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.Tuesduy,Ap_ril 25, 1882.
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Apr-ll.
Rambling thunder,
Darting lightning,
Clouds asunder,
Sunbeams brightening;
Showers pouring,
Showers paneling,
Roof-slopes'battc'rlng.
Rose leaves broadening,
Peach blooms redding,
White moths dawning,
Clover spreading,
Grass blades lengthening
Maples slarling,
hilly-weeds strengthening,
'l‘bistles parting,
Bees in blossoms, ,
Song birds twittering,
Spider gossams, '
Earth-worms _trituring;
This is Apri',
Busy spring-child,
Laughing. weeping,
Never sleeping,
Mildins.
Wilding,
Changing April.
The Brooklyn Bridge.
WHAT WILL BE THE MOST ATTRACTIVE PROME-
NADE IN THE WORLD.
A Sun reporter accompanied two engineers
across the main roadway of the East river
bridge as they measured the distance for the
first time from the center of one tower to
the center of the other. This measurement
had been from the aerial foot bridge by tri-
angulation, but, for the information of the
engineers, it was desirable to get the meas-
urement accurately. Although the bridge
is curved, the horizontal level was taken by
means of an ingenious device containing a
spirit level. A long steel tape rule was:
used, and the bridge was ‘measured in sec-j
tions. The calculation of the distance be-‘
tween the towers had been made at 1,595
feet 6 inches. The actual measurement
showed that the distance was 1,505 feet and
about 5 inches. The walk [across the main
.roadway is made up of yellow pine planking
. four inches thick.-which is to be the bottom
flooring of the superstructure. The novice
is apt to be dizzy as he treads this path, but
those who use it habitually have no thought
of danger. In fact, some of the riggers on
the bridge walk from tower to tower on the
cables as unconcernedly as cats on a back
yard fence. There is a rope ladder on the
crests of the towers, which they ‘use to
mount from the cables over the abutting
masonry. The boats passing :between the
superstructure seem far below,_although it
is said that passengers oil the upper decks of
the big sound steamers are so deceived by
the apparent height of ;the bridge that they
are disposed to duck their heads as the boat
passes under. ,
"Few-persons understand,” said Engineer
Martin, “that the passenger promenade is to
be ;in the center of the bridge, nine feet
above the roadway for carriages and railroad
cars. There will be no flner promenade in
the world. The view, taking in the buy,
the river, a glimpse of the sound, and the
area of densely populated cities, will be
such as thousands will delight to linger be-
fore. The walking distance over the bridge,
from terminus to terminus, will be about a
- mile, and because of the interest that must
be excited among passengers it will seem a
very short mile. It will take about four
minutes to cross the bridge in the cars, and
the time of going from the Brooklyn City
Hall will be shortened about twenty min-
utes.”
“What is the whole length of the bridge i”
“The length of each land span is 930 feet;
that of the main span, as our measurement
to-day shows 1,595 feet 5 inches. The
length of the New York approach is 1,562
feet 6 inches, and that of the Brooklyn ap-
proach 971 feet.” ' ‘
“The'public is anxious to have this bridge
finished." '
“Not more so than the engineers. We
want, above all things in this world to get
the work done. While we feel that there
have been provoking delays, we are also cer-
tain that the responsibility for them does not
belong to us. We are doing our level best to
get the work completed, and we hope there
is about an end to the delays. It we 'could
have had the material we would have finished
the work long ago."
Lieutenant. Danenhowc‘r’s Story.
Dr. H. C. Ledyard, an American now in
Siberia, writes to a friend in San Francisco
that he has met Lieutenant Danenhower at
Irkutsk, and he gave him interesting details
of the loss of the Jeannette. Since the first
fall they were out, when they were caught
by the ice in trying to reach Herald Island,
says the letter, they had never taken a course,
but the vessel was held as in the jaws of,
death, squeezed until every, timber strained,
turned this way and that, thrown floating
and then caught again- They were every
hour in suspense, never knowing when the
ice would close upon them a'little more and
the deck sink beneath them. Throughout
this strain they.were well and tried to" be
cheerful, working very hard, for the engine
and the men were barely able to keep
the water out. They had to pump for a year‘
and a half. 0n J unevill, 1881, the crisis came.
The ship showed greater strainin’g than be-
fore, the deck quiv’ered, and inexplicable
movements'warned them to hasten from the
vessel. They prepared their boats and made
their camp beside the Jeannette. She rose
and turned in her cradle until the yards
touched the icd. Then the rigging gave way
and her masts lay prostrate. At 4 o’clock
in the morning the floe parted, and all went
down. Acry of alarm called'all to escape
from the crevice in the ice. It opened just 4
through the captain’s tent. Then began the
retreat. For twenty-nine days they strug-
gled southward, 300 miles of broken ice
being thus paSsed over. Four miles a day
was thought good fortune. After one series
of fourteen 'days they were twenty-seven
miles further north than at first. While
working over the ice and dragging their
boats, they discovered Bennett island, to ex-
plore which they spent three weeks of their:
precious summer days and expended much
of their limited supply of food. To; this de-
tour those who. survived attribute much‘of‘
their suffering and the death of their com-—
mander with nineteen men. After three
months of this perilous and exhausting work:
they came to blue water and then with fair;
winds took their corfrse for the mouth of the
Lens river. Chief Engineer Melville's boat
was stove against a block of ice and the cap-
tain's boat lost her mast and sail. The cap-
tain landed with all well but abandoned the
boat, as the water was shallow and could not
make the channel of the river.
The Hartford Courant calls the attention
of those who fear the competition of convict
labor to some facts which are overlooked by'
them. Says the Ooui'ant: "The total pro-I
duct of convict labor in anyzof the leading
industries of the country is so insignificant
in comparison with the total product of the
whole country that it can have no appreciable
influence in regulating prices of wages. For
instance the total annual product of boots
and shoes throughout the country' is over
$200,000,000, while the product by convict
labor is probably less than $2,000,000. The
total product of hats and caps is over $35,-
000,000, while the convict labor product is
less than one million. Facts are stubborn
things, and it is well to take them into ac-
count before making wild statements calcu-
lated to stir up prejudice and ill~feeling
without cause." ’
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SHILOH’S COUGH and Consumption
Cure is sold by us on a narantee. It cures
consumption. Morison oyt, agent. tf
, court has sustained the demurrer.
Wives and Husbands.
