Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-10-18
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 Note Book. After sitting near a window in the | opera house and catching disagreeable ,old in the head. have arrived at the conclusion that the fad of women uncov- sring their heads in theatre is no re- form. So long as men, uncover their heads in halls, where cold air is ad- mitted between. the acts, just so long will male theatre lovers be afflicted with catarrh and facial neuralgia. And mind YOU am not hitting at the cosy little Jacques opera house i'll partlculaE; N IS the same everywhere you go. There IS no more sense in a man removing his hat than there is in a woman laying aside her bonnet. What do you say!
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 X western Catholic paper severely scores Catholic firemen, policemen, train them do not practice their Catholicity. Here the majority of hack drivers go to church when there horses go-to tuner als and marriages.
 The Hartford Courant tells that per son. evidently anxious to be on the safe side. called on Postmaster Kinney to ln- ouire if under the new law regarding lotteries, newspapers containing mar riage notices could be Sent through the mails.
 Now and then an indignant citizen rushes into the DEMOCRAT office, red Tn the face and out of breath. to demand that we inform our readers that he Is not the Bill Jones who got drunk, kicked his wife out of doors and was fined S1O and costs by Judge Bradstreet. Of course we make the desired explanation, although it simply advertises to the world Bill Jones lack of faith Tn ms own good reputation. Apropos of this is a story now going the rounds of a Chicago minister who. on ''exchange in a country town, preached sermon on "The sin of Cain" to be met as ne decended the pulpit stairs by an excited individual who demanded of him, in the interests of truth and fairness, that his next Sundays sermon contain the dlS- tinct announcement that the Cain who killed Able 'ain't no relation to the Kane that keeps livery stable down by the grist mill.
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 A writer has said that the average number of hairs on the human scalp vary from ninety to one hundred and twenty thousand. There are good many heads about the office of thls paper which would hardly bear out eitherIstatement. But it is true that a single hair can support a weight Of two ounces and is so elastic that it may be stretched to one-third of it's entire length and then regain it's former size and con ditiOn.
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 When clergymen engage in politics AL nf fhn hard ware business, or a man trying to open champagne bottle with his teeth They seem out of place and ill danger In New York, this fall, the pastors of the different sect churches, and the Rev Father Ducey of St Leo's Roman Catho lie church, are working for the interests of the Peoples Municipal League, ano will strive to redeem the city by faitt cure. Here's success to Tammany, anc may she "Grant" a sure cure for tht political ills of the metropolis. In the meantime the faithful should pray harC and often for their wayward pastors. That unwelcome visitor, la grippe. the terror of last winter, has again made 1t! appearance in some sections and the physicians warn people to exercise grea care to prevent it again becoming epi I degree, from the scourge last winter, 1 hint will be sufficient to cause a change in habits and the taking of every pre- caution to escape a second lnt1iction | Just what to do no one seemed to know last year as the disease came like thie | in the night and before one was full, aware of the attack he was bound hant and foot.
 was burning the midnight gas, witl the curtains drawn up, last Tuesda, night, when a timid knock upon tn sanctum door broke in upon the stillnes of the night and immediately after Chinaman with four by six smil fitted noiselessIy in, and in Hong Konl English wanted to know if W had received the list of number winning prizes in the "Loursilan Iottley" I explained to him as clearly as possible the provisions of the recent. enacted lottery law, under which paper publishing lottery announcement were excluded from the mails and with Chesterfieldian bow h quietly stole away.
 Speaking of lotteries reminds me of section of the recently enacted law tha managers of fairs should careful study. As Postmaster General Wana maker interprets the law the tern lottery as used in the act embraces al kind of schemes, general or local, flo the distribution of prizes by lot Q chance, such as gift exhibitions, enter prises, concerts, rafles, or the drawing c prizes in money or property at fairt Hence, letters, postal cards and circular concerning them, and newspapers pamphlets and other publications COT cerning advertisements of them are UT mailable.
 "I would like to shake the hand c that Mir Finley" said we'll known cit zen who is not looked upon as demo crat, to me, the other day. We wer discussing the water question and tn citizen was delighted to think that tn Hop brook scheme was laid over to giv the people an opportunity to study tn matter by daylight. A year ago mad !. |