Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-02-01
MISCELLANEOUS.

because he is always laying out plots
that amount to nothing in the end-"-
Boston Gazette.
-"Mother-"What did you do with
that medicine the doctor left for you?"
Small Boy heard there was a poor
sick boy in the back street, an took
it around an left it for him"
-Mother-"Why aren't you and
Georgia as good boys as your little
brother?" Young Hopeful-'I guess
it's cause you had more experience
bringing up boys wen you commenced
on him."
-Tourist-'I see you have fitted up
your scarecrows with hoes and ralzes,
so as to look like men working in the
field. That's good idea" Farmer
Yes, stree. Scares away tramps- ~
n. Y. Weekly.
"A Speaking Picture. -Thomson-
''See this picture of johnson. Isn't it
truly a speaking picture?" Joneson-
$50 it is. Growing nervous) Let's come
away. 1t may ask US for a loan
Yankee Blade.
Very Much Put Out-Dood-"The
beastly chap. he doesn't know how to
make photograph" Brown-"Why,
its good likeness of you" Dood-
''Pshaw, a Teller cawnt see the crease
in my trousers at all!'-Photo. Times.
Mrs. Swell-''Our house is fitted up
with all the improvements and we have
picture molding in the parlor." Mrs
II Omcspun-'' Salles alive! But your
house must be awful damp! To think
of Il picture moldingl 1t must be the
paste, spose. Boston Transcript.
The following is the simple inscrip-
ton upon a tomb in quiet corner of
the cathedral at Carthage, which has
lately received the illustrious occupant
for whom it was intended: "Here lies
he who was Cardinal Lavigerie, and
who now is nothing but dust. Pray for
him"
"A watch, in the form of a shirt
stud, has been made by an artisan in
Newcastle, Eng Its dial is three-six-
teenths of an inch in diameter. 1t is to
be worn in connection with two other
studs BY turning the upper stud, you
wind the watch, while turning the
lower one adjusts the hands
A friend of ours, then living in Ra-
cine. ordered, with other books, from
&. n Co, of Chicago, u copy of Canon
Farrar's Seekers After Cod" just then
out In short time the other volumes
came to hand, but being out of the
Canon's book, q. n Co. wrote at the bot
tom of the invoice: mo Seekers After
God ic Chicago. st Marks Monthly.
Tho Brazilian government has en-
tered into negotiations with the Mikado
of Japan for bringing into the Bra
lillian plantations a number of agricul
tural laborers to take the places of the
emancipated negroes. Companies are
started in Rio and Sac Paulo for the
establishment of line of steamers be-
ween Brazil and the east for the pur-
pose of bringing over Asiatic immi-
grants.
-Blinders which prevent a horse
from seeing distinctly have probably
caused more runaways than most
drivers would care to acknowledge,
and it has remained for q German In
vcntor to treat the matter on homeo-
pathic principles and make like cure
like. He has added to the harness line
which instantly closes the binders in
front so that the fractions animal can
not see at all.
In the autumn of 1886 big black
cat, the pct of Mrs Sarah Van Dykes
family at Schwenkville, Pa, disap-
pcarcd. lie was mammoth pussy, his
only defects being the absence of an
eye and n tooth, which he lost in an en-
counter with another cat After week
went by poor old Tom was given up as
lost. Last Friday he threw the family
nearly into fit of fright by appearing
in the diningroom.
1t has heretofore been considered
perfectly safe to advertise q large for
| felt if n proprietary or patent medicine
should fail to do the wonderful things
claimed for it, but hard-headed En-
glish judge has just decided that the
patent medicine advertiser can be held
| to his offer, and the makers of pre-
| ventivc of influenza will, therefore, be
| required to pay $500 to a woman who
took the medicine according to directions
and WAS nevertheless, attacked by in
| tlucnza.
| The magnificent Episcopal cathe-
dral which is to be built in New York
City and in which all lovers of archi-
tectural beauty are deeply interested,
Is to be the largest and most imposing
structure in the country. Recently n
wealthy New Yorker has given a half
million dollars toward the fund of five
million necessary to the building, and
work on the choir will be begun at once
1
ready for use in December, 1895. 1t will
be situated at the corner of One Hun
dred and Tenth street and Columbus
| avenue.
Praying by machinery is done in
parts of Thibet, China and Japan. A
wheel six or eight feet in diameter is
covered with rolls of parchment, which
is filled with written prayers. The
1 ,l,Nn1 &c -, E.
full each give it a few whirls, and the
prayer is supposed to be repeated as
man times rs it is contained on the
parchment. Sometimes the wheel is
erected over a running stream. This
keeps the wheel almost constantly in
motion, and the faithful merely gaze at
it, bow their heads, and thus acknowl-
edge the prayers as theirs.
"A unique entertainment will be
provided for the delectation of visitors
to the worlds fair, if the plans of the