Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-10-13
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 l A Kansas woman was much aston ished to receive letter from an other woman asking for slip of her hall tree. II understand" she wrote, you've got good variety of hall trees, and as we've just finished us a new house with a real nice hall we'll need tree an we'd be ever so much obliged if you'd send us slip uv your'n. And please will you send along with the slip directions tellin' us whether to water 1t from the top CT bottom."
 I Through the generosity of Rev Anthony H. Walburg of Cincinnati. 1 the Catholic university of America has received another donation of l 5000 toward the establishment of chair of German. Within the past two years Father Walburg has given the university $30,O00, and 1t is ex- pected that within a similar period he will complete the $5O,000 neces- sary to establish the chair. Father l Walburg has been in Cincinnati forty years, and is much interested in edu- cational matters. He has manifested a deep interest in the work of the uni versity. and is anxious that German chair should be established. Officials at the university are much pleased and encouraged by Father Walburg's gift, and when the chair is estab- l lished it will add another important department to that institution. The Phipps baby, though still on ! the sunny side of it's first year, has l just crossed the Atlantic for the fourth time in his tender career. Be- sides. he has been as far west as Pittsburg several times. as far north as the Highlands of Scotland. and as far south as the Pyrenees. At present he Is in London with his par ents, Mir and Mrs J. s. Phipps. who, being Americans, claim the record for their young hopeful as the most travelled baby. They recently arrived from New York, and on the voyage were much concerned about the health of their son. They have often taken him on automobile journeys, but as his condition still causes some anxiety he is to stay with his grand parents at Battle Abbey during his parents absence in Scotland. Mir Phipps is the eldest son of Henry Phipps, the Pittsburg steel magnate. The police and others who keep track of the shady side of life are appalled, at the number of boys who are kicking over the traces and get ting into trouble. Already some of the offenders have been rounded up and taken care of, and there are a great many others who will not be at large much longer unless they mend their ways. One of the police officers told a reporter to-day that most of the trouble among the youth of the community was due to night walking and keeping company with old sinners who have long since lost all respect for themselves. He thought the time ripe for curfew law in Waterbury which would make it an offense for boys to be on the streets after 9 o'clock in the evening. If this is not done he hoped to see Legislation enactd which will enable the authorities to get hold of parents and others who have charge of chill dren. He was of the opinion that a law which would compel d man to take the same care of his boy that he does of his house dog would be a boon to hundreds of children who have entered upon the road that leads to a place in the reform school.
 Through Philadelphia agent the king of the Gazum, fin northern Nigeria, offers special inducements to young American teachers to come and open school there. His majesty is a canniball
 Where tho parrakeets arc wingins
 And the monkeys nimbly swinging
 Lives a prince of piquant palate
 On an old domestic plan.
 He Is plain and economic. a.n
 Though of penohant gAstronounic,
 And in various forms and havors
 He much loves his fellow man.
 In that land there are no hsarses.
 Few obituary verses:
 There an undertaker's visage
 Would increase its solemn gloom,
 For no man his kindred buries.
 And they have no cemeteries
 Where the tropic palms are waving
 In the land of the Gasum. Of the food. his subjects calming. That wise king brooks no embalming;
 No exposures of stale viands
 Tn the papers ere are seen.
 There Is every one a stranger To all fear of ptomaine danger, m
 So they need no meat inspector
 With a can of kerosene. Some kind neishborinG tribe produces The chief victuals for their uses.
 Save when for their wives. relations
 They jet now and then make room | Aye. and sometimes for each other.
 For there each man loves hfs hrosher