THE LATTER NO'I.‘ masrorvsmms FOR 'riiia
Fonnnn‘s MISDOINGS—INTERESTING DE—
crsron or THE SUPREME corms: OF NEW
nAm'snmE.
Up in New Hampshire Mrs. Harris and
her husband sued Mrs. Webster and hcr'hus-
band becausethe latter wOman had spoken
slanderous words of the former. Mr‘. Web-
ster demurred, saying that he had done no
wrong, and didn’t-Care to be brought into
court because his wife was alleged to have
used her tongue too freely, and the supreme
The de'
cision, which involves the rights of married
men as well as the wrongs of married women,
is long and interesting. Judge Foster, who
drcwil, discusses the changes which have
taken place in the legal relations of husband
arising. , .
Under the English common law the wife
could neither sue nor be suediapart'from her
husband. The old doctrine was that "man
and wife are the same flesh.” Herein an old
writer said: “The common law shakcth
' hands with divinities," an illustration, says
Judge Foster, “of the habit of presenting
every - established fact which is too bad to
admit of any other defense, as an injunction
of religion.” So, under the conmon law,
the married Woman’s contracts were void.-
her legal personality being extinguished.
Pet-ruchi'o declared:
“I will be master of what is mine own;
She is my goods, my chattels; ‘she is my
ouse
My household stuff, my field, my barn,
My horse, my ox, my ass, my anything."
As .1th Foster states it, the woman
being thus utterly within her husband’s con-
trol, his chattel, his “ox,” he became per-
sonally and solely answerable for her torts,
as for the trespasses of his other domestic
cattle; and, of course, the law could pursue
no other consistent system than that which
declared all her contracts absolutely void.
Such was the social and legal status of a
married woman centuries ago; and the
change of her condition before the law seem
to be much less in England than New Hamp-
shire. The influences of Christianity and a
more widely diffused and higher system of
moral and religious education have gradually
ameliorated woman’s social condition, and
elevated her to the state of dignity and im-
portance she possesses to-day. Like all the
changes of advancing civilization, this change
has been very gradual, but it .has been a
steady march from slavery to freedom. Her?
bert Spencer says. that in the United States
women have reached a higher status in the
social structure than anywhere else, and
Judge Foster adds that it is equally tructhat
in many of the states, certainly in New
Hampshire more than 'anywhcre else, have
the legal distinctions between the sexes been
swept away. He continues: ‘ 3
“Thus, by progress in the same‘ direction,
by changes, religious, social,customary, legis-
lative, and judicial, the rule of the common
law has been abolished and obliterated; and
it is no longer possible to say that in New
Hampshire a married woman is a household
slave or a chattel, or that in New Hampshire
the conjugal unity is represented solely by
the husband. By customs and by statutes
the wife is 'now joint master of the house-
hold and not_n slaveor a servant. Tl. rule
now is that her legal existence is not suspen-
ded. So practically has the ancient unity
become dissevered and dissolved that the
wife may not only have her separate prop-
erty, contracts, credits, debts, wages, and
causes of separate action growing out of a
violation of her personalrights, but she may
enter into legal contract with her husband
and enforce it by suit against him.” _
What follows? Simply that, since the
wife’s property is her husband's, her‘earn-i
logs are not his, her legal subjection to him
no greater than his to her, no reason remains
for holding him liable for, her wrong doing.
any more than for making her responsible
for his. So when the court came to pass
upon the case before it, the question being
why Mr. Webster, an innocent man, should
be held responsible for the torts of Mrs.
Webster, the court was obliged to say that,
vin'g done no wrong, neither he norfihis
property could be holden for any act of his
wife, and “that the husbands of these female
parties are strangers, in law, to the proceed-
ing, and that the demurrer should be sus-
tained. In New Hampshire, then, if nowhere
else, the henpecked husband can sit quiet and
watch the triumphal progress of the female suf
flags movement and all the other movements.
If he dOes lose a little something he also gains.
His wife is not his “slave,” as she might be
if he lived in some more conservative states,
but if she lets her tongue run at its highest
rate of vibration against her neighbors he
cannot be sued. Happy Mr. Webster. Un-
fortunate Mrs. Harris. -
The House of Stewart.
After A. T. Stetvart first came to this city
in 1818 he. acted as tutor in various schools
until he reached the age of twenty-one years.
Then he suddenly abandoned scholastic pun.
suits and went in. the dry goods business.
The spot where he first offered his wares to
the public is unknown. Soon after starting
on his new career the young man was sailed-
to Ireland to receive nearly £1,000 as his
share of his grandfather’sestate. With this
money-he bought a lot of Irish “ insertions”
and “ schllop trimmings," which were then
rarely seen in America, and brought them
with him to this city. On his arrival here
be rented a little store at No. 283 Broadway,
and offered his new goods for sale. The
store was only twelve feet five inches, wide
by thirty feet deep, but in'it he laid the
foundations of his future fortune. Among
the then novel business principles which Mr.?
.Stewart put in force'was. the maxim that
‘nothing' can need a lie,” and his clerks
were never permitted to misrepresent a piece
of goods. Another new thing which Stew-
art introduced was the rule of selling. “ at
one price," without deviation. .He never
sacrificed his goods, but after placing a price
upon them be adhered to that price, whether
the goods were sold or remained on the
shelves. Another, rule which _ the young
merchant adopted was “ cash on delivery,”
and although in later years he sometimes de-
parted from it, this rule was the basis of his
business. By these means customers were
proprietor flourished. Within three years
he removed to a larger and better store, at
No. 252 Broadway. and three years after
that he took still larger quaiters at No. 257
Br oadway. In the latter place he remained
seventeen years, steadily increasing his busi-
ness, and. amassing what was then consider-
ed a very large fortune. At the end of this
period the wealthy merchant purchased a
city lot at Broadway and Chambers street,
and began the erection of a building that
gradually grew into the immense edifice now
so familiar to all New Yorkers, and known
as “Stewart’s down town store.” In the
same manner was built the “ up town store,”
at Broadway and Tenth street. First one
small lot was purchased and built upon,then
another, and another. until by slow afterc-
tions was'reared the pile which now occupies
the entire block bounded by Broadway,
Ninth ond Tenth streets, and Fourth avenue.
The "“up’ town store." was made the retail
department of the enormous business which
Stewart had built up, while the down town
establishment was devoted to the wholesale
branch of the business. In addition to his
city establishments Mr. Stewart had estab-
lished at the time of his death stores or
Manchester, Bradford, Nottingham, Belfast,
Glasgow, Berlin, and Chcmnilz. It ,was Mr.
