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' The South Norwalk Offl
man 85 Plnney, No. 12 Nort
orders. for Job Printing. as wel
Homer M. Bylnjrton, Manager.
es of the Gazette. is at the store of' New-
h Main Street, where Advertisements and
l as Items of News. can be left with
Eureka Lodge,Daughters of Rebekah,
met last night and rehearsed the Be-
bekah degree. ' _
The Swordfish club will hold their
regular monthly meeting at the City
Hotel to-morrow night. _
The Public Library is still closed on
account of house-cleaning. It probably
will not be opened vntil to-morrow.
Dutch Monahan will not “go. on’:
with Jack Lynch, for the wind-up at
the next entertainment of the S. N.A. C.
* The Woman’s Christian Temperance
Union are holding their regulapvweekly
meeting with Mrs. William Lawrence,
of Quintard avenue.
0. S. Ferry Command, Union Veteran
Union, will hold their regular semi-
monthly meeting in their hall on Wash-
ington street this evening.
Miss Edith Pitzer, of Stuart avenue,
has recovered from an attack of the
measles and the measle card was re-
moved from her home this morning.
General superintendent C. H. Platt
of the COnsolidated, and superintendent
J. E.'Marvin of the, Danbury division,
went down to Wilson Point this morn-
ing on a special train.
The Elite Social club will give their
sociable and dance in Music Hall this
evening. The members of the club
have worked hard and eXpect to give
their friends an enjoyabletime,
It is reported that King William
Mansfield, superintendent of the Tram-
way company, sent to the car barn on
Woodward avenue, last evening, and
had all remaining copies Of the EVENING
GAZETTE, which are sent personally to
the conductors and motormen every
' night, removed. It is further reported
thatanoticewas p‘Osted up, notifying
conductors and motormen that talking
about accidents on the road would meet
with immediate dismissal. —~“ Poor
Sarah.” ‘
Eight youngrgentlemen gave their
lady friends» a. dance in Guider’s hall,
Rowayton, last night, Calvin Purdy
furnished music-for dancing and all en-
joyed a pleasant evening. Those pres-
ent were the Misses Jennie Ferris,
Belle Bosch, May Finnegan, Bessie
Lyons, Charlotte Bosch, Maude Hoyt,
Lou IWood, and May Smith. The
Messrs. Fred Bodwell, W. A. Wheeler,“
Charles Fillow, Stephen Jarvis, George
Fitch, Samuel Hoyt, William Wilcox,
and Will Benedict. The dancers re-
turned on a trolley car and the young
ladies complimented the young gentle-
men. on the manner in which they had
entertained them.
Suit has been brought against George
S, Bell, of this city, by Frances A.
Austen of Darien, to recover the amount
of a note given by Bell about twenty-
five years ago to her father, Edward
Scofield, now deceased. At the distri-
bution of her father’s estate Mrs. Aus-
ten received'the note as part of her
-. share and now she and her husband,
Theodore W. Austen, of Darien, are
striving to recover. Mr.‘ Bell has been
working for a Mr. George Hauck of
New York city for some time and the
Austens have served garnishee papers
on Mr. Hauck to prevent his pay-
ing the money to Mr. Bell until after
the suit has been decided. The case
will come up before the Common Pleas
court in Bridgeport on the third Mon-
day in May.
At the first bixing match given by
the Nutmeg Athletic Club in Hartford,
last night, Walter Jennings, who re.
Ochmy spurred wnh Morelock at the S.
N. A C. entertainment, went pa with
Fred Branch of New Haven for the 110-
pound championship. Alter twelve
rounds Jennings’ was giVen‘the deci-
slon. Fred McGIrr of Bridgeport also
Went on against Frank Farley of Prov-
idence. Farley had a- slight edyantage
in Ihe that round and McGIrr’s efforts
to land were futile. There Was no
Change in the Work of the men in the
third. In. the fourth Farley Opened
with two blows on McGirr’s neck and
followed those up.witn a stiff body blow.
McGirr landed once in this round and
struck out during a breakaway. Far;
ley slipped down in the filth and he
laughed as he fell. He had the best of
the round. In the sixth Farley started
in more fiercely and forced the fighting
for fair. , e kept up his good work in
the seventh. In the eighth there was
no change, Farley again having the
best of it. Both men were in good con-
dition when the ninth opened. Mc-
Girr improved slightly in this round
and landed twice.. In the last round
Farley landed three times as often as
McGirr. The referee declared the con-
test a draw. Both men were in good
condition, but as Farley had clearly the
best of every round it was hard to un-
derstand why the contest was declared
a draw. The decision was roundly hissed
while Farley was cheered. .
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QUAINT ITALIAN FETE. '
The Lilies of Nola Built by the
Different Gilds. 4
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They Are Obelisks of Papler-Mache
Towering Nearly One Hundred Feet in
the Air—A Picturesque and
Enjoyable Celebration.
