. «L- '__ WHAT ARMY BUTTONS SIGNIFY. —.__—- Dtflerent Designs and Styles According to the Rank of the Officers. The interrelation of the buttons on a uniform is just as much a matter of regulation as the cut of a coat. :The general wears two rows of buttons on the breast of his frock coat, twelve in each, row placed by fours. The dis- tance between the rows is fiveand a half at the bottom. The lieutenant general is entitled to only ten buttons in each row placed by threes. The brigadier general, eight, in groups of two. The colonel, lieutenant colonel and major have nine buttons in each row, arranged at equal distances. There are different designs, of course, not only for the buttons of the army, the navy and marine corps, but for the different branches of the service. There are the infantry, artillery and cavalry buttons, the engineers’ buttons, the ordinary corps button, and the button of the marine corps, and the navy but- ton. The navy button is made in Eng- land, because no American manufac~ turer has been able to make a bronze which the sea air will not tarnish. All of these buttons the army and navy tailor must keep on hand and send on according to regulation. . a, .,. House-cleaning. ‘ Lustiine. .—.—_—- .. C Ask your Grocers. “BIS 6111' III PRIGE- 011‘ MEAT. Round, Sirloin and Por- terhouse Steaks, Sausge, Pot and Rib Roasts Reduced 26. a Pound All First Quality Meat. J. W. BOGARDUS, 6 WATER. 8'11. NORWALK name HATHflRN ‘ 1 SPRING WAT-EII . FOR THE Stomach, Bo wels, Liver and Kidneys. FOR SALE BY The 1161mm, 11611161 818311901 Eu 1 NEW CAFE , RESTIIIEERANT MIKE ATOHFORD», 44 Wain Street, The Best Wines, Liquors jand Cigars. .~ Piano Lessons, RS. GEORGE W. BRADLEY. (daughter .1. of the late_Wm. R._Nash.) mves edicent and satisfactory instructions on the Piano at her home No. 193 Mam street. PLYMOUTH ROCK ICE. Stores and Families Supplied. Lowest Rates. :Horace E. Dane, EXCELSIOL “wukuuwu ‘0“ Livery and Sales Stable. ' Opposite Danbury and Norwalk Railroad depot“ Norwalk, Conn. Stylish Single or Double Team with or without drivers Safe herses for women andchildren . , SADDLE HORSES A SPECIALTY | 'Bicycles Used by Sheep Men in ' from’ that time on it runs in circles or ‘ Xenophon Y WEEnhr‘ - NURWALK - GAZETTE. SHEPHERDS 0N WHEELSI California. The Machine Supplanting the Horse on the Plains—Borders Run Down Coyotes on Their Novel Steeds. it It. . l’ r. Herding sheep on a bicycle is an in- novation introduced by Frank Smith on the wide, roadless plains lying be- tween Fresno slough and the foothills of the coast range, in the western part of Fresno county. Perhaps the wheel will not come into general use for that purpose, as it is nearly always imprac- ticable to ride a bicycle over ranges where sheep find pasturage, but nature has provided one of the finest courses in the world on the open plains of the west side, where the ground is as level as a floor, and the wheelman can often ride fifty miles without changing his gourse, and all the time over a country Where roads are almost unknown, and where not a fence or a ditch interpose to stop the journey. The cabins of a few homesteaders sometimes meet the view, dotting the horizon here and there, but aside from these there is lit- tle or no evidence of civilization in all the country as far as the eye can reach. That region is a dead waste, almost without vegetation, except during the rainy weeks of winter and early spring. When the hot weather comes the short growth of alfilaria dries and the winds sweep every vestige of it from the face of the earth, leaving the ground smooth and level as a race course. This season the unusual rains and the phenomenal warmth have produced a growth of verdure such as has seldom been known there, covering the earth like a carpet. The sheepmen have driven their herds to that quarter from all sides because pasturage there costs nothing. Frank Smith, who has charge of several herds, breaks the monotony, says the San Francisco Chronicle, by gliding on his wheel from band to band, thus dispensing with a horse and deriv- ing pleasure from what was before work. He can round up a herd quicker than a dog can do it. The dogs seem to view the bicycle with disgust, and look upon it as the latest device of labor- saving machinery. The most novel experience is in rid- ing after coyotes, which always hang upon the outskirts of a band of sheep, ready to put a sick or crippled one out of its misery the moment the herder’s back is turned. A coyote is able to keep ahead of a bicycle, and enjoys the exercise for- the first few miles. But when he has had an hour or two of the sport, and the tireless and unfiagging wheel continues to hang upon his line of retreat, the fun begins to wear off, - and the long-cared galloper of the plains realizes that the transaction is not intended as a joke. By the time another hour has passed, and ten .or a dozen miles more of the level plain have been measured off, and the re- morseless wheel continues not more than two hundred and twenty yards in the rear, or perhaps has gained a little, the situation becomes decidedly un- pleasant for the coyote. The smile of scorn that curled his lip during the first ten miles of the race, as he looked back, first over one shoulder then over the other, gradually disappears soon after the second ten miles is entered upon. The animal looks back as often as ever, but the expression on his impudent face seems to say that the joke has been carried far enough, and he is will- ing to play quits if the wheel is willing. The coyote is a long-winded animal, audit takes a good wheelman‘ to ride one down. Under ordinary circum- stances i: is impossible, for he will strike for a thicket When he discovers ' that it is to be a survival of the fittest. But on the west side plains there are so few places of concealment and the prairies are so level and limitless that the coyote may have to run two or three hours before he can find cover. The latter part of such a run is a weary one for him. He may be able to escape, but sometimes he falls a victim to the revolver of the wheelman, and once in awhile he is lassoed, although in such a case he must be shot anyway, for his teeth are called into action as soon as he finds himself at the end of a rope. Besides, he is apt to