Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-19

l on it. Dillingham; took some, shut his l eyes and seemed to be in brown study | for few minutes. Then he said-sort | of slow and conservative, you under | stand-that it was the same brand o1 | liquor and same age, within three o1 | four days very likely, but he reckoned | there was just the least little taste o1 | leather in it.
 "Judge Elder couldn't sleep nights | after that. He worried over it even or the bench, and you could see the lines oj care forming about his mouth. Finally he couldn't stand it any long CT, so he told his big nigger Joe to turn out the whisky slowly and examine il carefully and put it into another barrel
 "He did so, and, by George Harry! at the bottom of the barrel he found kyar. pet tack with leather head on it! We don't drink much liquor, MT. Nye, but we're mighty particular about what it | is."
 notice in Denver paper that a suit | for divorce has been instituted by Mrs. Alice Oyster against Mahlon Oyster, her husband, on the ground of infidelity. Probably she didn't know that he was
  She little thought when she married Mahlon in North Platte, Neb., in 1881, that it would result in an oyster stew so soon. At North Platte MT. Oyster was regarded as 8 New York count, but he turned out to be cove, and sly one at that.
 So she grew cold, and learning of his infidelity, she being a good member of the church, she forbade Mahlon her bed oyster bed-and board. Nothing can be sadder than to be dis appointed in one we love. Alice no doubt loved Mahlon devoutly, but he was not what she had thought him to be or what he represented himself Instead of being & blue blood, there was not even a blue point about him. He was just a common cove oyster, and an infidel at that.
 He fell in love with member of the codfish aristocracy, and Mrs. Oyster at once smelt a mice Lancashire humor) He was the kind that one can get at 20 cents can.
 One little oyster il years old was the result of this union. His name was Pat. His schoclmates call him Oysters Patty. That's because he's not popular in the school, for the reason that he puts on too many escallops.
 Mrs. Oyster has always been con- sistent Christian-a haroshell Baptist. Hence his infdelity has caused her to consider him bad oyster.
 She has put the matter in the courts, and through the columns of the paper she has given him mock roast.
 She says she may have been 8 goose, but not of Oyster dressing. She claims to have maintained herself and Oysters Patty for over five years, and she has decided not to be clam. She desires absolute divorce from Mahlon and asks also for alimony, to be paid out of his celery.
 How sad all this is to consider! To think that for years olie. is an oyster, then to find that he has been sucker But enough.
 This reminds me somehow-this hu- nor. on which paid $s duty the other day-of lady acquaintance of mine who rose in the night last week, and find ing the room too warm opened the win dow and held it open by means of stick of stove wood. To prevent bur glars entering the room without alarm ing her she used stick that still had the bark on it.
 am recently indulging in 8 nice new smoking jacket. It is gorgeous affair, and wear it while lolling about my room. In fact, like it so we'll that l have almost smoked myself into heart disease so as toswear it. It has 8 bright scarlet silk trimming, and lots of times do not need fire in my room if put on this jacket.
 The other evening we appeared in the courthouse and had no dressing room. So when pulled off my overcoat on the platform to begin speaking got a round of applause that was not looking for. It shook the dome of the courthouse and drowned the noise down in the register