Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-08
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Some Stray Leaves from a Reporters
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 Phillip Drum. Edward Corps and Adam Music to the bar" called Clerk Cowing in Part l. of general sessions, New York, yesterday. Drum and Corps pleaded guilty to assault in the second degree and were remanded for sen- tence. "There goes the drum corps, said Judge Cowing, as they were led away. Now let's hear from Music. Music, it seems, had attempted to Kill his wife. What a woeful lack of har- mony," sighed his honor, as he gave Music permission to play in Sing Sing for the coming six years.
 Of an amusing nature are the replies which teachers receive now and then from their pupils in answer to ques- tions. On a recent occasion class was asked, .'why is the Bell telephone so called" For several minutes no one attempted to answer the question. Then bright young boy in rear seat raised his hand On being requested to give his answer, he replied that the Bell telephone was so called because it had bell attached to the end of it. On another occasion, few days since, a teacher asked how many of her class could tell her what women's suffrage was. One scholar answered as fol- lows: That women would have to endure all the troubles. difficulties and suffering in voting that men do.
 I suppose it was an oversight on the part of the reporters or somebody else, let us charge it up against the news gatherers, not to mention anything in the obituary notices of the late Hobart Churchill of South Main street regard ing the fact that in his day and time he was one of Waterbury's first class musicians. He used to play cornet and was connected at different times with the old original Waterbury brass band, Newton Hine, leader; Merrill band, Charles B. Merrill, leader; Tomp- kins band George Tompkins, leader. The cornet had a fascination for MT Churchill up to the time of his death and he took a modest pride in showing the instrument to his friends and tell ing about the various places where the bands be belonged to- had played to- gether with many interesting anecdotes Of Waterbury old time musicians, most of whom have long since passed over to the silent majority.
 Already 1 ,410 dogs have been regis tered in Waterbury. This makes up about half the canines in town. The rest are slowed away in cellars and attics, under turned down wash tubs, seWed up in old bags and thrown un- der the yerandas of the houses, where they do their barking, and many have been sent out in the country for few months. 4 woman who never regis tered her pet says that it is b years old and that she has 1t trained to spend the months of May, June and July in a small box in the hen coop, and that no matter what might be going on outside it never Judges until she tells it that the coast is clear. The dog is a little Woolly fellow and the owner declares that it hatches out three broods of chickens every summer dur ing it's incarceration, and watches them with the utmost solicitude until they are able to care for themselves. Owing to some malignant disease that attacked 1t some time ago 1t lost the sight Of one eye and can see. very lit tie with the other, and in order to help its vision she bought it pair of specs, and the dog has become so accustomed to them that 1t would neither eat, drink or sleep without the goggles. It belonged to one of her boys who died 13 years ago. and the day he was bur jed she had to carry it home from the cemetery. She says the sickness that brought about the condition of it's eyes was caused by cold it caught while rambling about the country one frosty night in search of it's young master. She keeps it for the sake of the curly haired child who is waiting for her in the unknown world. and the only thing worrying her now is that the dog will outlive herself and no one will think enough of it to give it a home after she is gone.