Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-03-12
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WHAT is needed in Waterbury, said q /
prominent physician to the writer yes
terday, Is q cellar inspector. There Is |
no doubt that many cases Of sickness /
can be traced to filthy cellars. Many |
people seem to think II their living |
apartments are kept clear anything ia |
They have superficial ideas of neatness |
and order. An inspection Of cellars this |
spring would have q wholesome effect. |
It would be found that In many places
there IL work for the health authorities.
while In others steps should be taken to
insure greater safety from FIRE.
POSTMASTER DoHERTY was reading In
his private Office the other day, when a
caller was announced. ooh, tell him
am engaged" said the colonel. "But it
is your tailor, colonel, and he insists on
seeing you" "My tailorl bring him in.
What the deuce can he want, I'd like to
know" The visitor was admitted and
colonel card case. When the latter
discovered in the case twenty-four dol
lars In crisp greenbacks he felt like en-
bracing his visitor. The case was
found in one of the pockets of garment
owned by the colonel, which had been
placed in the repair shop that morning.
SPEAKING of eggs: A man who makes
a business OF poultry raising and eggs
says that a good, healthy hen docs not
fulfill her destiny until she has turned
out fifty dozen eggs. That is what ma
ture flied up the hen to do in the way of
eggs and gave her eight years to do it
in. The first year of her egg producing
life the hen lays only 90 eggs, but in the
three succeeding years she rolls up a
score of $40. That leaves her only $50
to get rid of in the four remaining years
that she is to be on duty in that line,
and she divides the task up among these
four years so that in the eighth year she
lays only 20 eggs again--the number she
started in with. Then she has ended
often, II she ls in the hands of thrifty
owner, begins another career, this time
as a summer boarder spring chicken.
THE new silver twenty-five and fifty
cent pieces are very scarce-but for
that matter, many people have noticed
that quarters and halves, either new OF
old, are not lying around unclaimed
this winter. A bank official tells me
that people are boarding the new coins
which is the reason so few of them are
IN circulation. 1t was the same way
during the early days of resumption
|, Everybody wanted to keep coin OF
, each denomination, as curiosity. The
new coins come in all denominations
At first there were only quarters an6
. halves, but latterly the HAYES have dis
, appeared and the ten cent pieces have
taken their place.
''TIM" RYAN, the boy who was before
: the police court this morning for theft
has had a remarkable career for a lac
just turned sixteen. He was led astray
by bad company and a few years age
was sentenced to the reform school a
Meriden. He escaped from the institu
offered and drifted around the STATE
z without friends or home. At Burnsid,
) he stole 500, was arrested and although
3 he made restitution, he was given ,
long term in Hartford Jail by the su
perior court. Last Christmas eve al
= Sheriff Preston was passing Tins cell
? he spied little stocking hanging from
one of the bars. The sight was 81
unusual that the sheriff halted. Peer
ing into the cell he saw the boy on hi
cot fast asleep. There were traces o
tears on his face, indicating that wheI
he hung up his stocking that night hi
thoughts were of other and happie
times. Sheriff Preston's heart wa
touched and he dropped something il
the sock that made it heavy. Then tn
other officials were told and one by on
they stole up and dropped in something
( 1t was happier Christmas for the DO,
: than he had hoped for, and none of tn
a officials were sorry for the part the.
had taken. The boy recently returned
' to Waterbury and was arrested for
{ crime committed seventeen month
ago. His case is only one of many-le'
astray.
FOUR years ago to-day the blizzar'
was at its height and Waterbury wa
t buried beneath from three to ten fee
8 of snow. Horace johnson, who claim
4 to have predicted the blizzard, was il
4 Hartford yesterday afternoon and sal,
3 that within forty eight hours there will
t with snow, rain and wind.
! POLICEMAN ALLEN hates to be as
! signed for duty in the Abrigador dis
! trict. He doesn't understand the way
y of the "boys," is not sociable and evi
= IDENTIFY considers that he carries his lif
= in his hands when he crosses Scovill'
bridge. 1t is said that when Office
Allen was first sent into the fourtl
7 ward he asked the brethren in one o
. the churches to offer up prayers for hi
safety. Within week he was as
= saulted and knocked down near tn
corner of Baldwin and River streets.
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b IT may have been sinful, but never
( theless people were in happy frame O
r mind the other evening, when it wa
9 learned that the old casino was on fire
q and more than one prayer for its tota
+ humiliation was offered. 1t was falls
,. alarm, however, and the old rookery i
still there, defiant and ugly as ever.
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