Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-09-06
REGENT REPORT.
luxury.

TIE use of pennies in the South is rapid ly increasing.
 A THRIFTY Scotch chemist proposes to dis pose of corpses by putting their various materials to profitable use. PULLMAN has invented palace street cars with reversible seats and a center aisle as 1 passenger coaches, and proposes to up- holster them like the vestibule cars and make smoking ng-rooms. RECENT reports from California say that tramps were never so numerous in that re- zion as at present. Expectations are null tiplying daily, and the jails are being tried to their utmost cap acity. Ar Poughkeepsie, N. Y. recently the first Chinese lawyer in this country was ad- mitted to practice. He has been in America eighteen years and studied his profession in the Columbia Law School and at Yale.
 NORTHERN capitalists have bought several hundred acres of land on the sand hills near Augusta, Ga, and will lay it out as winter resort for invaLds and pleasure seekers.
 THE city of San Francisco has, according to it's papers, fully five thousand opium slaves, embracing boys and girls as we'll as men and women, and the number is said to be rapidly increasing. The victims of the habit are moral and physical wrecks.
 THE farmers of Crawford County, H., have resolved not to raise any wheat, barley or rye for three years in order to exterminate the chinch bug, and will endeavor to induce the farmers of adjoining counties to do the same.
 A LATE account from the beautiful city of Los Angeles, Cal, is to the effect that lep- rosy is gaining hold in that place. This dreadful disease is becoming quite common ln many towns along the Pacific coast, and the people are becoming alarmed at it's spread.
 THE increase of insanity among the ne- groes of North Carolina is very rapid The asylum at Goldboro was recently enlarged to accommodate the augmented numbers. The number of those affected is over one thousand where thirty years ago insanity was almost unknown.
 WATCH cases are now being made en- tirely of rock crystal or Brazilian pebble, thus rendering them transparent and ex- posing to view the movements and machine " within. They are beautiful in appear ance and are said to be as durable and per feet as those of metal.
 THE gold mines of North Carolina are again being vigorously developed, and ex- ceptionally rich yields are reported from the most of them. At the Mann-Arling gton, in Nash County, some men wh6 work over the
 
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 IT is stated that company has been formed in London to work the patents of the Priestman petroleum engine in this country. This enginohas been successfully used in England for electric lighting, and the projectors are sanguine, owing to the cheapness of oil in this country, of doing 8 good business.
 THE champion female bigamist of the United States was lately brought to ac- count in the person of young woman thirty years of age, who has married no less than fourteen men in different parts of the coun- try. Her object was to obtain their money, which being accomplished, she would de- camp and seek out fresh victim.
 A BANGOR (Me.) man lost part of his nose one day recently while playing with par rot. The bird had been taught to go through the act of kissing, and when approached by tho man with the request: kiss me, Pol ly," the parrot remembered an old grudge against him, and with avicious grab tore on part of his nose.