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Norwich bulletin., 1909-10-26
\. COOPER, UphoIstsTer
MATTRESS MAKER

 FIRST GLASS MATTRESS MAKER. Furniture Repaired. Carpets Fitted and Laid. Mattresses made to order and made over.
 259 West Main Street, Norwich, Conn. Special low price. Mall orders promptly attended to. oct23d EDUCATOR SHOES. A word to parents: Let the child s foot grow as it should. Children's feet ing Foot troubles incurred while the foot is growing last through life. Edu- cator Shoes positively prevent foot troubles by allowing the foot to grow as nature intended by providing ample room for all five toes and by giving proper support to the ankle, muscles, arch and instep. F. CUMMINGS, 52 Central Ave. Premiums. oct14d
Norwich bulletin., 1909-10-26
WoIsast. Nelson Fight Of.

Los Angeles, Cal, Oct. 25.-It was announced today that the fight plan
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-12-30
Her Husbands.

It Is said that before man has dis
covered the color of a girls eyes she
is planning her rousseau and leading
him to the altar-but
The bachelor girls destination ne
cessitated their going through Wood
lawn cemetery, in New York a por-
ton of the city they had never before
visited. They stopped for a long time
on the bridge which crosses the lake
to admire the wonderfully well-kept
banks, which slope down to the edge
OF the lake, with here and there some
artistically arranged shrubbery serv-
ing as a background. AS they cast a
last look at the island, situated at one
end of the lake, which is so tiny that
one wonders how the large willow
tree standing at the waters edge with
it's dropping branches hanging so low
that they sweep backward and for
ward in the water with the wind, could
possibly have grown there, one of the
bachelor girls was heard to remark
to her companion: wouldn't this be
an ideal place to bury ones husbands
and come and weep over their
graves?"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-12-30
PIGEONS DEVOTION TO MATE
Remarkable Attention That Has At
tracted Notice of Bird Lovers
in Virginia.

A story of the devotion of a carrier
pigeon for his mate is told by party
of amateur fishermen from the valley
of Virginia. It is laid in the village of
Overall, at the farm of Capt Manley
Triplett, whose place borders the
Shenandoah river
Several weeks ago a female carrier
pigeon bearing the number S. A 19469,
with broken wing, f1uttered as best
she could, with the assistance of her
mate, on whose leg was attached the
inscription D 1921, into the open win
dow of Capt. Triplett's barn There
the male bird in his own peculiar fash
ion proceeded to make her as comfort
able as possible. He then disappeared
and was gone for four weeks, when
he returned. Since his return he has
tried in every way known to pigeon
lore to help his mate fly again, but in
vain. Now he seems to have settled
down to siege of the most commend
able domesticity. Daily he fingers near
his mate, feeding her and caring for
her in various ways until he has won
the admiration not only of Capt Trip
lett and his family, but of the coun-
tryside for miles around. It is re-
garded as a remarkable case of devo-
tion in the feathered tribe.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-12-30
NEVER TOUCH THE SURFACE
What Happens When Drops Of
Water Are Scattered on Top Of
Hot Stove.

It is impossible to throw few drops
of water on redhOt stove. The water
can never touch the stove at all. What
is seen is a few drops rolling rapidly
over the surface, gradually getting
smaller until they disappear. If the
drops are On a perfectly level place
one can see under them to the other
side of the room, thus proving that
they are not in contact with the stove
itself
What actually happens is that the
bottom of the drop changes at once
to steam or vapor on coming close to
the hot surface, and this vapor is sup
piled by the drop as it gradually goes
away. So the drop rests on a cushion
of vapor until it is entirely dissipated
This state of water is known as the
spheroidal state, and is of interest on
account of it's popularity and seeming
ly paradoxical behavior
The reason why the drop is not i'm
mediately evaporated or changed to
steam is also very interesting. The
water vapor that intervenes between
it's under surface and the redhot stove
is very bad conductor of heat and
consequently the full intensity of the
heat cannot get into the water itself,
only the amount transmitted through
the vapor being available for this pur-
pose.-The Sunday Magazine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-12-30
DON'T ALL APPROVE OF WINK
British Bishops Differ in Opinion Over
Girls Fun, and One is Given
Lesson.

