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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 21 Feb 1990, p. 24

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PAGE 24 â€" WATERLOO Another French sfeer, recently pro moted to a Yery Righ position in aviaâ€" tion, is a geauine character, a numero, as they say here. He recently spent many hours is perfecting a trick optlâ€" cal sight, guaranteed to down a Boche at aoy range, amgle speed. . Ne .Mdlllh'fld.l.'fi‘.hlut- ted, would prebably ead the war when fuily perfected, and grew quite testy when his friends toid him the thing was far tag compljcated for moything but iaboratory use. A last, theugh be had reached a nonâ€" Oylog raok and had not fown for months, he lastailed the optical weader on a singleâ€"seater and went out over the lines to try it out. As luck mld; have it be fell in with a patrel of eight Albatrosses and the fght that tollowed has becoroe legendary. . Boche after Boche dore on him, riddliag bis plane with bullets, while the Inventor, in a acientife ecstasy, peered this way and that through his sight, adjusting set screws and makipg basty mental notes. }ly a miracle be was not brought down, and in the end a French patrol came to his rescue. He had not Ared a shot! At lunch the other day someone ask e4 what sort of a cBap this laventor was, and the moswer was so exceedâ€" lagly French that I will reproduce It word for word: "He detests women and dogs; he has a wife he adores and a dog he can‘t let out of his sight." A priceless characterization, I think, of a testy yet amiable old martinetâ€" Charles Beroard Nordhoff in the Atâ€" laotic Monthiy. One Popular Custem Seems to Have ‘ Virtuaily Eaded With Cleve. land‘s Administration, Americans are abandoniog the old custom of naming their children after the bere of the beur, accerding to the New York Sun. At the time of the Civil war and immediately thereafter thousaods of childrea were named Abraham Lincela. ‘This custom continued about thirty years after the war. The last Ameriâ€" can presideot to be booored in this way by moy iarge number of persont was Grover Cleveland. The Americun army today is jJammed with Orover Clevelands, as beys born during the great democratic admlaistration are just aow of the Snest Sghuing age. The stump begas during MicKinley‘s term and has continued ever since. FEWER HEROES‘ NAMESAKES There are comparatively few Wilâ€" )lun McKimieys, and even Theodore Roosereli, with all his immense popu: larity, gained but few namesakes. Presâ€" ident Taft bad only a small number of babies named after bim. In tm of war, such as has existed fer the last two years, it would be imagimed (bat the custots would revive, but there has been only a sfight increase. Out of 43,000 births recorded in Thiladeiphia ig 1018 there were ouly 27 Woodrow Wilsous and only 1 John Pershings, according to the records of the bureau of vital statistics. Any Duty, Mr. Hun? The Boche customa officernâ€"or rathâ€" er the former Boche customs ofticerâ€" at Metz probably will remember one of the Anal "deciarations" he accep(ed. It was from the correspondent of n Paris paper, wheo reached Metz ahcai of the French troops, ‘The Germans still were in the town fhey had held since 1870, but in view of the arinlâ€" stice made no aitempt to «lop the cor> respendent from entering the city Writing to hiz paper of his experiâ€" ence the correspondent tolid how no one but the customs officer stopped him, and cootinued: w Charles W. Rusyon, clark of Martin cireuit coust, who attended meetiog of county clerks and wh said to be the youngest clerk in state, has a daughter, Alice, Just st ing to school. made, my dear," replied Mrs, Run; "Well, mother," said Alice, "I‘m . going to work so hard next year i did this."â€"Indlanapolis News, ‘ ‘The officer asked if I had anyt to declare, to which 1 responded what [ had to deciare was; "* Vive la France!*" Alice was at a little desk Santa Ci had brought her. She bad appare: been in a deep study for some ( Â¥ a of an Eideriy French Aviator, With Particular Hobby, HMas Beâ€" "Mother, I have made a new es Cutting Down Work Hours * are fast taking the place M n the brakebeams of tra .ON GOT GOOD TRYOUT Birds Steal Rides. When this news was published on July 20, 1920, Josslin Insurance had been serving its clients needs for 40 years! â€" SINCE 1880 â€" 1082 Weber St. E. KITCHENER 893â€"7008 OW BOOKS ARE S{SRILIZEI Abmest the firat thing to meet i. «yes of French hygfenbsts in their walt thine : eampaign | for | protecting . 11 younger geneesilen wirs their old 6n viny, the elreulnting boek, well know as a currior of dbwise. The many ol vlouws solutime of the problein shore une . disadvaintage . while o kifing t werms they destroyed the book whio, For the methoid pedfected by Docts Marsombar and now precticed in th Institute | for | Wonnded and â€" Infien Workmen at Mentroull. it Is chinter that for oneâ€"fourth «7 w esut for enc book, wad with safefy . fo eqerator book® ern besterilized â€" without â€" Th dightest InJury, | ‘Two pleces of yery simple npparatus are used, a. beiter amd a dislnfector. The beater bt a lomg box epen at nie end ad communienting nt the other with an ordinary steve. . Inside of the beater ate wouden rods se arcunited that the turniog of a himdle will ettse them to strike on the bouks placed on a aliding frmme, As the rods bont the books, the heavier particle® of dust fal} out Into a tray of sdsinfeetunt beâ€" low, and the lighter nre carried by an exbaust fan to a «tove, where they nra burned. ‘The books are huns, open, by *pring clips from a akeleton framework, and wheeled Into the disinfecting chamber, which is equipped with a tank contrinâ€"« umple Appzratus 1iA by French 8c enticts in Conducting Their Deadly Gas Altack. 1TOSSLIN INSUR ANCE BROKER.S A Committee of New Hamburg‘s Public Spirited Citizens have made it possible for you to attend CHAUTAUOUA New Hamburg, July 14â€"â€"17 OF EDUCATION, INSPIRATION, ENTERTAINMENT DO NOT MISS THIS TREAT. ~GET YOUR FOUR JOYOUS DAYS perfected by Doctn, w opronticed in the amided â€" and . lofien, trowll. it b« chiinter i ai w cent for encl infety to everatorm. vilized â€" without â€" U Two pleces of yery? arc used, a . beiter SEASON TICKETS "The inowrance people you U hate ... 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