Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-01-12
MISCELLANEOUS.

n EOdob AOS VI POAA ohOdA0 oA"oJS be accompanied by apple sauce, and by mashed potatoes and mashed turnips.
 A Great Change.-He-'Ii intend to lead better life henceforth. I hope to succeed in time. 1t takes time, of course" She-"Yes, it takes time to bring about great changes. ."-Yankee Blade.
 According to osuperstition corpse can dies are no other than human souls dancing over the graves where their bodies lie, or the souls of dead relatives coming to fetch those who are to rejoin them.
 -He Was Seized. subject l write about must seize me. Otherwise can not do good work" 'I presume you were seized by robbers about the time you wrote that article on The Robber.'" "Yes, was. I had just paid my ice bill. ."-Yankee Blade.
 A perplexing suit, involving pro- fessional secrecy, has been before the Paris Society of Public Medicine. A suburban practitioner called in to at- tend a patient suffering from scarlet fever advised the landlord to disinfect the house. This was done, and the landlord sued the patient to recover the cost. The patient thereupon sued the doctor for breach of professional secrecy, and it is thought that he will win his case.
 Cheese Sandwiches: One fourth pound of crumbled cheese, the yelk of a hard-boiled egg, a tablespoonful of melted butter, one-half teaspoonful of salt, a dash of pepper, one-half tea cY,nnnfn1 of poadn ta rI fahlnonnnn. full of milk, and thin slices of bread or biscuits, lightly but evenly buttered. Put the hard yelk in a small bowl, make smooth with a spoon, add the butter, cheese and seasoning, mixing well, and lastly the milk.-Boston Budget
 Winfield Scott Hancock Doran, the phenomenal boy smoker, died recently in Trenton, N. J., in the fifth year of his age. His death was not caused from the use of the weed, however, but from an attack of virulent diphtheria. He had been sick only week. His mother says that he had smoked from the time he was seven months old. She kept boarders, and the mon used to take him upon their knees while they were smok. ing their pipes and give him few puffs.
 The friends of many of Warwick's most highly respected citizens were inexpressibly shocked when, in this weeks Warwick Dispatch, they saw their names appended to call for a public meeting to be held in that will lage for the purpose of Organizing q Burglar and Horse Thief Association. ' It must be, they thought, that it was intended to organize an association fol the detection, arrest and conviction oi burglars and horse thieves, but there was not a word about arrest or detec tion in the all.-Middletown Argus.
 The Maine Mrs. Burlington is still on deck. One lady just returned from Boston informs the neighbors that she rode "up stairs in a refrigerator, and had her clothes washed at 8 foundry. An old lady in Bath recently mortified her relatives intensely. At grand din ner she overheard a lady guest politely answer to the wielder of the carving knife that 'it was immaterial whicl portion she had" A luscious slice wal passed up to her, and our old lady aftel an appreciative glance guessed sht would have a small hunk off'n the i'm | material"
 An amusing incident is reported il the Vledomosti of Kharkov. An Egyp tian mummy was brough to that city fo exhibition. The Tariff Commissioner were at loss about the import duty tt be levied on it, as no such ware is speci fled in their catalogue. Atlast they found in one of their catalogues certain pain which is called mummy. Thereupol they decided to have the Egyptian piec ] of antiquity weighed and to levy on the tax due on it's weight in paint similar incident, says the same paper occurred in another city of the empire A skeleton was imported from Germany The tax gatherers, not knowing to wha class of goods it belonged, decided t put it down among he things that ha once been in use."
 Says a rounder of New York res taurant: 'An infall ible recipe for dc stroying any fear you may have of tn waiter is contained in four words: Loo at his feet. nc yer saw a waiter in m life that had pres entable pair of peds extremities. He may be bland, suave clean-shaven, cle ar-eyes, clad in snow linen, and the ma ster of a superciliou
 manner. If you feel that he is cowin
 you at all glance at his feet You wi | nuu Gndb ms GrOuSerS arc rdpBeO Au
 turned up at the bottom, and that h
 wears an enormous pair of rusty shoel
 and that they are as hilly and ridgy a
 the boots of the gouty old uncle in th
 old-time comedies. After this you ma
 look him in the eye with absolute fea
 1essness."
 It is fact known to the close ol
 servers of Chinese life in New York thl some of the Chinamen here have falle 5 into the way of quaffing lager beer { times. It is not their habit, howeve
 to quaff it in tho beer saloons, where
 costs five cents mug. They like
 get it more cheaply by buying it
 bigger measure, or by the pint, quart ( half gallon, and there has been at lea one case in which a Chinaman bought ; much as a gallon at time, all of whicl however, was not consumed by pagan | of his race If ia learnAd on hio