| Show one comans womans trials A resident of staten island has lately been very much annoyed by some of the urchins of the neighborhood she is a great lover of nature and has on her front piazza pia a number of potted plants which have been cared for all winter at night when everything is quiet the boys come and manage to steal one or two plants without discovery one by one her choice flowers have disappeared and although she haa bag watched for the thieves they have never been caught the other day she conceived a plan by which she saved her remaining treasures tying a string to each flowerpot she connected the ends with a bell in the hall ball that night she waited patiently for the alarm at last there was a tinkle and then a crash rushing out she saw raw a boy apparently fright ened out of his senses running down the path when he be found the pot tied and heard the bell ring he dropped his booty and took to his bis heels beels the boy escaped but bat there has been no more trouble with flower thieves this woman is very fond of pets of all ands and has a number about the house one day while marketing she raw caw a beautiful gamecock and thought it would make a novel sort of pet paying 50 for her find she elie had it tent sent home the bird arrived before its mistress and was received by the cook who chopped off its head bead and prep prepared axed it for dinner new york times |
