Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-06-28
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 If you count three, slowly, that is, one count to the second, between the flash of lightning and the peal of thun- der, you may know that destruction has not been wrought in your own locality. The flash and crash are really simulta- neous, only the light of the former travels much more swiftly than the sound of the latter. If it takes three seconds for the sound to reach you, then the storm is two-thirds of mile away.
 Here is Fourth of July novelty for the boys Fill a saucer with water, and let fall into it a piece of potassium weighing about two grains. The pot with a slight explosion, and burn wildly on tb0surface of the water, darting at the same time from one side of the yes sel to the other, with great violence, in the form of a beautiful red-hot fire-ball.
 Waterbury might be called the Brass City because of it's unlimited number of bootblack boys who impede the progress of the pedestrian. was impressed of this by the diligent hunt in Middletown on Wednesday for Q bootblack. A graduate of Wesleyan returning after thirty years said it was the same old fashioned city. He traverred the length of Main street in search of one and was directed to go into the rotunda of the hotel as the only place where shine could be obtained. Waterbury should send over Q large contingent of this clement to enliven the street of McDonough's old home.
 The late arrest of boy for bathing in the river has not reached the ears of the younger element. The other day when the sun was boiling with heat was crossing the Burnham street bridge and espied half dozen naked boys sporting themselves, not in the limpid waters of the Naugatuck, but in a slimy black pool which had escaped from factory and had no outlet. If such boys have the typhoid fever it will not be because of the Middlebury milk they drink.
 There were 165 failures in the United States, reported to Bradstreet's during the week, against IA in the preceding week, and 211, 204, 176 and 157 in the corresponding weeks of 1889, 1888, 1887 and 1886 respectively. The total num- Der of failures in the United States, January to date, is 5, 400, against 5, 1885 in 1889.
 I was sitting upon settee on the green, late the other evening, when two men, each of whom carried . small tin box, approached the band stand. Visions of dynamite flashed before my eyes and settling back in the shade of 8 friendly tree I awaited developments. Tho n, an rooood fho hond afonA nd krolx up position on the grass under an cleo tric light and appeared to be searching for something on the ground. Every now and then one of them would bounce upon something and with mur- mur of satisfaction deposit his find in the box he carried. After seeing this performance repeated several times the scribe concluded it was time to investi- gate and learned that the men were | hunters were well known fishermen. A physician who is attending two typhoid fever patients whose illness is attributed to poor milk, to 8 reporter expressed the opinion that the germs of the disease were not in the milk in it's original state, but were contained in the water with which the milk was diluted. l
 The girls in the factory windows are often inclined to flirt with the passing lads, but yesterday saw sight, which beats the climax. The employees in a baggage car were making the most fran l tic efforts to attract the attention of the girls in a factory they were passing. As the car was on the high trestle work of the Meriden road, the result would have been disastrous, if the young men who had lost their heads had also lost their balance and been precipitated into Mad river.
 A. J. DeVoe, the Hackensack, N. J., meteorologist, has sufficient confidence in the law of storms which he claims to have discovered, to request the secretary of agriculture to appoint committee of inquiry. This rival of the weather bur- eau does not hesitate to predict a year ahead. He says that this will be a wet season, and that form June 2S till July 4, intensely hot, sultry weather will pre-
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