Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-07-01
MISCELLANEOUS.

lSU rect lOnR, "ulAO IAo bubb lSdSuE0N only one foot through.
 -Broiled Sausages: Make the sausage into quite thin cakes with the hands, lay them on a gridiron, and broil them over a hot fire.
 The Salt Lake Herald says one marked result of Mormon rule is that that city of 50, 900 had no debt and the | smallest tax rate of any city in the United States-hve mills year. It is believed by many that tho seal fisheries of our northwest coast must be given up, and tho seals destroyed on ac- count of the injury that the seals do to salmon fisheries. now growing every year more valuable.
 l A little girl who is given to initiate her elders in words and ways, drew her | self up in a dignified manner at break l fast recently, and said to her cider | brothers and sisters: "Children, if you
 please, we will suspense with that per | diculous noise."
 -Chipinone-"Who is that lordly
 looking man on the other side of the
 aisle?" Ukerdek-'That is a newspa-
 per man." Why does he put on so
 much style and seem so haughty?" "He
 is young one, and is riding on his first
 railroad pass."-Inter Ocean.
 | According to an interviewer, Car
 lyle surpassed himself when first intro
 duced to Dr. Joachim. Shaking hands
 with the great violinist the sage ob-
 served that he hadn't great opinion
 of musicians-they seemed such a vain,
 wind baggy sort of people,"
 Seven of the supposed-to-be sharp
 est and wisest lawyers in the country
 have made wills, passed away, and the
 said wills have been broken all to fin
 ders by heirs and other lawyers. An ignorant Missouri farmer wrote his will
 in four lines on a slate, and 1t stood three lawsuits and ten lawyers.
 The most expensive thermometer
 in this country is in use at the Johns
 Hopkins University. It is known as Prof. Bowland's thermometer, and is valued at S1O,OO0. It is an absolutely
 perfect instrument, and the graduations
 on the glass are so fine that it is neces- sary to use microscope to read them. A farmer in the vicinity of St. 7 Louis, Mich., sent his wife to market and he went into the fields to blow. ' About noon the good wife returned and ,. explained to her husband that it was
 Sunday. Neither had remembered the
 day of the week until Mrs. Golf found
 
 0 Every time General Butler is asked r for his opinion regarding the proper in V vestmcnt for an ent.'rorising young man @ he says that "rent-paving real estate r is the safest investment in the world
 He always adds that no man who ex poets to accumulate property can afford ' to be mean about money matters. h Tho Young Man (rapturously)- a And now, Flossie, it only remains fol n you to name the happy day. Please make e 1t soon, very soon, darling" The Young
 Woman Gin the kitchen few moments
 later)- )-"Bridget, would it interfere witt 'o any of your engagements if l should b' II married three weeks from next Wednes 't day evening?"
 'e Lottery tickets seem to be yer. # plentiful in Louisiana just now. Tn if Southwestern Christian Advocate tell ,r of a brother who got things SO mixe' A up that he presented a lottery ticke o' for admission to love-feast. ProfesSe, Ss Christians are coming to be among tn y; strongest supporters of the lottery, say B a local paper.
 ,S A few days ago three families o
 Finlanders settled on farms in tn
 northern part of Beadle County, Sout
 Dakota. In one of the families ther "a are nineteen children, in another SC ven ,+ teen and in the third nine, the parent of the last family having been marie ie but ten years. These families will 500 'n be joined by four others, all relatives n. numbering forty-six persons, making V total of ninety-seven persons in min le families.
 d A minister had travelled some dii Ia tance to preach, and at the conclusio
 of the morning service waited for som
 one to invite him to dine; but the COT to gregation dispersed without noticin lg him. When the house was nearly empt, t, the minister stepped up to gentlema ot and said: Brother, will you go home { in dinner with me to-day?" ''Where do yo "a live?" About eighteen miles frol
 here." "No; but you must dine wit AS me-" answered the gentleman, with ne flushed face, which invitation the clerg, " man gravely accepted. e, Tho president of the British Pha ,t- maceutical Conference is credited wit re having adopted and recommended th
 following for the happy dispatch poultry. A large, wide-mouthed, sto
 pered bottle is kept charged with a ol ounce of chloroform. When a chicke ld has received sentence of death it is hel ne firmly under the left arm and its hea Id slipped into the mouth of the bottl it few deep inspirations follow, and tt ,ir bird, without a struggle, becomes u ho conscious. Then, holding it by u legs, its neck is dislocated by a quiC iS- stretch.-Our Dumb Animals.
 to An intelligent dog in West Chest,
 plays hide-and-seek with his owner, re- little girl named Amy. She taught do the game, and they both, it is said, fir ,ul much fun in playing it. Amy will te va the dog to remain in a certain place ul
 til she hides. She then calls and u HUI dog starts on the search, finding An
 every time, no matter whore she hide
 Then the dog will wag his tail, show h
 teeth as though laughing, and hie aw, q to the place originally designated f ire him by Amy. while Amy hides agai
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