The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-11-19

FARMER: NOVEMBER 19, alignment for the next campaign is about to be made writes Correspon- dent O'Iaugh1in-
 A concrete motion picture theater recently built in England Is 80 feet long by 45 feet wide and IS feet high, yet the walls are only two inches thick.
 A Chicago woman wants a divorce because her husband dreamed of his first wife who is dead. Really, this seems to be running jealousy into the ground.
 If the late Senator Thomas c. Platt were alive General Huerta's reluc- tancy to resign would evoke the sym pathy of one distinguished ohicehold- CT.
 The biggest wildcat of the season has been caught by Charles Holway in Somerset County, Me. The cat measur- ed 4 feet 3 1-4 inches, stood P inches high, and weighed 30 pounds.
 At Carona, Long Island, Miss Rene Panditter, 21 years old, has promised to marry. Michael Diamond just soon as he takes out his final papers and becomes a real American citi- zen.
 John Richard Archer, negro. ds mayor-elect of the borough Of Bat tersea, London, but the change of a single vote would have beaten him. He's of West Indian stock, not Amer ican.
 There will be doings in Nebraska in the year 1916, over and above the Prestd doir4gs. Senator Hitchcock's term runs out in the March of 1917, and he has offended Drs. Wilson and Bryan past forgive ness They'll do him up politically if they can.
 The Maine sheriff who raided the premises of a, Portland club and seiz- ed the liquor in the members lockers certainly started something. Suppose the grand jury 1ndfcts the club for maintaining a nuisance, and there's a. conviction. in. the trial court, and the state,s supreme court-the flaw court they call it-afirms the judg- ment. That, a, Maine paper suggests, would @bring the question of prohibi- tion home to a large class of citizens who have never regarded it as serious ly affecting their personal rights and privileges"
 This story comes from warrensburg in the wonderful state of Missouri: .Grasshoppers, eating through a. new one-inch hemp rope, caused Daniel Laughman, a carpenter, aged 70, to fall thirty feet from the top of sfIo he was building on the farm of Jaisse Mohler Laughman was unconscious for a time, but will recover. Since the invasion of the Kansas hoppers about a week ago, the fields have been kTYN- in clouds around sflos, eating corn being packed away. They gathered on the Fope which supported the scaf- fold on which Laughman was work ing and cut the strands until they broke under his weight.
 Through the filing of his campaign expense account in Queens, it was dis closed that Mayor-elect John Purroy Mitchell found it one of the necessities of his campaign for the mayoralty to spend $270 for boxing lessons and a course in physical training. Just how important he regarded the bearing of boxing lessons on his chances to be- come mayor and the work that he might be called on to do in the cam patgn is shown in the prominence Of thds item in his statement of election expenses.
 The cost Of the boxing lessons Is the
 
 and represents more than half the amount it cost Mir. Mitchell personally to be elected. The $270 was paid to John Cooper tor physical training and boxing exercises with helper between September 16 and November 4.
 All of the boxing lessons were taken by MT. Mitchell at hls home, and there were more than three of them a week while the campaign lasted.
 We all make our reverent bows to New Haven,s the birthplace of strange municipal slogans, and the proud site of the leading institution of learning in the country; at least that is the modest way that Connecticut folk put it. New Haven has culture, has it to burn, but, the other hand, some times its light does not seem to shine with fit brightness.
 Visitors at the intellectual entertain ment last Saturday at Yale Field were granted 9 glimpse of what the New Haven 1anguage-pusher can do when they get agoing and the culture flame is dull. Across the streets were big signs. almost banners. which read: Automobiles and Vehicles Turn to the Right.
 The uneducated and uncultivated l barbarians from the center of the state were heard asking one another in wonder when automobiles had ceas- ed to be vehicles and why the news of the change had not been given to the public.
 It is a question whether the amount l of attachments served during week have any bearing on business condi- 1 tions, but it is at least of interest to read in the Commercial Record'' that the attachments served last week were in Bridgeport for $44,o95, in New Ha- ven for $4,635, in Hartford for $3,100 and in Waterbury for $200. 1 We should like to have about two ] gallons of fresh Louisiana syrup on subscription at this office. In fact, we use anything to eat or wear, from a bale of cotton to a bundle of rags