at A r: if an": m: anus OF HIGH-GRADE ’ oNEII EONIIIIIEIIEs PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE THE FINEST NINE INN MUST inclining The Lowest Possible Price. Sold on Easy Terms and Rented. / 01d Pianos Taken in Exchange. nsIHEIIIIEE THE BESTDn. SEND FUR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE T0 WAREIIIIIIIIIS: NEW YORK CITY, \ 9 WEST FOURTEEN TH STREET. I—I'. -. ~. , MOUNT VERNON, N. Y; my” . :..~ ~ ' 52 WEST FIRST STREET. -. ..‘.. «ra- . . FACTORY, '\ _ y K _‘,__ m- .' . '~ ISTAMFORDEGONN. ‘ , \ F‘meeting with” a Shooting star in any . , of his wanderings. , BRIDGEPORT. -.THE » D. M. Read COMPANY. DEVELOPING GREATER POSSIBILITIES Because we are doing it with new goods, new pat- terns, new eflbcts. Some of the most ' striki n ,3; f catu res ' of the newest fashions in Spring fabrics are read y for inspec- tion; others will be opened from time to time until the new season is fairly and fully launched—when it becomes absolutely necessary to buy. What you can save with us on the price of Carpets will more than pay for the making and laying—perhaps for the lining. If you don’t want us to make and. lay. them you’ll save that much in CASH. We can sell you your carpets at a cash price and at the same time give you more or less time, as you desire, to pay for them. Young housekeepers— those just starting—with lots of other uses for their ready money, will find our system agreeably handy and useful. They’ll find, -too, that the carpets we sell them will wear as good qualities ought to wear, and that they haven’t got to repeat the buying process with each change of the season unless they want t). W e’ve the very newest whims iii ' colorings and pattern._ ' Every Jacket and Cape that we sell nowadays are the newest shapes—haven’t been in the store any time at all. And the manufacturers are the ones who are losing the money. They don’t lose as much as they would if they had to carry them over and so they’re happy with every sale we make for them. Gar- ments one season old are worth only what they’ll bring at auction—nothing sometimes. There’s some of the bright- est chances to buy odd China and Glassware cheap that you've - had since we started this branch of our business. .. W I E E KL Y N 0R W A 1K GA zn T TE ' IINIEIEEN EIINE a, SHOOTING STARS. flow These Odd and Erratic Baby Planet- . Blaze and Dar-hem, The’ shooting star is an oddity of the very oddest kind. It is a world of itself —a miniature planet—probably not larger than the papier mache globe on your study table or the rubber ball with which the schoolboys play.“three cornered cat,” but it is a world just the same. These haby planets are not al- ways round, as planets are generally supposedto be,'but are known to be in all sorts .of queer shapes. Some are square, others octagonal; some irregu- lar and many cornered, while one is 00- casionally met 'with which is. smooth . as a brick or a cement paving stone. Probably you have never heard of a man (or woman either, for that matter) Let us see how such a thing might be possible. * The shooting star is. originally amin- iature world,-revolving. around the sun with as much regularity as the earth, Jupiter, Venus or Mars. It keeps up this unerring flight thousands or even millions of years. Finally it reachesthe limit of its. existence. Suddenly and perhaps without any visible cause it shoots off at a. tangent. It is now a “shooting star. ” Formerly it was ‘a world, but even now it is not bright as other stars are. ' Let us see what will cause it to “flame up like a gigantic torch in the heavens. ” . This particular body that we are talking about shot off from its orbit in the direction of our earth. Its speed is not less than 20 miles a second, probably five times that. In the great outer sea of space it en- counters no resistance to its headlong flight. But wait. It is nearing the en— velope of atmosphere which surrounds our globe. What will be the result when, it comes in contact‘with “the. air we breathe?” The first stratum it strikes is so attenuated that its resistance is very slight. Yet the friction is great enough to instantly raise the tempera- ture of the falling world. Within the