Though well-known English bishop
has just been stating publicly that he
regards it as most pleasant form of
recognition to be winked at in the
street by young women Living in the
districts where he has worked, there
Is at least one of his Episcopal breth-
rem who used to take very different
view of such salutations.
This pompous worthy was much
incensed on one occasion when he
was giving what he believed to be a
very impressive lecture to 17-year-
old society girl who had been handed
over to him for admonishment, to OBJ
serve her left eye close in deliberate
wink. He sternly told her that such
an action was practically akin to i'm
moral behavior, to which she promptly
replied: Rats" and turned on her
heel and walked Off
She has since married and enter
tains largely. At recent charity
function, at which the bishop was
present, she was introduced to him.
He failed to recognize her as a for
mer acquaintance until she gave him
another of her elaborate winks and
said, very archly: Perhaps you re-
member me now, my lord!" He did,
and what is more, entered into the
spirit of the joke, which he now often
tells against himself.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-12-30
WAITED FOR THE PERMISSION
Little Ones, Tired of Church Services,
Left Sacred Edifice as They
Would the School.

When the late Philip Aud Harrison
Brown, rector Of st. Johns chapel,
was a young man, he used to go to
Maine for the summer" said a Trim
ity trustee in New York "Dr. Brown
often told of an unforgettable incident
connected with one of his first Maine
sermons
1.-TWO children had come to church
alone, and the minister noticed them
from the start Of his discourse. They
sat in a great, high-backed pew, side
by side, very solemn.
After awhile they got tired Evil
IDENTIFY they thought that church Ell
quette was the same as the etiquette
of the village school. They climbed
down from their pew, and the boy took
his tiny sister by the hand and led
her up the aisle, stopping in front of
the preacher.
Please, sir he said, may we go
home?'
Yes said Mr. Brown.
And they turned and soberly de-
parted, hand in hand Los Angeles
Times.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-12-30
A 4" eetIe Difference

yes, sir, gentlemen; thar's a leetle
difference between farmin' out west
an back here in old Varmont," said
Uncle 81 Eggmann to the cronies
around the stove at the crossroads
store, on his return from a visit to his
brother in Dakota. Nov, out thar
in the west they don't think they've
REILLY got farm unless it totals about
5000 or 1000 acres; an if they air
raisin stock they speak O. 5000 head
as bein' 1eetle bunch O. cattle An
takes 'em bout half day to hoe one
row O corn, the rows air so long, an
they harvest corn an wheat enough on
one farm to fill our town hall. Now,
that's, a leetle different from what it is
here in New England, where we call
90 acrkes O ground, couple O. dozen
hens, am a rooster, six or eight keows,
an a ROBBERY patch, a farm? Yes,
sir, gentlemen, thar's a turrible diff
renee between farmin' east an farm
in west2,a most turrible diff'rence!"
Puck
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-12-30
1t Saves Them.

The American has the saving grace
of humor. Seldom in the real pinch
does it fail to come to the uppermost
and he gets good laugh out of what
men born under other skies would
construe as nothing else than a fight
The head gent of a t. t. t. show
playing at Holton recently handed out
a warm one to the audience There
was SO much going on in Holton that
night that the theatrical business suf-
fered, but the aforesaid gent" seemed
to think that the people did not ap-
preciate the high class histrionic art
served up by the company He frank
ly stated in curtain speech that in
his opinion the plays presented were
too refined for Holton. But" he add
ed, eve will try to get down to your
level by presenting The Whole Dam
Family which does not contain a sen
sible line. I think this play will ap-
peal to you
"The audience" says Frank FARRELL,
in telling the matter, instead of get
ting mad and lynching the actor, saw
the funny side Of the case and laughed
long and loud at him. He didn't say
any more kansas City Journal
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-12-30
IT. Worked Thus.
Puck.

Mr.. Bjon8s of East Cleveland ex-
planned it to US this way:
q thought my wife might be afraid
of tramps and porch climbers and
such, so I bought her a watchdog. He
was ferce-looking bull, and I
thought he'd about fill the bill.
Il got him in the morning, and I
had him sent right out to the house.
When I got home that night there
was one of the toughest-looking no
boes you ever saw, sitting on the
porch.
What in thunder are you doing
here?' [ asked.
Well, boss says he, I come look
in fer a handout, and yer lady give
me so cents to stick around and pro
tect her from dat dog O. yours. He's
h'ble to eat 'er up any minute!'"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-12-30
UNHAPPY HOMES OF AUTHORS
Large Proportion of British Writers
Have Been Unfortunate in
Domestic Life.

