Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 25, 1922, Page 10

Conditions. High pressure continues generally over the Tnited States but it is falling in the far northwest and in the west Canudian provinces. Pressure is also low east of Newtoundland. The outlook is for fair weather east of the Mississippi river during Wednes- day and Thirsday. Cold weather will inue through Thursday In the At- states. s oY *he Aslantlc const— orth £ Sandy Hook, moderate to sh norttwest winds and falr weath- Wednssday. Sandy Hook to Hatteras, fresh morth winds and falr weather Wednesday. Foreeast. uth New England: Fair day ; Thursday falr with dlowly rising temperature. Observations In Nowlich. | ervations show the in temperature and owing changes Sarometric changes ‘Tuesday: Ther. Bar. . 10 30. . 18 3040 : X lowest 10. Comparisons. Falr and con- weather: As predicted. SUN, MOON AND TIDES. PATE AND COLD TODAYY . WABNER TOMOBROW UNTED WORKERS REPORT ONYERROF WORK ACCOMPLISHED N HANY LINES —_—— The 45th annual meeting of the United Workers was 4eld on Tuesday evening tn the Community House on Church street at 7.30 o'clock. The interest in the work done by this organization was manifested in the large number who at- tended the meeting to hear the annual reports of the various officers. There was a short organ recial by Siiss Louise Fuller preceding the meet- tng which W called to order by the president, Mrs, Henry T. Armold. The Scripture Teading was by Rev. R. Daniel lirrick, pastor of the Federated ~church, Aiso led in prayer.sThe minutes of last meeting were read by the sec- retary,, Miss Mary H, Paddock and were appraed. Summarized Report of Work. Miss Paddock also read a very inter- esting summarized report of the year's activoties of the organization and of the various branches with the exception of the family welfare department. Miss Paddock’s report was as follows: Again the United Workers would di- rect your attention to a brief summary of the work accomplished during: 1921. The house, No. 9 Washington street, ®houeh old in years, continues to be & useful center from which many of the activities radiate. Committee meetings who H a - TAF high wed by TVILLE of Mershants avenue g about 3 o from| going up Mer- and stopped to rest on doorstep. After a few started for his » and as far Ad - | s. ms took him to| found he had been cailed but Mr. He died of heart| ltved Tattville for aves two daughters and | and Mrs. ames West, all of h Carrol on Mer- is came to this cou man and had MHved wite died about e was a member evening at her| about 10.20. | tic shock re- . She ~ , 1841, W years of age she was = age to Napoleon Muller She recetved her education a Shé Ta children, seven poleon Muller of | uller of Taftville, Archy Muller of, Taft- ller of Canada' Fred | le and Mrs. Borden of leaves four grandchil- a family have moved hey are to reside. 5EO0. E. WIIGHT, NORWICH BORY, PREPARED VALUABLE BOOK £ £ a newspaper who is a native of ways had a_hob ecting data and them, etc. nteresting ridge was river at a collec- | since a span_a The ah- the big | but has all the e bridge. Windsorsmmand thersfield, with pic- zes homes, some in” | has spun a fascin- its growth | The bridge | comprises five South fanchester. delightful history | ding, in 16 ght, the fir the Connecti- in 1735, and_ Bellows Vt. The The bridge feet betwaen feet above the arch stone bridge 4 beautles. ns, Roes N. H, . H estminster), ch Hale. 260 dze mcross the Conmecti- was that connecting Enfleld and Suffleld, buflt in 1808. This bridge, 1,000 feet long, n width and rested upon six e first bridge at Hartford was 1810, two years after the or- n of abridke company and aft- er §00 sbares sach shaze b ¢ 1810, this stock had been fssued, | g assessed $135. April dge was opened to the a toll bridge, the rate being 8 | e for a mingle carriage, 12% cents for a double team, 16 cents for a barouch @ 35 cents for a stage. The foot pas- senger pald 2 cents for crossing. Thi first bridge was bullt upon five ple wo abutments of masonry, was 874 long. about 25 or 30 feet wide