Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 16, 1910, Page 12

HOME GARMENT MAKING. The Bulletin’s Pattern Service. WHAT IS GOING ON TCNIGHT srv-uicvfl!f M lbuan Plptur- at Movic ciirix and Tiustrated Sones 'tv-u.vm, and Motion Pictures at A fecursen Tribe, No. u, L 0. R M, meets in moets in 'm.-unfe"m Pol B\lflers Union meets in C. Lo e, No. 21, L O. O. pekz.llhwx H\M " Ha ANNOUNCEMENTS The Misses Myra Mafthews, Clara Clark and Florence Fiske, graduates of Miss Jewett’s school, have accept- ed positions with the American Thread eompany, Willimantic. THE AUDITORIUM. Both qt-ntny and quality are found in the bill at this popular vaudeville house this week, and many have pro- nounced it the best show this season. Miss Ethel Fuller, who was a promi- nent member of Joseph Jefferson’s company a few years ago, is present- ing here this week the best bit of 4ramatic acting that has ever been seen in this house and every minute that she has the stage the house is so oniet a pin could be heard to drop. There is a cast of four peonle in the sketch and they all give good support to their leading woman. The minstrel show given by the Seven Russells is = hit from start to finish, and the or- iginal jokes, exceptionally good sing- ing and clever dancing bring down the house at every performance. The artistic musical novelty presented by The Forrests is fine. Their banjo se- lections are very entertaining and their werk on the xylophone proves them to be artists of ability. Herrera, a man who makes up as a monkey and does all kinds of monkeyshines on a perpendicular pole, is clever and his act is entirely out of the ordinary. Miss Morelle is winning particular fa- vor with her illustrated number and the pictures are the best seen here in some time. BROADWAY THEATER. Today is the last chance to witness the big Indian novelty act at the Broadway theater, as Princess Chin- quilla and Newell play the remain- der of the week in Bridgeport. This = ing act has pleased the man patrons-and the Indian love songs, sung in a clear contralto voice, have proved delightful, ‘Those clever col- ored entertainers, Annie and Jim Tow- el, and Cowboy Fisher, have b2en winning unusual applause. Kurnel, the clever canine actor, assisted by Rob- wrtus ‘and company, will remain the balance of the week, and will be seen in ‘their entertaining playlet, A True Friend. A part of the story connected with this act is told by means of mo- tion pictures and cofitains many fea- tures. §8tarting tomorrow three new acts of vaudeville will open to finish out the remainder of the week, in- eluding Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Reynolds, who have a sketch written around the much talked of suffragette, and is sure to show up new and humorous wviews of this timely topic, Joe Cook and brother are masters of the art of juggling, and will no doubt prove they are genfuses in their respective line. Gltel and Blake are a team of Hebrew comedians who always get their share of laughs. The motion pictures which have been exceeding =ood of late, are changed daily. BREED THEATER- Superior Programme of High Class Feature Pictures. LADIES’ DRESSING SACK. et 3 i) Paris Pattern No. 2420 Allowed. | Flowered dimity or one of the new dot embroidered Swiss materials is pretty and cool looking and make up Pnto aclighttul. little drossing . sacke The fullness of the front of the one illustrated is caught into narrow tucks. stitched to nearly the bust line, those in the back being stitched to the waist line and forming a box-plait. The belt, trimming band and cuffs are of a con- trasting material and shade, and the sack may be developed with good effect in_any material from lawn to silk. The pattern is in four sizes—32, 36, 40 and 44 inches, bust measure. For 36 bust the dressing sack requires 3% yards of material 27 lnche! wide, 32 yards 86 inches wide or yards 4 inches wide; as fllustra,ted 1" yard of contrasting material 20 inches wide. Price of pattern, 