Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-06-27
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Some Stray Leaves from Reporters
 Note Book.

who were arrested last week In New York charged with vagrancy, were sentenced to six months each In the workhouse by Magistrate Wahle in the Tombs police court. The mag istrate said: Tt is a notable con- mentary on. the state of religious feeling in this city that several of the people who gave you money were Hebrews. The fact that people have so much confidence in Catho- lie sisters, irrespective of their own religion, makes it all the more inn perative that they should be protect ed from fraud"
 Stanley Hall of Boston made an examination upon large number of children of the age of six, or about the time they were entering school He discovered among these little American citizens absolute ig- norance concerning the commonest matters of life. For example: Something like 45 per cent of the children had never seen the country; IA per cent had never seen the stars; 20 per cent did not know that cows gave milk; 50 per cent did not know what objects were made from trees; AT per cent had never seen a pig; 15 of them could not distin. guish by name between the colors yellow, green, blue. One who was taken into the country from a pop ulous city wanted to know at what time the country closed" in the evening.
 In New York's Mexican colony they were praising at a recent din ner Pedro Alvarado of Parral, who had just given $2,000,000 to the poor. He was poor himself" sait a broker. That is why he is how kind to the poor. A splendid fel low. Whenever I go back to Mex ico I look him up. ''Alyarado likes to tell the quaint experiences of his days of poverty. In Mexico City he once pointed to a bakery and said to me: You see that bakery; Well as I looked for work one morning early. saw tramp on hands and knees at the grating above tht ovens. A policeman appeared.
 tapped with his stick the seat of ths mans trousers. Here, you, move on," he said sternly. That's in human, mister" whined the tramp I'm just inhalin' my breakfast"
 Two small boys were passing a to bacconist's shop when the larger ana older of the two remarked, T say Bill, I've got a ha' penny (yol know it was in London) and i you've got one too, we'll have z penny smoke between us." Bill pro duced the copper and Tommy, div ing into the shop, promptly reap peared with penny cigar in hi! mouth. They walked side by sidt for few minutes when the smaller mildly said: T say, Tom. when an I to have a puff? The weeds hal mine. "0h, you shut up," was the reply. I'm the chairman of this company and you are only a share holder. You can spit" Then there was the small boy who was listening while his parents were discussins eternal punishment and they were giving their pros and cons on tn, subject needless of their son play ing on a rug nearby. Presently h, looked up and exclaimed, How an to know that it isn't hell alread, and that I am not in It." The dis cussion ended right at that point The boy who wished to know thc age of the family maid but who was too we'll bred to ask should no pass without comment. One day h, found a book of Horticulture and or a page he saw the aloe fowei blooms but once in hundred years" Accosting the maid witf winning air he asked in an insinuat ing manner, Katie. have you ofter seen the aloe fower?"
 The following from a man wht claims 10 know would lead one tt believe that the symptoms of hy drophobia are entirely different thar are generally supposed: Hydro phobia is in reality so rare and st terrifying that its symptoms anC treatment are little understood. Al matter of fact. the commonly ac cepted expression of madness in ; dog is often misleading. The req mad dog does not shun water. as i is said. On the contrary, mad dog often rush to the water and drinl eagerly. if they are able to swal low. The mad dog does not frotl at the mouth. It does not rui amuck, snapping at everything il its path. What, then, are the indi cations of the mad dog? To thos' familiar with a given dog the sures symptom and the one which shoulC excite closest attention is a distinc and unaccountable change in th, dogs. disposition-a stald dog be coming exciiable and a frisky on, dull. That condition does not nee .essarily mean rabies. but it is sus piclous. and If. in addition, the dol has trouble in swallowing-ai though it seemed to have a bone fl it's throat-beware. That doj should be instantly tied up, because if 1t be rabies 1t takes but a day ol two for ferocious instincts to deveI op. The unmistakable evidence however. of a dog with rabies is thl sticky. vhitish saliva which cover the teeth and shows on the dravI lips. The eyes glare and are red the dog has paroxysms of running fury. during which it barks hoarse ly. which alternate with periods o temporary exhaustion.
 
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