Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-12-20
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IN Canada the people who advocate the union of Canada with tho United States are beginning to be called cop perheads.
 A AN1NE-YEAR-oID girl of Spring Lake township. Kingsbury County, $. D., plowed eighty acres of land this fall with three-horse sulky blow.
 SOME one estimates that getting born costs the people of the United States Sa25, ,OoO, 900 annually; getting married, $500, ,OOO, 900; getting buried, $75, ,OOO, ,OOO.
 THE very newest thing in drop-a- nickel machines sells two two-cent stamps for a nickel. The stamps are separated by a bit of wax paper to pre- vent them from sticking.
 THERE is Mission grapevine at Car penteria, Cal, which has girth of six feet at the base, branches out in every direction for hundred feet, and this year produced four tons of fruit.
 THE brains of the country are going into business, instead of law, and that profession is going down hill. Tech nica1 schools are attracting thousands of young men of the .sbest families"
 A SEATTLE contractor tried to get twenty-five men to work one day last week. A police officer took him to saloon where over forty idle men were lounging about. Out of the entire num- Der only four expressed willingness to labor.
 A NUMBER of English subscribers have resolved to build monument at Fort Ticonderoga to the memory of Lord Howe, whose forgotten grave was dis covered there some weeks ago. The re- mains of the young hero will be in- tered at its base.
 REPRESENTATIVE farmers of Summit County, O., are talking of petitioning the Legislature to make it a peniten- tiary offense for wandering sportsmen to shoot domestic fowls when wild game is scarce. The practice is becoming prevalent in that region.
 IN the municipal court at Farming ton, Me-, citizen of Temple was fined fifty dollars and costs for violating the liquor law. He sold some young men ' quantity of sweet cider as it ran from the press, which is violating the law as it now stands on the statute books.
 ST. LOUIS is the only city in the Union in which the tenant of a rented house is required to furnish his own gas fixtures. Formerly St. Louis house-builders did not even equip dwellings with service pipe, but they do now generally. The consequence is that thousands of people use oil who would prefer gas if they didn't have to pay for the fixtures.
 AN extraordinary state of things is re- ported from San Francisco. A Chinese company has passed sentence of death upon Mok Lem for giving testimony in | an American court which served to con- vict ono Lee Sing of murder. It is not but that one Chinaman should not give evidence in an American court to con- vict another Chinaman.
 A SYNDICATE of New York capitalists have purchased the Dismal Swamp canal in Virginia and North Carolina for $75,- GOO. The new owners intend to rebuild the locks and widen and deepen the canal for vessels of the largest draught, and make this route tho connecting link from Chesapeake bay with the great in land waterway of the Atlantic coast, as deeper and better water can be had by way of Pasquotank river at the end of this canal than by the head of Curtituck | sound.
 ACCORDING to an official report just is- sued of the S9,47s people whose mar. riages were registered in Massachusetts | last year, 693 were men and 245 women who had reached their ffftieth year; '19 mon and 5 women were over sev- ,enty-five years of age, and ' men land ? women were over eighty. The total number of males under twenty years of age was s6s, and of females B.. 21s. Two females were twelve, were thirteen, 12 were fourteen and 51 were fifteen years of age. One male was if teen, and there were none under tha1 !age.