Highest of all in Leavening Power.—- Latest U. S. Gov’t Report W Baki n9 ‘ Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE ‘SOUTH NORWALK. The South Nor-walk Office of the Gazette Is at the store of New- man 8; Plnney. orders for Job Prlnting. Homer M. Bylngton, Manager. U. 0. A. M. meet tosnight. Lieutenant Colonel Crowe will be one of the judges of the competive squad drill to be held by Company G of Dan- bury next Tuesday evening. A sociable will be held after the drill. There will be a battalion drill of coma panics C, D and F at the Armory to- night under command of Major Hen- drie of Stamerd. 00]. Russell Frost is in New York this afternoon attending a meeting ,of the Creditors Committee of the Lock- wood Manufacturing Company. Prof. W. G. Newell’s reception occurs at Music Hall to-night and alarge num- ber of tickets have been issued. James Robinson and Henry Muttart appeared before Judge Frost in the Town Court this morning charged with riding bicycles after dark without lan-_ «terns. The were both fined 81. Rice’s Comedians will present “His Lordship" at Hoyt’s Opera House to- night. TO-morrow afternoon is the ladies’ and children’s matinee when Rip Van Winkle will be presented. John Burr Hendricks of West Nor- walk. and Miss Mary Gafi'ney were mar- ried last night by Rev. D. M. Seward. It is reported that Newsdealer Fred Coleman is trying to ride a bicycle un- der the able instruction of ’1‘. F. Dunn. - It is also reported that he took his first lesson last night and had quite a thril- ling experience. Walter L. Wilcox left last night for Boston to spend a few weeks in that bean-eating city. 0. 3.. Ferry Command, U. V. U., meet to-night in the Mystic Chain Hall. The report of the committee on the War Song concert will be read. The Philharmonic Orchestra will give one of their delightful concerts in Mu- sic Hall Monday evening. Already a large number of seats have been checkrd off and a good attendance is expected. Mrs. Homer F. Bucknam, of South Main street, in visiting Miss Margaret Hasbrouck in Hoboker, N. J. William Hilsdon had a narroy escape from being killed last night. He Was driving down North M-iin street and when in front of the EVENING GAZETTE office the front wheel of his wagon came off. He was thrown under the wagon and would prob-ably have been run over if bystanders had not caught the horse. The S. N. A. C. athletic entertainment occurs tot-night and crowded rooms are promised. The program for the even- ing is without doubt the best ever pre- sented by this popular organization. The grand double windup promises to be the finest ever seen in the state. There was filed yesterday in the in- surance commissioner’s ofiice notice of the Connecticut Breweries Company, of Bridgeport, against Ernest Jacobi, who formely ran the Norwalk Wine Company on South Main street, to re- cover $450 and is returnable to the Court of Common Pleas on the first Tuesday of May. The United Static Fire Insurance Company of New York, is made a party to the suit. One of Contractor Brown’s men was hurt at the Iron Works dock yesterday afternoon about 5 o’clock. The man was working on the wharf, when one of the loaded 500va came towards the dock. As itwas coming rather rapidly the man thinking to ward it off put his foot down‘intending to push it aWay. Unluckily, however, his foot got caught between the boat and the dock and his leg was broken and badly crushed. Dr. Burke was summoned and ordered the ambulance which carried the in- jured man to the Norwalk hospital where he now is. The CJnnty Commissioners have re- ceived a communication from Ernest Jacobi, late proprietor of the Norwalli Wine company, stating that his place of business had been burned out and requesting that the commissioners w 11 hold whatever balance may be due him, until he advises them further. Mr. J a- cobi will receive no rebate on account of having been burned out: his license holds good until Nov. 1, 1896, and he I can sell it or have it transferred. He is probably not posted in the details of the liquor law. About thirty