Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-05-21
THE WATERBURY EVENING DEMocRATt MONDAY MAY 2 lsss
HERE AND THERE.

HERE AM, THERE.
 One of the newly elected pages of the Iowa house of representatives is a 10-year-old girl.
 A violin made of clay is now on exhibition in Berlin. It is said to lave strong and full tone.
 The human heart has b do as much work in twenty-four hours as a machine would to lift 125 tons of iron
 In the grand court of the Kremlin at Mos COW there is about to be erected a monument in memory of the late agar which will cost $650, 0,OO0.
 A barber at Suez, A. T., while shaving man was seized with an attack of homicidal mania, and cut his customers throat from ear to ear.
 The largest tree in the country east of California is a gnarled old sycamore that stands in Upper Sandusky, O.. It is forty feet in circumference.
 The word Birmingham, so common in naming town and cities, Is compounded of three words, which together mean ssthe hill which is the home of the broom" an English shrub.
 A scientific journal says that there is no properly recorded instance of a railroad loco motive ever attaining speed greater than eighty miles all hour, and that higher speeds are mythical
 Chrome yellow is getting itself into disre- pute in Baltimore, too. It has been discovered that the poisonous compound is used there in coloring candies, though it appears not to great extent.
 A well read man of fair ability is said to use from 6,O0O to 1000 words, and to be able @~$4~~ <NrNA OOO Shakespeare's vocabulary contained about E, 900 words
 Chicago has had seven of the national con- ventions of the two great political parties, Cincinnati four, Philadelphia two, and St. Louis two. New York, Baltimore and Charleston have had one each
 A Methodist church at Augusta held ''hard boiled egg festival" for the purpose of pected to bring hard boiled egg, the pro- ceeds to go to the purchase of an organ.
 Two milkmen in Upper Saltwater, Me, have quarreled, and their customers are highly pleased, for cut rates have followed, and now customers get milk for two cents quart, and those who agree to buy for six months can get 1t for that period for four cents.
 Constant use having worn away the front leaves of the Bible employed in Brunswick (Ga) for swearing witnesses, another copy of the Scriptures has been purchased, as the local lawyers were in doubt whether an oath made on a Bible minus it's first four chapters is binding."
 In the heart of . large white oak tree re- gently felled near Coeymans a dozen large bullets were found. They look like the bull lets used in the old style flintlock muskets, and are supposed to have been shot into the tree during some skirmish of the Revolution or the war of 1872.
 A California tramp has novel method of getting money. He fixes up his arm with castillo soap and caustic to represent scald, and begs for aid on the ground that he just met with an accident. He is said to have worked this game successfully for four years in various parts of the state.
 Several enthusiastic Boston gentlemen have invented a new method for using the surplus in the United States treasury They propose to abolish usury or interest by having the government establish depositaries of money at all necessary points, to loan money with out interest to all who can give security.
 Absinthe was introduced into western ciyi- ization by French soldiers after their return home from the Algerian war of 1s44 It is a PseAscf of North Africa, and the soldiers mixed 1t with ehair wine as a febrif f,ese.- fCs manufacture is now one of the largest liquor trades in Europe. It is chiefly made at Neuf- chatel, in Switzerland, where 2,OO0,O ,OOO gal Ions are produced annually.
 An inventor has completed experiments which, he says, show the practicability of making stone type. They are, of course, of large size, to substitute wood letters. The material is an artificial stone, pressed into molds, and then hardened, afterwards being polished on the surface There will be no warping and no expansion or contraction, and each font will be exactly the same as that preceding.
 Sho Nemoto, a Japanese student in the University of Vermont, gives some interest ing facts about his country. The Japanese, he says, read more American than English books Last year s5,0ot English and 119, 900 American books were imported. Until re- gently all the editors of all the newspapers were men, but in March last temperance paper was established in Tokio by Miss Asai and Mrs. Sasaki, the secretary of the Tokio Woman's Christian Temperance union.