and 25 feet above low water In the center of the river. Mr. Wright had collected many rard and quaint prints>of scenes in carly Hartford and vicinity which were repro- duced to fllustrate his book. He also gives sketches of prominent men inter- ested in the construction of the modern Hartford bridgs, and shows a nmber of most artistic views of present.day | ford, espectally the enviromment of tfe wuperb State Capitel and Bushnell park. enuch held within its walls; thero is also h || Moon | \he office of the family welfare depart- ment; the rooms given over to the clin- ics under the supervision of the public ealth nurses; the sewing and cooking vlasses connegled' with the olub work ind the sewing buréau, Thus thero is scarcely an hour in the day that the iiouse does mot amply justify its exist- ence. During the past year the work of the lic health nursing department has een enlarged through the development f several new channels. Hourly ser- vics has been undertaken, for which a fixed fee is charged; pre-natal nursing avas begun In APril. In August the wogk was greatly increased by taking. over e nursing service of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.| Because of 1o increased nursing work a fifty nurse jolned the staff in January 1922. The work with its varied activities is expand- Tapidly that it is fast outgrowing The small rooms are fre- ed to_their | capacity on iren’s clinic days. During the year vatients were cared for, upon_whom 5 calls were made and $1900.40 in s qua quently ehil burean meets weekly from to April first, giving ou to women who need and appreciate this financizl assistance. There were 33 Who came regularly, many others ap- plying, for\whom work could not be sup- plied. During the year 1754 garments were and made, The almshouse is a well kept home un- the supervision of Mr. and Mrs. The average number in the men and 15 women; four occurred during the year. The on Army held nine services at house. Gifts and delicacies wera received from the Central Baptist church, Woman's Guild of Yantic, Graco ireh of Yantic, the United Congrega- ch. Ever Ready Circle of the ‘ongregational church, the Cath- club and the Catholic' Council of Honor. < La¥ yvear the work of the distriot v tion committee was carried out on a broader scale. A campaign was launch- and Aully accomplished. Its twofold objeat was to arouse more, in- ligent interest In The United Whrk- and to increase contributions. ~The amount recelved was $5513.29. The average number of patients at the Sheltering Arms during the was fourteen. The house Is now capacity; 15 being cared for, 7 the there tanding 'room only.” The feneral the family has been excellent; no occuring during fhe year. Matrons have come and one. Miss Shurtleff, leaving to - be married, Mrs. EMis, a former matron, returning to Sl the vacancy, and Mrs. ssle Beckwith now established as All have done ahd are doing f2ithful and efficient work, Several so- cial afternoons were held at the home, and one member of the committee ga matron, Jawn party in her garden, which whs greatly enjoyi Thanksgiving and Christmas provided good things and bappiness for all. The Sugday services have been held regularly. The average number of chiliren per month in the Rock Nook Home during the, year was 27. At present there are 24, while 12 are cared for outside. The health has been uniformly good. The clinfc at No. 9 Washington street con- nues to be most successful. The chil- en attending® are Italian, Greek, He- American, colored, Polish, Rus- 17an, Syrian, French, Indian and Swed- sh. The Rock Nook chlidren have had various and- varied entertainments ihrough the kindness of frien ihe jov of Thanksgiving and C! festivitles. The older ~children attend ihe Norwich Town school and theé First Congregational church Sunday school. The home garden yielded vegetables during the entire summer, with a sur- plus used for canning. Club department. The members en- rolled in its classes at the two centers, No. 9 Washington street and at the Falls Club on Oneco street have only been limited