Stewart’s custom for many years to make
annual trips to Europe to personally , look
after his large interests there. In addition
to these enterprises he owned or controlled
fourteen mills in various parts of the coun-
try. Besides the many persons employed
in these mills, Mr. Stewart had in his employ-
7,000 men in this city alone and about 1,000
in EuropeJ-New York Tim“.
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. GROUP, Whooping Cough and Bronchitis
immediately reheved by Shiloh’s cure. Mun-
son Hort, agent. tf
and wife, and the responsibilities therefrom ;
‘ the centre-'table,laughing and talking merrily.
drawn to the little Broadway store, and its -
agencies in Boston, Pblladelphia,Paris,Lyons, .
TEMPERANCE.
Contributedliy Ladies of NorwnikTonlp.Unlon. '
A “Worn Stocking.”
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9 ' nv nasasr GILMORE.
It really seemed as if there never was a _
room with so many cracks and broken lights I
as this particular one of which I am speakin
—at least that was the opinion of old Daniel
Stocking. He sat down disconsolately upon
eyes about the room at his possession.
And these possessions? . Well, I will tell
you. There was a cracked lamp resting upon
the old mantle-piece, giving; forth a feeble
light. because the cil'was .ncarly out; there.
was an old overcoat, rugged and filthy, lying
in one corner, and an old battered hat lupt it
company. And tin-st: were all of the Old
man's belongings, except the grimy shirt
which he Wore underneiith the tattered suit,
and the boots which nearly covered his stock-
ing-less feet. 1 say nearly covered, for there
were four toes peering out.
The last bit of coal which be owned was
just burning out in the old stove, and tlie'nld
man shivered as he reached forward ' and
grasped the overcoat to wrap about his lame
shoulders. _
“Oh, dear—oh—oh l” he said winching
with pain, as a sudden twinge of rheumatism
'gripped him viciously between his shoulders.
But he rose bravely and opened the outer
door The cold wind- and snow blew in his
face, but be shut the door behind him, and
walked slowly, with unsteaey steps, down
the street. -
"There goes the old worn stocking,’ 'shouted
a bad boy from over the way. ;
“An old'dr'unken stocking he is—he, he I”
laughed another bad boy. '
Some other time the old man would have
turned and shaken his cane at the boys
menacingly, but not to-night. He felt so
bruised and desolate, somehow; he had not
been able to get out for two days to even get
a drink. He remembered the kicks and
curses of two nights ago—that was the reason
that he did not stagger down to the corner
Saloon. He had had no money then; he had
none now ; so he could expect the same treat-
ment if he ventured.
He stopped suddenly at the door of a com-
fortable-looking house and rapped upon the
door with his cane. Through the window
he could see the family sitting cosily about
A pretty little girl can'ie quickly to the poor
and opened it—but she slammed it shut a
moment after, saying: ' ‘
"O, father! it is that old Stocking I”
“Turn the key,Fannie,” her father answer-
ed. “I want nothing to do with the old
drunkard.” ' _ . .
The blood rushed warmly into the old face
as Daniel Stocking turned indignantly away.
And lest there might be some possessed of
the opinion that old Daniel Stocking, the
drunknrd, had no business with indignation,
I will say I-think he had. Ashe turned from
the door, he said mentally:
"He’s a member of the church, and-I’m
starving.” , ‘ .
Poor old Daniel 1 I think he surely could
be classed with “the least of these.”
The old man trumped on until he reached
the stone door-step of another house. He
reached up 'a blue, stifizhand and pulled the
hell, but in: another _ minute he’ was seized
roughly,and in a dazed consciousness,he heard
the cruel words—
“Ringing the hell, are you, you drunken
vagrant? Off with you! go where you be-
long I"
Again Daniel Stocking passed on.
“Go where you b’long I” he muttered
hearsely. “Go where I b’longl Wonder
where that is. Where do I b’long ? Where
—oh wh'ere do‘I b’lony !" , .
g The last words were shrieked out as he
turned a corner and hit his head severely
against a lamp post. -
“ ‘Where does he belong ?' Oh, dear me I
if that isn’t a good note, though l” laughed
a thoughtless young man as he heard the
shriek. "Belongs in the station-house, I
should say. There, old fellow, stop that
yelling if you don’t want to be arrested.
You’ve had a drop or two too much,llshould
say. 0 .
Ah, no, moral youngiman; it is not too
much, but too little to-night, that makes old
Daniel Stocking so faint, so weak, so despair-
ing. .
Too little of what, do you ask '2’ Too little
of food and too' little of Christian charity—
aye, so little that a microscope could not dis-
cover one particle. ,
A gay young man was passing hurriedly
along, but was arrested by the question—
“Say, can you tell me where I belong P"
A scornful smile crept into his lips. He
looked him from head to foot, taking in at
one glance the filthy, ragged garments, the
blue, thin hands, the heavy eyes and protrud.
ing toes. ‘ His heart was so proud and cold
that he felt like “shaking the scoundrel for
daring to spea " to him; but a second thought
follOwed quickly. .
“There's where you belong,” he said point-
ing to a handsome brick mansion. "You look
as if you ought to be the OWIJOI'DI that fine
house—you are dressed so handsomely.. Go
right in, or perhaps you had better just ring
the bell first."
Poor old Daniel Stocking’s brain was in
and chaos; He looked at his clothes and
imagined they were glossy and new and
well-fitting, as in the old days. He climbed
the {marble steps, with faltering feet and
touched the bell, feeling a renewed respect
for himself, whilejust opposite the house,the
young man waited to see theresult of his ad-
vice.
The door opened. A- gray-hai-d gentle-
man (?) stood in the doorway. It was the
same man he had- had heard an hour ago;
making a prayer in the lecture-room -a prayer
for the poor.
“What do you mean by ringing my‘door-
bell ?" the gentleman asked, sternly.
“Don’t I—Iib’long here ?" stammered Dan-
is].
"Belong here, you idiotl What do. you
mean i‘” , . .
“No—no harm intended. I thought ‘I—-I
belonged here. I feel kinder—kinder—sick
and faint-like.” ' h '
“Of course you do—drunkards generally
do, quite often I" -
And with this parting thrust the door was
closed, and the gentleman went back to his
warm, bright sitting-room, where the Holy
Bible lay peacefully on the centreLtable.
where “God is Love.” in illuminated text,
hungover one door. and "Nearer, My God,
to Thee,” hung over another.
