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Waterbury Democrat., 1901-08-24
BOOKS AND AUTHORS

Admirers of the late William Ham 4ton Gibson and his pen and pencil in- terpretations of nature will be glad so learn that biography of him is to appear soon.
 Austin Dobson, after 55 years of continuous service as principal of the harbor and fisheries department of the British board of trade, has retired from public service to devote himself wholly to literary pursuits. He has the regular pension of an employe of the civil service, and a special pension secured for him by MT. Balfour.
 Sir Edwin Arnold, in writing to a friend in this country of his recent now quite blind and broken in health, he did not by any means intend, even if life was spared, that this work should be his last. He would, he said, work on as long as he was able to do work that satisfied him.
 The most remarkable book in the world, so far as it's appearance is con cerned, is neither written nor print ed. It is in the Imperial library of
 
 tissue paper with a pair of scissors. A sheet of blue tissue, in which the letters are cut, is placed between two pages of white, and so the matter is read.
 John Morley, talking with a friend about his literary work at Hawarden, said that his labor had been greatly lessened by MT. Gladstone's personal habits of order and regularity. Through the last 60 years of his career he not only preserved every important letter or document that reached him, but neatly indorsed it with his own hand and slowed it away in order of date. Among the papers docketed and stored at Hawarden in order of date MT. Morley found notes of a speech delivered by Mir. Gladstone at the OK ford union just 70 years ago.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-08-24
OAKYILLE HAPPENINGS.
THE ERNEST LAKE CASE NEXT
 MONDAY.
Will Lake Be Able to Testify Looks Doubtful Now-New Pipes at Reser- -Merrimacs ys Oakville stars.

Doubtful Now-New Pipes at Reser-
 yoir-Merrimac ys Oakville Stars.
 Ernest c. Lake is gaining in strength at the home of his mother and al though his case will come up for hear ing next Monday morning ill the town hall at Watertown it is very doubtful if his physical condition will allow him to take the stand as to what he knows about the eyentful night when he met with his injuries. Lakes mind appears to be calm and collected during the day time but at night becomes worse. It is thought that if his testimony is deemed a necessity, the state will de mand another adjournment 1t has been said by one of the officials that the hearing would be called Monday morning regardless of existing condi- tions.
 Arthur J. Rowland and sister. Lena, of Warren, Conn. have been visiting the Misses Mattoon. the sea shore.
 Miss Dora and Anna Mattoon left Friday for a short vacation at Walnut Beach.
 Another crowd of excursionists will go from here to Pleasure Beach next Tuesday.
 Victor Nygret will spend week at Walnut Beach.
 Mrs c. E. Warner, Mrs Hodges, Mrs Walter Conrad, accompanied by her son, Charles. will leave to-day for a vacation at WalnNt Beach.
 Miss Minnie Smith and Agnes Baer will spend their vacations at Walnut Beach.
 People in this section are now dig ging their potatoes. which are better and more numerous than was expect ed according to the discouraging re- ports, but the crop will hardly amount to half the quantity of last years, Potatoes have been reduced in price to 35 cents a peck.
 Mrs c. H. Bavier returned last even ing.
 The Oakville Stars will play the Merrimacs tomorrow.
 The pin room is shut down until next week owing to scarcity of wire.
 A. T. 1ueSOu IS QlSpOSIuS Ol d11 ulS machinery.
 Workmen are putting in new pipes at the gate of Niggerhead reservoir, which burst some few weeks ago. The pipes are iron and of large size.
 Judge Munger in the Union church tomorrow.
 Mass will be celebrated in St Mary Magdalene church at 1O:30 a. m. and services in the Union and All Saints churches at the usual hours tomorrow.
 Norman Dains is entertaining out-of- town guests.
 Frank Ball is very i'll with bilious fever.
 Mrs Schenman of Newburg, N. r., is the guest of Mrs Nellie Hcikox.
 Mrs Cahrles Warmer. ST, is spending few weeks at the shore.
 Mrs E. NJ. Skagen, wife of the Rev Mir Skagen of New York, is in this village visiting friends
 Mir and Mrs John Lynch spent last Saturday at Bantam lake
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-08-24
BUNKER HILL NOTES.

