Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 31, 1913, Page 12

FAIR TODAY; = 'CLOUDY THURSDAY, What Is Golng On Tonight. Vnuaovlllo and 4 the Auditor Metion Pictures. at Moving Fictures at Colonfal Theatre. \ ekt e On account of closi: at 1 o'clock Thursday, New Year's day, the Mohi- can Co.'s store will be open until 9 o'clock this (Wednesday) evening. DAVIS THEATRE. J. WL Gorman’s Merrymakers Still Dr-wing Big Crowds. To ring out t.he old year and ring in ‘the new the management of this popular .theatre could not have had a more pleasing show to offer than J. W, Gorman’s Merrymakers, who have pleased capacity houses at every psrt;arma.r:éz this week; in their mu- gical com The Missing Miss, a de- lightful musical offering w-n,h& abun- dance of mirth provoking situations that Keeps everyone in the best of hu- mor. Thé Missing Miss will be pre- seated for the last time today and a complete new show will be on the bili for tomorrow called My Girl, an- other of those melodious comedies that will make as big a hit as the one pre- ceding it. The protoplays toaay are the Famous Mutual Weekly showing many Interesting events, The Step- brothers, a thrilling western American drama; Peggy’s Invitation, a beautiful Thanhouser comedy-drama and The Rival Pitchers, one of the funniest comedies ever seen at the Davis. A complete change of photoplays will be shown' tomorrow with the new musical comedy, which includes a powerful two reel feature called The Pitfall, produced by the K. B. company. Order Your seats early for New Year's eve. Matinee, all seats 10c¢; evenings 10, i3 ‘and 20 cents, COLONIAL THEATRE, The Rajah’s Diamond Rose, Bewilder- ing Two Reel Feature Film. This sto: gelected for the feature for today, is in two reels, and tells of an unscrupulous count who had a way of showing his friends his beatitiful dlamond rose and then leaving them alone with it. Jf they touched it, an automatic camera caught them red- handed and the count asked for big blackmail The sister of a youth thus dishonored exposed the fraud—the dia- mond was bogus. This is one of the very beautiful Kleine films, which is a sufficient recommendation of its suc- ee- nnd perfection. On the same bill Marvelous Pathe Weekly, the txor of all the important events day and hour; Autumn Love, a buntlful dream of love; How the Day Was Saved, and Binks' Vacation, a screaming Biograph comedy. There never were such fine pictures at the Colonial as there are since the pro- gram of changing the pictures every day was inaugurated and everyone is enthusiastic over the change. Norwich Free Academy vs. Bulkeley !'ootba].l pictures will be shown Thurs- day, Friday and Saturda; At the Auditorium, There will be a change in the pic- ture programme at this popular the- atre today and this part of the pro- gramme will be headed by The ‘V“;u Vacquero, a_two reel 101 Bison flm with Cunard and Franecis Ford. When He Lost to Win, a very funny Nestor comedy with Eddie Lyons and The Echo of a Song, a Rex dramatic film will compiete the picture bill. The three vaudeville numbers are Richard Brahm and Bright Eyes, a comedy sketch introducing a very clever lit- tle fox terrier; Harris and Mack, two hoys and a plano, and Rita Redman, a comely miss in a neat single turn introducing several costume changes and some well rendered songs. An especially good show has been book- ed for New Year's day and the bal- ance of the week. The feature act will be a very s't‘rong sketch presented by Baker, Lypn & Cx TOWN Watch Night Services at Methodist NORWIC:H Church—Revival Meetings Next Week—Miss Randall Leaves for Kansas City Convention—Ten De- grees Tuesday Morning, Beginning with a watch night ser- vice this (Wednesday) evening at the First. Methodist church, revival meet- inge will be