Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-07
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some Stray Leaves From Reporters
 Note Book.

Some Stray Leaves From Reporters
 Note Book.
 The strikers take exception to nav ing their clerk referred to as an "emls- sary,' while person acting in sln- liar capacity for the trolley company Is spoken of as counsel" general manager" director, or sometnlns else in that line. They claim tnat there is no reason why the man whom they employ should be dubbed as snv or disturber when there is nothing in The character of the work asslgned to him which his employers want to conceal.
 Micbiean editor in general, and hailing from Lansing in particular rnins fbe following yarn which is worth while repeating: 'HThe other day., he writes. sswhen we were driving down town behind our family rhinoceros, we came acoss an aged man tearing bridge to pieces and placing 1t on q wagon. As the bridge was one we needed in our business we asked the aged man what he was doing with IL and in which case why so, or words 10 that effect. He replied My eyes1ght is poor and I have no spectacles With me. understand that many advertise ments are painted on this bridge and am taking it home in order that may regd them and find out where to get bargains The long winter evenings are coming and I want to lay in sup ply of bridges and board fences and barn doors, that I may read what the merchants have to say
 If the members of the Naturalist club want to hear an interesting dis course upon the feathered family they should invite Thomas Moran of the Brookside home to address them some evening" There is not bird, large or small, that visits this part of the coun- try but MT Moran knows something about and can talk interestingly of It's habits. His favorite is the robbln and some of them have become so at tached to him that they forget to leave during the winter season, MT Moran says that with little patience the robin can be tanned so that it will stay in the house without cage and go ln and out just the same as a pet chick en. There are two of these birds on the town farm the year round and the keeper says he does not remember when he had dinner without having to scare them off sthe table. Nothing seems to please them so well, hr Mo- ran says, as to peck at the bit going into your mouth.
 About half Waterbury went mad week ago tonight and scared the al- thorities so badly that the governor was invoked to send troops here to bring the unruly clements to sense of their duty to themselves and then neighbors. The people got over thei1 crazy fit before the soldiers showed I'D and now when one sees what fools they made of themselves he feels like saving it was pity the militia didn,1 happen to be on hand on time to give them good spanking. The demon stration was a big mistake, but Il something like it had occurred some years ago when the aldermen were turning over the use of the streets tc the trolley company without any com Densation therefor, it might have haC some good effect It is nianifestly un fair to find fault with the street rail road company for accepting sucl things as the peoples representative saw fit to give it. If there IS Dlam' anywhere it rests with the people ant the remedy is in their own hands, ant if the aggrieved parties fail to appE if at the proper time they might wpII make up their minds that nobod' else will. There is no evil in coun fry like this but can be removed py malicious use of the ballot.
 
 sneaking of the curiosity of man, sn as a tip to advertisers, a Wrller ssts mai the advertisements that will eAtl' curiosity are sure to attract aLtehtsol when the word Uneeda" appeafe alone simultaneously in hundreds newspapers, it set people to guessiA all over the country. The scared oo md the geese poster drove some nie half distracted in efforts 10 uiscoN' The analogy between the picture an fhe article it was designed to adVeFus Forty years ago the S I. looo, r of Drake's Plantation Bitters heto P n1a in suspense for years because the eo,,1a moi fathom the mystery of Il cabalistic letters and figures. lea ing trait in man is curiosity. Anyth1I ,s fbs+ is strange. mysterious, weird, "a eiful in any degree out of the commo holds his attention. Charles Darwi in his sOrigin of Species" declares tn it isa strong trait in the lower anlma increasing with the ascent of anlma in intelligence One sees this fralt fhe crowds which gather so quickly the cities when an accident occurs anything untoward happens. ln an 2 vertisement # may be a picture. or word. or phrase CT a sentence. 1t m ters little what, it is sure 10 aWaK interest. It arouses the want
 know. YOU know principle in ms If sets him to guessing, and when man guesses. he asks questions 2 fbis sets other people to guessing. I'D prli4Hcitv is extended through height talking to neighbor.