10 cents. Order through The Bulletin Company, Pattern Dept., Norwich, Conn. — All Seams Street Railroad Accidents. In spite of the distressing accident at Pittsfield, which has called public at- tention to the risks under the trolley, it seems to be agreed that electric car travel in this state is steadily becom— ing more safe. The percentage of such accidents has never been large; but that is not the proper in which to measure disasters. Their victims are not greatly comforted by statistics. ‘What the public desires is the highest attainable standard of safety. It is properly indignant when it finds that it has been getting along with anything less. ‘That the self-interest of transporta- tion companies of all kinds cannot alone be relied on to insure conditions of safety seems settled. While their interests are in the long run on the side of safety, the quick profit idea, often in the head of an ambitious man- ager desirous of making a financial record, leads him to tolerate big risks. Because of this possibility the public wisely retains supervisory authority, exercised through various state agen- cies ke the railroad commission. When our trolley lines were originally laid out the state assumed no scrutiny, for example, over the’ course which their engineers had mapped out. It does today. The sharp turn at the foot of the long hill, which our prevailing top- ographical conditions somewhat fre- quently suggest, is mnow invariably chalienged by the commissioners: They are unwilling to let a road take all the risks which its own engineers think rea- sonable. The same principle applies to the rolling stock and other equipment. The commission is steadily laying greater emphasis on those devices which make for safety. Senator Crane seems to have been convinced some time ago that this par- ; ticular street railway was not operated At the Breed theater last evening. |yt sufficient care, and with his large the large audience was’ well pleased |jnterest in th 0 & e road’s patrons, many Zhh o Glendia Dfosresune a8 cof-"t o whom are his own townspeople and The beautiful historical plcture en- | pmia mmaved more memeti o et }:fiet‘is '52?.; ,,C°?y’;§¥é§t ‘f:e N[igg:reSta:dé vestigation of his complaint. He is not - mmfllar‘atory e con&med ifi;] t’]‘le the man to be needlessly alarmed or great poem of Longfellow, is accurate- f;;,’:;‘;fi,%f{‘d“’;‘}‘i?ffigg“g{‘.gg.bg‘? ;’;;g? Iy portrayed by exceptional represent- | “pperl will be an accident there some atives, the delightful love episode be- | {ime™ should be taken in hand. It is tween Priscilla and John Alden be- | not mood policy to wait o test the ac ing one of the prettiest pictures im- curacy of such a prediction.—Boston able.4 Many of the strongest - - e B fearn, | Ttonscript. where the departure for England takes gu:e, and the grandeur of the surf the comment of all. The great les- son of the Biograph feature is most apparent. and.the succession of strong scenes makes the picture a most im- pressive one, while it is filled with an abundance of homely atmosphere that is ‘at one realistic and interesting. Some of the best comedy of the sea- son is on for this week, and the audi- ence indulges in one wild scream from start to finish. Miss Wolcott is sing- ing one of her brighetst numbers this week as a concert number, it being Lead a Debtor, Not Drive Him. The major portion of the work of the credit man is the attention to and col- lection of accounts, and it is right here where his possession or lack of the qualities of finesse and tact will have a most important bearing upon the sales record of his house. There is nothing in a business way which will cause a man to take offense so gquickly as too brusque or harsh an attitude toward him upon the part of the col- lection man of the concern which Qe owes, and it is a great deal easier for .entitled Cupid and I, by Victor Her- |2n unwise or incompetent credit man bert, while she also sings the prettyft0-Jose a good customer