The Newtown bee., 1894-08-31

says EuWdTu ALhluSUn III lu6 OepGeLIDSI Forum, in one of the seaboard cities, ,who earns for his service p cents an hour, will pay the cost of moving 1000 miles the barrel of flour that yields him his daily bread for year. Everything points to most successful year in the history of the Newtown Academy. The term opens September 10, and the prospect is for full school. Residents in neighboring towns, who are in doubt as to where to send their children, will make no mistake in send ing them to the Newtown Acad- emy.
  The State Agricultural society holds it's 25th annual exhibition at Meriden, this year, September 1921, as the adver- Using columns of THE BEE announce more in detail. There are many and desirable cha lgcs this year, q new ar engagement of the grounds for which every farmer visitor will be truly thank full The local indoor exhibit will be at the new city hall, instead of the rink, as for several years past All the rail roads will sell excursion tickets, and the electric road will render the grounds more accessible than hitherto. All the old-time attractions and many new ones are promised, and the great fair, always helpful and enjoyable, promises to be even better than ever before.
 Our soldier boys come high. It ap- pears that the expense of the recent en- campment at Mantle was about $95, ,OO0, an amount which certainly verges on the extravagant. Complaint is also made that the state militia is top-heavy. There are six brigadier-generals, who draw $20 day during the encampment, and six colonels, who get $14.59 every day they are in service. Besides this, II of the leading officers are salaried officials of the state, whose pay as such goes on while they draw pay as national guard officers while in camp. No state should be without properly trained corps of militia, but doesn't Connecticut's camp need little shaking up?
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 Japan's side of the case in the little fracas it is having with China is stated something as follows: Korea was intro- duced into the family of nations by Japans advice and under her guidance 1; but China has habtually meddled with Korea's domestic affairs, and claimed Korea as her dependency, and when the recent insurrection broke out in Korea China sent troops there ostensibly to aid her dependent State. Japan, under the treaty of 1885, sent troops to Korea to save the latter from perpetual dis turbance," and asked China to cooper ate in this, an invitation which the latter refused to accept. Korea agreed to re- form matters, but China has 'insid iously" tried to thwart Japan's designs for the pacification of Korea, has pro crastinated and made warlike prepar ations. Under these circumstances the Japanese Government asserts it was forced to declare war formally.
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 The frontispiece of McClure's Mag azine for September is charming DOT trait of Mrs Robert Louis Stevenson and the opening article is no less charm ing relation, by MT Stevenson, of how soon after their marriage, he came tt write "Treas ure lsland," and of the un usual conditions under which he execu ted the work. Pictures of the houses and scenes in which the Stevenson lived at that time, and several portrit of Stevenson himself, accompany tn, article. In a very sprightly illustrated article by Robert Barr, an exposition it given of the "savate," or kick, as em |. ployed with great skill by the Frenci boxers. The eminent French chemist Prof Berthelot, in an interview witl ' Henry J. w. Dam, sets forth tho grounds of his belief that time i coming when milk, potatoes, beef, an, all the staples of human food will be sup piled from the laboratories of the chem ist, instead of from the fields of the farm CT. In an article illustrated with som very interesting composite photograph taken by himself, Dr H. P. Bowditch o Harvard Medical School discusses tn question whether composite photograph are typical pictures Lilienthal's flying r machine, on which all students of aeria 1. navigation now have their attention fixed and his latest achievements with it, ar described, with numerous illustrations by writer who himself witnessed tn achievements, and has carefully studio the machine. Cy Warman shows, in
 fully Illustrated article, that an empir of untold riches will be added to tn