Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-08
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 It is said that there is no better or simpler way of testing suspected water than the following: Fill clean pint bottle nearly full of the water to be tested, and dissolve in it half tea spoonful of loaf or granulated sugar. Cork the bottle and keep in warm place two days. If the water becomes cloudy or milky within forty-eight hours it is unfit for domestic use.
 A friend of the street commissioner of New York from n country town up the state, while passing through the city for the first time in his life, lost watch which he valued highly. Not being familiar with Manhattan, the man wrote to the commissioner of his loss, and asked him to do his hest to find the missing article. The commis- sioner answered that he would do all in his power to recover the watch, and that he would not leave d stone un- turned in the search. A short while after this the man happened to be in New York again, and business took him in the direction of Park avenue. At glance he took in the pile of stones, dirt and other material from the tOrn-up street where the subway work was being rushed. Rushing to the nearest telegraph office, he sent the following message to the commission CT: Do not bother any longer. Watch not worth it."
 When Chicago was dealing with a private corporation for electricity the street lights cost the taxpayers $l25 each per year. With plant of it's own the city has reduced the cost to $54. There is nothing wonderful about this. A few years ago Waterbury made some investigation along these lines and everything went to19 show that lfthere was big money" in it, so much that the city could light every nook and corner of the town for what it was paying for about three hundred arc lamps. The city attorney was in structed to appear before the general assembly and secure bond issue of $10O,OOO for the purpose of installing municipal lighting plant, but the ap- ,plicatiOn was knocked into n n three cooked hat. one man 7remarking while ,nit was before the house that Water bury had ''gall," or something more offensive than that, to think it could get such measure through the legis- lature. The year this measure went through the city government of Water bury had a board of aldermen that wanted the city to get all the money there was in the business, but favor able action on question of this kind by the local authorities counts for nothing at Hartford.
 It is often interesting to know the birthplaces of great discoverers, So taking down our Who's Who in Amer ica' we find that Dr Osler came to us from small town in Canada, says George T. Angell. who is now S2 years of age, and busy worker especially in defense of the dumb creatures. Some years ago prominent English man said. either in Parliament or out. that the only good thing England ever got from Canada was the Canadian Boat Song" and that began with ''row, brothers, row. This Canadian doctor seems to have, gotten, np, through the newspapers. quite row among our elderly congressman and other elderly people by proposing to have all men (and we suppose wOmenl past 60 chlOrOfOrmed and the world rid of them. and so has securetl for himself contrary to the rules of his prOfessionl free advertisement al- most equal to Lydia Pinkham's. and which will be likely to stick to him until he himself shall be chlorOfOrmed at Johns Hopkins or elsewhere. In re- ard to the ages of 40 and 60. we were 45 years old when we secured from our legislature an act of incorporation for our Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. and laws to protect them from cruelty, and we were 6 when we secured from our legislature the incorporation of our American Humane Education society first of its kind in the world for the purpose of promoting. in the words of its motto and seal. Peace on earth. kindness, justice and mercy to every living creature" tboth human and dumb). ....