for the house illustrated song, Some Time in After fg‘;tal’; ‘s‘aisesig;;;hfo";fi Skfgul or ener- P one. Fetuwto he SR, All the friendliness and good feeling between a customer and the firm—- which the sglesman may have been months or perhaps years in forming— can be completely demolished in-five minutes by one unwise letter from the credit manager. It is usually a great deal easier, anyway, to lead a man to pay yvou what he owes you than it is to drive him to it; it's a pretty good plan, at least, to try leading him first —if he won't lead there’ll be plenty of time to drive him afterwards.—From “The Work of the Credit Man,” by Edward C. Blomeyer in The Book— keeper for February. Maternity. Men like children. Unless served to them in‘unlmited doses or at inop- portune times, most men like most children, and they are d#pt to be ex- ceedingly fond of their own children. Bhould they have none,. still the thought of children of their own ap- g:ls to them about as strongly as t of any other benefit to be bestow- »d upen them. Women, having the vole physical care of children, are pop- .alarly supposed to possess the larger “yhare of devotion to them, but this is wn_ unfajr division of parental senti- ent, for though he may be clumsy in expression of it and reticent and nnakmed in _its display, the father is as interested in_his child, as n lerate of its welfare, and as ady to make sacrifices for it as the mother. There is perhaps nothing Yhat so holds a man to a woman, even after she has ceased to be attractive Yo him, as the fact that she is the wother of his child. Neither is it to be successfully de- nied that the majority of women, down in the bottom of their hearts, want to mothers. There may be circum- stances in their lves that have tem-— porarily warped their instinctive pref- erences. There may be prohibitions of the spirit and of the body. There may -be a waste of moral strength in fool- ish , ways of living. There may be a sacrifice of nervous energy in the per- ‘motfon most social women con- sider a mark of success. These things may render a woman unfit for mother- hood’ or ‘undesirous of its responsibility, but they only temporarily abate the love of the child in her breast, and it is never very far distant. &ny it as_she may, woman finds it capable that while the work of the world might be successfully accom- plished without her assistance, as a mother she is indispensable. Yet we find her cultivating these substitutes under the name of broadening mental- ity. We find her using up her nervous energy in the pursuit of larger variety of Hvi that domestic life affords, and ing herself physieally for un- —Margaretta M. When Change to Partnership is Easx The Springfield Republican sees a sign of the times in the reversion of the Skinner Manufacturing company to & partnership way of doing busi- ness. The Republican says: “Jt may have been noticed that the William Skinner Manufacturing company of Holyoke has changed back frem a cor- porate form of conducting the Pusiness | to a partunership, of which the directors of the corporation are the members. It will now be kmown under the old name of William Skinner & Sons. No doubt the new federal corporation in- come tax law I responsible for the change. In this way both the tax and its publicity features are avoided. If the law stands the test of the courts there will undoubtedly be -a great movement on the change over into partnerships.” But few corporations as large as the Skinner company could make this change, because there are few such where the partnership stands in one family as this great industry does.