The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-30


 priest
 At the church of the good Saint
 Koch,
 That you were a prayer your mother
 prayed
 (When she was SC lonely maybe), And back from the portals of God you
 strayed-
 Her dear little star-eyed baby! Ella Bentley Arthur in New Orleans
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 Health authoritien now declare that the finger bowl is full of germs. New ertheIess drink from the finger bowl Detroit. Free Press.
 No man should tell the woman he marries that he is unworthy of her. She will find it out soon enough Toledo Blade.
 There is a feeling on the part of many conscientious people that 1t is time that last JuIys butchers bill should be paid.-Hartford Post.
 London has dropped the frivolous 1 things o6 life and is debating the vital question, Ought bishop to smoke2'' Exchange.
 Eight hundred thousand deaths from consumption in the last four years. During the four years of the civil war the deaths were 35o,oo0- vice-President-ele Marshall is off on hunting trip. He deserves a good time before starting in on his job of being a wax figure for four years.-Hartford Post.
 The proposed conference of the New England governors is to be re- lsa1ity. Let it show better results than the national gathering-Norwich Bull letin.
 Although Wall street objects to gov ernment supervision, they would pr6b- ably be willing for Uncle Sam to ask the office boy occasionally how busi- ness is.-Hartford Post.
 The splinter evidently has not led a chased life.-Lippincott's When a man develops into a grow Ter, the Mexico Ledger believes it is time to rush hinn.-Exchange. Thomas A. Edison's abhorrence of stock speculation and market rigging is we'll known. MT. Edison voiced this abhorrence witti1y in a recent inter view on electricity.
 The Third Ave. L in New York has had a wreck, and all the women who have been leaning out of their win dows in mother hubbards for so many years have been rewarded at last. New locomotives of the Pennsylva- mia Railroad are equipped with auto matic f1remen. It'll be lonesome for the driver until he gets used to it, but they'll never strike. The southward drift of icebergs is setting in. It looks as though our only source of ice supply this season | would be from the corra11ing and tow ing into port of some of these mon- ster junks.-Worcester Gazette. 1 An electric current of 100 volts has a food value of a porterhouse steak At that rate criminals who are cleo trocuted may die with the sublime knowledge that death is due to high 1 living.-Ridgefeld Press.
 Speaking of his political "amalga- 1 nation MT. Munsey says he threw it out for what it was worth And l the colonel, speaking of the same plan intimates that he threw it out because 1 it was worth1ess.-Bingham Press 1 Mrs. Eli Forbes of Worcester got a divorce on the ground that her hus- band had hypnotized her. This ought to wake up a lot of women, for judg- ing by the mere looks of many men ! they can have won their wives in nc other way.-Boston Globe.
 "Yes,'' he said, ''it is true an cleo trical machine has been invented thai will rid cheese of it's mites. I doubt though, if any mechanism as effica- vented for ridding widows of theirs I-Washington Star.
 Rhode Island has done honor to 2 former Connecticut can Judge Le Ba- ron Bradford Colt by making him 3 United States Senator
 Cases of three reporters who were b1ack-jacked in the striking walters headquarters, and the scribe who was summoned to 9 hotel by an insane man, locked in, threatened with death I and compelled to listen to the tale o1 a parrot that was leading a doublt life are referred to the School of Journal ism for consideration. 1 Where is this good roads boom go- ing to end? The New York State road authorities propose to tunnel Storm King 1900 feet with gallery cost $2OO,OOO. Some day, probably | good state roads will equal in expense and permanency of constructing good