Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-05-23


 | She wore at her dainty throat,
 But a bullet bad pierced his breast Where the button was of his coat.
 New Haven Palladium. l xNTELLIGENCE OF PIGEONS.
 Several Answering tn. Call Of . Dinner l Bell-What Some Legends Say. l ''How extraordinary" you will say,
 for pigeons to have dinner bell? Did
 they understand it, and always come promptly to dinner?' An, yes if for
 any reason their dinner-bell was not
 rung promptly the person in charge of
 that office was quickly made to un- derstand that he was delinquent in per
 forming his duty, for there was such 8 l Tapping of wings and such shrill cries
 from their glossy green throats as left no
 doubt as to who was delaying the dinner
 hour. -...
 In fact. they used sometimes to ring
 the bell late purposely, so as to be able
 to demonstrate the fact that the birds
 never mistook their dinner time. You
 may have already suspected that these
 are the pigeons which live in the beauti-
 full city of Venice and form one of the
 charming features.
 Nobody seems to know-And the his-
 tory of the city does not enlig hten us on
 the subject-how the fortunate birds
 gained such strong and lasting hold
 upon the peoples affections. There are
 several legends as to how they achieved
 this high social standing and raised them
 selves to an equality with and shared the
 rights of citizens.
 Laws were made for them, called "pig-
 con laws" which made it an offense pun
 ishable with death for any one to kill @
 single one of their number; and any one
 found molesting them could be arrested
 and eent to prison.
 Ono m fhn loonpda {o that tho clH DOoo
 and crusader, Henry Dandolo, while be-
 siegmg Canada, received valuable ipfor-
 nation from the interior of the island by
 means Of carrier pigeons, ana that in rec
 ognttion of their valuable services be or
 daihed that forever afterward they should honored as heroes. This was in 1909, so
 you see they are birds of ancient and hon. orablh lineage.
 Still another legend Is that long ago, during the Middle Ages, there was grand procession and 6 fete on Palm Sunday,
 and the Doge and priests and ali the off, o1als of church and state were at its head
 as 1t passed through the square. They wished to do something to gratify and , please the people, and so number of 7 pigeons were caught and small weights tied to their feet, and they were let loose to fly as best they could above the heads 1 of the crowd.
 ! disadvantage, would fall very easy vic. , tims into the hands of poor and deserv- , ing persons. Stones and sticks were thrown at them, and some of them were !, killed, but others escaped and hid them. ! selves among the columns and domes ? and statues of tho cathedral, and 8 few even sought complete protection end , sacredness of the place saved them from l further harm, and they thenceforth : becamethe special proteges of the city IN. Y. Star. Every.Day Japanese Life Illustratea 7 There has been set up in a large case ] ct the National museum a collection just brought from Japan by Professor RomeyI 3 Hitchcock, which illustrates the every 8 day life of aJapanese household. In one 8 part of the case Is 6 Japanese lady's toile, 8 stand. It looks as if it were made for ( y doll, but Professor Hitchdock said 1t wal 8 a toilet stand such as is actually in use 8 In the boudoir of every Japanese belle There Is little round metallic mirror Or 3 l top, and the Japanese lady kneels o 8 squats on the floor before this. Tht . stand Is provided with dainty littl, :, drawers for pins, wooden combs and thu 2 many little knick-knacks of the toilet ] There are perfumery bottles and jars fo 8 powder. A saucer Is filled with red dyt g used for heightening the color of thu d lips.
 s In another vessel is the pigment witl Il which married women blacken their teeth e 8 practice that Is going out of vogue }. This pigment is applied to the teeth wit # Q feather brush. There are coils c s brightly colored paper strings and sticl }, of pomatum-the strings to tie up tn }. hair and the pomatum to rub on 1t. Tn 8 hair Is pomatumed till 1t is glossy 0n' T stiff. The Japanese belle does not do he d hair up every day. It Is long an 8 labortous operation, and when once per 8 formed she resorts to all kinds of expe s dients to make the dressing last. A g. night she sleeps not on soft pillow tha ,f would muss her hair, but rests her hea' l. on a block of wood that fits into the nap # of the neck.-Philadelph Telegraph.
 In the editorial rooms of the Atlant 8 Constitution not many days ago curiou Q scene was enacted. A negro. gray bu IT still vigorous, came up inQuiring for hi d young master. He found him presently @ and there were tears in the eyes of bot IS when the meeting took place. From tn le negro there was ''God bless you, honey le I love you same as everr and from tn D other: "Uncle Reese, never have fol le gotten youf' There was positively notl F. ing that the old negro could not hay h demanded from the young man he calle 8. his master, but all he asked was 6 stree .n ! car ticket to go out and see the youn Id mans mother. He was merely visito W but old associates made his visit happ I one Little children whom he had nevt pr seen chung around his sknees, and whe ,e the street and flung kisses after him, an ,e at the last, he took of his hat, f1shed
 it for his handkerchief and went awe
 Weepin9.-Constitut