Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-09-02
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 PEoPLE place more faith in the pre- dictions of the weather bureau nowa- days than they formerly did, and with good reason, for the forecast published daily in the DEMOCRAT is seldom wrong. Horace Johnson, Connecticut's weather expert, moves on different lines than the government officials. Big storms are in his line. He was in Hartford on Thurs day and whispered to a newspaper man We shall have good weather from now until about the end of next week, with the exception of a slight storm, which will be simply a forerunner of the great one to come. All the papers Tn seaport towns ought to warn shippers of this. It will be a great general storm, cover ing larger territory by far than the re- cent storms. It may not be more furi- ous, but it will be accompanied by a great tidal wave, which will do great damage. The storm will last for several days and will be one of the biggest on record"
 HAVE you noticed that great many back-nunber coins are in circulation. In a handful of specie received from the DEMOCRAT newsboys last evening were seven silver five-cent pieces dating | back as far as 1850. There were also two three-cent pieces and number of half dollars nearly twenty years old, that were as bright and sharp as new. Somebody must have been hoarding this coin.
 THE law passed by the late general assembly requiring transient peddlers to take out license in the different towns they visit has a wide scope. h Water town piano and sewing machine agents are classed as peddlers and must step up to the captains office and settle before soliciting business within the confines of the town. One Waterbury man who did not know of the new law narrowly escaped arrest in Watertown the other day. On Thursday a boy employed by Adelard Gagnon, the North Elm street baker, who was also ignorant of the law
 was taken into quod by the Bristol Au thorities for psddling without a license He was fined $7 and costs, amounting 1T all to SIS 0l.
 Several large strings of pickerel have
 been taken from Quassapaug lately
 Rev Mir Richardson of New Jersey
 formerly of this city, who is summerinl
 at the lake with his family, is one of tn, | most persistent OI ISneEInens anu nd probably caught more and larger fisl
 this season than any other angler. Tn
 trouble with most of the amateur fisher
 men is that they do not understand th | kind of bait to use. The best genera bait for fresh water fishing is con ceded by experts to be live minnows
 Bass will readily take hold of "shiner
 when they are biting. Live frogs crickets and "bloomers" are also goo, for bass. As a general thing, however |, the man who goes fishing for bass doe not have what might be called big luck
 Bass is a very uncertain fish, and al
 though the right kind of bait may b used the chances are that the fisherman will go to the pond on just the ds when bass are not biting, while ds
 later perhaps, the fish will bite i'm mensely. In fishing for pickerel hv bait must be used as the pickerel want to see the bait move before he take
 hold of it. If you are going to Quasss paug for fish load up for pickerel rathe than bass.