The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-08-13

man we'll known character and that he may have done the thing for a | practical joke. The victim was a stranger in the town. He was strolline | down a side street on which there were few pedestrians when the high wayman stepped from a shadow. pulled | his hand from his hip pocket and pointed glisterfng weapon straight | at the strangers head. But he was | game. He whipped out a pistol and | winged him. Both were arrested. when the highwayman was searched his supposed pistol proved to be a paper of tobacco popular in those days l known as Chain Lightning. It came done up in a sort of tin foil wrapper. When the pair got before the judge. the near-vfctim of tke holdup told his story. He tried to shoot you with a paper of tobacco. did hep asked the Judge.
 "Yes. Chain Lightning answered
 CT reckon he couldn't have pluGged you with that the judge observed. Discharged
 Mickey McDonough the welterweiKht sparring partner of Bill Lang at Bonds training quarters has fund of re- miniscences of notable pugilists. He tells one involving Kid Broad and Billy Trimmer. The latter used to wear a glass eye. having lost his optic through one of his ring battles. Kid Broad found Trimmer asleep in front of a fruit stand one day. and in a spirit of mischief he snatched the glass disc out of the sleeper's hand before he could awake. While Trimmer was gathering his wits. Broad dropped the glass eye into a basket of grapes.
 How do you suppose Pl1mHer found his eye?" asked McDonough. "He bought the basket of grapes. ate them one by one until he found his eye. and then made the Kid a present of what grapes were left.
 Hoboes are growing wary about hold ing forth about Bridgeport. For sev- era1 months force of railroad em- ployes has been busy pulling off the tramps passing through the city on freight trains. and hauling them into police headquarters. Last Sunday af- ternoon a camp of id1ers in the North End was broken up by the capture of the gang and the jailing of several of them. The next day the police wrecked a hoboes' camp in Ask Creek. 1t is almost as hard to be tramp in this vicinity now as it is to go to work.
 David Lynch is the sanitary inspect or of the board of health. At the same time he is clerk of the board of health. His duties are by no means light and those who know him are well aware
 
 Not for four years has he had a va cation. At the meeting of the board of health the other night. he mOdeStly suggested to the board the suitability of granting him a vacation. The com missioners were all agreeable. and motion was unanimously passed. grant ing 1.-two weeks leave of absence to the sanitary inspector" Health Com missioner Frank Gogar. always keenly appreciative of bit of good humor then suggested that similar action be taken in the case of the clerk of the of four weeks vacation but only for brief instant, for President Ober suggested that the clerk and the sani- tary inspector take their vacations at the same time. So Lynch's material body and his astral body will have to select the same fortnight for an out ing.
 People who passed through Myrtle avenue Monday morning just before the noon hour. saw a man who sat in the gutter in front of the church an ugly looking revolver in his lap and talked to himself as he played with the shining weapon. It was short ly after Il o'clock when John Doyle. collector for the Frank Miller Lumber Go. and Business Agent Timothy A. Flanagan of the carpenters. rode through the street in an automobile. Put on the steam and get by quick. This fellow is probably waiting for a millionaire to go by in an automobile. I don't want him to think that I have got money.'
 If Bridgeport has a crazy man walk ing around the streets with gun it is a chance for the police to put him where he belongs