Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-03-24
AS YOU LIKE IT.
Some Stray Leaves From a Reporter's
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 The happenings of month in New Yofk is more than occurs in the lifetime of some towns. New York city added 10.425 persons to its pop ulation in January. At the port 3S,- 400 immigrants landed. This Is the normal January figure. but far below the monthly average for 1905, which was S5,610. January births brought to the city 10.065 babies, according to the board of health figures. The deaths numbered 6,103. B the board of health 454,579 pounds of food were condemned and destroyed. and 143,941 premises inspected. There were 5.049 marriages performed in the city.
 Speaking of old persons who still retain all their faculties, the follow ing is of interest: Mrs Lavinia Low cit celebrated last week her 102nd birthday at her home in Beekman avenue, Tarrytown. Mrs Lovett was born in Sleepy Hollow while Jener- son was president, and has resided in or near Tarrytown all her life. Her husband was born in 1900 and died in 1878. She is one of the largest real estate holders in Tarrytown. She herself takes care of. her property, looks after repairs, collects rents and transacts her other business besides doing her own housework. Last fall she was quite ill, but she now is in good health.
 Speaking of free seeds, said a friend of the As You Like It man, who does considerable business Tn Washington, T accidentally came across an unusual situation the other day. A newspaper correspondent mad requested a senator to obtain for him some government documents now out of print. The senator was anxious to oblige his friend so his secretary exchanged 5000 packages Of seeds with a professional 'exchanger' at the Capitol, for the documents in ques- tion. A day or two later member of congress had call for 4,0oo packages of seeds and his clerk also sought the 'exchanger' and paid him ,15 thousand packages for the seeds which originally belonged to the senator. This developed the fact that there are men at the Capitol who make their entire living ex- changing seeds for documents and vice versa and then selling them for cash. One man has been in this business for thirty years and makes a good living at it"
 Nj. J. Ryan of Cottage place thinks the disappearance of his handsome fox terrier, Jumbo, due to the pranks of some practical joker, who, not sat isfied wit htaking the dog away, has succeeded in adding insult to injury by sending dozen or more CUTS to his address since Jumbo was spirited away. Mir Ryan was reused from his slumbers yesterday by the barking of dogs, and thinking they were after his pet cat, he hurried down stairs to give the intruders battle, but when ne opened the door he was very mucn surprised to find half dozen CUTS tied to the fence and each wearing a tag around it's neck which read: "I'm Nj. J. Ryan's Jumbo; please show me where he lives" MT Ryan .'tumbled' and immediately set the captiyes free and thought no more of the incident until he reached the Hellmann Brewing Co.'S plant, where he is employed, and found another batch of dogs awaiting him there. This was the limit and after cutting inc canines loose he vowed to get square with whoever was trihins with him. He is pretty sure ne knows who is at the bottom or It, and as soon as he confirms ms sus- plcions you will hear something or somebody drop.
 Dublin street people are talking of organizing an improvement soci- ety and have thrown out broad hint that they should be pleased to have residents of the south end or inc city enter into an alliance wlth them. "One would think said a Dublin street man. as he talked or how shabbily they have been treat ed out his way, that we lived at the extreme end of the town boundary instead of in the full taxation dis trict. Go out that way some day and see how much, how little rather. has been done there in the last iif- teen years. Take from Doolittlc al- ley to the boundary of the city at Prospect, there isn't a fire box. and a policeman never visits the place. What I wonder at is how they can have the cheek to assess anything for living in community from which we receive nothing. We're paying fourteen or fifteen mills on the dol lar every year and we don't begin to get anything like some of the people who don't pay over three mills 2n the dollar. and who still keep kick ing. And then people will tell yoa that they don't see why Dublin street doesn't keep up with other parts of the city. How can 1t, when the money raised there is used to build up other regions while We are left to care iQr ourselves? wish we could get the south end to come in with us and talk improvements"