Someone with a passion for genuine
antique scandals has been poking into
the private lives Of classical English
writer's and finds among them dis
tresSing proportion of celibates and of
unhappily mated persons, says a writ
er in Success Magazine For the bene-
fit Of bOok-loving gossips he has pre-
pared a list of the foremost British
authors with short description of
their domestic relations The list is
so full of matrimonial wrecks that the
compiler is forced to wonder whether
cheesemongers, stock brokers and the
rest Of US have as poor a chance at do
nestle happiness as poets and play
wrights
No fewer than rs out of IS we'll
known authors never were married at
all. A number, including Milton, Bun
yam, Southey and Hazlitt, made sew
eral matrimonial ventures OF the
rest, Shakespeare, Dryden, Addison,
Coleridge. Carlyle. Ruskin and Dick
ems are the most notable Of long list
Of those who were unhappily married.
Why should the production of litera-
ture be apparently so incompatible
with happy domestic life? Are lit
erary men less capable than lawyers
and plumbers Of choosing congenial
mates? The truth seems to be that
the writer husband is at home so
much of the time that he becomes as
familiar an object there as the old
cane-bottomed chair Two persons who
can survive "a hours of each others
society per day without jars are hap
PLY married indeed.
said wise young bride-to-be to the
prospective husband, "and that is that
you will promise not to be in to
lunch"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-12-30
Open-Air BARRIERS in Spain.

Fingers that smell of garlic, soap
that gives no lather, a razor that may
have been used for cutting a raw
ham, and flourish that reminds one
of an eXecutioner rather than of a
barber-such are the qualifications of
the itinerant Spanish hairdresser, de-
clares writer in the Wide World.
The victim-we use the term advised
ly-must be patient, long suffering
man, neither the slave of time nor of
any petty feelings such as delicacy
and sensitiveness, as otherwise he will
fare badly at the hands of his torturer
For the Spanish open-air barber is a
calm man, who takes everything for
granted, and never for moment
doubts that you are satisfied with his
attentions and will pay him accord
~lV.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-12-30
WATCH FOR SCHOOL OF FISH
Norwegian Boys Detailed to Warn
Farmers of the Approach Of
Their Finny Prey.

LII Is common enough to see q boy
watching cattle to keep them from
straying, and in days not so very long
gone by 1t was no unusual thing for
a boy to be set to keep the birds off
the crops; but watchdog whose duty
1t is to keep lookout for a school of
fish and who sits in sentry box set
upon stills Is not an everyday sight.
This particular kind of watchdog is
Norwegian. the scene of his labors
being the shores of some nora OF ms
native land.
His little sentry box is made of
wood and perched upon posts. Here
the lad sits, gazing out across the
arm of the sea, using his keen eyes
for the benefit of the farmers who are
depending on him to give the alarm
when school Of fish shall appear
They work contentedly enough in their
fields secure in their belief that their
watchdog will let them know when 1t
1t time to reap a harvest from the
sea instead of from the land
When the signal is given they leave
their work, throw their big nets over
their shoulders and hurry off to the
boats
Sentinel boxes similar to those en-
ployed in Norway were in use among
the fishermen on the shores of the
Mediterranean, and it is supposed that
the vikings brought back with them
from some of their piratical raids the
idea that has been put in practice ever
s1nce.-Youth's Companion
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-12-30
SOMETHING SHE DIDN'T KNOW
coIored Lady Evidently Had Stand.
ina In tho Best of New York
Society.

Two ladies, strangers to each other
were seated upon bench on the
platform of New York suburban sta.
ton waiting for train. One of them
was young, pretty, and very stylishly
dressed There was plenty of room
on the bench and a neat-looking col.
ored woman leading a spotlessly clad
little pickaninny by the hand, came
and sat down between the two women.
AS she did SO the younger got up and
began pacing up and down the plat
form. The darky's eyes blazed and
she was offended at once.
"Huh!" she exclaimed, ostensibly
addressing the four-year-old pickanin-
ny, but really speaking for the bene-
fit of the lady at the other end of
the bench "She's got bad blood in
her, all right-thinks cos she's got
good clothes, she owns dis bench.
why did she get up Auntie?" asked
the child.
"Cos she thinks she's too good to
sit aside of u.s. clustered the woman.
Cant anybody sit on these benches,
Auntie?" questioned the child.
COZ course they can, chile-but she
thinks Just cos she's got good clothes
sne's too good to sit aside of us. Little
she knows" in louder key, little
she knows dat Mrs Astorbilt comes
and sits in our house by de hour
little she knows dat | reckon.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-12-30
Old Enough to Have Sense.

