Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-19
AS YOU LIKE IT
Some Stray Leaves from Reporter
 Note Book

ADSent mlnuedneSS Is not to De de- sired, but it is still less desirable to compel the mind to decide each time which sock shall be put on first. The happy mean between the two is to se- lect the best way of doing the ordinary routine things of everyday life, get inlo the habit of doing them in that way, and then let the nervous system carry out the program.
 A young officer in the Irish brigade, Fitzgerald by name. was placed in : charge of some English prisoners at the time the BoerS captured Dundee, and amongst the latter was a Tommie who held the office of field cornet. Now this same field cornet had an exaggerated idea of his own import ance and strongly resented being put on the same level with the ordinary prisoners, and made his displeasure anyway. said Fitz. "I'm field cornet. and I ought to be given better treatment,'' replied the Englishman. "Well,'' explained Fitz, ''I don't care a damn if you were a whole brass band. you've got to take your medi- cine with the rest of the prisoners" And he did.
 Each year people grow to appreciate
 
 it, not as a luxury. but as a staple ar Iicle of food. Fruits are nourshing. refreshing, appetizing and pur -fying. and consequently have effect upon the health and the complexion Yet there are differences. Grapes and apples are highly nutritious. Grapes us aally agree with the most delicate persons, for they are so easily digested. Moth ing is easier to digest than a baked fal-n cream Oranges, lemons and Times are of great value as q means of improv- ing the complexion and they are espe- eially good if taken before breakfast. Fruit with firm flesh. like apples, cher res or plums. should be thoroH ghiy Inasticated, otherwise they are difficult to digest. The skin of raw fruit should never be eaten and before eat ing grapes or any small fruit care should be taken to remove all impuri- ties by washing. Never swallow grape stones.
 '.The most costly metal is gold. and silver comes next. That" said q chemist, ''is what the average man would say if you should ask him, but he would be very far off the truth, ln- deed. Gold is worth S34O pound and silver SIS, but there are a score Of metals worth much more. Chromium and tellurium cost, for instance. SI0O a pound: white titinum S1 200 q pound and asmium and Zirkon, wh ch are used in the making of electric man. teIs. S1.420. Barium cannot be gotten under HOO pound. and rhodlum and niobiu1n are worth S265O. Strontium' $ market price is $4 800; didymum's is s6.SoO, and thoriun's is SS.400 pound. Rubidium is metal worth $11 200 pound and vandium is worth SIS QUO. Above all these, however, gallium stands, a metal discovered in 1S4o, pound of which if it were procurable. would be worth ,50O. or 22S times as much as pound of gold, and 5.96l times as much as q pound of silver.
 A couple of Irishmen were spinning yarns in the office of prominent local business man yesterday after noon, when one of them said that the greatest fright he ever got in all his life came about ill this way: With q dozen or more other men he was en- gagged in making some improvements about the premises of one of the "Dlg bugs in the part of the old country he lived in. The weather was very warm and one afternoon towards dusk a mad dog rushed onto the lawn where the men were working, and
  bit a large sow. The owner of the pig ordered the hired man to keep the ami nal confined for nine days, to see Ii if would show signs of hydrophobia, and on the eighth day it became so violent that it had to be shot, The flesh was not considered it to eat ana it was buried in large hole quarter of mile or so away from the mouse. The times were hard and one of the men who assisted at the burial thought if q pity to leave so much meat there to rot and returned to the spot at night and took it home, cut it up and salted if down. The rest of the men heard about it and thought that the man was running q big risk in putting such food on his table. and talked a good deal about what calamity it would be in [. case the family should get the disease. The man who had carried away the swine knew of the mems fears and de cided to have q joke with them over it. With this end in view he lathered his face with soap one morning De- fore starting out to work and When he came near the rest of the laDorefs he commenced to cut up all kinds of pranks. and as soon as the crowd saw him every man took to his heels. This was just what t 2 pork eater Wanleu, and he started after the fleeing forms of his fellow workmen, yelling and shouting like a Comanche. livery mothers son in that gang" said the story teller. believed that he was being pursued by q madman, and kept running until he reached q place Of safety most of them keeping forging their way ahead until they were miles away from the place, so far that many of them were not seen for weeks. slipped and fell near farm yard. ana moi being able to go much further anyway, Jumped fiye-bar gate lead ing into a haggard and picked up a nftchfork and turned to defend my s.lf for the fellow was right at my heels. When looked at him he was leaning on the gate breaking his heart laughing, and while was glad to ind out that there was nothing the matter with him. was go angry that came A near putting the fork into nm. rinaic ls 3>.-s. hntI, of us laughed at the humor Of +ho thlno and went back to the held