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


 -'Baby growing right along2" 70 yes; think he will catch up with hit voice in year or so."-Indianapolii Journal.
 First Stndent-"Why do you beat your dog SOP" Because he always stares at me with the same questioning look the professor had at the recent ex, animation. ."-Fliegende Blattcr.
 -''Do you find it hard work to pass the weary hours2'' ''There ain't none of 'em weary enough for me to pass 'em," rejoined MT. Hungry Higgins = Indianapolis Journal.
 -Dolly-'O, yes, quite believe there is fool in every family. Don't you?' The Captain-"Well-er-my opinion is rather biased. You see, Pm the only member of our family. "-Comic.
 Knew Exactly, but-Mrs. Black "Do you know where you left the ax?' MT. Black-''Yes, know exactly, bu, somehow can't find it. am sure left it either in the cellar or out of ito Yankee Blade.
 -Preacher-"Every man must some day settle his account with his Maker. " Tailor-'T wish you could impress young Sapmind with that idea. He hasn't settled with me in about a year and a half."-Boston Courier.
 n.-Fangle-"What sort of . dress was that Mrs Shopper wore to- night?" Mrs Fangle - "Demi-train. |" '"That's precisely what Cumso said when he trod on it, but how did he know it's nameP"-N. Y. Sun.
 The Red Haired Girl.-Mrs Treetop Do you believe there is anything in the red-headed girl and white horse idea?" Uncle Treetop-'T dunno; our old gray mare is that fond of carrots she would follow anything that looked like one. "-N. Y. Herald.
 Turkish and Persian pipes, it is said, are difficult to manage They re- quire the fragrant yellow tambake, that must be soaked in water, wrung out and put in the bowl with live coal on top. The pipe is now relegated to the elders, for the young generation in western Asia smoke cigarettes.
 Watches were appreciably reduced in size after the invention of the fusee to obviate the inconvenience of varia- tions of power of the handspring. The watches made early in the sixteenth century generally strongly contrasted in size and portability with those worn in fobs by men in the eighteenth cen tury, and which were round, thick and heavy.
 A Montana man has invented a ranch snow blow, to be used in scrapiug the snow off the ranges so that the cat tie can get at the grass It is reported that the machine works very satisfac- torily. Thousands of cattle perish every year, and the number this year has been more than usually large from starvation on account of the deep snow cutting off the food supply.
 Fish are drowned when taken from the water into the air, and animals when put even for short time under water, but the axolotl can not be drowned anywhere. Yet he is nowhere safe, for the inhabitants of the place where he is sfound-Mexico, New Mexico and Texas-think that his flesh is very good to eat, and catch great numbers of the axolotl for food, which they cook in various ways
 The remarkable instinct which causes the mudtish to roll himself in a ball of mud when the dry season ap- breaches is a wonderful provision of nature, intended solely, it would seem,
 
 The most interesting fact about this fish is that it breathes by means of gills when in its native element and by means of lungs during its voluntary inn prisonment in the mud cocoon.
 Coast Indians of the Pacific shores of British America devour raw sea ur- chins with great gusto, crushing them in their fists, sucking out the orange colored cluster of eggs, which consti- tute the only edible part, amounting to one or two teaspoonfuls. and then throwing the thorny case aside. The minute eggs taste much like oysters anu have been a favorite food of the natives of the bleak coast of Alaska for ages
 -"How many people coming to Flor ida" asks the Times-Union, ''know anything about the great fresh water spring in the Atlantic ocean? This great natural wonder covers an area of about two acres is located in the Atlan- tic ocean about two miles (east) from the shore, and about ten miles from St. Augustine (south). The spring is de- fined by the silver gleaming white caps trying to force themselves over the powerful boiling spring."
 Alfred Kingsley Clover, in the Mag azine of American History, asks the question: Was America discovered by the Chinese?" He remarks that ''since the year 17s1 when the great French sinologue, De Guines, gave to the world for the first time the an cient account of the Chinese Hoei- Shin, describing a distant land of which the name of Fusang was given, the world has been flooded with books, tractates and pamphlets bearing on the same interesting topic in which Fusang is identified as America"
 A highly exciting wildcat chase took place at Wills Cove, about three miles southwest of Livingstone, w. Va The cat, which was of gigantic propor- tions, was seen about 9 o'clock in the