Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-08-10
FACTS OF INTEREST.
TBEREis Q grave-diggers' assembly of the Knights of Labor.

TBEREis grave-diggers' assembly of tho Knights of Labor.
 QUEEN COUNTY, Miss, has had perfect fruit crop for sixteen consecutive years.
 WOMEN and children are now not allowed to work over ten hours day in California.
 TIE fuel supply of the Sicrras is cx- hausted along the line of the Central Pacific railroad.
 THE great fire at Seattle, w. T., is said to have been started by tho upsctting ot glue-pot.
 THERE has not been an execution of white man in South Carolina for twenty five years.
 THE introduction of the electric light has caused a marked dimlnution of crime in Pittsburgh, Pa.
 APACHE COUNTY, in Arizona, IS larger than the State of Massachusetts, yet it has not single doctor within it's borders.
 BROOKLYN can boast of having the largest bread bakery in the world. It turns out 70, GOO loaves of bread day on an average
 A WOMAN at Ephratah, Pa, lately died from brain trouble occasioned by worry over reading about the Johnstown disaster, though she had no friends there.
 THOSE destructive enemies of the Western farmer, the chinch bugs, are subject this year to disease resembling cholera,
  rapidly.
 PERSONS who have tried them say that the transatlantic steamers that beat the record arc not as comfortable ones on l which to travel as those which take day | or two longer for the passage. A REMARKABLE cave in Stone County, 1 Kan, has been explored ''for a distance of 1 twelve miles," Report credits 1t with con | taining two rivers, ''millions of bats," and I the remains of many wild animals. THE average annual death rate in this ! country from cholera, yellow fever, small 1 pox, typhoid fever, diphtheria and scarlet | lever, all combined, does not reach the enormous total of deaths from consumption. | PRor WILLIAM SAUNDERS, horticulturist of the Agricultural Department at Washing ton, declares that tho golden rod is his first choice for National flower, the sunflower his second, adding that both are character istic Amcrlcan plants.
 FOR the picture of "Thc Angelus,' which brought $110,0O0 at the recent sale Of the Secretan collection in Paris, the painter Millet, now dead, received only $a20. Even this sum was given to him in charity by a fellow artist to buy bread.
 THE price of Sl1O,OOO which was paid fol the Angelus was the largest ever given fol picture sold at auction, with the exception 1 Of the sum paid Tor Muflllo3 COnCeptlOn now in the Louvre, which the French Gov ernment bought at the sale of Marsha
 Soult That brought s1l7,5O
 THE most extensive building in the worll Is undoubtedly Machinery Hall, iii the Paris Exposition. It IS nearly q quarter of mile long and 37O feet broad. It's roof, whict
 covers 6O,OOO square feet, is ono grca
 arch, spanning the entire distance iron : side to side without a single intervening support.
 !. NEW studies arc introduced, from time t.
 time into the curriculum of educational in
 stitutions. In circular lately issued by
 successful private school of New York, it l. announced that, besides the course of stud
 in the ordinary branches, "instruction vii
 be given in describing and classifying tn plants" and the following words are indie ) ative of the range of teaching i'll this lne s'Plants-Curious features of their growt and development noted; study of Ire blossoms and common fowers.' THE largest electric railway system il l the word, 1t Is said, is in Topeka, Kan. Tn
 plant has been established at cost o S6O0,OOO. There are sixteen aud hal miles of track in the system. Richmond Va, has for some time claimed tho largcs , plant, but 1t only operates twelve miles. { f speed of fifteen miles can be obtained, bu
 Topeka permits only a maximum rate c eight miles. The cars are lighted by cleo 8 tricity, and make comparatively little nois ! la motion