Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1890-05-13
ODD BITS AND eaEvITlEs.

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BLACK coffee is now suggested ~ .
sure for consumption.
TIM cost If sustaining the regular
army Of tho United States last year was
$40, ACC, 400
THE population Of New Orleans has
Increased 1000 in ten years. 1t Is
row S36, 900.
IT is understood that among the 10000
Hebrews in New York there is not one
single saloon-keeper.
EMIGRATION from Iceland to America
has reduced the population Of the island
by 2, 400 within the last three years.
THE habit Of gum chewing is said to
be on the increase. Ono Arm spent $15,-
600 in advertising the goods last year.
No GENERAL officer of tho United
States army as at present organized was
born South Of the Ohio or West OF the
Mississippi.
NEARLY one hundred type-writers are
employed in the census bureau at Wash
ington At salaries averaging about fifteen
dollars q week.
THE first apple tree planted in Ohio,
san still be seen alive and vigorous on
I o farm near Marietta. It was planted
| in 1850 and will bear fruit this year.
| FIVE THouaAND punches OF bananas
were tossed over to the mermaids from
| q Nicaraguan steamer the other day to
l tighten the ship in severe storm.
THE superintendent OF the State in
sane asylum at Westboro, Mass, says
that seven OF his lunatic patients have
had their intellects righted by o severe
attack Of the grip.
THERE are three men in the Oregon
State prison each of whom cut of q
hand to avoid work. They are confined
in solitary cells. Two others cut of the
ends Of their fingers.
THE oldest man ever applying for o
marriage license in West Virginia was
Reuben Shinn, aged ninety-six, who
was given q license at Sisterville to
marry a woman fifty years OF age.
A CURIOUS package was recently
shipped by express from Jacksonville to
Baltimore. 1t was q small white casket,
with silver trimmings, containing the
embalmed remains Of a valuable dog
which died at tho former place.
THE sum OF $4,000 in gold coin was
sent from San Bernardino to San Francis
CO by mail few days ago as second-class
, matter at one cent an ounce. An in
, surance company took risk on the coin
and the bank saved $3.50 by using the
mail.
THE Oakland (CaL) dupes who lately
sold their property for o trifle because
: they thought the world was coming K
an end now want somebody to kick
them. They would like to kick the
prophet who misled them, but he ha.
disappeared.
IT is singular that Great Britain is thu
only country in Europe where tho doc
t trines Of Mormonism can be promul
= gated in the public streets. Else wher,
q it Is a punishable offense for an elder t,
= be found ION the stump" at a stree
, corner.
II VACCINATION at sea has been declared
by number Of New York doctors a!
moro dangerous than smallpox, ant
Cunard passengers who claim that the.
r arc suffering from odpoisoning il
t consequence Of being vaccinated Oh
g shipboard have brought suits agains
. the great steamship line.
!, PERHAPS the best result Of the earth
quake shock in San Francisco was tn
demonstration that the new tall build
ings going up in the city are earthquake
o proof. The new Chronicle building
e the loftiest in the city, being min
q stories high and two hundred feet to tn
= top of tho tower. It is nearly CON
pleted, so that it furnished a good tes
Not even bitof plastering was knocke
. off the walls; in fact, there was no ind
cation that the lofty structure had passe
II | through a severe earthq uake.