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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-07
An agent of the suez Canal com

An agent of the Suez Canal company has invented an apparatus to split the electric lights that illuminate the canal into two divergent streams, one sending out rays one way, the other i'll the OppO- site direction. This enables ships to approach each other and meet with per feet safety. Formerly the lights blind ed pilots so that they could not see yes sells coming in the opposite direction.
 Sensible Points About Tips.
 The greatest abuse of the tipping sys- tenn in New York is in the fees to jani. tors and other servants connected witt apartment houses. It has become a GUS tom almost too strong to ignore in some apartment houses topay the janitor, bel boy, elevator boy, etc. certain amounts every month or fortniSht-this without any regard to whether the servant has rendered any particular service or not The result of this indiscriminate tipping is quite natural-you get no particular service.
 Not a few tenants of apartment houses have had an experience with janitor< which makes blackmail preferable to the risk of the repetition of these experi. ences. As in the case of walters, there are a good many annoyances to whict tenants may be subjected which cannot be cured with club and which do not even form substantial basis of com plaint. And they are not less aggraTat ing because you cant get away from them or resent them. But to simply pay man indiscriminately just because ht is there is plan which releases him from any obligation whatsoever.
 make 1t d rule and can recommend it after some experience to pay witt reasonable liberality for any specia service-that is, any service above and outside of that which the man is em ployed to render to every tenant in com mon. And never tip such men on gen eral principles-that is, indiscriminatelv If an understanding to that effect is es tablished at once upon going into a new flat, you will avoid all the ills to which ] others are subjected and have at cal | those who are not only ready and will i ing, but eager to serve you. Begin al once to compensate literally every per son about the place who renders yor special services and pay nobody else | cent. Follow this rule. and you will in variably get excellent service and plent, of attention. This rule will work equally well with the waiter if you are a regular customer.-New York Herald.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-07
Has Its Good Points.

In some villages in Japan robbers are tried and convicted by ballot. When ever n robbery is committed the ruler of the hamlet summons the entire male population and requests them to write on a slip of paper the name of the per son they suspect as having committed the crime. The one receiving the largest number of ballots is declared duly elected" and is accordingly hanged. This system, like all others, has its peculiar advantages. It insures the punishment of somebody for every robbery commit ted, whereas under the system in vogue in most civilized countries in nine cases out of ten no punishment is inflicted on anybody for the crime. Of course they may not ''elect" the guilty person, but dispose of some other character equally as bad. There is much i'll the system to commend it to other Pomona Gal. Progress.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-07
An Emperor.s s,ran~. F.Dcx


 Strange fancies have taken hold of some men regarding the manner in which their bodies were to be disposed of after death and the ceremonies to be observed at their funerals.
 The great Emperor Charles V had the curious idea of celebrating his own fu- neral. Shortly before his death he caused a tomb to be made in the chapel of the monastery of Estremadura, to which he had retired after his abdication, and on its completion he was carried to it as though dead. Placed in a coffin and ac- companied by n procession, he was borne along, while chants were sung, prayers said and tears shed. After the solemn farce was over he was left alone in the chapel, where he remained a short time before rising out of the coffin. n.-hondon Tit-Bits.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-07
How Professor IiIackie APoIogIred.

Professor Blackie was featuring to new class, with whose personnel he was imperfectly acquainted. A student rose to read paragraph. his book in his left hand. Sir" thundered Blackie. hold your book in your right handr'-and as the student would have spoken-"No words, sir! Your right hand. I say!' The student held up his right arm. end ing piteOusly at the wrlst. Sir, hae nae right hand" he said. Before Blackie could open his lips there arose a storm of misses, and by it his voice was over borne. Then the professor left his place and went down to the student he had unwittingly hurt and put his arm around the lads shoulders and drew him close. and the lad leaned against his breast.
 My boy, said Blackit-he spoke very softly, yet not so softly but that every word was audible in the hush that had fallen on the classroom-''my boy, you'll forgive me that I was overrough: I did not know-I did not know! He turned to the students, and with d look and tone that came straight from his heart he said, And let me say to you all. am reJoiced to be shown I am teaching a class of gentlemen" Scottish lads can cheer as well as hiss, and that Blackie learned.-San Francisco Argonaut.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-07
One Girls Pronosal.

