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Waterbury Democrat., 1902-06-25
SUBURBAN DEPARTMENT
WATERTONN JOTTINGS.
Fine Time at the Methodist Church
 Festival Last Night.

The strawberry and ice cream socia- ble which was held at the Methodist church last evening was one of the most enjoyable events of the season. A first class entertainment was given, consisting mostly of singing and recita- tions by the members of the Sunday school.
 I Mrs Carver, who has for some time 1 been visiting at Mrs Dougherty's, re- turned to her home in New Haven yes. terday.
 Miss Minnie Pegrum of Nova Scotia l is visiting friends in town. | The postponed school picnic of the Center school was held at Quassapaug yesterday. A very good time was en- joyed by all.
 | George Brown, who has been paint ing several cottages at Laurel Beach, returned home to-day. 1 Rev Father Loftus, rector at St Johns church. left Monday for Wor- cester to join the priests in retreat. He will return home Saturday evening. Tomorrow will be Children's day with the grangers. An extensive pro. gram has been arranged and the chil- dren are rehearsing daily for the event.
 B. c. Marggraff and family have gone to their cottage at Laurel Beach.
 Edward Greeley of Waterbury has accepted the position as sexton at St Johns church.
 Gideon Hoffman, an employe of c. W. & T. k. Atwood, while hauling a load of brick from the yard yesterday. Ieii rom the wagon and was severely l injured.
 Election of officers will take place in Columbia lodge, No 12, K. of P, to- morrow night. There wfll also be re, hearsal for memorial services, and a large attendance is necessary.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-03-25
MAGIC SNOW CRYSTALS

Some 100 photographs, taken last
winter and the winter before, have
been added to the collection of micro
Photographic" reproductions of snow
crystals in the Harvard Neurological
Museum. The collection has been made
by w. A. Bentley of Nashville, little
town in snowbound Vermont, and is
practically a scientific record of the
New England snowstorms of the last
quarter of a century. Altogether 1t in
cludes about 600 specimens, and, with
Mr.. Bentley's somewhat larger private
collection, it may be described as
unique in character and extent, and,
as Professor Wolff, the curator of the
Neurological Museum has called 1t, a
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-03-25
PRlNOELY CADETS.
Young Indian Chiefs and Mobiles Who
Have Joined the New Corps.

Young Indian Chiefs and Mobiles Who
Have Joined the New Corps.
Thus far seventeen young chiefs and
mobiles have joined the imperial cadet
corps, which was established in India
a short while ago. OF these, thirteen
come from Rajputana and the central
states, two from the Bombay presi-
dency, one from the Punjab, and one
from Hyderabad. Four are ruling
chiefs. The others are scions OF
princely or aristocratic families, most
of whom have been educated at ths
various chiefs colleges. 1t is the pur-
pose of the viceroy to modify, in some
| degree, the curriculum at these insti-
| tuions, In order that the pupils may be
| better qualified for the duties which
they will have to perform hereafter
as cadets, and later in staff positions
In the Anglo-Indian army. A winter
camp for the corps has been arranged
at Meerut, and the first course of in
struction will be given there. The
government will provide each cadet
with charger. The number of horses
and ponies and personal attendants for
each cadet has been narrowly limited.
Living in camp will be simple and the
discipline strict. The closest attention
will be paid to caste rules. The en-
tire course of instruction, which viii
combine drill, riding and military ex-
ercises, with suitable indoor instruc-
ton, will be so designed as to enable
the pick of the cadets in time to take
their places as British officers. while
never losing the character and bearing
of Indian gentlemen. When on duty
and during instruction the cadets will
wear simple uniform. On ceremonial
| or state occasions they will wear a
state uniform, for which special de-
signs are to be made. Probably the
cadets will soon be inspected by the
viceroy, and they will form conspic-
uous feature in his escort at the proc
lamation durbar at Delhi on January
1. 1903. The result of this attempt TO
bring the British and native divisions
of the Anglo-Indian army into close
relationship will be watched with in
terest.-New York Post
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-03-25

