Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-10-04
MISCELLANEOUS.


 "Somefin awfuls happened, mammal
 "Well, my dear. what is it?" ''MJ d-doll-baby got away from me, anG bwoked a plate out in the pantwy."
 It is predicted that in the course o. time Northern Thibet will become z second California, perhaps even richer in the soil over the vast surface of the desert land.
 -"I expect to see the time when electricity will be used for all cooking and heating purposes" remarked Van Braam. "Then I suppose bakers will sell ohm-made bread," added Dind' widdie. e.-Pittsburgh Chronicle.
 -Approximating to the Custom "Bruddern, Is so indisposed wid de rumatiz dis mawnin' I finds myself un. able to stan up an talk to ye, an so aX de congregation ter stan up instid whilst discou'se. ''-Harper's Bazar.
 Half eagles of 1795, 1797, 179s and 1928 can be sold for from S15 to $25 each. Quarter eagles of gold issued in 1796, 1797 and 1926 are valued at SIC each. The $50 gold piece of California commands premium of from $10 to $15.
 -Buff-''They tell me that Squiddle has great ear for music" Bass-''Yes. 1 knew he had great ear-two of them, in fact; but I did not know that they were for music. I supposed they were for brushing flies off the top of his head."-Boston Transcript
 Oregon was name formerly given to an imaginary river of the vest Car yer, an American traveller, mentions it in 1763. In describing the river he evidently confounded 1t with the Mis- souri, but the name was finally applied to the present state of that name.
 Bad Forms-Mrs. Porcu-''There was one thing that happened at her wedding that struck me as being rather bad form" Mrs Wabash-"What was that?" Mrs. Porcu-"Among the old shoes thrown after the happy couple were pair that had belonged to her di- vorced husband. "-N. Y. Herald.
 The Tombstone Epitah recently spoke of a garden near Yuma, Arizona, in which are growing twenty-five date palms, the largest of which is thirty feet in height and fifteen years old. This and five of the other trees were in bearing, and some of the punches of their fruit weighed fifty pounds, and are estimated to contain 5000 dates each.
 A factory at Lynn, Mass, has asked for space at the worlds fair to show pneumatic dynamite field guns and pro- jectiles, one dynamite field gun to be shown on a wheeled carriage fifteen by six feet over all; one coast defense pneumatic dynamite gun, stationary, mounted on carriage with turntable track, tube eight inch bore, three feet long.
 An exchange propounds the start ling and saddening fact that there are {, 1000, 900 young men of marriageable age in the United States who obstinately neglect to provide themselves with wives, and this implies the existence of at least an equal number of young women of marriageable age who are for proposals that never come.
 A minister in the east said-'Mv brethren, the collection will now be taken for my expenses for trip, for I am going away for my health. The more receive the longer 1 can stay" The largest collection ever made in that church was taken. And now the ques- tion under discussion is whether the size of the collection was a compliment to the preacher or much the reverse- Louisville Western Recorder.
 An ingenious prisoner in the peni- tentiary at Szegedin, Hungary, has in vented machine which slaves man in twenty-five seconds All the pris- oners are shaved by it-143 of them, in about an hour. As most of the com pulsory victims of this mans ingenuity are in dread of losing their noses or ears, they have expressed the wish that the inventor had been sentenced to 1eath instead of imprisonment
 An effort is being made to secure Tor exhibition in the horticultural de- partment of the worlds fair specimen of giant cactus from the desert region of southeast California This cactus grows at times to the height of seventy .eet. A specimen when boxed ready for shipment will weigh eight tons, md it will require an expenditure of something like S2, 800 to deliver it in yood condition in Chicago.
 illinois will have an exhibit in its state worlds fair buildings of specimens of all the indigenous woods of the state. Tn order to secure uniformity each specimen will be about forty-two inches ong and consist of section of the tree trunk. It will be cut in such manner IS to show the grain from the surface to he center. On each specimen will be painted a picture of the leaf and fruit ,f the tree.
 John Moerlin, the Cincinnati mil ionaire brewer, has had presented to lim a rare specimen of bird. It is an llbino robin and perfectly white It vas shot by A. P. Kling, the photogra- oher, of Cheviot. It is great curiosity, md no other specimen is known to ex- st in any of the bird collections of the The Natural History society md the Cuvier club have no such bird. Mr. Moerlin will have it stuffed and mounted. The new house of commons is said O contain twenty-one bankers and inanciers, one hundred and forty-fo oarristers in and out of practice, eigh- cen brewers and distillers, two build ITS and architects, fifteen colliery pro- orietors, eight diplomatists, nine civil md marine engineers, ten farmers and lgriculturists, eighty-three land owners, en ironmasters and metal merchants. fifteen labor representatives, ffty-seven ten doctors, fiftv-five