Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-03-02
LAUNCHED AND AFLOAT.

An! we of the people begin to feel rich CT already, with prospect of some S6O,' GOO, ,O0O returned to our pockets!
 To all candidates for president who in sist upon retiring from the contest: Go early and avoid the rush !-Philadelphia Press.
 An old silver dollar, dated 1904, sold yesterday for $47O. The man who bought it declined to give his name. He feared proceedings in lunacy.
 The reason we have nothing to say about the tariff and internal revenue is because we know as little about them as the rest of our exchanges. Smithville, (Ga) News. An aged and eccentric farmer in Dur ham encased the rear legs of a pet horse in an old pair of trousers, fastened on with strings and straps. The horses body was 1 carefully blanketsd.
 | The Presidential boom of Gov Louns- l bury, of Connecticut, now weighs fourteen pounds and has cut it's first tooth. It has grown a good deal since Lounsburys name appeared in 8 Presidential anagram in Bridgeport newspaper. orld. Here is conundrum for the Interstate commission: If it costs only S4 to ship ton of grain from Chicago to Liverpool, why should it cost $5 to ship ton of grain from Chicago to New York That is what several millions of bread-eaters would like to know.
 A Willimantic school ma'am last week sent little boy seven years old home, distance of one mile, to wash his ears. The little fellow had to go, and when he informed his mother, he said: "When go
 back am going to tell the school ma am
 to go home and take her hustle off," And
 he did.
 
 James Albert, the pedestrian who was
 charged with having twin brother who , alternated with him on the track in the . recent match in Madison Square Garden,
 says that the yarn originated from the fact
 that his grandmother formerly lived next
 door to a woman who had three sets of
 twins-all girls He cannot account for it on any other hypothesis.
 The late MT Corcoran of Washington
 wisely gave as he weDt along and the only
 public bequests in his will are $10O, ,00O to the Corcoran art gallery, to which he gave ) in his lifetime $1, 800, ,000; $50,00O to the
 Louise home, to which he gave in life
 $500, ,OOO; $5, GOO each to the three orphan
 asylums of the District, and $3,000 to the
 Little Sisters of the Poor. The bulk of his estate is left in trust for his three ] grandchildren.
 MT Ingalls's recent utterances on the sub- ject of college graduates in practical life
 provokes 8 word of comment from the New York Mail and Express. 1.-The bril- liant Kansas senator" remarks that judi
 cious journal, "can find plenty of illustra tions of the compatibility of college train ing with practical statesmanship and great political success, for among the college graduates in the senate are Evarts, Voor- hees, Hawley, Cullom, Allison Blackburn Eustis, Frye, Dawes, Hoar, Vest, Vance,
 Butler and Hampton"
 The execution of old Oscar Beckwith ai Hudson, N. Y., yesterday was typica
 American hanging, except that the rope
 didn't break. The "law's delays" had beer
 so often invoked that the murder is now more than six years old, and the man had actually been sentenced six times to death
 When the fatal morning came, the author 5 ities gave him half-pint of whiskey { 5 whole tumblerfull which he poured down
 Fifteen minutes later minister baptized
 him, and 15 minutes or so after that the hangman swung him out of the world. Some days ago letter addressed to Joh1 Smith, Akron, O., was received at tht I Akron postoffice. A carrier took it ano delivered it to the first John Smith that he
 came to. The next day the letter was re turned, with the statement that it was in 3 tended for some other person. The letter f. was then tried on another John Smith He, too, opened and read it, and then re ! turned it. This thing of sending it ou 7 was kept up until the fourteenth Joh1 y Smith got it, and he claimed it as his : while every John Smith in town had reae