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Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-09

Five elderly men, evidently strangers
in the city, walked up to the box office
Of a downtown theater the other night
and purchased the requisite number of
seats way down front, please" just as
they entered the theater-they were a
trifle late and the curtain had been up
fifteen minutes-the comedian was
singing a topical song, one verse of
which called the attention to the fact
that most occupants of front seats are
destitute of hirsute adornment. Every
man of the five was almost as bald as a
billiard ball, and the words of the song
fitted them so we'll that the audience
simply yelled. For a moment the five
stood irresolute and their evident en-
barrassment only served to renew the
shouts Of laughter. The usher turned
down five seats, handed the checks to
one of the party, but without a word
the five replaced their hats, wheeled
about face" and solemnly tramped
back the aisle and out of the house
while the audience yelled some more.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-09
NICKEL MADE FROM GAS.
A Plating Process That Does Away will
ElectroIysis.

A Plating Process That Does Away with
ElectroIysis.
One of the most important results Of
chemical research during the past
twelve months, says the Philadelphia
Record, are the discoveries of Mr.. Lud-
wig Mond, an Englishman, concerning
the metallic carbonyls, and especially
nickel carbonyl. The latter is gaseous
substance that burns with bright lum-
nous flame, metallic nickel sepa1 ,Lting
and becoming incandescent. Solids heat
ed in the presence of this gas are coat
ed with bright metallic nickel. A curl
GUS property of the metal thus deposit
ed is that it is almost perfect non-con-
ductor of electricity.
A plant on small scale has been con-
structed by another Investigator in the
same field for the purpose of extracting
nickel from it's ores by means of car
bonic oxide, thus forming nickel car
bonyl. So successful has been this
plant that a large esta blishmcnt will be
erected soon at Birmingham to carry
ont the process on large scale. The
simplicity of the method and the posi-
bility of at once obtaining pure metallic
nickel in any form are claimed to give
the process advantages over the present
mode of nickel plating by electrolysis.
In view of the increased use of nickel
steel. the discovery is believed to pos
sess exceptional value, since it furnishes
a simple method of obtaining an album
liant and cheap supply of nickel.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-09
A Watch That speaks.

A Geneva matchmaker named Casimir
Livau has just completed watch of
which he is the inventor. Instead of
striking the hours and quarters, it an
nounces them by speaking like the pho
nograph. The mechanism of the watch
is based on photographic conditions,
the bottom of the case containing pho
nographic sensitive plate, which has
received the impression of the human
voice before being inserted in the watch.
The disk has forty-eight concentric
grooves, of which twelve repeat the
hours, twelve those of the hours and
quarters and twelve moro tn ose of the
hours and second and third quarters.
If the hand on the dial shows the time
to be 1915 o'clock, one of the fine nee
die points of the mechanism crosses the
corresponding groove and the disk,
which turns sim simultaneously, calls out
the time, just as the photographic cyl
inder. The lower lid of the case is pro-
vided with tiny mouthpiece, and when
the watch is held to the ear the sound
S all the more plain.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-09
THEIR SWEETMEATS.
The Sort of Candy Used on Different DC
casions by Different People.

The Sort of Candy Used on Different Oc-
casions by Different People.
Yes, I've got every opportunity to
study human nature" said candy
dealer to Boston Journal reporter the
other day; fully as great an oppor-
tunity as the reporter, the policeman
or the car conductor.
For instance" he continued, spec
pie never buy opera caramels to take to
the theater or opera. They're soft, and
would prove rlinous to gloves.
''School-teachers never eat pepper
minis and lemon drops at the same time
They'd as soon eat lobster salad and
drink milk at the same time. That re-
minds me of teacher I once had that
lunched on angel cake, a tomato and
caramels every noon.
THE blase young man now carries to
his sweetheart dainty box of candied
fruit in place of the caramels which
were once all the rage. Why, even the
children are changing in tastes. They
ask for the best French mixture, which
is about as much French as I am.
was born in South Boston.
81 know what I'm talking about" he
continued, land could prove to you
what I say. Women tipplers don't pur-
chase brandy drops because there is no
brandy in 'em, and young maidens
avoid caramels because it is too much
trouble to take off the oiled paper"
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-09
ADRIFT ON THE OCEAN.
Tho Remarkable Voyage of a Deserted
Schooner.

