Norwich bulletin., 1909-08-17

| the cltyS successful business women.
Dr. Clarence J. Blake of Boston, one
of the leading aursts of the country
and vice president of the Grenfell as
ISOLATION, has written an interesting
Biographical sketch for DR.. Grenfells
new book. Adrift on an Ice Pan.
r. ]. Campbell the well-known
London preacher and Header of the
Britain to go to war TO right wrongs
in the Congo Free State, If Belgium
does not soon end evils that are fla
grant.
w. II. Fitchett. LII. D.. one OF the
best known Australian authors. writes
in most enthusiastic terms of the sue
cess that Messrs Chapman and Alex
ander, the American revivaists. have
had in their campaign in Australia.
E. c. Griffin. recently engaged to
head the chemistry department of the
Kansas state agricultural college, is
spending his vacation in Brighton,
Cal, as a bod carrier. He is not try
ing to solve the labor problem, but
likes hard work
Van Tassel Sutphen, author of The
Doomsman, and The Gates of Chance
sailed a few days ago for sojourn
of several months abroad, chiefly in
Italy. Mr.. Sutphen is a golf player
formerly editor of Golf and writer of
several stories of the links.
One of the generous givers to. the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New
York is George A. Hearn, who has
given an endowment of $151.O0O TO buy
works by American artists, besides
presenting before 1906 nearly 80
paintings and aiding in the purchase
Of 81 pictures.
Mrs. Clarence Mackay publishes a
letter in the suffrage papers stating
that the Equal Franchise society is
working for universal suffrage, not for
the municipal suffrage alone. as has
been reported. Mrs. Mackay organized
the Equal Franchise society and is one
Of its leading members.
Professor Todd of Amherst, who
hopes to have a comparatively near
view of Mars in September. expects to
make a balloon ascension from Fitch
burg. The professor has never been
up in balloon and he thinks it well to
get his airlegs in shape before getting
up to business in September
John T. -McCutcheon, the Chicago
Tribune's cartoonist, and C. E. Akeley
of the Field museum, are on their way
to Africa. where they will hunt big
game. McCutcheon may not unreal
sonahly expect to find the drawing
pencil mightier than the high power
rife in filling his pay envelope.
Ladislas Mierzwinsl1i, the Tenor who
was once popular in New York and
f~r swA i =. q
an unusual character abroad, is dead
in Paris after a career of great con-
tracts. A few years ago it was said
that the once acclaimed singer had
become porter at a hotel on the
Riviera.
Keir 1Iardie, M. p. who has been
accused by his foes and critics with
having had much to do with stirring up
Indian revolt against British rule in
the territory over which Edward VII
is emperor, has made up his mind to
ston what he believes is a gross mis-
representation, and he has brought his
latest accuser before the courts.
Mrs. Mary Sophia Fairbanks. daugh-
ter of DR.. Charles Cotton, who is a
States ship, in the war of 1872, re-
ceived a testimonial from the British
government for his treatment of 81
wounded English sailors after the
battle between the Hornet and the
British sloop Of war Peace ok, died in
Brooklyn.
Miss Chrystal Eastman, who has
been appointed by Governor Hughes
on the commission to inquire into the
question of the employers liability
and the causes and effects of unem-
ployed, is the only woman on the
commission. She is the daughter of
the Rev. S. E. and the Rev. Annie S.
Eastman joint pastors of Park church,
Elmira, n. Y.
Miss Constantia Elizabeth Maxwell
is the first woman to become a mem
Der of the teaching staff of Trinity
college, Dublin. She has just been
elected an assistant to the professor
of mocern history. Miss Maxwell was
graduated only few months ago with
first senior moderatorship. She won
gold medal in history and political
science.
-Four out of five writer's of success
full recent fiction received their train
ing on newspapers. Few, however
have had as wide or varied Journal
istic experience as Jacques Futrelle,
the tHSdSiHS duluOF OF ELUSIVE lSd-
bell" 1t was white he was working on
a Boston paper that he wrote "The
Thinking Machine" stories, by which
he was thrown into fiction
DR.. George NJ. Kober of Washington
has been figuring the amount of dam
age done by the fly in our country. He
reckons the time lost because of sick
ness and the expenses of medical
treatment diseases caused by flies,
mainly, of course, typhoid. His con-
clusion is that the annual loss to the
people of the United States resulting
from flies is $3.50, 100000.
The only Roman Catholic priest who
ever was in congress was FIR. Gabriel
Richard, who sat from a Michigan
district and impressed his colleagues
with his character ana ability. He has
been recalled recently by the centenary
of the setting an of the first printing
press inr the middle west. FIR Richard
issued I'M 1903 from press set up in
Detroit the Fissai du Michigan.
The purchase of great work of
Rembrandt by Charles r. Taft leads
to the statement that he and his wife
are made one of the three first rank