Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-11-07
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Some Stray Leaves From Reporters
 Note Book.

Some Stray Leaves From Reporters
 Note Book.
 The butter matter at the Brookside home has brought out a lot of opinions one way and the other. One man who has diploma from a college and who claims to have pretty good appetite, says that the boarders in the big build ing on the town farm are fed better than most college men. Perhaps this Is true, but even so it does not meet the question raised by those who take the ground that old folks ought to have little butter on their bread. What < dlnerence does it make to the average college man whether his bread Is but tered or not? As a rule they are hale and hearty and able to subsist upon al- most any sort of diet so long as it is clean. It Is different with the old man and the old woman who are tot cerlng along toward the grave and need something different in the way of food TO what they had in their younger years. There Is nothing in the state ment, either, that what the boarders at Enc home get to eat is as good as they were used to before they went there.
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 The provisions of the present char Ter which went into effect in .1soe relative to the appointment. of commits s1oners. and the control of the poIice and Ire departments, is a radical de- parture from the mode in operation prior to that time. Under the old charter each department was under the control of a separate board but under the present charter both de- partments are under the control of the hoard of public safety. The wisdom or this plan is doubted by many who make study of municipal affairs They claim that, inasmueh as the members of that board receive. no compensation for their services, 1t is asking too much of them to care for both departments. and that either department would be all that single hoard should be required to look after However that may be, 1t is certain that the present board has had it's hands full, and it's members, as one of them tersely put it at a recent meet tng,. have had to work overtime.
 For two centuries England enjoyed practically a monopoly of the lead pencil industry. Tn the eighteenth century, however. the lead pencil in- dustry had found it's way into Ger many. In 1761 Caspar Faber, in the village of Stein, near the ancient city of Nuremburg. Bavaria, started in a modest way the manufacture of lead pencils. and sNuremburg became and remained the center of the lead pen ell industry for more than a century. For i've generations Fabers descend ants made lead pencils. The pencil, ' so generally used to-day, is not made from lead, but from graphite. It de- serves it's name from the, fact that prior to the time when pencils were made from graphite metallic lead was employed for the purpose Graphite was first used in pencils after the dis covery in 1885 of the famous Cumber- land mines in England This graphite was of remarkable purity and could be used without further treatment by cutting it into thin slabs and messing them in wood.
 Last July. after. the death of Pope Leo. Mgr Merry Del Val, who is canon of St Peters, and about whom there is considerable talk at present owing to his attitude during the Span- fish war, was elected to the prominent position Of secretary Of the papal con- clave which met to elect a new pope. When Plus X was elected 1t was there fore Mgr Merry Del vars duty to kneel and present to the newly elected pope his white cap This ceremony takes place when a new pope puts on his white robes for the first time, and if Is an ancient custom that the one who kneels to present the pope his white hat shall in turn have the pope place the red one which he has just removed from his own-head on that of the kneeling priest. This ancient. form. Pope Leo XIII had omitted and there was great deal of interest manifest eA as to whether Pins X would follow his immediate predecessor or follow fhe ancient custom. He did the latter and, to the satisfaction of all present. placed his own cardinals red can on fhe head of Mgr Merry Del Val. This was taken at the time as sure sign that Mgr Merry Del Val would be made a cardinal although this has not yet happened Del Val will, Of course. be made a cardinal at the next con. sistery, at which time, his recent ap- pointment as papal secretary of state , will also he officially confirmed.