Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1908-04-04

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them. The Holland cheese is seldom
seen at The Hague and Neufchatel
cheese is made in New York. Kan
sas City is in Missouri. The chief
justice Of the supreme court of
Egypt is a citizen of the state of
Florida, and the head If the anti
Armenian party in the Turkish en-
pire is an Armenian.
The use of the capital 81" is one
of the oldest features Of the Ian
guage-to a foreigner. # French
man writes with reference to him
self he makes j" (the french
equivalent of 'I'') with small j."
So with the German, who may use
capitals to begin every moan; he al
ways uses the small 'i'' in writing
fish" The Spaniard avoids as far
as possible the use of The personal
pronoun when writing in the first
person, but he always writes it ''yo,"
taking pains, however, to begin the
Spanish equivalent for our you"
with capital. In English It is sure
ly big 81" and little ''you," as the
old saying has it.
City Engineer Cairns is the first
city official to take cognizance of the
rumpus over newspaper advertising,
and hold the papers down to a GER
tain space. An announcement in an
other column with his name signed
to it came to the Democrat office with
a requisition, and on the order it
was stated plainly to make the adj
vertisement a certain number OF
inches and run it for three days.
That's business and there's no get
ting away from it. When the bill
goes in for that work, If it is too
much, the error can be discovered
Immediately and the bill held up for
correction. In this way the person
that makes the mistake can be To-
Gated and it will not be necessary
to hold up all the bills while an in
vestigation is being made.
Speaking of the gum chewing hab-
it one who is not in favor of it says
that one thing is certain-you can
not chew gum and think at the same
time with any degree of success. You
may chew gum and work mechani-
cally, you may read with gum in
your mouth and perhaps not miss
anything in the author, but when it
comes right down to good, hard men
tai effort you cannot concentrate and
achieve the best results of which you
are capable while your jaws work
increasingly. That champing is just
so much wasted energy and as such
dissipates your force and keeps your
thinking powers reduced to the low
note book as fact that no man can
think deep, logical, or well-balanced
thoughts while his jaws are working
overtime.
Here are few odd statistics: Over
100000 pens are used daily. The
average man can lift 225 pounds.
crabs draw their food with their
legs. Married men live two years
longer than single ones. Male chill
dren weigh at birth a pound more
than females The value of the
worlds railways is put at $27,775,-
100000. For every five murders
committed only one is avenged by
hanging There are 1000 Chinese
words that have each ten different
meanings. In Windsor castle King
Edward keeps $12,500,000 worth of
gold plate. About 100000 barrels OF
American apples are exported an
nually to England. An elephant
works from the age of twelve to the
age of eighty. He can haul fifteen
tons, lift a ton and carry three tons
on his back.
In regard to the use of italic let
tiers in printing. which by the way
is nearly obsolete in daily newspa-
pers, it is said that italic letters were
first used about the year 1900 by AL
dus Manutius, a Venetian printer.
He observed the many inconven-
iencies resulting from the vast num-
Der of authorizations which were then
SO frequent among the printers that
book was difficult to understand. A
treatise was actually written on the
art of reading a printed book and
thus addressed to the learned. By
introducing the italic letter he con-
trived an eXpedient by which these
authorizations might be entirely got
rid of and yet books suffer little in
crease in bulk. He dedicated his in
vention to the. italian states; hence
the name. Ii has also been distin-
guished by the name of the inventor
and called the Aldine. The first book
printed in italics was an edition of
Virgil printed at Venice by Aldus
in 1901.
There is a good deal of quiet talk
in Waterbury regarding the merits
of the row at Washington in which
Congressman Lilley is the central
figure. Nobody cares to be quoted on
it. but nearly everybody you meet the
last day or two believes that Mr.. Lii
ley made a serious mistake when he
mentioned the names of John p. KEEL
lagg and Franklyn Taylor. They
have been to Washington and their
evidence has not helped Mr. L!lley
and as a consequence people now are
asking who Is the side-stepper. Lilley.
Taylor or Kellogg? Mr. Lilley has
many friends in Waterbury. but Mr.
Taylor and Mr. Kellogg have a great
mnay more and the fact that Taylor
and Kellogg didn't agree with the
complicated things con-