 The cold was so severe in Monterey, Mexico, recently, that circus proprietor had to build B fire around his elephant to keep him from freezing.
 Deawodod, D. T., has all anti-fat society, the members of which pledge themselves to abstain from eating anything that will add to their corpulency.
 A bit of Chinese philosophy runs as fol lows: "Observe not the stranger in thy melon patch too closely. Inattention is often the highest form of civility."
 l Residents of Rapid City, D. T., have sent for lot of quail for the purpose of stocking that region with the birds. It is believed they will withstand the rigors of the winter. 1 At tho mouth of the Congo there is a re- markable submarine valley. Just at the mouth of tho river it is ,452 feet deep, and it 1 can bo distinctly traced for 100 miles out to sea. l Tn order to introduce railroads into Mo | rocco tho king of Belgium has devised the ingenious scheme of sending tho sultan a complete railway train with a lot of rails as a present.
 The new Mexican law which provides that the 18th of July each year-anniversary of the death of Benito Juarez-shall be a day of public mourning has been published and gone into effect.
 Hereafter no permits will be granted in the City of Mexico for bull fights on week days. This order has been given because hundreds of workingmen neglected their daily avoca- tion ill order to go to the bull ring.
 A sleight of hand performer in Thomson, nls, while giving an exhibition, presented loaded cigar to Frank Potter of that town. When the cigar exploded it burned Potter's mustache, eyelids, eyebrows one side of his face and one of his eyes.
 1 A Connecticut woman has embroidered the words and music of "Home, Sweet Home' on linen sheet which is on the "spare room" bed Her guests have not decided whether the hostess means to indicate that they must feel at home or had better go home.
 In Liverpool, England, a play entitled s.Who's the Lunatic?' was recently enacted. Before it was finished half the people in the audience were shouting: ''The author, the author" When he blushingly appeared he was greeted with roars of laughter and cries of '.He's the lunatic!'
 Five Paris firemen, on lark, captured @ countrymans wagon load of hay on a public street, and, after turning somersaults and going through other athletic exercises upon it, began to throw the bundles of hay at one another and at others. The police arrived about this time and ended the fun.
 Thn finest house in Washington is that of E. H. Warder, on K street. It cost $40O, ,O0O, and looks like Venetian palace. It has a bathroom of white marble, and in one of the bedrooms there is an apartment walled with mirrors, SO arranged that one can see every part of himself without turning his head. There were lynched during the year 1887 in the United States no fewer than 123 per- sons Of the various states and territories Texas leads the list, with fifteen lynchings, and Mississippi is entitled to second place, with fourteen to her credit. All the victims were males, eighty of them being negroes. 7 Saxony and Thuringia are the home and paradise of dolls. The annual production of dolls stockings alone in Saxony is B, ,O0O dozen. Thousands of shoenlakers find con- 1 stant employment in making dolls shoes. The export of dolls to England, France and America is very large, and increasing every year. +-~-
 1 Tho Boston and Maine railroad has just '.l awarded it's prizes to the station agents who II have taken the best care of their station grounds and made the best floral display. Three prizes of $50 each went to the agents at Atkinson, Madbury and Kennebunk. There were four $50 prizes, seven S2O and } three Ssl5.
 : A Montgomery (Ala.) groceryman circu } lated the report that he had found $1 800 in
 bills hidden away among the cobwebs in g
 corner of his store, and there was consider able interest around town to know who hao left it there. After several persons had an nounced themselves as claimants, he quietly , informed them that it was Confederate
 money.
 An Englisllman named Hughes, rendered splenetic by unrequitel love- committed sui } eide at Bologna in Q most determined man
 ner He drank a small bottle of whisky , mixed with strychnine, then locked the doors
 and windows, made a fire of charcoal anc finally cut the artery of his left wrist. 4 3 loaded revolver which he had lying on tn, t table became superfuous after that. The little village of Aberdeen, O., whicl
 lies just across the river from Maysville, Ky. has in the last quarter of century become widely known as the Gretna Green of tn,
 west, and it is estimated that more runaway
 lovers are married there than in any othel
 town in the world. In thirty years at leas
 10000 elopng couples have been made happ.