Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-12-24
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
 THE ysld of hops throughout tho world for 1889 is estimated at 1,7OO,0 cwt.
 THE empire of Brazil composes one- fifteenth of the land surface of the globe.
 THE United States sent ten million dol lars' worth of machinery to Mexico this year.
 FISH in the Gulf of Mexico have been reported dying by thousands of an un- known disease.
 THE New York bar proposes to cele- brate the centennial of the United States Supreme Court in February next.
 LECTURES on secular subjects in pub lie halls and theaters are becoming very common on Sabbath evenings in New York City.
 CANADIAN customs officers calculate that the United States Government is defrauded of nearly 81, ,ooo, 900 year by opium smuggling from British Colum bia across the border.
 A FEW of the feuds for which Ken lucky is noted are these; The Hatfield Mccoy, the Sowders-Turn the French Eyersole, the Howard-Lewis, the Null ins-Taylor and the Brumfleld-Runyon.
 THE discussion of tho adviss0lity of colonizing Vermont and New Hampshire with Scandinavian immigrants has di- rected attention to the fact that Maine made . successful venture of this kind twenty years ago.
 PRIOR to 1929 all ballots used through out the States were written. Tho first printed ballot was used in Massachusetts in 1889 by David Henshaw, and was re- fused. It took . decision of tho Su- preme Court to establish it's validity.
 THERE are about Il ,000, ,0o0 or 12,0oo,- : 900 of colored people in the whole of tho United States. Of these, at least T, ,000,- : GOO are to be found in the Southern States of Florida, Louisiana, the Carolinas, the Virginias, Alabama, Georgia, Missis- sippi, Maryland and the District ot Columbia.
 AMBITIOUS young noveltsts may be interested to learn that under the pres ent conditions in America, if one took ten writers of novels whose books have a f1ne sale, and ten mechanics who have steady work at two dollars and a-hali per day, at the end of two years the mechanics will have earned the most money.
 THE Pullman Palace Car Company has built in . year one hundred and forty one palace cars, costing nearly two and one-han million dollars. It is now building sixty-four moro. During the past twelve months 1t has turned out cars worth nearly nine million dollars It employs Il ,O63 hands. The last yeal wages amounted to $5, 770, ,000. IT is rumored that an experiment. vii, be made with vessels of the Boston and Atlanta type in carrying fresh water 1T the space between the outer and inner bottoms and then, if possible, use fresl water in the boilers only. This plan is about to be carried out in several of the 1 new and even with some of the old ships of the British navy. Salt water is too ruinous in its action to always remain in vogue.
 THE biggest edible oysters in tht world are found at Port Lincoln, il South Australia. They are as large a. a dinner plate, and the same shape Aucy dro SO"eGlmcS HOIo Uudu Sb 1Oo across the shell, and the oyster fits th' shell so we'll he does not leave mucl margin. It is new sensation, when | friend asks you to lunch at Adelaide, t. have one oyster set beside you fried il | butter or egg and bread crumbs. But 1 is very pleasant sensation, for thu flavor and delicacy of the Port Lincol, mammoths are proverbial in that lant l of luxuries.
 1 SIMON PoKAGoN, chief of the Potto ! watomie tribe of Indians, which inhab ited Northern Indiana and Southern Michigan when first settled by tn whites, will shortly receive for distribu tion among his people the sum 0 two hundred thousand dollars iron the Government for the settlemen in full of all claims of tha once powerful tr ibe. The dis tribution will probably take place il .Pokagon, Oass County, which town named for Chief Pokagon's grandfather who signed treaty with General Gas in 1895 between the tribe and tn Miamis.