One day came an offer from a man who had loved me ever since I was it- tie girl and who is the only lover ever had who became my friend afterward It seems to mo I must always have known that he loved me, and he is still so unselfish and patient friend that l always think of him as unchanging. All that he said was:
 Phyllis, we have gone this far in life apart. Can't we go tho rest of the way together:" And when l said mo" and began to excuse myself, he stopped me:
 Dear girl, don't say that to me. have loved you much too long and toe well not to know you. understand all you would say. Trust me as trust you, and forget everything I ever said, except that my heart aches with love for you. Remember that always. Shall we walk on:"
 was so dismayed by his abrupt dis missal of tho subject that nearly fell down instead. How conventionality helps one through crisis! Ladies Home Journal.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-07
eLAckMAlL IN RESTAURANTS.
H.sN the System of Tipping Has DeGener-
 ated In Many Eating Houses

H-sN the System of Tipping Has DeGener-
 ated In Many Eating Houses
 Complaints of the tipping system, or rather want of system, are growing more and more common. zl It is the opinion of those who are in the habit of getting their meals here and there and patroniz- ing the cafes about town that insolence among walters has visibly increased. Everybody who knows anything about New York knows what that means-an exceedingly diSaSreeable state of affairs.
 The evil is worse in proportion to the responsibility of the place" says a man about town. ''In other words, the more expensive the meal the more liberal the tip, and the more insulting the walters if 1t does not come up to their ideas of what the amount of the tip should be-"
 have been making some personal in veStigationS in this line myself and un- hesitatingly indorse the above opinion. l have found that in every ",istance the waiter expected tip whether he had served well or not and that this expccta- tion is made so baldlv apparent that the attention of everybody in the vicinity is called to the fact to bear unwilling wit ness as to the extent of your liberalitv. Also that too small a tip will subj, ct yOu to more pronounced insult that none at all; that any effort to correct abuse of this character by reporting the serv- ant is more likely to multiply your bad treatment than to reduce it.
 If the executive clerk or proprietor does not recognize in you q valuable GUS toner of the place, the chances are two to one you will be received with more fhaV, x-or, ,rDt at bo haDRc # the waiter. No one man ill 5OO thus of tended ever complains simply doesn't go back. MoSiFcity men and travellers are not easily offended by walters. Fa- miliar with the ways uf the waiter, they either pay up or ignore the intended of fensr. IL k the sensitive man whuis the more readily blackmailed. or who. re sisting the levy. feels more keenly the inSolence of the Ineuial.
 In my experiments. conducted at six different respectable restaurants. found ] that the poorest walters. the men who gave the poorest service were the most offensive. At one place where. at the suggestion of friend interested in this class of human nature. We went back to the same waiter on the next day. there Was such visible reluctance to serve us that we were compelled to call the head waiter before We could get any thing to eat. As my rule is to reward a servant propOrtionately for extra service and attention, and as some of these men rendered this service and got nothing, I cherish no hard feelings against them for the look uf cold disappointment with which they greeted our departure. h. discriminate tipping has made tipping useless practically. so far as good service is concerned. It has become merely so much blackmaii and the poorest service demands and receives the same reward earned by and cheerfully paid the best. Men are awful towards and would rather be robbed outright than thought mean, even by waiter.--New York Herald.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-07
In House and Senate.

W ASHlNGTON, Oct. I.-ln hlS speech last Wednesday Mir. Blackburn intimated that he would prepare and offer an amendment to the silver purchase repeal bill which would embody his views of a fair compro- mise measure. He presented such an amendment yesterday, and it was ordered to be printed. It adopts the bill it passed the house, strikes out the Voorhees, declar- ation favoring bimetallism and adds to the house bill provision for the free coinage of silver of American production-the dif ference between the metal price of the sill yer and its money value, when coined, to be retained by the treasury seignOrage, and this seignorage to be sold for gold, either at home or abroad, the gold received for it to be kept in the treasury for the purpose of maintaining the parity between the two metals.
 The debate on the silver purchase repeal bill was carried on by Mir. Call of Florida and Mir. Butler of South Carolina, both in continuation of speeches begun by them last Wednesday, MT Call drew an imagi- nary sketch of the people listening to the senate debates or the financial questions with q degree of aCumen and interest ap- proachng anything in American history. He argued in favor of an amendment here tofore offered by him. Mir. Butler favored his own amendment to repeal the 10 per cent tax on the notes of state banks.
 Two Resolutions Offered.
 Mir. Teller also made a little progress with the speech begun by him last week. Two resolutions came up in the morning hour. One, offered by MT Peffer for a se- feet committee to improve the banking sys- tenn of the country, was, after debate, re- | fcrred to the finance committee. The other, | offered by MT Morgan, instructing the ju- dietary committee to inquire what provi- sions of the free coinage act of 1887 are still
 in force, was, without debate, agreed to- | A communication from the treasury de
 pertinent was presented giving the esti-
 mate of the total cost of the deportation of l Chinese laborers under the Geary act at | S1 ,360 OOO, of which sum SSi0. .OOO would be
 required for the current fiscal year.
 | Not even the earnest manner of Mir. Cum
 mings of New York could awaken the house | from the lethargy into which it seems to | have fallen. There was no increase in the
 attendance, and the various speakers | MeSsrS. Haines of Nebraska, Hicks of Penn | sylvania, Brookshire of Indiana, Ray of | New York, English of New Jersey, Bake CT
 of New Hampshire, Tawney of Minnesota, l Talbert of south Carolina and Gassenhain- | CT of New Jersey-received very little at
 tention, though some of the arguments ad-
 vanced were worthy of grave consideration.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-07
The noemcrang Is Not New.