The Remarkable Voyage of a Deserted
Schooner.
Some of the caprices of the ocean are
ineXphcable. March 81, 1891, an
American three-masted schooner, the
Wyer G. Sargent, of Sedgwick, Me-,
was abandoned by her crew off Cape
Hatteras, q hopeless wreck. But the
deserted vessel did not break up or
founder. On the contrary, she hung
together with amazing tcnacity, and
from that day to this has been floating
aimlessly about in the path of COM
merce between our ports and Europe
She has been sighted and reported
during these twcnty-one months by
twenty-five different veSsnls-to saw
nothing of those which passed peril
ously near her in the night or forgy
weather. She was last seen a few DAYS
ago by q British steamship nine hun
dred miles due east of Bermuda. The
dismasted hull was still in good condi-
ton. The name on her stern was dis
tinctly visible and rusty anchor
dangled from the bow. During the
year and nine months that this mast
less and rudderless hulk has been drift
ing hither and thither, the sport of the
elements, scores of strong ships, well
manned and well found, have sue
cumbed to the fury of the winds and
waves, some of them not leaving a soul
to tell their story, while deserted
craft, without n rag of canvas, has
come safely through hurricane and
cyclone without number to lie a deadly
menace in the path of navigation.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-09
The CONSUMPTION PLAN.
A Law That Loses More to Nitio
Than Is Gained by 1t.

A Law That Loses More to Nation
Than Is Gained by 1t.
When the gain of what is termed a
whole nation under arms is estimated,
the eXaggcratiOn of the pOmpous
phrases hides the nakedness of the fact
that large numbers of young mon are
lost to their country by the means to
which they resort to escape military serv-
ice. In Italy and Germany, says the Fort
nightly Review, these may be counted
by legions; in France men are less
numerous, because men are more
welded to the native soil, and take to
service more gayly and more naturally,
but in Italy and Germany thousands
flock to immigrant ships, thus choosing
lifelong self-e&patriation, and every
year, as the military and fiscal burdens
grow heavier, will lads go away by
preference to lands where, however
hard be the work, the dreaded voice of
the drill sergeant cannot reach them
and they can 'call their souls their
own"
Patriotism is a fine quality, no doubt
but it does not accord with the chill
and supercilious apathy which charac-
terizes the general temper and teaching
of this age, and young man may be
pardOned if he deem that his country
is less mother worthy of love than a
cruel and unworthy stepmother, when
she demands three of the fairest years
of his life to be spent in a barrack yard
and wrings his ears till the blood drops
from them or beats him about the head
with the butt of musket because he
docs not hold his chin high enough or
shift his feet O1liclIlV eDOurh
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-09
1T PUZZLES THE NATuRALTsfsl
No One Knows Exactly Why Ianx Cats
Are Born without Tails.

Are Born without Tails.
The peculiar breed of cats found in
the isle of Man differs from others only
in that they have no tails, and the lack
thereof is the insoluble puzzle to nat
uralists. Since it has become the fash
ion to explain everything by the prin-
ciples of evolution, two theories have
been offered-one, that owing to the
limited range and lack of dense forests
the original cats had no use for tails,
and consequently (the tails, not the
cats) gradually atrophied for lack of
use and became rudimentary; another,
that the primitive Manx cut off all their
cats tails and in the course of time de-
veloped a tailless breed. One thing is
certain, the cats are there and they have
no tails.
The highbred Chinese cat is splendid
proof of what may be done by kindness
and culture. If you were to repeat to
well-to-do but untraveled Chinaman
the current saying with us that cats are
selfish creatures, utterly devoid of affec-
ton, he would be very much astonished,
and, if the owner of thoroughbred,
probably indignant. The Chinese cat
appears capable of intense attachment
to one person, and ages of selection and
careful breeding have the species up to
high standard. The Chinese claim
that one of these cats-and any cat to
some extent-is a valuable clock. In
the morning the pupil of its eye is a
broad band; it contracts regularly till
noon, when it is a mere hairline, and
expands again as regularly till night
So when a Chinaman wants to know
the time of day he picks up his cat and
1oN1re
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-09