—Holyoke Transcript. ‘Wireless -telegraph apparatus is pro- hibited in British India except upon sovernment licens CASTORIA The Kind You Ha;: Always Bought MWM—- Signature of | Room 32 > - ‘*‘t& sew ; Am—om» “girl T ln small * ‘fllfl’& inqulre at tl % . feblsd S WANTED-—Second-hand c-mpy top surrey. Communicate, wanted, with Box 103, "Yantic. - xfdbl“ FURS _ WANTED—Bel 3'"“ with a New York house, n!"vl )Av ox- tra_nigh prices for all kinds o furs. v e a chance bq(ote yw l Albert L. ; Hampton, Co! S phone connee lon. t-m A e e WANTED—At once, a first shoer and !obber. Honc blll a lt reliable man and one manent job need ly. John J Wl{hb man, Stafford Holi CIGAR SALESMAN WANTED —Ex- paflence unnecessary. Big: m Globe Cigar Co.. Cleveland. Ohfo. an22d. MITCHELL l.m.-fla— ,)una" of raw_ furs bought, sol -t% tanned. Taxidermist work dome. Repairl of boots, hat wnter t- ¥ onn. phone 11-3. _ typewriters, slot machines, sewing ma- chines and carpet sweepers to repalr; cutlery sharpened, keyv fitting. saw filing, and supplies for all mk- of machines. Open evenings. SEWING MACHINE HOSPITAL, Shop. General Repair 160 West Maie Bty A M. Mgr. Tel. 555-4. market, near Thames .quue. WANTED Cooks and General Housework Girls. FREE EMPLOYMENT BUREAU. feb7d S. H. Reeves, Sup’t. WANTED COOKS, GENERAL HOUSE AND SECOND GIRLS. J."B. LUCAS, Central Building. OUSLEY, ald’s jan6d feb2d PLUMBING AND GASFITTING. The Vaughn Foundry Co. IRON CASTINGS “urnished promptly. Large patterns. No. 11 to 26 Ferry m sanz2d T. F. BURNS, Heating and Plumbing, m92 Franklin Street. S. F. GIBSON Tin and Sheet Metal Worker. Agent for Richardson and Boyntoa Furnaces. 66 West muin Street, Norwich, Conn decid Do It Now Have that old-fashioned, unsanitary plumbing replaced by mew and mod- ern open plumbing. It will repay you in the iIncrease of health and saving of doctor’s bills. Overhauling and re- fitting thoroughly dome. Let me give you a figure for replacing all the old plumbing with the modern kind that will keep out the sewer gas. The work will be first-class and the price reasonable. J. E. TOMPKINS, 67 West Main Street. aug1sa MONEY I.OAHEI) Wata! THB CoLlfl‘l'llAl 1LOAN CO. 142 Main Street, Upsiairs. Already We Have Commenced to Receive New Spring Patterns In Furniture. The quality of stock and manufac- ture is guaranteed, and our past repu- tation vouches for the fact that our prices are right. We are in a position to save you money if you are prepar- ing to newly furnish a home. COME TO US FOR PRICES. M. HOURIGAN, 62-66 Main Street feb2d FUNERAL ORDERS Artistically Arranged by HUNT * + The Florist, Tel. 130. Lafayette Street. Junisa GEORGE G. GRANT, Undertaker and - Embalmer $2 Providence Si., Taitvilie. Prompt attention to day or night calla Telephon. 9-21. asri4MWFawl General Contractor All orders raceive pronpt and m attention. Give me a trial order. Sat. isfaction guaranteed. THOS. J. DODD, Norwich Telephone 348-2. Norwich, J. F. CONANT. 11 Franklin Street. Whitestone Sc end the J. F. C. 100 Cigars are the Dest on ce/ nmwt' Pl"' i‘.#fldhfl n.n.n. 3 m SPREADER d? m J: trul alluwe Ad- X 13 Bflusd SALE—A qua.ntlly ot rye ll:r..w in bundles. F. E. Pec E%- Bme. well established busi LEGHORNS for sale— 5 C. BROWN Nine pullets and one cockerel, hatched started to lay Dec. $10 for_the lo No. 2, April, condition; S:.nglner. R. F. D. 3:" splendid Joshua Wulimnntlc, febl2d FOR SALE—A :ood business, within one minute's walk of klin square; D! FOR SALE—Concord bussy. in first class condinon. Ford Auto Alency, Fl'lnfi b8d FOR SALE—A first ciass driving horse, six years old; as good a roadster u there is in this city; one of the best nd a. looker; not Atrald a( a th(ng clever and sound; $300 tak. now, and he certainly is worth it. Be-- for selling, no further use for Apply at thll otflce. feb7d . BALE_Coverod wagon, prlae low for F. Enni - quldk sale. is, Danlelson, Ct HORSES I am in the West buying Horses. Will have same of all kinds, big and small, and will sell close to cost price upon arrival. Will get to Norwich withj them about Tuesday, Feb. 22nd. Wait for these. ELMER R. PIERSON. feblia FARMS. A b50-acre farm, new house, new barn, several new henneries, some] fruit, plenty of wood, land level and highly cultivated, ten minutes’ walk from trolley and a short distance from Norwich. Price $1,260. A Dbargain. Investigate! An 80-acre farm situated three miles from Shore Line railroad, 10-room house, two barns, several henneries. Easy terms. Inquire about it. A 4-acre place, new house (not quite finished), some wood and near church, school and store. Price only $390, cash. Investigate. One hundred seashore cottage sites, 27 cottages and 11 seashore farms. Send for Wilcox’'s Farm Bulletin and make selection. Choice of 400. WILLIAM A. WILCOX, Real Estate Broker, 41 West Broad Street, Room 1, &ep15d Westerly, R. I B e AR e s 2l Bl —The Lates{ in Typewriters— THE BENNETT PORTABLE TYPEWRITER 'k of 81501.)'