Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-01
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sane Stray Leaves from Reporters
 Note Book

Sane Stray Leaves from Reporters
 Note Book
 The upper gallery i'll Polls theater, which is better known as ''NigSer Heaven,' was invaded by all army of ladies on Thursday night, when Miss Maud Adams, that charming little actress, appeared at Polls theater. The regular habitues of the abode of the gods do not think that they were treated squarely by the management. They think that ladies have no right to have the first choice of seats in the heaven on such an occasion as Thurs day night They assert that the young ladies would not sit ill ''Nigger Heaven only on a special occasion such as the other evening, and there fore those who occupy the gallery at every performance think that the choicest seats ill the celestial region should not be allotted to the young ladies when an actress such as Miss Adams appears here.
 Judge Gager rof the superior court does not appear to be very well up in names. Yesterday, during the hear ing of a divorce petition the party on the stand stated there were two minor children in the case whom the petition CT wished to be granted the custody of. One of the children, who went on the witness stand, was named Airline. \ pretty name without doubt, but there is nothing in it to tell the sex of the owner Names are taken to such q degree of nonsense nowadays that it is often very hard to tell whether name is male or female. and there are cases where it is absolutely impossible 10 tell. Frankie Carpenter, for instance. the stage favorite who was at Polls last week. is i'll sound at least q male name. but Frankie is not q male. The state is full of examples of the incon- gruity in names. So Judge Gager is not to be blamed if he asked to be en- frightened as to the sex of the child above named.
 The average person has an idea that 1t costs something to go to law, but that at the outset the expense is noth- ing. certain man having q differ ence of opinion with customer q few days ago, got the law on him." and now the man is wondering what pos Sessed him to get his head where it is in q very big hole. but large as it is. it will cost him something to get it out He had an attachment served on bis customer and when the officer sent in his bill the man stared confusedly for m hour at the following figures: Yak ing possession, $10; keeper $5; swear ing to bill, S2; taking inventory, $:}; teaming and help, $10; travel. $1: copy of writ. S2; service. 24 cents; certificate of attachment, 7j cents; town clerk, 50 cents: endorsement, 36 cents; search record. $3; storage, $30; order of no- tice. S5. Here is q bill of $72S5, and the matter was not yet in court. The lawyer had not been paid, nor the clerk of the court: nothing had been done but the simple and absolutely necessary preliminaries. The wheels of the law were merely oiled up.
 Assistant Clerk of the District Court Gillette was ill Litchfield the other day and returned with story which he youches to be true. There is a farm in Litchfield which is run by q corpor- ation of New York men. The majority of the employees are Irishmen, and the boss Irishman is the hero of the story. 1t seems pure ice was a product the I1r1n DDaSlpu or. h0ce0Ily uuF1DS wind storm considerable sand was blown upon the ice so that when the next frost came the sand was frozen into the ice. Then the president of the farm came from New York and, ac- cording to the boss, he was lone O them fellows who know it all. You couldn't tell him a thing, and when la saw the sand in the ice he was very mad. So mad that he couldn't speak word. but beckoned us to follow him. He landed us in the laundry. and there each of Us filled a bucket with soap studs and armed with a mop each returned to the ice pond. Im- agine our surprise when the president told us to go ahead and wash the sand out of the ice with our mops and soap suds What do you think of that for a Yankee notion? I was never so ashamed in all my life, and whenever I saw a friend passing along the road I turned my head away so that he couldn't see me washing sand out of lee with mop and soap suds."