Norwich bulletin., 1909-11-13

man in the stokenolo as well as III thS
 sun.
 Dr. + A. Brown of whitipsville, Mass has g jet black cat that is said to beNsry fond of peanuts and will eat
 toinatoss off the vines. This cat
 weighs IS pounds. ~
 The book of intimate recollections
 of Jcserh h Jefferson. fy lis dat ghter- l in-lav. Eugerlie Paul Jefferson, is sure 1 to nave Q wide reading. It will be ready before the end of the month.
 Miss Mary Johnston has just return | ed to lIoT home in Richmond, after | srr15 ard suelirer e.snt III Egypt and Europe. She is weA along in the writing Of new novel, which is to be published the coming year.
 IT racnslIt ion cf he aid he has giv- en to Immigrants from his native country. Louis Ludwig Horvath, an assistant steward al the Hotel Astor. 1 New York, has received the Cross of Merit from Emperor Francis Joseph. I A mural painter has come all the
 way from Croatia to decorate the Romna Cath olic church of St. John the Baptist Kansas City. Kan. He is | Orion Ivekovich, professor of fine arts in the Academy of lagre, Croatia.
 Sir Charles Rivers Wilson. well past
 80 years of age. president of the | Grand Trunk railway system, is to resign. and it is expected that c. M. Hays. formerly identified with rail-
 roads in the United States, will sue
 ceed him.
 The illustrator of Little Sister | Snow" the new book by the author of l nf TlnnOTa ic 1
 Japanese artist. Genjiro Kataoka, who,
 happily. combines the Japanese spirit
 with the technique of the European
 and American schools.
 The Dowager Duchess d'Uzes is. in spite of her age. one of the most en-
 ergetic women in France. She is the
 president of the Lyceum club, a wOm-
 ems club with club houses in London
 Paris and Berlin; a sculptor, a social
 leader and a devoted huntress.
 Charles H. Chaffin. author of How 1 to Study Pictures" and other helpful and entertaining books has written
 The Story of Dutch Painting" for i adult students of art and for wide
 awake girls and boys. It is to have i 23 half-tone reproductions of notable Dutch canvses.
 ,> Colonel Charles W. Fuller has been telling the Mems club of the First I Baptist church of Bayonne, N J., of | the many virtues of the Standard Oil company All America should be proud of this corporation" he said because of it's world wide scope and l honorable business methods | Carlisle, Pa. lost one Of it's leading | philanthropists in the death recently | of Mrs Sarah Wilson Todd. aged S4 | the widow of the late General Lemuel l Todd. a prominent Carlisle attorney. | Mrs. Todd was noted for her philan- | ahropies and the extremely frugal life | she lived.
 | Abraham G. Mum, retired manufac- I turer, philanthropist and patriarch. of | Louisville. Ky, died recently. aged 91 | He was actively identified up to the | time of his death with several char | table institutions. He attributed his ! long life and the full retention of his | faculties to temperance in all things. Walstein Root son of the late Prof | Orrin Root of Hamilton college, and | nephew of Senator Elihu Root. recent | ly died in Chicago. after a long ill., ness. He was a faithful newspaper worker in New York and St Louis. l and correspondent of the New York Sun during the Spanish American war.
 William Hamilton Shortt, who died | at Youngsville. Pa, represented War ren county in the state assembly in | 1872 From 1873 to 1876 he was consul at Cardiff. Wales, and adjacent ports
 under appointment of President Grant | Mir. Shortt was a native of Lockerbie | Scotland, born S7 years ago. | --
 A notable event in the educational
 world last week was the laying of the cornerstone of a new dorimitory for
 the William Smith college for women. at Geneva, N. Y. The stone was laid
 by MT. Smith himself. who is over 90
 and Mrs Elizabeth Miller. fors whom the dorInitory is to be named was also
 present at the exercises. She is daughter. it will be rememebred, of | Gerrit Smith, and is now S7.
 Miss Mabel Sturtevant of Brookfield, | Md, has been in Halifax Nova Scotia for the last month doing research
 work under the Braun international scohlarship. which sends her to all parts of the world to study history and
 sociology She has accomplished a feat never before attempted by an American woman and perhaps by not more than a dozen men, having as-
 cended Mount Major or Melancholy | Mountain.