Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-02-05
ODD NOTES OF INTEREST.

The Mexicars are said to be adopting
the Yankee New Years custom.
LAWN TENNIS played in the open air
on Christmas day in New England is
novelty.
A PANORAMA Of Stanley's two journeys
in Africa will be painted for the World 3
Fair by two French painters.
TwENrY-sEvEN New York teachers
were locked days pay for tine spent
in attending the funeral of IN assistant
superintendent.
THE women Of Milford, Me, lately
presented to the town hall which they
paid for themselves by giving enter
tainmcnts and fairs.
AT frst-class restaurant in Phila-
delphia q patron ordering terrapin is
shown n box full of the reptiles and al
lowed to select his minds fancy.
BOYS of Gold Hill, New, enjoy frst-class
coasting nowadays. They go from thar
town to Silver City, three miles, in five
minutes. 1t takes them an hour to climb
back.
THERE are now enough French people
along the line of the Maine Central
railroad to Justify that corporation in
posting its timetables printed in
French.
A NEW continuance has been applied to
watches, called an appointment re-
hinder" A small dial is set into the
watch's face upon which one can set tho
hands at any hour required.
THERE Is not a cigarette on sale in tho
town Of Frankfort, the capital Of Ken
lucky. In his message to tho Legis-
lature Governor Buckner said that some
thing mnst be done to repress the pas
sions of the people, SO the town authori-
ties passed law prohibiting the sale OF
cigarettes.
THE most novel character at mas
querade ball held in q Philadelphia
| house q few nights ago was that as
sumed by young lady who personatcd
ia grippe" Her costume was Of black
and had painted on it skeletons, pill
boxes, medicine walls and other similar
and appropriate designs.
STANLEY secs fine prospects for rail
| ways in Africa. According to his esti-
| mates 500 miles could be laid down for
| SIT, 900, 900. This mileage would open
| to commerce four great river basins,
with total area of 2,s7O,0o0 square
miles and q total population of s0,960,'
| 900. OF the resources OF tho region he
speaks in the highest terms.
IT is a fact not generally known that
it requires from ten to fifteen years fol
| an orange tree to develop. A grove
| does not attain perfection in less time
than that, the land spectators to the
contrary Notwithstanding. 1t is tru,
that an orange tree will bear u few
oranges within few years after plant
| inc INIT n frpa has tO hp1r not
few, but n great many Oranges to make
the industry pay.
| A PENNSYLVANIA railroad man say
young men are selected as drivers o
the locomotives on fast trains because
old men do not have the nerve to stant
tho strain of the terrible speed of thes'
trains, and oven TIE ECrvi"at Srs,u.
man gets afraid OF them after awhile
Then they get to letting up itlo il
speed, tho trains run behind time, tn
engineers are given other runs and ney
men are put on in their places
THERE is something curious abou
the American silver dollar and half
dollar of 1904" says a numismatist
There were about twenty thousand Q
the dollars coined, but not one of then
got into circulation. Two of them ar
in coin collections to-day, however, an,
they are the most valuable of a.
American coins Why the dollar @
1904 was never in circulation aftc
leaving the mint is one of tho unsolvc
government mysteries. r. half-dolla
of 1904 is surrounded by q myster
, equally profound There were $50. OO
of these coined, but no. ono was eve
known to be in circulation"