Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-04-14
INSTANTANEOUS.

In Trade.-Miss Nuritch-'Would you marry maa in trade?" Miss Old family (sadly) Really, don't know. never had an opportunity. ."-Detroit Free Press.
 You give me pain, said Gargoyle to the man who tAme to put in a broken window. Not much dc" replied the man. T charge you for it. 1"
 -Highfiy-'I don't think mentioned the price of the umbrella, so how do you know it's great bargain" Plain- talk-sI thought it was when bought it a couple of weeks ago. "-Inter Ocean.
 What" said the -inquiring young woman, do you mean by a universal genius? ''O,'' said the artist rather scornfully, "a universal genius is an all-around amateur"- Washington Star Expensive Grief.-Hustand--" me have three dollars my dear. am going to Mueller's funeral" Wife All right; but I don't see why you need spend so much money in grieving for a man whom you knew only very slightly. y."-Fliegende Blaetter.
 During the cold and snowy weather of the past winter foxes about the North Beach life saving station, on the Maryland coast, were driven to desper- | ation with hunger. In their starving condition they seemed to lose the fear of men, and actually approached the | life saving station in broad daylight and | attempted to steal chickens and even | small pigs
 The ancient Americans who built | the large mound at Walnut Grove, near Wheeling, w. Va., little thought they were providing grading material for the \ street payers of the nineteenth cen tury, but they were Contractor Coch- ran, who paved North Fifth street, Martins Ferry, had a big hole to i'll. | He purchased the mound and dumped | it in the hole.
 ! An Alamosa, Col, newspaper, in 6 birth notice printed in its columns the other day, affords an interesting notion of the composite character of the great American people in the west. The child, whose advent in the Holland colony was announced, is the first
 Dutch child born in the San Luis val
 ley. The birth notice was written by
 Dane, put in type by Mormon, the
 proof read by an American, the typC
 placed in the form" by a German, ant
 the paper printed by a Mexican.
 ! A woman correspondent of severa
 German newspapers went away disap
 pointed after visiting the New Yorl
 downtown tenement house distric
 with charity physician. She looked
 in vain for the deep poverty of Conti
 mental cities and was astonished at th'
 little attempts at ornament in the tene
 ment house homes. Above all she wa
 surprised at the sight of oranges vendet
 in the streets The poor as she hat
 known them in Germany would regart
 oranges as an unattainable luxury.
 The worlds submarine cables nov
 measure about 14S,O11 nautical miles
 in 1, ,16S sections Different govern
 ments control sSs sections, or IS, ,3s miles; France claiming S,269 miles
 Great Britain, 1,599; Germany, 1,579
 and Italy 1,O27 miles The remaining
 3s5 cables, aggregating 129,62s miles
 are owned by private companies Thi
 great length of cable has been nearl all made on the banks of the Thames but Italy now has a cable factory, an France will soon have two. To la and repair the cables requires the COT stant service of specially equippe fleet of thirty-seven vessels of 56, 95 tons.-The Great Divide (Denver).