hundredth part of a second the dense stratum-of atmosphere has been encoun- tered. The flight of the little world is now ’perceptibly checked, the result be- ing a sudden firing of the mineral mat- ters in the stone. There is an instanta- neous burst of light, and then we see the doomed representative of the minia- ture planets in all its meteoric splendor. Possibly the streak of fire 4 it leaves athwartthe _ heavens will not appear to be more: than a few hundred feet long. Certainly it will, be thin and short if the . little world was not larger ‘ than a fgotball—because it will be almost in- stantly consumed as soon as it ,strikes# the denser portions of r the atmosphere. On the other hand, if this world which has so suddenly come to an end was as large as a good sized barn when it start- ed, fragments of it weighing from 10 to 1,000 pounds may reach the earth. It is from these fragments that we learn the shape and composition of the aerial phenomenon referred to as “shooting stirs. ’i—St. Louis Republic. DIRECTED HER LETTER TO HEAVEN. Pathetic Little Story of a Child’s Epistle to Her Dead Mother. At a recent wedding the bride had retired to her dressing room to don her traveling gown. Her mother had been dead a year or more, and she had had the constant care and companionship of her little sister ever since their afilic- tion. The 7-year-old entered the room and; went to her sister’s chair very thoughtfully. Drawing, a letter from the little pocket, she said: “Alice, here is a. letter to mamma. I have just written, telling her all about the wedding. Will you send it to her?” The elder sister, a little shocked, re- plied as gently as possible that she couldn’t send a letter to mother. . Then the little one, looking quite bright, -said promptly: “Oh, yes, you can, because now you are married, you will be getting a little girl, and when you Send for her, just give the doctor this letter, and he can take it to mamma when he goes for the baby.” . - And there on the envelope was the address, printed as best she could: “To Mamma, In Heaven. Kindness of the Doctor.” - She took the letter, and hugged the little one to hide the tear which was rubbed off on the curly, brown head.— Washington Star. Early Candlelight State Dinners. It appears that in olden times the president used to give his dinner par- ties at 4 o’clock in the afternoon. The grandfather of Representative Acheson of Pennsylvania once dined with George Washington, and his family have pre- served the invitation. It is written in a business hand on a fourth page of a sheet of ordinary note paper, with the lines running lengthwise across the sheet, and reads as follows: Mr. Acheson is requested to dine with the president on Thursday, the 23d inst., at 4 o’clock precisely. ‘ . Feb. 14, 179.”. —Chicago Record. Liked Lawyers. It is recorded of Andrew Johnson that when, senator or president, he was invited to a dinner party, he was accus- tomed to ask if any lawyer was .to be among the guests. For, said‘he, law- yers always lubricatethings. 9.599]: a greater fancy to WilliamfsM. gEyarts,,;his attorney» general, Kbe‘ca‘ixée "of his post- prandial fame than. because of 1' his emi- nent legal attainments. --'Green Bag. Goe- . Long Wan, Borax—My wife makes. a little mon- ey go a long way these times. Henpekt—‘So does mine unfortunate- ly. She’s always subscribing: for spin- .sions in Africa and Polynesia. —Pear- son’s Weekly. Shun no toilito make yourself re- markable by some one talent. Yet do not_'devote yourself to one branch ex- clusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely, ‘ for all science is one—Seneca. 