held in the early part of January with Frank B. Adams of Man- chester to assist. The service this eve- ning ,will consist of singing, prayer, reading .of scripture, the relating of Christian experience and a sermon. After the singing of the covenant hymn- all kneel in silent prayer and when the clock strikes the hour of midnight a brief prayer is offered, a New Year's hymn sung, the benedic- tion pronounced and New Year's greet- ings exchanged. Leaves for Kansas City Conference. After passing a part of her vacation at her home on West Town street, Miss Marion Randall, a student at the Hart- ford _School of Pedagogy, left Mon- day for Springfield, Mass., where she joined seventeen of the students and three members of the faculty of the Hartford school in a trip to Kansas City to attend the Student Volunteer Conference. This conference is held once in four years and in 1910 met in Rochester, N, Y, Congregational Church Day Exercises. Thursday afternoon and evening is the time of all the year for the First Congregational church, when the year- ly ‘reports from different organizations are given, followed by an organ recital and the roll call and supper later in the chapel, Ten Degrees Above, Tuesday Morning. Tuesday morning the thermometer registered 10 degrees above zero on the Green, and 18 degrees above on the Scaotland road. New Year's day, 1913, the mercury stood at 50 degrees at 10.30 o’clock in the merning. Moves to Stafford Springs. Mrs. Paul Carden for a long time a resident of Norwich Town, has gone to Stafford Springs to make her home with her daughter, Mrs, Fiedler, Late Flight South. i A_fleck of wild geese was noted on Vergason Hill within a few days fly- ing south much later than usual, Local Jottings. Mrs, Mary Adams of New London is visiting her son, George Adams of Feck’s Corner. Mrs. M, T. Sherweod and daughter Mildred of Town street are visiting relatives in HEssex. Mrs. May Jocelyn came from Aditie- beore, Mass., to her home on Verga- son avenue for the holidays. The class in Esperaato met for study Tuesday evening at the home of Mrs. A. W, Dickey on East Town street. Miss Anunie Whue retumed Tuesday to visiting her sister, Mrs, Benjamin Kennedy of Town sigeet. Mr, Mrs. Henry Wright of Tults % have returned after g ak ll:n Wright's former home on: Town street, ’ s i l Mflnfl P, Lamb has returned - ApBoaton afler spending several days at the home of his father, Dr, C. H. Lamb of Town street. Mrilami Mrs. Benjamin Kennedy and daughter Alice of Town street have returned after several days’ stay with relatives in Danielson. Miss Susan T, Adams of Town street had as guests Monday her niece, Mrs, John Lied of Fall River, Mass, and Misg Eva Terry of Willimantic. Miss Klizabeth Hull, a member of the Springfield, Wa.ss.. library staff, has returned after passing the Christ- nPIlas holidays at her home on Bliss ace. BULLETIN'S PATTERN _SERVICE 9807 A NATTY DRESS FOR MOTHER’S GIRL. Girl’s Dress in Balkan Style, With Side Front Closing. Tan and brown mixed suiting, with brown trimming, is here shown. Blue serge with red or gray, or with green, are also effective. The style is good for galatea, gingham, percale or cham- brey. The broad belt is a good style feature and the closing is practical and convenient. - The pattern cut in five 8, 10 and 12 years. It re- s 2 1-2 va!’d‘i of 44-inch material or an 8 year size. A pattern of this illustration malled to any address on receipt of 10 cents In silver or stamps. Order through The Bulletin Company, Pattern Dept., Norwich, Conn. 4, 6, DVYERTISEMENTS under the heading of “WiNTED, FOR SALE or T0 RENT” ARE INSERTED AT THE RATE OF 5S¢ per Line, 8ix Words to the Line A o, - WANTED FOR SALE ‘ TO RENT WANTED Competent woman for | FOR SALE ROOM and board or for ligat