Putnam patriot., 1912-05-10
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Latest News IoDdenseu. 4 surgical operation has just been i found necessary to recover lot of tea. spoons which disappeared one et time from ward Of the eastern Maine | insane hospital. When the mystery | was solved by the discovery that one | of the patients WAS swallowing the | missing articles Dr. N. (. Mason and i Dr. E. E. Sanger recovered from the | mans stomach nineteen teaspoons. Seventeen oi them belonged to the hos pital and two had been swallowed eVi- dently before the man WAS committed. The late William M. Laffan Of the "New York sunn left met estate Of si,745,9el The 2l6 shares of @Sun" stock fpar value 4 1.000 share were officially appraised Al s6 ,900 q share.
 After looking over lot of Harvard i freshmen, Director Sargent Of the | Hemenway Gymnasium suggests that 1 half the time now cousecrated to study | in the preparatory schools might very l proftably be empolyed in physical 1 training. aThe idea for the college student should be total abstinence, says Pres ident bckurman Of Cornell in an ad- dress last week. "Up 10 recent years the scientific attitude has been that al- cohol taken by men and women mod erately was not injurious but beneficial. It was believed that a glass Of wine at the dinner table was beneficial. Science now has shown that drinking even at regular intervals or moderately Is in. jurious. The altruistic idea is being replaced by the idea of health and hy- giene.o
 AS an entirely logical explanation of the recent great rise in the price oi meats the following Is offered from Chicago: "The retail butcher IS blnm- ing athe wholesaler, the wholesaler the packer, the packer the farmer and the farmer the high price of corn" In this House That Jack Built only one item wes omitted. Everybody should blame the consumer for kicking at the prices.
 Mrs. H. Lawson Hill, who gives her age as l04 and Is a real D. A. R., will cast her first vote at the Lakeporl, Cal, republican primary.
 The "Louis,ile Courier.Journaln gently describes n newspaper neigh Dor as "exuding malice and fasehood from every pore of its leprous body"
 The scene of the latest attempt of the very big eagle to carry off and eat the small negro boy Is laid near Con. cord, Ga, and m "Atlantie Constitu- tionn correspondent tells the thrilling story. At the end of the tussle Ed Parks (the party of the second part got strangle hold on the "tremendous bird,n took hlm home, shouted for q plow line, tied him to n tree, and be- came the envy of all the other small boys of the vieinage.
 "Instend of being used for a bever- age, writes Mir. Hansen of the Amer. ican consulate general at Bangkok, ''the leaves of the tea plant, after be- Ing iermented, afe rolled into balls, one of which Is placed in the hollow of the cheek and allowed to remain there until the soluble contents have been eXausted by the saliva. This use Of tea Is common in northern Siam.'
 To learn the condition of Americans cut of from railroad and telegraphic communications on the west coast of Mexico, where conditions are becom- Ing worse. especially at los Moehis, and to afford them an opportunity of leaving the country, President Taft will probably send vessel 10 that re- gion, according 10 an announcement made at the State Department.
 Converting at Washington last week representatives from boards Of trade, cham beTs of commerce, and business mems associations, throughout the country interested in the organization of a national board of trade. It was on the initiative of President Taft that the department of commerce and labor forwarded the invitations to the 6 LOO organizations.
 Reports received from mercantile centers in all parts of the country indi- cate conservative improvement in our industries, increased confidence in business circles and a general absence of uneasiness over a few disturbing de velopments. A gain of more than II per cent in bank elearings in the last week, as compared with the same time year ago, better railroad earnings and growing demand for iron, steel and copper, tell the story of the pas sing of depression in the world of trade. The offering of one cent for every ten dead flies delivered at the Cleveland, Ohio, City Hall suggests that the city on the lake must be either short on Atas af lnpg a,, sash