by floor space and by the & culty of securing an adequate teach- Ing force. There have been six classes; four for Instruction §i sewing and two in cooklng. On the list appear 230 names,~ 195 being registered in sewing and 35 in the cooking classes, and some are registered in both. A fee of two cents is pald for each sewing lesson, and ve cents for each cooking lesson, The vhildren by their regular attendance vrove that they enjoy, the classes, sev- eral saying, “I like, o come to sewing #chool. T wish it was every dey.” It is our desire to traln these children to be neat and orderly about thesr work, and yolite and obedlent to their teachers. At the close of the season the work is on exhibfiion, when tea is served by the cooking classes. The final pleasure 1s a May party, after which we say good bye £0 one another untll the following Nov- ember. The Adam Reld Worthy Poor Fund has furnished some assistance through the year, but the number of requests for Belp has not been large. Treasurer’s Report. Following the acostpance of Mies Faddock's report as read the report of the tréasurer, Miss Adelaide Butts, was Dresented and approved as Tollows: CASH REPORT, Recelpts, * Balanes Jan. 1, 1921 $730.85 interest ~and = divi- 3 dends ... ......$84,942.31 Donationy .. | 715,18 Board .. % ceess 4,308.34 Sales, losns, fees, eto 2,953.37 =, Taberaulosis Fund— Christmas seals Legacles in cash. Tnvestments ©e 400,00 5,750,00 10,000,268 ————$65,073.36 $66,313.21 d Disbursements. neral administra- _ ~ v ciees s. $3,320.89 United Woidkers House — mainte - NANCe ... hoees | 63015 Employment bureau 1,830.11 Club Work .. ~..... 1,08148 Public” health _CLEARS air the raw, inflamed surfaces ing,"s:othhg ‘medicine. | W. Ei Curry, 130 writes: "1 have Fley’s Honey an s 'b:r according| relief for ber. Tar know it is safe an hildreo like it. “ate stomachs of yourh chil persons o elderly people, §th St., Evans il 6 | Foley’s Horey and Tar COMPOUND THE THROAT of p t tickling, T S o @ heal- Grateful Father Tells What It Did it g e 3 e o rosile with crous T hn°\‘.:g e sbtiiatod tatint My wife and I use it whenever Totbered with & bad cold or couth, ay that it is the best remedy for a bed celd, Soush, throst trouble or croup that 1 ever saw, t won’t uj end [ will % ents who use Foley's Honey and gy 1o harm will come even if an overdose should be given by acciden.. ¢ It tastes good end the deli a,delicate LEE & OSGOOD CO. ing, Including tu- beculosls work .. 8,573.41L Sheltering Arms ... 76147 Rock Nook Chll- dren’s Home .... 12.704.40 City Mission ...... 6,430.56 Fresh airs work' ... 6403 Adam Reld Worthy Poor Fund .. . 398.74 Toestuments s o 125,!3;“,93 ayable .... 7 e - $59,485.25 alance Dec. 31, 1921— tneat fna e 1 98518 Rock Nook Home ......... 2,800.73 Adam Reld Worthy Poor HUNO e oo ik abaii-to 1 DE1AL : $65,813.21 Legactes. For The Sheltering Arms— From Miss Marie Louise Stur- tevant—unrestricted < .. .$50.00 For The Rock Nook Children's ‘Home— “The Hattle C. Averill Fund” from bequest of John C. Ave- riil—additional 50 $57.50 Funds. The general fund . e.. $252,596.40 The Sheltering Arms ..... 33,640.59 The Rock Nook Children's HOme ..... sese sees.. 328,568.71 The City Mission . \5,450.00 $620,255.70 Family Welfare Department. The work of the famfly welfare de- partment, formerly the City Mission, was thoroughly reviewed by Miss Edith Moran who has charge of that work at the present time, Miss Moran's report vhici was very interesting was in part as follows The past year in the famfly welfare de- parteent, formerly the City Mission, has been ome of change, during which the work has been gradually developed along more modern lines. We have been of service to 172 fami- lies, which has involved 762 office calls and 802 outsidé ones, besides numerous letters and telephane calls. Their prob- lems In a blen given 1 es have been i ha: Some famil where the wage earner is physically capacitated, aged, or has died. There have also been the,problems of Iped regularly in- neglected children; ward girls, runaway unma boys cd mothers, -support