Waterbury Democrat., 1900-12-29
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Some Stray Leaves from q Reporters
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Some Stray Leaves from q Reporters
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 q want to strike that car," said a- well-knoWn citizen this morning, as he started down Bank street at top speed after q trolley car. Il wonder, said q joker who had overheard the re- mark, what the car did to him that he wants to strike it.
 On Christmas eve half q dozen boys who take delight ill having little fun with their pop" were thinking of how tSey could get the old gentleman out of bed and finally decided to cut up all kinds of prankS about the kitchen and in this way tempt him to come down stairs and give them a lecture. Before commencing operations they threw a lot of walnut shuckS on the floor and then started ill to raise Cain. They had not been at it long when the sound of hurrying footsteps were heard bounding down the stairway. and the next thing they knew pop appeared to them attired in his night clothes and ordered all to retire dor the night forthwith. The boys heSItat- ed for q moment. thus bringing tine irate parent after them with rush. but he had not advanced many steps when he planted his feet on the sharp walnut shells which pierced the flesh and pained him so that he cNt cuteu q war dance through the kIchen, amt if the youngsters had not got out Ol his way i'll short order there Wouli have been war in the camp. The thin" worked better than they had cN- pCctcd and the iOkerS thought it would be the cause of q TOW on Christmas i'm, t1,iS ably disappointed. for pop had for gotten all about ir after his nap and came down in the morning with his accustomed Merry Christmas. just the same as if nothing unusual had happened.
 During the past couple of months items have appeared in some of the weekly papers in reference to the river Shannon. which would lead one to be lieve that this great body of water had ceased to reach the sea through its ac- cuStOmed channel. The Boston Pilot < answer to q correspondent on this que$- lion is all right although it k not exactly the same as the one given i'll SulliVan'S work. "Geo@raphy Gcnoral- ized.'' in use in all the national schools of Ireland some time ago. Mr Sull- van says: The shannon iS the largest and one of the most important rivers in the United Kingdom. It rises i'll Quilca mountain. County of CaVan. at the height of 25S feet above the level of the sea. and flows first in q south westerly and then ill q s0utherly di- rpction 10 Limerick. q distance Ot about 16O miles. In this part of it's course it passes through several lakes. the principal of which are LoHgh M len. Lough Rec and Lough DerG. II also forms for a considerable distance the boundary between the provinces of COnnaught and Lcinstcr. On ar irving at Limerick it proceeds in q westerly direction to the Atldntl" ocean. which il enters in noble "S- tuary eleven miles broad. 1t lS naNI- gable from the sea to Lough Allen' that is for almost the whole extent oI it's course, and-vesSels of 100 tons can ascend it as far as Limerick. Its nav iyatiOn is connected with Dublin by means of the Grand and Royal canals. The shannon drains a greater extent of country than any other river m the British Islands. Its principal tributaries are 1hc Such. Fergus, lnny. Brcsna, N1aig and Deel.'
 
 A good story iS being related at the expense of Il rising young physician of the town whose name and address we will forget just at present. for ob- vious reasons. During the past week the doctor concerning whom W" ar" speaking was summoned to q house Ill the Brooklyn district. There he was asked to prescribe for one of the mem hers of the family who was feeling ii little indisposed. and Immediately, be ing al man of business. he commenced I A had of those SlIlHi II boxes in his coat pocket which are generally used to hold pills. powders and so on. Taking this from his pock- ct. he wrote on it what he supposed was the prescription. but what Was really something else An hour or lNo after the doctor had departed one ol the voulig ladies i'll tine family was about to set out for the nearest drug store to have the' prescription com nounded when she happened 10 III spect the writing ow the box Imagine her surprise when she saw written Ill large letters. "Buttermilk Soap. 1 Gents a Cake" What her feelings were on' can imagine better than tell. Suffice if to say that. she went Immediately on the trail of the doctor who. nc doubt. satisfactorily explained to hel that there Was no sling in the preScrip ton. but was simply Il case of lniS take It iS said sOmeOnc-perhapS q Iawyer-is disappointed because she did not have the prescription com bounded. afterwards partake of q lit tie of it. and then sue the doctor foI loss of appetite. health or so on. ao infinitum. following the custom of th' New York actress. who iS suing q druggist because by using one of his powders her hair was turned from q beautiful light shade to horrible aht awful looking green.
 James O'Loughlin of Railroad Hill street is the proud owner of a razor which was once the property of Smith O,Brien. the renowned Irish patriot and while. the article is very much worn still it is capable of doing con- siderable destruction. if properly ap- piled. and will be quite an attraction at the ForesterS' union fair. which will soon be opened in the City hall. smith O'Brien was born in the tOwnland ot Dromoland, Clare, Ireland, in 1SO3. and died in 1861. He first entered parlia- ment as member from Ennis and later represented other constituencies. \ difference between himself and O'Con- nell over moral suaSion as against physical force methods led to a separa tion, O'Brien going in with the Young
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