Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-12-14
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

THIS year 125, 900 French Canadians have come to our side to get work.
 A CAVE discovered near Chico, Cal, is said to rival the famous Mammoth Cave of Kentucky.
 A DETROIT ship-builder has contracted to build a 3OO-foot-long steel ship for lake service.
 THE Pacific coast is becoming great manufacturing section. Thousands of Japanese are arriving there.
 OF the half-dozen French cooks im- ported by American millionaires two years ago only one has kept his place.
 FRENCH CANADIANS assert that a ma- jority of their fellows in Canada are in favor of annexation to the United States.
 THERE is talk of negro colonization or large scale in Mexico. White labor is gradually crowding black labor out in the South.
 THE Egyptian obelisk in Central Park, New York, is rapidly going to decay, notwithstanding the efforts made to pre- serve it. The climate is too severe.
 COTTONWOOD FALLS, Kan, is out of debt, has money in tho treasury, and will levy no tax the ensuing year for municipal purposes. It has woman city council.
 THE Treasury Department overrules New 4ork's collector and admits free of duty tiger skins merely cleaned and dried. Dutiable value follows tho dressing and softening.
 A PAPER watch has been exhibited by I1rnS6nr fph E.. prepared in such a manner that the those in ordinary use.
 REV. BAYLUs CADE, the Baptist cler- gyman of Louisburg, N. O., has sold his invention for talegraphing while the train is in motion for 1000 and S2.25 per mile annuity for seventeen years.
 THE secretary of the California State Board of Health, Dr. G. Tyrrell, in his annual report vigorously protests against the immigration of diseased persons, especially of consumptives, to the State. He says there is great danger of conta- zion from consumption.
 Fon six years detectives have been searching, both in this country and Can ada, for A. l.. Reynolds, who is wanted in Springfield, Ill.,, to answer to fifteen indictments for pension frauds. He was lately captured in Chicago while en- gagged in the innocent and fatherly pastime of taking care of friends baby
 A DUCK recently killed near James, town, N. Y., caused great excitement in that region. In it's crop was found piece of gold quartz. The bird had been feeding on the borders of Chautauqua Lake near by, and it is claimed that an examination of the locality revealed many more specimens of rich gold-bear- ing quartz.
 A CALIFORNIA wife gave away to man jewels that had been purchased with her husbands money. The man who received these jewels was indicted and convicted of larceny on the theory that the wife had no right to make the gift, and hence that he had no right to receive them. Tho Supreme Court of in a recent decision, affirmed the judgment and sentence of the court below.
 A MORMON colony left Utah for Can- ada when the United States Government began it's attack upon polygamy, and settled in the Northwest Territory. An agent of the Government visited them last year, but could get no answer to his inquiries as to polygamy among them, except copy of their articles of faith, in which polygamy is approved. They claim there is no law of the Dominion which forbids the practice, but there is likely to be one pretty soon.