That a man is never too old to get
into trouble was illustrated the other
day in the Columbia county court,
Pennsylvania, when William Moser.
aged 50 years and looking every day
Of his age, a veteran Of both the Next
can and civil. wars, was tried before
Judge Evans on surety of peace
charge. Mrs. Clara Ball, an elderly
lady, and neighbor, accused him of
threatening to burn her house, and
with throwing stones at her. The vet
eran had Mrs. Ball arrested on the
charge of threatening to kill him.
Their homes were but six feet apart.
and Moser was tenant OF Mrs. Ball.
Judge Evans told the litigants that
they were both too old to get mixed
up In court and directed them to 70
back home and live peaceably.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-12-30

When A. T. Stewart conceived the
8dea of setting up a coat of arms he
went to w. r. Travers, the New York
wit, for advice. Mr. Travers suggest
ed an employer rampant, chasing a
lazy salesman with yard-stick and
Mr.. Stewart did not speak to him
again for a month This anecdote is
probably as authentic as the other,
which states that Mr. Stewart being
extremely 1oquacious at a state ban
quet at Delmonico's, Mr.. Travers 81
fenced him by calling the length of
the table: CASH."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-12-30
IL Did Sound Funny.

That was an awful Joke your wife
sprung"
II didn't hear it."
We'll, shortly after you were mar
RED she told my wife that she'd TAX
en- fiat, but might leave it at any
time"
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1909-07-18

/ asc9, Ioyo 1909.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1909-07-18
Fl Boe'd1oq@@1o.

II Borinquen grata, la de floridos campos,
quien adore ciego con sin igua fervor.,
Quisiera que alumbraran los briladores lampos
Que bienhechor difunde el astro del amor
Joya del mar Caribe, mi hermosa Borinquen
Luciente cual los rayos del damantino sol;
Eres del vasto mundo mi idolatrado eden
Cubierto matizado de esplenddo arrebol
Semejaste una diosa dormida sobre brmas
Que como blando lecho tie diera e Creador;
Donde tan solo vie men risuehas las espumas
mitigar tn pena, tu augusta tu dolor.
Perecer sin remedio en- el naufragio triste
Al gigantesco empuie de barbara crueldad,
Con que la suerte adverse en- su Juror te enbiste
Matando tu esperanza de gloria libertad.
Yerguete prueba digna que no eres una astilla
Que el viento fugitive facil puede romper,
Y alcanzarzs derechos, intactos sin mancilla
Como disfruta el pueblo que altivo sabe ser.
Lucha lucha yaliente desnudo. franco el peeho
Como titan resuelto que diigente va,
4 conauistar Ia Gina radiante del dereeho
Y allf tu amada enseha gallarda flamearS.
E. L. Gutisrez VAez
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1909-07-18
Ponche imperial

Sc ha dado a conocer en- la ciu-
dad una nueva clase de bebida de.
nominada "Ponche Imperial
muy parecida al Marie Brizard'
con la ventaja de entrar en- su COM
posici6n materias alimenticias
tales como huevos V leche.
Ell Sr. Pablo Ramella, venezo-
lano residente en- San Juan, es ell
propietario de esta nueva marca
de licor y nos dice que en- los prin-
cipales establecimientos de la ciu-
dad Sc encuentran botelias de mues-
ira, para el que desee paladear es
tie excelente licor.
Dicha bedida segin opinion de
los intelijentes, resulta muy reco-
mendable por ell POGO alcohol que
contiene y 10 alimenticio de sus
propiedades.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1909-07-18

