Putnam patriot., 1911-09-29
E. ditorial Scraps

Monsignor Kennedy, rector of the | American college at Rome was the first American pfelate to be received by the Pope since his Illness. He had not seen the Pontilf since Trinity sun day, and, calling at the Vatican, found | His Holiness well, bright and cheerful and really vigorous, considering bis age. The Pope walked about his rooms with an elastic step and had good color and clear eyes. He showed no sign of fatigue and was inclined to joke about his recent position, the reports of which he said had been exaggerated.
 In rural Uruguay they make white wash out of sliced cactus leaves soaked | in water and mixed with lime. "When | applied" writes Consul Goding' ito | any surface, be 1t of wood, brick iron, or other material, beautiful pearly | white appearance is produced which l will endure through storms and frosts | for many years"
 Torrington, with .health record of which it has always been proud, and | with rare freedom from contagious and infectious diseases, is having its first epidemic of typhoid fever in many years. A careful canvass of local phy sicians was made and ten of them re- ported twenty actual cases and eleven more suspicious cases which are likely to develop soon.
 A critical situation has arisen in Vienna owing primarily to the high price of the lnecessaries of life. Riots broke out and many persons were kil. led or wounded. Troops fired on the mobs, which had erected barricades in the streets. There was fierce ex- change of bullets, and the soldiers were pelted with all sorts of missiles.
 Mary Mccarthy, believed to have been the oldest person in Nj massachusetts, died in West Stockbridge Saturday, aged ll2 years. For more than fifty years she had lived alone in little house son the outskirts of the town. The sSeleetmen investigated her case and reached the conclusion that her claim of great age was correct.
 Advices received inParis from Rome say that the entire Italian naval force Is ready, in case of emergency, for a conflict with Turkey if the Ottoman government refuses to give it's consent to an Italian protectorate over Tripoli,
 The sorrow of pei crows and parrots whose masters are removed by death Is often noticed, and one very tame crow which was owned by woman in Vir- ginia would fly to the cemetery md sit for hours on a tree which stood near the grave of his beloved mistress.
 Danger of famine in the Philip pines on account of the failure of the rice crop has become so threatening that Governor General Forbes decided To order the purchase by the govern ment of an entire shipload of the ce- real in Rangood, The cargo will be sold to the people at cost.
 An Englishman writes to the Sun that both the women and the men of New York have deteriorated since his first visit to the city. "rhe one notice able thing in the New York of the l present time Is the almost entire ab- | sence of handsome women and pretty l girls.n
 What are politicians of the old | school to do with a President like Taft | who finds "the patronage" a bore and anuiSance rather than otherwise, and | advertises his wish that he could be rid of it?
 No serious trouble in Cuba Is in | sight, according To Sir William Van | Horne. He's president of the Cuba | Railroad Company and ought to | know. The Gomez government is strong, he says, the people are orderly 1 and law abiding the island is tranquil | The net earnings of the railroad show | gain of S266, I'll in a twelvemonth.
 The largest gathering ever seen at a | public demonstration in Berlin was | the recent open.air masS-meeling held | 10 protest against the current talk of | war. Speeches were delivered simul- | taneously from 10 different stands to | some 200, 900 people, who were in thor ough sympathy with the purpose of | the meeting. Such demonstrations are not lost on governments. There will be no war.
 William Rankin of Summit, x. J, Is l0l years old. He's the oldest living graduate of Williams college, and thinks no other American college can match him. He never drank liquor He gave up tobacco at go. MT. Ran. kin enjoys good health, and keeps posted on current tvents by reading the newspapers. lie goes out driving { every clear day. From Leeds lthe English onel comes a report that granular calcium chlo- a ride lays the dust onia macadam road ricely and cheaply. ii