Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-12
AS YOU LIKE IT
Some Stray Leaves from q Reporters
 Note Book.

written containing the bright and droll sayings of children. A few days ago one of a group of five or six of the pupils of well known school re- marked to one of his companions: You did not know what cable was today when the teacher asked the question ''Well,'' said the girl, ''how should I know what a cable is. l never was told before today" Then up spoke the youngest of the group, a girl also, apparently about years old: Il never heard of a cable either,' said she. II only know Cain and Abel.' The great changes that have taken place in the postal laws may be seen from the following: On February 2O, 1792, the first law of congress fixing postal rates was passed. It went into effect June l of the same year. inc charges for transmitting letters being as follows: Not exceeding 30 miles. 6 cents; over 30 and not exceeding 6O miles, cents; over 60 and not exceed ing 100 miles, 10 cents; over 100 ana not exceeding 15O miles, 12k cents; over 150 and not exceeding 25O miles, T. cents; over 25O and not exceeding $50 miles. 20 cents; over 3oO and not \ exceeding 45O miles. % cents; over 4oO \ miles, p cents. Subsequent to the civil war the postage to Europe was , cents, and DOW you can send let- ' to Manila, about 1l,OOO miles, TOT
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 &Boer cause is gaining friends ,ae hld over, in England as well as elsewhere In q letter explaining his absence from a political meeting, Lord Coleridge says: T loath and detest this war and the policy that brought it about. The mode in which it IS con- ducted, and the undigniied excitement over the defeat of a handful of peas ants. defending their country aga1nst ten times their number of framed soi- diers. backed by the wealth of Eng land" When Englishmen of Lord Coleridges standing talk like this, It must be plain that the BOers have / friends right in the stronghold o1 me enemy It is sickening to read ol the number of human beings that has been slaughtered in South Africa the past year in a struggle for gold on the part of the British and q fight for thelr homes and their families on the part of the opposition.
 Fresh air. the great elixir of lile' Is thus written about by d person "ilo evidently believes in it: Many people, even those accustomed to being out Of doors all day, think it necessary when night comes to shut every WlndoW. ms IS q very eETOueouS l'Sei. A| oA iAo the long hours of the night, when all doors are necessarily obliged to be shut, surely fresh air is needed through the window. Some people say that they sleep more soundly ii the Wlndo" is shut There is no doubt that their sleep is heavier, but ar Ine same time it is not so refreshing as if they slept in purer air. So much carbonlc acid gas being evolved from the lungs acts <,1n all know how sleepy and heavy we feel in crowded church, theater ol concert room. Open the window at the top. Once the habit is acquired ii will certainly be continued. Accus toned to sleeping in a fresh room, one feels suffocated if the window is cloSed.,
 Large numbers of people are as un- conscious of their strong points as they are of their weak ones. man or q woman may be born with q strong talent or genius for some spe cial line, and yet be utterly uncon scious of it. A. T. Stewart was edu cated for the ministry, and an ides which. an old uncle had instilled into his mind, that call is necessary tt success in life, clung to him so tena ciously that he became almost discour aged because he could not hear thi: call. He tried school teaching, bu was not satisfied, and might nevel have found his real calling had h' not loaned friend who was anxious to start in business the sum of SIO the accumulation of his savings. Th' young business man did not succeed il his venture, and, not having the none, to pay Stewart the loan which he hat so kindly advanced, he begged him t' take. in its stead, the little shop, tn only means of payment in his possess ion. Stewart took the unpretentiou store, and became merchant prince.
 
 Xavier's parish are having fine tim this week doing the cooking and per forming chores of one kind and an other while the women are making tn mission. Of course some of them d bungling work, but everything goes ol such occasions. One man started t prepare the breakfast the other morn ing and had not been long at it whel he had a mishap that might have rt suited in q TOW if he had not though a way out of it. He wanted to appea like a regular butler and donned nice white apron which he picked oi the back of a chair. While stoopin over the stove, peeping into the coffe pot, the corner of the apron got singe so UstulS tAiil IL |" 1is ~ iiiii .'N Nie .I oi not start to blaze. When he discoN cred what had happened he conclude that the safest thing for him to q was to get rid of it altogether, and i n few minutes it was reduced to ashe in the stove. When his wife returne the first thing she looked for was th apron. but somehow she couldn't fin it. She was positive that it hung o a chair beside the table when she wer out hut her husband didn't see hO' that could be. for no one came in ( left the house while she was away. H told her not to mind it then, addin that she'd run across it by and D when she would not be thinking of 1 1. 1t went at that for the time, but late she turned everything in the hous upside down but found no trace of And she's hunting for it still, but " have n strong suspicion that she ...--- -..s-,~-eSr ,aei.i..e. :., 4l,o ,inl