Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-02-25
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Stray Leaves From q Reporters Note
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Stray Leaves From Reporters Note
Book.
OF course the average man will rarely
acknowledge that he looks at the feet of
ladies with slightly raised skirts as they
walk through the snow these days when
the absence of caloric in the atmosphere
is so strikingly apparent. Most of them
do, however, and no thoughtful person
can look at them for a second time
without a sensation of wonder at the
endurance of the fair sex. Put the
same shoes of fine thin leather on
man, cover them with the filmy rubber
overshoes that ladies wear, and send
them out on the streets in the kind of
weather that prevailed last week, and
what would happen? I'll wager but
ton that all of them would seek shelter
with chattering teeth in a few minutes,
and good many of them would stay at
home next day with incipient cases of
pneumonia. When it is considered that
| the skirts of the ladies gather up more
or less of the snow and add to their dis
comfort, the wonder grows. How do
they survive it But they do survive it,
and the dear girls will venture out, if
they make up their minds to do SO, in
weather that would daunt their more
heavily clad brothers and fathers.
What those who are set down as the
weaker sex will endure is marvellous to
contemplate.
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FIRST SELEcTMAN PINNEY is showing
| his friends a handsome black thorn
stick, which was cut purposely for him
| and brought over by Contractor Patrick
Thompson on returning from his recent
visit to the old country. The genial
selectman makes no extra display of his
l cane, while on the street, but his portly
form has been seen several times walk
| ing up and down the corridor of City
hall with his left hand on his hip, un-
derneath his big top coat, and intently
engaged in endeavoring to keep the
black thorn twisting on the tops of the
| fingers of his right hand.
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THE amendment to the city charter
with regard to the Waterbury police
court now before the legislature makes
some very important changes. In the
| first place it extends the power of the
police to make arrests within the town
limits; that power being confined pre-
| viously to the city limits. According to
it also the chief of police, or acting
chief, may accept bonds in cases for
drunkenness, breach of the peace, viola.
ton of city ordinances or of the statutes
regarding the sale of intoxicants. The
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any riot or disturbance, subject to the
approval of the mayor; he is also en-
powered to enter any house in which he
has good cause to suspect that gambling
or immoral practices are carried on
to summon to their aid any city sheriff
constable or other persons in making ar
arrest, the penalty for refusing being
fixed at $50. The new bill also authori
yes the holding of police court on Sun
day at the request of the city attorney.
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A LETTER enclosing five dollars anC
depressing regret at being unable t.
attend the lectures of Mrs MountforC
was one of the most acceptable of thu
many kind offerings received by thu
ladies under whose auspices the hospita
course of lectures is being given. The
writerwho is Catholic clergyman spok
of the hospital as an institution il
which every citizen of Waterbur.
should take an interest and assist a
much as possible.
A MAIL pouch arrived in the postoffic
this afternoon from st Paul, MINI
which for time the distributors gave
wide berth. The bottom and sides o
the pouch looked as if they had beer
used to test Jove's guns. The content
/, were a cosmopolitan mixture of adver
Using cards, chewed up letters and
strong smell of "blue blazes." TIL
whole when sorted on: proved to be al
advertisement for some asthma cure
From appearances the strong points o
the cure had eaten through the pouch
What the medicine itself would do i
inoculated into the human system it
hard to conf lecture.