The Newtown bee., 1892-08-05
SOUTH BRITAIN.

SOUTH BRITAIN. bury, where he was learning the machin- ist trade, sick from heat and new work. It is a hard time for the boys to go into new work.
 Mrs D. M. Mitchell and daughter, Miss Ada Averill, Miss Ruby Pierce and John Mitchell are at Ocean Grove.
 Miss Abbie Michell is in Danbury this week.
 Mrs Rachel Warner, after caring for her sister and family for a few weeks, has returned to her home in Easton.
 Mrs H. M. Jessup of Bridgewater vis- ited her sister, Mrs G. M. Platt, on Pur- chase hills.
 Harry Garfield, after. wrestling with measles for week, has returned to Mir Strong in Woodbury.
 Charles T. Russell of Harwinton is in town for few days.
 Mrs Origin Pierce is at her fathers in the Purchase.
 Lawyer Tomson of New Haven is vis- iting c. T. Downes.
 Mrs Jay Camp is entertaining her un- cle from York State and sister from Southbury.
 Some young people have discovered that the cave on Rattlesnake mountain affords delicious coolness in the most suffocating weather.
 Wednesday, Miss Lottie Curtis went to Waterbury, visiting Rev William Bar ton.
 Thursday, curious circumstance oc- cured near the Hollow Swamp crossing A rear freight car jumped the track and dashed madly along till, after quarter of mile of disorder, it struck aplank at a crossing, which lifted it up and slipped it back on the rails. Ralph I. Munson has spent two days visiting old friends in Waterbury anG Middlebury.
 Cyrus Gray has finished his having He was nearly prostrated by the heat.
 There is a flavor as of picnic in the air. Something very delightful and so- cial is expected to take place some time in August, at Lake Quassapaug.
 Samuel Futile has been quite ill dur ing the week. He was much missed from his accustomed place, Sunday His fidelity and kindness have won the appreciation.of the school, of which he k superintendent.
 Rev William Barton of Waterbury was guest of the Curtises on Monday.
 Mrs Toucy and Mrs Theron Plati spent part of Monday with Mrs Sallie l Curtis.
 There is an eastern saying that a col lection of proverbs is a handful of unset gems. Weather is now quite weedy. The preface to book is the authors apology for writing, only read by critics The public care little why one writes, ii they can find out what he writes.
 If you want anything done, go to the busiest man in town. If you prefer tc have anything forgotten, send by one of absolute leisure. If you want favor ask of one for whom you have never done anything. !.
 Forgetting things and going back af ter them is like drawing water in a leaky bucket, slow, sloppy and exasper ating. A quarrel, like 8 thunder shower clears the air; but a blow, like light. ming, leaves scar. # A mortgage is like thunder head Once started in clear sky, no one can tell how long before it will gather and break New England farms seem espec- ially subject to both. Out West, they get the wholesale destruction of general bankruptcy and cyclones.
 A staple news item-That this is the most extraordinary season ever known.
 John Cassidy was taken down, Satur. day, with cholera morbus. Funeral of Curtiss B. Downs was at tended, Monday, August 1; died, Satur day afternoon, aged 7S. Had been in poor health for many years and always lived his quiet farmer life, respected and known in his old home.