One of the most prosperous industries
in Paris is the sale and disposal of horse
flesh for food. There are in the city Of
Paris $50 shops for the sale of horse
flesh, and in the course of this year
moro than 81 1000 horses, 81 mules and
275 donkeys have been killed and eaten
by the Parisians. The most singular
point about this traffic is that the price
of the flesh is equal to that of good beef,
20 cents pound. 1t is only fair, how
ever, to add that two-thirds of this
meat has been converted into sausages,
SO that it is more than possible that the
consumers are ignorant of the source of
their toothsome dish. 1t is now easy to
understand how it is that good horses
are SO scarce in the Paris flacres; at 20
cents a pound fat horse would be
worth more when he was dead than
alive
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-09
MODIFIED PRESCRIPTION.
A Remedy Only Good for Patients who
Are Upholsterers.

Are Upholsterers.
Mr.. Oscanyan, in his book, 1.-THE Sui
tan and His People," says that Turk
ish physician was called to visit man
who was very i'll of typhus fever. The
doctor considered the case hopeless, but
prescribed for the patient and took his
leave. The next day, in passing by, he
inquired Of n servant at the door if his
master was dead.
"Dead" was the reply; mo, he is
much better"
Tho doctor fastened upstairs to OBJ
tain the solution of the miracle.
why" said the convalescent, 81 was
consumed with thirst, and l drank a
pailful of the juice of picked cabbage"
"Wonderful!' quOth the doctor; and
out came the tablets, on which he made
this inscription: Cured of typhus
fever, Mehcmed Agha, an upholsterer,
by drinking pailful of picked cab
bage juice"
Soon after the doctor was called to
another patient, yaghlillgce, or dealer
in embroidered handllerchiefs, who was
suffering from the same malady. He
forthwith prescribed "a pailful of
picked cabbage juice" On calling the
next day to congratulate his patient on
his recovery, he was astOnished to be
told that the man was dead. In his be-
wilderment at these phenomena, he
came to the safe conclusion, and duly
noted it in his memoranda, that cal
though in cases of typhus fever picked
cabbage juice is an efficient remedy, it
is not to be used unless the patient be
by profession an upholsterer"
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-09
WAR AGAINST ORGANIZED LABOR
Men Who Are to Work for the Pennsy
Vania Must Leave Their Unions.

Men Who Are to Work for the Pennsyl L.
vania Must Leave Their Unions.
CINCINNATI, Jan. Y.-The Pennsylvania
Railroad company has openly declared
war against all organized labor. No
longer is there any doubt of the road s
hostility to the different brotherhoods to
which the employees in different depart
ments have attached themselves. Openly
and without any equivocation the order
goes out that the men must sever all con-
nectlonS with organized labor bodies or
their names will be erased from the paw
rolls of the company.
For months the officials have been clan
destinely at work using suasive means
to diminish the membership of brother
hoods among the force of men in their
employ. Lukewarm members renowned
their orders. OChers refused and openly
denounced the road, but got welt with
the official axe across the neck.
The crisis has been reached and as the
news of the company's action has reached
every point on the line, including its
spurs and ramitications, there is intense
agitation all over the country.
At indianapolis Oran Perry, city
freight agent, summoned the freight
handlers before him, saluting them with
the remark:
AL I'll YOU WHO 10 remain WIN
the company instead of the union will
walk to this side of the room.''
Fifteen did so and five refused
81 do not want to be misunderstood -
continued Col. Perry. "This company
will not furnish bread and butter to men
who are likely to prove unfaithful to it.
You cannot be loyal 10 the company and
to your union, and if you prefer your
union to the company that pays you your
wages, well and good"
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-09
WOES OF A MAN SHOPPER.
A P1tiful Spectacle Which Affords Amuso-
ment for SalesgIrls at Times.


