Norwich bulletin., 1909-08-09

| Washington streets, avenue, squares and circles having the aristocratic l IN. w. tackled to their names. | Emperor William of Germany. is desirous that impecunious aristocrats who cannot make a living in Germany should emigrate to German South west Africa and become members of that German colony. William Dean Howells, the author, | who has been spending the summer at his country place, Eliot, Me, is said to be in very poor health. He will sail next week, with his daughter, Mildred, to Carlsbad.
 Mrs. Hattie Spelling Robinson Col lins of Des Moines has been aided by only eight husbands in her experi- ments to demonstrate whether or not marriage is failure. But Mrs. Col lins is only fl years old.
 Mrs Ella. Flagg Young, Chicago's new $10,000 year superintendent of schools, believes heartily in industrial education. T think all children should be taught to do something with their hands," says Mrs. Youngs
 According to Congressman Charles Il. COWleS OI NOFlH OdTOllHd, tue Otu- est living triplets in the world are the Gibbs triplets, born in Wilkesboro, N. C., May ?, 1883, and now in their 77th year.
 Attorney James P. Whitla of Sha- ron, father of Willie Whitla of kidnap- ping fame, has formally announced that he would be a republican aspirant for candidate for congress from the n17tx -eic crlaf diGfriaf Pennsylvania.
 One morning last week Peter Meis- ter of Ironville, shot two large carp in the Chickles creek. One measured "A inches and weighed nine pounds and one measured S2 inches and weighed IA pounds:
 Leffert Lefferts Buck, the bridge builder, died suddenly at his home in Hastings on the Hudson. He had had greater experience in building suspension bridges of long span for heavy travel than any other Ameri- can engineer.
 Afer carrying the mail 24,O00 miles during her II years and five months service between Bristol and Wood bourne, Miss Grace Van Hart of Roe
  has been succeeded by Thaddeus M. Eustis.
 Some of the Washington citizens have given Dr. Gallinger of New Hampshire a big oil portrait of him. self. He's the chairman of the senate's committee on the District of Colum- bia-a committee popularly called Washington's board of aldermen.
  Thers is a popular impression that when woman uses a gun she shuts her eyes at the moment of pulling the trigger. Mrs. J. M Chamberlain eof Sunbury, Pa. did just that, but she got her game, six foot snake, which she found in her chicken yard.
 "Hellaire Beloc," observes The Spec tator, lis the creator of a new form of literature which might be described as topography touched with emotion. This is apropOs of his new. The Pyre- nees,'' in which, it goes on to say, The is as austere an artist as Baedeker."
 The invidious contrast between men and dogs whose authorship was dis cussed d few days ago appears thus in communication from Lionel A Tollemache in The Spectator-"th Staelian Cor anonyinous) Plus j'en- tende parler des hommes, plus Jaime les animaux." Rivalry for. social leadership has been carried to the field of suffrage by Mrs. Q. Fl, P. Belmont and Mrs Clarence Mackay. Both are interested deeply in the fight for rights for wo- men, and they are both preparing their lines of battle, for the fight which is to develop this fall, with charaeteris- tic foresightedness.
 Mrs. Louisa Dayton Voorhees,, wiI- ] ow of Judge Peter V. Voodhees. died at Camden. after an illness of several months. She was daughter of the late Mir. and Mrs James B. Dayton. and niece of William L. Dayton, who was vice presidential candidate on the republican ticket with John c. Ere mont.
 Brakie J. Orr, lawyer of Bay~City, l who has the reputation of being the . wittiest after dinner speaker in Mich prosecuting attorney of Bay county, I twice under emphatic protest, has re- moved to Detroit to practice law and escape a fourth election as county prosecutor. tA In celebration of his S0th birthday, men of the editorial. and typographi- cal departments Of Nordstjernan. d weekly paper whose name in English would be the Swedish North Star, gave a dinner in New York city to Hakon Johansen. who was among the founders of the periodical 3S years ago. He was it's publisher and owner for, 25 years. He still serves as it's editor.
 The home of the late Edward Eyer cit Hale in Roxbury. Mass, having been placed on the market. move ,ment has been started to purchase it Wy public subscription and preserve it as memorial to the great clergyman. The Boston Herald says that it ought not to be difficult to devise a way by which it can be. still kept as center | of fraternity and good .will."
 One Thing Proved.
 The Sutton investigation at Annap- oils has already made it sufficiently clear that good many young men are permitted to hold commissions in, the l marine corps who ought never to wear