young men of the twm cities met in the parlors of the Mahack- emo Hotel last night to form a bicycle club, the chief object of which is to be the obtaining of good roads. A. B._ Russell was elected chairman of the meeting and Charles Helmer, secretary. The membership committee elect-ed was composed of W. A. Wheeler, 0. H. Aisthorpe, F'ES. Ambler, J. Davis, R. B. Bulkley, and Victor W. Ferris. George H. Vosburg, Edgar H. Fox, and James Maples were elected'to draw No. 12 North Main Street, where Advertisements and as well as Items of News. can be left with upa constitution for the club to be presented at the next meeting of the club to be held at the same place next Thursday evening. A committee to ascertain the cost of renting rooms and furnishing them was elected, W. A. Wheeler and H. R. Bulkley being chosen. The meeting then adjourned. . J. W. Studwell Went home last niglt and when he locked his store door it did not catch Captain G. Washington Glad- stone discovered the door open and the lock sprung, while making his rounds. He searchedthe store but finding no one sent for Mr. Studwell who came and locked the door. .0. GASTRONOMIC ITEMS. Wagner was a highly practical feed- er. lle ate very fast, placing his food in his mouth and gulping it down While he talked. At the Berlin people's kitchen meals are served at an expense of 61/, cents each. The dinner consists of 11/2 pints of soup and 01/; ounces of meat or fish. Zola. would not take honors as a gour- met. I-Ie employs a good cook, but cats sparingly himself and is cagefulus to wines. II is dinners are dathily served. A morning meal with Oliver Wendell Holmes revealed that the cheery auto- crat liked cold chicken, veal patties, liver on toast, game, Cumberland ham and wine. ‘ Although the Chinese live on a. diet almost exclusively composed of starch, it is said they are less afflicted with dyspepsia. than the people of any other nation. ’ Kneading the stomach was once a favorite trea‘tnient for indigestion and dyspepsia. An attempt was made in this way to imitate the natural motion of the stomach. . ‘ Violent'exercisé should not be taken immediately after eating, since the blood required 'for digestion is drawn away from the stomach and indigestion follows. _ Never out what is known to disagree with the stomach. The belief that it' will disagree with the digestion in some mysterious way often contributes. to that result. . CLAIRVOYAN T. Madam Le Normand is at the Mahack- emo Hotel, South Norwalk, and can be consulted at Room 10, second floor, on all affairs of life, from 1 to 6 o’clock in the afternaon, and 7 to 10 in the even- mg. TUlllllSll BATHS F011 Malaria, Rheumatism, Neuralagia, ' AT Dr. Shepard’s Sanitarium. A skilled Masseuse and Electrician in attendance in the Ladies’ Department. Chas. H. Shepard, M. D., SI and 83 COLUMBIA HEIGHTS. BROOKLYN, N. Y. A short walk from the Brooklyn end of the Bridge and Fulton Ferry, ' NOT CE WHEREAS, The Norwalk Street Rail- way Company, a corporation of that name, has presented to the Mayor and CulluClI ot' l‘he City of NOTWalk, its ap- plication and plans, for the construc~ tion ofasmcle track electric railway on Weslport Avenue in said City, from East Avenue easterly to the City Lin“, with all necessary curves, turnouts, switches and frogs,—said Appllcv’i’imi and Plansshowing in detail said pru- posed construction; and WHEREAS, said the Nor-walk Street Railway Company has also presented to said the Mayor and Council its Ap- plication and plans for double tracking its Winnipank Line from the smtherlv end of ti long turnout near Harriet! dISl‘Bt t t) a point between Hoyt and Wall streets, as far southerly as what is known as Number 6 Main street; and said Application and Plans also show- ing in detail said proposal construc- tion; and “IBEREAS, said The Norwnlk Street R .ilway Company has presented to said [he M-iyor and Council, its Application and Plans for 'a Croes-over track on West Avenue, near the corner of Chapel Street, and the details of said construc- tion being fully shown in said Applica- tion and Plans, New Therefore. NOTICE is herebv given, theta hear- ing upon all of said- Applications and Plans so presented will be bad in the Council Boom, in the City of Norwalk, Monday evening, April 20th, 1896, at 7:30 o’clock, at which time and place all persons interested therein are here- by notified to appear and be heard, if they may so desire. . ' Dated at the City of Norwalk, April 15th, 1896. ' By order of the Council of said City. “ 4 E M. Locxwood, City Clerk. it -‘ :-‘l .