Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-16
TIPS ON VARIOUS TOPICS.


 IN order to make the quick time that the fast ststeameIs are now making across the Alt lant1c four hundred tons of coal per day are required.
 THERE are now four medical colleges for women in the United States. They are To. cated at Chicago, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore.
 FEW people know that the Governments. sues stamp of the denomination of sixty dollars. Such stamps are used on second class mail matter and are rarely seen by the general public.
 THE s'Messalians" were 8 sect protesting to adhere to the letter of the Gospel, about three hundred and ten, who refused to work, quoting this passage: "Labor not for the food that perisheth."
 THs highest structure of masonry In tho world is the National Museum recently completed at Turin. The gilt statue on the top of the spire stands five hundred and thirty-eight feet from the ground. NEXT to England little Holland Is tho greatest colonial power in the world. Tho Dutch colonies have an area of nearly eight hundred thousand square miles, which includes some of the fnest posses sions in the world.
 THE salaries of colonial governors arc very high. New Zealand pays e7,5O0 @ year; Bermuda, 93,OO0; Jamaica, s6.000; Feejee, 95, 900, and British Guiana, 5,000. The entire Feejee revenue is only G75, 900. There is only handful of whites there.
 THE regular down-East Yankee pro nunciation, according to 0 writer in Notes and Queries, must have come from Essex. The same twang is observed in the speech there as in New England, such words as blue, true or through being pronounced blew, trew and threw, with double @. A SLIGHT bow is all that courtesy requires after an introduction. Shaking hands Is optional, and it should rest with the older or superior in social standing to mako the advances. It is quite customary nowadays to say on such occasions: t'Happy to meet you l' in which case the us ual reply is: "It gives me equal pleasure"
 A. H. STEPHENS, of Georgia, while mem- Der of Congress in 1870, originated the phrase "too thin" (according to the Pitts burgh Dispatch). "Mr. Speaker" he said, assertions made up of whole cloth. And cloth, sir, so gauzy and thin that 1t will not hold water. It is entirely too thin, sir" COLUMBUS was twice married. His first wife was Felipa, the daughter of Palestrel- To, an Italian cavalier; his second, Donna Beatrice Enriques, by whom he had son, Ferdinand, born in 14S7, who became the biographer of his father. Diego Columbus was his son by his first marriage, and Bar. tholomew Columbus was the elder brother of the discoverer of America.
 DURING times of peace all vacancies In the line officers of the navy are filled by grad uates of Annapolis, but if war is in prog ress those holding subordinate positions are often promoted for bravery and other mer- itorious conduct. In the army, however, oitlzens may be appointed to the grade of Second Lieutenant without preliminary training at West Point, but not to any of the higher ranks. As in the former case, prlvates may r1se from the ranks in war times and attain the high grades. THOMAS WnLErr was the first mayor of New York, being appointed to that position in June, 1865, in accordance with an ar rangement previously made for @ municipal l government under English laws. His sher- if-Schout-and majority of the new Board of Aldermen-burpomaste Dutch. Willett proved very popular. He served two terms-from 1865 to 1868 and 1867 to 166S-and was succeeded, at the ex- piration of his first term, by Thomas Dela- wall, who was elected to the office three | times between the years 1868 and 1878. GENERAL ANTHONY WAYNE was nick named Mad Anthony" because of his fear less courage and desperate energy. One of | the most brilliant achievements of the revo- lutionary war was Wayne's capture of Stony Point on the night of July 15, l779. He was by birth Pennsylvanian; East town, Chester County, claiming the honor. According to his request, he was buried un- der the flagstaff of Fort Presque Isle (now Erie, Pa.). In 1909 his body was removed to Radnor churchyard, Delaware County, Pa., and over it, in the same year, the Penn sylvania Society of the Cincinnati erected 8 l marble with suitable inscriptiops