Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-02-06
as YOU LIKE IT.
Stray Leaves From a RepOrter's Note
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DID you ever calculate how many | times your watch ticks in the course | of month or year. If you did, you | you must have been surprised at the | result Many watches makes five beats | per second, three hundred each minute, l 1S,000 every hour, or 432, 900 per day. Thus it will be seen that a dozen turns l of the stem or key, once a day: taking up but few seconds of time, stores up a modicuIn of power in the spring which is cut up into nearly million pulsations. If we multiply the daily beats by 3654, the number of days in year, we find that the watch ticks 157,- 7SS, ,O00 times while the earth is making one trip around the sun.
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 A Chinaman walked into cigar store where happened to be the other even ing, and placing a silver dollar on the show case, called for half dozen of the best cigars in the house, much to the surprise of all present, except the pro. proprietor. He said that the stories of Chinamen living on other peoples leav- lngs l6 not borne out by the facts. Per contra, nothing is too good for Water ! oury Celestials. They will accept noth- ing but the choicest cuts of meat, and when buying fish invariably raise the gills to make sure that the stock is fresh.
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 ! WARRING on hats at theatre is like adding fuel to a flame. The faster and more furious the onslaught, the taller the hats. All the fault finding and ridicule of the men seems but to harden the hearts of the ladies, and cause them to set their faces against any change.
 But the men have one consolation, at any rate; they do not suffer alone. It \ ia fhnk thn IaAins Fn1lat share
 their discomfort. While one woman's
 headgear is shutting off the view of several unfortunates in the rear, her
 own view is often eclipsed by para ) chute on the head of another of her sex.
 had the misfortune to sit behind one of those structures at an entertainment in the opera house the other evening ! and the agony was terrible; but my de
 light knew no bounds when 1 found that the woman whose headgear spoiled ! my fun was harassed by a still Higher \ hat on a woman directly in front of her #%
 oI AT least ono man that witnessed thu I execution of Boriessen at L:tchfield las week, is forever cured of his curiosit. l in such matters. He says that the mur l. derers eyes were fixed upon him unti - the cap was drawn over hls head ant
 the despair and terror in their depth
 made his blood run cold. The sqectacl
 was terrible one for the few who di
 not strengthen their nerves with liquo # before entering the death pen.
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 s DOWN the valley politicians hay l. sounded Robert o. Gates in regard t d the republican congressional nomins n tion, and, although the genial ex-sherii if did not say much, it n generally believed that "Bark
 is willin'." Mir Gates is popular in cel "a tain sections of the district, but, up thi e way, Colonel Doherty IS looked upon 8 ;s leader who, when he buckle IF on his armOr, can make spleI d did fight A little bird tel e. me that friends of the gallant colon' s. are urging him to allow the us "a of his name at the republica a congressional convention. He woul 10 probably poll as many votes, ,r not more, than any republican d the district, but it is not believed tn; if the nomination will fall to Waterbur " man; however, politics are mighty ul ia certain.