Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-03-11
MISCELLANEOUS.

I'll have been known to beat rail.
road, said the tramp. "but there is one
thing never did beat" "What isthat2'
"a carpet"-Washington Star.
How Thought Differs From Reality.
-Porter-"That trunk I just carried up
must have tombstone in itr' Clerk
No, it contains the samples of an 1ndi-
ana farmer who thinks he's found dia-
mond mine."-Jeweler's Weekly.
Are you ono Of papa's relations2''
the inquisitive little girl asked Yes"
replied her uncle. You don't look
very thin" ''Of course not Why did
you think should2" "Aunty said yes
terday that mamma and papa's relations
were strained ''-Washington Star.
Triumph of Art Over Nature. -Seri-
Gus Artist - Il think you knew the
model for this fgure--poor beggar, deaf
and dumb" Light-hearted Friend-'I
know-used to sit at corner of street
Deaf and dumb! By Jove, you've made
a speaking likeness of him. Wonder
fulr-Punch.
1t is announced that Welshman
has perfected sewing machine by
which the thread is supplied directly
from two ordinary spools, and sews
through the assistance of a rotary
looper; by means of this arrangement
the old style shuttle or bobbin is done
away with.
The most remarkable set of spoons
IN Missouri are owned in Richmond.
They were made out of Mexican dollars
by Il timer named Kaiser, the first of
his trade in Fulton, who also made the
FIRST tin lamp in Galloway county. The
spoons, after fifty years of use, are in
excellent preservation.
| If you want a lovely odor i'll your
rooms break off branches of the Nor
way spruce and arrange them in a large
jug we'll filled with water. In few
days tender, pale green branches
feather out soft and cool to the touch
and giving the delightful health-giving
odor
Great schooners come to grief as
we'll as small craft, and some of the big
fellows die young. The four-master
John Paul, 1,433 TONS built at Bath in
1850, is in the harbor of Providence, R.
l., having been scuttled to quench a
FIRE in her cargo of 2, 700 tons of coal
She cost $4,000 and was insured for
| Sc, $50. She was the heaviest SPARED
vessel on the coast
comfy appeared in mat .'imonial paper:
a stamp collector the possessor of a
| collection of II, 544 stamps, wishes to
marry lady who is an ardent collector
| and the pOSsesSor of the blue penny
stamp of Mauritius issued in 1871" 1t
appears in the Moniteur of the Island
of Nauritius, and the stamp which the
| young lady must possess is valued at
| about $1,000 on account OF its rarity.
| -Wrinl5les come first to the girl who
laughs the heartiest, to the girl whose
face, from chin to forehead, is one
broad smile. To defer the coming
wrinkles, girls should laugh only with
the lips, and never extend the laugh to
the corners of the eyes Girls full Of
fur will find this difficult to do. Cold
diTnjGcd women, whose faces seldom
brighten with hearty laughter, have
the fewest wrinkles. and to them they
come late.
"A Norwegian farmer has devised a
lock, in which the bolt is released by g
stroke from pendulum bob. The pen
dulun, invisible from the outside, is
moved sufficiently by blowing sharply
several times through a hole in the
door, bnt the puffs of air can be giver
at the proper time only by swinging {
key pendulum previously adjusted t.
} vibrate in unison with the lock pendu
lum.
Eight lively girls of Preston, w
!, VA. formed a coon-hunting party, and
with wagon, two guns, two axes, anc
some provisions, gleefully started out
AS they did not return that night, theil
rCla' iv, S became alarmed, and went tt
: the woods in quest of them. At moor
on the following day the girls were
found seated on a log, crying as If tn.
world were about to end. They haC
lost their way in the woods, and hat
not seen a solitary coon.
"A recent instance of mans inhuman
ity to woman is related in Maine. Afte
sh" had MIXED the cows, strained the
milk into thirteen stone crooks, carried
the crooks down into the cellar
: SKINNED the cream, washed the crock.
J and put them on the fence palings tx
, dry, heated skim milk for the calve.
and carried it to the barn for them, go
the cream ready for churning, put hel
husbands supper on the table, and ther
hurried to take the crying baby, tn,
farmers wife said that she was tired
: and asked her husband to buy her I
portable creamery, in order to lighter
her labOrs, The farmer replied that h,
coul mt afford it, and the next day h,
went to town and bought riding plow
paying for it with the butter money.
RUBBER MAKING.
Nature Performs the Greater Portion a