Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-21
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Note Book.
 President Roosevelt is quite ten his player and pretty nearly every af- ternoOn he adjourns to the tennis court in the rear of the White house and indulges in an hours recreation in playing this game. He is often joined by MT Ju6serand, the French ambassador, who covers the back line, the president preferring the heavy work at the net Others who sport with MT Roosevelt in the game are Commissioner of Corporations 6ar-' field and Assistant Secretary of Com merce and Labor, l.. Q. Murray.
 The best spoilers are often puzzled by the combination of the letters el or ie. They wish to write word ill which the combination occurs and they cannot remember whether the e or the i comes first. But there IS q very simple rule that may be reiled upon to remove all doubt; ei should follow the consonants. c and s, as Ill receive, seize, etc.: and ie should fol low all other consOnants, as i'll thleI. belief, etc. There are two exceptions however. that should be borne fil mind, the words sieve and siege.
 Long Island farmers feel increased interest in corn as crop since It ms been discovered that cornstalks cail be utilized in the manufacture of pa per. Hitherto the only use found Tor them has been for bedding and ferti- lizing purposes and with the large crops of sweet corn raised for the New York market. the vast quantities of stalks practically represent waste and really were difficult to get out of the way. Now the farmers are Iind- ing profitable market for their corn stalks and have been shipping them away in thousands of bales. Their newly found value will have the ef- feet of largely increasing the acreage of corn planted on Long Island the coming season. and probably there will be some attention paid to raising corn for the stalks alone.
 A number of ailments, some of them extremely dangerous. are comprised under the general head of a postage stamp tongue Postage stamp tongue in a word is any disorder contracted from the licking of postage stamps, "rhree or four persons week visit me with postage stamp tongues" re- lates a well known physician. "They have throat trouble or skin di- sease. or pulmonary complaint. | Il. |, <I,rN 0dly stamp licking A stamp should nev- CT be licked as it's gummed surface IS always squirming and pulsating With germs. If any licking is to be done let it be applied to the right hand upper corner of the envelope where the stamp goes, for there the germs are apt to be sparser. To be safe, though. the tongue should never be applied to either envelope or stamp. A damp sponge should be used in the tongues stead."
 The curious experience of being struck by lightning and afterward in auiring what happened. occurred to Walter Stiles. a surfman of the Town send Inlet life saving station on the coast of North Carolina several nights ago. Stiles has writtenat the lsuperin- tendent of the life saving station ser vice in New York. telling him of his strange experience. 1t appears that on the night in question there arose a heavy storm while Stiles was on duty at the station. About 9 o'clock he had occasion to leave the station and go into the open. No more had he reached the outside of the buld- ing than severe clap of thunder pealed out and short time later Stiles staggered under a stroke of lightning. at the same time asking nearby patrol of watchmen what was happening. His hat was gone and he said he felt as though some che had waylaid him and cllbbed him on the back of the head. Tine watchmen ex- amined the placeewhere he had fallen and found the sand had been some what ruffied in its contact with Stiles body. Stiles says he did not see the lightning and is ignorant of ever hearing a thunder clap. so 1t was plain that he had been knocked down by the flash of lightning. He was not seriously injured but was so badly shaken up that another man watched the long hours of the night with him.