Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-11-12
CURIOUS THINGS OF LIFE.

Pet dogs wearing sealskin blankets are among the sights on Broadway, New York. l A herd of swine got drunk eating grape pomace on ranch iii Marin county, Cal
 A Mott street, New York, hand organ man 1 IS teaching his moHAey the art of boot black | ing.
 An 1S-year-old negro boy of Marianna, Ark, shot his mother because she was baking n sweet potato for his brother instead of for him.
 1 The latest addition to Withlacoochee, Fla, ! fame is hen which matched and raised to the size of cartridges sixteen chicks from l fifteen eggs.
 A novel experiment is about to be made in 1 Paris in the establishment of cab company, with plant of 800 hansoms fitted with rubber tires, drawn by English horses
 The quantity of sugar used in Boston house suddenly increased, to the astonish- ment of the mistress. She began an investi- gation, which revealed that the servant used sugar to kindle the fire
 Two Tennessee men went out to fight a duel, one having an ax and the other | scythe, but stranger came along and sug gested game of poker, and all shook hands and became good friends.
 l 4IuI LAS bhc uSliNSA OA SOulSS oA ASSNuA So | in Paris the lecturer alluded to Damocles and the sword incident held by thread. He forgot the name of Damocles. ''No matter, 1 ladies and gentlemen; the thread was good, and will hold till the next lecture"
 George Thornburg of Winfield, Kan., and Arminta Miles, of Sumner, were married by | Judge Tansey. The young lady lacked one | day of being 10 years old, but as she was an ! orphan and had no home the judge issued ihe license without the usual consent being filed.
 Workmen, while engaged in demolishing 1 $he Dinwiddie, Va, county court house, ! found under the floor of the kitchen a skele- ton together with a canteen and musket. It l Is supposed that the skeleton is that of a sol | dier, who, while sick or wounded crept under the floor and there died.
 A veterinary surgeon of St. Louis and for merly a dentist recently filled three decayed i teeth of valuable horse. It is the third case of equine teeth filling on record. The animal had suffered terribly from toothache and was unable at times to eat or drink. The horse 1 bore the pain without wincing, and did not i have to be tied or be given gas.
 In the little town of Arvesnes, in France, it has been discovered that there are forty i two young marriageable girls and only three young men who are candidates for matri- mony, and one of these has proved so re- creant to home influence that he is about to marry girl belonging to a neighboring village
 4 curious museum has been opened in Dresden. In it are collected boots, shoes and slippers, which emperors, kings, queens, | princes and other famous persons have worn Among them are pair of boots worn by Ma poleon 1 at the battle of Dresden, on April | 27, 1913, and pair of white satin shoes en- broidered in gold, which the same great en- peror wore on the day of his coronation.
 David Jennings is the latest perpetual mo- tion lunatic. He lives in Lyons, N Y, and commenced with youth health and fortune twenty years ago to develop his insane idea. He has spent his intellect his youth and S5O,- GOO, and is precisely as near making some thing out of nothing as he was when he started. He finds 1t easy to come very near to it, as the boy did to finding his hat. 1 Bernard Meyer, of Omaha, recently felt a l slight pain under his left shoulder The pain soon became intense, and a doctor was sought. An examination of the spot revealed a hard substance, which, on being extracted, proved to be a needle in good condition Meyer had no recollection of needle having entered his body, but his mother says that it occurred when he was an infant, fifty-four years ago.
 w. c. Vaughn, Dayton, O., has photo graph of an old oak tree, or what might more properly be called miniature oak tree, growing from between the crevices of a court house spire, built of solid masonry of limestone, at height of some eighty feet from tho ground. The strange production draws its life principally from the air, as there was but little cement used in the build ing of the spire. The dwarf is 20 years old.