house- general housework. Address with rei- | gine, on truc keeping for man and wife, 16 Kinney erences, C. D. R., Bulleti dec3la saw wood; will A.Ve Thamesville. dec3ad WANTED Position a Tepmg on oiard IEl : | “ro mENT—Room with steam heat, shipping stock and receiving clerk; FOR SALE—Good Dbig team hot and cold water and gas, fine view best of veferences. Address Adelard J. n good flesh price 35 would like to rent tc two young men; Rondeau, Versailles, Conn. WANTED—Small furnished cottage, centrally located, for three months, or an apartment; state price. Address Responsible, Bulletin. dec3ld WANTED—A horse and wagon; will board him d pay for its hire. Ad- dress L. B. 1422, Jewett City, Conn. dec3ld deco.d Tsteady . work temper: climate; city guaranteed; o Falm City Woolen Mills, advantages. Louisville, dec2EMW. FA\I\’V WANTED—To rent a small farm, with poultry houses and fruit trees, good house near mill village, price moderate. M. M., Sterling, Conn. dec30d WANTED—To rent furnished room to gentieman in private family on troi- ley line, with or without board. Ad- dress L. M., Bulletin Offi dec30d WANTED—To buy second-hand fu niture in large lots for spot Write J. C. Witter's Auction Rooms, Evans Block, Danielson, Conn. STENGGRAPHER desires positio where experience and ability wiil r in advancement. Box 711, care Bulle- tin, dec2id WANTED—Men and women for gov- ernment jobs; $65 to §150 month. vaca- tions; steady work; parcei pos i come tax mean many Vacan mon education sufficient; * essary. Write immediately of positions now ‘Lv‘mam‘a Institute, Dept. 34J., cchester, dec27d HEBE'S opening to work into and learn automobiling, barpering, chiropor dy, machinists, printing, sign paintin Write 814 W ngton St., Bosto: Mass. Aldis Owen Hall dec2id RTED A girl for general hous work. Apply at Bulletin Office. deciid WANTED—Live poulay. G. A. Bu Franklin N. Y. lard. Tel 646-12. WANTEO—T0 hire a y farm, 100 acres, more or less. Box 16, Builetin Office. nov1sd ANTED-——Raw _furs, at H. A. H 30 Water St, every Bennott, WANTED Raw furs. VWil be at the gtore of George H. Prait, No. 71 Water 8t., every Saturday. A. H. Woodworth, novio. C. M. WILLIAMS Contractor and Builder Estimates Cheerfully Given Telephone 370 216 MAIN STREET ORDER IT NOW Ropkius & Ceo.’s Light Dianer Als, 76c per dozem. Koehler’s Pilsner, 30c per dozen. Trommer's Tvergreen, .6C per oJsen, Free delivery to sll parts of the city. H., JACKEL & CO.Teivrphene 136-& American House FARREL & SANDERSON, Props. Special Rates to Theatre Troupes, Traveling Men, Eto. Livery connected. Shetucket Strest MONEY LOANED on Diamonds, Watcnes, Jewe.r7 and Securities of any kind at the iowest Rates of Interest. An old establisiiza firra to deal with. THE COLLATERAL LOAN CO. 142 Muzin Street, Upstairs. (Establisned 1872.) The Vaughn Foiundry Co. Nos. 11 to 25 Ferry St. MILi, CASTINGS a Specialty. rs Recsive Promwt Attentiown ord Oid Styie Honey CUT FROM THE HIVES in 3-6-12 1b. pails P. W. Latham & Co., Tel. 1059-4. Hack, Livery and Boarding STABLE “e guarantee our service to be the best at the most reasonable prices. MAHONEY BROS., Falls Av. BE PROGRESSIVE Have vner Optical Work dune by a up-t -date house. C. A. SPEAR, Optometrist and Optician, 318 Main Street, opp. Franklin S8quare (over Somers) $950. Lower than ever in price. Better and | more for your money than ever be- fore. 1914 0verland is here Demonstration will convince you it i. the automobile of the year to buy. B. BiNG AUTO Co. AGENTS, 18 Chestnut Street Telephone. #Most Ciga~s Are Good. THESE ARE BETTER TOM'S 1-2-3 5¢ CIGAR GOGD FELLOW 138c CiG Try tham and ses. THOS. M. SHEA, Prap. Franklin 3t Next 1o v Palace Cafe SHOOTING AND TRE s "ICLs printed on_clot x12, mix Ior be., tweive for $1.26. .