Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-04-27
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HERE is a letter received at the DEMO.
GRAFT Office the other dsy:
Gentlemen:
We enclose you a circular which We
would kindly ask you, if it is convenient.
for you to write us up an article. 1t will
be appreciated by us.
Yours truly
The accompanying circular was an ad
vartisement of a coming attraction. II was
a business venture entered into with the
| expectation of making money by those who
made the request. The only hope of max
ing the affair a success was in advertising
it and bringing it to the attention of the
public. One of the principal commodities a
newspaper has to sell is its advertising
space Yet this man and many other
men do not hesitate to ask a newspaper to
give them something for nothing, and
sometimes rub in the injury by asking for
free insertions in one paper while paying
for the same matter in another. Advance
notices are always freely given by newspa-
pers, for this class of entertainments, with
the understanding that they will be adver-
tised in the regular way as the date for the
affair approaches. Would the man who
sent the above letter think of writing to
his grocer: please give me a barrel of
| flour and it will be greatly Appreciated"
Surely not. Yet he practically does that
with the newspapers.
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THE time of year has arrived when the
| average citizen who likes quiet and decen-
| cy, wish for police visits to corners where
Indians, hcodlums and other uncivilized
youths from IL to II years OF age congre-
| gate and make the evenings hideous with
their hootinP, swearing. otscenity and in
sulting rem Rrks 10 Iassers-by, and an
noy adjacent property owners. Such child
rem, as a rule, are good and truthful repre-
sentatives of their parents, or else they
would not be allowed to run the streets
and as sociate with class from whom they
learn nothing good, but much evil, which
must bear fruit in good season.
A couple of Bank street butchers were
talking about the weight of hogs last night
when a man engaged in another kind of
business strolled along and joined in the
conversation. The new conner set the
butchers almost crazy by remarking that
he saw porker hanging outside a meat
market the other day with its weight 609b
pounds marked on its back. One of the
men grew eloquent and declared that it
was bare-faced lie. He qualified his re-
mark by saying that he did not mean to
insinuate that the man who said he saw
this supposed monster was lying, but he
did know that whoever put the figures on
the pig did it for a joke. At this Juncture
policeman appeared on the scene and
the guardian of the public peace was at
once importuned to tell what was the
weight of the heaviest pig he
. had ever seen. when was
| he AA
II saw hog at the depot that weighed
905 pounds" This nettled the butcher up
: to the highest possible tension and pro-
t voked a laugh from the rest of the crowd.
Il have been in the butchering business
t since 1 was a child" said one of the meat
= cutters land the heaviest pig ever cut
up did not weigh over 500 pounds and
don't think I've seen half a dozen that
weighed that" The crowd was warming
D up to the conversation when an old resident
: stepped across the street and asked
d whats all this noise about?' Without
: being told anything about the different
$ weights mentioned. he was informed O.
Y the nature of the subject and asked wha
was the heaviest animal of the kind he hai
= ever seen. Taking the pipe from hi
{ mouth andleytinG thecrowd suspiciously h.
r | said: Il don't know whether you fellow
5 are fooling or Il t. but I'll answer tn
: question. Father had Berkshire
Il hog one time and when it was killed ant
DIRE ssed how much do Won think it weigh
!, | ed" How much" asked two butcher
!, in the same breath. One hundred ston
y and a half" was the answer. HOY
many pounds is that asked one of tn
butchers. Multiply it by fourteen y sal,
e the man. land You can tell With thi
/ the two knights of the steel turned int
II their store and shut the door with ban
that almost shattered the plate windows
e You can believe 1t or not, said the man
Y "but that pig weighed over 500 pounds
just as sure as I'm living man." Whe
II the man had gone a few yards one of tn
.e butchers emerged from the market an
a shouted after him: Say. John, that pig c
yours must have been an elephant.
. No. it was not. Ambrose" said the man
: but as good bit of bacon as you eve
kept in your store " The butcher the
began to quote Webster to prove this
y even though the pig did weigh over IL
y stone it could not have been much owe
'e 900 pounds. for" he said. "a stone {
meat is weighed at the rate of eigt
:, pounds. The owner of the big Berl
shire did not care a rap about what Wei
70 s!er or the butcher said. He insisted thu
a. the pig weighed over 600 pounds.