‘ CHURCH GLEANINGS. REV. DR. TALMAGE, of Brooklyn, has accepted the call to be co-pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Washing- ton. He is to be co-pastor of the church, of equal authority with Dr. Sutherland, and probably will preach one-half 'of the sermons, beginning Sunday even- ing, October 27; REV. CHARLES OTIS GILL and his wife will shortly leave New York for the Chinese mission field. Mr. Gill was captain of the Yale football team in 1889, and rowed in the victorious Yale crews of that and the two previous years. He has been engaged in home mission work for several years. FIFTEEN THOUSAND pilgrims annually visit St. Baumc, in . Provence, not far from Marseilles, where Mary Magda- lene is said to have spent the last thirty yearsof her life. The legend runs that Mary Magdalene came from J udea. in a. small boat with Lazarus, Martha, the two Marys and Salome. RUSSIA is turning the tables '_'on the American Foreign Mission board, and is sending several priests of the Greek church to minister in its interests in thiscountry. Ever since it sold Alaska. to us the Russian government has ex- pended fifty thousand dollars annually on Greek church missions in this coun- try. THE Young Men’s Naval Catholic as- sociation has been started by the young Catholics serving on the United States cruiser Charleston. Its object is to unite the Catholics serving in the navy for the promotion of the ipterests of the Catholic church, the diffusion of Catholic literature, church history, etc. NOTED PEOPLE ABROAD. PRESIDENT FAURE is the first of the French presidents with sufficient com— mand of English to speak it fluently. Mn. MICHAEL DAVITT, who is in Aus- tralia, has cabled to Mr. Justin McCar- thy a second sum of £1,000 for the benefit of the anti-Parnellites. TIIE du‘rc of Marlborough is .having the lakes around Blenheim dredged at a. cost- of $30,000. This is the first time in ninety years that the Marlborough purse has been used for this purpose. RUMORS are current of the approach. ing retirement of the English master of the rolls. Lord Esher has turned eighty, and has been on the bench for twenty-seven years. Sir Richard Web- 5th will probably be his successor. THE Dc Reszkc brothers have added largely to their holdings of real estate in Poland. They bought two country estates this summer and are in negotia- tion for another, a. richly-wooded do- main and one of the finest in the neigh- borhood. GUERRITA, who is now the first bull fighter in Spoil, has appeared in fifty- eight fights this season, and is engaged for nineteen more. He receives 81,200 for each appearance, and, as his ex- penses average $400 a performance, his clear income amounts to over $60,000 a year besides the presents made to him. OLD AND SPRY. A SKIPPING-BOPE contest was lately witnessed in South Hollis, Me, between two lively old ladies. Their ages are, respectively, 03 years and 80 years. MES. BEULAII STABRING, of Silver Creek, N. Y., is the' oldest bicyclist in the state. ago she rode a. wheel five miles. Mrs. Martha White, of Unndilla, N. Y., also rides a. wheel. Ilcr age is 83. Miss LUCRETIA ESTES, who lives at IIead-of-the-Bay, near Ilocklnnd, Me, is in her 1015i. year, and reads and sows without spectacles. Next door to her lives Mrs. Mary IIiX, who is 92 years old, and her eyesight is as good as Miss Estes’. . RT. IION. SPENCER HORATIO WAL— POLE, who has just completed his 90th year, was three times home secretary under Lord Derby, and has drawn a. political pension Of $10,000aycnr for over twenty-eight years. His wife was