Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-02-20
CURIOUS THINGS OF LIFE.

LIT. D ID. keyI;ClCS, or ROckIOru, MlCu.s wears buttons made of SEQ gold pieces on his clothes.
 Private detectives are now employed to watch the gifts at fashionable weddings m Philadelphia.
 4 company has been formed in New York which proposes to make machines for the de livery of postage stamps automatically by dropping a coin in the slot.
 Five years ago q good specimen of q mummy could be obtained in Alexandria for s. The price has now advanced to SIS, with $1 extra for a real old veteran.
 St. Louis has got hold of man who has stolen twenty eight horses in six months, and he is not only eighty two years of age, but lame, near-sighted and suffering with asthma
 X church at Almont, Mich, raises money in a novel way. A box is placed in the church and the members on their birthdays drop as many pennies in the box as they are years old.
 Forty tons of stone have been left on q scaf- fold fifty feet high in Mark Lane, London, for two years past, and the people have just woke up to the fact that they may feel some thing drop.
 Peter Clark, an Ohio lad hung to a beam on railroad bridge while a train of forty six freight cars passed over his head and he says he couldn't do it again for the best GUS tard pie ever made
 A Boston artist has had an eloquent trib- ute paid to him by a game cock. He painted the bird so naturally that it became excited when shown its likeness and with beaiS and spurs destroyed the picture. A Mssissippian boasts of having had the ague for twenty-seven straight years with only one break of three weeks. He set out to beat the shakes at their own game, and there are 1.G pounds left of him yet. Living in Japan is very cheap. You can rent n big house, keep three servants, have a drive every day, and live off the fat of the land for &o per week In addition to this the natives will take off their hats to you. John Leibenderfer,, of Beaver Falls, Pa, bled to death a result of having a tooth
 pulled. Several physicians attended him,
 but were unable to check the flow of blood. He was strong, healthy man in the prime of life.
 London cablnan was arrested for exces- sive cruelty to his horse by whipping Upon l consenting to give evidence against the cab
 owner from whom he hired the horse, he him self was discharged and the owner was sent to prison for month.
 A strange phenomenon is observed in con 1 nection with the natural gas supply at Mont peher, Ind. Six hours out of every twenty four the gas down to minimum and six hours daily it reaches maximum. The
 movements coincide with the ocean tides. A Buffalo man recently counted the mo | tions made by barber's hand during the process of shaving one man, and found them | to be 67S. Add to this the motions made by l the barber's mouth the while and the result
 is marvellous sample of what may be got for | ten cents.
 | A young man found with q pedometer ! found that in twenty-two dances he had | travelled thirteen and half miles It is dol | lars to cents that every belle at that ball | couldn't go down town a half milo with out taking a horse car, the beaux either, | for that matter.
 l A curious discovery has been mado ill | Washington regarding a patrol box on Sam | son street It seems that police officer slept | at the station house and used the patrol box
 as a kitchen and eating house. It was Uttered
 with an oil stove and a necessary array of
 pots and pans The walls and sides of the i'm
 provised kitchen were soaked with grease,
 while the floor was covered with scraps of
 bread meat, cheese, etc.
 Three years ago John Wright, of Pike
 county, Georgia, lost his sight, and oculists
 whom he consulted agreed that there was no
 possibility of his ever seeing again. The
 other day as Mr. Wright sat on tho porch i'll
 the sunlight his eyes began to itch vio- | lently. He rubbed them, and when he took
 away his fingers he was conscious that he
 could distinguish objects dimly. During the
 day his power of vision increased, and at last
 accounts the old gentleman was in a fair way | to sce as we'll as ever.