The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-24
In New York
BY PAUL HARRISON

New Yor-It has been a pretty
 good year, and surely an eventful
 one. Even if nothing happened but
 the arrival of the Dionne quintup-
 lets, 1894 still would be a signal period in history.
 But it also was the year of the
 Loch Ness monster, of Shirley Temple, and of the baloney dollar which turned out to be fairly nourishing baloney even for Al
 Smith. It was the year in which Whistler's mother sat on 8 post age stamp. Dillinger and some of
 his pals died of lead poisoning; gun molls began going to prison instead of into yaudeville; and the State of Kentucky created the of- fee of Inspector of Nudist Camps. Nineteen-th -thirty-four was the year of the great drouth, which upset MT Hoover's prediction be- cause grass wouldn't grow any, where, much less in city streets Prices went up a little, and in London an egg of Great Aux many strikes and riots during the twelvemonth, but F. Scott Me- Bride assuaged our unasiness about them by blaming them all on the repeal of prohibition. In California a lot of people diminished their poverty by bet ting against Upton Sinclair and
 his EPIC plan. In Germany, Hit
 Ter made political history by hold l ing his inauguration before his election. In New York, the Tam
 many Tiger bought himself new set of stripes. In Little, America,
 Commander Byrd went off by him self for the long antarctic winter
 to read Anthony Adverse"
 Worms That Turned
 It has been a fine year for the | turning of worms. A Baltimore | barber travelled $50 miles to attack la radio crooner. The Groton, Mass. Hunt club was pestered by fox which chased the hounds every | time they ventured out. Tn Erie,
 Pa, mouse jumped into cats l mouth, bit her tongue, then ran down her throat and choked her to | death. A Chicagoan who kept get I ting wrong numbers on the wire went othe telephone exchange
 and beat up the manager. At the Washington County, O., poor farm, l yard. dug hole, and struck oil. Also it has been good year for I finding out how the upper half lives. The court brawl of the Whit | neys, Vanderbilts and Morgans | over little Gloria proved enlight-
 ening. So did the front-page braw.
 of John Jacob, Astor and the par | ents of Eileen Gillespie. Mrs Eve
 lyn Walsh Mclean gave the poor
 Russians a thrill" by Haunting her | jewels in Moscow. For marrying Princess Marina the Duke of Kent l won a wage increase to $125,000 a year. Tn Reno. Mrs Mildred Triton
 Holmsen, wearing only shorts and shirt, was chased out of a restaur-
 ant. In Paris Princess Barbara
 Hutton Mdivani had a birthday party that cost scarcely anything l-only about $10.000."
 At Last a Deep Movie
 | In 1894 Dr William Beebe went
 down in his bathysphere and made
 a picture which got by the censors. I Some Hollywood actors-Baby Le- roy not among them-were &C., Lcused of contributing to the cause of communism Dr William Wirt won the boboy prize in the game of trying to pin communism on the 1 donkey.
 Science made great strides. AL
 bert Einstein triumphed again in higher mathematics-filled out his income tax return without an err TOT. Professor Bancroft of Cornell
 announced that sodium rhodanate would prolong life, and wags pre- scribed barrel of it for the G. o. | P. Engineers turned out such l handsome automobiles that it be-
 came almost a pleasure to be run down by one. Johns Hopkins sci
 entists discocered that magnesium improves dispositions, the wives thought of putting it into their 1 husbands coffee during the Yuie- time shopping season.
 | In South America, the Chaco
 war went on, with nobody to win it, lose it,, stop 1t or even explain l it. At the wrold's fair. and later
 on Broadway. Sally Rand played hide-and- peek with a big balloon. Tn the deep south, Huey Longs private football team was beaten ] by Tulane and by Tennessee. In l Camden, N. J.. Mrs Elsie Barna-
 bic won $2O0 for sitting five days
 and nights in post hole. Rich l ard Rost, a Hoboken philateilst, sold his wife for $700 so that he could buy a rare stamp.
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