Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1891-12-24
MISCELLANEOUS.


doorstep until about 1 a. m.-Texas
Siftings.
-Youngblood-''I have come to ask
you for the hand of your daughter, sir -
Mr.. Money bags-'H'm What are your
prospects," Pretty good, so far. She
said she's willing to have me. Boston
News
-"Dinguss is man of expensive
habits, is he not, Shadbolt?" Yes.
Dinguss' habits since l have been ac-
quainted with him have cost me SEQ,
without counting a cent for intere st. "
Chicago Tribune.
-Wife-"Poor Mr.. Zaneigh! I heard
that his family troubles are preying
upon his mind.' Husband--"O, if that's
so, they'll soon be at an end" Wife
"How?" Husband-"They'n starve to
death "-Harper's Bazaar.
A gentleman remarks: "If in our
schooldays the Rule of Three was pro-
verbally trying, how much harder in
after-life do we find the Rule of One"
He had been married only fourteen
months. Once a Week.
Miss Gossip-''Mrs Youngly was
very clever and very pretty, but think
she carried her flirting too far" Miss
Lissenwell - "Why?" Miss Gossip
'She flirted with the minister while he
was marrying them."-N. Y. Herald.
-Stella-''It makes me so angry
every time 1 go out for walk-the
young men stare at me So" Young
Osbourne- ''You are different from
most girls 1t makes them angry if
the young men don't stare at them. p
Brooklyn Citizen.
"A sportsman in Wilbur, Ore, has
trained two eagles to catch geese. He
weights their bodies so that they can
not fly after they have captured the
game. He follows them on horseback
and takes the geese from their claws.
Once they caught four geese at one
time-two in each claw.
The dome of the new Texas capital
at Austin, Tex, is three hundred feet
high, and is surmounted by a bronze
goddess of liberty seventeen feet high.
A swarm offices has taken possession
of the head, entering by the nostrils,
and it is said that the statue already
contains a barrel of honey.
An association for the importation
of German song birds has been organ
/ lied in Portland, Ore, and the imported
birds are on the way there by easy
| stages. Some of the members have
also imported individually red cardinals,
bobolinlls and indigo birds, which arc
to be kept in an aviary until spring,
when they are to he turned loose.
| -''Athletic lung is a medical term
l used to designate the abnormal devel
| opment of lung possessed by some
l athletes. The condition is produced by
| those forms of exercise that call for the
! constant use of the lungs at their high
est power The result is an enormous
| development of lung capacity.
Over sixteen years ago Nicholas
Tyson, of Manistee, Mich, lost pocket
book containing 81. A few days Later
the empty pocketbool1 was tossed into
his wagon with note, saying that the
money would be returned as soon az
the finder could afford it. The othe1
day Mr.. Tyson received an anonymous
note, reading: Here is your 81.
spent the money and never was able tt
give it back until now. Much obliged
for the use of it..
Just for a joke, two intoxicated
men in Allentown, Pa, carried help
less comrade, who had been on a spree
with them, into a pig pen. The hog
ate a considerable portion of the man.
coat and would probably have eaten i
all if the inebriate had not awoke. "A
he was making his way from the plac'
the owner took him for a thief ant
rushed to the house for his gun. Befor
he returned the bewildered and terri
fed man had made his escape.
Though one of the thirteen colonie
which united in the Declaration of indie
pendence in 1776, Georgia was settle'
much later than any of the rest. Be
fore the year 1888 it was a wilderness
doubtful borderland, claimed both b,
Great Britain and by Spain. By pat
emit dated June 10, 1872, George II.
king of Great Britain, from whom tn
colony was subsequently named, grant
ed the territory to company designate
as the trustees for settling the colon.
of Georgia