Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-09-01
MISCELLANEOUS.

robbed by two persons in the garb o' nuns. They were subsequently, appre hended and one of tho ''women" wal discovered to be man.
 A bread-but ttering machine for use fin penal institutions, operating brush fed with soft butter, is a patent lately issued. It is said to save butter and crumbs
 A Charlestown lady became quite sick tho other day and vomited Q small live fish. She does not know when il passed down hor throat, but supposes Il did so with drink of water.
 MT. Wick, of Chelsea, England, i: the father of a peculiar infant prodigy. His daughter Nelly, four years of age, recently shaved fivomen inside of thirty minutes for a silver medal.
 What sort of a restaurant is this, waiter?" he asked the first of that eX' elusive set that deigned to approach. "Well, sir, l know one man that's beeT coming here steady for a month and he's living yet. Philadelphia Times.
 -"Tell your master that he has made n mistake of twenty marks in the ac' count he sent me-" "Impossible!" "Why impossible? It is human to make mistakes" Yes, l know that, but my master is not human. " Fliegende BlaS tor.
 South Attica, Mich, farmers planted mustard seed. They did not expect pine: apples or oranges, but they were wild when the plant came up and proved tG be western mustard, which is about ten times as hard to eradicate us the Canada thistle.
 A valuable find has been made by a farmer at East Cape Girardeau, Mo. A hill on his promises is declared by an expert from St. Louis to be composed chiefly of the finest porcelain clay. II is estimated that there are at least 1, ,OOQ car loads, worth Sl25 per load.
 -DistancCd. -'Ges, sir" began the distinguished looking stranger, II have delivered that same lecture zoo consecu, tive nights, sir'' That's nothingw de. clared Peckson. My wife often de. flyers goo same lectures in one consecu' tive night" Grocer.
 A tive-year-old child in West Camel is of the following dimensions: Height, 4 feet; weight, IF pounds; circumfer. once of abdomen, 42l5 inches; waist, S7lS inches; chest, 37 inches; neck, II inches; head, 22!5 inches; thigh, a inches; calf, 15ls inches; arm, 1115 inches; forearm, 1Olg inches. He is very healthy. eats all he can get and is fairly intelligent The parents are by no means corpulcnt, and their other children are of ordinary size.
 Samuel Elliott, of Newhury, claims to have devised an apparatus by the adoption of which the smoke nuisance will cease to exist. The process re. moves from the products of combustion all the black c8rbonaceous matter ot coal smoke, and remarkable and inn portant thing is the entire absence oi sulphur in any form after the dense volumes of smoke generally seen issuing from chimney shafts have been forced into the "annihilator.
 At the palace of Bangkok a per. | forming leopard was brought in for the amusement of ono of the Siamese | princes. In one of tho princess retinue was young girl of about fourteen years of ago. The leopard jumped on heI breast. It was merely in play, said the animals caretakers, who begged her not to be frightened, but in another moment the leopard had seized the girl by the l throat and she died in sight of the hor l riticd spectators.
 | -BOarding-hOus inmates soon learn to appreciate tender meat, and will eagerly seek the place where it is ire | quently served. A Chicago man hi upon an ingenious plan to secure { boarding house whore eating would be | come a pleasure instead of tiresome teeth-grinding exercise He asked , butcher to direct him to the house wher, he sold the best meat The butcher cheerfully did so. and the man was soor thereafter installed in a boarding house where tho delicacios of the tabl, are good and plentiful.
 It is claimed that the rain whicl falls in the interior of Queensland doe. not all run to waste but is stored be meath the surface and that the supply if it can be utilized. is enough to las through periodical drought. The loca government proposes to devote a larg, sum to prospecting for water by artesiaI wells. The artcsian well at Barcaldine zoo feet deep, cost 6,OOOand yields l75, 900 gallons of water daily. Another a Blackall, l,6G3 feet deep with a six-incl casing, cost S27,OO0 and yields 500, OOC gallons daily.
 | Tor year n draughtsman named Ha2en, aged forty-two, with his wifi, and six children. had lived in Paris il great difficulty. Finally they resolved to commit suicide and take the children with them. They sent the latter out [, buy charcoal. and with the window closed Hazen lighted the stove and tn, whole family lay down on the floor t, die, the mother clasping the younges child in her arms. They were foun, two days afterward all dead but tn, mother. Upon her recovery she sait that when asphyxiation began the cid est daughter began to cry, but lest sh
 should excite the neighbors her fathe
 threw himself over her face, and the
 were found in that position.
 A year ago Mrs. c. E. Pomeroy wen from Newark to Canada to live with he second husband, leaving her six-year ok daughter in the custody of Mrs
 Julia Williams, oi 457 Broad street, wh
 was to receive SS a week for the child
 board, says tho New York Sun O.
 Saturday night a young man, who is tn child's uncle, called on Mrs. William to take the child to Canada with him t