Think you that the master of that him so
grew any nearer his Saviour that night?
As for Daniel- Stocking, he walked avyty,
colder and fainter than before. He trembled
more, too, and his head grew strangly dizzy.
He walked but a few steps before he came to
an alley, looking down which, he discovered
a bright light.
“Mebbe it’s there - where I b’Iong," he
thought, his old, and eyes brightening a little
as he turned from the handsome,well-lighted
street and tottcred down the alley. But, oh,
how long it seemed! He thought he would
never reach the end frcm whence streamed
the brilliant light. And he never reached the
end. , _
Morning came, clear and cold. Two news-
how, taking the short route over to the busy
street, discovered DanielStocking. He was
buried in the snow which had fallen steadily
'all night, and when the cold face was uncov-
end, one boy said: .
“Why, Tim‘s old drunken Stockin’ ”
And the other-answered, with a chuckle:
“He’s a worn-out Stockin,’ I can tell you!"
And soon after, he was picked up, put in
a wooden box,and buried,and people quickly
forgot that such a man as old Daniel Stock-
ing had ever lived. But still the world moves
'on, and the day speed on when the Master
will surely say, “Inasmuch as ye did it unto
one of the least of these did it unto me.”—
Church and Home. '
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For lame back, side or chest use Shiloh’s
‘Porus Plaster. Price 25 cents. Morison
Hoj, agent. - tf
an old bench, glancing from his bloodshot -
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': Slipper-5...... .25 ".
Trunks, Traveling Bags, Leather
and Findings. . '.
Repairing Promptiy Bone.
Eugene Fancher,
17 MAIN STREET, NORWA LK, CONN
B. S. B'LASCER,
to Iv
3; ;Hns removedto Lockwood’s Building. WallStl‘ce .
E:foot of Main. which ha‘s‘. been refitted and turn-.
ishcd with-“a choices tock oh
”Groceries. .cmclerv; bliss. '30-!
m; gives his" prsonai attention to his lm'sineii '
and invites pub to patronage.
—AT~
SPENCER’S
' [Jewelry Store, 1
Rich Jewelry and Precious Stones,
Fine Gold Watches and Chains,
French Clocks & Bronzes,
R o g e i: s ’ Statuary,
Soldid Silver &
PlatedWarc
Faielicc Vases and Lamps, Musical
Instruments, Opel-a Glasses, -
&c. Also, the celebrated
Hock Crystal Srectcaies and Eye
, Glasses,
.IiiGold and other Frames.
No. 3, Maui s‘ti-eetg'méi-‘walk, or
~i.l.lill1llulllch 00.,
Druggists,
21 Main St, Nor-milk, Conn.,
YOU WILL FIND
Strictly Pure
Drugs and Medic/mes,
At‘Bcasonable Prices.
Prescriptions carefully compounded.
It you are a
man of let«
terstoilinzovermi -
night work, to res-
tore brain iiervennd
waste, use Hop 3.
sulIerlu from any In-
tiou; I you nrelnar—
or single. old or . oung,suifering from '
poor-health or Ian uish on a bed of sick- '
nest, rely on CD
Whoever you arei ,
If on are a man
of usiness,weak-
ened by the strain of
your duties ovoid
stimulants an d u s a
flop Bitters.
If you are youu and
giscretlon or dhisipa
Brat :
Thousands din an-
in or stiniuIIr'Ing, . ,
wi bouti'ilfoxlcaifug, b
take. 0
BE‘tOISI p
Have and s-
' ykfdn'év ,.
onuriuarucom- , .
.nlaiiif, disease 1 M
of the sfonlach, 7., .
d
D. I. C.
Is an absolute
and Irresistzv-
lilo cure for
drunkenno s a ,
use of opium,
tobuc co , or
narcotics.
bowels, bloo ,; .
flier cruel-uni I; . 1}
You will boy I,
cursdlfyouusci ll
Hop amoral: ,,
1f ouare -~I ‘.,
plyivenkgh‘h 1 v‘, '*
ow‘s Iritcd,try , ‘
"I." .1 im all ‘1
lat-0'0!!! ‘
”7:533“ Ila :
saved 'hun- .'
drods.
Soldb d .
r . lets. iii-.35.-
: I, "RUIN? .
"'-
HAS REMOVED HIS
MUSIC STORE:
To: Opera; House B100k,"in
' Store with A. W. Austin, -
d-Jeweler. ".5 ‘ '
:, .
. Free Reading Room.
THIS is a comfortable..room~fitted guitar the
1 - benefit of the public generally. situated on
east side of South Main Street, over Road’s J ew-
elry Store. Cla and;I.‘nno’s Block gearIyo po-
sits Railroad epor, South Norwal . Ct. t is
open from 9 a. m., to 9: . in. The room is well
lighted, warm and com ortable. It Is supplied
with four dailies, two weeklies. and» several
monthlypapers and Journals. beside a number of
instructive and interesting books.
' ‘ COFFEE ROOM.
There is a Coffee Room on the same floor and a
lady in attendance from 9 s. m., to 9:45 . m., to
serve'fiou MKDE‘ articles mentions below.
at Oregano as prices: ‘ ' "
13 Cup of Cofi‘oc. withicrsckes.
1 Cupbof Tea, with Crackers,
gown n d «1.13 t- .
- rown rea an at e .
Sandwich, . . , ‘1'
like. . ' v
oughnuts,
Piece ofPlc,
Crullcrs,
am, - “ -
Pork and Beans with b d
stewed Oysters: rea
It‘llropean Tickets.
FOR SALE
AT THE
GAZETTE OFFICE,
, . BY THE RENOWNED
Guion Line of Steamers.
‘Ohoice ofeither the Abyssinia' ArizouiaJNeva-
da, Wisconsin, or W oming. Will sell you at
same rate as charged it New York Uity'
- -' .5 cents'
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CONVEYANCES
\I\.l‘\l‘\l\l\l\l\l\l\/W\I\l\/\I\I\I\I\I\l \JQI\/\/1
New York -
I Tigrwalk.
FARE ONLY 35 CENTS. ’
Fifty Cents.
