Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-04-30
HERE AND THERE.

The Colorado coal beds have veins eighteen feet thick of the finest quality of coal
 There are about a million and half of car riages made in the United States yearly.
 F.W. Jenkins, of Pittsburg, tainted in his bathtub the other day and was drowned be- fore help came.
 A London dealer in orchids employs sixteen collectors in South America, Africa, Asia and the Pacific Islands.
 It is credibly stated that soap, water and scrubbing, ill the cleansing of it's cars, cost the Pennsylvania railroad $250, 1000 year.
 Nine brothers and sisters from family of ten attend the same school in Clarence, Mich. The eldest is 20 and the youngest years old.
 Minnesota and Dakota alone, as thinly set tied as they are, raise more than enough wheat to feed the 5, 100000 people of Great Britain and Ireland.
 A Memphis gmal girl, aged years, has just gone alone all the way from Florida to Tennessee, and that, too, not by express but on an ordinary passenger ticket.
 An Iowa genius holds the offices of United States signal observer, city clerk, township clerk, United States claim agent, township treasurer and adjutant of G. A. R. post.
 A Biddeford, Me-, man advertises for wife, and offers to the lady who will take him an "active, promising, good looking young man 40 years of age, good home and two yoke of oxen"
 Mexico, now that she has railroads is get ting up excursions without end-and will be largely represented at the Barcelona Spain), exposition next year, and the coming Wash ington centennial.
 A Kansas man in revenge stole the child of a woman who refused to marry him, and has grown so attached to it that he refuses to give it up to the mother, even under threat of legal proceedings
 Two large firms of Japanese nurserymen are introducing into California the Unshin or dwarf orange tree, and find many cus- toners for the tree because it can be grown in very small space.
 At a late election, Kansas City voters who cast their ballots for T. Robinson, thinking to elect male fellow citizen, were astounded to find that instead they had made a council man of Mrs. Tina Robinson, his wife.
 reader of The Boston Globe reports that the word "dude'' is to be found in the die tionary of the SwahiIi language spoken by Pzangibas negroes-that the plural is 'smas- tude"-and the word itself probably older tudu Gu6 ulllS
 Page county, Va, had the most unique fire of the season-a house there having been set aflre by the burning swallows that flew out of chimney, and the fire having been put out with hard cider, several barrels of which happened to be at hand.
 The Chicago and Alton road has very lately put upon it's line between St. Louis and Chicago two armchair coaches, to be known as ''ladies' palace day coaches" and reserved entirely for ladies' No extra charge will be made for their occupancy.
 It is said that there is postofice for every l,OOO men, women and children in the United States, and that if the expense of carrying the mails was paid directly by the people pro rata each citizen would pay an average of eighty-five cents year.
 An interesting legal question is likely to arise over the finding of jar containing Sl2,OOO at Holman Station, Ind, by Smith Stewart, on a farm which he had rented. The landlord claims the money on the ground that it had been buried by his sister, now deceased. The collection includes some coins over 200 years old
 For giving information about forgery in Texas, Frank Murray, Tennessee man, was arrested by a constable and pseudo detective, without warrant of law, hustled off to Texas, and kept in jail six months. Now that he is at liberty he is giving his whole mind to securing the punishment of the men who made him the inmate of jail.