Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-08-23
MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS,

DR HANSEN, the explorer, says that the ice in Greenland is (, 900 feet thick.
 THE board of inquiry into the Johnstown flood estimates the total loss of property at S, 655,114
 Two HUNDRED AND sEvENTY-FIvE ladies are clergymen in the United States and occupy pulpits.
 A BEAUTIFUL monument in honor of the Pilgrim Fathers, which has cost $2OO,OOO, was recently dedicated at Plymouth.
 THE proposed ocean cable connecting San Francisco with the Sandwich Islands will be 2,OSO miles long and cost S1 ,5OO, 900.
 THE total value of the wedding presents received by Princess Louise of Wales is placed at 915O,OOO. The jewels alone are valued at 912O,OOO.
 A CLoUD-BURsT in Nevada the other day dropped enough water on a region two miles square to form 8 lake of ten acres in extent and ten feet deep.
 THERE are in the Treasury vaults at Washington nearly pint of diamonds and other precious stones that were presented to various Presidents by admiring friends. A CINCINNATI man used ten thousand gal Ions of water on his lawn last year. His neighbor trusted to Providence to sprinkle his, and when the fall came he had the best lawn.
 AN ycdT-OlO SAA "oS all ISoGCu HI San Francisco the other day who testified that for the past year she had been con- suming over two dollars worth of morphine daily.
 THE National Superintendent of Public | Buildings and Grounds recommended in his | annual report the erection of an addition to 1 the White House as private residence for | the President.
 COMPLAINT is heard in New York of | women who talk audibly during the draw ing room readings. Lately reader stopped, | smiled pleasantly, and said she would wait | until the ladies finished their conversation. A LONDON paper says that all the people now living in the world, or about 1, ,400,- 1 GOO, 900, could find standing room within the limits of a field ten miles square, and, by aid | of telephone, could be addressed by 0 l single speaker.
 FROM Norway comes story of curious telephone experiment., where 0 physician, | being ono hundred miles from home, talked to his dog, an English setter, through the telephone, the dog showing his understanding by a series of barks.
 NEW YORK has a pension law for it's militia. It is two years old, but the first awards under it have just been approved by the Governor. The highest award IS seventy-two dollars per month, given to 0 militianlan who lost both arms and one eye by an accident while on duty under State orders.
 1 A CITIZEN of New Brighton recently re- ceived from Gettysburg bottle of apple | jack over twenty-five years old. It seems that while in that place during the war he had four-gallon keg of the beverage, and when tho rebels got too close he was in such a hurry to get away that he didn't want to take it or give it up, so he dropped 1t in a posthole. It became covered up, and while excavating there a few days ago it was dug up and his name discovered on the keg. A | portion was taken out and sent to him, tho finder keeping the balance.
 A CHINESE gambler arrested in San Francisco had clever arrangement for cheating on his person. It consisted of 8 steel ''clip," which was fastened inside of one sleeve. Two cords reached up the | sleeve, across the breast and down the other sleeve to the hand, where one was fastened to the thumb and the other to one of the fingers. By a pull of one cord the clip reached out and took in a card, which was at once drawn up the sleeve. Pulling the other cord caused the card to be shot out into the hand of the player with lightning rapidity, without ex- posing any part of the mechanism.