Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-07-24
MIscEIIANEOUS.

screw 1t Is desired to use may be plugged | with piece of cork driven tightly in, | and thereby be made to afford firm | hold for the screw.
 Don't despise the ignorance" of our ancestors of the eighteenth century. | The things we boast of now will proba- l bly be as far behind the times in 1890 as the works and ways of 1790 are to-day. Modesty is the lesson of history.-ln- ventive Age
 -Philadelphia boys saturated rag with gasoline from the public lamps and by inhaling it in their nostrils be- came intoxicated. The police detected them in this new and novel scheme of juvenile dissipation and arrests have followed.
 Human nature is a good deal like dog nature. Whenever some other dog wants the bone it becomes doubly pre- cious; and when a man is about to lose something upon which he has put slight value, its worth goes skyward rapidly. Rams Horn.
 A certain Gascon, boasting of his travels, said that he had seen a church a mile long. "Surely, you are mis- taken" said his auditor. "Yes, and two miles broad" replied the Gascon; "I
  not doubted me."-London Journal of Education.
 Pretty women are attractive, pleas ing, and agreeable to the sight; lively, graceful, captivating, and beautifully charming. Handsome women are beau- tiful, charming, stately, statuesque, sometimes cold and formal; fascinating, though often distant, dignified and proud. We like and love pretty women. Hands me women we admire and wor- ship.-Omaha Republican.
 Editor (to Associate) did you accept this Spring poem?" Asso- ciate-"Well, sir, the blamed poet for, who does not blame him?0 walked in here with that poem in one hand and revolver in the other, and said l must take the poem, or something worse. I told him didn't wish any thing worse than the poem, and took that."-West Shore.
 --.Poe's Raven" has found 8 counter part at Gainesville, Fla, where a mon ster owl has taken up his abode in the residence of Dr. Phillips, where he called very early one morning and perched himself on top of the frame of picture hanging on the wall. He looked wise and said nothing except when poled with stick. At last ac- counts he still remained guest of the family. -Poots, looking out of the window ot his sitting room, saw man ascend the steps of his residence whom he didn't | wish to receive. To be candid, he was a bill collector. Calling the servant he bade him tell the man that he was not at home. Did you tell him was out?" said Poots, when the servant re- l turned from answering the bell. II did, sir" Did he appear to be in doubt | about it?" Not at all, sir; he said il was lie. "-Texas Siftings.
 l Two colored porters in Texas hotel | were about to wrestle with the large trunk of a newly arrived stranger, when one of them took occasion to remark "Dis heah trunk weighs at de leas | twenty y-fve pounds more den free hun dred pounds, and kaint lift no moab den free hundred pounds" 'Nebbel mind, Sam," replied the porter; 'jes' catch on and tote free hundred pounds up de sta's, and Pll be 'sponsible for de rest. Texas SifHngs.
 l On drawing a net Florida fisher man succeeded in landing an alligator and a turtle. The alligator was nine feet in length, while the turtle was O
 the loggerhead variety, and & subsequen
 weighing showed 1t to be eighty-fiv, pounds in weight The back of the alli gator was broken in two places, while one of the feet was almost severed iron the body.
 | A widow of Miller County. Missouri
 who lives on n farm, gave another woman SIS to secure her husband. The mar
 was secured and warranted all right 1T every respect, but the next morning after the marriage he licked his bride stole the $50 she had saved up, and il
 the night silently stole away to N
 Mans Land, and now there are tw,
 women in that neighborhood who don
 speak to each other.
 P. O. Sullivan, who lives about si,
 miles above the junction of the Middle
 and South Fork of Boise, on the former
 killed a black bear with a knife a fev
 days since, says the Boise (Idaho) States
 man. He had followed the bear fo
 several miles. It laid down beside
 rock and Sullivan crept up to it ant
 plunged big knife into a vital part
 George Alexander, who is a neighbo
 and saw the bear when it was dead, wa
 in the city on Saturday last and related
 the story. The bear was very large ant would weigh 500 pounds.
 Among various expressions of in
 telligence which often places the dog il
 no mean place of comparison to his mas ter, . little habit developed by dog il
 the suburbs is worth mentioning Whenever this dog becomes angry, iu
 stead of making an exhibition of hi
 temper he turns away from the offend
 ing person as quickly as possible an
 makes a bee line like Q flash to tn
 nearest brook. In a few minutes he re turns dripping, but serene, without
 trace of his former excitement in hi manner. His plunge has apparentl : cooled of all angry feelings and eve caused forgetfulness of causes of di. turbance.-Boston Journal.
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