Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-21
CURRENT CONVERSATIONS,

ATHENS, Ga., has cow that walked on the cross ties over trestle sixty-five feet high and 150 yards long.
 GOVERNOR DILLINGHAM;, of Vermont, re- gently earned s225 by appearing as wit ness in a local lawsuit.
 PENNSYLVANIA has big trout farm near Emans station, on the East Pennsylvania railroad. There are eight ponds at the farm "which number by actual count 24, 700 brook trout and 2,50O California trout from one to four years of age.''
 A MINNEAPOLIS inventor has brought out an electrical motor for kitchen use, which, it is claimed, will do cooking, baking, iron ing, etc., cheaper than gas or gasoline; and by removing the insulators it may be used for heating purposes.
 WHEN petroleum was first discovered in the United States it was bottled and sold for medicinal purposes under the name of rock oil. It's medicinal properties were lost sight of until they were re-introduced in a semi-solid form as vaseline
 A REMNANT of the Seneca tribe of h. dians still fingers in Warren County, Pa, spearng fish, etc., for living. The tribe, all tod, barely numbers 1000 mem bers, and has so dwindled that marriage among blood relations has become a neces- sity.
 WHAT shall be our National fower2 This question is discussed in the agricultural and other journals. Some writers favor the golden-rod, others the mountain-laurel. The mayfower, the sunhower and the stately magnolia have also been mentioned.
 A SEA TURTLE ten feet long, five feet wide and weighing 1,OO0 pounds was caught re- gently in Q trap off South Harwich, Cape Cod. This monster is estimated to be fully POO years old. AS it stands the distance be- tween it's fore fappers is over ten feet.
 THE great bridge which is to cross the St. Lawrence at Quebec will, with it's ap- breaches, be 34, GOO feet, or nearly six and a half miles long. The top of the bridge will be 4O8 feet above high water level, allowing the largest ocean vessels to pass under 1t. One span in the bridge will have a length of 1,442 feet.
 THE fusing of telegraph wires by light ming is very rare occurrence, although there are numerous instances of their car rying very large currents. A case is cited, on most excellent authority, where one of the linemen was killed by touching wire struck by lightning at Q point fifty miles away.
 A REMARKABLE instance of telephonic | communication occurred in Charleston, s. G., recently. A young man employed in the Western Union telegraph office in that C1Cy COAFCISSO W1IuOut any uAAuCulGy W1LH | his brother, who was in Omaha, 1,5OO miles | away. The brothers talked an hour with
 hardly any pause between questions. IN the bother which has been made over | the sensational sale of Millet's "Angelus," !" | the fact has been overlooked that the orig l inal study for this picture has been for some years in this country, in the collection of MT. W. T. Walters, of Baltimore. The l study, which is in black and white, is care fully executed, and the completeness of the | expression is remarkable, since Millet | only study which was made for the paint ing. Among the paintings by Millet in MT. Walters collection is the "Sheepfcld," one
 of two or three pictures by Millat which
 are considered by amateurs to be finer in l quality than the "Angelus."