Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-26
TRANSFERRING OF LATE:

A PETRIFIED alligator was recently found on the beach at Cutler, Me.
 TIE grand cross of Commander of the Legion of Honor has been bestowed upon Thomas A. Edison.
 THE international congress of shorthand writers recommended the introduction of shorthand into primary schools.
 WoRKMEN taking out sawed lumber on Ransoms island, near Williamsport, came upon a petriied log sixty feet long, which they could not lift.
 A LIQUOR officer, in searching a house in Boston, found behind large picture an opening m the wall which concealed fifty bottles of lager beer.
 A PITTSBURGH miss in London is said to have written to the Princess Louise, Duchess of Fife, offering to buy one of the numerous sets of bracelets presented to her on her recent marriage
 THE statue of Daniel Webster stands in the State house Park at Concord, N. h.. and the Legislature of that State has voted to erect beside it 8 bronze statue o1 General John Stark, of revolutionary fame. A SACRAMENTO (Cal.) business man used photograph cylinder in transmitting inn portant messages to Chicago, sending the | novel machine (which the postal authorities have decided must be paid for at frst-class postage rate) by mail.
 A TORONTO (Ont.) man was in Philadel- phia and bought a ticket for home, stating that he wanted to go via Lewiston. He meant Lewiston, N. Y., and when he awoke in Lewiston, Me, next day he was the mad dest man that down-East city has seen for a month.
 l A TASTEFUL young man of Wellsville, N. Y., offers a five-dollar silk umbrella to the l young lady sending the best proposal of | marriage. Points to be considered are com position, spelling, writing, brevity and reasons for wishing to be married. Maiden ladies over seventy five are barred out.
 THE largest sailing ship in the world, the Palgrave, left Sandy Hook recently for Java with cargo of one hundred ana troleum, or about one million three hundred and twenty thousand gallons. It Is the largest cargo ever exported in any one vessel
 FIVE sergeants, three corporals and seven patrolmen of the San Francisco police force have been retired on pensions as . reward for their long and faithful services. The sergeants arc to receive sixty-one dollars and fifty cents, the corporals ftty-seven
 dollars and fifty cents and the patrolmen
 fifty dollars month.
 WHILE some laborers were engaged in
 chopping timber in a big woods near Deca- tur, Ind, they accidentally discovered what is supposed to have been counterfeiters'
 rendezvous. Beneath the earth surface was
 found brick furnace, several half dollars
 dated 1S45, and some of the metal from which the spurious coins were made.
 IN order to get the best account of re- ! cent execution there, g Minnesota editor
 had one of hls reporters arrested and lodged
 in jail it is related. The reporter, however
 was made to scrub floors and perform other menial services during his incarceration al and when the hour of execution came he was removed to distant part of the jail A VOTE was taken at the St. Louis Ex position recently on the Nationalfowe,
 question, resulting in favor of the golden
 rod by a vote of 6,347 to 4,748 for the sun
 flower. Sixty-one different flowers were voted for, but those running the highest !. were: Rose, s,24l; daisy, 1.s42; violet, 951 pansy, 642; lily, 7A; tuberose, 64s; pink
 656; morning glory, 451. The violets, pinks pansies, daisies and other modest flowers O.
 beauty drew ballots largely from ladies.