ed storm produce also different types.
In the New England region the north
ern and western portions of the storm
produce more perfect crystals than the
southern and eastern.
The internal structure of the snow
crystal, a delicate tracery that some
times suggests Gothic ornamentation
on an infinitely minute scale Of draw
ing and at others miniature repro
duction of the snow-laden frs Of pine
forest, is practically a life history of
the snow crystal itself AS the higher
cloud strata are colder than those near
err the earth the crystals formed there
are smaller, more compact, and less
branched than those of the warmer
clouds below them.
These crystals as they fall from one
cloud stratum to another change in
haracter-although this is not always
the case, especially in great storm
or where the lower clouds are Of low
temperature--but it is usually possible
to deduce their starting point from an
examination of their internal structure.
Il
that is, in its original form, in spite
of the various additions which are
made to it during it's passage down
ward The crystal may pass through
cloud layers very similar to that from
which it came or it may experience
various vicissitudes of temperature,
density and other conditions, but all
the phenomena appear clearly in a
comparison of the Harvard photo
graphs.
Occasionally crystal is formed that
is an accidental compound of two 9th
ers, but as a general thing careful
study of a single crystal tells per-
fectly coherent story, and this study
is the more fascinating in that the
manner of telling is so infinitely varied
that the observer may always expect to
find some new point Of aesthetic as
well as scientific interest.-New York
Press.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-03-25

Out of the several columns of stuff
that the heavy weights have thrown
1t each other within the past ten days
there is only one thing that seems
10 be positive. Jeffries is willing to
light to defend his title and Sharkey
is willing to meet him on that propo-
sition. What Fitzsimmons may or
may not do is all a matter Of guess
work The public probably would be
better satisfied If match were made
between the champion and the Cor
nishman. There are still many who
believe that, in spite of his age, Fitz
could put up a great fight. But the
chances of such match appear to be
doubtful
Within the past week 1t has been
settled that Sharkey and Jeffries are
to come together in San Francisco
some time in March or April. The
match is indefinite and doubtful. The
sailor may not be acceptable to the
California patrons of boxing, and if
much objection is raised it is likely
that the bout will either have to be
fought elsewhere or declared on alto
gether At the present writing, how
ever, it appears that, If there is a
chamionship bout, it will have to be
fought in San Francisco, and that it
will be between Jeffries and Sharkey.
1t has been agreed that, should
Fitzsimmons decide to fight Sharkey
is to step aside in favor of the Cor
nishman.
In the meantime it is decided that
Terry McGovern and Dave Sullivan
shall settle their argument on the
coast. At the present time San Fran
cisco seems to be the best and only
good place for pulling off big bouts
The only other place is at Hartford
and it is doubtful whether a big
match could be given there. With
Denver closed, California is about
the only good fighting ground in the
country, although there was no lack
of bids for the Jeffries-Sharkey bout
from Canada, Louisville, st. Louis ant
other places.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-03-25
WOMEN GIVE MILLIONS.
Gifts and Requests of Rich Members OF
the Fair Sex.


the Fair Sex.
Women were, as usual conspicu-
ously generous with gifts and requests
during 1901-the first year of the new
century. The record for charitable,
educational and like purposes reaches
approximately the sum of $1S,0OO,OO0,
or about S1500000 every month. OF
the $15,00O,O0 given to colleges alone
during the first six months of the
year women contributed S6,O0O,O0O. 1t
has been noted that, while men give
more literally to education, women
contributed chiefly to charity and re-
ligion. Her beautiful home in Virginia,
1900 acres of land and an endowment
of 100000 is a recent gift, by will,
of Mrs. Indiana Williams for girls
school. Mrs. Mccormick, of Chicago,
continues her liberal gifts to educa-
ton, and Miss Helen Gould contrib
uted to the same cause most gener-
ously. Vassar College has been pre-
scented with scholarships as well as
the New York University, the latter
receiving a fund for perpetual endow-
ments. Miss Gould is also interested
in Young Mems Christian Associa-
lions, having erected buildings for
several. Yale College has profted by
the generosity of several women. A
valuable library, 100000 to establish
Y. M. G. A. for the scientific school,
and money to found memorial fell
lowship being among the important
gifts. Libraries have profited to the
extent of 100000 by women's gifts.
In the realm of charity, gifts and be-
quests are recorded aggregating the
splendid sum of $10,000000. Rarely,
if ever, has so much money been con-
tributed for charitable purposes as
this year. Upon Easter day alone in
New York churches, nearly half mill
lion was placed on the aims basins at
the different services, Grace church
giving $167, 500 of this amount. 1t is
safe to say that women gave over half
of this near half million dollars. At
the triennial convention of the Epis-
copal church, held at San Francisco,
in October, women gave 100000 for
missions, and pledged the further sum
| of $4,000 for a girls school in China.
One of the most notable gifts for hos
pitfalls is that of Mrs Coils p. Hunt
ington, who has presented her beauti-
full home in San Francisco to the city,
to be converted into a hospital for
women. The house cost a quarter OF a
million dollars and was used only
about two months in the year by the
Huntingtons.- indianapolis News.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-03-25

