Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-11-25
A CURIOUS COLLECTION,

A DANDEL1oN which has grown to the top of a ten-toot pole is the product of a New Haven truck patch.
 A CHICAGO husband and wife both filled petitions for divorce on the same day. each without the knowledge of tho !othcr.
 JOHNSON MUcSDT, a Tarrytown (N. E.) sculptor who is nearly blind, is model fling q statue of Union soldier by tho sense of touch.
 A FISHERMAN at Doylestown, Pa, saw Ia SuntiSh swallow a bee. and a few min- tutes later saw the fish on the water dead. He cut it open and the bee flew of.
 A ROLLER in an Ansonia (Conn.) mill ;has succeeded in making ribbon scv- Inty and three-quarter inches long, ,three-quarters of an inch wide and five !ten-thousandths of an inch thick from Ian 1889 cent.
 / A YOUNG lady of Columbus. Ga, has made a crazy quilt out of Louisiana State lottery tickets that failed to ''con- ,nect' with the prize wheel. The num- .bers are worked in silk of beautiful col iors.
 ', A MAINE girl put a note and her ad dress in a box of toothpiclls. requesting, | ;thc finder to write to her. \ t>Gns, 7 | City man got the box, opened q corrv- | spondencc, and a few day, ago started | East to sec if the young lady was t..n sort of woman he wanted for q wife. Ar Leighton Buzzard. Eng. Jns, other day a chapel was burned down ii vhiy:. nt had previously been arranged to cr3t'- l T | the sacred editica had no effect ] \ post poning the ceremony. and ;!sr nan and woman were made one amid the smoking ruins.
 / TnE fact that the passage of ~n cIcc- | tric current through q roso leaf will | ,,auSc it to lose color was taken adyan- 1agc of at a recent dinner in Iari:,. h. stead of the ordinary card the &>at of | Zach guest was indicated by his name being inscribed in white letters upon a rose leaf at his place at table
 A NolDEHFUI. map of O'Bricn County. la, was made for exhibition at the Stat" fair at Dcs Moincs. The map was wholly composed of corn grains, each town and township being distinguished by differ cnt colors. The railroads were marked by rows of bluc-blacll ''squaw corn" and the wagon roads with popcorn.
 A CURIOSITY in the shape of a milk | pumpkin was lately seen on a farm a few miles southwest of Anderson. Ind. The vine upon which the pumpkin grew was partly covered with loose dirt when in | bloom. At the points where the dirt covered the vine small roots grew out. The vine was lifted up and the roots carefully placed in a pan of milk. which was rapidly absorbed. The pumpkins on the vine grew to enormous size, and one weighs l35 pounds.
 lN Ebert County, near Crafts ferry, on tho Savannah river, lives a negro anan who goes by the namc of ''Shccp Jess" who is d curiosity. His hair and whisllcrs are perfectly white and almost cover his head and face. leaving only small patches of dark skin around his eyes and nose, and are q perfect imitation of Shcep'S wool. His hair. or wool, grows rapidly, and his wife shears him every two weeks, thereby realizing enough wool to supply Jess. his wife and five children with stockings the year round, and sells enough socks to supply them in sugar and coffee. His wife has nearly enough of the finest part of the wool
 saved mp to make cloth sufficient for |!
 suit of clothes for Jess next winter. He
 is about thirtv-tive years "li.