Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-04-05
ITEMS OF ALL KINDS.

HE rarest and choicest of precious metals IS gallum. It is valued at s, 250 an ounce
 AN Albany jeweler loaned ali his dia- monds on the occasion of a "sWell' ball given in that city recently.
 PRESIDENT HARRISON, is the fourteenth lawyer to hold the Executive chair of the Nation. He is also the fourteenth of pure Anglo-SaXon blood.
 FIFTY FIVE women of Utica, N. Y., have signed an agreement not to let 8 man crowd past them in a theater ''unless he is going out on some other business than that of drinking"
 TIE young ladies of Kansas town got together and decided that they would send their beaux home promptly at ten o'clock. The boys are on strike, and the girls are sad to be weakening.
 DOWN in Panan>s collins are hired, and graves, too The latter cost twelve dollars for eighteen months, and in case of non-pay- ment the body is thrown out of the grave. Coffins can be hired for seven dollars.
 A GREAT Hume was lately completed at San Diego, Cal. It extends fifty miles from the western slope of Cuyamaca mountain, where there is a reservoir containing four years supply of water at an elevation of l, 800 feet. The cost was S9O0,OO0. A SWISS writer attributes badness to a microscopic fungus, which, however, he has not as yet been able to describe or indeed to discover. Hethinks that barbers should be compelled to disinfect their combs and brushes.
 THREE Chinamen in Canyon City, near Yellowstone Park, established a laundry | over a boiling spring, and did a good bus mess until the spring one night developed suddenly the eruptive force of geyscr. The tent was swept away, and the Uu- fortunate Celestials were boiled to death. A WOMAN in Ridgeway, Can, had the | banns between herself and two of her lovers | published in church. The clergyman was l interviewed, and gave it as his opinion that | the woman was free, so far as the church was concerned, to mako the final selection when she came to the altar on the wedding morn l ing.
 AN invention that is being used out West for sending coin through tho mails consists | of piece of pasteboard about the size of an envelope. In it are holes the size of a silver quarter, a half-dollar and dollar, with red paper seals ready to paste across each slot. | A coin can be put in and sealed, enclosed in an envelope, and sent through the mails in safety.
 THE athletic-culture fad which originated in Boston and has been steadily spreading, ! has now reached Milwaukee, where young | A new feature of the fad is the craze for fencing and boxing-two masculine ac- | complishments, winch for some reason are very dear to the feminine mind.
 'MEMoRY HooPs'' are the latest fad in Kansas City. A memory hoop is about ten inches in diameter and will hold thirty tc forty bows or knots. And the thing for the male friends of a young lady to do is to give her handsome piece of colored silk, which she ties on the hoop. The girl who covers the most hoops in this way is considered the reigning belle.
 AMONG the birthday presents received by | Edison, the inventor, was a cake from his servants. It was about two feet in diameter and twelve inches high. It bore the iuscrip tion, Thomas A. Edison, 1SS9,' in frost work, and around it's edges were forty two tiny incandescent electric lights supplied from battery placed in cavity in the center of the cake.
 COLONEL FRED GRANT has a match-bo2 which engages. about as much of his atten
 ton as any thing else It is a handsome af
 fair, being of Roman gold studded witt diamonds. One diamond in the collection i.
 as large as pea, and it is by pressing upor
 this that the box is opened. The box wa!
 given to ex-President Grant by the Shah O
 Persia. The Colonel is never tired of show
 ing it and talking about It.