Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-05
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Some Stray Leaves from a Reporters
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 The New York Times's 'Man In the Street. supplies the following story about Russell Sage on the authority of the chap who runs the elevator in the Western Union building in New York: Mir Sage was going up to see George Gould the other day. While in the car a messenger boy offered to sell the eie- vator operator neat-looking single bladed pocket knife he had found for 25 cents. The elevator man did not want to buy. MT Sage asked to see the knife ''I'll give you 20 cents Tor 1t; that's all it's worth" said the put and call multi-millienaire. "Gee?' said the boy. Say, you don't want a bar gain, do you? Some people needs nickels more'n I do, 1 reckon. but It $ a gor' And Uncle Russell smiled over his bargain as he placed dime, nickle and five pennies into the hanu of the youngster, who knew nothing or the personality of the man he was trading with. There are many stories of a similar character about MT Sage, all emanating from his offices ln New York.
 People who are trying to have the
  these times should attend one of the auctions held on and off at some of the local livery stables and see what horse flesh and outfits can be had for. During the present week a horse that the auctioneer had said had a record of 2:55 was sold for S21 and to make the bargain all the better the animal was attired in a becoming set of har- ness. The next thing put up was a carriage and the purchaser of the trot- ter captured it for S2 It was a wet day and the man happened to come down town without an umbrella and laughingly remarked as he drove away that it was almost as cheap to buy a horse and carriage as to get an um- brella and continue wearing out shoe leather. 4 large hack that had seen better days but still retained enough likeness to what it looked like in the time of it's youth to be recognized as hack, was knocked down to another man for $2.10.
 \ prominent Waterville lady. good Christian and a regular attendant it church. meetings, is the author of tue following story: ''The grocers of to- day are not as honest as the men who followed that business when I was T girl and father hyedfon a farm This morning I bought a. dozen eggs from my grocer, all warranted fresh. h fact, he said they had not been out of his coop an hour and that he did not believe they could be duplicated in tie local market. When I came home I left tEem in the pantry and commenced to do some ironing. I had not been long back from the store when I heard a noise in the pantry and looked in. Imagine my surprise when I saw that three of the eggs had worked their way out of the paper and rolled onto the floor. I picked up the cracked shells and found birds in them almost Ut to discard the shells. They were alive and had become uneasy on ac- count of the heat of the stove. I took them back to the market and after the proprietor heard my statement he gnt out of it by saying that he had made a mistake by bringing in the eggs from uGGer setting hen that had been on them nearly three weeks" The woman says she learned later that the grocer purchased the eggs in question from 9 farmer and didn't know whether they were fresh or stale.