and de inded and opileptic, the sientsman gnd the aged. The new juvenile court with the recently emacted i welfare ldtion will make t ¢ delinquent, neglected or ent child much easier to handle and these children a better chance in life than/they have previously had. In times past our department has been mainly one of material relief giving, but family welfare ;means much more than this. To develop normal family life, both uctive work . must to raise the family above the for retief. This necessi- vestigation, so that the isability can be reached and diagnosed. When the fam- ily comes to realize the vilitor is a friend o is ready to help them ovet the hard places, then the difficulties begin to lessen and conditions improve. im- preventive gand cons be done tates a_careful root of 'the Our largest forelgn population is Pol- ish. Owing to the irregular work shere an@ the unsettled condition of Poland and Russia, these people are often in need of assistal The parents speak little or no English, so usually a child or neighbor has to interpret when the visitor calls at the house. Often the interviews are not satisfactory. The parents can- not understand why the visitor has to €0 many questions.when all they want is “a ton of coal” or Mary.” Nelther can they understand wh they should not all sleep in one bed with the window closed at night. The pa cheeks of their children they attribute to ‘a pair of shoes for Inck of food rather than lack o fresh| air. The ones under school age are of- ten kept in the house all winter and spend their waking hours in a hot kitch- en. Often the coal or shoes are not more necessary than.instruction in the care of the children and thg home. This cannot be given unless the family welfare work- er can have the assistance of a volunteer Polish visitor. Several people who would e willlng to help in this way might or- ganize to be called upon when necessary. One who ha$ already been of service to us feels that this plan can be carried out. We realize that many familles who need our help are not reached~by us because they feel too proud to accept so- called “charity.” The charity may only be a friendly talk, whereby some means of readjusting the family resources can be pointed out, so that better Tesults are obtained. At other times it may be a temporary loan or help with clothing. When you hear of a family or individual in need of our assistance or advice, com- and | | | | | | { {try and » A confidential exchange will duplication, will be a chi families who have and ested. tion, ferred, and what we did. something. port the usual ing Arms. church, Eben Learned, thur E. Stor: beautifui selection, tee, Mrs. R. W. Perkin: ted the ~ following unanimously Henry T. president, Mr: president, Mrs delaide Butts Arnold ; cording secretary, Mrs. Meech pre Mrs./George W. and Mrs. Edw Joseph W. Curt Higgins; vice pre: Mr ranc alter and M But! r L. Johmeon and W. ess of Clarence the 1T, associ; ting talk on Carr laid spe where aid was neede as nec comes self Suppor with a marked success. vocated that Ziven the needy as pos: ke the fam cither T famil has been wo cited by Mrs., Carr. Mrs. Car app sisted at the meeting. Louise Efnst Dearbern Independent. George D. Lucius Brown; treasurer, assistant treasurer, , Mrs, H Al Arthur exchange eck begging Election of Officors, Channing Huntington; as frs. for Ru attorney, John P. Huntington. ated It The on ong sory H, of charities, ga was given a’ rising vot eciation at the conclusion of her as was the cholr and others who had as- beautiful flowers that adorned the president’s tabl on the platform were the gift of Miss Mrs. muntcate with us either by telephone or ! by calling at the United Workers' house. has been started and we hope for the co-operation of all those who help others, this of eervice to the communit; to make The prevent overlapping and those | tendencies ill be of great service in co-operat- ing and planning for families where one or more agencies or persons are inter- We would appreciate having any eritic- ism of our work brought to our atten- You