the daughter of Spencer Pcrccvnl. who was shot while prime minister, in 1812. O HEADWEAR NOTES. TIIE Spanish broad-brimmed but has not changed either in style or material for over three hundred years. THE Old-fashioned beaver hat was made with a. body of rabbit’s fur, the outside nap being of beaver. THE white stove-pipe often worn in this country in summer is made of felt with a muslin backing. SOME specimens of medieval helmets, at least eleven pounds in weight, are preserved in the European museums. THE first hatmakers in France are mentioned during the reign of Charles VL, who ruled from 13.80 to 1422. ' THE cardinal’s red hat is emblematic of his readiness to shed his blood in de- fense of the church and its doctrines. THE hat of Napoleon is as well known as his face. It was the style of the artillery school at Brienne. FOR four hundred years after .the tenth century the use of hoods on both clocks and gowns was universal throughout Europe. A MUSICAL MELANGE. ADELINA PATTI will appear in her new musical pantomine, “Mirka, the Enchantress,” soon after Christmas in Paris. , “ASPERULA” is the name of Johann Strauss’ latest Operetta. Asperula. is the herb that gives the German Mat» trunk its peculiar flavor. ' TAMAGNO is building himself a little opera house on his estate at Varsee,and has commissioned an Italian composer to write an opera. for the opening. JOSEPH VICTOR VON SCHEFFEI. author of many popular student’s songs, of the “Trompetcr von Sakkingen,” and of “Ekkehardt,” has had a. memorial me? dallion erected to his memory at Murz- zuschla'g, in Styria, Where he once lived. HENRY MEILHAO, who wrote the lib- rettos of “La. Grande Duchesse” and “La Belle Helene,” and Robert Plan- quette, the composer of “The Chimes of Normandy,” are about to put Rabelais’ masterpiece on the stage in a. new opera. comique called “Pannrgc.” . IIer age is 85, and some days. . .-;-':,._»‘;‘..~,. _ - : -. V4... - ‘\ .- ‘w'E EK'LY - +\ o a "iv-A'L‘n go A'Z ET T E “ ' - EARTHLY PARADISES. Portions of the Earth That Approach Climatic Perfection. F or 'an inhabitant of the north tem- perate zone the most nearly correct climate would probably be the island of TaSmania, which enjoys warmth without heat and freshness without cold, and moreover possesses a climate so equable that the average tempera- ture ranges from 44 to 63 degrees, giv- ing a. mean of about 52. In addition to this, or possibly in consequence of it, and the purifying effect of the sea. breezes, there is practically no disease save what the inhabitants are responsi— ble for. There are many groups Of is- lands in the South Pacific which fully deserve the name of earthly paradise, but they have the fault of being too much like paradise. The valley of Cash- mere in northern India. and of Quito in Ecqundor possess climates which are almost perfect, but they suffer the disadvantage of a great distance from the sea. Australia is too dry and New Zealand too damp to approach perfec- tion; but Tasmania possesses the happy menu which affords health and comfort- without the danger of degeneration which is the penalty’of more luxurious climes. Of places near home, the Isle of Man probably most nearly fulfills the conditions of the question. Al- though so much farther north, its aver- age temperature is almost as high and quite as equablens that of the. Isle of Wight, but it possesses the additional advantage of freedom from the fogs, which are the greatest dis-advantage of the shores of the English channel. TESTING CH RONOM ETERS. The Interesting Process of Adjusting . Watches for Temperature. ' Before a. first-class watch is sold it has to go through a variety of tests or “adjustments,” and one of the most important is the adjustment for tem- pcrature. Chronometers are adjusted for tem- peratures varying from 50 degrees to 90 degrees, as a. rule, but some makers -—cspccially in Finance—cool them down to Zero, and often they are heated to 120 degrees. Beyond this point it is dangerous to heat them, as the oil wOuld be liable to injury, and oven the works might