Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-05-09
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Some Stray Leaves From a Reporters
 Note Book.

Some Stray Leaves From Reporters
 Note Book.
 4 good many terms are misfts, says one writer. Our best china is made in 1 France. Turkeys are natives of America and 80 are Irish potatoes. Cork legs are not made of cork and are not from the city of Cork. German silver is the invention of the Chinese, and is not silver at all, but a combina- tton of inferior metals. Dutch gold is anything but gold. The catgut strings used on violins and other musical in gtruments are derived from the en- trails of the sheep, and have nothing whatever to do with the musical feline. Cancels hair brushes are not made from the hair of camels. An Irish stew is an English dish, and an Irish mans hurricane nautfcal term) is a dead calm. The Russians invented what we call the Turkish bath, and the famous Cleopatra's Needle now in Central Park, New York, was made a thousand years before that famous lady was born.
 VI dlI CuO S1l US pfSSOuJ6u to rope ' Leo XIII on the occasion of his jubi- lee the one most likely to arouse the artistic interest of the venerable pom tiff is the Farnese timepiece, or horo- logitlm, the gift of the Count of Ca serta, of the House of Bourbon. This was made at Placenza, in Italy, in 1725, by Bernardo Facini, a famous mathematician of his day. It was presented to Elizabeth Farnese on her marriage to Philip W of Spain, the grandson of Louis XIV. The Farnese clock is composed of crystal and carved ebony. The ebony case is soberly chased, but each angle of this octag- onal clock is enriched with coIored gems of great value. It has now been surmounted by two angels bearing the escutcheon of Leo XIII. The back of the clock is as handsome as the dial, and sapphires sparkle here and there amid the highly furnished works The mechanism Is of extreme intricacy. Be sides the hours and the minutes, it re- cords the length of the days and the nights according to the season; the po- sition of Che sun in the heavens rela- lively to that of the constelldtions, and the eclipses of the sun and the moon. It requires to be wound only once in fourteen years.
 Officer Mansfield has been acquitted of the charges preferred against him by the alliance, as everybody knew he would be who listened to the painfully feeble efforts of his traducers to prove anything against him, but just the same, when the matter was first spoken of, Mansfield and all the other bluecoated guardians of the public peace were trembling in their boots and they didn't get over the shock un- til they learned the names of the men who were to appear against Mansfield. It was admitted at the outset that the principal witnesses would be from the Buckle shop and that they would in- clude such men as B. A. and D. l.. Smith, David Hunter, Thomas Halpin, John Buchanan, James Min'tie, Julius Afa1tby, James Stovel and half q dozen other men of that class. The idea of having to face charges backed up by such men scared the wits out of some of the officers, because they felt that right or wrong, in case these men should appear against them they would
  But after 1t became known that Ben Sedgwick was the head and front of the movement, so far as the Buckle shop was concerned, everybody breath ed easier and from that time on the public took what they heard for what they had reason to believe 1t was worth.
 Those persons who incline to the be- 4 lief that policemen are cruel and hard hearted, because at times they must perform a disagreeable task, do not know the men thoroughly. Telling about what he saw in Boston recently # a gentleman said, "I saw an unotncial act performed recently by policeman which persuaded me that stony heart does not always beat under brass sS. nssSe T tons. A poorly dressed and feeble old }woman was coming down one of the / side streets on the Back Bay, carefully T balancing basket on her head. Sud- denly treacherous bit of ice, or an in- x equality in the pavement, caused hel to miss her footing, and in striving tc regain it, the burden she carried was thrown to the ground, it's contents, a quantity of small wares, flying in every direction. Almost before she had time to realize the catastrophe a DO liceman, who had been a spectator o1 the scene from the opposite corner came hastening across the street, and with a word or two of condolence. be- gan deftly to collect the scattered spools, pieces of tape and thimbles Several of the former had rolled into the gutter and were rendered useless by their contact with the mud, anC my knight of the brass buttons noticed the rueful glance cast upon them bJ 4 their owner When the last of the ar