The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-02-10

The Camera. Club will have another meeting tomorrow evening.
 Miss Russell of the library is putting pictures of Lincoln on the walls, and making ready for the lecture by Prof. Phelps on Friday night.
 MT. and Mrs. Charles K. Stagg came to town to attend the funeral of Mrs. Staggs brother, Robert T. Wheeler.
 There has been another meeting of the special committees to talk over fire matters
 A lady in town hopes there may be another course of public lectures at the library next winter.
 Those valentines at Hansen's and Samnlis' are simply too fetching.
 MT Jewell is having the ice house in the rear of his market filled.
 The next Assembly dance will be on the 23d inst.
 The Brotherhood of St Andrew meets this evening at the rectory.
 There were many interesting things said by Judge Beers at the Mems Club, about Holland, other than those already reported. Speaking of the sale of diamonds in Amsterdam, he said they could only be bought through brokers, of which there are hundreds in the city. Looking at them as whole there were not two in the whole lot he would trust with a $1 bill. They looked like tramps They carried the diamonds in their pockets, wrapped up in a piece of greasy paper, and they sell them by lots. So if a buyer wishes diamond of a, certain size, and finds one in a given lot, he has to purchase the whole lot, which may contain dia- mOnds of all sizes. In this way man often buys $5,0O0 worth of dia- monds to get a certain stone worth but $500 or $1.OO0. There is a place fo, To of f1 1i,oy fxy these brokers, and they sit at one side of a small table, while the customer sits opposite. There are long rows of ] these tables in the room which has plenty of windows for the light need ed. In no other way is it possible ta buy diamonds in Amsterdam. JudgO Beers said this is one of the finest cit ies in the world; it is the Venice of the month. It is built on 90 islands, and one cannot go more than 1000 feet without coming to or crossing a draw bridge. It is @ city of water streets. The people have a madness for cleanli- ness and wash the outside of their houses from the eyes to the sidewalk. There is great wealth in the city, and there are great museums, open free to the public, and other fine institutions. At the museum, the judge was much impressed with RembrantaS famous picture, ""The Night Watch It is WOIlIlI CIOSS1IlS lIlC AC1dIllEC tO ScC, lO said. Once while in the city he real tzed he was a foreigner, when he found 30 or 40 school children staring at him and wondering what language he was speaking. He thought the street car service in that city the finest he had ever seen. There are 21 lines radiat- ing like the rays of a fan to all parts of the town, and each line is number ed with a gigantic figure on the top of the car, so that at a gIace one can tell from a long distance what part of the city the car runs to. He visited a house where the same fam fly, generation after generation, had lived for 250 years, and they sold but one thing, and that was a drink com posed one-half of some kind of wine and the other of spirits Two quiet, nicely dressed women waited on scuS- toners and sold the drink over a7lit- tie old wooden bar black with age. The judge told about hunting for an Episcopal church one Sunday morning and not being able to find it until stranger who spoke English directed him to a long alley, very narrow, which led to the center of a block, where the church was found. At the Presbyterian church or the Great Dom, he heard a fine organ and good music, and saw stained glass windows 500 years old, which he thought contained richer colors in purple and blue than it is possible to make in this day. One section of the city is set off as a ghetto or a place of residence for the Jews, of which there are 75,000 There are more Jews there than in Jeru- salem. He spoke of attending a mar ket where only second hand things are sold, such materials as would be put in an ash barrel in this country or sent to a rummage sale.
 A trip was made ito the Isle of Mar ken, a very small piece of land in the Zuyder Zee. Here all the inhabit- ants are fishermen, and the men and women wear the outlandish costumes familiar in Dutch pictures. The houses are built on stilts, so that if the water of the sea overruns the island it will l not sweep away the houses. These | houses are all of wood. The women ! wear from 12 to 16 petticoats, weigh-l ing about three pounds each, and all i wear wooden shoes, the ground is so damp. At Edam the judge saw where |! the famous cheese of that name is | made He went to one dairy and was | where the COWS are kept. They oc- cupied one section of the dwelling | house and the dairy was in the rear. | Great attention is paid to keeping the cows neat and clean. Such a dairy | would be a. good example for some of our American milkmen who are striv- ing to attain unto certified milk.
 Hoarse coughs and stuffy colds that | nav develop into pneumonia over night |