Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-04-16

 WHAT IS GOING ON.


 IT costs twenty five dollars fine or thIfty days in jail to sell bo5s cigarettes in Ohio.
 A PROJECT is on foot to build a ship-canal across the upper penlnsula, connecting Lakes Michigan and Superior
 IT is said that unless the present condi- tons are changed the complete destruction of the Adirondack forests is inevitable.
 UTAH is so anxious for Statehood that the Mormons declare that they will abolish polygamy to bring about the desired result.
 Nor to be outdone by women, Baltimore men have instituted q custom of giving afternoon teas. As members of both sexes are invited, the teas arc very successful.
 PLANTERS in North Carolina are much alarmed at the exodus of negroes. Many agricultural sections will not be able to sc cure hands to cultivate tho lands this year.
 THG Buffalo and Niagara Falls Drainage Company has been incorporated with s.. C0000o capital. Tho object is to construct 8 ditch by way of TonaWanda to the bottom of the Niagara gorge which will be used Gs a tall race for water motors.
 STILL anothcrus has been discovered for the hustle. Marie Casteron was arrested on the steamer North P@clIio at Port Town send, W. T., for smuggling opium, foSrteen pounds of tho drug being found on her per son. She had q sort of harness rigged up, ! ice as q bustle.
 NEARLY every west-bound train on the Chicago, MilWaul1ece & Sy. Paul railroad carr1es from five to 8 dozcn enlgrant ears filled with enigrauts for Dakota, a ma jcrity of whom are Germans. The Dakota towns are rapidly filling up with strangers, and tho livelieSt kind of a boom Is looked for dur ing the comng summer.
 TuE electrical apparatus by which doomed criminals will be put to death iu New York consists of chair, probably of iron. The current will be sent from arm to arm of the subject, or from the head to the spine The exact location of the poles will, no doubt, vary with the subject and the opinion of physicians.
 THE people of -Vaca Valley, California, 1 have found that peach pits make good fuel, that pound for pound they will burn as long as coal and give moro heat, and they arc now saving them all. They sell at six dol ] lars per ton, and find an active market. Apricot pits also serve for fuel, though they do not burn so readily.
 . ONE of the sleeping car companies pro- i poses to build and run sccond-class sleep CTS, plainly furnished, but provided with 1 good beds and good service. They will be run in addition to the iirst-clasS s!ecpcrs, 1 but with a decided difference ill faro. First i class fare from Chicago o Sau Francisco is ! $l350: secOud-class fare will ho S4.
 TIE phonograph is serving a number oi uses. One instrument concealed under the coat was discovered to be employed sur reptitiously in stealing the score of a new opera; it was ojeu,ed. Many phono- : graphs, it is said, arc being employed by q number of actors and 2cresseS a5 auto matic teachers Of clocutiOu. Through the ! instrument they obtain an CE2ct idea Qs : their vocal expression, and learn by means Of mimicry the precise qualities of their i tones.
 THERE arc at present some two thousand women employed i'll drug stores throughout ! the country. When the Women's School oi i Pharmacy Was first organized in Louisville there were but two women engaged A the business, and both.of these were in the Iab- oratoIy of eof the professors. Duriu z the last term more applications for graduates to fill responsible positions in drug storos or laboratories of manufacturing ch~u,25-s have been received at tho Louisville sthra than the total number which the school hes graduated since it's commencement.