The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-18
Walter WiHacIleu Or Br0ndWay
Grade Registered, Copyright sas Daily Mirror. Inc

Winooski Park, Vt., has built a telescope with which physicists de- clare one can read a watch dial two miles away That Henry M. Thomas, of Evening Shade, Ark, for 52 consecutive years has paid for his yearly subscription to a sharp, Ark, newspaper with load or wood That Calvin Cool
 idge was a edevoted follower of the detective fiction of s. s. Van Dyne and once became so agitated about the outcome of a magazine serial that was running in a Crowell mag azine that he wrote the editor for proofs of the balance of the serial. The proofs were promptly supplied.
 That w. L. Hayes, of Wenatchee, Wash, was caught with Q flat tire and no patching equipment, so he licked a postage stamp, put 1t over the hole in the tube, and drove l. 900 miles before ot gave way |. That Frank Vanderbilt, Quani- cassee, Mich., hotel owner, so admired the beer-drinking ability of his pet bear that upon her death he erected a monument to her memory depicting her in her char acteristic drinking pose That frequently the writer who enthusi- astically talks" a story uses up his creative energy in conversation and never gets down to writing 1t.
 That Mrs. M. L. Friedlander, of Los Gates, Calif., has a contract with local taxi driver that when- ever he finds her prize Irish setter, Murphy" too far from home he is to drive the dog back home in his taxicab That while spelling is no guage to mans ability to write. neither is poor spelling a sign that a man is a genius That the nearer a writer Is to the top of the heap the more grace fully he submits to suggestions and criticism That Riley Candler, of West Asheville, N. O., goes to bed with his radio on, lets 1t run all night, takes the radio to work with him, listens to 1t all day, and brings 1t home at night to re- peat the routine That Charlie Taylor, of Reeffoot Lake, Tenn. claims to be the slingshot king of the country. He can hit a dime in the air at 30 paces and smash hicory nut at 20.
 That Fred G. Giffoniello, New ark, N. J., gymnasium instructor has made a hobby for eleven years of collecting pupils excuses for being absent from school He has thousands of them, of all kinds and descriptions, with enough duplica- ton to indicate that there is a limit to the creative ability of even the most imaginative cxcuse-mak- CT That Thomas c. Eaton of Grand Island,' Neb., chews 150 sticks at one time, and claims the worlds gum chewing championship That Clare E. Hoffman, Michigan lawyer, has his suits made without pockets to break habit of keeping his hands in his pock- cts while trying case. -.
 That the town fathers of Por- tageville. Mo, had checkerboards painted at convenient spots on sidewalks of the business section to provide recreation for the towns folk =. That Mrs. O. D. Friend, of Decatur, H., has purchased @ new 8-room house which she calls her Contest Home" Its furniture from roof to cellar has been either won outright or bought with money won in contests That Frank J. Peters, of Portland, Ore, has invented an artificial angleworm you squeeze out of tube like tooth- paste. The amount to be used by fisherman depends on the size of the fish he's trying to catch. That Louis Selker, GA, of Cleve- land, Ohio for the last forty years as hobby has collected 50 thous-- and pictures clipped from newspa-. pers and magazines. The pictures are all indexed, filed by sub- jects and tells the history of the world since 1890.
 That Laverne F. Laffranchi, of Hayfork, Cal, is collecting neckties from the governors of the 48 states, to be made into a bathrobe. Each governors name and state will be embroidered in colored threat across the ties That with the passing folks don't get down to brass tacks os oftpr as thev iised to
 Ginger Rogers and David Niven, playing the roles of a department store salesgirl and the son of the store owner, are co-starred in RKO Radios Bachelor Mother" Hilar- ious complications follow Ginger's efforts to raise an orphaned baby whom Niyen thinks in her own