Putnam patriot., 1910-08-19
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 Dr. Sef Director df the Depart. mcnt Of Health and Chanlies, Phila- delphia, recently issued 4 warning con corning the purchase of food supplies that have been exposed 10 the dust of the streets. Considering the great quantities Of fruit and vegetables that i are offered for safe in this manner, du- l ring the summer months. the advice i K timely. The sickness and mortality l once attributed b amystefous Prov idence,n Is now known to be pfeYenta- bic by avoiding the known causes.
 This part of the couulrs has been sui fedng from severe drought, Jspan has suffered from devastating floods. some | 80 ,000 houses were submerged Tn Tokio, | and many lives were lost. and much suffering followed from the desttution That befeil the poor people.
 An express tram ran Into freight l train loaded with ties, on the Nalley | road, iast week Thursday, instantly l killing the engineer Senator Buike- 1 Ie. was in the smoking ear playing | cards, and was thrown to the floor, but no one, save the engineer was injured. Rev, Edward i'asson Hammond, at one lime the leading evangelist ot the country, died al his home in Hartford last Sunday. He had the credit of being ihe instrumentality of convert ing thousands in this country and in Great Britain. General Booth, the ia ther of the Salvation Army, Is said to have been one Of the men whose CA reer was shaped by Mt Hammondis evangeIistic work. He WAS born in El- iington, this State.
 During the s9 years since the Kim berly mines were discovered accidental ly eleven Ions of diamonds have been taken from the mines. A trader who stopped over night with n Dutch farm CT saw the children playing with white marbles. He took some of the white stones 10 Cape Town, where they were pronounced diamonds of wonderful beauty and great value.
 Taste is strangely localized in the mouth. Put lump of sugar on the tip of the tongue and you will find Il distinctly sweet. Then try 1t halfway back on the tongue and you will find il tasteless. However, with most other substances, the reverse is true. In these eases the tip of the tongue serves only for touching--it Is the back part of the tongue where taste exists.
 Hartfofd's population Is 9s,alb, and Bridgeport Is now the second city in population, having io2, ,ods inhabitants New Haven having the largest pop ulation of any city In the State. Some, how Hartford seems to most people the metropolis, regardless of population. A new fruit called "aImondcot, has been introduced bygfafting an almond cutting on an apricot tree, by G. l.. Axers, ef White Salmon. State ct Washington, It is six inches In cir conference, shaped like a tomato, and of dark wine color. The first tast . Il similar 10 banana, but as you che W It the almond taste nssetts Itself.
 The hoardcd wealth ef China must be enormous. ln ieecnt article, Lord 1ufkon estimated the boarded wealth oi India as mol less than si ,I5a, ,Ooe ,oal, and China must be richer than India In thls form of dead property II ali this wealth could be brought into cir eulation Il would add thifty-tiNe mil lions of dollars, annually, to each oi those two countries at only per cent
 fire occurred in Portland, Oregon, lasi week, causing the loss of Ssp,ess and imperiling the lives ot ssD ianndr, workers. A little celiNloid device ioi holding up ladies collars had been lefi unnoticed in a woman's waist, whiet with hundreds ol other garments wa' hung on superheated pipes. Suddenly the celloloid exploded, and lhe room was instantly in blaze. Two hundfee panic.slricken girls had ,e be driver down flight of smoky stairs, by th' fifemen, to save them from death.
 Three inmates Of the Chsrlestown Mass, State prison constructed eoun ferfeiting outfil and manufactured spa rious half dollars. \ notorious crtmi nal secured some scraps of tin and leas and . jewellers eTacihle, with sem' plaster of paris. An ingenious eontri vance vas made Co divert the electrit, " to two pieces of carbon. placed then oa sheet of iron covered with cement With this outfit the half-dollars wet' made and circulated Inside and outsid' the prison, until the secret service off cers traced the spurious coin to she jail
 The pinch of high prices is fell if Germany, where the situation Is com pllcated by the exclusion of American meats The prices of all foods are In creasin9. and an advance of fron 10 ta Dpcr cent tD the price of meats has been announced. Workmen complain that they cannot afford 10 buy meat, and there is loud demand for the rr- movai of the bans against the foreign < afticles.