Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-08-31
INTERESTING OCCURRE.


 TEE entire cargo of fruit steamer 900 punches of bananas, weighing 825,0OO tons was recently condemned by New York health inspectors and sent to the offal dock.
 MRS. LUCINDA RUGGLEs died at Dodgeville, Wis, few days ugo, and she was buried in a coffin made from 8 walnut tree which her husband had felled forty years ago and stored away to make lumber for his own and his wife's cofins.
 IN Hartford, Van Buren County, Mich., a barn was destroyed by lightning and to prove that "lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place." it is asserted that four buildings on the identical spot have been demolished by the fluid
 Mss MAY AYREs, a California girl of four teen, won the prize offered to the public school pupil who should pass the best ex- animation. The prize was 8 free trip to the Paris exposition, and was given by the San Francisco Examiner.
 A MILTON Pa.) paper says that on the day of the Sullivan-Kilrain fight the wife o1 William Follmer, of Shakespeare, presented him with twin boys, of six and eight pounds. which the father named Jacob Xiii rain and John Sullivan respectively. AN Arizona paper says that at Proctor's well, Santa Rosa, the shells of seventeen year-locusts were brought up from depth of 763 feet, to which depth the piping ex- tends. It says: ''There was quite quan- tity of them; the entire shell was perfect, also the limbs and hairy covering of the back"
 A FARMER near Collins Station, Pa., was for some time inconvenienced by one of the water pipes on his place being clogged. He did not feel like cutting the pipe, 50 he caught an eel, put 1t in the pipe, and next morning was gratified to find the eel in the trough at the end of the pipe and the water running freely.
 AT Emaus, Pa., recently, George Schmoyer and Miss Mary Marks, in dis cussing the Sullivan-Kilrain fight, disa- greed so warmly that they began to illus trate the respective rounds. Finally Miss Mary, becoming excited, sent George spin ming through glass door, which was com pletely shattered.
 JAMES LEONARD, a compositor on the Tmes-Democrat of New Orleans, lately in seven days of seven and one-half hours each, set and distributed 102 800 ems-equal to about POE, 900 letters. He worked regular copy and his proof contained comparatively few errors. In accomplishing the feat his arm, 1t is estimated, travelled no less than 125 miles.
 A NEW YORK jeweller has two jewels, apparently diamonds, in his window with the simple inscription over them: "Which is genuine?" Two young men, after hold ing heated discussion on the question, made the jeweller the umpire of a wager. The latter was compelled to acknowledge that both were genuine. It was merely an ingenious advertisement TIE Two CoLoRRD men named Young and Gar rett have induced 011 colored men to locate upon Government land in Oklahoma, taking 16O acres each, or 145, ,76O acres in all. They have laid out town site near the center of the colony. The name of the town is Lin coin, located on the north bank of the Cim- arron river, and is destined to be the county seat, as they have five townships and are in the majority ten to one.
 THE schooner Fanny Lewis, which ar- rived at Portland, Me, the other day, brought a rare treasure from the sea. While the schooner was off Monhegan something white was discovered floating in the water. It proved to be 8 mass of ambergris weigh ing 100 pounds. Ambergris is used in mak- ing the finest kinds of perfumes, and re- tails for about $3O an ounce. The specimen found by the sailors of the schooner Is esti. mated to be worth $25,0O0 This sum will be divided among the owners of the schoon- or and the crew.