Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-01-24
MISCELLANEOUS.

potato crop in Ireland occurred in 1914,
1916, 1922, 1881 and 1876.
After being separated for eighteen
years farmer in Washington County,
Pa, has found his son by means of a
wedding notice.
-Boy-"Say, mister, please give me
five cents worth of castor oil, and give
me very short measure, too" Druggist
-''Short measure! Why?" Boy-"Why,
I've got to take it myself. "-Brooklyn
Life.
"A Missouri constable overhauled a
tramp on the highway and demanded
his surrender. The tramp pulled n re-
volver, and each man fired six times at
a distance of ten feet and nobody was
hit. Being mutually disguised, each
went his way.-Detroit.F Free Press.
William Bachelor, a wealthy and
eccentric resident of Coshocton, o., re-
Gently died. When the will was pro-
bated it was found that he had cut off
his nephew without a cent because the
latter's wife had at one time objected to
his smoking in her parlor.
The fretful porcupine is said to have
an inordinate fondness for chewing
leather, which it regards as one of the
daintiest of esculents. Jim Gibbons,
the blacksmith, of Stockport, n. Y,
declares that porcupine ate more than
half of his bellows in a single night.
-Boomtown Citizen-"O, we have
fine class of citizens here. Our Jail is
empty and has been for a month" Visi-
tor-"Yes, l judged from the gangs 1
have seen around the saloons that your
Jail was either empty or so full it could
not hold aay more. "-Indianapolis Jour
nal.
-Wooden-"Well, you can say what
you choose, l don't like Sneaker"
Edgely-"Why, he's very fine fellow,
polite and accommodating" Wooden
Eyes, he is polite enough, no doubt, to
your face, but he's one of those fellows
who will cut your throat behind your
back. boston Courier.
Pedestrian (halting before McFad-
denis misunderstanding establishment
look here, don't like those chest
nuts got from you just now. Every
other one had worm in it." McFad-
den-"Faix, an it's obleeged to We Oh
am for letting me know. Oil go over
me stock, bedad, an throw livery other
wan away, Oh will. Bazaar.
Take back the heart thou gavestr'
''Why should 1 take it back?" There
was hush of expectancy and the lis
teners leaned far out over the veranda
to catch the dying note of Loves lyric.
"Because," came the reply, waited
softly on the wings of evening-"be-
cause the boarders won't eat it." 1t was
the butchcr.-The Epoch.
Fill n tumbler with water, put a
siXpence in it, and, holding plate over
the top, turn it upside down. The six
pence will fall down on the plate and
appear to be a shilling, while at the
same time n sixpence will seem to be
swimming in glass. This can also be
done with twenty-five cent piece.-G.
Ben White, in Sunday Hour.
November, 1740, was ushered in by
one of the most furious and fatal gales
of the century. Between Boston and
Lynn sixty ships and upward lay
wrecked. At Whitby, the damage done
both at sea and ashore was incredible,
and from the Firth of Forth to the
mouth of the Thames there was scarce
n port or fishing village escaped without
damage and loss of life.
"A young son of Richard II. Dana,
of Cambridge, was asked by one of his
of Jonah and the whale was funny. He
replied that it couldn't be funny because
1t was in the Bible. Speaking to his
mother about it later, however, he told
her what he had said, adding: ''But
honestly, do think it was funny, don't
you?"-Cambridge Tribune.
: "A Boston girl at the Metropolitan
! Museum of Art of this city was going
into raptures over the figures in one of
the halls. 30, Ethel! see these wonder
full marble statues, think of the ages
that they have watched go by, note the
beautiful brown tinge that age has
given them. Beautiful Their brother
Give minutes later; "Why, girls, I
have been looking all over for you.
Come, let's get away from these plaster
casts"
Systems for distributing power in
cities from a central station are coming
more into use every day. Steam, cleo
tricity and compressed air are the com
mon agents, but Paris has system which
is the reverse of that employing COM
pressed air. The motors operate by a
vacuum, created by immense air pumps
at the central station. The cost per
horse power per hour is twenty-three
cents, about the same as with the ordi.
nary gas engine, when Illuminating gas
Is used.
"A gentleman from the interior
whose nautical vocabulary is more ex.
tensive than his actual knowledge Of
things pertaining to the sea, while al
the house of retired sea captain, heard
o clock in an adjoining room strike
eight, when he knew it must be about
noon. He looked at his watch, and
sure enough, it was just twelve o'clock
and he said to the old salt: Captain
your clock must be making stern-way
isn't it?" NO" said the Captain, 81
guess not. reckon she's just about
holding her own" This impression wa.
confirmed by glance at his watch, anG
then the captain kindly explained thai