P'HI,”
11
Will commence her Regular Daily Trips on
Batu rday. April J St, 1882,
leaving New York from Pier 22 E: It., foo. ol'Ful-
ton St., at 2:45 p. m . and from foot 01' Olst St.,
E. 11., at 3:00, p. m., connecting surely with the
Train for Danbur leaving at 5:55 p. m., and New
‘ ‘ Ado“
Haven trains for t east. Leave South Norwalk
every nornlng (Sundays cxcepted,) at 7:50
o’clo . on arrival ot the Danbury and the New
_ Haven trams.
Passengers can procure Single and Excursion
Tickets for all Stations on tile Danbury Railroad
at the Captain’s.ofi‘cc on the Boat.
Pussegcrs and Baggage conveyed to and from
the Depot at South Norwalk, Free of Charge.
Refreshments served on board at all hours.
WHITE’S PROPE LLERS
walk Bridge and New York.
Freight received from and delivered at the
freightdepot of the Danbury & N orwalk Railroad
for all stations, also the Shepnug Railroad.
“Specialarrangcments for-freight toand from
New York can be made with this line 10 per cent.
lessthan by the railroad.
Produce sold free of commission and returns
promptly made at‘the highest market rates.
9’ All persons aret’crhid trusting any of the
employees of the boats of this line on account of
the owners thereof. '
Meeker’s
I: I N E I
Schooner JOHN G. PERRY, Capt. Byxbec, will
hereafter make regular weekly trips between Nor-
walk and New York. stopping at South Norwalk,
leavln g Meeker Brothers’ Wharf, Norwnlk, every
ig‘k‘wnmg-mé I‘I‘filight Skull onIbOT-d atPicr
. ., oo o u or . cw ‘or ' on MON-
DAYS and TUESDAgYS. " .’ , .
The Highest Market Rates Paid for
Ray, Straw and Farmer-9s Produce. by
A. J. MEEKER a: BRO.
Norwalk, April,1830. -
\
Excursion Tickets to N. I. 8. Return 1
Willcontinuc to make regular tripsuctweenNor- _
, 6:20, 8.03, 9:04, 10:08, 11:34 a. in. 1:58, 4:25, 0:24, 7 28,
335%
namunv GLINORWALK n . n"
..SUMMER ARRANGEMEN T.-
OommencinrJune 27,1881.‘
. DAILYTRAIN 8
Lean eNorwalk Bridge/or Danbury .
9 32 a. m., Mail.
- 2 ‘22 p.m., Accommodation.
4 20 p.m..N. Y. Express .
601 p.m..Mail. .
8 07 a. m., Sunday Accommodation.
Arrive a INorwallgBridge/r om Danbury .
7 343. m., Mail.
.8 62 p. m., N. Y. Express.
1 08 p.m..Accommodation .
5 14 p.m., Mail.
0 05 p. m., Freight.
9 00 p. in. Sunday Accommodation.
L .W.s ANDIFORTH',Snpt,
’ o
HEW TORI, HEW HAVEI 8. HARTFORD IIAIlIIIIAII.
Trains leave 80. Norwalkfor New York atlfl 45
a. nr, Washington Ex.via Harlem River; 4 56. ex.;
518 cx.; 5 2s, 5 50, c 20. 7 25, 7 45 ex.; 9 or ex.; 9 as,
10 31,11 45 ex. a.m.; i 20, 2 56 ex.; 4 30 ex.; 5 27 em;
0 20 ex.; 6 55.918 p. in. ex. For New Haven, 1 86
ex.; 6 5'2, 8 56, 9 2i cx.; 10 4S n.m.,12 11 ex.; 1 43. 2 11
ex.; 4 l9,ex.; 4 52, 5 52,cx.; 6 32 ex.; 0 42, 11 01, 11 ‘28
ex.; 11 50 cx.p. m. '
For Springfield, 6&2, cx.9 21, a.m.; 12 11, can; 1 43,
2 ll, 6 32 ex.;11 0!. 1 50pm. Expressfm Boston
via. Springfield 9 21 a.m.12 ll, 11 50 p.m. Via New
London.0 52. 9 21 mm. 2 ll. 6 32, 11 28 p.m.
W YORK .15 PHILADELPHIA NEW LINE
BOUND BROOK ROUTE
FOR TRENTON AND PHILADELPHIA .
Commencing November 7,1881.
Leave New Yorkfrom station 0. R. R. of N.J.,
foot of Liberty St.,for Philadelphia.
.NmIIl & Green Streets, at 7:45, 9:30, 11:15 nan.
1:30, 4, 4:30, 5:30, 7, 12 p.m . On Sunday at 8:45 a.
mi 53%, 123.1% k
‘or hir & er sstrects,at 7245,1135 a.m.l:30
4:30, 5:30. 7, p. m. _ On Sunday at 8:45 n. in. '
r 9r Trenton, Warren and Tuckersts.,7:45,9:30.
lute a..m., 1:30, 4:00, 4:30, 5:30, 7:00, 12, p. m. Sun-
day 8:45, a.m., 5:30.12 p. in.
Return trainsleavePhlladeiphia for New York:
.From stations Phila. & Reading Railroad.
Ninth & Green Sts., at 7:30, 8:30, 9:30, 11', a.m., 1:15
3:45,5:40,6:45,12 p. in. On Sunday at 8:30 a. m.,
5:30, 12 p. m.
From Third & Berks streets, 5:15, 8:20. 9:15 a.m.,
1,3??? 2:30, 11:30 p. in. On Sunday at. 8:15, a. m-
. , . . ,
From TrcnunfiVnrren and Tucker streets,l:25.
p.m. On Sunday 1:25, 9:19 i. , m. 6:14 p. m.
Tickets for sale at foot or Liberty St.,239,261.
401,944,057, 13-23 Broadwaymnd at the principal
hotels; Nos. 2 and 4 Court St, and Annex ofiice,
‘Jewell’s Wharf, Brooklyn.
New York Transfer Companyiwill call for and
filicck baggage from hotel or residence to destina-
o
11.
ALL RAIL LINE Fan LONG BRANCHJJCEAN
GROVE, ASBURY PARK. POINT PLEASANT
And all New Jersey Seaside Resorts.
Leave foot of Liberty street. N. 1%., 5:00, 8.15,a.m.,
12, m., 2, 3.30, 4. 5, 0 p.m.
II. P. BALDWIN. Genil’ass. Ag’t.
C.R. R. of N.J.
‘4- . , \ ,__. ,
WHO IS UNACQUAINTEB WITH THE
SEE BY EXAMININC
"
”‘3 .