The boomerang, the Australian natives weapon of ofTense and defense, referred to in all reference works as an instru- ment unknown until after the discovery of Australia, was doubtless known be fore the time uf Christ. Piny the elder, a contemporary of our Saviour. writes as follows in his Natural History" re- specting an instrument made of the wood of the aquifulia:
 If a staff made of this wood, when thrown at an animal, from want of strength in the person throwing, falls short of the mark, it will come back to- ward the thrower of its own accord, so remarkable are the properties of that tree"
 It is altogether probable that the learned Pliny did not consider the shape of the staff" and referred its peculiari- ties to the nature of the wood of which it was made.-St. Louis Republic.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-07

A policeman in New York city lately captured two innocent looking Ohio farmers who were making for a Jersey City train and carrying tin box as if they thought every one who passed them wanted to rob them of it. The police man knew that cut of tin box. It was familiar to his eyes as the stovepipe joke in the newspapers, and he arrested the two rustics. The report of the after pro ceedings says the farmers were far more surprised than the policeman to find that the tin box contained only slips of blank green paper. They had paid $500 harvest money for it and for their experience.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-07
Adau,a StaT

The Talmudic writers tell us that "the blessed God gave to the first man in par adise staff which had been created be tween the stars. Adam gave it to Enoch, Enoch to Noah. Noah to Shem, Shem to Abraham, Abraham to Isaac, Isaac to Jacob. Jacob carried it into Egypt and gave it to his son Joseph. When Joseph died his household goods were taken to the house of Pharaoh. Pharaoh took the staff of Adam, which had descended to Joseph from the first man. and put it among his special treasures. ."-St Louis ReDublic
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-07
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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-07
\ ARemarkable Banquet Party.

One of the most notorious Hungarian duelists fought his thirty-ifth duel in 1SS6 and celebrated the event by ban quet. to which only those who could prove that they had participated in at least six duels were invited. There was a room full of such warriors, some with faces scanned with scars, others minus an ear, an eye or with two or three fin gers missing. The most marked of all was a Frenchman, who had lost his nose in an encounter with Count Andrassy, the statesman. There was only one re- taxation of the rule, and that was made in favor of lady who had killed her man.-London Bits.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-07
White. White to play and mate in four moves
He Won't Mention IL.

A gentleman in this city was recently visited by justice of the peace from an adjoining town who want,l to be en- frightened on a point of law. The gentle man gave the desired information. When the visitor started to go. he said. Il am much obliged to you for the in formation" Oh, don't mention il" replied his informant The justice by this time had closed the door, but he came back and with the greatest sin cerity assured his friend he would never say anything about it.-Hartford Cou-
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-07
Another Statement of the Case,

WAsHINGToN, Oct. It was reported last night that the administration has come to the conclusion that the bill providing for the unconditional repeal of the Sher- man law cannot be passed in the senate, and that overtures looking to a compro- mise have been made.
 No direct confirmation of this report is obtainable, so far as President Cleveland s attitude is concerned, but from a creditable source the information is received that Sec retary Carlisle has proposed a plan which contemplates the extension of the sherman law for three years with reduction of the amount of silver to be purchased to ,, 500, OOO ounces monthly. instead of 4,5OO, ,oOO ounces, as the law stands now.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-07
Poor. Though Worth Thousands.

Two little girls, wards in chancery, and hcireSses to $lOO, 900 each, were, it is said, recently arraigned as vagrants in a London police court. Their fortunes arc so securely locked up in chancery that by no process of law can any of the money be obtained until the children are of age. They are at present practically destitute and unable to procure decent surroundings. clothing or education.- London Letter
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-07

There is no need now of anybody's carrying about with him filthy, ragged, disease breeding old bank bills or United States paper money. The treasury de partment is exchanging the rags for bright new bills at the rate of million and quarter dollars worth q day. If you send your microbe spreading bills to the treasurer of the United States he will send you new bills for them within IS hours after he receives them. We may not have much money, but let what we do have be new and clean.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-07
THE LILY AND THE LOTUS

There grew e flower in Babylon Whose perfume makes young lovers weep On it AssyriAn moonlight shones Euphrates murmured it to sleep It brings back old forgotten dreams; Its petals breathe dead loves kisA Astarte bathed it in her beams In the gardens Of Semiramis- But Egypt has a sweetcr bloom The lotus of forEetful breath: Swathed and embalmed in spiced gloom, The sad Nile sobbed its dreams to death It soothes remembered loves to rest As quiet ns deaths waxen lid They laid it on Nitocris' breast Beneath her silent pyramid
 -Welyn Douglas in London Sun
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-07
The Pickle and Raging aI,,our,.