In the Century Mary Scott-Uda gives
an account of a, quaint bit of Italian
merry-making, “The Lilies of Nola.”
The writer says: The fifty trains dis-
patched by the narrow—gauge railway
on June 24 are insufficient to contain
the crowds that flock to Nela. to admire
the famous Gigli, or Lilies, which are
its pride. Pure tradition (for I can find
no treatise or historical account of the
custom) has handed down from father
to son the art of making these large
structures, which I should be afraid to
describe did not photography come to
the aid of faith and enable me to lay be-
fore the incredulous the proof that real-
ity is sometimes stranger than fiction.
The “Lilies” of N Ola,which in the begin-
ning were probably pyramids of flow~
ers carried in the procession in honor
of St. Paulinus, are torday towering
obelisks or turrets eighty or ninety feet
high, artistically constructed in Gothic,
Corinthian and Doric styles, adorned
with statues, ornamental friczcs, bas-
reliefs and emblems, and built on mova-
ble platforms.
Undoubtedly the handsomcst Lily of
the year I am describing, for purity Of
design and elegance of finish, was that
built by the Butchers’ guild. It was a.
turret in pointed Gothic style, incloscd
on all four sides, representing in pure
white and soft Chiaroscuro tints the
central minaret, with its delicate and
lacelikc, tracery, of the famous cathe-
dral of Milan. A winged Victory
crowned the summit, and . beautiful
statues filled the ornamental niches;
and, vanity of vanities! a. life-size por-
trait of the proud architect decorated
the plinth, to the edifice/Lion of behold-
ers. The Lily of the prodigal wine
merchant I have quoted was in delicious
rococo style, a. very tangle of brilliant
coloring and elaborate detail as fan-
tastic as a vase of vieux Saxe. The
grocers’ Lily was in Gothic and the
shoemakers’ in baroco style. The Lilies
of the smiths and of the tailors rose
like colossal towers of glittering ma~
jolica, while the bakers’ Lily, built in
pure Corinthian style, was admirably
adorned with reclining angels, trum—
pet in hand, that recalled the exquisite
seraphs of Fra Angelicq. Thus the old
artistic fire lingers in the veins Of an
uncultivated people. who rudely but
vividly express what they vaguely feel.
The closing of designs and the work
of preparations occupy considerable
time; but the erecting, or “dressing,”
of the Lily,~las it is called, is, like the
building of Aladdin’s palace, done in a.
' single night—a haste rendered necessary
by the fact that an accidental shower
would speedily melt the gay structure
to paste. However, in this brilliant
climate, in the month Of June, unless
Vesuvius has a very threatening cloud-
cap on. fair weather may be counted on.
’ As soon as the Lily is dressed and
fully adorned (I counted. upon one no
fewer than fifty statues of papicr-
macho!) it is firmly anchored with ropes
to the trees and balconies about the
home of the gigliantc, which becomes
the Mecca. of the faithful, until it is
called to join the procession at the
square. Then the rigging,
which is masked with thick bunches of
green box and is gayly decorated with
fluttering banncrets, is mounted by
daring urchins, who, poised here and
there like squirrels fifty feet in air,
steady the lofty pinnacle with invisible
ropes. The platform is occupied by
the band, without which it would be
impossible to keep step, and the under-
pinning is manncd by the robust port-
ers, whose shoulders before the day is
over are always bruised and often cut-
an bleeding. The giglinnte, like a.
band-master, goes ahead and gives the
signal Of' march, crowds of small boys
dance and cut fantastic tricks before it,
the people applaud to the echo, and the
majestic pile moves swiftly and smooth’
ly through the crowd, seeming to be
propelled by its own impulse rather
than by the will Of forty men.
A Horrible Story of the Sea.
'One of the most grewsome tales dug
111) out of the misty past is that told by
the York (Me) Courant of the wreck
of the Nottingham Galley on Boon
island. This vessel, which was bound
to Boston from London, was driven on
the island in a terrib e gale on the
night of December 11, 19. The weath-
er was so dreadful that some of the suf-
ferers soon died. There was nothing
to eat but shreds of raw hide, rockwccd
and a few mussels. After a. few days
two of the men attempted to get to
York on a. raft but were drowned. At
last the hunger of the survivors became
so raging that they ate some of the
flesh of their dead comradesr-and, hav-
ing no fire, must perforce swallow it
raw. Immediately their dispositions,
which had been kind and helpful,
seemed to undergo a. total change. In-
stead Of praying they began to swear
and quarrels commenced. At last, after
twenty-three days of this‘ horrible life,
they were rescued. being then more
skeletons and unable to walk. A light-
house was erected on the island in 1811.
it
RECIPES.