Secretary Hay and Lord Pauncefote
have a most honorable ambition IL
they are seeking to settle all the ques-
tons in dispute between this country
and Great Britain, with reference to
Canada. The most serious question is
that of the Alaskan boundary. Practi-
cal agreement, as we understand, was
reached by the joint high commission
on all other questions. But our British
friends wished everything settled or
everything left open, and as the com
mission could not get together on the
Alaskan boundary, its deliberations
were indefinitely postponed. Perhaps
now settlement will be more easily at
tanned This country has whatever
rights Russia possessed. 1t would seem
that it ought not to be impossible to
determine what those rights were.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-03-25
A "HanRWoman."

Women compete with men in many
trades, professions and other means of
obtaining a livelihood, but the very
last in which one would expect to find
the gentle sex is that which was so re-
Gently followed by Mr.. Ellington.
"Hangwoman" is an Objectionable
term, but it is duly entered in the
"New English Dictionary" The wom-
an and the word are both nineteenth
century productions. Lady Betty" as
she was called, was not i'll favored,
either, and is described in "The Dub
lin University Magazine" for January,
1850, "as a middle aged, stout made,
dark eyed, swarthy complexioned, but
by no means forbidding woman" Ire
land was the scene of her labors. and
she officiated unmasked and undis-
guised as a hangwoman for a great
number of years, and often flogged in
and through the streets, being ex-
tremely severe, particularly on those
of her own sex.-London Chronicle.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-03-25
TO Vote on A. A. .. Amendments.

John j. Dixon, secretary of the
Metropolitan Association of the ANA
teur Athletic Union, has sent out to
the clubs in the association list of
the amendments to the constitution
which were submitted to the annual
meeting Of the Amateur Athletic
Union and favorably granted subject
to the final action of the local asso-
Citations themselves. Most prominent
Of the amendments was the request
for individual representation from
each club in the local association upon
the board of managers. If the neces-
sary vote is obtained in favor of the
amendments the changes will go into
effect Feb. 8, when all the votes are
expected to be in.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-03-25
WHERE THE HEN NEsTED.
Her Efforts to Furnish Good Break
fast Not Appreciated.

Her Efforts to Furnish n GOOD BREAK
fast Not Appreciated.
We put up at night at the little
matched resthouses reserved for the
occasional traveller, but the permanent
abode of rats. At the village of Kyat-
pyin (Burmah) 1 had as many as six
rats on my bed, all struggling to reach
my boots, which l had taken the pre-
caution to hang from a peg on the
wall, knowing how much Russian
heather is appreciated by the rodent
tribe.
Sleep was impossible with the enemy
on all sides, for the rats not bent on
supping off my boots were hunting I'M
der my pillow for fragment of can
die and a box of matches which I
thought might be safe from their
clutches.
But rat is not easily daunted, and
with a shove they shot pillow, match
es and candle on the floor. Then my
blood was up, and l rose in fury, and
hurled boottrees and everything
could lay hands on at the retreating
foe.
Peace reigned Tor short time; then
they returned to the attack with re-
newed vigor.
1 have had many funny experiences
| in out-of-the-way rest houses in the
East, but the strangest was once on
the Thibetan frontier, where one night
I was awakened by a snorting sound
close to my ear, and to my horror 1
found that my head was held down by
something heavy resting on it.
The heavy object edged off on my
trying to move, and by the light Of a
spluttering match 1 discovered an ell
Derby hen seated on my pillow and the
egg she had laid there.
For three months we had been trav-
cling at an altitude too great for poul-
try to exist, and had longed for eggs
to vary our limited fare of timed
meats.
But-such is the perversity of human
nature-I was exceedingly annoyed
with the layer of that egg, and hurled
her cackling forth into the darkness
though l kept the egg for my break
fast-Cornhill
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-03-25
Hsrrsshofr Anticipates order.

