Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-12-28
CAUGHT IN THE CURRENT.

dEREAFTER the DOdUS CarrloQ Dy AG- lantic steamers, instead of being made of wood, will be made of steel, in one piece.
 A MAN of Norristown, Pa., was unable to land sixteen-pound carp that he caught, and called friend who shot it on the wing.
 A LETTER was landed in Ann Arbor the other day labeled Hook out" This letter was written at the top of the Eiffel tower.
 THE penny in the slot" device has been applied in England to chairs for use in public places, arranged to keep the seat upright until the coin is dropped in, when it can be lowered.
 THERE will be over 5000 new Indian voters in South Dakota as result of the recent land allotment acts. Every In- dian over twenty-one who receives an allotment becomes thereby citizen.
 THE United States cruiser Thesis, which lately returned to Sitka after an extraordinary cruise, is the first steam vessel that ever went to the mouth of the Mackenzie river, in the Arctic Ocean.
 THERE is horse at Hamburg, N. J., named Restless, now thirty-three years old, of Hambletonian-Clay blood, who was in over thirty battles and skir- mishes in the late war, including Peters, burg, Fredericksburg, Winchester, the Wilderness and Gettysburg, beirg wounded at the latter.
 ''SPoKANE," writes recent visitor, twill be rebuilt better than it was. Sandstone will be discarded for granite. A recent discovery is that of granite quarry nine miles north. There is 8 wall of white gray granite mile and a half long and six hundred feet high. Pieces fifty feet long have been taken out. This stone will be used largely in the reconstruction"
 A COMPANY has laid main in New York, and will supply the butchers of Washington market with cold air. Tho supply may be regulated by a cock. The air is made frigid by the ammonia system. The butchers will use tAe space formerly occupied by ice to put meat in. The company intends to supply restaurants and saloons, and possibly summer resorts in the city, just as soon as it gets it's pipes laid.
 A BEAUTIFUL white marble bust of Mrs. Cleveland, upon a pedestal of black and white marble, is at present occupying corner of ex-Marshal Will sons drawing-room in Washington. It was left in his charge when MT. Cleve- land went to New York. The bust is life size, and is the work of G. Scanki. Genoa, and bears the date 1886. It was made from impressions taken when, as Miss Folsom, she travelled in Europe.
 DOWN in Nashville, Tenn, they de- vised shrewd arrangement for en- abling voters who could not read to place their cross in the right place on the ballot of tho Australian system. i They had tin plates made just the size of the ballots, and with slots cut in them at such intervals that the open spaces would come over those names which the ter desired to cross. A young lawyer of Nashville invented the device the night before the election. WHILE the Chinese influx has been checked by the passage of the Restric- tion act, there has, says the San Fran cisco Chronicle, during the past few years been a steady increase in the number of Japanese immigrants. Three years ago the Japanese colony in this city numbered 500: to-day the figures may be placed at $500. During the last three months 26O Japanese have arrived here, and during tl>e same time only sixty have departed