The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-19
SCRAP BOOK FOR TO-DAY

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 Girls and women bearing the name of Margaret, or of Margarita or Mar guerite, and their various diminutives, Maggie, Margie, Marjory, Meg, Meta, will ceIe brate on Sunday the festival of their patron saint
 The feast of St. Margaret or Marga- rita, Virgin and Martyr, was for many centuries observed on the thirteenth of July, but since the change in the calendar the festival falls on the twen- tieth of the month.
 In many European countries < E the custom for all women and girls named after the saint to joint in com nnemoration of the day, when rich and poor, noble and peasant, meet on com mon ground.
 According to the martyro1ogies, St. Margaret is said to have been the daughter of a pagan priest She was instructed in Christianity by her nurse, became an ardent disciple of the then new faith, and was subject father After many torments, she is said to have g1oriously finished her martyrdom by the sword. From the East, her veneration spread to France Germany, and England, and the ob- servance of her festival began in
  century, when the holy wars were in progress.
 The name of Margaret, which signi- fes pearl has been born. by many other famous women, including St. Margaret of Scotland, queen of the country from 107O until her death in 1893. A third Margaret in the cal endar of saints is Margaret Mary Ala coque, who was instrumental in i'm stituting the Feast of the Sacred Heart.
 Among other famous Margarets of history were the brilliant Queen Mar garet of Navarro, author of t'The Hep tameron,' a collection of tales that leave little to the imagination; Mar garet of Anjou, queen of Henry VI of England, for whose sake many bloody battles were fought; the two sixteenth century Margare5s of Austria, both of whom were regents of the Neither lands; Margaret, known in Scottish history as ''the Marguerite de Valois, daughter of Henry II, by Catherine de- Medici, a strange mixture of inmo- raltty and piety, and Marguerite, duchess of Savoy.
 Another important semi-centennia of the civil war between Northern and Southern States will be celebrated a year from Sunday, as it was on July 20, 1864, that General Sherman fought his first battle with the de- lenders of Atlanta Two other bat month, and in August the city was completely hanked, and Hood was compelled to abandon it to Sherman When the Union general occupied the Georgia city, which had been reduced in population to less than 5000, he ordered all civilians to leave, and when he began his famous march to- %r,N or1%a 6 signed to the flames The court house. churches and most of the dwellings were spared, but the buildings in the heart of the city. covering 200 acres of ground, formed Great confagra- ton. While the fire was raging the bands played and the soldiers sang John Browns Body In 1886 the city, risen from it's ashes. held a ban quet at which Gen. Sherman was the guest of honor, and to-day a portrait of sherman is displayed in the main lobby of the principal hotel.
 The first successful revolver, or pis-I toI with a rotating chambered breech was the invention of Samuel Colt, who was born at Hartford, Conn.,, ninety nine years ago to-day. Colt was the son of a manufacturer, and his inven- tive genius first found expression in his fathers shop. He was sent to
  away to sea and made a voyage to India. On returning he was appren- ticed to a chemist, but after which, under the name of 'fDr. Coult," he vis- tied all parts of the United States and Canada, featuring on chemistry. He earned considerable sum of money, which he spent in perfecting his in vention of the revolver, the germ of which he had devised while on his voyage to Calcutta. He was only if teen when he made his first model, in wood, which is still in existence. At twenty-one he patented his first re- voIving pistol in England, France and the United States. At this time he did not know that others had conceiv- ed the idea of a revolver, but, while such was the case, they were far more likely to kill the man who used them than the object aimed at Colts first factory was established at Paterson N. J., but failed. Later he opened a plant in his native city, and became wealthy from the sale of his invention Colt also laid the first successful sub marine cable, between Coney Island and New York, in 1843.