There is nothing more pitiful to the
feminine beholder than q man fran
tically endeavoring to buy gift for his
wife or sweetheart. His intentions are
of the best, but his knowledge is so linn
tied that an INSCRIPTIONS saleswoman
can palm off some wretched object on
to him if she simply assures him that
it is quite the thing. "She is woman,
therefor she ought to know" he argues
with himself, and nine times out of
ten buys whatever she advises, regard
less of color, form or expense. Now
with these trusting and lamb-lilSe crea-
lures roaming about at large at this
season it behooves the salespeople to be
especially honest and not bring down
upon the innocent head of the giver the
wrath of some fair recipient who dis
covers instead of a modish and elegant
present a passe offering that has laid on
the shelf unsold since last Christmas.
Some men swagger in with a know-it-
all expression, which, however, deceives
no one, when they ask, with a very i'm
portant air, to be conducted to ''the
aigrettes, please" and on their arrival
at the counter where these are sold do
not know an aigrette from an oyster
patty.
From long and trying period Of OBJ
servation of the ignorance they mani
fest on a shopping tour, the Philadel-
4 phia Times has about come to the con-
clusion that the only places where a
man can be allowed to roam with per-
feet safety are the florists, the confec-
TONERS and the jewellers. They can't
go very far wrong in either of these
establishments, and it is much better to
buy with an air of certainty articles
that are sure to be all right than to get
into dry goods store where they are
at the mercy of the girls behind the
counters and become the victims of their
| own credulity. All We men who mean
to give gifts such as are found in the
emporiums where feminine toggery
does most largely hold forth be wise,
| give the money to a woman friend who
cannot be bulldozed by salesgirls, and
contine thy purchases to jewelry, bon
bonS and flowers.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-09
BLINDING A SHARK.
The Remarkable Escape of n Pearl Diver
from Fearful Death.

The Remarkable Escape of q Pearl Diver
from Fearful Death.
A successful diver must possess great
courage and nerves of steel. Such a
man, connected with large wrccking
company, was visiting the pearl fish
cries in the gulf of California. On one
of his trips in quest of the pearl oyster
he had narrow escape from fearful
death. Frank Lcslie's Magazine tells
the story. lie had been instructed
never to stir from the bottom until he
had looked up and around. Fortunate
ly he needed the advice. Having filled
his bag, he glanced quickly about, and
caught sight of q huge shovel-nosed
shark watching him. In an emergency
men think fast. Near the diver was a
large rock. He moved quickly to the
other side of it, hoping to dodge the fe-
roclous monster. But the maneuver
did not work; the shark watched every
movement, changing his position by a
slight motion of his powerful tail.
Time was precious, and the diver con-
ceived the idea of binding the shark by
stirring up the mud. Under cover OF
that he might escape. He worked for
dear life, and had the water thick with
mud in less than half a minute. Slip
ping around the rock again he rose to
the surface, having barely strength
enough to reach the side of the boat,
and was hauled on board Just as the
voracious man eater made a rush for
him.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-09
Before Kings, Yes; Ladies', No.

A neat example of the royal retort
courteous was that on the occasion of
the kings visit to Dublin in 1921. At a
court held there Lord Kinsale thought
fit to air his ancient hereditary priv
ilege of remaining covered before the
sovereign. George w, whose sense of
propriety was wounded by this breach of
good taste on the part of the Irish peer
said to him: my lord of Kinsale, we
recognize your privilege to wear your
hat in the presence of your king, but it
does not appear whence you draw your
authority for covering your head in the
company of ladies'"
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-09
NEWS OF THE DAY.

oliver NJ. Sheldon, at one time one of
the foremost men of Illinois, and the
confidential friend of Abraham Lincoln,
is dead in Chicago, aged rs years.
Mary Price, of Corning, N. Y, 20 years
old, married when she was IS, and, al
though her husband is still living, mar
ried again two months ago. Her hus-
band has just secured an indictment for
bigamy.
That the signature of the purported
will of the late Senator Mcdonald, of In
diana, was forged, Henry Tolman, micro
scopist and handwriting expert, will tes-
tify, he says, in the hearing at Mobiles.
Vile, Ind, on the 23d inst, whittier the
venue was taken from Indianapolis.
BY the will of Dennis Dollery, day
laborer, who died recently at Wequete-
quock, near Stonington, Conn, $34, 900
in savings banks goes to ST. Michael's
Roman Catholic Church in Westerly, R.
l. His relatives may contest.
Senator Kennas condition is reported
as slightly improved.
Fire Saturday. night at Elkland, Pa. -,
burned the Elkland Furniture works and
the foundry Of Bailey Bros. Loss, 800,
600. One hundred men are thrown out
OF employment. ~~1sISe.
At Cleveland, O., John Woodley, q
shiftless fellow, cut his wife's throat yes
terday evening, and then severed his own
jugular with the same weapon, dying in
a short time.
-Silas RUSSELL prominent farmer Of
fairfield, N. Y, committed suicide Sat
urday night by hanging.
Capt. Watkins of the bark Countess, on
arrival at Baltimore, reported that Sam
uel Coolidge, an apprentice boy, was
hurled into the sea while reefing the top
sail and before he could be saved was at
lacked and eaten by u shark in full view
of the crew.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-09
The Air In Thunderstorms.