MARYLAND FRIED Galatians—Cover
the bottom of the dish with a. rich
cream gravy, and arrange neatly on
the same a. breaded and fried chicken,
With two corn fritters and two strips of
bacon.
CORN FRITTERS.—Mlx intimately to«
gether one can of EcOrn, two eggs,
two tablespoonfuls of moist sugar, 3.
little salt and just enough flour to
slightly bind the compound. Fry in a.
flat pen in hot lard. They are to be
served hot.
CORN CHICKEN SOUR—Cut a. tender
fowl ,in small pieces, dress with butter,
cover with two gallons of well-sea-
soned white stock, and let it simmer
slowly till the meet is tender. Add a.
can of corn, bOil for five minutes and
serve. {Chopped onions or parsley
may be used as a. relish. according to
taste.
CREAM or CORN.—P0un(l in a mortar
the contents of two medium-sized cans
of corn, add a. pint of well-seasoned
soup stock and a. quart of rich cream
sauce. Mix well, rub through a sieve
and add two ounces of butter, when it
is ready to serve. The yolks of four or
five eggs will give a. bright yellow
color.
CORN DUMPLINGS.—Pulp in a. mortar
one can of corn, add two eggs, salt and
pepper to taste, and sufficient flour for
binding. Drop the mixture with a. tea.-
spoon into boiling water and cook for
twelve minutes; drain and serve with
stewed chicken. The same mixture may
be fried upon a griddle, and in that
way makes an excellent cake, served
with browned button—Good House-
keeping.
CULLINGS.
THE web of an ordinary spider will
bear the weight of three grains.
CUBA has twelve varieties of mosqui-
toes and three hundred varieties of
butterflies.
5.
.A CHURCH in Topeka has in its chon‘ .
a. woman whistler who chirps sacred 3
music delightfully.
THE roots of two white gum trees,
growing close to a. church in San Como,
Guatemala,
walls a distance of seven inches.
BLUE paint, applied to oil barrels, has
proved the best pigment to prevent
leakage.
1y all oil barrels are painted blue.
WOMEN are employed as letter care
ricrs in Aix-la-Chapelle. Their uniform
is a. black skirt with a. yellow belt, and
a flat glazed hat with a. yellow band.
A SAVAGE bull attacked Mrs. Henry
Ruttle, Of Cnrsonville, Mich. The lit-
tle lady grabbed the bull by the nose.
ring and clung to it until her cries
brought assistance.
AT Queen Victoria’s table an odd
custom, which originated in the time
manship. '
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of George II, is preserved. As each
dish is placed upon the table, the name
of the cOOk who prepared. it is an-
nounced.
AFOBTUNE of twenty-five thousand
dollars has been left to Damare la.
Framboise, a. convict serving a. fifteen-
year term in a. Montreal penitentiary.
The lady who left the money to him
was once his sweetheart.
NOTES.
MOBERLY, Mo., has in the last dozen
years paid out $16,000 for damages
caused by bad SldeWalkS. '
IT is a fact that no married subject in
Austria can- procure a. passport to go
beyond the frontier unless he can pro-
duce a. written consent from 'his wife.
SOUTH CAROLINA now has three times
as many cotton mills as she-had four...
years ago. The capital to construct
and operate them Imostly comes from
the north.
EXCAVATIONS in the interior of the .
Coliseum at Rome, which were sus-
pended in 1878, are soon to be begun
again, by order of the Italian minister
of public instruction.
ALCOHOLISM is spreading in France.
The consumption of absinthe, a. liquor
distilled of wermuth (wormwood), pep-
perminth, annis and one or two other
ingredients, has increased sevenfold
since 1880.
THERE are now on the rolls of the
legal profession in London about 15,300
solicitors (or attorneys at law, as they
were called prior to 1873) as compared
with some 10,000‘or 11,000 some twenty
years ago.
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FOREIGNERS.
THE.
TURNER’S house in Chelsea, from the .
roof of which he painted his pictures
of the Thames, is to be torn down.
SARAH BERNHARDT is to act the part
of Empress Josephine in a play writ-
ten ‘ for her by Emile Bergcrat and
called "Le Divorce Imperial.”
“LORD BATEMAN is a noble lord, a
noble lord of high degree,” but that
does not help him in the bankruptcy
Court, in which he has lately appeared.
COUNT TOLSTOI's “Anna Knrcnme”
In the
railroad train in full sight of the au-
dience.
LASSALLE, the great baritone Of the
Paris Opera, is going to give up sing-
ing, according to the Leipsig Signale,
and devote himself to chemistry, zoology
and geology. '
'A MODERN Greek-English dictionary,
the first to deal with the Greek of to-
day as a. living language, has been
made by Dr. J annaris, and is about to
be published by Murray.
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