Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-21
RuMoR AND REPORT.

1T is said that Paris, when full, can ac- commodate nearly four millions ef people.
 ABOUT 25,OOO,OOO letters pass yearly be- tween the United Kingdom and North America.
 THERE is said to be little doubt in En- gland that Sir Edwin Arnold will be the next laureate.
 THE town of Milford, Conn.,, lately cele- brated the two hundred and fftieth annt versary of it's settlement.
 Ir is suggested that the most probable means of propelling the air-ship of the future will be by electricity.
 IT is estimated that the Paris Exposition this year has caused nearly $150, ,OOO, 900 of American money to be dropped in Europe.
 THE contract for postal-cards for four years to come calls for 2,O0O, OOO,OOO cards, which will be manufactured at cost of $500, O,OOO and sell for $2O, ,OOO,0O0
 FoR the first time since 1859 Georgia has made corn enough this season to supply her own wants, and she will have besides sur plus of a million bushels for sale.
 w. K. VANDERBnT's steam yacht Alva, the handsomest and most perfectly appoint ed pleasure boat in the world, cost $500. 900, and the expense of running her IS said to be about $150,OOO year.
 A STATUE Is soon to be erected in Lincoln Park, Chicago, to La Sale, the explorer, by Hon. Lambert Tree. La Sale camped in 1882 on the site of Chicago, and was the first man to descend the Mississippi to it's mouth.
 IMPORTATION has been received that sev- enty-two American heirs are about to re- ceive the S51 ,OO0, GOO estate of a man named Fisher, who died in Germany several years ago. Twenty of the heirs live in Missouri.
 A PUMP worked by wave-power supplies salt water from the ocean to sprinkle the streets of Ocean Grove, N.J. The waves door connected with a piston, thus lifting the water.
 THE California papers say that the brig Natalia, which foundered in the harbor of Monterey in 1884, is to be raised, or at least what is left of her copper sheathing is to be brought to the surface. It is said that this is the same vessel that brought Napoleon back to France from the Isle of Elba in 1915.
 THE people of San Francisco expect to find themselves, ere long, at the end of an ocean cable, the other end of which will be fastened at Hawaii. To lay the wire, which must be 2,OS0 miles long, will cost, as esti- mated, $1, ,5OO, 900, and of this sum the Hawai- ian Government and people will furnish @ third.
 IT is curious fact that there are 200, 900 people in the United States who have arti- ficial legs or hands. This number does not include the veterans of the Union or the Confederate army. In New York City and vicinity there are about 5000 men and women who have supplied the place of lost limbs with the manufactured article.
 TwENTY-oNE days from Japan to New York is good record that has been re- gently made. It took the steamer, which contained cargo of teas and silks, thirteen days for the trip from Yokohama to Vancouver, where a day was lost in transferring the cargo to the freight cars which brought it from Vancouver to New York in eight days. It can not be said that this record beats any other ever made, but it is rare record.
 A SAN FRANCISCO paper thinks that $12,- 100000 is yearly 'drained'' by the Chinese through various channels from city of SOO000 inhabitants. It figures this way: There are 40, GOO Chinese in San Francisco. These persons earn at least one dollar a day each over and above their board. This Is s4O.OOO day, S1, 100000 a month of twenty six days, and over SIP, GOO, 900 year. Most l of this money, 1t thinks, goes directly or in- l directly to China, never to return.