Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-09-01
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THE members of the town school board
are unanimous in the opinion that spelling
as q study at school is not up to what il
used to be some years ago. Judge Cowell
had charge of the recent examination in
this study and prepared the following list
of words, some of which puzzled appli-
cants whose average was a hundred in
much more difHcuit matters: Advance
ment. arrangement. emissary, cocoanut.
eel, fraternity, economy. ceremonies. cata-
logue. chronological. circular. interesting.
discussions. intelligently, interference. in
vitation, judgment, judicious, experience,
installation, telephone. twelfth. reel, physi
ology. raisins, prairie. maintenance. neces-
sary, occasion, picnickers. parallel. preju-
dicial. picturesque, philanthropy, subordi-
nate, substantive, stationary, receiving,
requirement. thoroughly, sociology. un-
firing. vigorous. voluntary. principle.
sugar. surpassed; sympathy. inaugurate,
sleemosynary, wharf. queue" Every one
of the applicants misspelled "eleemosy-
nary" half of them could not spell
| twelfth" and very few spelled queue
correctly, while a good many did not spell
"picnickers" according TO Webster. AL
were correct on the temperature of the
blood and pulse beats. Respiration most
of them set down as the same as the heart
beat.
The returns of the Consolidated railroad
for August so far indicate q material in
crease. both in passenger and freight
traffic. over the business done by the road
during the corresponding month of last
year. There has also been a general indi
cation according to General Superintend
/ emit Plat that business will be better this
year than last. He is of the opinion that
| the increase is not a mere squirt. The Au
| gust passenger traffic increase is largely
due to what is called summer traffic
| Summer traffic in the railroad business il
considered as a sort of barometer of the
next years business. The freight hauled
has been largely coal and raw material
indicating that the factories of New Eng
land will resume during the fall.
ALDERMAN Cross and T. d. Mccarthy
the we'll known Irish republican of the
fourth ward, were consoling each other on
Bank street this morning when q reporter
approached and asked them how they felt
over the result of the so-called republican
caucus. Mr. Cross said he came out of the
fracas all right. He and his friend. T. D.
Barlow, and few other shrewd republi-
cans, saw the storm coming and lay low
until it passed over their heads, and then
crawled out from under the debris with all
their hair. He was sorry his friends. j. H.
Hart and l.. 1. Munson faced the tornado
and got such a shaking up. But" he
said, casting a sly glance at Mr. Mccarthy,
wasn't it a hot shop for an Irish republi.
CAM" Mr. Mccarthy said he did not take
much notice of what took place after he
saw what was going on. The only thing
that bothered me" he said. twas to see q
good chance to get out. and just as soon as
could reach the door. it did not take
me long to get out of the place. 1t looked
as though it was going to be repetition
of the massacre at Mullaghamast. of which
some one said, "a great many Catholics
were going in but none coming out"