Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-05-27
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 e German imperial labor organ
 lsarbeitsblatt, has compiled com
 i've statistics showing the death
 am0ng infants under one year old
 ven great industrial nations of the
 }. In order, of mortality they
 thus: Germany. Austria, Great
 in, Switzerland. Italy. the United
 . and France. In Germany the
 entage death rate is given as 34.5,
 Feat Britain, 26.6; ill Italy. 25.S; in
 United States. 13.2. and in France,
 The averages are for the years
 and 1902.
 Ire is one of the latest wonders of
 deep. put there by man. Under
 b the Sandy Hook Iightshjp, New
 harbor, is a big bell. rung by
 br from the same little engine
 h toots the foghorn. The bell
 five-one. fiye-one, fiye-one, 5l
 number of the lightsbip. An of
 on the bridge of an incoming
 nship picks up a telephone re
 Ar on the bridge, say eight miles E, and hears the number ringing.
 knows what it is and where he is.
 idea is simple. Wafer transmits
 d more than three times as quick b air. Against the plates of the el, way down in her hold forward. er the water line. is q drum which hes and magnifies the sound. A phone wire does the rest. It mat
 not how hard gale may be blow
 or whether the fogllorn can be Id, the bell is a sure indication. It been reported of Boston as having effective at distance of fourteen here is lot of fault finding in cer-
 quarters over the dropping of the d version Francis Scott Keys patri-
 effusion. The Star Spangled Ban which wili be sung Decoration
 in the public schools and at the eteries. There may be some ground I the noise made about this. but after 6t 4s a small matter compared with apparent slight. thrown upon Gen Sheridan by neglecting to mention name in fhe short essays At the bols among rhe great generals of the |eraI army. Wasn't Sheridan one of great generals of the civil war. hot the different histories of that |fict are very misleading and every soldier that has undertaken to tell bt he knows about the rumpus ought have a medal for story telling. Uf Irse these little exercises in the low grades are short and necessarily So. the children couldn't make any Id of them if they were spun ont to r great leigfh. but even 50 when the iool officials start in to enligiiten the ing generations regarding the men 0 made things hum while there was rfhing to do during the tilt between federal and confederate armies, Y should at least tell them of Grant, ,rman and Sheridan. But the school cials know what is best. and besides would he out of the question to ase everybody about such matters n the treasury department fiiere is ployed a colored man who entered department for a service of three nfhs just :.s years ago. This man James D. Roe. and none of the em- yes is held in higher esteem. Roe a record in some respects that has -er been eaualed. He is the chmn- n silver piIer- of the treasury. cry time change is made in the Ids of any of the sub-treasuries. rks from the department here Are ailed to make count of the money nsferred from the outgoing to the oming sub-tressurer. In nearly TN instance Roe is chosen to ac- npany the party and pile up the bags silver to be counted. His record "piler'' was made at the recent Inge of offices at New York. In one E he piled up three thousand bags of -er. one thousand silver dollars be- in each bag. The weight of the ire piIing on this day was ninety s. Roe recalls many interesting in enfs connected with the treasury -fnc his term of service. ''One day" | he. "when General Skinner was st summer camp up the Potomac with party of friends they saw 2 boat ming. being rowed as fast as the sman could row 1t. Cashier Whel- ' was at the stern. and all were tain something out of the ordinary 1 happened. So ii proved. The hscr came to report the theft of .p,p from the vault. A party of itors. armed with the proper creden- Is. had been admitted to the strong ms and after they had departed il $ found that a package of notes IS missing. It was never recovered.