Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-13
NOTES OF INTEREST.

WHILE the East has been drencnoQ anu soaked and flooded, the 'dry spell of 1SSp will go down in the history of the far West.
 Ir cost s22,370 to repair g recent break in ono of the Atlantic cables on the Green bank. A ships anchor had been afoul ot It.
 CALIFORNIA holds the cake on snake stories for the season of 1889, with Georgia and North Carolina crowding each other for second place. d.. 1-r.f!rE ---v
 A RUSTIC bridge just completed in Hous- ton County, Ga, contains ffty-scven di1er- ent kinds of wood and vines, and all were grown in the county.
 IT is said that part of Queen Victcria's savings has been invested in real estate in New York City and that each year sue draws 8 handsome income from the rentals.
 A MONROE COUNTY (O) man drove to town the other day for the first time since fall and heard that Harrison was elected President. He doesn't take g paper and it was news to him.
 THE destruction of Johnstown by flood and of the cities of Seattle and Spokane Falls by fire, makes huge sweeping away of property in 8 comparatively short time. The loss is between $40 0,00O, 900 and $50,- 900. .:.-.
 PERHAPS the heaviest telegram bill in the world is that of the Chinese Envoy at Wash ington, Chan You Woon, who regularly pays one thousand dollars week for his dis patches to China, the representative of the Celestial empire using cipher which costs four dollars word.
 A CARRIAGE road to the top of Pike's Peak has been completed. It begins at Cascade canyon and extends sixteen miles, until 1t reaches the very summit of the mountain, IA, 147 feet above the level of the sea- There Is one point (Grand View) where at ap alti- tude of 10,S52 feet one may zee the smoke of a locomotive crossing Marshall Pass, ninety miles away. THE latest thing in hotel bills of fare Is an edible menu card. You select the dishes you want, and then while waiting for them you amuse yourself by leisurely eating up the bill of fare, it acting as an appetizer. It Is the scheme of London confeetioner. He makes thin sheet of sweetened dough, and after 1t has been baked he prints the menu upon 1t in ink made of chocolate. PEOPLE who think they are fully acqpaint- ed with the customs of city life have some. thing to learn when they get over in Jersey. In New York and in almost all other cities smokers ride on the front platforms oi street-cars. In Jersey City smokers must ride on the rear endof the street-cars. Poor New Workers who get on the front end oi the cars to smoke are sternly told to go to | the rear.
 THERE are great many deaths occurring l in the Conemaugh valley which can not be accounted for on any other ground than that they are largely the result of the SC. | were mental and physical suffering the peo. pie have endured Like the great blizzard, the Johnstown hood-victims were not ali numbered with the dead at the time of the disaster, and they may continGe to drop l away for months to come.
 THE only house ever built by George Washington at the capital city of the Nation | Is still standing in Washington City. Ii was originally athree-story brick, but when the street on which it stands was graded
 two wore stories were added, making it q fve-story building, which is now used for g | hotel. Some of the rooms are pretty much in the same condition as they were when cc | cupied by Washington in 1792. A few old pieces of furniture are said to be still secret | ed about the house.