Putnam patriot., 1911-07-21
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Sabine villa has been made in the | neighbofhood Of PefeiIe, in the Sabine | Hills. Some peasants while digging | came across some mosaic paRements, | and Count Nigr was sent by the gov ernment to inspect the discovery. Ni- | gri believes he has discovered Horaee.s | Sabine farm, the situation of which ] has always been in doubt among arch. seoogists.
 One of the most extraordinary con tests ever recorded WAS lthat which ended in the city Of Worcester last Thursday night, when prizes aggregat- S650 were pald to competitors for the greatest quantity of Aies killed. The winner of the first prize, sl00, caught l,2l9 ,666 flies The total catch WAS | over SIS gallons. The world $ cham pion fly catcher is boy of l2 years, | who conducted his campaign on a city | dump with number of impfoyised ] traps with dead fisheads for bali.
 The royal commission appointed in England to study the relations be- tween human and animal tuberculosis l has just made very learned report Their discoveries, however, are not very alarming The sum of it is that out of l0S cases of human tuberculosis investigated, Sd yielded human tuber- cle bacili only 19 yielded bovine tu- bercle bacilli only, and five yielded both bovine and human tuberele ba- cilli.
 Referring the petition for reduction of trolley fares to the utilities eommis. sion Is the one logical way to treat them, good or bad. As the GeneI al Assembly apparently cannot directly refer them, the way out is to reject them all and leave the petitioners to make the appeal in that direction themselves, The law provides the way and the bill that the Assembly decided upon is there ready for business. It will be in working order in a few days. How 1t will work time will tell.
 Worcester's water supply is so short ened that strenuous means must be taken to conserve it. All watering of lawns, sidewalks and streets has been prohibited, and water-users who vio- late these regulations will be shut of from their houses or places of business and will not be turned on again until the supply is much more plentiful than il now is. Special inspectors have been appointed To sec that these string. ent rules are scrupulously observed.
 One of the baloonists in the race for the James Gordon Bennett cup wentup t,a night of 15, 300 feet, or 2.94 miles, and reports that "It was not so un- pleasant up there as it is sometimes foundn The thermometer registered a degrees, which sounds very pea- sant indeed.
 The new navy hydroplane has sue ce>sfully passed the tests of starting from the water and alighting on the land and starting from the land and ahehting on the water. There seems to be nothing left but to start from the bottom of the water and alight on n hill-the converse can be easily managed.
 All legislative paths now lead to ad- journment of Congress quickly after the vote on the Arizona-New Mexico statehood bill is taken in the Senate on the legislature day of August '. The passage oi the Canadian reciprocity bill by a twothirds vote of the Senate is confidently predicted by Senate lea ders. House leaders agree that there will be no opposition 10 the adjourn ment plans of the Senate. The House Committee on Ways and Means Is working on a revision of the cotton tariff About ten days debate in the House k expected, but the bill will not be pressed on the Senate so as to cause any delay, and if necessary will be put ahead as a rider on the wool or free list bills when the Senate votes upon them. Cotton revision, however, in case such programme is not adopted, will be pressed al the regular session eonvening in December.
 The Senate committee which is in vestigating the election of Senator Lorimer, of Illinois, will resume work with probably several witnesses who are expected lto testify regarding the alleged sloo, 900 Lorimer election fund
 House committees will continue pro- ping the Controller Bay, Alaska, land claims; into the Attorney Generals recommendation for removal of Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, chief of the govern ments Chemistry Bureau, and into the charged failure of Attorney Gene raj Wickersham to prosecute alleged frauds by the ''Alaska syndicate
 The House Sugar Trust investigating committee will convene in New York on Tuesday for several days. The House Steel Trust investigating com mittce will resume work here this week.