Putnam patriot., 1908-09-11
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 their apparatus ready to @ ateh for the Iialiey comet, which is noe about due. Pefhaps the stranger comet |. he Hal ley, which may haze encountered some neceIefating force in iis tfamp journey of thoasands of millions gf miles. IL iast appeared in ls.t5, and War expect ed again in 1910. Comets are queer. The KIlauea volcano in IlUnoIuIu is now In more active eruption thaa 1t any time since is9j.
 A burglar, who had passed more than half his mature years h. prison. when again sentenced iBe other day, said that the life of crime is failure. young Italian was drowned last week al Mansfield, and his body was not recovered until several days after wards. His fingers were found gfHsped tightly around the root of tree at ihe bottom of the river. as if he had seized it to keep from drowning. aBTowning people grasp at straws, unfortunately his grasp was under the wafer
 A young man at OH City, Pa, who had fallen from bridge and broken his neck, had the broken yeftebfr re- moved and in their place the doctors inserted the yertebfa. ot dog. He left the hospital alive and welt, his head resting on the spinal of dog. An en- tire man might be fe-made that way. What, or who wonid he be then3
 Pope Plus N, in an iutef4 few tast week with HI American Bishop, de ela ed that the confinement al the Vn- tieani tue burdens of the Church, and to his unsuppfeSsed desire tn return To his old Nenilian home, were motc than lie could bear. md he teated he would soon snecumb.
 Colonel eioethals. Wlio does tblnp, reports ihat tue totHi eNcaK ltion on The Panama canal, during the month of a.ngust wns 5.852 ise cubic yards. the month preceding the amount ekeava- led was 2, LBS. .s40 cubic yards. His be. lief thu. the canal will be finished in five years and al much less cost thau the estimate, lie Is going h make good One of the oig civil engineers who un deftaek to build the canal, and RaV, np the job as hopeless, said II ~oule require 20seafs ane twice the estimate David frotseh, la.l chief the fota watomte Indians, died recently an lh Indian reservation at Menominee, Nil chigan. The chippeways, Menom nets, foiawatoIntes are not extinct but dwell in the vicinity of Green Ba and III Door county, Mich.
 MT and Mrs. Dennis Mcintyre, , Mckees Rocks, Pa, have had born [ them ao children in 26 yeafs. All sir aes and all living, and all big, health and good looking
 In full view of aa5,oHa mortified spe' tatorsi assembled it the Fair ground at Waieryilie. Me, last week Medne day, Charles .. Jones, well5know peronaat, fell from his balloon di tanee of bssl, ani died an hour and hhlf after the accident. liis wife au child were among the first to reach h side as he fell
 The trip round the world Is soon be made in forty days, by means al II high speed steamers and bs rail aero Europe, Asia and North America.
 Df Peter ] Gibbons, of New N'orl after resuscilatirg laborer supposed killed by electricity, last week We nesday, made this astounding stat ment: "Not fnufderef whose hot ever meni to the gtaye from the dea .hair was ever killed hy eleetreit Every one H1et death from the disset ing knife ef the SufgeonSo of was smot cred in quieklime with which th, ~efe surrounded afler their se-eal, death He oilers prove his deelar uon, II allowed, et resascilatiag Il next man eleetsoealed
 Angus Cameron, great expert { .iimhet, writing to the London Time holds that unless there k vigorol campaign faf forest protection, initi ted now by the nations most interes ed, the world will have to resort to Il ganda regionsof Africa and the Am xon valley for it's hunter thirty yea hence.
 All over Turkey tae women are di carding their wells and are taking pa in the street demonstrations with Il men in celebrating The new literlie and the men cheer the unveiled womel
 A fire In Rswhide, Nevada, ma, a,ua people homeless, many were il ~.sss, md rrsrcrss ... s.s value s7so,,p destroyed.
 Frederick Cooper HewiGl,a ,a grsnsisu of Peter Cooper, Jeff an estate esiim led al from tiNe to eight million dollar begueatsd more than s4.ss0,,sa To eh ritable institutions, and the Metropol tan Museum of Art, and The Yale lfn sersity.
 The International Congress on IT bereulosis meets in Washington. Sen .i lo October r, inclusive, and shou he of much interest 10 Inc people Connecticut. both from the prevalen of tuberculosis in this State and fro the successful work now being do here te control the disease. tonsan ton has been termed "rhe Scoafse New England,n and vel Il may