Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-12-13
NEW NOTES OF INTEREST.

THE girls of Alaska are ready for so- ciety as soon as they reach their teens.
 AT least ten of the large cities of the country are going to hold chrysanthe- nlcm exhibitions.
 A STRINGENT anti-sa1oon law has gone into effect in St. Louis. 1t prohibits chairs, tables, cards, dice, music and musical instruments in all saloons. LARGE deposits of excellent hard coal have recently been discovered in Alaska and on some of Nhe coast islands. The quantity is believed to be pract tically in- exhaustible.
 THE new jury law in New York City has already netted nearly S1OO, GOO for | the treasury. There are no allowances | made nowadays; if the juryman does not present himself he is fined S25O, and it l is remorselessly collected at once. l , A NEW invention is the ''waterphone." | This is an instrument shaped like an ordinary iron rod, which, when placed | on a stopcocl, will convey the sound to | the ear in case the water is running. In Shis way it can be determined whether Or not the water is shut off in house without entering the house.
 It THERE is reason to believe that an. | archy is on the wane, as seems to be shown by the fact that the memorial celebration in Chicago in honor of the execution of the bomb-throwers was a tame affair. There was, with one ex- ception, no display of fed flags, and the number attending the services in Wald- helm Cemetery had fallen off from 5000 last year to 2,oOO on a recent Sunday, and many in this crowd were simply curious Spectators.
 F A MAN of letters, who went West this summer to study the features of com munity and isolated life presented be- tween New York and San Francisco and up and down the California coast, was gone for three months, but in that time did not once have to unwrap his bundle of umbrellas, nor put on rubbers or maokintosh. He had his family with him and, out of regard for their com fort, did not travel single mile by night. He says that for pure comfort this is the best way.
 SAYS a prominent New England c1er- gyman who has been visiting in the
 West: ''In the West find more wealth,
 more generosity, more enthusiasm and ! aggressiveness in church work, and, be-
 lieve me, more genuine culture than in the East. But do miss a historic back , ground. I miss the old. I miss, on the banks of the Mississippi, what one miss [ es who comes from Old England to New England-a good deep stratum of his-
 tory. There is too much nature for hu-
 manity or too little humanity for
 nature"
 A WRITER in the Syracuse CN. Y.)
 Journal, who went to the bottom of the
 Grand Canyon of the Colorado last winter,
 says: "I have been all through the Rockies from Montana to Central Amer q ica and know what 8 chasm is, but the
 sight of that abyss took my breath
 away. From the top to the bottom it is
 fully six thousand feet. Over a mile be-
 low you can see the river tearing through the gorge, but not a sound can , be heard, it is so far away. From one
 bank to the other it is apparently not
 over a quarter of mile, but as matter of fact it is fully nineteen miles. i, FIVE brave Americans were recently
 awarded medals and diplomas in Mexico Q for gallantly rescuing many lives when the steamer La Libertad was sunk in
 Lake Chapala with party of two hun
 dred excursionists on board. The Mex , ican Congress decorated the five men at
 GuadalaJara Tn the presence Of over four
 thousand spectators. A number of Mex
 jeans were also decorated, among them
 the Cure Domingo Rosas of Ocotlan.
 The names of the distinguished Ameri-
 cans are: c. F. Shackford, master me
 chanic; c. E. Halbert, superintendent;
 II. R. Comforth, passenger conductor;
 Joseph H. Feehan, chief train dispatch
 CT, and l.. Rosenthal, messenger of
 Wells, Fargo S Co.'s express. The lat
 ter was formerly of Chicago.