Morning journal and courier., 1889-07-20
General state News.

Frank Kraust, German boy of eight
years, was drowned at Bridgeport last night
by falling out of boat.
NEW NORMAL SCHOOL AT wILLIMANTIC.
WILL1MANTIc, July 19.--Secretary G. D.
Hine of the Connecticut board of education
arrived in town this morning with Professor
A. B. Morrill,, late of the New Britain
Normal school, to be opened in Willimantic
September 8. Rooms will at once be fitted
Savings Institute building for occupancy dur
ing the coming school year. It is hoped to
have the new SIS, 900 building ready for &C.
cupany in the fall of 80.
REMARKABLE SNAKE STORY.
The Winsted Herald says: Last week the
Herald published an item relating to the
capture of double-headed snake in Bethle-
hem. 1t was at that time regarded by us as
a probable freak of nature, but during the
past week another two-headed snake was
killed at Meadow Brook farm, from which
we conclude that double headed snakes may
be distinct species. The snake killed at
Meadow Brook farm was upwards of three
feet in length, and Mrs. s. W.. Coe, who in
spected 1t, reports that both heads were we'll
defined, and that from each head was pro-
truded a forked tongue. About the only
difference In the heads was that one was
larger than the other. If some one person
had seen half dozen two-beaded snakes We
should regard the story as a tremendous
snake yarn, attributable to Wholesalers vote
on the license question, but inasmuch as half
| dozen reputable and temperate people saw
this one snake We can't we'll do otherwise
| than believe them.
| THE LATE REV. DIR. FRHDERIoK GARDINER.
The Springfield Republican says of Rev.
DR.. Frederick Gardiner, professor of litera-
l ture and New Testament Interpretation at
l rLaIou nj
who died Wednesday: "His loss will be felt
both by the school and tho town. He was
one of the prominent citizens of Middletown
| and always took an interest in local affairs.
| DR.. Gardiner was sixty seven years of age;
he was man of ripe scholarship, his lines of
study not being limited to the specialties
/ which he taught. For many years he stud
led chemistry, and furnished a laboratory
near his study, where he could find relief
from the contemplation of Greek roots and
theology. For ten years he was president of
the Middlstown Scientific association, and he
was trustee Of the Russell library. DR..
GARDENERS example in the divinity school was
in its way'a corrective 20 high church tend
encies, and his personal influence upon the
young men was marked. He was man of
great force of character, genial in address
and fine conversationalist. A number
OF his addresses have been printed, among
them brochure on the "Apostolie
| succession" His other works include
Harmony of the Gospels" and
'Diatessaron,' in which the four gospels are
collated in consecutive narrative. He was a
| Bowdoin college graduate, and studied at
the general theological seminary at New
| York. He was ordained a deacon in 1912.
After holding pastoral charge in Maine he
| became professor in the theological depart
ment of Kenyon college, and in 1857 he went
to Middletown as assistant rector at Holy
Trinity, and later joined the faculty of the
| Divinity school. DR.. Gardiner leaves a
widow and three children-a son who Ia an
Episcopal minister in Dakota, daughter,
| the wife of Professor Ferguson of Trinity COLI
lege, Hartford, and an unmarried daughter
| who lives at Middletown."