During n thunderstorm the air is of
such varying density that thunderpeals
are never heard at a distance corre-
spending to their violence. For the
same reason the roar of cannon on a
field Of battle is not noticeable, and the
day has often been lost within short
distance of the reserves of the defeated
army, which were waiting for the
sound of artillery to call them to the
scene of action. The air at night is
more homogeneous, and hence sounds
are heard more clearly and farther than
in the daytime. In foggy weather
sounds suffer innumerable reflections
from the mist, and are soon destroyed.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-09
CONGRESSIONAL FoREcAsr.
The Anticipation Bill VIII be the Chief
Topic of Discussion This Week.

Topic of Discussion This Week.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-Interest in the
proceedings of Congress this week centres
in the prospective treatment of the Anti
Option bill in the Senate. The bill is
now in a critical position and it is the
Judgment of a large number of Senators
that it must be passed within few days
Of must give way to other matters as the
patience of the Senate is well-nigh ex-
hausted.
Some of the strongest opponents of the
bill have seized upon the opportunity
offered by the tendency of the Quarantine
bill to further delay the enactment of the
great moral measure in the hope of de-
ferring action upon it until the time ar
rives when the Senate must turn its at
tention to the annual appropriation bills.
As part of this plan, final action on the
quarantine bill was prevented Saturday
and that bill comes up again to-day as
the special order, unless an adjournment
is caused by unforeseen events, and NAV
easily occupy two or more days of this
week without justifying the parliament
airy charge that it is being used as an OBJ
structiOn.
So it may be that the Anti-Option bill
Will not again be taken up before We'd
nesday at the earliest, but the indica-
tions are that when it is taken up there
will be IA vigorous contest brought on by
the efforts of the friends of the bill to
force it to a vote, involving, as Mr..
Washburn has said, protracted sessions
and much tiresome talk.
The McGarraghan bill will fill in the
morning hour tomorrow and perhaps
during the remainder of the week. al
though it appears that it is really ap-
preaching a final vote.
The Raum report, the bill for the cleo
ton of Senators by direct vote of the
people and the Commerce Committee with
its Omnibus Light House bill, will each
be given day.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-09
CARLISLE HAS NOT RESIGNED.

He Will Not Deny, However. That He May
Leave the Senate.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-Senator Carlisle
very emphatically denies the report that
he had resigned his seat in the Senate to
accept the position of Secretary of the
Treasury in Mr.. Cleveland's Cabinet The
report, he said, probably originated from
the fact that he was to leave for Ken
lucky, where he went simply and solely
on legal business
Replying to question as to whether he
minded saying whether he would resign
the Senator replied: 81 do for the reason
that I do not know myself"
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-09
Fitting Out the Caravels.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-The United
States cruiser Newark, in command of
Admiral Benham, has arrived at Cadiz.
Spain, and her officers will set to work
Immediately in experimenting the fitting
out the Columbus caravels, Nina and
Pinta for their voyage across the Atlantic
to take part in the naval review at Hamp-
ton Roads in May and to be exhibited
later at the Worlds Fair.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-09
Old limo Vessels.

In the American navy there are now
out eleven of the old-fashioned wooden
vessels in active service. They are the
Ranger, Alert, Marion, Lancaster, Mo-
hican, Yantic, Thetis, Kearsarge, ALI
ance, Adams and Essex. These will
rapidly go out Of commission as new
steel vessels are accepted. The Pensa-
cola is to be sold, being already out of
commission. Her sale will be followed
by this governments disposing of the
Omaha, iroquois and other old timers.