Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1890-04-18
SUMMARY OF EVENTS.

The official use Of tho French Ian.
guage In Manitoba has been abolished by
the Legislature.
A BREACH Of promise suit had to DO
postponed in Columbus, S. c., last week,
as tho defendant was absent on bridal
tour and the plaintiff was helping him
to enjoy it.
SOME professors who have been dig
cling into the Indian mounds of Penn
sylvania have unearthed the skeleton
of bravo who must have stood twelve
feet high.
THE mayor of Boston lately received
from King Humbcrt, of Italy, a COM
munication conveying his thanks to the
men who saved the lives of several
Italians at recent fire in that city
A BRIDGE across Eaglo crock, Ore,
was finished recently by Baker County
taxpayers, who paid 81, 800 for it. Before
1t was week old a drove of cattle were
driven upon it, when the whole struct-
ure collapsed and fifty animals were
drowned.
A WIDOW in New York has, it is said,
brought suit for damages against a
well-known neurologist for taking her
husbands brain, and also for violating
an alleged contract to give her 81 100
for using her husband as n medical OBJ
ject lesson.
AN exhibition of toys is about to be
opened in st. Petersburg. 1t is in
tended to illustrate the history of toys
from the earliest ages. Particular at
tention is to be given to Asiatic toys,
which arc said to be marvels of taste
and fine workmanship.
A LITTLE girl five years old has
arrived in Paterson, N. j., having
travelled by rail alone from Saginaw,
Mich. The child. at the request of her
father, was shipped as express matter,
with tag about her neck giving her
name and destination and also the kew
other trunk.
A NEW etching Of Tho Angelus" has
just boon completed in Paris. Only
very limited number Of copies arc to be
struck off, and tho price is said to be 2, 900
francs, or $500 each. The most expen-
sive copies on sale in this country are
the photographs, which sell for $50 each,
and the issue of which has been limited
to 100 copies.
THE Eiffel tower, which has been
closed sinoe the exposition, is about to
be reopencd. 1t has been overhauled
and refitted as to its platforms and other
accommodations for the public, tho res
taurant service has been reorganized,
and tho elevators have been tested until
1t is sure that the cold weather does not
affect them injuriously.
THE proposal to build pipe line for
sending milk to New York from far
away dairy districts was at first consid-
cred as joke, but nows from Middle
town, N. v, is to tho effect that COM
pany with half q million capital is being
formed to lay pipe by which milk in
cylindrical tin cans can be propelled by
water distance of one hundred miles.
The Okefnokee swamp in Georgia has
been sold to party of capitalists for
26H cents per acre, which was tho high
est bid received. The area is upward Of
$780, 900 acres. Tho buyers say that the
timber Is worth much more than was
paid for the property, and the soil is re-
markedly fertile. The swamp can DO
drained for S250,000, and an engineer
who has surveyed 1T says that the par
ties who have undertaken the enterprise
will become millionaires.
The rare ceremony of divorcing q
woman from her dead husband, accord
Ing to the requirements OF the old Mo-
sale law, took place recently in Louis
Vile, In tho B'Nai Jakob synagogue.
The woman's husband was killed by
tramps last summer. She had no chill
dren, and the old law Of the orthodox
Jews Is that in such a case the dead
mans eldest brother is to marry the
widow and raise up children in the namo
OF the deceased. The widow, however,
did not desire to marry her husbands
brother, nor he hor. Accordingly she
must be divorced from her dead mate.
This ceremony can only be performed
by two orthodox Jewish rabbis acting in
conjunction.