, VALUE OF GOOD ROADS.
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State Highway Commissioner Mac-
donald has made a computation in
which, to show the importance of high-
way improvement, he fixes the annual
loss by had‘roads in this state at $2,-
282,500. He-estimates the annual de-
preciation on horses at $435,000, exces-
sive horse power required at $1,029,000,
cost-of support of horses while roads
impassable at $150,000, useless repair of
" roads at $333,000 and loss by lawsuits
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caused by bad roads at $12,500. The
estimate is based on 15,000 miles of
highways in the state and 43,000 horses ‘
Mr. and Mrs. Horton Entertain-
Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Horton of 64
Wilton avenue entertained a party of
friends at their home Wednesday night
Vocal and instrumental music were en-
w joyed andrefreshments served. Those
present were Misses Jessie Pickett,
Cynthia Pickett, Jennie Nowlan, Mary
Horton, James Grace, Irving Horton,
and Theodore Morris.
" Pa‘i‘n- ' ' '
Henna 3 Killing mg” llll,
the most wonderful medicine to—day,
positively curing Colds, $OI'O
Throat, Rho umatlsm
and all ain. Wholly freefrom
oily taste, p easant to use either as an
internal or external remedy. Geta.
trial bottle and satisfy yourself of the
great curative powers of
RENNE’S MAGIC OIL
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For Sic; Headache, Biliousness and
that miserable feeling, use
llr. llerriolo’o liver Pills
the old reliable and sure cure. a
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Backache cured
or money back to
anybody. Price
50 cts. All drug-
gists or Bright's
C h e mi c a 1 Co.,
Little Falls, N. Y.
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For sale by E. P. Weed and J. A. Riggs.
Worth Reading.
To the Editor: *
I think it my. duty to inform
your readers of a remedy that
should be in every household.
I was a martyr to Dyspepsia
and Constipation and tri c d
everything in vain. In despair I
bought a ten cent package of the
‘ U. S. Army & Navy Tablets, 17
East 14th St, New York, and
in three days I felt better and
afterwards I bought a twenty-
five cent package and now I am
completely cured. Your druggist
can and must get it for you.
Yours truly,
A READER.
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«New Your: DIVISION.
DECEMBER 4, 1899.
'1 rains leave South Non-walk as follows.
FOR NEW YORK — Accommodation
trains at 9.36, 11:40 a. m., 1.11, 3.04, 4.07,
5. 33,6.41,8.11,10.20 p. m. Express trains
at 4.55, 5.45, 6.15, (local), 6.55, (local),
7.13, (local), 7.54, (local), 8. 16, 9.03 (local)
9.58, 10.27, 11.35. (local) a. m. 12.47
2.25, 5.10 5.55, 7.55 p. m. For Washing
ton via Harlem River 12.53 a. to (daily)
SUNDAYs—Accommodation 9.05 a. m.
3 21, 5. 35, (local), 7.20, (local)10. 10 p. m.
E) nress 4.55, 5 45 a. m.
'9 FOR NEW HAVEN AND THE EAST—
Accommodatio‘n trains at 6.28, 7 42,
8.46 and 11.42 a. m., 1.12, 2.42, (to Bp’t,)
4.18, 5.27, 6.27, 7.28 (,to B’p‘t), 915
and 11.15 p. m. Express trains at 1.11
1.20 9.11,10.05, 11.08 a. m., 12.02 3.07
5.04 (Naugatuck Express) 7.05, 9:05
D. m
SUNDAYS—Accommodation 7.42, 9.12
a. m. and 7.15 p. m. Express 1 11 and
1.20 11.08 a. m.
C T. HEMPS’I‘EAD. Gen. Pass. Agent.
HERE’S YOIIB GIIIIGE.
A fine building lot on Wilton ave
one. If you intend to build, look
at this before purchasing.
Watergate and sewer on the avenue'
will be sold at a Bargain.
w. H. BYINGTON,
Real Estate and Insurance
Room I. Gazettem ’l’d.
W. H. HAYWARD & CO
"Poo-on Attorneys and Solicitors
709 Earl capitol Street.
WASHINGTON, D. C
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all classes of claims prosecuted
m-JOTO the Interior Department.
Selected pension claims a specialty
correspondence solicitml.
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BENSUS UUESTIUNS
To Be Asked Farmers By
’ Enumerators This-
Year.
10 BE VISITEDIN JUNE.
Schedule Promulgated to Obviate Difficulties
Which May Arise.
