Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-22
GOING THE ROUNDS.

oOIN0 nOONDSs
 AN Atchison, Kan, farmer recently of- fered to trade barrel of sorghum for wife.
 SALT LAKE in Utah is reported to be eight and one-half feet lower than it was two years ago.
 THERE are wild lands in Southwest Mis- souri that can be bought for fourteen dol lars quarter section.
 A wALKING-sTIcK, the crutch-handle of which is an ear-trumpet, is the latest con- venience for deaf men.
 IT is said that President Lincoln's private papers are still lying in a vault of the First National Bank in Bloomington, H.
 ExILEs from Florida arc longing to return to their native land, and are moving nearer and nearer as the frost belt moves South. They will find many sad changes in tho sunny land.
 MIR. EDISON says that Sin Q few years the world will be just like one big ear; it will be unsafe to speak in house until one has examined the walls and furniture for concealed photographs" Two NEW WORKERS who rode across the continent to San Francisco on horseback are reported to have said that a stack of gold bars as high as the Sierras would not | induce them to make the return trip in the | same manner.
 | CRACKsMEN now open safes by applying powerful machine that pulls out the knob of | the combination lock. They do this easily and quickly, and the old battle between | safe builders and thieves must now be | fought all over again.
 A DnAP1DATED safe stood outdoors in | Adrian, Mich, several years ago, and re- | gently it was sold for old iron. On break 1 ing it up set of account books and good fo1, do oy,6 O1oa | knows who the watch belongs to. A PARTY of United States surveyors who | have been engaged on the coast of Oregon the past summer say that there are hun | dreds of fertile valleys unsettled and sev- ral good harbors unused, and only awaiting l the advent of commerce to create another world of activity.
 | "PUT two nickels in the slot and get bottle of whisky,' Is the sign on slot ma chine which has appeared in Kansas City. The 'sbottle' is small one containing about a gill of stuff fiery enough to tickle tho throat of the most grizzled cowboy. Tho machine is intended to defeat the Sunday closing law.
 l THE Scott exclusion act does not seem to keep the Chinese out of the country. After | an intermiSsion of few months Chinese immigration is assuming its old proportions at San Francisco. A steamer which ar rived 8 few days ago brought 16S Chinese, the men classed as merchants" and the women as "wives." The local papers say that they evidently belong to the laboring class.
 LIEUTENANT SCHwArKA estimates the number of living cliff dwellers he has dis | covered in Southern Chihuahua at from 5000 to 12, 900. They arc very wild and shy,
 and upon the approach of white people fly
 to the1r caves or cliffs by notched sticks
 placed against the face of the cliffs if too
 steep, although they ascend vertical stone
 faces if there are the slightest crevices for
 the fingers and toes.
 THE United States Government has per-
 fected measures for the preservation of the
 Casa Grande ruins in Arizona. For miles
 around the Casa Grande many great
 mounds, now hardly distinguishable from
 the desert sands, bear indisputable evidence
 of having been, at some tar remote period, the abode of busy industries. The most an cient of the traditions of the Pimas ard Papagoes, who yet live where their fathers
 have lived for centuries, allude to them as
 stThe Ruins"
 , THE voice of tho cowboy is heard in Chey- } enne uttering this plaintive vail over the , departure of the good old days: ''In the fall
 now Cheyenne is only nice, lively town
 with plenty of business. There's no more racin' up and down street on horseback; no moro shootin' when you feel like makin' a
 noise; no moro hghtin' olicemen or runnln . away from them. The town is all the time about half full of tenderfeet who think a l cowboy in the only proper togs looks fun s ny Why, the gamblin' games are all on the square now, and the whisky is so much better thanit used to be that you can't hard :. ly taste it, but let's go and get some of 1, k anyhOw''