Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-09
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Some Stray Leaves from a Reporters
 Note Book.

Some Stray Leaves from Reporter Il. Note Book.
 A horseman was telling a few friends how he lost by not taking q fair offer for his pacer last fall. lie said he kept him until he ate his head off and then let him go for less than the original bid. A small boy who overheard the remark about the horse eating his head off took it literally, and wanted to know if the horse lived without his head and how be managed to get at it to eat it off.
 "The city gets nothing out of prop erty used as cemetery" said Engi- neer Cairns the other evening while the board of public works was looking over a map of a sewer recently con structed in one of the public streets abutted by a burying ground. You don't mean to insinuate that all the occupants of such places are dead heads?" asked one of the members. Hold on,'' chimed in another, that's . grave subject
 A bright young woman, aceompa-
 
 formance given at Polls last Sunday evening by the "Kilties,' and during the entertainment her mother re- marked that it was a wonder how the members of the company could bare their limbs in this kind of weather without catching cold. After q brief pause, the girl replied, at the same time giving her father a nudge with her elbow. 'Oh. we'll you see, mamma, they are all provided with knee caps"
 Talking about horses reminds me of q story 1 heard recently regarding a horse belonging to the l.. F. Haase Co. The animal is said to be union horse and under 10 circumstances will he consent 10 remain at his post after 5 o'clock in the afternoon. Not long ago some paper hangers OOk him to ThomaSton, where the house had an order to do some work. The horse was secured outside and remained there all right until what he considered quit ting time had arrived, but as the men did not happen to be through no one came near him and a few seconds later he had backed out of the shed and was heading for home at q pretty good clip when he was stopped by some parties who mistOok him for q run away. The men allege that the horse is as gentle as Il lamb and will stand all day any place they leave him up to o'clock. but not Il moment later. What d grand thing it would be for mankind if every wage earner would stick up for the short day with the same dogged perSistancy so noticeable in the dumb beast. There would be no talk of lengthening the hours Of duty in the police department and the city laborerS would not toll over ten hours day the year round. The same rule would obtain ill the factories and as a result everybody would be en- ployed and the world would be pleas anter to live in.
 A local merchant tells of a rather peculiar experience he had not long since with one of his customers, a lady who called at his place of busi- ness and asked for T dozen hens eggs 10 set. One of the clerks waited on her and through an oversight gave her ducks eggs instead. There was noth- ing unusual in the purchase and con Seuuently no one took any notice of it until :i few weeks later when the woman visited the place again and informed the proprietor that there must have been some mistake about
 
 recommended the chickens should have made their appearance before that time. The proprietor assured her that the eggs were all right and ad- viSed her to wait another day of two and the chicks would put ill an ap- pearance. While the customer did not appear quite satisfied still she went away without saying anything. but she returned some time later and kicked up q big fuss. Tine birds had come out in the meantime, but they were ducks, not chickens. 2S the wO- man had bargained for. and having no place to keep ducks sine was very much disappointed and wanted to know what the storekeeper was going to do about it. The proprietor was puzzled over the matter, but managed to get out of it by telling the woman that he lost money by the blundel himself and that as soon as the clerk showed up he would discharge him on the spot. A similar case occurred in another part of the town not long ago when three ducks came out with q setting of what was supposed to be all hens eggs. The ducks were a trifle late in breaking the shell. but as the eggs appeared to be sound the hen and chickens were kept on the nest and in due time, to the great sur prise of the owner. three nice little ducks rolled out of the eggs. and padded around with their strange companions until they were able to care for themselves. and the hen be- slowed just as much attention to them as she did on the ones of her own kind.
 That the age of deference toward members of the fair sex is not entire ly entombed in the mausoleum of ob- liyfon and that those of the sternel sex still regard women in light characteristic of the sixteenth century when the gallant and proud knight rode to battle with some token of his fair love emblaZoned on his shield was manifested a few evenings since by an occurrence which, small in na ture, nevertheless is worthy of con siderable attention, owing to the spirit displayed. Itwas in one of the Cath Olic churches, where Lenten aorvica3 were heinz held 4