Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-08-18

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in his garden a cabbage stalk on wnlcn
| there is a large head surrounded by
| fourteen others, somewhat smaller, .Dut
all fully developed
State Food and Dairy Commissioner
Wright of Iowa proposes an exhiolt
and demonstration of impure foods IN
place of the pure food shows that have
been popular for several years.
! Miss Crete Wildmaser, who married
Paul Laudbeck, hunter of large game
in Africa. was the first European wom-
an TO acquire citizenship in the Congo
Free State. She is native OF Aus
tria.
DR. Susan Hayhurst, pioneer among
women physicians in Philadelphia, died
at Woman's hospital after an illness OF
four days. DR.. Hayhurst, who was IN
her seth year, came of an old Quaker
| family.
Robert Womack, famed as the dis
coyerer of Cripple Creek, died In colo 3edo
RADIO Springs, Col. in poverty, mutter-
ing to the last of new fields he hoped
yet to find to replace the $l0OOo,OOo
claims he sold for $500.
Mark Twain's physician has cut him
down to four smokes q day, and the
distinguished patient has summoned
all his philosophy to fill the bill. the
curbing of a, hitherto unlimited indulg-
ence does not come easy.
Robbins Gilman, who was graduated
at Williams in 1899, has been selected
by the New York University Settle
ment society to succeed DR.. James II.
Hamilton as resident head worker. DR..
Hamilton is going abroad to study.
Judge Joseph r. Clarkson, former
judge of the district court OF Omaha,
who wandered away three weeks ago
and was found in Illinois a. day or two
ago. will forsake his lucrative practice
of law and become newer of wood
Sir Frederick Treves considers that
we have practically reached the thera-
peutic limitations of the X-rays, the
high frequency current and the Fin
sen light, but that in radium we stlll
have UNEMPLOYED fields of usefulness.
]. Wight Duff, A. NJ, author of "A
Literary History of Rome sometime
assistant professor of Greek and clas-
steal examiner in the University of
Aberdeen. is now professor of classics,
Armstrong college, University of Dur
ham.
Word was received in Davenport. Ia,
of the death of Francis Samuel Smith,
Davenport's former mayor and son Of
the author of America, in Toronto,
Canada, where he was taken III on his
way to Boston to join his wife and
father.
Dr. Roberts suggestion. in 1881, of
sewing wounds of the heart was re-
ceived as a joke. DR.. REIN of Ger
many in 1897, got the first recovery
from heart wound. Altogether there
have been sixteen such operations,
with seven amazing recoveries.
King Alfonso is perhaps the young
est monarch who was ever selected to
arhitrate on an international dispute,
which in the present case is the diff
ference between England and Germany
with regard to the Walfsch bay terri
tory.
Martin Mckinney. a rancher, of Ar
tesla, Cal, who killed a large bull
snake by driving wagon over it, was
followed for miles by another snake,
evidently bent on avenging the death
of its mate, and which was killed only
after a long fight.
Mrs. Charlotte May Wilkinson,
daughter of Samuel J. May, a famous
fermorer and abolitionist, and cousin
of Louisa May Alcott, author of Lit
tie Women died of the effects of old
age in her summer home, Briarcliff
Manor.
Rev. William MacLaren, ex-princi-
pay of Knox college, Toronto, died re-
Gently in Toronto at the age of 81.
His death marks the passing of an
other of the older men connected with
the Presbyterian church and the uni
versity of Toronto.
Col. Charles w. Larned of West
Point denies holly Professor Zueblin's
accusation that the national military
and naval academies are turing out
a generation of snobs," and calls to
mind Grant, Lee. Sherman and jack
son as modest doors of deeds.
One of the four surviving widows of
the Mormon leader. Brigham Young,
died in Salt Lake City recently. She
was Maanah K. Young. Her marriage
to Young took place at Nauvoo. ILL.,,
before the westward pilgrimage of the
Mormons. She was IS years old. No
children were born to her.
Mariana Madeline Monachesi. the
oldest of the editorial staff of the Pub
fishers Weekly, has died-at what age
the Weekly in it's cordial tribute does
not state. Her father was a Roman
fresco painter who accompanied Jo-
seph Bonaparte when as the Count de
Survilliers he came to this country.