Era dfa de train en- casa de do
ma Dorotea.
La empingorotada burguesa Sra
Casafuerte, celebraba un suntuoso
bale en- commemoracion del de-
elmo aniversario de su dichoso en-
lace con ell archimillonario mar
ques de la Herradura. Margarita
asistira a tai bale, porque habfa
sido preferentemente invitada, Y
porque Sc hacfa necesario que la nj
ma frecuentara a menudo el gran
mundo. Dona Dorotea Sc gasto
un buen pico en- preparar a la nj
ma, 10 cual hizo sin pesadumbre,
pues la obsesion de casar a su hi
ia con un magnate, impdlsabala has
ia al sacri6cio de abrir SUI repleta
escarcela, para toda obra caritati-
va siempre cerrada.
Consultada varias veces la mia
acerca del proposito de la madre,
sofia contestar con tai indecision
y ambigiiedad, que doha Dorotea
lego a sospechar futuras contra
-riedades. SQue cabeza conocedora
de la simpatia existente entire To-
mas y Margarita podrfa dudar que
el POGO entusiasmo de la segunda
estaba en- relaci6n directa con el
primcro, quien, por su humilde po
sicion no podfa If a rendir genuhe-
xiones en- casa de una burguesa,
y quien sentiria legftimo dolor
yer a Margarita del brazo de un
de sus muchos galanteadores?
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1909-07-18
PROX|MO ENLACE En-
SAbAMA GnANDE,
Despues Dc II amos de ausencia,
regresa i sus lares nm esti,
nable sonpatriota.
De nuestro correeponsal.

Julio Is, -Desde hace varios dfas
se encnentra otra vez entire noso-
tros, procedente de la culta ciudad
de Mayagiez, donde cursaba estu
dos en- en- un colegio cat6lico, la
bella y angelical senorita Rosa Ame-
lia Damiani, hija amantisima de
nuestro apreciable amigo On. San
tos Damiani.
Reciba pues nuestra afectuosa
bien venida.
En- breve Sc dice. que un compa
hero en- 10 prem sa, muy apreciable
en- este pueblo, contraera matri-
monio con una estimable joven,
educada en- la ciudad del oeste, e
hija querfdfsima de un prestigio-
so comerciants amigo nuestro.
Que pronto Sc realice tan subli-
me ideal son nuestros deseos.
Hemos tenido el gusto de vel
por estas latitudes al ilustrado ga
leno don Augusta Franco de Soto
quien desp ues de una ausencia de
IL amos por Espaha regresa q su pue-
bio natal on el fin de pasar algu-
nos dfss ent re sus familiares.
Sc dice q ue habra un suntuoso
bale de socie dad con motive del
traslado del casino "Sabaneho",
4 u casa que con tai fin esta cons
truyendo nue. stro popular, alcal-
de On. Jose A. Busig6.
Bien, y que pronto sea Tin hecho.
SegGn hemos sabido no ha sido
contratado por la junta escolar
de este pueblo par eiercer el pr6xi-
mo aio, el presti gioso professor On.
Eladio V9lez Esp ada, quien mucho
sc ha distinguido aauf por su la
Dor educativa y es en- honor de la
verdad uno de los educacionistas
que honrsn el mag isterio puerto
rriquefo, extraiind onos ests me-
dida de Ia junta csc olar, que nos
priva de tener un professor de la
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1909-07-18
CERVMI PIEL BROS.
A. ALVAREZ Y HERMANO

A. ALVAREZ Y HERMANOS.
AGENTEs EXCLUSIVES EN- PUERTO
RICO DE LA CERvEZA PIEL.
No contiene sustdncias nociuas
PREpARADA DE MALTA FLOR DE cERvEzA
Els mas nutritiva que cualquiera
otra cerveza, resultando buen ali
mento. Tonica y reconstituyente
Aumenta el peso de las personals que
la usan. Fabricada y envasada sin la
adicion de sustancias qufmicas Con-
tiene gran proportion de malta. Pre-
parada de acuerdo con ell metodo
DORMUNDER REAL GERMAN
BEER. De acuerdo con la ley ma
cional de Alimentos y Drogas de
JUNO 80 de 1906.
En- tod0s los estdblecimientos debe
u pedir cerueza Pid Bros.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1909-07-18
|nteTesa sabeI:.

De Cienfuegos, isia de Cuba, de-
sean saber ell paradero de Anselma
Alexandra, y Sc informa que dicha
sonora tiene dos hermanos llamados
Pedro Y Antonio y todos son oriun-
dos de Caguas. Gregoria San Miguel,
que reside en- la calie de Santa Cruz.
nimero 25, en- Cienfuegos, isla de
Cuba. es quien esta interesada en-
saber las expresadas noticias.