Anticipating another international
yacht race, Captain Nat Herreshoff, it
is understood, has plans well under
way for a ninety-footer to defend the
Americas cup against Sir Thomas Lip
toms proposed Shamrock III. No or
der has been given, nor has it been de-
cided as yet that the Columbia and
Constitution shall be set aside in favor
of new sloop, but Mr.. Herreshoff is
looking to the future as he did in 1900.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-03-25
Foreig ners in Boston.

Boston was at one time considered
the most distinctively American of the
cities of the United States, but that
distinction exists no longer. The last
published report of the Boston Board
of Health, good guide to the division
of population, shows that the number
of deaths for the week was 237, as
against 2O2 forthe corresponding week
last year OF the number 233 were
white and four colored; LAG were born
in the United States, eighty-fve in for
.eign countries and six of unknown ma
tionality; forty-seven were of Ameri-
can parentage. The increase in the
foreign-born population Of Boston is
mostly from Ireland, Canada and Rus
STA. The German population of Bos-
ton continues SMALL York sun.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-03-25
p1an Oollsre rootban aamo..

Managers of the athletic teams of
the Universities of Chicago, Michigan,
Illinois, Iowa and Northwestern ar
ranged nearly their entire baseball
schedules and part of their football
dates for next fall at conference at
Chicago recently. The principal fea-
ture of the meeting was the scheduling
of Northwestern as the first big foot
ball game for the Maroons next fall.
This annual contest will take place on
October 10. Illinois comes to North
western to play on November is. Mich
igan and Chicago arranged four base
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-03-25

monument to the patience, skill and
enthusiasm of its maker.
The crystals, magnified from 81 to So
diameters, are literally infinite in va
riety, for no two are precisely alike.
Certain types recur frequently, such as
the star-shaped crystal, the star form
with solid nucleus, the tabular form,
and numerous variations of skeleton
growths with the hexagon as a base,
but the inclusion of air while the
crystal is in process of formation gives
to each specimen some unique distinc-
ton, taking the form, in many cases,
of a beautiful lace-like design that
nothing less quick and accurate than
the camera possibly could perpetuate.
The frost on the window pane or the
effect of snow in a forest of evergreens
Is familiar example of a kind OF
beauty which an examination of al
most any one of these hundreds OF
specimens reveals equally well in what
is only fraction of an individual
snowflake.
1t is interesting to know that the
method of photographing these minute
crystals is so simple that. as the pho
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-03-25
curIous Result OF a rranslatIon.

In the preface to a new translation
in English of Tolstoi's ''Sevastopol" an
amusing story is told of the way in
which a German translator handled
the inscription to anna Karenina,"
vengeance is mine; 1 will repay"
That transcription was written by Toll
stoi in the ecclesiastical Slavonic used
by the Russian church, and the trans
lator produced this rendering: RE
venge is sweet; will play the ace"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-03-25

Minneapolis Times: The Milwau-
kse ministers are engaged in a crusade
against gambling and will carry the
war into the municipal campaign next
spring. They will interview every
candidate on the subject and those
that are not outspoken in support of
the reform movement will be attacked
from the pulpit. Some of the Milwau-
kee politicians will be subjected to a
terrible strain.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-03-25
Notes of varIou. Sports.

