Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-25
rEMizED INTELLIGENCE.

TENNIS teaching is now opening neA branch of employment for women. I ONE Johnstown girl has counted thirty two relatives who perished in the flood. ! THERE are 1,6O0 central electric light stations in various parts of this country. GUM-cHEwERs' paralysis is the latest form iof professional neurosis recorded in medi cal literature.
 l LENAwEE COUNT, Mich., is at presentpay. ing cut something like twelve dollars day in bounties on dead sparrows. THERE are sixty paper towns in Southern California, comprising x, $50 town lots, and jthe whole sixty have only 2S5 inhabitants.
 IT IS said that the great oil fields of New York and Pennsylvania are rapidly becom- ling exhausted. The supply has fallen from l1OO, 900 to 43 600 barrels per day. Search is fbeing made for new fields.
 /! THE railroad car on which Lincoln rode to Washington at the time of his first! lnaugu.
 raton is now used as a smoking car on the New York Central railroad and runs be- tween Wellsboro and Antrim, Pa
 A NEW gem, the pierre Tonguinoise, Is in }the market. When cut like diamonds it is lsaid to be very beautiful. Its color is . dark lblue, more brilliant than sapphire, though
 some varieties have @ purple or red tinge.
 THE great mining enterprise of uncover ling the bed of Feather River, in California, lat Big Bend, has proved 8 failure. The stream was successfully diverted, but the ,gold expected to be found at the bottom was
 mot there. It is said ss. COG, 900 was expend-
 led on the project.
 THE longest uninterrupted debate on rec
 ord was brought to close by tho New Zear land House of Representatives the other day. It had caused Q continuous sitting of .seventy-six hours, entirely given up to tho discussion of a representation bill. Yet the debate was not finished.
 THE female clerks who have obtained po-
 sitions in the Treasury Department within
 four or five years arc mostly young women who have just passed through the normal
 schools and have entered the Government service through the civil service examine ;tion test. They are a bright lot of young women.
 A CHINESE banking house is soon to be
 opened in New York City, and 1t will be tho
 first of it's kind in the United States. A
 small rate of interest is to be paid to each regular depositor, and the money is to be
 let out on @ larger interest to legitimate
 business houses in Mott street, whore the present rate of interest is between ton and fifteen per cont. for small loans on good security. This banking scheme indi- cates that the Chinese population is increas-
 ing rapidly.
 THE largest drawbridge in the world is across the Thames at New London, Conn.,, and the draw was swung for the first time recently. It shot into place exactly, tho double-rail tracks fitting as perfectly as if
 they had always been doing that sort of thing. Tho draw had, of course, been
 built up and down stream, and this was the
 first opportunity to discover whether any | errors had been made. The draw is 5O3 feet long and weighs 2,5OO, O,ooo pounds. 1 A BLOCK of coal weighing five tons, ten l hundredweight, was cut at the Abercarne Coal Company's Abercarne coliery and sent to the Paris Exposition as specimen of Welsh inning industry. The block, which
 was cut from the nine-foot black-vein seam, mesures seven feet SIX inches high, fve feet six inches wide and three feet six inches deep. It had to be hauled about mile in l the workings to the pits shaft, where it was 1 found necessary to trim 1t before it could be | vent up to the bank.