Putnam patriot., 1908-08-28
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fHH&ABHAH A# AfA fRt HtffAA H+ttt tts-ftf5 aging. Confidence ia fhe sincere tle sire Of fhe Sultan fo carry out reform. and establish q constitutional gogefn ment is growing fimer Tie Rpz=ian i)ouma k doing wonders to establish a constitulsonai gosempent which wiil give the people wiIat k satisfactory 10 them withoui alarming fbe G<af Pef. sia k in a feaffulls unsettled si lle, and the people will not De 4aiefed until they gel a couslltutiunai psrlianeat. The shah recognizes this, especially since Turkey has been transformed, !, and Is seeking ho. best to meet the in. eviiabIe crisis.
 The Iusltania has made another sensational speed record, breaking aii previous ones by four henfs-making the voyage across the Atlantic in days and b heurs--hef average speed on one day was 25.e5 knots fof the 24 hours.
 After several months of bitter stfug- gle, the Chamber of Deputies Al Brus- sels, Belgium, has at last adopted The Congo annexation treaty which will insure the solution of the great Congo problem and put an end t0 the diaboii. cal atrocities inflicted upon the help less natives by the Belgian authorities. "Man's inhumanitys to poor dumb beasts deserves severe punishment. \ load of hogs from the West arrived at New Haven one day last week, een- signed to swift X U. They had been in the car four days without anything toeat or drink. several were dead and o,hers3wefe dying
 Twenty-six train accidents that oe- cured in July afc Illus noticed one of them WIS eaze of aceiacntal-n6i ma. lieious and efimiHsl-o5stfucti on the track; eleven were eollisienss in II eases the trains lea the calls }6 per. sons wefe killed in these mishaps, and is3 were hufl.
 4 large blazing meieur fell near Els lighting ID the country brightly for miles around fof 2H minutes after il Il struck, and shook the town, but no damage was done.
 Mrs. Anna Bradley now in hospi- ial in Newark, \. J., had aauantliy of her husbands blood infused Into her veins. n month aga, when she under. went complete mental change. Be sides losing of abandoning her own mental attributes, she has acquired All the mental peeuliarities of her has. band. she formerly spoke with little strength, but now her uttefanees are strong and in lower key. The mat is lo be taken up bs Inc Essex County IN. Jt Medical society fof inyeNliga- ton.
 \ turtle was captured lasl week iu Maine that weighed ,5oo pounds t k nine feet long, i've feet wide while lts thickness ol body K Al Inches. The turtle k believed 10 lle sevctal hundred years old Il k now on exhibition al Squirrel Island, where MT. F. \, lib' by and family, of this city, have their summer home.
 During the fejoicings in Beytout over the triumph of the Young Turks and the Snltan's grant of a constitution, a strange banner made It's appearance in the streets. Inscribed on it--siie ny side--wete verse from the Koran, ,sThe beginning k from God, victory is near and verse from the Rtble, ,"fhe fear of the Lord k the beginning oi wisdom. Then followed. Long live the Moslem-e ehristian Brotherhoodt .l.ong Ike I.iberly'
 Feafing the banks were unsafe man in Moftilton, Ark, buried Slo,ho in bills in the earth, in a pal. Ailef four wears he dug them ap ia find lhe bills deeayed so that they lesemhied a mass of rotten leaves. He sent them to the Treasury Department, Washington, for redemption, and all wee identified eN- cept saa, after much labor, and the owner received Il check for s9,a75.
 The total assessment ef real and per sona property, in New York city, for 1908, k s7 iss, ,iao. soo. The assessed a- lue of ordinary real estate--eNclasiNe of special franchises and real estate oi corporations, is ssi,iai ,alo,iia.
 The leA hushel wheat seems to ee turning out like the seediess apple-it k reality, bat not worth having. The lul.bushel wheat lacks the good quail ties of the kind that produces so 10 ~ bushels to the acre. The seedess ap- pie looks good, but no one who ever ate one wanted another.
 A fire broke out in Consiantinoplt last Saturday afternoon, which de- ssroyed asse houses and shops,
 X girl volunteered to 10 up in bal lon al picnic given at Toledo, Ohio, on Saturday last. on getting to certain height she was to drop down in par Mchu,e, which would have been pef fectly safe. She lost her nerve, anu failed to drop, and was carried up ints the clouds elinging desperately to ! tra,sxe bar for throe hours before th, balloon came down in field, seNera miles distant. She was found exhaus led.
 In France, The general feeling favor the flying machine of lhe Ameries' Wright brothers. A Paris paper, as
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