Waterbury Democrat., 1902-11-08
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Some Stray Leaves From Reporters
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 '4For what use are rivers?" was the question asked of a number of school children by their principal the other day. The answer received from one little boy was to the effect that riv- CTS are used to wash dogs in and to skate on.
 Mark Murphy, who is playing part at the Jacques this week is the same old Mark would advise him to discard the red whiskers and the not very funny habit of splitting" out his words as one of the Rogers Bros terms it. Get new makeup Mark, a new song or two, and you will be just as funny and will not give of fense to your audience.
 A friend of Columbia university, in New York city, has offered to endoW a university press, with a prlVate printing plant, to cost S2O,OOO, TOT tne benefit of the student publications The offer is now in the hands or the trustees, where it's acceptance seems doubtful, inasmuch as several or the trustees are said to be unfayorable 10 the acquisition of press by the unl- versity. Whether or not the plan IS accepted by the trustees the student publications are practically assured or having private plant near the uni- versity. Several of the leading print ing firms in New York have already been approached with view of estab- fishing a branch near the institution 4I1o of oo11ocrn T1QnnrQ.
 The wonderful memory and affec- ton of the elephant is snown in the following incident which happened in HObokeu recently: Twenty years ago a man named George Reeves. of Will low avenue, Hoboken, was sergeant in the English army at Singapore. While there he treated the wounded leg of an elephant named Mamie" and they 'sbecame fast friends" On September 2S last MT Reeves strolled into ssthe old Twelfth street skating rink' in Hoboken, where Hagenbeck's animals were kept. AS he passed along one of the elephants seized him gently with her trunk and began to fondle him with every evidence of joy. It was 'Mamie." who had not seen her old friend for twenty years, but whom MT Reeves identified by the scar on her leg.
 B. T. Cressey, who has been a pre- siding elder in South Dakota journal ism for twenty-five years. issues the following unique and characteristic in- vitation from his home in Sioux Falls. The members of the printing craft will probably catch on quicker than the average reader: ..Dear Friend:- Here is a take for you on Saturday night, September 20, 1902. That date will be the fiftieth anniversary of my apprenticeship to learn the sart and mysteries CT printing in the office of the St Anthony Express at St An thony, now East Minneapolis, Minn. In other words, became the devil of that print shop. A man possessed of some degree of activity must have had a quad box half full of experience iD half a century.spaces' mixed; proof of several shades: uneven impression;' compelled to soldier for lack of s$;' and perhaps sometimes obliged to quad out when busted but never locked up'-except once. Also en- joyeS Several strings of 'phat and many good jobs. And used to write pieces for the papers little. Believ- ing that you will be interested in hear ing a summary of this experience in- vite you to come to my home and hear it on the evening named at eight o'clock, and stay till 30
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