Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-02-02

8. Knowledge of Astronomy. Nil. 1. Knowledge of Politics. Feeble.
 Q, Knowledge of Botany. Variable. Well up in belladonna, opium and poi. sons generally Knows nothing of prac. tical gardening,
 6. Knowledge of Geology. y.-Practi- cal, but limited Tells at n glance diff, | ferent soils from each other After walks has shown me splas hes upon his trou- | sers. and told me by their color and con- sistence in what part of London he had | received them
 :, Knowledge of Chemistry Pro found
 6. Knowledge of Anatomy -Accu- rate, but unsyStematic.
 9 Knowledge of Sensational Litera. ture. -Imrlensc. He appears to know every detail of every horror perpetrated i in the century
 10. Plays thu violin we'll II. Is an expert single stick player, boxer and swurdsman,
 l2. Has good practical knowledge of British law
 When l had got su far in my list, threw it into the fire in despair If can only find what the fellow is driving at by rcConCihng all these accomplish. ! mCnts and discovering calling which needs them all. said tu myself, 'l may a. well give up tho attempt at once.
 sec that havr alluded above tu his powers up,'l' thr vrolln These were very remarkahlr hut a> eccentric a> all hl, ,l-l play Iitc,>. and difficult pieces. knew we'll. hcau>r at my request he has rlay- ed mo sunlr uf Mrndrls<ohm : "I.i,d,r' and other tavoIltv>
 When left tu himself. however. he wVrld >rldrIH prVtlur,' any music ar at. tempt any r,t-u2nIz,d d air Leaning back in hl> alnrhulr uf nntNruiug. lac Mruld ClU>'' hi~ tyt> and ,vrup, cal, les, iN at th, fiddle, winch Mt. t5r,.Nu drru~e his knvc ~ulu,tlm,.~ Iitr d., rd~ wvlr sumo. ruU> anal melancholy Oc,..i, luullly they were tuntl~llr ard cheerful Clearly they rrtvvt,d ths thoughts which pos. scssld E.ul. bat WhttNlg the music aialI those thOGg.t 1T neither thG plavirg was imply thr result uf . whim or fancy Was more than could determine
 
 asperatinS solos had it not been that he usually terminated them by playing in quick succession a whole series of my tavoritc airs as slight compensation for the trial upon my patience
 During the first week or so we had no callers, and l had begun to think that my companion was as friendless man as was myself. Presently, however, l found that he had many acQuaintanccs and those in tho most different classes of society. Ther, was one little. Sallow, rat faced, dark eyed fellow who was in- trOduCcd tu me as MT. Lestrade. and who came three or four times in a sin. gle week. One morning young girl called, faShionably dressed, and staid for half an hour or more. Tho same aft. ernoon brought gray headed. scedy visitor. looking like Jew peddler. who appeared to me to bo much excited, and who was closely followed by a slipshod elderly woman. On another occasion an old white haired gentleman had an in. tervlew with my companion, and on an other railway porter in his velveteen uniform. When any of these nundeSCript individuals put i'll an appearance. Shcr- lock Holmes used 10 beg for the use of tho sitting room. and I would retile to my bedroom. He always apulogized to mo for putting me to this inconvenit nee II have to use this room as plaCn of business, he said, and these people are my clients Again had an oppor. tunlty of asking him point blank Qucs- tion, and ag2:n nv delicacy prevented mo 4. I in me, imagined at the time that he had some strong reason for not alluding to II, but he soon dispellcd the idea by coming round to thu subject of his own accord.
 IL was upon the 4th of March, as have good reason to remember, that rose somewhat earlier than usual and found that Sherlock Holmes had not vet finished his breakfast Tho landlady had become So accustomed to my lato habits that my place had not been laid nor my coffee prepared With the unreasonable petulan"e of mankind I rang the bell and gave n curt irtimation that 1 was ready. Then picked up magazine from the tahl" and attemped to while away the time with it, while my com panlon munchcd silently at his toast One of the articles had pencil mark at the heading. and l naturally began to run my eyo through it.
 Its somewhat ambitious title was The Book of Life, and it attempted to show how much an observant man might learn by an accurate and systematic ex. animation of all that came in his way. It struck me as being a remarkable mix. ture of shrewdneSs and of absurdity. The reasoning was close and intense, but the deductions appeared to me to be farfetchcd and exaggerated. The writer claimed by momentary expres. sion, a twitch of a muscle or a glance of an eye to fathom a mans inmost thoughts. Deceit, according to him, was an mpoSSibility in the case of one train. ed to observation and analysis. His con. clusionS were as infall'hlo as so many propositions of Euclid. So startling would hI> results appear to tho unfniti, ated that until they learned the processes by which he had arrived at them they might well consider him as necro. mancer
 ~From drop of water. '' said the writer, "a logician could infer the DOS. sibility of an Atlantic or Niagara with. out having seen or heard of one or the other, So all life is great chain, the nature of which. is known whenever we are shown . single link of it Like all