Connecticut western news., 1891-01-21
A MISERABLE OUTING.
Sad Experience of Two Boys Who Were
 Left Naked on Arsenal Island.

A MISERABLE OUTING.
 Sad Experience of Two Boys Who Were
 Left Naked on Arsenal Island.
 Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Dier- kes issued warrant charging Edward Bradley with petit larceny. In itself the case is one of but little importance, the defendant, Bradley, being charged with stealing string of fish and two suits of clothing from Harry Sylvester and George Minke. Behind the war rant, however, there is an interesting little story.
 All of the parties concerned live in Carondelet. Harry Sylvester and Geo. Minke are 15-year-old boys whose homes are at 5,523 Virginia avenue and 126 Ellwood street respectively. Re gently the two decided to go fishing across the river and went to Mrs, Brad Icy, who lives on the shore, to hire her skiff. Mrs. Bradley readily let them have the boat, for the loan of which they paid her ten cents. With their lunch and fishing tackle in the bottom ef the boat they pulled across the river to Arsenal Island, and spent the day angling for buffalo and cat. By evening they had secured a goodly string After slowing away the catch under one of the seats in the skiff the youngsters hauled of their clothes, tum- bled the garments in heap on the nd in 1,e island to deep hole to swim.
 About o'clock in the evening Ed ward Bradley, the 23-year-old son of the lady from whom the boys had hired the skitf, returned home from work and finding the boat gone set out in search of the missing property. Not finding it along the bank he borroweda a boat from a neighbor and rowed across to the island. There, drawn up on the bank, was his skiff. Bradley supposed, of course, some mischievous boys had purloined the boat, and thinking to re- pay them in their own coin he took boat, clothing and fish and pulled back to the Missouri shore
 Their bath finished Sylvester and Minke returned to don their garments preparatory to returning home. To their dismay they found everything gone. Stark naked as they were, they did not fear the exposure to the cool night breeze, and concluding that they would have to make a night of it they went into the water for another swim. It was quite dark when they emerged, and they seated themselves on the shore to tell stories. They were not left long undisturbed. The festive mosquito and the bloodthirsty gallinipper were out in force, and the unfortunate young castaways were soon in agony. For a while they ran about in the brush in order to drive the insects away, but found their torment increased by the scratching of the shrubs. Then they took to the river and stood for an hour up to their necks in the water. Soon, however, their knees weakened under the strain and cut they came. I'm mediately they were scratching and clawing like all possessed.
 At last happy thought struck Syl- vester. Hunting patch of soft sand he dug with his hands hurriedly i'm provised grave and rolled into it's depths. Then as best he was able he pulled the accumulated sand over his smarting flesh. Minke followed his ex- ample, and both were soon ''out of sight,
 Then together they lifted up their voices, and wild, mournful vail went far over the waters on the bosom of the cooling breeze. Time and again they shouted for assistance, and the deep chested buufrogs in the adjacent swamp joined in the chorus with the utmost glee Finally Officer Eckert, of Caron- delet, heard the sounds, and securing boat he rowed to the island. Half an hour later they were telling their story on Missouri soil After getting them into some clothes Officer Eckert sent the lads away to their homes. Then he went to young Bradley, who refused to give up the garments he had taken. The warrant for petit larceny was ac- cordingly issued.-St. Louis Post-Dis- patch.
 ''There is no foundation for the To- port" says Mir. Labouchere, 'that Buckingham palace and Marlborough House have been hired by an American millionaire"
 The Real Colors of Metals.
 We do not always see objects pre- cisely in their natural colors; the white light which falls upon them is com posed of the seven ti1lts of the solar spectrum tor rainbow), and when body reflects yellow light, for instance. it absorbs all the other colors, but this absorption is never complete in first reflection, so that the light reflected from a metallic surface is mixed to a certain extent with undecomposed white light. In order to see the pre- else color of 8 metal, the light of the sun must be reflected from it to a sec ond surface of the same metal, and from this second piece to a third and so on, until we obtain tint whicl does not change by further reflections. In this experiment. the undecomposed white light is all absorbed, and the true color of the metal is seen. In this manner gold is seen to be of brilliant orange color; copper, nearly carmine red; tin, pale yellow; silver, white; lead, blue, etc.-Chambers' Journal.
 The Word Puzzled Him.
 There are some good Scotch anec. dotes which will bear telling. One is that of careful mother who had a smattering of higher talk gained from