Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-09-19
THE ARIZONA KICKER.

Some Discouraging Results Produced by
 Attempts at Weather Prognostications.
 METEoEoLoGICAL.-W we have not entirely abandoned our idea of furnishing this locality with weather probabilities we are frank to declare that the encourage ment received is of such a cold and chilling nature that VIC arc not inclined to do our level best in tho promises. Three weeks ago our chess editor, who docs most of tho prognosticating, put down n cold wave to arrive two days later. It came on time, and Major Rankin rode up to TIE KICKER office and fired 12 shots into the front door and ordered his subscription stopped. The next week hot wave which was duly predicted came along and aroused the ire of Colonel Gladwin, and the colonel came around and shot and shot and shot until he had expended all his cartridges and put n bullet into the heel of the half breed who turns the handle of our man power press Last week we had a prediction of high winds and rain, and after tho prediction was verified n crowd of indignant citizens came around and fusilladed our whole staff out of tho office and over the alley fence.
 From this date we shall go pretty light on the weather and take notice of noth- ing smaller than a cyclone or a cloud burst. A weather bureau is new fan gled notion which r1ust have time to grow and expand. It was sprung on the public too early to be appreciated, and it is almost impossible for us to do our edi- tOrial work with a crowd hanging around outside and firing lead over and under and through the office without regard to economy.
 A RARE CoLLECTIoN.-Yesterd Tom Sanford, who lives over on tho Little Col T. T rattlesnakes to apply on his subscription. We made an agreement with him two years ago to take seven rattlcsnakcs for n years subscription to THE KICKER, and up to date he has sent us II. Other sub scribcrs and friends have sent us in spcci- mems from time to time, and at this date we have n museum consisting of n noun tain lion, grizzly bear, , coyotes, fox, ? coons, 2 scrpents, , Indian skulls, 200 volumes of Congressional Records, a gila monster, an antelope, box of stomach bittcrs and the ropes with which five diff | fcrcnt murdcrers have been lynched. Ad
 mission to this museum is free to all. It is, VIC believe, the only one attached to a regular newspaper in the world but the | rates of advertising remain the same We arc expecting n mummificd Indian from | the mountains and two wildcats this | week and shall keep the museum open on | Sundays until further notice. We under stand that the New York, Philadelphia | and Chicago papers havc no connection
 with n grocery, feed store, gun store, butcher shop, boot and shoe storc or mu- scum, but We are influenced entirely by the wants and wishes of the people of this | locality.
 ADVERTISING PAYs.-About a year ago | MT. J. NJ Ford came to this town and | opened d general store, and after waiting ] four weeks for him to drop in and arrange about his advertising We made him a per
 sonal call. To our surprise, we found him
 n man who did not believe in advertising,
 and he was frank enough to say that he
 would see us far down in Texas before subscribing for THE KICKER We seldom
 argue with such bigoted men The ques-