Workmen are pumping out the trenches dug for the construction of the new cement wall for the trolley, opposite Thomas Sunderland's black smith shop. The excavation is so close to the river that it is a difficult mat ter to maintain a dry bottom for the men to work on. A new engine has been set up on the ground and opera tions are being hurried with all possi- ble speed. Had the tracks been laid on the west side of the road, as was the wish of many citizens, it would have saved the company the cost of moving the tracks and an unnecessary outlay of some $27.000.
 c. H. Wells, engineer at the tube factory, will return from the New Jer- sey coast tonight, where he has been spending a vacation of one week.
 E. H. Oviatt left to-day for the sea shore to join his family over Sunday.
 Miss Amelia Bohl is spending week at Walnut Beach.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-08-24
FACTS CONCERNING NORWAY.

Norway takes 65,0OO,0O0 cod a year.
 Norway is the most thinly settled of all the European countries.
 Three-fourths of the entire area of Norway is not capable of cultiva- ton.
 The death rate in Norway is less than that of any country in the world, with the exception of Sweden.
 Norway has a greater excess of women over men than any other Flu ropean country. It amounts to 73,- 900 at present.
 England's ice import from Norway fell off last year by 55,814 tons, the total being only 44s,813 tons. More ice is now made in Britain than ever before.
 The Norwegian fjords never freeze. They are protected by the monstrous mountains and the water is tenn pered by warm currents that flow in from the gulf stream.
 The logevity of the Norwegians is said to be greater than that of any other race in Europe. By the last census 1900 people out of popula- ton of 2,000,OO0 were reported as over 100 years of age, and 16 had passed their one hundred and fourth year.
 The greater part of the population of Norway lives upon the coast and upon the islands that lie between it and the North sea. A few of the islands in the Lofoten group, which are the scene of the cod fisheries, are comparatively thickly settled, but the interior of the country has large sections without permanent inhab- itants, and the northern provinces, above the arctic circle, are occupied only by nomadic tribes of Lapps.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-08-24
UNDER THE UNION JACK.

Australia has ITO daily papers.
 Bengal has 49.664 widows who are under ten years of age.
 England has 1904 cemeteries, be- ing one to every 2,7OO inhabitants.
 The estates of the 3z largest land owners in Britain average 1ss,o0o acres each
 Ireland's stock of horses decreased last year from 610.415 to 5O7,641 a fall of 12.774.
 The carrying power of British ship ping is now 3O,sOO.OO tons, against s,4OO, 900 in 1850.
 Best Welsh coal gives s1 per cent. of coke; best French from Marse;lles only 41 per cent.
 The British islands are better pro- vided with rivers than any other country of the same size on the globe
 The British union jack has unfold ed itself, so to speak, over two acres of new territory every time the clock has licked since 1s0O-
 The Order of the Thistle consists of the sovereign British princes. and only IS knights. It is the smallest of the three great orders of knight hood in point of numbers, but the oldest
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-08-24
A snaehefti snree.

The doctor was talking about dys- pepsia. "The very things which a man who suffers from indigestion shouldn't eat are invariably the things he craves most,'' said the man of medicine. 'I have in mind one of my patients with whom spaghetti is a passion. He would rather eat spa ghetti than anything else in the world, and nothing in the world is so bad for him, for his digestive ap- paratus is in very bad order. Yet that man will occasionally go or what he calls spaghetti debauch. He will fix certain day, and for a week previous he will touch no liquor of an-- kind. will eat sparingly of the most simple foods and will take plenty of exercise. A. the ap- pointed time, having got himself into fine physical condition, he will go to a little restaurant down in the Ital- ian quarter and load up on spaghetti and Chianti, the Italian red wine. He has profound contempt for spa ghetti unless prepared by an Italian, and when he gets what he wants he never knows when to stop Of course he suffers for it afterward, but he saws it's worth the pains.''- Cincin- natl Enquirer.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-08-24
E.cu..a Tor HaseInr Girl.

James Keithley. arrested in Quincy, III, for walking along the street with his arm around a girl. told the judge he was ignorant of the rules govern ing Quincy society In Hunnewell, Mo-. the boys hugged the girls when ever they felt like it, and it was quite common to see young men walking downthe street with their arms around girls
 The judge excused the offender on payment of costs, but the girls of Hum newell did not excuse him. They met 1n body and adopted resolutions in which they score the young man in ten different paragraphs underscored in red ink, and offer a reward for his capture, "dead or alive"
 The town paper, the Graphic, was re- quested to print denialFof Keithley's statements. and it did so. Keithley will not have a chance to hug many girls if he comes to HunneweH
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-08-24
NAUGATUCK NUGGE IS.
WATERBURY MAN IN NAUGA-
 TUCK POLICE COURT.
Me Was Given Long Jail Sentence Interesting Ball Game Yesterday Won By the New Shop Team.

