Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-02-24
THE TIDE OF EVENTS.

THE scientists at Harvard University are engaged in experiments which they are confident will result in determining the exact location of the North Pole.
 BOSTON has begun the experiment. of opening it's public library in the even- tngs and thus throwing it's valuable reference books open to those who are unable to consult them in the daytime.
 IT is seriously proposed to bridge Behring's Strait. The strait is only sixty miles wide, with three islands in- tervening, and the water is shallow, not being over four fathoms in depth. Such bridge would open up the vast re- sources of Alaska and stimulate trade between the two great continents.
 Ar San Diego recently one market gunner killed 12,OOO quail, to accom- plish which he fired IS, 900 times. This Is large number to fall to one gun, and rather puts to shame the boasted record of Eastern gunners, whose occasional total of 800 or 400 birds during the open season never fails to be recorded by the rural newspaper. The California record is not noted as an exceptional one.
 Ar Denison, Tex, MT. and Mrs. Obeistrom lately celebrated their seven- ty-ffth anniversary of married life. They have seventeen children living, who were present n the occasion. The eldest, William, is seventy years of age and from Omaha, Neb. MT. and Mrs. Obeistrom are 6 ;ed respectively ninety one and ninety-four. They arc believed to be the oldest married couple in the State.
 THE work of making public park out of General Putnam's revolutionary head quarters at Bedding, Conn.,, carried on at the expense and by the direction of the Connecticut Legislature, has been finished. A thicket surrounds the park, and the Putnam monument faces the en- trance. There are a mile and a half of driveways, seven springs of water, ap- pie trees century old and many log houses.
 YALE students recently made raid on the street lamps in New Haven and stole the signs, which were stored in a room at the college. A city official sent for two of them and remarked: "We don't want to be severe, and, therefore, if you bring back the signs within thirty-six hours there will be no further trouble Otherwise the band will begin to play A>o" eoAO yOuE CAO4Co uC DOyS InauC the choice without stopping to discuss the matter, and the next evening POT glass signs were brought back in bags and turned over to the authorities.
 SOME miners at Homer, Cal, broke into cave the other day while at work drilling and came upon chamber about forty feet square and quite as high, the sides and roof of which were chalcedony bulged out in all sorts of grotesque and fantastic shapes. The in- terior of the cave flashed with the fri descence of a million colored gems. It seemed, says one of the miners, as if all the glittering stars in the firma- ment had come down to hold high car nival and flash themselves through lenses of variegated hues. Exploring farther they found still more cause for wonder. Petrifactions of animals, birds and reptiles abounded. There were great owls and monstrous bats, and sev- eral snakes as hideous as if endowed with life. Some of these petrifaction says the Homer Index, have been re. moved in perfect condition