Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-01-09
RARE AND REMARKABLE.
TWINS aged ninety years are living in Wixom, Mich.

TWINS aged ninety years are living in Wixom, Mich.
 AN Idaho physician advertises: "The poor never refused"
 JUG TAVERN is the name of pros- porous village in Georgia.
 A coLoRED somnambulist in Georgia walked to the next village, several miles distant, and back, awakening on getting within few squares of his home.
 A WOMAN in New York is showing school of trained crocodilcs and ali- gators. They shed real ''crocodile tears" and dry them with pocket-hand- kerchiefs.
 A TAME crow belonging to a farmer near Ridgcway, Ont, has been taught to distinguish colors, and will pick out from pile of articles of various colors one of any color asked for.
 A PETRIFIED apple was discovered at Harrington, Me, Q few days ago by some boys. It had changed to the color of marble. The stem and blossom were apparently as perfect as when the fruit fell from the tree.
 A MAN of Charleston, w. Na., while sound asleep got out of bed at night and swan across the river and back again. He was carried home by some gentlemen who had seen him perform this remarkable feat.
 ON one street in Akron, O., only four squares long, reside thirteen families of the name of Brown. There were fourteen until recently, when one of them moved away, the members of the family declaring that they could stand @he pressure no longer. Mail intended for one individual would be scattered all along the street, and there were other annoyanccs too numerous to men, tion.
 NEAR Healdsburg, Cal, is redwood tree twenty-four feet in diameter, with in tho hollow of which squatter and his family have taken up their abode. A few days ago a hunter was attracted to the spot by the sound of voices. To close the opening in the tree rude door had been constructed of dcerskins. Inside the tree benches and tables had been constructed of redwood bark fastened together by wooden pins.
 BEAVER FALLS Pa>) paper tells story about an old man who has been dried up by the natural gas fires in his house until his weight is hardly that of Q seven-year-old child. Of late, also, it has beon noticed that when he walks his joints seem to give way under him, and his whole frame cmits queer, cracking sound like dried peas in a pod. Physicians have examined him and found that every joint In his franc had shrunll from it's socket. A REMARKABLE colorod farmer lives near Middletown, Del. He has a family of fourteen children living, while two have died. He educates his children in 8 peculiar way. He sent his eldest son to college in New Jersey, where he ac- quired a fairly good education. Tho farmer then went to work and ereoted a suitable building for q school-house on the farm, and his oldest son is installed as teacher of his brothers and sisters The school is opened in the fall when the work is all done, and in the spring, when the planting season commences, the school is closed and the children go to work on the farm.
 HE sequel to a rather peculiar incl dent was lately brought to light in which a fish and an engagement ring were the principal actors. Some months ago man living near Wellsville caught a large catfish in the Ohio river. On cutting 1t open gold ring with an opal setting was found in It's stomach with the initials NJ S.-F. D. on the inner face of the band. By an accident this came to the notice of Frederick Dun ham, of Springfield, Ill.,, and on exam | nation he pronounced it the engage ment ring which he had given to his wife twelve years before and which she had lost on Missouri river steamer a few years after their marriage.