Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-03-27
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a-''fts too bad we're not a family of EsquifdauSp' "Ho% would fhat benefit us any?" Charley furnishes blubber enough for the whole family" .
 -"Handsome Is as Handsome Does.
 -'Surely, these are the golden days of hteraturei See how poets dress now adayss' '"rrue-but fine feathers do not make fine bards"-Pucl1 f"
 Odd as Can Be.-'Eurious date!" said Hawkins, looking at 1893 on his newspaper. What's curious about itT' "1S93 is an odd number" eX- plained Hawkins--Truth.
 Little Nellie had been quiet for a good while. "What's the matter?" asked her mother. "rs unhappy" ''UnhappyT' "Yes'm" "Why?" II tan't fink of any question to ask"
 Well. what fish yarn have you iiowT' "You know Pickett's brook?" "Yes, do. Forty-pounder, suppose and threw it back" Nope. Fished there for eight steady hours and never got a bits."-Harper's Bazaar.
 Of the entire human race, 500, ,OOO,- 900 are we'll clothed-that Is, they wear garments of some kind that will cover hakedness; 25O, 900, ,OOO habitually go naked, and roc, 900, 900 only cover the middle parts of the body; 500, ,OOO, 900 live in houses; 700. 900, GOO in huts and caves; the remaining 25O, ooO, 900 virtual ly having no place to lay their heads.
 New York buys more lace than any other city in the world, and there are said to be scores of New York ladies whose collections of lace vary in value from $20, ,0O0 to $50, 900. The Vanderbilts possess faces which rival the Prussian and Austrian crown faces, and are val ucd at $500, 900. The late Mrs. Astor had lace dress that cost S15, 900, and another was recently sold to an Ameri- can lady for S25, 900.
 Where Br6ddway (New York; leases are expiring this year fonts have been markedly advanced. This is especially true of the retail district, and every availab sftta~e inch of space between Fourteenth and Thirttsth streets is more valuable Even roofs on Bfostiway so situated that they are available for nd vertising bring in large sums A single 'v,rtiser pays for the use of Broad way roof near Twenty-third street S10,- 900 year.
 -Mardi Gras means F'Fat Tuesday," it is Shrove Tuesday, the last weelE day on wh oh meat can be eaten before Lent begins. It is the end of the carnival in places where the carnival is celebrated, and on it the principal public events of the carnival take place. So the Mardi Gras season is Shrove tide; Shrove, be cause Shrove Tuesday was the day on which the faithful made confession and were shriven before Lent began. Some of the finest oaks in the United States have their roots struck deep into the soil of Delaware. A Span ish oak, eight feet in diameter at the base, was cut down near Georgetown, Sussex county, few days since, and from this giant was squared stick of timber sixty feet long and two feet square from end to end. To cut, hew and haul this great stick cost $7L Fourteen mules and a yoke of oxen
 were required to haul it to the railroad at Georgetown.
 The name 'sbit" for the eighth of a dollar is of southern origin and is little known to the north. It is sometimes said that it started from the practice of cutting a quarter into two equal bits or pieces to make change. But there was n Spanish silver coin of 1215 cents for merly circulating in this country, called in New England ''ninepence," in New York shilling" in Pennsylvania.
 Maryland and Virginia ''elevenpence' or '1evy." while further south it was \ called bit"