\\__ 110 (widen ‘ “
ltit
". mm‘m
intermediate. e
“GREAT RQCK
- ROAMH THE COUNTRY, and In whlc
the low rate of SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS
THREE TRAINS each way between
via the famous
Bluffs,
R. a. canoe,
Vlco-Pres’t «II. Cen’l Manager,
CHI
Carriage Making
REPAIRING.
AT
H. TILL .-
Main Street, South N orwalk, Ct.
WET RECEIVED I.
New styles of Box Papers very cheap.
The MacKennon, '
Cross and American
Stylo graph_ Pens
Constantly on hand.
Artists’ Materials :1 specialty.
Andrew Selleck,“
Books, Stationery & fancy Bands.
49 WallSt., - f I f, - NorWalk.
.—
1“er GELEBRATED
- RML‘IITE’
SewiL ->. ‘m’achine
Best, Easiest Running, & Cheap-
est in the World.
__ ‘. -—
of stitch
For beant . ,
and reigns supreme
s unequal .
Sewing Machines. The Company give a warrants
for 5 years with each Machine. Supplies constant-
ly on hand.. Repainnfidone at reasonable rate.
This Machine on exit ition at 178 Main Street,
corner Plymouth Avenue.
47 JoHN H. AIKEN , Agent.
. and mpiditylf‘tiiggmoqtgignali
EOYT’SI
Excelsior Tickets!
Milkmen, Restaurants Check, &0.
These Tickets.or Checks. lately introduced, are
round in form, about the size of a silver uarter,
and the edges are completely protected a. brass
ring; They are printed on on or both sides as
des ed, then varnished to p cot them from
water or fiulds. They are very convenient to
handle, and will last a long time. Milkmen, Sa-
loon Keepers and others using checks should ex.
amine them. Also printed to order, the ordinary
styles of .3
Milk 0heeks,Restaurant Ohecks,&c
A. H. BYINGTON at 00.,
AT THE
Gazette Job Printing Office.
g
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*1 _,,,,‘I“ 0 ~ N
/._-:5nl>_
Cl-ilca'co, Rocx ISLAND &. PACIFIC RN,
Being the Great Central Line, affords to travelers, by reason of Its unrivaled geo-
graphical positlon, the shortest and best route between the East. Northeast and
Southeast, and the West, Northwest and Southwest.
It Is literally and strictly true, that Its connections are all of the principal lines
of road between the Atlantic and the Pacific. ' '
By Its main line and branches It reaches Chicago, Joliet, Peoria,
'La Salle, Ceneseo, Mollne and Rock Island, In llllnols; Davenport, Muscatlne,
Washington, Keokuk, Knoxville, Oskaloosa, Falrfleld, Des l'u'lolnes, West Liberty,
Iowa City, Atlantlc, Avoca, Audubon, Harlan, Guthrie Center and Council Bluffs,
In Iowa; Cailatln, Trenton, Cameron and Kansas City, In Missouri, and Leaven-
worth and Ate son in Kansas, and the hundreds of cities,
As It Is familiarly called, ofiers Ito travelers all the advantages and comforts
Incident to a smooth track, safe bridges, Union Depots at all connecting points,
Fast Express Trains, composed of COMMODIOUS, WELL VBNTILATED, WELL
HEATED, FINELY UPHOLSTERED and ELEGANT DAY COACHES; a line of the
MOST MAGNIFICENT HORTON RECLININC
latest designed and handsomest PALACE
that are acknowledged by gross and people to be. the FINEST RUN ‘UPON ANY
TWO TRAINS each way between CHICAGO and MINNEAPOLIS and 81'. PAUL,
ALBERT LEA, ROUTE.
January I, I882, a new line will be opened, via Seneca and Kankakee, between
Newport News, Richmond, Clnclnnatl, Indianapolis and La Fayette, and Council 7
:. Paul, Minneapolis and Intermediate points.
. All Through Passengers carried on Fast Express Trains.
For more detailed information, see Maps and Folders, which may be obtained, as
well as Tickets, at all principal Ticket Offices In the United States and Canada, or of
GEOGRAPHY OF THIS COUNTRY. WILL
THIS MAP, THAT THE .
cfi "5
‘r E“
r
8
rinolllb
1
Ottawa,
0
villages and towns
ISLAND ROUTE,”
CHAIR CARS ever built; PULLMAN'S
SLEEPING CARS, and DENINO CARS
h superior meals are served to travelers at
EACH.
CHICAGO and the MISSOURI RIVER.
E. ST. JOHN,
Cen’: T'k't a. Pass'r Ag'h
CAGO. .
Mullings Bros,
Carriages lb Wagons
MADE TO ORDER.
Repairing in all its Branches.
FI SI IE F0 'IIIE HOLIDAYS.
A line of SLEIGHS of our own
manufacture, made from Selected
materials. Neat, stylish and durable.
chi. MUI. r mos. .r. S.MULLINGS
sci-m E. SMITH,
F L 0 R71 ST .
EAST SIDE OF MAINSTREETSOUTB
0F RAILROAD,
City ofSouth Nor-walk, Conn.
Plants and Flowers at all seasons
Flower-slotFuneral-furnished and
tastefully-arranged I order at short
notice
A FULL LINE OF ~
Shipping Tags,
Merchandise Tags,
{wise-
DEAD Luci TAG FASTENERS
IN LARGE oR'SMALL QUAN'f‘l'll] s, AT
Gazette Office". A
arrshorss,
ALL SIZES and COLORS, '
'NEATL‘Y P R I N TEyD
»-—er-——¥ I
. vnaviLow RATES,-
——AT -..-- '
' Toi’Gr-atify His Wife.
An Interesting Story—.A Ho elcss Case
cured. A goodrennonf‘or applneu.
Statement of Mr.Washington Monroe of Catskill,
Greene County. New York.
“For many years I had suffered from a
complaint Which the physician called gravel
I had employed some of the most noted doc-
. tors withoutobtaining any permanent relief,
and for along time my case was regarded as
hopeless. ‘ All who knew the circumstances
said I must die. Finally, my wife induced
me to try a'bottle of Dr. Kennedy’s ‘Favori,e
Remedy’ which she had somewhere heard of
or seen advertised. Without the slightest
faith in it. but solely to gratify her, I bought
a bottle of a druggist in our village. I used
that and gwo or three bottles more, and—to
make a long story short—I am now as healthy
9. man as there is in the country.