have probably all heard of familfes that have beem referred to the United Workers and “nothing “was doné, When you hear this, get In touch with | our department, find out if they were re- We always do Atter the reading of M'ss Moran's re- oftering was made, amounting to “§27.37, which will be ap- plied to the bullding fund of the Shelter- While the offering was being taken the Cholr of Park Congregational tenor, soprano. Mrs. George Har- ris, contralto, W. A. Lund, bass, sang a The report of the nominating commit- , chairman, Mrs. . Young and Miss Mary Porteous, officers, elected : stant re- Lee Roy Rob esponding secretary, M Brooklyn Charlty Worker Speaks. The election of officers concluded the | meeting and then Mrs, with st for zems, Busy Men Excused From Jurles Massachusetts has a law which enables a busy man to get excused from Jjury duty. This law gives the presiding Justice the authorify to postoone, “in his descre- tion” the whole or any part of the time of service of a juror to a later day.— Ar- who | President, honorary Coit ; vice vice ins s Louise 1 dents for three years, H. M. Lerod ¥ vice presidents for two years, Miss E®a Nortom, Mrs. | Edwin “W. year, auditor, stant audi- ¥oard, Brewer. , Frank Hempstead, Oli- ell Baird; the | e a very the work in Brook- ial emphasis on | the value of the follow-up work of the| voiunteer worker after the trained work er had made an investigation of the cases | is not oni; nécessary to murse a poverty family back to health, but it cken equally ssary to see that this family be- Tig. Mrs. Carr told of | various cases where this had been done!by She also spoke | of the value of reasoning with families regarding their living conditions and ad- as much help should be| ible, but above all self supporting, finding employment r in helping the younger mem.| bers to secure an education_that would | make them self supporting ¢ number of interesting cases where this| ked out to advantage were the A P G| let Lee & Osgoo Bitro-Phosphate Thin Folks If_you are weak, thin and nervous, Co. supply you with It js guaranteed to increase weight and strength and re- store energy, vigor and nerve foree. BOYS AND GIRLS! JOIN THE CHELSEA BOYS’ AND GIRLS SAVERS” CLUB SAVE 10 CENTS EACH WEEK EACH MEMBER WILL RECEIVE A CLUB BUTTON PRIZE CONTEST—A friend of Boys-and Girls has offered Bank Books of $5.00, $2.50, $1.00, for the best three itten by Boys and Girls on “WHY BOYS AND HOULD HAVE BANK BOOKS AND SAVE Papers ta.be presented during NATIONAL papers GIRLS MONEY.” THRIFT WEEK, JANUARY 17—23, AT ! The Chelsea Savings Bank JUDGES — Supervisor of Clubs, Miss Cogswell; Scout Executive, Benton; Y. M. C. A. Boys’ Director, Davis. - Warm Up the Cold Cc:iners At Practically No Expense N Ex(:elle,nt 0il Stoves HALF PRICE These cold mornings and cold evenings demand, some- _ times, just a bit more heat than yqur struggling boiler or furnace can deliver. Is the bathroom chilly ? Was your aining room warm when you came down to breakfast this morning ? When you sat down to read last evening, were -your feet cold ? ; GET A LITTLE OIL HEATER, AND LET IT’S RADIANT HEAT MAKE LIFE A BIT MORE COMFORTABLE. OIL HEATERS WHICH OIL HEATERS WHICH i WERE PRICED AT $7.98 WERE PRICED AT $9.00 $3.95 $4.45 g | Ay, bring the hillside From The crack] Bring, toofmn’un TAX FORMS ARE MAILED 30-day extension of time by application to FOR INCOMES UNDER $5,000 and with games. Among the out the collector. . Epps received numerous fts, At the reisdence of Mr. the office at Hartfcrd. Tha form Is for and Mrs. An- vidual tax returns for the tax period of 11921 on incomes over $5,000 will be mailed town guests were Mr. Stewart of De- < % 0 troit, Mr. Symette of Philadelphla, M Coples of Form 1040A of the internal r vemio Llank for income tax retnrns | BIRTHDAY PARTY GIVEN |, | Florence Tattey of Boston _and ° Miss U Been sinteiaimes Ty 50000 neonis FOR MISS LILLIAN Epps|Lotlie Jackson of New York.