suffer. , Pocket watches are adjusted for tem- peratures varying from 35 degrees to 95 degrees. -The process consists in put- ting the watch in a. close-fitting case, and placing this in a cold room, or o. refrigerator with ice, and leaving it there for some time, altering the works so as to make it keep regular time. Then it. is very gradually heated, great care being taken not to let the moisture in the warm air condense upon it. Next it is put in a. Specially con- structed oven, and heated to 00 or 100 or 120 degrees, the machinery being again adjusted to go regularly. C hron— ‘ cinctezrs are usuallykept a week in the cold. chamber, then a week in the hot, undhgain a. week in the cold chamber. drifter "that they fire ready to make voy- ages to any port between the equator andthe-poles without losing or gaining a minute. . CURIOUS CHINESE CUSTOM. Calling to Mind the Blessing of Having . \Vritten Characters. In a work cntitler “An Australian in China” occurs a. description of the queer ”practice in China of onoring,y waste paper by committing it to the flames. In the center of the green stands the hollow pillar, in which Chi- nese waste paper is reverently burnt». “When letters were invented,” the Chinese say, “Heaven rejoiced and hell trembled.” ' “Ileverence the charm» tors,” is an injunction of Confucius which no Chinamun neglects to follow. lie remembers that “he who uses let- tered paper to kindle the fire has ten demerits, and will have itchy sorcs;” he rem Ibers that “he who tosses lettered paper into dirty water, or burns it in a filthy place has 20 demer- its, and will frequently have sore eyes, or become blind;” whereas, “he who gets about and collects, washes and burns lettered paper has 5,000 merits, adds 12 years to his life, and will be- come honored and healthy, and his chil- dren and grandchildren will be virtuous and filial." But his reverence has strict limits, and while he revercnccs a piece of paper upon which a moral precept is written, he often thinks himself ab- solved from reverencing the moral pre- cept itself. Provokcd in Speech. A good story is told of the way in which a New England senator was once aroused to make astirring speech. At the outset of his political career he had been known as a remarkably clever “orator of the stump,” and later on, in the lower house of the legislature, heI made a brilliant name for himself. But when he became a. senator he ceased talking, much to the regret- of his friends and admirers. Finally the liquor law came up for discussion, and the wife of a friend of the senator, who was much interested in its passage, was greatly disappointed to see that the brilliant man had no apparent- in- tention of joining in the discussion. She sat down and wrote a. few words 0111]. sheet of paper, which she inclosed in an envelope and sent by r. messenger to the senator. “Do speak! Even Ba- Iaa‘m’s ass spoke once!” This brought the senator to his feet and elicited one of thé’ best speeches he ever made. A Tottering Spire. It is reported that the spire of Salis- ‘bury cathedral, .in the south of Eng- land, is tottering. When the cathedral was begun, in 1220. there was no thought of erecting a spire on the cen- tral tower. That was an afterthought, and the architect who designed the tower strained the strength of the orig- inal substructure to the utmost. It has always had to be carefully watched, and the'mezins taken to strengthen it by iron bands and ties have only added to the weight. Of late the stonework has“. rm: decaying rnpifi‘w. so that the spin-x 1.; in grcatdnnga‘r (“f :1‘0l111125irsg. NUWIS elime ~ _ _ To Send in Your Advertisement ‘ Ianpiingliade. Q THE ,9 EVENING ' GAZETTE IS TIIE IIIIiIIT MEDIUM TIIIIIIIIGII WIIIIIII‘ in “Mill in: sinus Purim. \ The Only Eight-Page One-Cent Paper in the Norwalks. a Value of an lver isem’e'nj A v A DEPEIIIISI ITII TIIE: POGKETSj BF TIIE.‘x PEOPLE WHO READ IT. ADVERTISEMENTS III TIIE EVEIIIIIIi GAZETTE ABE HEAD BY THOSE WHO IIAVEIMOIIEY TI! ‘4 / . spans. 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