Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-01-20
wITHN tho last twenty years the courts iz Kansas have granted 7,191 di-

WITHIN tho last twenty years the courts iz Kansas have granted 7,191 di. vorces.
 OvEB five thousand Russians have set tied in and a ound Eureka, Cal, within . year.
 A PITTsFosD (Mich.) man has just ab- stained from swallowing food for fifty three consecutive days and still lives.
 THE gain in population at the South in the last ten years is estimated at about 3,200,0 whites and 1,6o0,0 blacks.
 INVENTIONS deceased persons have been cremated at Rosedale, near Los Angeles, Cal, the last one only few days ago.
 THE tax collector at Fort Arthur, Ont, seized locomotive and seventeen cars on the Canadian Pacific road for non-pay- ment of taxes.
 A SOCIETY has just been incorporated in New York for "furthering the preser- vation and elevation of German litera- ture and art in America"
 A WEALTHY merchant of Erie County, O., was married the other day to his sis ter's granddaughter. The groom is sixty-flve and the bride twenty-four.
 THE letter-carriers have raised twenty thousand dollars for Q monument to the late Congressman s. s. Cox, but the site for 1t has not been selected.
 A PARTY is to start from San Francisco for an island in the Pacific Ocean, be- low the equator, to search for treasure, which, according to tradition, is buried there.
 A MAN came into Bradford, Pa, the other day and paid bill of SIS in old fashioned paper currency-5, 10, 25 and 60-cent shinplasters, which he had kept since 1864.
 A LARGE number of valuable Oriental manuscripts have been discovered in Philadelphia. They were brought there by returned American mission aries and consist of rare Arabic, Per sian and Indian documents.
 IT is stated that gentleman of Bos- ton, who suffered injuries of a grave character recently in Q railroad acci- dent, was waited upon by twenty-seven lawyers immediately, who offered to bring suit against the railroad com pany for damages fees to be con- tingent.
 THE first statue erected in this coun- try to working-man will soon be un- vaile in Sacramento. It is in honor of E. J. Stevens, late master mechanic of the Southern Pacific, who had for years been in charge of immense railroad shops in Sacramento. The funds for the monument were contributed entire ly by working-men.
 A POLAR bear in the Cincinnati Zoo gave birth to two cubs the other night. The cubs arc believed to be tho first of their species ever born in captivity in this country. It will require great patience and care to raise them, as their diet, after the weaning process is over, must be mainly fish, in pursuit of which they usually show great power of swim ming and diving. They also feed on birds and their eggs.
 THE theater hat has subsided, but there is theater fan of gauge, spangled with inch fringe of beads, jet and shell, that will tax the suitability of first nighters and worry the critics and habitues to the verge of madness. At the slightest wave of the fan these ten drills of metal and shell go tink-a-link-a- link, and while the music is low and merry it is mischievous and quite sufi- ,ient to pervert every other intonation.
 Ar the Academy of Sciences in San Francisco two horned rattlcsnakes from the Mojave desert were exhibited re- gently. Tho venomous creatures are yellow, like the sand they live in, and have over each eye scaly horn. They never move straight forward but with q sinuous side motion, so that it is impos- sible to tell in which direction they in- tend to strike. In Palestine and in the Sahara Desert there is q horned viper which in many characteristics resembles the horned rattlcsnake of the Mojave. The use of the horns is not known. They are not to shield the eyes from the glare of the sun, because other snakes in the desert havo no horns.
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