® Miss in the past four or five days, it is said to taxpayers of record cm /Mon- , it was announced yesterday hy Ir- nal Reveaue Collector Robert 0. Eaton. The blemks diffar considerably from se of frevious years cf account of the radical chanzes made in the Tevenue act the special session-of congress. For | Beauty Hint for Women When food is only imperfectly digested, For it gives rise to fermentation, clogs the )’ th instancs, taxpayers are no longer required § cleas bowels, and renders the blood impure.» B e = SAMonAT inovm: |t nodt This results in dull eyes, muddy skin,} of \interest paid at the source on tax-free k' . Y i '» R S T SRin blotches, pimples and other disfiguring a transaction entered into for profit, for o . . the purpose of securing a deduction, it iz and marks. Beecham’s Pills act immediately, ot cessary to show the sale of any . ey . ROt peceev i bright the stomach, liver. and bowels; regu-, Collector \Faton has instructed Capt late them and keep. them in a vigorous - Elepyd Iopl bl WateiuN, /it ey €yes condition. They are mild, harmless and deputy to assign deputies under his juris- 3 diction and several revenue azents temp- crarily loaned to the Connecticut offieg, te various towns In the = district to assist taxpayers in making out thelr returns. To obviate much of the confusion that has been caused at the office in past years by undecipherable handwriting, Collector Baton is asking taxpayers to print. their name at the tdp of the form 5o that they may be easily read. Returns for the calendar year 1921 must be filed by March 15 gnd shoul be ac- dependable. They are:compounded of remedies of - vegetable origin having Take ~ ereat medicinal value, Beecham’s companied by a remittance covering at ] p least one-fourth of the tax shown to e & Sold - 10c—12 P'_"' due. Persons liable o the making of | fl{".)'wllere 25¢c¢—40 pills such returns but unable to do o on ac- in boxes \ 50c—90 pills count of {liness or absence may secure a MoHICAN COMPAN THe BIG REDUCTION N PRICE OF BREAD / Beginning W;dneu"hy, January 25th, at all stores in the . " entire chain of - MOHICAN MARKETS the price of The Best Bread That Can Be Made ] WILL BE FIVE CENTS PER POUND (Not 2 12 ounce or a 14 ounce loaf but a full 16 ounce loaf of bread after baking —18 ounces of dough before baked.) Weigh your bread and know just what you _are paying for—16 ounces of bread. One Pound Loaf of Best Bread Five Cents of n | rcomes with a net of upder $5,000, Copics | drew Jackson, on Laurel Hill, Miss Lil-| New Haven—It was announced last iro obtainabie in the office of the col- |lian ,Epps entertained about' 30 friends|week by the gas light company of New cctor of interngl revenue in'Hartford and | Saturday evening in celebration of her|Haven that there would be a reduction in branch offices in Ney Haven, Water—|nineteenth birthiday. Cake, lce cream,|the price of gas in New Haven at bury, Bridgeport and Norwich. candy and fruit were served. The eve-|early date. The new price will be an-| Government forms 1040 for fillng indi- |PiDE Was pleasantly spent In dancing!nounced in 2 few days. i 1 D s Drastn: The same my sire scanned 5 The same m3 Erandsivs thanibed er, The same his sire from college bore, The Holye die. n| ithe granite of the Sierras. A WINTER WISH. ©1d wood to burn! . where the owlets.: and scresch And ravens croak; : pine, and cedar sweet of fragrant peat, ‘neath the fern; 2 ‘he knotted oak, o to read! 05 nodeés of wit, -clasped, the llum writ, ‘Time-honored tam:l !ve The well-earned meed Of OxI« s domes; Old_Hom blind, + Old Horace, rake Anacreon, by Old Tu Mort Arthur's olderi minstrelsie, Quaint Burton, qu And Gervase Markham's venerie—. . Plautus, Terence lie; inter Spenter, ayl Nof leave behind Dok by which we live snd’ —Robert Hinckley Messinger, in Indian-' apolis News. THE VAMPIRE, [4-fool there was and he made his prayss’ (Even as you and 1) To a rdg and a bone and a hank of hair (We called her the woman who did not' care). But the fool he called her his lady faiy * (Even as you and 11) Oh, the years we waste and the tears wa waste And the work of our head and hand Belong to the woman who did not know (And now we know that she never could kngw), And did not understand. ¢ A f00l there was and his gzoods he epenf (Even as you and 1) Honor and faith and sure intent (And it wasn't the least what the lnay meant) But a fool must follow his nat (Even as you and I ural bent b Oh, the t611 we lost and the sport we I And the excelient things we plannes: Belong to the woman who didn’s know, why (And now we know she neve And did not understand. 