Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1890-01-31
PARTICULARLY INTERESTING.

THE office of coroner is of early date
in England, being mentioned in char
ter of A. ID. 925.
"PoGUL KHANAs," or fool dinners" is
what tho native servants il British
India call picnics.
A SET of false teeth exploded in
Newport dentists Office the other day,
smashing things in the office.
BABIES born with teeth arr INcoming
numerous in Ohio. n New Lisbon
mother has babe which had two front
teeth before it was day old.
THE length of North America is near
ly 5000 miles, it's greatest breadth about
$500 miles, its area about one-siXth OF
the landsurfaco of the globe.
For keeping in slavery since the war
. black servant who was too ignorant to
read or communicate with others OF
her race, tho family of the late Joseph
Hickman, of Cooper County, Mo-, will
pay $1,000, which sum the court deems
equal to the wages the servant would
have been ablo to earn during the past
twenty-five years.
THE most valuable of all the precious
stones and those which rank the highest
rs Jewels are the ruby, sapphire, dia~
mona anu SlueFdlu luc oAaliloho ID
generally considered the most valuable,
but this is an error, as pure ruby and
sapphire Of the same size would be
worth much more. Opal, aquamarine,
zircon, tourmaline and garnet follow in
the order named.
ACCORDING to the best statistical au-
thority, the consumption of sugar in the
world is 5000, 900 tons q year, of which
the United States consumes 1900, 900
tons and Great Britain 1,100,0 900 tons.
This is a quantity about equal to the
best sugar production of Europe-that
is, as much or nearly as much beet
sugar as cane sugar is produced in the
world.
NEARLY thirty years ago a locomotive
on the Erie railway exploded her boiler
near the depot at Almond, Allegheny
County, N. V, killing two men and in
juring another quite severely. Last
week mill-race at that place was
cleaned out, and in it was found the bell
belonging to the unfortunate locomotive,
which must have been hurled q distance
of forty rods.
FISH charms have been met with
among many nations. Tho fish called
the bullhcad is used by some of the
| Russian peasants as a charm against
fever. Many kinds of fish have two
| hard bones just within tho sides Of tho
| head; and one species, the maigrc, has
| these bones larger in proportion than
| most others. These two bones, called
| colo stones, are regarded 10 possess
medicinal virtues. They were mounted
in gold and hung round the neck.
THE London Money-Ordcr Office was
set on foot by three enterprising post
Office clerks in 1892, who hired premises
| outside the post-offlco, the firm being
known as Stow & Company. From this
small beginning main idea at first
being to afford facilities for tho trans
mission of small sums-has arisen that
system under which it is now possible
for the Chinese living in New Zealand
to send money-ordcrs to their mother
country by way Of London.
IT is told In one of the English papers
that q woman who had so many dio'
monds sho hardly knew what to do with
them had her unset stones fastened tc
tho stitching of her evening gloves
The result of her ingenuity is thai
| jewe!ed gloves may now be bought IL
| the London shops. 1t seems that they
are set in gcid and follow tho three
lines of stitching on the back, and are
so set that they may be transferred from
one glove to another. The cost of {
pair of jeweled gloves is forty guineas.