He Was Given a Long Jail Sentence
 Interesting Ball Game Yesterday
 Won By the New Shop Team
 John AIcAIahon, a Waterbury round CT. was arraigned before Judge Hun gerford this morning on the charge or iDtOxicatiOn, breach of the peace ana vagrancy. A number of women wno reside on Ward street were in court To testify against McAIahon- A few days agn he was begging on that street, and on being refused he was liberal in his abuse of the women. Judge Hunger ford found him guilty and sentenced him to ninety days in jail and costs.
 A very exciting ball game was played at Hotchkiss field yesterday af- ternOn between the teams representing the old and new shops. The interest shown by the followers of beth teams was intense and at times the crowd became very much excited. Welsh did the twirling for the new shop and Sutton was in the box for the old shop. Both pitchers were batted free ly, and the support at times was ragged. The old shop made the best showing up to the ninth inning and had the game in their hands by the score of Is to IT. But in the ninth Strstton muffed a fly with two men out and the new shop obtained she lead and won out by the score of 19 to IT.
 The united Foresters held a street parade last evening. the line of march being illuminated with colored fires. Their picnic. which was postponed last week. will be held this veening at Lin den park
 The hearing on benefits and dam- ages in the Trowbridge road extension will be held before Commissioners Root, Kilduff and Peck in the court room Monday morning.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-08-24
MAUD WITHERSPooN, RAG-DoLL
 MAKER

Miss Maud Witherspoon, gentle, fragile girl, thrown upon her own re- sources, has turned to account her wonderful gift of making rag-dolls and coloring them so as to represent the old-time southern black nanny Miss Witherspoon used to make these dolls merely for her own amuse- ment as child. when she and other little girls of the French quarter played dolls together. With the death of her father, and with an invalid mother to care for, she bethought herself of how she could best become self-suppOrting and. noting the craze for all things southern, she began some four years ago, while still mere chit of girl to manufacture rag-dolls, and painting their faces black, she sewed knitted hair on their heads, tied a graceful bandanna turban, and then robed them in the old-time guinea-blue dress, with white apron and white kerchief. Then Miss Witherspoon timidly sent some of her work to the big Canal street stores. She met with immediate success. Her black "mammies'' sold out in one day. She got more orders, and so her trade grew until she opened regular manufactory Now she is supplying the biggest firms in the north and east the Maud Witherspoon Kag-Doli Manufacturing company being known far and wide.-New Orleans Picayune.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-08-24
Wisdona Personified.

Knowitallbeforehan the infallib1e detective, patted the passing hobo genially on the shoulder.
 ''I'm looking for street car con ductor that made away with more nickels than his deposit with the com pany would cover" he said.
 The other, as was proper to the plot, paled perceptibly. "H-how dld you know mel" he faltered.
 ''Oh, that's. easy" answered the inf. det Anybody who ever saw genu- inc hobo would nail you in a moment as an impostor. The genuine article, while he never washes, occasionally scrapes a little of the grime from his hands in climbing over fence. Oh, yes"
 But the poor conductor saw the point too late, and soon he was in a service more tyrannous than that of the railroad company.-Buffalo Ex- press.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-08-24
splitting |. n MoraI crime.

'.Thou shalt not spit, Says. the Lon don Chronicle. is a commandment which is being enforced, everywhere with a rapidity that cannot be at fained by purely normal law. The paper proceeds to state the following example,:
 A man did it yesterday on crowd ed boat coming from Hampton court A lot of people looked at him as they would at a welcher or pickpocket. He was greatly perturbed by the ac- cusing glances of 20 pairs of eyes.
 ..He muttered that he was sorry for the habit and slunk away to the xefreshment room. The effect of tn , pubic disapproyal of the habit was zfrikine.~
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-08-24
A FEW SUPERLATIvES.