4We are therefore always glad to get u minimums ' o'BJiic'r. “ _* They Are Generally Reticent about Personalities—This Boston Lady. Agrees With Us as to Facts, .However. (From the Boston Post.) The well understood fact that ladies are almost as a rule very hard to draw out concerning any ailment they may have has always acted as a serious but to even the well known family physician, and more so to any one less familiar. good word from the gentler sex for our wonderful remedy, Dean’s Kidney Pills. ‘ Let us call your attention to one of the main poxnts in all our talks to the public. Do you notice we always give you undoubted references near at hand to you? A man living in Missouri could send you a strong .and truthful letter of a cure by our remedy, but you would better have one from some one just around the corner, so to speak. Mrs. E. T. McKinnon, residing at the Hotel Roxbury, 227 Roxbury St, says she was a great sufi'erer for years from kidney troubles, and tried many so called remedies with very limited re- sults. Her description of the vagaries of the disease is worthy of a physicxan. She says “ Kidney complaint is one of moods—at times you suffer intensely, and then again you are comparatively free from. its tortures. Just so, spas- modic pains, and then a lull, and so you ascribe it to only a stitch, while the disease is insidiously working your death.” Mrs. McKinnon says: “ Some time ago I saw DOan’s Kidney Pills ad- vertised at Geo. Burwell’s pharmacy, Boylston St. and Park Sq. I began taking them at once, and nothing I had been taking acted as quickly or effec- tively. One box entirely dispelled the pains in my kidneys and I have had no recurrence of them, and the “dizzy spells,” from which I formerly suffered so much, left entirely and I am indeed invigorated, and my home duties seem so light compared with what they for- merly were. Futhermore I feel it my duty to tell what Doan’s Kidney Pills have done for me.” Is this not plain, concise, convincing? We can cure you, too, if you are a sui- ferer from any kidney trouble. Dean’s Kidney Pills are for sale by all dealers, price 50 cents, mailed by Foster-Milburn 00., Buffalo, N. Y., sole agents for the United States. DAVID . W, RAYMOND 4 I IFIIIIEIal Director “and Embalmer -r~n- 39 Washington Street South Norwa ll: Residence. Manackcmo Hotel. o The» Giant . PRINTING Department. A _ WGSD TO THE WISE. Merchants, Manufacture ers, Lodges and Societies will consult their own inter- ests by giving us a call. REMEMBER—If you have' " work to do, write to us. Brisk Business in February. Is only possible by selling at prices below competition. We intend to keep busy, and this is how we’ll accomplish it-- by continuing our great sale of shoes during the month. it We have purchased of Lounsbury, Mathewsontz 00., all their La- dies Fine Shoes, made for the insolvent firm of Harding & 00., of Brook— lyn. and will close them out at about 7} their Actual Value. 120 pair Ladies’ 20th Century Enamel Shoes, worth $600, at - 150 pair Ladies’ Razor Toe Kid Shoes, worth $5.00, at — 150 pair Ladies’ Razor Toe Cloth Top 90 pair Ladies’ Calf Opera and Razor Toe Shoes, worth $5.00, at 60 pair Ladies’ 20th Century Russia, All of Harding &. Co’s $4 00 Shoes, at - - - — - All of Harding & Co’s $3.00 Shoes, at — - ' - All of Harding & Co’s $2.50 Shoes, at 200 pair Ladies’ Opera Toe, Pat. Tip, 150 pair Ladies’ fine 0. S. Shoes, worth $1.50, at — - Men’s First Quality “$2. 90 pair Men’s $3.00 Patent Lace Shoes, at . . mama Invisible Cork Sole Ba]. and Congress, 140 pair Men’s Lace and Congress Shoes at 120 pair Men’s Invisible Cork Sole Shoes, wort-h $3.50 at 5 Cases of Men’s Tap Sole Split Boots, worth $2.00, at Boys Shoes, . . $3 79 2 98 2 98 2 98 2 98 2 50 1 98 - - 1 74 Shoes, worth $1.50, at 890 all sizes 890 all sizes Hip Rubber Boots, 7 5 A pm... $1 95 a pair 1 48 f‘ 980, worthl$L25 $2 29 a pair 1 4-8 a pair . 880, 980, and $1 23 a pair Shoes, worth $5.00, at - Iace, worth $5.00, at - - n g. This is positively the best chance ever offered to buy a HIGH—CLASS SHOE at less than the cost of manufacture. We want you to come and see this lot of goods. They are worthy your inspection. These shoes can only be found at OLSEN WHITE SHOE STORE :3305.’ _3 GAZETTE BUILDING. NORWALK.‘ STORE OPENED EVENINGS yam: mans SHINED FREE ' THIS Is' WORTH EEAoINE. fififslarsaparillag . . . . . . '65 Cents Greene’s Nervura,‘. . . . . . . 75 “ William’s Pink Pills, . ' . . . . 4Q “‘ Castoria, . , A . . -, . . . 25 " Allcock’s Plasters, . . -. .1 1'0 “ Pears’ Unscented Soap, '. . . . . 10 3 “ 100 two grain Quinine Pills, . . , . . .25 “ R If. Plaisted, 43 Washington Street, 80. Norwalk. ’ _, .. x 17’" V69.’ I
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