Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1901-01-17
CURRENT EVENTS.

Railway lines in Sweden have to pro-
vide a special car for intoxicated persons.
This would be good idea to adopt during
tho summer excursion season to Platts-
burgh.
Ex-Gov. Roosevelt, with a party of
hunters, has gone to the Coyote basin in
Colorado after lions and bears The ex-
Governor is something of lion himself and
can "show his teeth" with the best of
them.
A man in Chicago heard of plan &C
cordng to which family could live on
seventeen cents day for food. The
scheme appealed to him strongly and he
gave it trial After few days, not be-
inc able to reach the originators of the
nlan he beat his wife because she ought to
have known better than let him try it,
The theory that salt will preserve youth
and beauty is declared by Dean Chitten-
den of the Yale university to be anything
but fresh, having been tried so many times
as to practically decide that it can never
be proven either a cure or preventive of
old age
This is distinctly disappointing to people
who hailed the "salt process" with JOY and
were willing, nay anxious, to be cured like
cod fish if they could thereby obliterate
the marks of advancing years.
The interrupted search for Ponce de
Icons fountain of youth may as well be
resumed, while "the bloom of youth" con-
tinues to be bought at the drug stores.
It seems pity that Tesla could not have
had a system of communication in working
order with the inhabitants of Mars in time
to have Roo.evelt's New Years address de-
livered simultaneously to the people of
that planet and the Young Mems Chris
tian associations of the earth
Teddy is great advertiser and at his
present rate of strenuous enterprise will
soon need ! the space the entire planetary
system can afford.
Abram Rothmyer, an eccentric German
of Sharon, Pa, through fear of grave rob-
bers, had a heavy metal casket with a
strong lock made and set on end in room
of his house.
He was highly delighted with his grue
some purchase and took great pleasure in
taily inspecting it A few nights ago he
vas trying to move the casket when it fell
on him, inficing an injury from which he
I died the next day
1t is rare occurrence for man to be
killed by bis coffin; neither, as genera
r rule, is it an article that he cares to select
for himself.
Since Mr.. Rockefeller's gift to Vermont
academy, the other institutions of learning
in the state have not been able to rejoice
with unfeigned joy over the good fortune
of the academy at Saxtons River on &C
count of what they appear to consider their
vastly superior claims to such gift
J, The friends of each school seem to think
r it the only one Vermont needs and would
: be pleased to close the doors of all the
others and absorb their endowments.
The Vergennes Enterprise comes for
= ward with the most convincing claim fol
$ Middlebury college, which" it says
needs the money, and which furnished {
baseball battery last season that was the
best in the state "
y This is doubtless pleasantly on the par
: of the Enterprise, but it almost Seems
3 sometimes to be the popular opinion tina
college or academy that attempts to d'
anything but keep concert company
t called Glee club, on the road all winter
: baseball team travelling all the spring
and early summer, football team playin!
,, from one end of the country to the othe
: through the fall, with basket ball asso
cation for any unapproprlatsd moment
= there may be, is not following the mos
|, stylish methods of instruction Still it ma,
be that pupils really do little old fash
ioned studying-though one can bardl..
see how they manage it-and that a bool
, or two can be found around the schoo
buildings if one looks sharp enough
It is evident that schools are as jealou
. and selfish as individuals, but the fact re
mains that the prosperity of Vermont acad
: envy is due to its excellent work and tina
its good fortune is deserved.
II the Baby Is Cutting Teeth
: he sure and use that old and well-tried rom
edy, Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, 70
children teething. 1t soothes the child