An offer of $4,000 was recently made
for Zoloch (2:1O1z), the California pa
Ger. The offer was refused.
Oarsman George of Harvard is plan
ming to make try for the diamond
SOULS at Henley this summer
Pennsylvania has accepted the chal-
lenge of the University of California
for dual track meet at Philadelphia
this spring.
Trinket (2:14), who in her day was
second only to the great Maud S.
among the trotting mares of the coun-
try, died at Milton, Mass, aged &c
years.
Homer Selby, "Kid" McCoy's broth
err, is bankrupt. He recently filed Pc
tition in bankruptcy in New York. He
owes. according to his admission, some
thing more than $1,000, but has moth
ing with which to settle.
Tom Williams, the former welter-
weight champion of Australia, who
fought Mysterious" Smith about eight
years ago at Coney Island, wants to
meet joe WdlCOlI. WlllldulS, WuO 10
now physical instructor at French Lick
Springs, says he would like to meet the
colored champion at las pounds.
An organization to govern boxing is
the latest sporting venture launched. II
is the plan of the organizers, all re-
putable sporting men, to handle the
popular sport just as racing, baseball
and other successful pastimes are di-
rected. The new body Is known as the
American Athletic Promoters Protec-
tive association. James Kennedy Is
president. The headquarters of the new
association are in New York.
The Western turf war is over, az
every racetrack in the Southwest will
be under the control Of the Western
Jockey Club after next Monday. This
was decided upon after a conference a
Cincinnati between Messrs. Palmer anC
Hendrie, who control the Highlan,
Park track of Detroit; the Fort Erie
Canada, and Douglas Park, Louisville
and R. c. Chambers, who controls tn
Windsor Park.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-03-25

tographer himself says, the field can
be entered by anybody who possesses
the necessary combination of camera
and microscope. The photograph,
especially when mounted as a stereo-
scopic view, is practically the crystal
itself, not only preserved in its general
outline, but with all the interior detail
arrangements of loops, lines and dots
in patterns of endless charm and vari-
ety-that the most skilful drawing
could not reproduce with even approx
mate completeness.
1t has been found that any photo
micrographic device such as will read
lily occur to anyone familiar with mi
croscope and camera can be used to
photograph snow crystals, but Mr.
Bentley recommends that the micro
scope should be fitted with half-inch
or two-thirds-inch objective, of wide
aperture and short axis; that the
focusing apparatus be exceptionally
quick and accurate; the diaphragm
aperture not more than one-sixteentf
of an inch; the illumination, ordinary
uncondensed daylight; and the ex
posture, rapid plates being used, from
forty seconds to FIVE minutes. TIT
chief difficulty to be overcome is Il
prevent the crystals from melting, ant
the whole work must be done in COLI
room, with but one open window II
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-03-25
mlnneapolls whlst Club wins.

The Minneapolis Whist and Chess
club scored it's twelfth win for the
third challenge trophy of the Ameri-
can Whist league when it defeated the
Horlick Whist club of Racine by three
tricks. Horlick started in the land and
was two tricks to the good at the end
of the first half. A bad break by the
Racine players on deal 81, however,
cost them four tricks and the game.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-03-25
john splan.s Illness Not serious.

John Splan's recent illness, his
many friends will be glad to learn,
has been greatly exaggerated. The
veteran driver has been suffering
from a heavy cold for some time, but
has not been down with pneumonia,
as reported from Terre Haute.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-03-25
Collegiate Records Broken.

Arthur Tying, member of the
sophomore class at Harvard, broke
the Harvard and intercollegiate
strength records by registering 2,226.4
points. His legs, back and upper
arms are by themselves stronger by
sixty points than the record of Allis
of Minnesota, who headed the inter-
collegiate list last year.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-03-25
a. H. Raven Chairman.

Alexander H. Revell has been ap-
pointed chairman of the committee on
concessions for the International Olym-
plan Games association, which will
meet In Chicago in 1904. The other
members of the committee will be an
nounced in few days.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-03-25
oolleOtion for PRINCETON.

Princeton University is soon to re-
ceive, from Professor D. Wilson, a col
lection of Syriac manuscripts said to be
the largest and most valuable ever
made by private individual. Many
of the documents date from the reign
of the Emperor Constantine.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-03-25

San Francisco bay is to be tunneled
to accommodate the traffic between
opposite sections of the city which
now has to go around. The distance
fs about FIVE miles and the subway
will pass beneath an island in the
bay.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-03-25

contract to Fizer & Co., the st. Louis
horsemen, and his term had several
months yet to run. Tichenor & Co.,
through William Daniels, purchased
his release, and it is rumored that the
price paid was $4,000 1t is likely that
o'Brien's salary will amount to as
much more.