The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1898-11-18
depended upon. This was evident at
recent concert that I heard.
THE AIR, TOO, Is CHARGED WITH ELEc-
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TRICITY
to much greater degree than usual. A
gentleman tells me that his children
often play by running about their rooms
and touching each other with an electric
spark. This Is done without pushing or
rubbing the feet on the carpets. A ply
sic IN Informs me that often. in taking
up an instrument to apply to q patient,
at the first contact with his person it
gives snap, which the patient NOT only
hears, but feels. This quality Of the
| atmosphere, he says, is exciting and
| tends TO nervousness. but it has COM
pensarion in the purity of the air and
| other conditions.
The rarity of the air induces increased
activity of The heart, and persons much
affected with heart disease should not
come here. During my stay, / have
known several to be sent home In haste
on this account. The purity of the air
is the greatest of It's sanitary virtues.
Dead horses and other animals, when left
out on the adjoining prairie, do not putre-
~ or emit odors; they simply dry up.
No one thing here attracted my at5en-
ton at first mure than the number ana
variety OF dogs. it being 20 unusual
| thing to find three or four claimed BY
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quadrupeds, it may be said, they are
quite respectable community. Among
tne st Demands, especially, are some
fine specimens OF canine gentlemen. The
presence OF so many of stman's beat
! friend" Is accounted for by the fact that
there are so many people OF leisure,
or OF those who have nothing to do and
can do nothing, that the companionship of
these favorite pets is sought as one of the
remaining comforts of life. Cats do not do
weHs | had been here two months be-
fore seeii g one. Rats are said to be alb
sent or vety scarce; but flies, during the
summer are reported TO be the most
plentiful, persistant and pestiferous of
fall Colorado nHisances. The houses
show this. There Ia hardly completed
domiciie in town, but has screens per-
manently placed over It's windows, and
in the warm season, over its doors, and
have noticed verandas barricaded
against the pest in the same manner.
AS to the water brought into the
houses from the mountains, it Ia claimed
by the people that it is just impure
enough to be healthy-quite the purest
water, they say, In the state.
Real estate dealers and agents should
not De forgotten. where there are so
many to be remembered On one city
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from as many different agents. There
could be no doubt about that particular
piece of land being very much in market
yet am obliged to say that these gentle
men as far as have observed viii COM
pare favorabIy In fairness and helpful
attention with any of their kind that
have ever met. There has been no
slump here SO great in real estate mat
tiers as in most other towns of the west.
Property has kept pretty well up through
all the dullness OF recent years. Rents
have been high and are still high. and
this accounts for what seems to nae
good deal OF activity In building. This
is
NOT CHEAP PLACE TO LIVE IN, AND I
AM TOLD, NOT CHEAP PLACE TO DIE
With 80 many invalids resortinQ here.
under greater or less stress, it might be
supposed that this is deepondent and
lugubrious part of the world. It is not
go, excepted it may be as to shut-in and
fargone casea, and also excepting the oc-
casional down-days Of the average stun.
GER One OF the new corners told me
of the aEfnYinh yaorf xu,;tk, rwrt~s.R