(')' mnz“t d‘.)”Nth% wsoé. oSnl: ent, New London County. 9 Union Street, Norwich, Conn. ‘Tel. 833-4. jan224 “REAL ESTATE BARGAINS. l ‘ 40-acre far: od nmtor'.nb ' - m’nfio to village, 4 to eity. $70 £ C-nc,r'ol.lm‘flo dty. han zntus'l;l e Tirons Dot and cold water. bath. new Fhe "best 175-atre farm in New Lon- 5,4 0.{ b A i f:’rd'l vestment properties &llll tie. urnished cottages on Fisher's Isiand at Mrfdn prices. If you want a farm, country home or oity property. call at TRYON REAL ESTATE Amfl. ;—HITHEY’S AGENGCY, 227 Main St., Franklin Square. Real Estate and Insurance FOR SALE COTTAGE—In East Norwich, nearly new; only ten minutes” walk from post- office; seven rooms; steam heat; in good order. . Easy terme and cheap. Roosevelt Ave., o5 Dear the Bleachery, room cot- tage, with llr‘e well cultlvued gar- den.” Easy terms. Low price. Brook St., uo. yery cheap five- roo nttage; with lav e _good sarden. Very little money require .Janld FOR SALE Three more $1,000 Sterling Dyeing and Finishing Co. First Morigage 5% Bonds at Par and Interest. JAMES L. CASE, 40 Shetucket St, Norwich, Conn. For Sale One Light Team Wagon with bedy 12 x4t One Single l.unber Wagon. New and Second-hand Delivery Wagons. The Scott & Clark CORPORATION, 507-515 North Main Siree. TO RENT. - a all tenement on_Me. s-,p ront. App‘y v:‘ it ranklin feb3d m'r—-ato No. 114 SL J. E. Fanning, l! Willow-8t. RENT—Tenement of six roo a.nd bath at 157 Boswell Ave, Enq\ur. at 153 Boswell Ave. Jjanzod l'l~—-oll\u rooms in the Bill furnished. Inquire utchln.-. 37 Shetucket Street. m-r—u r tenement, 7 rooms nd bath roo; Enquire of J. Brad- fora, Bookbinder, 108 Broadway. deczd TO RENT—First cluss store in Ma- honey block, West Main. Inquire o honey Bros.” Stable, Falls Ave. novisd RENT-—Desirable front ef! 0 ll.lo lurnhhd rooms in tral build- ing; steam heat and water. J. B. Lucas, : a TO .LET—On Em , next to the w. an Hotel, l'o'-rzuml. suitable icer; also RE! nreot. lultnhlo for most busin Moderate rent Bl‘lll.tlll Office. stroot: suitabls for the paint pl-m“'»"'tu - Siitar anstrieve. mayizd FARM FOR RENT Farm of 70 acres, kdown as the John Maples farm, situated on ‘Asylum Street. Possession given April Ist. Enquire at John H. Ford’s ice office, 233 Main Street, Franklin Square. FOR RENT Three cheap (enements on West Main Streel. Enquire of A. L. Potier & Co., 18 Broadway. ., jan17d Jan24d NOTICE! To Rent. To right party, six-room flat, with modern conveniences, on lower floor, at_33 Otis St. Inquire N. J. Ayling, 234, S or telephone noviéd FOR SALE. FOR SALE—Grain mill, two stories and basement, fully equipped with pliances, fine water privilege, and stone mill, new shafting, cracker and elevators, new and up-to- date; also 6-room cottage, runnin Food barn and outbuildings: acres 'of land, centrally located, 5 min- utes’ walk to church, school and P. and on R. . For further inform tion, call or address Charles B. Lamb, Lebanon, Conn. Tel. 1-42. jan27d4 HOME FOR SALE Cottage house of, seven rooms, near trolley, with 17 acres of land and a good barn, 4 henhouses, 25 apple trees, besides several pear trees, fine straw- berry patch and plenty of woed. E. A. PRENTICE, 86 Clfr St. HORSES. I have a load just in direct from the Ohio farms welghing from 1050 pounds to 1700 pounds. All horses warranted as represented. w. O, febl5d SPRAGUE, Moosup, Conm. feblsd Tel. Feb. 14, 1910, LEGAL