The highest mine in the world is a tin mine at Oruro, in Bolivia, 14,oO0 feet above the sea.
 The deepest bog in Britain is at Tre- garon, in Cardiganshire, where the peat is in places 30 feet deep.
 What is believed to be the oldest statue in the world has been dug up in Egypt lately. It was made about B. c. $500.
 The largest book ever made was the jubilee address of congratulation to Queen Victoria. It is IS inches thick and weighs 63 pounds.
 The oldest inhabited house in Eng land is on the River Yer, close to St. Albans Abbey. It is octagonal in shape and supposed to be seven cen turies old.
 The heaviest precious stone is zir- con, which is AZ times heavier than 8 similar quantity of water. The light est is. the opal, which is twice as heavy as water.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-08-24
DAILY TALK
CLOTHES LINE THIEVES REAP A
 RICH HARVEST.
Continue Their Depredations Under Cover of Darkness People on Main and Sheffield Streets Are Losers The Pool Match Baseball and Other Notes.


 Clothes line thieves have been en- toying rich harvest of late and peo- pie about the village are losers to the extent of a good many clothes. On Thursday evenings five or six differ ent families missed clothes of all de- scriptions from their lines and abso- Iutely no traces were left. A careful watch will be kept now for future repetitions of these occurrences.
 One of the most pitiable sights wit messed in the village in many day was seen on the public strets to-day. A young lady near the post office in a very drunken condition. staggered about the streets in utter bewilder- ment. She appeared well dressed and was probably stranger here. A To- cal woman out of sympathy for the strangers predicament offered her shelter until she recovered her senses.
 Miss Sarah Walsh, employed in the office of the American Pin company, is spending a two weeks vacation at Lake Champlain.
 Fred Snyder is on a two weeks va cation.
 Mir and Mrs Theron Mcintyre have gone to Sanfordville. N Y., to attend the funeral of MT McIntyre's father.
 Mrs Philip Trepaneir is on the sick list.
 Michael Madigan, clerk in Hamil- tons grocery store will leave Monday for the Pan-American exposition.
 
 H. A. Pendleberry will leave Mon day for a visit to Buffalo.
 William Flint joined his son at the sea shore this morning for a few days.
 The pool match last evening between teams representing the American P1G company and Berbecker x Rowland's, resulted in victory for the former by the score of 150 to 137. The feature of the match was undoubtedly the playing of John Faucett.
 The regular Waterville baseball team is playing picked nine from the Y. NJ. c. A. this afternoon on the To- cal grounds.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-08-24
The Little Wild Folk

Dear little wild folk of the woodlande Secreted in thicket and dell With every man s hand against you,
 How do you live? Who can tell? So winsome, so timid and graceful,
 Gazing at us with wide startled eyes, Like souls seeking vainly for friendship Living ever in fear of surprise. saw in the woods in the morning
 A partridge in motherly mood, Walking erect like matronA
 At the head of her tiny, brown broods A rabbit looked on with approval,
 Two squirrels frisked near in delight A bevy of birds sang in chorus
 They saw us! Oh. skurry and flight! Annie A. Preston, in Springfield (Aass.
 Republican.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-08-24
A FaithfuI Pigeon.

A pigeon breeder at Verviers, France, died, and train of borrowing friends and relations came to bear his body to the grave. But as the funeral procession was being formed one of the pigeons fiuttered down to the cof- fin, on which it perched. So, as the pigeon would not be driven away, it was taken to the cemetery, and here it stayed by it's dead masters tomb, neither moving nor eating till it died of tarvation.-Nature.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-08-24
cTIRE FOR CHOLERA INFANTUM.

"Last Nay says Mrs Curtis Baker of Bootwalter, O., "an infant child of our neighbors was suffering from chol- era infantum. The doctor had given up all hopes of recovery. took bot tie of Chamberlain's Collie. Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy to the house, telling them I felt sure 1t would tlO good if used according to directions. In two days time the child had fully recovered. and is now mearly a year since) vigorous. healthy girl. have recommended this Remedy frequently and have never known it to fail in any single instance For sale by all drug gists
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-08-24
Leprosx Not q Menace.

