Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-10
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 There was jolly little newsboy, who dropped into one of the stores Thursday afternoon when the sky was dark and the electric lights out, and after looking about i'll wonderment re- marked to one of the clerks that 1t got late early to-day, adding that 1t wasn't dark when he left the Democrat office. e.. Let me give a hint to those who care to try canned fruit says one who has made thorough study of the bus mess of canning. To produce that amber clearness so much admired in the rows of waxen fruit, cook nearly all fruits in their syrup; they are much richer and retain their shape much lbetter. Use only a granite dish to lcook in. When done, remove carefully Ito the cans with a silver fork or spoon. Spread over the top of the can piece of white cheesecloth, and pour the juice on to the fruit through this This removes all the tiny, floating par ticles of fruit, and gives you can beautifully clear and perfect I prefer E pint cans for groups, at least. Begin this year and enter something. It will stimulate not only your own interest in such matters, but adds to the inter- est in agricultural products generally.
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 An accident occurred on an after noon train in city not thousand miles from Chicago that ought to have found its way into print before this. It has numerous lessons. Among the passengers were three sweet and quiet Sisters of Charity in their characteris- tic dress. A drunken man, very drunk and annoying, entered the car and sat down beside one of them He talked consistently, drank from big bottle ! that he carried, and finally stuck his disagreeable face repeatedly into the long bonnet of a sister in most in- gulting way. She was evidently very much frightened The conductor had already been told of the mans conduct, but did nothing The other passen- gers, in true passenger fashion, sat and looked on. No man stirred. Finally woman, white as sheet and full of suppressed indignation, got up from her seat and went to the rescue. She grabbed the fellows bottle wrested it from his hands and flung it out of the window, and then took hold of him, and after lively and unassisted strug- gle, got him out of the seat. "I'm no Roman Catholic" she said, excitedly, to the spectators, "but I will not sit still and see Sister of Charity in suited"
 Do not allow your friend, the toad, to be destroyed. While you are sleep ing he is searching lawn garden and field for insects Cutworms, potato bugs and cinch bugs are delicacies to him, and he snaps them up with his loose flap of tongue until his sides stick out and he "can no more" The number and variety of insects with which he fills his stomach during the night, are astonishing; ants, aphides, stink bugs, tumble bugs and flies, all these form his dessert, yet people will stamp him into the ground, or crush him under a board, because of preju dice, or an ignorant, unfounded belief that he makes warts on the hands. This idea may have come because he has on each side of the neck wart1ike mound which secretes bitter fluid with which to defend himself against dogs or other enemies likely to take him in their mouths. During the sum- mer toads make for themselves shal- low holes,l or hide under boards or stones, in the daytime, but at dusk, or on cloudy days, they may be seen hopping about after insects. Tn the fall they hollow out round hole back into it, and stay there until spring.