Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-07-31
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

QUoITs are coming into favor as an out door game for women in the country; like wise bowls, which is in highest favor ir Scotland and England.
 IT is said that the Governor Ames, tho hve-masted schooner recently built on the New Eng gland coast, wilt bold as much lum- Der as train of cars mile long.
 TANKS with an automatic slot attachment have been placed ia the public squares of Philadelphia, labeled "Drop penny in the slot and get cup of pure water"
 A LATE New Hampshire paper advises young men not to go West to make their fortunes, but to stay at home and earn money to loan the people out West on their mortgages.
 TIE steamship Oswego recently made the run from Macknaw to Chicago--3S4 miles in nineteen hours and forty-five minutes, pronounced the best time ever made on the great lakes.
 A CITIZEN of HagarstoWn, Md, claims that the inside of a box in his possession was made of part of the Penn treaty tree, and the outside of a part of tho original coffin of Washin gton
 ON the birthday of q W estern editor who was fond of writing extremely long articles he received an anonymous gift of 0 can of condensed milk, with tho words 'Verb. sap." scratched on it.
 A NEW fashion is said to be holding sway
 this summer among the fair bathers at the sea shore. Light chamois skin masks arc
 worn, entirely conceahng the features. This is not done for modesty's sake, but to preserve the complexion.
 IN 0 lawsuit in Kentucky the other day 1t l was proved that horse which had kicked three men to death and had run away five
 times was warranted "perfectly gentle and safe for any lady to drive" Now and then | there is a horse-trader who is absent | minded in his statements.
 A COLORADO man named House wrote to 1 the Johnstown bureau of information re- gently inquiring about his brother. He said he had brother in the East somewhere l named Hubert, and he thought he had mo- ticed the name of Hubert House in the list of the dead. He was informed that 'Hul- bert House" vas the big hotel destroyed by | the flood
 THIs is the way Detroit paper publishes
 the finding of q dead body in the river
 "Somebody tied some chunks of boiler iron | about somebody else's neck and threw him l into the Saginaw river. Just when 1t hap. pened or who it was nobody knows, but Submarine Diver Reynolds has tished up
 the skeleton. To make sure of the victim, l it seems that a pile-drive was planted
 
 | NEW YORK CITY IS 0 curious place. At l the upper end of Central Park, between
 Sixth and Eighth avenues, and one of the
 most magnificent building sites in the whole
 metropolis, is 0 vast area used for vegeta- l ble gardens and florists. Above 1t stretch | away for miles streets of brick and stone buildings, but there is no sign of any en 1 deavor to improve this tract. Around it Is ! fringe of shantles and second-class hotels l THE farmers around Elderton, Ga know | the worth of persimnons, and for years l have made it point never to cut down a l persimmon tree. In places so many trees | o,ve been left standing that the fields look l like orchards; and indeed they are, persim.
 mon orchards, the trees of which bear fine l crops of fruit almost as valuable as corn fol
 fattening hogs. The farmers say that the l persimmon tree draws but little strength or moisture from the soil, and that excel
 lent crops are grown even beneath tbei, l shade