The official announcement that there are nearly 900 Iepers in the United States proper might have a terrifying effect were it not coupled with the assurance that leprosy is not contagious when proper precau- tions are taken, and, at any rate. is not nearly SC dangerous as consump- tion. The latter is the disease that this country needs to be especially afraid of.-Philadelphia Ledger.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-08-24
The Snme Tn-DaY.

s'Tn old times, when man com mitted mistake he was put in the stocks"
 Ut is sometimes that way now,'' sighed the fellow who had been dab bling on falling market. gro be caught in the stocks means you've done something you shouldn't have done. Philadelphia Times.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-08-24
A YOUNG LADY's LIFE SAVED.
At Panama, Colombia. by Chamber
 rhoea Remedy.

pr Charles H. Utter. a prominent physician, of Panama. Colombia, in a recent letter states: Hast March I had as patient young lady sixteen years of age, who had q very bad at tack of dysentery. Everything I pre- scribed for her proved intellectual and she was growing worse every hour. Her parents were sure she would die. She had become so weak that she could not turn over in bed. What to do at this critical moment was a study for me, but thinght of Chamberlain Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and as a last resort prescribed it. Within eight hours she was feeling much better: inside of three days she was upon her feet and at the end of one week was entirely we'll" For sale by all druggists.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-08-24
Excluaiveneaa

Ms. Purseproud-I see where sew eral millionaires chartered a. whole steamboat in order to come across the ocean.
 Mir. proud-Well, when we go over we will lease the ocean for a week.-Baltimore Amerie an.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-08-24
nhrm1nr Hnmrna1.

Probably the most extraordinary fournal in the world is published week I4 i1 Athens IT is written in verse, Sven the advertisements.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-08-24
Everv-flnv Thankn-

-77- Haste not dear heart, too fast and far
 To reaping days, To find what gifts and treasures are
 Meet for thy praise, Nor wait, thou hast done, to sing Thy sweetest thanks at harvesting. Just at thy gate a garden blooms
 With life and song, And in the fields thousand looms
 Hum all day long. To! all these golden summer days No toiling vale it's thanks delays. Be glad to-day. dear heart, for all
 Each season gives. Let come what may to speed the fall--
 The present lives No creature hath one reason why A thankless day should hurry by Frank Walcott Hut, in S. s. Times.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1901-12-05

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The Florence daily tribune., 1901-11-11
Night Business School.

In case sufficient number of
pupils desire it, a fifteen weeks
business course in bookkeeping,
business arithmetic and drawing
will be conducted by Mr.. Boner
and Mr., Lord at the Central school.
Those interested should register
with one of the above named
teachers this week as the class will
be conducted only in case there is
goodly mum ber who desire it.
Both teachers having the matter
in charge have had successful
practice and professional exper-
ience
The work done by Mr., Lord in
penmanship ought to be taken by
all young people who wish to learn
to write.
The Florence daily tribune., 1901-11-11
Battle OF the Biscuits.

The contest held in ID X Me
Rae's store Saturday was not only
the most unique but one of the
most interesting aud pleasing ever
held in this city The battle of
the biscuits would not be an in
appropriate name for the contest,
for such indeed it Was.
Mr. McRae is agent for the
famous Bucks range and it was to
create an interest in this particular
article that the contest was inaug-
urated For some time Mr.. McRae
had advertised through The
TRIBUNE the conditions of the
contest. which were that the con
testant must be little girl net
over fourteen years of age, aud
that she must come to his store on
November 9 aud bake pan of
biscuits on Bucks range To
the little girl baking the best bis
cults would be given small range.
the exact counterpart in miniature
of the range in which the baking
should be done
The result of this advertising
was that all dag Saturday McRae's
store was crowded, and I45 names
were registered for the contest.
And then the battle began. -Four
could work at time, and it was
the prettiest kind of sight to see
the little women, some of them less
than eight years old. hurrying
back and forth in their little white
aprons and their chubby arms
barred to their dimpled elbows.
First the -four was carefully
measured and sifted with the bak-
ing powder, II pinch of salt and
just the right sized lump of coto-
line and the proper amount of
milk Then the little fingers
mixed the mass until it was Just
right, rolled it to just the righ,
thickness, cut it into the tiniest
little disks which were placed in
the oven heated to just the proper
temperature te And those biscuits
would have tickled the palate of
an epicure. Light, fiaky, sweet
we'll there were some mighty nice
biscuits out of all that nu Der.
At 4:30 the judges, Mesdames
Champion. Gum and Whitney,
began their work, and difficult |
task it was The plates we're num-
bered and the judges had no way
of knowing to whom they we're |
awarding the much coveted prize |
The result was that Myrtle Ham |
mer received the first prize, pret-
tv nickle plated Bucks range, and |
Lora Jack and Sylvia Greenwood |
were given second and third prize,
respectively. These were little
cast iron stoves, much smaller than |
the first prize