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During the month of June, 1900, the
farmers of this state will be visitedby
the census enumerators. The schedule
of questions which the enumerator is
obliged to ask is therefore promulgated
by Census Supervisor Eddy to fore-
stall and obviate the difficulties that
may arise between the questioner and
the questioned.
The leading questious are as follows:
1. Acreage of farms and tenure oi
the same.
2-. The quantities produced whether
of grain, vegetables, fruits, plants of
other crops.
3. The value of all products.
4. Estimated value of all farm pro-
duzts (sold, consumed or on hand) for
year 1899.
5. Amount expended for fertilizers.
6. Amount expended for farm labor
(exclusive of housework) including
value of board furnished. I
7. Value of all of the farm products-
reported which have been fed on the
farm to animals and poultry;
8. Total acreage devoted to raising
small fruits and vegetables.
9. Square feet of land under glass in
green-houses and hot-houses for devel-
oping the growth of: vegetables, fruits,
plants and-flowers.
10. Value of all vegetables,fruits and
nuts.
11. Value of all wood, logs, railroad
ties, telegraph and telephone poles, ma-
terial for barrels and other forest pro-
ducts cut or produced in 1899, whether
sold, consumed at home or on hand
June 1, 1900.
12. Amount of cider, vinegar, etc,
produced.
13. Acres of land devoted to raising
flowers, seeds, trees, plants, etc., and
amounts received from their sales.
14. Amount derived from the sales
of live animals raised on the farm.
15. Market value of meat and all
other animal products of all animals
slaughtered on the farm for home use
or for sale and the receipts from the
sale of hides and carcasses of animals
dying from disease or accident.
16. (A) Report as sold all milk and
cream delivered to co-operative cream:
cries and factories, but do not report
butter or Cheese made in factories and
creameries.
(B) Total value of all milk, cream,
butter or cheese produced and con-
sumed on the farm.
17. Value of poultry of all kinds an 1
consumed or on hand June 1, 1900, to-
gether with number of dozen of eggs
produced in 1899 and their total value.
18. Number of pounds of wax and
honey produced and the value of each.
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Two Small Fires.
Putnam Hose company responded to
a still alarm Wednesday night about 9
o’clock calling it to Germania, hotel
where it was found that the bed in a
room occupied by J. M. Rosegrant of
Everett, Mass, was on fire. Rosegrant
was asleep and It is thought that as he
fell asleephe dropped a lighted cigar-
ette in the bed. The bed was blazing
fiercely and two men, after breaking in
the door, rescued Rosegrant from his
fiery bed. The blaze was soon extin-
guished. The damage will amount to
about $40. ‘ ‘
Another small fire was discovered in
a house occupied by Hungarians and
owned by Herman Quittner, situated
on Ely avenue and Bouton street this
morning. The fire was in a bed and
was extinguished by the department
without further damage.
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Sherwood Gels $50.
After an hour’s deliberation Wednes
day afternoon the jury in the common
pleas court returned with a verdict of
$50 and costs against the town of West-
port, in the suit brought by Charles A.
Jennings for injuries sustained by his
horse falling through a hole in a small
bridge in that town, Arguments were
commenced at the afternoon session of
the court and were not finished until
3:30. Judge Curtis made avery impar-
tial charge to the jury. The suit was
for $200, the defendent claiming that
the injuries had rendered his horse
unfit for further service. The evidence
showed that he. had refused to accept
$50: from the selectmen to settle the
, case.
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WEEKLY - NORWA'LR - GAZETTE.
THE ANNUAL STATEMENT-
utual Life
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of New York
appears on the second page.
This is the oldest active Life Insurance Company in the
United States and the LARGEST in the World.
The Best Company is the Company
which does the most good.
{TAODERN MEANING OF GUN.
The Word Is More Often Applied to
the Great Engines
of Death.
“The evolution of the word ‘gun’
forms an interesting study in up-to-
date etymology,” remarked one of a
party of newspaper men, says the New
Orleans Times-Democrat. “A dozen or
so years ago We all understood gun to
'mean a fowling piece—a shotgun as dis-
tinguished from a rifle or a. musket.
Heavy and light ordnance, in fact all
pieces of artillery, Without regard to
size, were known as cannon. That, of
course, was where people made an ef-
fort to speak English. Out
frontier the word gun: was applied ex—
clusively to pistols.