\‘h(v t;o. orwich, Conn. WANTED—Plane tun; A, G. wor. dejn, 298 Prospect St. ‘Wel. 6¥2-4. ¥1 ASSING Is.'o. Bullelin Printer: ng. iy HELP WANTED Farm Hand, Cook, General House~ work Girls, Chamber Maid, FREE EMPLOYMENT BUREAU. M. J. COSCORAN, Supt. Central Bidg. Ring up ’phone 377-2 or send postal to LEE CLEGG, Jeweler, 128 Washington Street, City, and have him call at your home for your Watch and Clock and Jewelry Repairs. Every Repair Guaranteed, Prices Right. —————— LOST AND FOUND LOS'T—Tuesday night, between the courthouse and Greepeville carbarn, a large black skunk muff. Finder re- turn to Bulletin Office and receive re- ward. dec3ld LOST—A Mescova drake. Return to C. V. Alquist, 159 Maple St. dec31d FOR SALE Farm of 250 Acres Ditugied 4 0-% Mies LIOUL Uid siyslic, Conn., vii good road, teicphone and K. F. o Y% Ihile te #chovl, larm has 6 acres’ of machine worked lueids, Iree from sione and ierilie, Diiance pasiure and woousand, brook running througa '¢ larm; OOuse has l4 rooms, oid- | flsmou:u nrepluces, cetlar under whole | npouse; iarge barn 24 py 40, with horse barn 24 by 24 atiached, neariy ne one otiler Lay baru Z4 by 3u, crib, wag- on shed, wagon houss aud nennery, also about 1z toms of barn hay, one two-horse wageon, one lumber wagoun, all the farming teols and macninery used on a large farm. The price of this farm, including machinery and hay, is only $3,000; 31,000 can remain on mortgage, PFPossession given imme- diately Investi el & Send for Wilcex's ehoice of 400. WILLIAM A. WILCOX Real Estate Broker, 41 West Broad St, Rooms 1 snd 2, Westerly, R. L Telephone No. 365. Farm Bulletin— octléd The Neponset Shingles make a roof which is proof against fire caused by sparks and embers—a roof wu.ch is extremely durable and, moreover, a roof which is unusuaily attractive in appearance. PECK, MWILLIAMS & CO. 47 to 55 Weri Main St., Centrai Wharf. | decld RATES FOR WORKINGMEN'S COMPENSA . TION INSURANCE ARE OUT. They will interest you. Tele- phone my office and learn what _ your rate is. JAMES L. CASE 46 Shetucket St, Nerwiclh, Conn. 100 POULL, & Cuiside city, ZF MARKET G.RDEN, otlucias pulPupe ialin Just on state road, large ‘| spring fed lake, stocked with iish, n ear bouse; 50 acres smooth tiilabis land; resi pasiuies and woo laun. pienty or Lruit; nice cottage house, with veranda, hot and cold water d batn; large bara, new silo, jcehouse and sheds; ac- commodations for = 4,600 -hens. Ounly 34,000, easy L Arvons Awe Willimantic, Comm. cash. | ° decasd | e FOR SALE _—Two To cows, one with one due in also one bull’calf two weeks 3 alph C. Wheeler, Stonington. Tel. 36-6. dec3ld FOR SALE — Metrostyle model K pl anola, made by the Aeolian Co.. good | ew. Price John R. 'Tarrant, | & ty dec31d | FOR S Q.LE}—I‘ ive ,hor: station { four cycle, run very | ); can be seen running | house Garage. K. O. | dec3ld SALE—Three horses; I have s that were sent me to sell | t have gone t be sold at omnc 5, 1100 1bs., - people ths miles per or double, - combination horse, is sound, fat | lis ways used by ladies . $100; also_the farm and ] 12 years, 1200 . is in | tion, true to work and falr driver, 385, Call at 1 Cross 'St, New Lond a very L’nmi “Wheelock upright piano, in the best of condition, with stool and scarf. Terms $10 down, $5 per month. The Plaut-( den € »ha Plaut-Cadden Building, Nor W\r‘n, ec LW £335.00 bt i purchase a fine oak Hunt- nt piano, with stool and . Terms 310 down $1.50 G Co., the ] , Norwich, Conn. 3 up- tool and someone, The dden Wit tua.o»“ b(flulhu] square prano in perfect condition, full rich tone, with stool. Terms down_ $1 7. ] adden Co,. the Plaut-Cad- Norwieh, Conn, ! al San Domingo mahog- i 3 0, fin action, good , enteed, Term: down, $1 week. The Plaut-Cad- den C Plaut-Cadden Buildipg, | Norwic dec29MW I FOR oung new milch Ayr- shire. cow