Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-01-16

Lnent S9OO,OOO per year TOT coal TOT ltS navy.
 SETTLERS in tho Big Bend country, Washington, nave to ride forty miles to get their mail and to vote.
 THE amount of money required to pay the pensions of the veterans for the present financial year is about $loo,- COG, 1000.
 PHOTOGRAPHS arc to be put in the post-offices of Mexico, to be used by persons unable to write, in order to send messages to friends through the mails. AN authentic silver dollar of the Con- federate States is valued by coin col lectors at $1, ,OoO Only few wero coined before the Confederate mint ran out of silver.
 ONE HUNDRED AND sIXTY-sEvEN bears have been killed in Maino during the year. The State has paid out $S35. or $5 per head bounty. Over S1 ,00O will be paid as bounty for killing crows.
 THE photograph seems to be making greater headway in Mexico than in the United States. The director-general of the telegraph system is to make con- tract for Its introduction at once.
 WHAT is said to be the largest bar of gold ever cast in the world was turned out at the United States assay office at Helena, Mont. It weighed 500 pounds and Is worth a little over S100, 900.
 FLORIDA will soon be the greatest lemon-growing country in the world. Along the banks of the Caloosahatchie there Is single tree which bears 5000 lemons, many of which weigh a pound each.
 THE Pension Department at Washing ton has upon its rolls the names of twenty-seven widows of revolutionary soldiers who havo been regularly paid pensions up to the present time. Three of them are ninety-seven years of age and two ninety-six. Tho youngest is seventy-one.
 THE decline of the English tailor in America is announced by some of tho trade journals, and it would seem that there is reason for the assertion that he is no longer as fashionable as an American tailor. It has been discov- cred at last that the conventional En- glish clothes do not fit.
 TWELVE Southern States have in- creased in population over 5000, 900 dur ing the decade from 1880 to 1S90-an in- crease twice as great as during the
 
 lation and Q corresponding growth in wealth is duo wholly to the diversifca- tion of the industries in that section.
 A MIGHTY stream of Immigration is pouring into Washington Territory. The people come from South, East and North. The cars of the Canadian Pa cific have been crowded with West bound passengers for months. It ap- 4l,k ,rl grants travel on the Canada Pacific be- cause that corporation carries passen- gers for less money than any of the Amer ican railroads do.
 WISCONSIN, has a law requiring tho ex- termination of the Canada thistle, bur dock, oxeyc daisy, toadhaX, cocklebur sow-thistlo and dock, and holding city mayors, town officers and weed commis sioners to a strict accountability, under heavy penalties, for neglect to carry out its provisions. It is made tho duty ot the clerk of each town to read the act aloud to the town board at every annual meeting.
 TWENTY years ago diamonds were a three times their present value. The discovery of tho South African mine brought down the price, but amalgama tion in tho last twelve months has pu 1t up by above 100 per cent. The rougl estimate is that during the last fev years the output of diamonds has beel 4,000, ,000 carats per annum, and tha these, cut into 1,G00, 900 carats, have beer sold for s4, 900, 900. It costs ten shilling per carat to cut diamonds. Tho Soutl African mines being now amalgamated the output is reduced to one-half, i. e. ' tc but hay 1,,, to mate that this will still produce G4 ,O00, 900, because they regard this as fixe' amount which, no matter what the pric of diamonds may be, will be spent ol them.