The current of the Mississippi riverav- erages from 2! to 1 miles an hour in ve- locity. but a steamboatman on the Mis- souri would be pretty apt to call this still water, as that stream bowls along under ordinary circumstances at the rate of $ and 10 miles an hour, and on state occl sions it develops the speed of an ava lanche. Engineers consider bridging the Missouri difficult accomplishment, a 5 the swift current is so versatile in its course and ruinous in its velocity that it is impossible to predict where the chan nel is liable to drift.-Alton Sentinel
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-07
Filling Large Contract.

Do you always practice what you preach" asked the tired deacon of the long wiuded minister.
 Il do. my brother" said the long windel minister solemnly.
 Well" said the tired deacon, with a sigh, Il don't wonder then that you don't seem to get any time to mako pastoral lS."-Tcxas SiftingS
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-07
The Term SpInster.

Among our industrial and frugal Eng fish forefathers it was a maxim that a young woman should never be married until she had spun herself 8 set of body, table and bed linen. From this custom all unmarried women were termed spin sters, an appellation they still retain in all our law proceedings. San Francisco Argonaut.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-07
Decrease of Gold In the rrea.r<y.

WASHINGTON, Oct. T.-The treasury de pertinent yesterday lost nearly s8, I5O, 900 ir gold, its gold balance at the close of busi ness standing at SS9, ,Sa6,0 ,0OO. The currency balance, however, increased nearly S3,oOO, OOO, so the net currency balance of SIS, ,94O, OO0 and the gold reserve balance of SS9 S96, 600 make the net treasury working balance in round figures SlO5, sOO, 900, or about tl, 200, 900 less than it was on Oct. l.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-07

 nament at Bradford in lSSS and at Man chester two years later he won games from Blackburne. Bir1, Burn, Captain MRcken- Zie, Taubenhaus, Thorold and other well known masters of the game. Lees most brilliant performances have, however. been in the handicap tournaments at Simpsons classic chess divan in the Strand, London
 JasnOgrodsky isa Polish expert. He is now 36 years old. but has only been play ing chess about eight years. He has q wonderful memory, and his forte is blind fold and simultaneous play. At Brighton, England, he once playe,l 2i Eames simul- taneously, of which 6 were conducted blindfolded. He won 2O games over the board, won blindfold games, lost ? and drew 1.
 Now that William SteiuitZ has formally accepted Emanuel I.aSker's challenge, a great struggle between these chess giants may be expected. The match will be 10 games up for at least Se3.OOO. The contest will probably begin next February. As a commentary upon the money that may be made by the leading opponents of great sports it k interesting 10 note that while I.s~ker and Sieinitz, tie monarchs of the ,h,>~ world, wSl battle for S3,Ooo, COrbett and Mitchell. the kings of the prize ring, will contest for S5O.0OO. Brawn thus com mands 20 times as much cash as brains.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-07

the star of bis en- tire stable is Tam many, the con queror of Lamp lighter and one of the greatest thor oughbreds on the turf today. It is said of MT. Daly that he thinks more of horses and sees less of his great animals than any other horse owner. He rarely sees them race, leaving all prep
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-07
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c. and NJ. T. MALoNEY. PUBLISHERS.

Letters and communications should bear the name and address of the writer in each ease as a guarantee of good faith. Anony- nous communications win not be printed.
 Any irregularitY in delivery should be re- ported to the office at once.
 Entered'at the Post Oflce at Waterbury as Second-class matter.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-07

THE most notable incidents of the silver debate in the senate this week were the appeals made by Senator Butler of South Carolina and Blackburn of Kentucky. to the senate to end the controversy by com promise. Although compromise has been talked about privately by senators, this is the first time that it has been publicly ad- vocated from the floor of the senate. Sena- tor Voorhees, still stands out against com promise and insists that the bill for uncon- ditional repeal can be passed. Predictions are freely made that the question will be disposed of next week, but the same sort of predictions have been made before and it still remains undisposed of. The senate is having more or less difficulty now Tn keeping quorum, and if some agreement is not soon reached on the silver question it Is doubtful whether quorum can be held.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-07
Kind InIleeh

Collector (angrily)-Do you intend to pay this bill next week or never, sir?
 Trotter-Well, since you offer me q choice, say never. Really very kind of you. Good day.-Truth.