Since then I have recommended ‘Favorite
Remedy to others whom I knew to have suf.
fercd from Kidney and Liver complaints;
and I assure the public that the ‘Favorite
Remedy’ has done its work with a. similar
completeness in every single instance, and I
trust some other sick and discouraged mortal
may hear of it and try the Favorite Remedy
as I did.” . 4t4.
firgaiiintms.
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“ionimissioners’ Notice.
THE subscribers appointed by the Court 'of
sioners to receive. examine, and decide upon the
claims of the creditors of the estate of THOMAS
FINNERTY,pu insolvent debtor, of Norwalk, in
said district, inlscttlcmcnt as an insolvent estate,
hereby give notice that; we will attend to the busi-
ness of our. said appointment, at the Office of the
Selectmen in said Norwnlk, on the 14th day of
June. A. 1)., 188-2, and on the 14th day of July,A.
D., 1882, at 10 o’clock in the l‘orenoon of each of
said days.
Said court; hath limited and allowed ‘threc months
from this date for the exhibition to us of claims
against said estate. »
Dated at Norwalk, April 14th, A. D. 1882.
MARTIN S. CRAW,
4t16 ALF-El) E. AUSTIN,
Commissioners.
[STRICT OF N ORWALK, es. Probate Court.
April 10th. 1382. ’ '
Estate of JOHN)“. RAYMOND, late of. Nor-
walk,in said District, deceased.
The Court of Probate for the District of Nor-
walk hath limited and allowed six months from
the date hereof for the creditors of said estate to
exhibit theirclaims for settlement. Those who
neglect to present their; accounts, properly attest-
ed. Within said trmc,wrll be debarred a recovery.
All persons indebted to said estate are, requested
to make immediate payment to
3t15 SILAS P. TUTTLE,Admjnistrator.
Cures Dyspepsia, Nervous Affec-
tions, General Debility, Fever and
Agile, Paralysis, Chronic Diarrhea,
Polls, Dropsy, Rumors, Female Com-
plaints, Liver Complaint, Remittent
Fever, and all diseases originating ,
in a bad State of the Blood, or
accompanied by Debility or a low
State of the System.
$12
Augusta, Maine. ,
Notice.
HE; subscriber would announce that he has
disposed of his well-known Livery Stable
and equipments to his son Horace L. Darin, who
wul hereafter run the establishment himself. '
Grateful and thankful for the long continued
patronage besto cc upon him by the public, the
subscriber woul request a continuance of the
same to his successor, feeling confident that he
will merit and deserve the confidence of the pub-
lic Senmuy' WILLIAM E DANN
Norwalk. Oct. 4th, 1881.
7 -. - ’ ‘ '
PARK R88 GINGER It i
' Ginger, Buchu, M
- e, Stillingin, and
many‘of the best medl-
_ known are com-
bmcgl in Parker’s Ginger
Tonic, into a. medicine
' of such varied powers, as
» ‘to make It the greatest
“Blood Purifier and. the
Bestiiealtli&Streligth
, Restorer Ever Ussd. '
t It cures Rheumatism,
Sleeplessness, & diseaess
pfthe Stomach, Bowcls,
.Lungs, Liver & Kidneys,
Balsarm ikisentirélydifiiakrcntfiom
' Eittcrs, in, ct ‘ <euccs
t’ cmm’ and and other Tallies, as It
Never falls to micro the neverintoxieatcs. Hiscox
, & Co., Chemists, N. Y.
50c. and $1 sins. Ian-gs Saving Buying Dollar Slam
interment
An infallible remeld‘yT‘for all
FEMALE COMPLAI 3 rice
Vii A
a week. an a. day at home easilyZmado,
Costly outfit free. Address TRUE at Go.
lyll
Hair
Th
a Bus
Most Economical Hair Dress—
|ynognthful color to gray hair.
$l.50 per bottle. CURES -
Mass: unavoususss _ and
GENERAL DEBILITY. Thls re-
mf'iibl" ”'eiaiafil’f Catfish."
' creme or c 5r
hisgases of worynen. Sold by Drugg-
gists. ' »
Graefenberg 00.111 Chambers 88,111.
airlinuonll.
per day at home. Samples worth 55
free. Address, Stlnson & Co.,lPi>1rt-
y
$5m$
and. Maine.
WHENCE COMES THE UN-
BOUNDED POPULARITY OF
Allcooll’s Porous Pla’sters?
Because they have proved themselves
the Best External Remedy ever in—
vented. They will cure asthma,
colds, coughs, rheumatism, neural-
gia, and any local pains.
Applied to the small of the back
they are infallible in Back -Ache,
Nervous chllity, and all. Kidney
troubles; to the pit of the stomach
they are a. sure cure for Dyspepsia
and Liver Complaint." '
ALLCOCK’S POROUS PLASTERS-
are painless, fragrant, and quick to
cure. Beware of imitations that
blister and burn. Get ALLCOCK’S,
the only Genuine Porous Plaster.
r
awash in your own town. Terms and 85
§ outfit free. Address H.HALLETT lb Co.,
0 t and. Maine. lyll-
. 85.88388 83 -
HAVE BEEN Ili’llTATEi),
And their excellent reputation in-
jured by worthless imitations. The
Public are cautioned against buy-
ing Blasters having similar sound-
ing names. See that the word
C-AP-C-LN-E is correctly spelled.
" Benson’s Cassius
Pumas Plaslsre
Are the only improvement ever
made in Blasters.
One is worth more than a dozen
of any other kind. ' ,
Will positively cure where other
remedies will not even relieve.
Price 25 cents.
Beware of cheap Pla’sters made
with lead poisons. ‘
SEABURY «9; assessors,
Manufacturing Chemists, New York.
{GAZETTE OFFICE. y
A Saint REMEDY-AH“ LAST. riicc 233?.
8 Mediums 801m and BUNlOtI PLASIER._
Probate for the District of N orwalk,-Commis- .
Why “Yacob Takes the-Paper.
var r. M. n.
"Mine frients,” said Yacob, “shust look here,
Und I vil tole you vy ‘ ‘
.I dakcs dot baper all do vile,
Und vil until I die. ,
“Dot editor I knows him v81,- ‘
He vorks like all get oud,
To find and all dose'newes vat
He tole us all aboud.
‘ ‘Some shaps dey vas dat baperykt‘.
Und don’t vas bay one cent, '
Dey links dot boss be live on air,
Und don’t vasbay do rent.
