Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-07-26
AS YOU LIKE II.
Stray Leaves From a Reporters
Note Book.

AS YOU LIKE II.
Stray Leaves From a Reporters
Note Book.
This story was told to me by a man
whose reputation for Lruthfulness is
above par. l give it for what it is
worth. The other day Waterburian
who is something of a sport, boarded a
New England road train and presently
began talking to a picked-up acquaint-
ance. After a time he asked his new
made friend if he had heard the story
about how a man travelled without a
railroad ticket. The other said he had
not and offered to wager the cigars that
it could not be done on the New England
road. The sport from Waterbury &C
copied and asked the gentleman the
loan of his ticket. After examining the
bit of pasteboard he handed it back, first
tearing off small bit of it. Then he
took a seat at the rear end of the car.
When the conductor reached him and
asked for his ticket he said he had given
it up, but the ticket-puncher wouldn't
have the bluff. After deal of alterca-
ton the man pulled some silver from
his pocket and was about to pay his fare,
when he suddenly said-producing a
small bit of ticket-that he could prove
that he had given up his ticket, because
he remembered playing with it in the
train and tearing off small piece, and
that if the conductor looked he would
find a ticket with the corner torn off.
On looking the conductor found the
mutilated ticket, and moved along after
apologizing to the trickster. The other
man, who was watching the transaction
from the other end of the car, bought
the cigars when the train reached Wa
terbury.
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Meadow Lane, in the Brooklyn district,
comes forward with a literary dog. In
appearance he is no different from any
other of his species, but he chews litera-
ture as other ours would bone. A
week or two ago complaints came in al
most daily of the alleged neglect of a
DEMOCRAT route carrier to deliver the
paper to a subscriber on Meadow Lane.
The little fellow insisted that he had left
the paper on the veranda while the sub
scriber declared that it could not be
found. This sort of thing was continued
for a week until finally the boy made up
his mind to sift the thing to the bottom,
and on a recent evening after delivering
the paper he took a position across the
street and awaited developments. He
had waited only minute of two when
the family dog quietly stole around the
corner of the house, seized the paper
and devoured it, column rules and all.
The lad reported the fact, and now the
dog has to wait until his betters are
served.
1t is a wonder the society for the pre-
vention of cruelty to animals never in
terests itself to prohibit the high check
| ing of horses, or the close cropping of
tails that are said to give the horse a
stylish" appearance.
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A few evenings ago several gentlemen
were in conversation in a quiet retreat
when the subject of hunting for honey
came up and one of the party related
his experience when boy, in discover
ing q colony of bees in a large tree, and
extracting the honey. A professional
gentleman, one of the party, rather alb
stractedly here interposed a question.
Was the tree hollow?
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A contemporary report of the late in
stalltation of pastor over the Plymouth
church says the concluding prayer was
of twenty-five minutes duration. AS
the last pastor was settled there for
twenty years, the prayer evidently
thought he would not have another
chance for twenty years to repeat him.
self. When boy at school in Pennsyl-
vania, the writer stood at the door of
Lutheran church for fifty-five min
utes, waiting for the conclusion of the
opening prayer before entering the
, church.
: There were 1856 failures in the United
States, reported to Bradstreet's during
the week, against 1S1 in the preceding
week and 221, 217, 1853 and 1862 in the
corresponding weeks of 1899, 1888, 1881
ard 1886 respectively. The total number
| 4 Al.
1, to date, is 5000 against 6,646 it 1899.
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The report of the board of compensa.
ton, in the matter of damages to proper
ty by reason of the extension of Liberty
street, accepted by the court of common
. council and approved by Mayor Baldwin
! appears in another column. Now then
it is in order for the road board to order
the street worked without unnecessary
, delay.
He is a slow man indeed who affirm.
that judicious advertising does not pay.
Let the sceptic look around him, in any
| city or business center, and note the
most successful business men there
, Who are they? The careful and judi
i cious advertisers invariably. 1t is wher
trade lags, when things are generally
| quiet, that the experienced modern -ad
vertiser gets in his work. He under
/ stands thoroughly that his plan then il
: to create q demand where no demand
exists. During the quiet season the
merchant has also more time to attent
4 to the subject.
1t is a historical fact that woman is a
curious creature. From the time Eve
, plucked the forbidden fruit down to the
, present day curiosity to an inordinatt
l degree has been symbolic of the weaker
sex. And yet through all the dark agel
no woman was found who would admit
that she was possessed in the least de
gree of curiosity. 1t remained for Water