I, Yantic, Tele- phone 1 -).mun Div, 33%4, dec3od “llAL [ ‘OllE with guud par () a fine upright p.ano, used but a short time; | may sell later if# plans do not bring owner back from _abroad. Address ¥ 10, care of The Bulletin Omnce, dec29d FOR SALIE 1913 Ford touring car in fine order, used very carefully, just like | new; also fine upright plano,’ Address Auts, care The Bulletin Co. dec29d FOoR SALE—Farm hmse 950 pounds, exchange for cow Or £00d one-horse Jumber wagon, Address Horse, care of Bulletin. dec29d | OR SALE—About 150 cords top estnut and hard wood, chestnut suit- fence posts. 1. Sante, Heath! ott Hill. P. O. Yantic. decz¥d FOR Z—A horse power hori- | zontal tubuiar boiler with casing, en- closing self contained firebox, suitable for either heating purposes or power; price reasonable. Speirs Brosi New London, Conn. dec2dd | WILL SOME rellablo family take a nice mahogany upright piano, latest style, and use carefully, someone who ‘would feel inclined to pur © on easy terms if well suited with piano, price, ete.; delivered tree if taken at once. Write E. M. F., thi office. deczid FOR SALE — Partridge Plymouth | cockerels, at The Quail Trap, R. R. 2, | Putnam, Conn. dec26d ‘ FOR SALEForty cows, new milch and nearby springers, just arrived. ‘Telepnone 2 23, Willimantic, Frank | A. Pounps, Hampton, Co | decz3d FOR SALE—Pocket billiard parlor; | business consisting of four tables, | equipped Wwith guiters, casi regis i tobacco trade, fixiures, etc.; rent §i month; price $5U0; no competition. A. Godek, Jewett City, Conn. FOR SALE—A pair about 140u lbs. each, and 6 _ears old, good workers and good drive inguire James Davis, Ledyard, R. 6, Norwich. deeldd poultry of all kinds. ame, arop postal to Colchester, Conn. decldl of borses, weight 1 AM BUYI Anyone having Bamuel Gellert, declsd Y nabout, | haulied and in fir ’ Must be soid De ‘Démonstration_any ' | 1911 model, Glass running | fore Jan. 1, 1vid. time. C. .Simonds, declid ¥OR SALE—A vory fine colonlal ma- | nogany Hailet & Davis piano, in per- ! xe\,t order, Must be turned in.o casa at Call evenings betwesn 7.80 and Willimaniie, Conn. o’elock, ~ Charles W haley, 81 sroadway, am:.mu Buiding, Norwich, novzvd eam engine, D, Domestic Laundr DGES YOU % need repairing? Patent stove brick to Nt any range sent B for $1. 8. J. btow, New Haveu. sepléd FOR SALE—The Leonard W. Bacon real estale in Norwich, consisting of the la mansion house, 6 dwelling % barns, e outbuilaings and 16{ ot land, conveniently located to | | tha city of Norwich, at price and om | terms attractive to the huyer. This | property ha n_waler supply. | Appiy to Wi Snields, 35 Broad- | way, Nor octldd H s L | FOR SALE cond-hand Ford au- { tomobile. Norwich, or ad- Jvéd 9o/ house,with ! lot, ) t. _Must be sold to close | estate. G. W. Hamilton, Executor, 130 | Main St jerd | T THINK IR OVER — 250 notehcads y ( business size) | , for $1.90; 500 | samples and s for any printing you are in need The Bulletin Company, Norwich, C. pigs, thorough- one better in th n, North Stoning- , \uxwu,h Conn. H. F. ALE—O. L | TPRINTING—LooKk at th 6% envelopes (regular 1 sard printed in corner, $6; 10,000, plmtru. $ ! 1,060, $2. 5 | 00 'stafements 53X i 1,000, $1.85; 5,000, { nting of every de- soription done promy d for sam- ples. The Bulletin C rinters and Binders, Norwich, Conn. | i COWS FOR SALE., | i H CARLOAD JUST ARRIVED. ] [ ! i | | F. W. HOXIE. | | l Toieplone 23-4 Lebanen. aec30d | modern improveu dec30od SVen rooms Main St bfl.,u'd if desired. 57 CIiff " 70 RENT—Tenement of ond Yrunklln Square. 270 4d H‘x\:(l: fll" e”r rents; also barn, thre at No. 475 Iast Main St T T0 RENT- ete., Toca- St. l-‘ln‘da}lLD ‘ROGMS. central steam nheat. induire 15 Union . m. ‘lh‘)il..)