NOTICES. Notice to Taxpayers. All persons liable to pay taxes in the Town of Colchester are hereby notified that I have a warrant to levy and col- lect a tax of 16 mills on the dollar on the town list of 1909, payable March 1st, 1910, and for the purpose of cellect- ing sald tax I will be at my place of businegs March 2 and every Wednesday and Saturday during March, from 1 to 5 p. m. All persons neglecting this notice will be charged legal fees and addi- tions as the law directs. E. C. SNOW, Oollector. febsW DISTRICT OF BOZRAH, S8, PRO- bate Court, Feb. 15th, 1910. Bstate of Lavina €. Rudd, Bozrah, in sald District, decease. The Administrator having exhibited his administration account with said estate to this Court for allowance, it is Ordered, That the 224 day of Febru- ary, 1910, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, at the Probate Office in Boszrah, be, and the same is, assigned for a hear ing on the allowance of sald adminis- tration account with sald estate, and late of this Court directs the Administrator to cite all persons Interested therein #o appear at =ald ‘time and place, by pul ishing this order ounce in some new: {!uper having a circulation in said Dk rict, and by posting a copy on the sign?ost in the Town of Bozrah, nea est the place where the deeeased last dwelt” and return make to this Court of the notice given. JOHN H. MINER, feblbd J udge. AT A COURT OF PROBATE HELD at Norwich, within and for the District of Norwich, on the 12th day of Feb- ruary, A. D. 1910, Presen!—hELSON J. AYLING, Judge. Estate of Clara A. Church, late of Norwich, in said Dlfllrlct, decmed Leonard Church Norwich, Conn., appeared in Cour] e.nd filed a etition praying, for the feasons there. P Set torth, that an instrument pu porting to be the last will and tes ment of said deceased be admitted to probate. Whereupon, it is Ordered, That said etition be heard and determined at the robate Court Room in the City of Norwich, in sald District, on the bth day of March, A. D.. 1910, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, and that notice of the enflency of said_petition, and of said caring thereon, be given by the pub- lication of this order one time in some newspaper having a cireulation in sald District and by depositing true and attested copies of said order In t! Postoffice at sald -~ Norwich, postage paid, by registered letter, directed to “Bishop 8. Church, care of L. J. Jones, Tampa, Fla.. Forward,” and to Sidney N. Church, 171 West 95th Street, New York, N. Y., respectively, each at least 16 days prior to the daté of sald hear- ing, and that return be made to this Court. NELSON J. AYLING, Judge. The above and foregoing is a true 0! f record o FANNIE C. CHURCH. Attest feb1sa Clerk, DR. C R. CHAMBERLAIN Genta/ Surgeon. In charge of Dr. & L. Geér's practes mmlmmun." 161 Main Street. Norwich, Conn | © “‘m 'y & b l“fl whm Snow ll nin’ all the air: ear it Yaitin for you, Never do for .flz to miss That sweet to kies; Dt N W, H. T. You 80 thnra- s;:“p;!o ,l!fl' the % b You're safe .m“‘hanh-ll. But am-n.ga‘::. pnour‘ Mut. where the For the Gu'nnh’lnl'u litJol you the pl But w-co dl at ho-.. !mwbmk wu—n hry l‘raa:ln cnld——but !h 11‘ aln’ ‘." Meat trust times, buf we dMne uph 8o, fetch yer Oh, we're S 10-; % nfl::q_ We'" wdboon through weather before to. T L R0 RS oo Oh, wazre all at home, I reclmn' No use a ‘ulur to si an’ Fer you'll feel a pull the fll'l ney Axn’ the rod will nod, an’ the n-h be fin, An' ‘We'll shout 2 dhecher R VIEWS AND - VARIETIES Clever Sayings “Why do people'™ have silver wed« dings, pa?’ “Just ‘to show to the world what thelr powers of endurance have been.”—Judge. Youngcrop—So, you have no use for babies, eh? Oldbach—Well, 1 suppocs a baby is a pretty good sul tute for an alarm clogk.—Philadelphia Record, “Mr. Hardcash called on me last evening. He Is the meost engaging talker I ever listened to.” "rnd.-..n What did he say?” “He usked me to marry him."