“Nowadays the nomenclature has
curiously changed. By degrees the
good old word gun has become monop-
olized by the long, slim, murderous ma-
chines that constitute our modern ar-
tillery. We speak of quick-fire guns,
eight-inch, ten-inch, twelve-inch guns,
and the word seems singularly apropos.
They are not cannon. ‘Cannon’ imme-
diately suggests the big, lumbering,"
black-throated, smooth-bores of the
past. The word conjures up all sorts of!
curious antique pictures -——- swabbers
naked to the waist, motionless men
holding lighted matches, irigates
lashed together and firing into each
other’s ports, Sepoys bound to the
muzzle, neat geometric pyramids of
round shot in neat geometric forts, the
charge of the Light Brigade, and lots of
other things too numerous to men-
tion.”
WINE FROM APP-2E5.
It I- Made Io Cleverly an to Decelve
Even the Most Knowing
’ Experts.
Science has lately made it possible to
obtain good wine from the apple, which
has always b’een devoted to sparkling
cider. Experts have been deceived in
sherry, Inadeira and sauterne which
came from apple juice instead of grapes.
Juice from the apple is fermented
. with yeasts of different kinds brought
from the grape-growing districts of Eu-
rope to this country. For instance, the
flavor of sherr‘Zv is due not to the grape,
but to the infinitesimal fungus germs
that cause its fermentation. The Amer-
ican companies import these germs
from the district in Spain where they
flourish, inoculate the apple juice and
obtain a fine wine. The same process
is followed with other varieties of wine.
These yeasts are obtained from the
sediment in the vats of Europe. They
are easily propagated, and the only
difficulty is to separate the different
kinds. As the quality of wine depends
on these fungi winemakers have usual-
ly left to chance the kind of wine they
produce,_depending on the ,organisms
which float in the air and attachthem-
selves to ,the grapes. The l'yeasts are
sold bottled. and are much in demand .
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in the j
8 WRONG soon or THE cow.
An Artistic Blemish That Was Over-l
looked by Many in a De-
* trait Painting.
“It has always seemed to me,” says a
writer in the Detroit Free Press, “that
the pictorial artist should pay just a
little attentionto truth and nature. Now
there is a picture in a certain Detroit
art store before which for some time
past a little crowd has lingered to ad-
mire. The subject matter is excellent,
There is e barnyard, with the usual ac:
companiment of hens and ducks.
dog sits on the step of the cornerib,
and in the immediate foreground
stands a pretty speckled bossy.
“A pictorial dairy maid is milking
bossy. She is a charming creature, the
dairy maid. Her hands are not big and
coarse; her knuckles are not swollen,
and her fingers do not resemble dill
pickles; She is just a. daisy dairy maid
———but, saints alive! she's on the wrong
side of the cow.
“Nonchalantly she sits on the left of
the animal and milks, milks, milks.
She looks, the while, around the land-s
scape and smiles at the hens. Now, if
the. truth be known, that dairy maid
wouldn’t be on the left side of that
meek-looking bossy longer than two
minutes. Her head would be kicked
off.” '
Freaks of Explosions.
Gunpowder explosions have one re-
markable feature. The- bodies of per-
sons killed in such an accident are
’ahvays found without ‘clothing,. but
frequently onefoot will have the shoe
on. This is true of horses also. If
one of the feet is in the air and‘an-
other on the ground. the shoe wall
be found torn from the foot that was
on the ground. and not from the
other. When men are killed in pow-
der explosions the foot that happened
to be in the air when the shock came
will be found wearing the shoe. while
the other foot. will be bare.
TREES-713i??? fin.
In his article on “Secrets of the
Earth’s Crust,” in Knowledge, Prof.
Cole says we have already advanced
since Zittel Wrote, in 1895: “The prob-
lem, where man first appeared on the
earth and from what form he sprang,
has, in spite of all eiforts of modern
geology and anthropology, up till now
found no solution.” Dr. Dubois has re-
cently published his discovery of the
remains of a man-like animal in Java,
styled by him Pithecanthropus erectus,
associated with extinct Pliocene mama
mals. .These Javan remains would
seem to indicate an anthropoid of ex-
discovery‘is, however, as yet a single
step, founded upon a. single skeleton.
To some thinkers this step provides a.
field of vision surpassing all that went
before; to others, the coming of man
remains, to this day. one of the pro-
foundest secrets of the earth’s crust.
,ceptional zoological position, and prob-r
ll ably of exceptional faculties. Dubois'
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