Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-11-04
A CREST OF oEnERALlrIEs.

A CREST OF oEAERALlrlEa. !:
 THERE were imported in eleven months ending June 1, 1889, 9,9S4 horses, free of duty, which means breeding horses.
 AN English syndicate recently purchased Beventy-two of the elevators on the North western road in Minnesota and Dakota.
 THE Shah shocked and snu bbed the Au 8 trian court right and left. His table man. ners were highly barbarous.
 THE hanson cab, 'the London gondola," is comparatively modern creation. The first patent was taken out by MT. Hanson in 1884
 NEVER open or shut door, raise or lower curtain, or in any way alter the arrange ments of room in house at which you are a caller.
 THERE are TOO species of birds in South America, of which nearly 300 are peculiar. The turkey and the mocking bird belong to the latter class.
 EDWARD BELLAMY, the novelist, Is . sl en- der, rather good-looking man who wears g | mustache and looks no moro literary than William D. Howells.
 THE chemists of the United States Agri- l cultural Department are about to begin the work of investigating the different artificial | foods and infant foods now on the market. OLIVE SCHREINER, since her phenomenal success, has developed from plain, shy. retiring girl into brilliant, self-poised woman, with many pretensions to beauty. BOSTON gave the new cruiser that was named for her 8 set of colors. Chicago gave her namesake 8 set of silver plate, and Philadelphia intends to present her cruiser with library.
 TIE jokes some of the New York papers get of on "Hugh Nudity" are eexcrutiatingly | funny, but they are little worn on one ] side. Try turning them, for some of you | boys can turn very neat joke. SINCE the general adoption of ten hours | tions urged against 1t have proved ground l less. So, it may be, would be the result If | eight hours were substituted for ten hours. IN 1886 fve-eighths of the people owned l their homes, and three -eighths were the prey of landlordism. In 1889 only three l eighths owned their own homes, and l five-eighths were reduced to the rank of l tenants.
 IN Pennsylvania's coke regions half of the 14,OOO workers are Hungarians. The bosses have decided to discontinue employing Hum garians. Germans are to take their places, | because of their steadiness, intelligence l and their submissiveness.
 THE latest developments in tru sts Is the English syndicate that is trying to corner l the enameled and patent leather trade of all America. There are in the United States twenty-six factories. Their total capital is about s5OOO,00O. They employ about 900 men.
 THE original English buyers of American | breweries, certain London companies, have made actual purchases of twenty-nine establishments in the United States, and | stand ready to make further purchases of any concerns that can show net profit of ten per cent on the price they ask. | CHAUTAUoUA's prosperity, 1t is said, Is measured daily by the amount of eggs eaten within it's limits. When fifteen hundred dozen eggs Q week are eaten, for instance, l 1t is estimated that six thousand persons have been living on the grounds, and that l there have been one thousand transient tourists day for that week. IN one respect the Paris Exhibition excels ] all others, for there has never been collect ed together so fine display of electrical mechanism of every conceivable kind. There is at present an unparalleled i'm pulse in Europe toward electrical en- gineering and the desire to extend the use of electricity to all branches of manu- 1 factures.
 confidently expected to lean chiefly to the l skin of the Bokharan caracal, kind of lynx, about the size of fox and of a uni l form brown color, but with long and black ears. At the great fair of Mimi Novgorod this fur was in the greatest demand, and the entire lot offered, 700, 900 skins, was bought for the American market.
 THE vicissitudes of trade In leather manufactures is very markedly shown in the counties of Durham and Northumber- land. Within thirty years twenty tanneries have been closed in these counties, and be- tween forty and fifty currying works; the latter extended to eighteen towns; in five towns currying is still carried on, but to a greater reduced extent, while in thirteen towns the industry has entirely disap- peared.
 IN reply to question put to him by re- porter in Paris whether he had almost per- fected seeing machine, Edison replied that he is at work upon an invention which will enable a "man in Wall street not only to telephone to a friend near Central Park, but actually to see that friend while conversing g with him." This, MT. Edison thinks, would be practical and useful invention, and he can sec no reason why 1t should not become a reality.
 THE electric motor Is going everywhere, but it is genuine surprise to find that 1t is
 making it's way into churches, not simply
 lighting them at night, but operating the
 organs at half the usual cost of the gas en-
 zine or the water power, and with equal
 efficiency. Eight of the largest church or
 gans in New York are now pumped by cleo tricity, and the pumping of organs in all churches where the electric current can be reached is simply a question of time.
 THE centenary of the birth of George Simon Ohm, which takes place on tho 18th of next March, is to be celebrated by the
 erection of a statue of him in Munich, the capital of his native state. To Ohm Is due
 the discovery ot two of the most fruitful
 principles in mathematical physics-the law
 of the relation between the strength of an
 electric current and the electro-motive
 force acting in the conductor, and the law
 as to the way in which complex musical