Waterbury Democrat., 1901-07-20
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Some Stray Leaves from Reporters
 Note Book


 On the question of shoes for ladies. a writer says that women take so mucn more exercise in walking, in late yeals' that there is no question but tnaI es-s has had influence on the style oI snoe9. The heavy walking boot, Tor lhstaiSe' ', is no longer despised, but IS, OH .he contrary, considered necessary Due n the same heavy walking boot mustfD fDe very we'll cut to meet with universal approbation. This year the toes or the walking boot are of very good slze. They are neither pointed nor square but medium. The boots all have the outside soles, which insure sumcleilL width. The heels are lCw. set well back on the shoe, but IS nttle more curve under the instep than lhere was last year.
 The Irish Brigade, monument ill the Wheat-field grove at Gettysburg bears an effigy in stone of the faithful lflsn wolf-hound crouched at the foot or the Celtic cross. The Irish Brigade was the Second Brigade, Second corps, composed of the 2Sth Massachusetts 63rd New York. 69th New York, SSth New York, 116th Pennsylvania. It's chaplain was a priest, and when the
  he called them to prayer, Amid q storm of bullets the brigade knelt with uncovered heads while the short devotional exercises continued then as the word "amen' dropped from the lips of the priest, the word "forward came from their colonel. and at once they swept across the WheatheId and through the timber beyond, with all the intrepidity of their race.
 
 The current number of the National Hibernian, 8 very newsy and ably edited journal, devotes almost Tour columns to a sketch of John Locke, the charming Irish novelist and poet, whose works are not sufficiently known to Irish Americans in this part of the country to give him the place he de serves among litterateurs of hisf day and time. In fact very few appeared to know that such q man ever lived a short time ago when discussion which had it's origin in this city was started over the authorship of that beautiful poem, Dawn on the Irish Coast" One of the local papers copied it from the Atlanta Constitution where it appeared credited to Father Ryan, the poet priest of the South As soon as it got into print here some one recognized ia as Locke's and want ed to say so in the paper that published the poem. But the editor had two many other good things on hand ol did not care to bother with such q trivial matter and as a result the at tention of the Pilot was called to the question where Locke's brother. q priest in some part of this country set all doubts at rest in an article published in the Pilot, proving beyond a cavil that John Locke wrote the song Commenting upon this subject the writer of the article in the HiberniaI says: It is sad cOmmenta V on 1risl affairs that a discussion should arise in the Irish American press as to the authenticity of one of John Locke's most famous poems, Dawn on the Irish Coast" Locke was born in Cal Ian, Kilkenny, Ireland, and died il New York. The author of the interest ing sketch in tue Hibernian quotes [ few of Locke's ablest productions To the ones mentioned let us add ..Tht ssThree Thousand Miles from Carlow Town"
 There is an old saying that tsfigure won't lie," but you must know how t, work them or they will deceive you You have probably heard of the ol, mi-o who figured himself rich by say ing "once one is two" when countin his money. Or perhaps you have no heard of the house-owner who rente his eleven room house to twelve me after proving to them that each woul have a room to himself To prove he put them into the rooms thus-eac square represents room, and as ca be seen, there are eleven of then
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 He put temporarily. two men in rooi a. the third in room b, fourth in room fifth ill room q; sixth in room Q. seyent in f, eight ill g, ninth in h, tenth i i, eleventh in j, and came back and gc the twelfth man out of and put llil in k, thus leaving only man in eac room. ! Figures are liable to deceiy one, and how did he do it?
 
 Talking about cows this morning. Dublin street man said that when h kept one he never had to go into tn pasture after her. All he had to ,I he said, was to stand at the gate an whistle and the COW would rush t wards him with all the speed theI was in her. Another man wanted know how much water COW ca drink at a time. stating that he ha filled two tubs with water the oth, morning and while he was in the hou. the cow came along aad drank ever drop there was in them. He declare that by actual measurement the tU tubs contained ninety-three quarts water. Some one. denounced this as stupendous lie, and in order to sett the dispute a prominent veterinai was appealed to and asked if such thing were possible. The doctor d sured the disputants that COW capable of containing barrel water. When the man who had que tioned the statement heard this l promptly apologized and the author