(l_‘.l,\i'lll Y s, 35 Union St Tele SUMMER COTTAC Koy Remt—i‘or Watel i, Pleasaut View, l{e'nt.rsl‘s $175-$36 Long Dista FOR SALE i-aOlQ:»E My fir wd of t r will arrive ahout the west, onall 1d, and will he abla to giv benefit of close buying, an season, low prices. ELMER 1. PIERSON. Tel. 1139 decz9a ~ N FOR SALE de A nine-room Cottage, five minutes’ | walk from Franklin juare, at a bargain, E. A. PRENTICE, Phone 300 88 CIliff Street FOR SALE The Fine Manufactuzjng Plant IN GREENEVILLE. The main building consists of three floors of about 2,000 square feet each and there is a large ad- dition and office building. The property is supplied with 50 horse water-power at the lowest price in Connecticut. Plans and full particu'ars upon application. Favorable terms. JAMES L. CASE, Norwich, 40 Shetucket St., Ct. g = = FOR SALE Magnificent residence on Broad way, modernly ipped ana artistically decorated, fine stable on premises. Lot flowers and fruit in Price reasonahle terms to suilt purchaser, and garage 856x510 feet, abundance. and THOS. H. PECKLEY. May Building, 278 Main Phones 724 — 36 R SALE Eight-room Cottage Street, with bath and am heat, good barn and large lot, located five minutes’ walk from Main sireet. Price reasonable. N. Tarrant & Co. 117 Main Nerwich, Ct. Street, COL. EARL N. GALLUP AUCTIOH EE! Lfl .. graduate from Jones' Nat. School of Auctioneering. Speci: of Farm and Pedigreed tock, Merciandise and Real Estate Sales. Ad .ees, Danielson, Conn. Telephone Connection. Workmen's Compensation I am prepared to quote rates and cther information relative to Workmen'’s Compensation. FRANCIS . DONOHUE, Central Building, Norwich, Ct R T R O T MU S AT SSRER e e J. F. CONANT, 11 Frank Whitestone be and the J. I. C. 10¢ Cigars are the best on the market. Try them, FULL ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES POETRY OLD AGE. It may be when this city of the nine gates Is broken down by ruinous old age, And no one upon any pilgrimage Comes Kknocking, no one for an audi- ence waits, And no bright foraying bandit moods Ride out on the brave folly of any quest, But weariness, of rest, ly upon the ecity broods; e, then, that those remember- the troops of the restless shadow Hoverin, It may ing And sleepless =~ walchers crumbling towers Shall lv‘\(’ the count of the disastrous on Which uuq may, reckoning. have grown tired of —Arthur Symons, Athenaeum. DISPOSSESSED, J My joys turned ward from their courses even. Caught in the wind of love's un- earthly breath Rose to the radiant privacy of heaven From me, uncrowned beneath, To match their lights with Ariadne’s seven. And proud was 1 to search the dazzling height, zems once close about my hu- man brow, sore regardful of a mortal’s right I am weary of the vigil now, And stars are only visible—at night. —Winll'red Lucas. | Tor HUMOR OF THE DAY “Mrs. Brown has the kleptomania.” “Indeed. what is she taking for it7” “Anything that looks goodsto her.”’— New York Times. Doctor—You mustn’t give up hope. Some years ago 1 had exactly the same iliness. Patient (glQomily)—Ah, but not the same doctor—Boston Tran- script. “Oh, mademoiselle, 1t would take me but five minutes to know your most intimate thoughts!” “How un- pleasant that would be for you! Le Rire. -As a_sex you are full of pre Now, why do women always each other? She—Oh, that’s only to vou men jealous.—Philadel- phia Mother yrovingly)—When I was your the girls never thought of d¢ i things they do today. Daugh- —“r‘l that's why they dldn't do them.