“Und sonic shaps say dey bay in vood,
Und some, dey bay in coal ;
So if not pose he pays some tings,
Dot leafs him in de hole.
“So ven I goes und bays dc cash,
It make him feel so good,
Dot if I vas dc money got,
I'd bay dwice, I vould. '
"So now? mine friends you shust subscribe
Und bay him like a man;
Und ven you need it you may know
He’ll help you if he can.”
SCIENTIFIC primal.
Q
It has been pointed out that the fragrance.
of I violets differs widely, being: influenced
evidently by the season and temperature,
warmth and shelter appearing most condu.
civc to sweetness.
Herr Kraus haslately proved that all plant
organs swell and contract periodically every
day. This phenomenon is due to variations
in the amount of water contained at different
periods during the twenty-four hours.
The venerable French chemist and instruc-
tor, M. Chevreuh, has just celebrated his
ninety-sixth birthday.
For the photography of birds in their
different positions in flying, M. Marcy em-
ploys an instrument, like a rifle ' in shape,
givingtwelve successive images per second,
each image being taken in the 1-700 part of
a second. In' firight sunlight the time of
exposure is Educed to the 1-1500 of a sec-
ond. These views furnish an analysis of the
motion of birds in hight which could not be
obtained before the perfection of the process
' of instantaneous photography.
It is very generally known that the ’cxist.‘
ence of a plant between Mercury and the
sun has long been suspected by astronomers,
but if such an object exists ,it is ordinarily
rendered invisible to telescopes by the dif-
fusion of the solar rays. During a total
eclipse the glare of the sun is removed, and
it is hoped that the hypothetical planet may
be discovered on such an occasion. With
. that purpose in view, many observers will
eagerly schn the heavens about the sun dur-
ing the eclipse of May 17th, which will be
chiefly visible in Africa.
It appears to be quite well established that
ants and a few other insects have the highly
organized faculty of communicating their
ideas ,to one another. The researches of
modern observers, such as Lubbock and Mc
Cook, have confirmed the belief' in such a
power. Dr. Franklin shared the belief, and
tested the matter in an interesting experi-
ment . Heplaced a small jar, containing a
little treacle. in a closet, where a number of
ants soon collected to prey upon the vessel’s
contents. When all was eaten the Doctor
cleared the jar of the ants,‘ and putting some
fresh treacle in it, suspended it by a string
from a nail in the ceiling. A single ant
remained in the jar, which ate until satisfied
and then sought to find its way out. It was
for some time perplexed, but finally climbed
the string to the ceiling, and escaped down
the wall. It had been gone but a short time
when a large swarm of ants flocked into the
closet, climbed up the wall to the ceiling,
and then descended by the string into the
jai‘, where they remained until the treacle
'was devoured, fand then departed by the
string. It is hardly possible that this should
have taken place had not the first ant made
some communication to the others.
The celebrated “Kent’s Hole” of the
geologists iflocated near :I‘orquay, in Devon-
shire, England. This remarkable cavern,
first scientifically explored in 1824 by a
Catholic clergyman, has given up remains of
the mammoth, rhinoceros, hyena, elk, and
other animals now extinct in England, to-
gether with many flints and other relics of
ancient man. The earth in the cave has now
been explored to a great depth, and the find.
ing of a human jaw farrbelow the surface has
added a link to the chain of evidence estab
lishing man’s great antiquity.
A new method of preserving meatis to
cause the heart of the animal to pump bor-
acic acid into the tissues. For example, a
sheep is stunned by a blow, and blood being
withdrawn from the left jugular vein, a
strong solution of boracic acid, kept at blood
heat, is injected. The heart of the still
living animal quickly pumps the antiseptic
fluid into all parts of the body, and the sheep
is then killed by butcher in the usual way.
The cost is slight, and the meat thus treated
will keep several weeks in the heat of sum-
mer. .
Dr. Sehrveinfurtht has succeeded in fresh-
ening and preserving many of the leaves and
flowers from garlands found on the breasts
of mummies discovered last year at Deir el
Bahair. A small herbarium is thus formed
from plants which grew some thirty-five
centuries ago. A number of the species have
been identified with those now found in the
cast. . '
A new geyser has been discovered near
St. Etienne, France. " A vein of hot. water
was tapped at a depth of 5,000, feet; and the
result is an intermittent fountain'throwing a
stream to a height of _ nearly 100 feet above
the surface of the earth.
M. Blavier attributes the disappearance of
the sardine from the coast of Brittany, where
it was once the source of a large revenue, to
a change in the direction of the Gulf Stream.
The question was deemed so important by
the Paris Academy af Sciences that a special
committee has‘been appointed to investigate
the matter. . .
A species of temporary color-blindness has
been observed as thereth of long exposure
to dazzling ' light. '
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SLEEPLESS NIGHTS, made miserable
by that terrible cough. Shiloh's Cure a sure
remedy for you. ,Monson Hoyt, agent.
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A writer in a Germau‘paper states that it
is a custom in offices in that country to have
a sliced {potato on the desk in commercial
j houses. The use of the potato is to clean
steel pens, and generally act as a pen-wiper.
It removes all ink crust, and gives a peculi-
arly smooth flow to the ink. ~He. also states
that the Hamburg clerks pass new pens two
or three times through a gas flame, and then-
the ink will flow freely.
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“How Do you Manson,” said a lady to
her friend, “to appear so happy all the time?”
I always have Parker’s Ginger 'Toaic
handy," was. the reply. and thus keep my,
self and family in good health. When I am
well I feel good natured. See other column.
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A young man who went to the circus and
stepped too near a monkey‘s cage had his
arm seized and savagelyijerked by one of
the monkeys. He would have escaped
safely if he had not said, “It is merely
a monkey-wrench,” but when they heard
that,the infuriated crowd threw him into the
li on s den—Hawkers.
WOW—~—
“W hat Alexander Might have
' ' Done."
The late Czar of Russia .was eminently a
great man, as his on in liberating thirty-
six millions of serfs from slavery qualified
him to be. Yet with all his greatness, Alex-
ander left it to Dr. Swayne, to liberate the
world frOm the annoyance and pain of scores
of skin diseases, by producing Swayne’s
Ointment. Think of the tens, hundreds,
thousands, it has cured, and then remember
it is economical, effective,greliable and pure,
and if you will only try it you Will have a
cure. 4t15
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'The election of postmastors by popular
vote is opposed by Homer's Weakly. It was
first advocated by the New York Herald
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