Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-05-02
CLEANED HERE AND THERE.

COCAINE is now about S5.75 and g al ounce. When it first came out it was $500 or S4O0 an ounce.
 SOME vegetarians are dissatisfied with the name "vegetarian.'' They think that s'fruit eater'' or ''fruitarian" would be better.
 AN ingenious Boston man has captured 100 crows and proposes to hatch with an in- cubator crow chicks for the Maine market where their heads are worth ten cents apiece.
 BY the workings of Maine's new tramp law 1t is better to be drunk than be caught begging. In the first case the penalty is fifteen days hard labor, in the second it is sixty.
 SAMUEL JONES, a colored farmer near Middletown, Del, runs a school-house ex- clusively for his own children. The eldest son teaches 8 dozen of his younger brothers and sisters.
 A YOUNG woman of Washington has a new occupation in experimenting we'd dings. She selects the brides rousseau clothes the mother-in-law and looks after things generally. For all of which she is we'll paid.
 A FLOATING saw-mill is in use at Florence, Wis. The boat is 40XS0 feet in size, Ind draws seventeen inches of water The mill hands live aboard, and the boat is moved along the river to wherever there is a fine lot of timber near the banks.
 IN the domestic arrangements at the White House Mrs. Harrison superintends the work of the laundresses, chambermaids and cooks; Mrs. Mckee has charge of the walters, the china and the glassware, and Mrs. Russell Harrison purchases the sup plies of food and wine.
 IN small garden attached to one of the taI c,1n i,, b., stone image of heroic size, which some twenty years ago created an unbounded sensation, not only among the public gen. orally, but also among scientists. It is the celebrated Cardiff Giant.
 RESIDENTS in the west and northwest DOT tions of Texas are calling the attention of the Legislature to the wholesale destruc- tion of deer which is now in progress in those sections. The animals are killed sim ply for their hides, and the slaughter is said to be something unprecedented. AT Rattlesnake Springs, W. T., there is | an extensive ledge of marble, in which beautiful trees and plants of moss are as frequent and as clearly defined as in the moss agate, although the marble is not translucent. The body of the stone is most | ly white, with patches of pink and blue be- l tween the punches of moss. | THE constant increase of negroes in Mis- | sissippi for they seem to be tiocking to that State from all parts of the South, is caus- | ing much uneasiness down there. A news l paper of that State gives the negro major ity in the population 69, ,511 in 1870, I'll ,S2s | in 1880 and estimates that the census of | 1890 will show 357,921 more colored than | white persons within it's borders.
 A RECENT circular issued by the Treasury Department proposing to ship, free of charge, to persons desiring them, niclzels and pennies in certain quantities, on receipt quiries in regard to the cost of these coins to the United States, and how it is that they can afford to ship them at par value, pay ing express charges upon them. The re- suit of these inquiries has been the discov- cry that the nickel costs at the mint less than three-quarters of cent, while it is put | in circulation at value of five cents.