—Comic Cuts. Rejected Sultor (dolefully)—You say you will be a sister to me. What do you mean by that? Sweet Girl (cheerily)—Why, when I get married you may send me a nice wedding present.—N., ¥, Weekly. The_ skipper of the fishi schooner ocursed the captain of the Uner which had ruehed him in the fog. And after he had used all his swear words, he muttered: “For ul his gold lace emd education, he al no better nor = careless chauffeur.”’—DBuffulo Express, “Perhaps it was late,” said one man, “Maybe the motorman dlAn‘t see us' ventured a second. “He done it ‘causs he wanted to, that's all” said a third, and when the others looked at him they saw the eap with a motorman's number—Buffalo Express. “Are masrriages mmde in heaven”’ The lecturer paused as ¥ for an an- swer to his interro m; whereupon a man with s hunted look glanced fur- tively owver sh , wwallowed hard, moistened #is lips and eaid, huskily: “De nmrhu'fmw at the North Pole?’'—Chicago News. Gun.rdhn—-l’au aay you are going to marry & man in order tp him, That's very noble of you. May I ask who he 8?7 Ward—It's Mr, Third, Guardian—Indeed! T wasn't aware that he had any bad habits, Ward—Yes; his friends say that he Is beooming quite miserty!—Sketch. He was au old darkey, He wore no overcoat,’and the icy wind twisted his threadbare clothes about his shriveled body. *“Wind,” he demanded whimsi- cally, “whar wuz you dis time las' July?"—HEverybody's Magagine. “Our fleet of torpedo destroyers seem to have stirred our friend tha enemy,” remarked the naval chlef of one great power. “Tea” replied his assistant, “it i said they will build fleet of 'torpedo destroyer destrgyers now.” “Let ‘em! We'll build a flec of torpedo destroyer destroyer des stroyers.”” — Catholic Standard and Times. MUCH IN LITTLE The regents of the University of Minnesota haved a telegram from Dr. A. Ross Hill, president of the Univer« sity of Missouri, declining the offer to head the Minnesota shoo There ‘were 47,150,384 passenwersy and $2,211,007 tons of freight carried on Argentine rallways in 1908, Th movement of passengers from 19508 to 1908 has increased by 25 per cent. ‘Within a radius of 76 miles of Tam-~ pico, there exists the most pbundant @and valuable petroleum and asphelt deposits yet discovered in Mexico, and great interest and wuflhln being manifested in their explof Irish poplin is a combination of wille anad ‘wool; the f gives a luster and the latter a softness to the fabric. The silk is the finest quality obtain- able and usually comes from China; the wool also must be of the bes! class, Bangkok Is the ly ecity in Siham where electricity ls for illamins tion, and even here the greater part of the population uses kerosene fo- lights. On account of the scarcity of coal, gas has not been used for light in Siam. The women of the Methodist Episc pal church of the United States a reported to have collected end di bursed $1,200,000 for home and foreixn misgions during the last year. 1T sides - this, they , raised more thon $2,000,000. to be expended py mwen's boards. The entire world production of lenl in 1908 aggregated 1,062,600 tons which 501,700 tons wore contributed Burope. The following amounts tons were consumed: United Sta: 343,000; Germany, 211,300 Engla: 228,800; France, 103,0000; Russia, 4 700; Canada, 16,600; Japan, 9,600, The plain of Besian is traversed ancient canals madé by the Roma so that firrigation involves no lar expense. . The river Jaloud carr water emough to frrigate the wh plain. Several companies have be organized to secure portions of | fertile, but, under present conditic unhealthy Shiftic Jand A-rat plague like one of -the plaguc of Egvpt, has broken out in Haddin: tonshire, England. Every man has ' hnnd against rats, and they have uhln by the thousands they are killing chickens, ‘plgwons, ducks, geer and rabbits are destroying winter go of fruit mnnlud and systematic industr: to westersv ideas and wmet) E Mnu;-ubll-m in -4\:, Afrioa ol since complet o Ugands ay in 1901, an a--mu-u-'