Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-02-13
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The parcel post in England is very popu- lar Nearly 13O,O0O parcels are handled by it every day.
 It takes every year ,OOO, 900 horses tails to keep Pawtucket lR. I.) haircloth factory in running order.
 It is said that there are more millionaires in Buenos Ayres than in any other city of it's size in the world.
 An Anglican curate performed the mar riage ceremony for a child Il years old in Kensington, England, recently.
 An unfortunate Maine baby that happened to be born on the day of her grandparents g lden wedding was named Anna Versary.
 The opera is said to be having hard time all over the world; but twenty-five new ones were produced in Germany last year and thirty-fve in Italy.
 Dr. Merriman, of North Adams, Mass, is riding this winter in sleigh that is 225 years old It was made in 1868 for his great-great- grandfather, and has been in the family ever since.
 A petition for the suppression of bull fighting in the Federal district of Mexico, including the City of Mexico, is receiving the signatures of thousands of the capitals citizens.
 The desert of Sahara has been largely re- claimed by French enterprise. Forty three oases have been created, having Is 300 in. habitants, 10000 forest trees, and 10O,O 900 fruit trees.
 The Electrical Review says that the light ming rod is a relic of superstition, and that the day will come when a lightning rod on a house will be regarded in the same light as horseshoe over door.
 A French beadle, while attending funeral officially, caught sight of hare in the ceme- tery, and after a chase killed it with his ba- ton, and was fined 30 francs for killing game ''with prohibited arms"
 A railroad engineer of Erie, Pa, fell vio- lently on the ice, striking on the back of his heaa He is recovering, but finds when standing erect he is wholly blind, though he can see as we'll as ever when lying down.
 The people of Exeter, N H., are going to celebrate in June next the 25Oth anniversary of the settlement of their town, and have all the arrangements now made. These include tho extra one of calling it by the name of the quarter millennial"
 There are no fewer than 2,O76 general officers in the British army, to which may be added 1,673 generals who have retired Nearly 300 generals arc paid for making after dinner speeches about the British" army always doing it's duty.
 Mr. and Mrs. James o. Robinson are solid citizens of Charlestown, Mass. Thy have been married fifty years. MT. Robinson weighs 27S pounds, Mrs. Robinson weighs 225, and of their seven living children none weighs less than 200 pounds
 According to statistics gathered by The Railroad Gazette, there were in December last ninety-two railroad collisions, eighty three derailments and seven other accidents, making 1S2 in all, in which seventy-one per sons were killed and 211 injured.
 A little girl of Metz, IA years old, named Louise Fuchs, has just been condemned to eight days imprisonment for having insulted the emperor of Germany. The insult con sisted in writing private letter to one of her little friends, in which there was some thing disrespectful to his majesty. Such sentences are said to be quite common in Al sace-Loraine, and they can add no strength 60 the popular love for the conquerors.