1 er knew why), The fool was stripped to his foolish hidgq i (Even as you and 11 Which she might have seen when shq threw him aside— (But it isn't on record the lady tried), So some of him lived, but the most of Ted— (Even as you and I1) k And }fb]!un'l the shame and it im't the ame That stings like a white-hot brand, It's coming to know that she never knew, w er could understand. \ —Rudyard Kipling, HUMOR OF THE DAY | “Does your wife object to your poke« er piaying at the club?" “Only when I loge. ew York Sun, “Is Mr. Jagsby resigned to prohibi« tion 7" “That’s the gossip in our neighbor« | hood. I have even heard that he hag knocked the partitions out of his cel- laret and ds now using it as a re- ceptacle for old shoes."—Birmingham Age Herald. 7 Having just finished his sermon on ossip and Siander,” a minister in he suburbs announced the hymn. “1 e-to Tell the Story."—Boston Tipt. - Clerk—Our golf club is trying to get more members, and is thinking of improving the links. ick—Better use the money to lay, in a reserve stock.—New York Sun. She—Don't you just love to motor the moonlight? He (without looking up from the flit« tering road)—Yes. It gives a fellow a better chance to fix the blowouts.— Wayside Tales. Mrs. Pryer—Did you say it was your hub that was damaged in the accideht? Mrs. Voluble—No—my hubby ! ‘Wayside Tales. “T beg your pardon, -sir, sald thd apoplectic old gentleman, “but I be- lieve you have my hat.” “Impossible, sir,” replied the digni« fied diner. - possible, but highly improba= in Sir do you mean to insinuate—?% “Suffering cdts, I haven't time to in- einuate. Gimme my hat.”—Birmingham Age-Herald. KALEIDOSCOPE Iinols has 750 women physiclans and surgeons. Women now possess full suffrage rights in twenty-one countries. Miss Mary Lewis has been teach= ing music in Toledo for fifty-five years. In Spain the people write on an average fewer than ten letters each year. Flood tide in Turnagaln inlet, Alas- comes in waves three to five feet nadian charity has saved the na- tives of Labrador from death by fam- ine this winter. Schools of instruction for the newly appointed women magistrates are con- ducted in London. A man condemned to die at Caon, France, demanded a last meal of Ami< erican lobster. The word “adiral” is derived from the Arabic, emir-at-bahr, meaning ‘lord of the sea.’ Two billion feet of wood pulp tim- ber in Alaska is being offered for sale by the government. An hour's use daily of the pianc ie being given to some domestic werv- ants in London suburbs. 3 A sctentist claims tha the Mercedes river cut the Yosemite alley out of About 60,000 is the estimated popu- lation of Venice, which is buiit on be- tween seventy and eighty islets. Japan's heir-apparent was scolded for the first time in his life by a sub- way ticket taker in Paris. Starfish can grow new arms, lob- sters new claws and lizards new tails. A new lizard will not indeed spring from & new tail, or a new lobster from a discarded ciaw, but & new starfish will grow from a detached arm. The Chinese have an easy and con: venient way of taking the census, the oldest man in each block of ten houses beirig authorized to make the count on a given date and send the list to the imperial tax official, who refuses to listen to any charge of inaccuracy. An authority on the subject states that the sound of canni can be heard much farther than that of thun- der. The limit of the carrying power of thunder is about fifteen miles, whil¢ twice that number of miles is garded any great distance for the sounds of battle to carry. the grest end of island is now high and dry,mmtflfln-ktfl its floor, while qua; the, harbors ‘works at moaw under i