—Pearson’'s Weekly. " “Daddy “Well, son “If T grow to be a league president will I ave to gov 1or of Pennsylvania { *—Cleveland Plain Dealer, “Do you new .how to plck out a good Christ s turkey” “Well, I know how to pinch it and thump it and heft it, but I'm not much on a chem- ical analysis’—Louisville Courier- Jou i | | “I saw husband at the | you and your play last night, Mrs. Wedgecomb. How | did you like it “T'm sorry we wasted our mon on It, Several people told me I would be shoecked, but 1 wasn't.” —Chicago Record-Herald. “You tell me,” sald the judge, “that this is the person who knocked u down with his motor car, Could You swear to the man?” “I did,” returned the complainant, eagerly, “but he did- n't stop to hear me/—New York Globe. | “An,” sighed the boarder, who was given to rhapsodies, as they sat down to the Christmas dinner, “if we could only have one of those turkeys that we used to raise on the farm when I was a hoy!” “Oh, well,” said the pes- simistic boarder, “perhaps it is one, Yoy never can tell.”—Ladies’ Home Journ&l. “Here’s an item in.the paper that says King Alfonso of Spain is so ad- dicted to cigarettes that he dislikes to spend an hour at a court function where he is deprived of them.” “Well, well, well! If that doesn’'t show that after all kings are human like all of us. Why, he might be an American office boy.”"—Life. THE KALEIDOSCOPE L IR Reliable statistics show that sheep are relatively free from diseases dan- gerous to man At least 2,.,,000 women and girls work in manufacturing establishments in Pennsylvania, 25,000 being under 16 years old. fabric, heavily impregnated and tin salts, is being mads X-ray-proof garments Silk with lead in France for tor doctors. The asphalt production of the Unit- ed States, chlefly by Texas and Cali- fornia, has increased more tuan four- fold in 10 years. | On a new Mock dial for quick read- | ing the figures for the minutes are | placed in a circle outside the hour fig- ures and are large Students working their way through | Princeton university earned more than $20,000 during the academic year end- ed last June. | Ice cream is frozen without ice in a new English freezer that is a minla- | ture refrigerating plant, using com= acid | pressea carbonic gas. Japan is rapidly developing the cel~ | luloid industry, as all the raw mates | rials for its -manufacture, except nitrie | acid, are produced in that country | Napoleon TIT strictly limited preach- | ing before him to a quarter of an hour, and if they exceeded it an officer | of the imperial household stepped to | the pulpit and stopped the discourse | A m in a #hool in T.os Angeles | has n modeled after the principal i room in a Roman house, “) the belie: that the pupi ill learn latin more rapidly in appropriate surroundings. Recluse, Miss., ghels of corn on hi > What boy has done better Clyde McRae, of the same lrwaht\ raised over 136 bushels and got sec :ond prize. On a lopely fell on the border of Cumberland and Northumberland, | England, there is a house in which a fire of peat has burned continuously | for the last 200 years. The house is | aceupied by William Goodfellow and i has been in the family for 800 years. Mitsumata paper, made from the stems of a small shrub which grows in | the mountains of Japan, is impervious | to water and is, therefore, invaluable | when made into raincoats and cloaks, | Phe plant is said to thrive in_some n Davis of T mountainous sections of the United States. Afummsldn Llw buffer state be= ! tween British India and the Russi possessions in Asia, with an area o | about 250,000 square miles and a pPopu« | lation of probably about 5,000,000 Mo= hammedans (no census has ever been with the exception of Tibet, taken), is | the Jargest closed country in the world. To test the staying powers of 4 thoroughbred horse 4 New Jersey man rode an animal from New York to Chie cago. He Cu\elml the first 700 miles in less than 12 days of actual riding, Phis horse once made the distance of 7% miles in 24 hours, carrying a ridep ! over the mountains betweeu Johns= | town, Pa.; and Pitteburg.