jerk the rider off his wheel by sudden turns. _ The jackrabbit is not so noble game as the coyote from the point of view of the bicyclist, but is harder torun down. It is not because of greater speed or greater endurance, but because the rabbit will not run very far in a straight line. When it finds itself pur- sued it may run in. one direction for awhile, but it soon doubles back, and more probably in an angular course, defying the wheelman. and continually keeping out of range of the pistol. ' Efforts have been made two or three times to run down the only antelope in central California, perhaps, but the ef- forts did not meet with success, because these animals never venture very far from the foothills of the coast range, and when pursued they run for rough ground. An antelope, after it has drunk its fill, could not outrun a bicycle ten miles on smooth ground. The animals are swift for a mile or two, but they cannot Ireep up their pace long at a time. Those in Fresno county have their home in the brush back of the . first range of foothills and seldom ven~ ture out upon the plains. An Alphabetical Name. Arthur Hepper, a laundryman of London, England, has a daughter who rejoices in the possession of twenty-six given names, one for every letter in the alphabet. This wonderful aggregation of praenomcns, which, taken together, make the longest.‘ ‘given name” (names) that has ever been bestowed upon any civilized person, is: Anna Bertha Ce- celia Diana Emily Fanny Gertrude .I-Iy- pathia Inez IJanc Kate Louise Maud Nora Ophcl'a Pearl Quince Rebecca Sarah Trix ' Unicc Venus Winifred cola ZeusHepper! ,A PRISONER'S LADDER. Used for Climbing Out and Back Vt’hen He Visited lfis Sweetheart. Warden Patten, of the Indiana prison south at Jeffersonvllle, has on exhibi- tion one of the most remarkable con— trivances of a prisoner that ever came into his collection. It is a ladder made of thousands of small pieces of- ' twine, threads, cor3ds and rope, such as a con- vict would secretly collect through years of effort. With the rope Thomas Shepherd used to climb a thirty-foot wall and get out of the penitentiary yard night after night to visit an old sweetheart. He never attempted to escape, and when his ladder was found one night he returned before his ab— sence had been discovered, rang the bell at the front gate, and surrendered himself. On his arm he carried a rub- ber coat, which had been used to con- ceal his striped shirt. He wore moc- casins over his shoes. . Shepherd told a straightforward story, so far as it went. He had made 'the ladder, he said, in order that he might visit a woman outside the prison. He had gone to her house only four times, he said. The other night, when he returned, he found his ladder gone from the wall, and at once he decided to give himself up. He would not tell the woman’s name, but the prison of- ficials think they have discovered her identity. She went from her home in Sullivan county, Ind., some years ago tolive in Jeffersonville, near her con- vict lover. - Shepherd said that he wove his lad- der at night, and that it took him months to finish it. It contained threads. strings and bits of cords of every size, length and color. They were woven, knotted and twisted skillfully. Shepherd was sent to prison to serve a life sentence in 1875. A new trial was secured two years later, and he‘ was recommitted on the same sentence on April 19, 1878. He has continually petitioned for executive clemency, and two years ago his sentence was com- muted to twenty years. He will be re- leased, consequently, on April 18, 1898. He was a country school-teacher. One night at an apple paring he had a quarrel with a man named Macey Engle over a girl. Engle had Shepherd arrested, and one night, before the case was tried, Englc was assassinated. Shepherd was convicted purely on cir- cumstantial evidence, and has always maintained his innocence. HE FOLLOWED FUNERALS. Louisville Horse That: Caused His Mis- tress Deep Mortification. “Some years ago,” said Alderman James C. Gilbert, of Louisville, to a re- porter for the Courier-Journal, “I had a tenant downtown who died, leaving a wife and helpless family. Their only property consisted of an old mare, and more to oblige them/than anything else I bought the horse. She was gentle and my wife radopted her for her own driving, .and was much pleased for awhile, as the old mare was so gentle that my wife could drive her about town herself. “It seemed, however, that the mare had once belonged to anzold lady over in New Albany who had a mania on the subject of funerals, and made a point never to miss one. The old mare’s principal occupation for years had been to follow funeral processions to the cemeteries. One day my wife was driv- ing down the street, when she suddenly encountered a negro funeral, follOwed by a number of societies, with all the paraphernalia of an imposing cortege. “The old mare recognized the proces- sion at a glance and calmly turned into the. line of the parade. In vain my wife tugged at the reins and tried to turn out. The old mare knew her business, and, with head hung down, solemnly followed close behind the mourners. Occasionally they would meet an acquaintance of ours, and they looked with surprise at the tribute which my wife was apparently paying to the deceased, until my wife was ’ frantic with mortification and anger. “At every crossing she would appeal to bystanders to stop the old mare, but they didn’t seem to understand, until at last they passed a policeman, who. in response to my wife’s tearful ap- peals, stopped the old mare and dragged her out of the .procession, much to her surprise and disgust. Of course, I had a good laugh over it, but it was no laughing matter with my wife, and I had no peace till I sold that old mare. and got her out of sight for good.” HER CLAIM TO DISTINCTION. Brightest Girl in College Tells of Her ,Subsequenz Experiences. She was the pride of the faculty and the pet of the class —— a girl who grap- pled with logarithms only to lay them low, and whose Latin and Greek were as perfect as could be desired, says the New York Sun. All sorts of brilliant things were expected of her after she left college. The president said that she had one of the finest minds the col- lege had ever had the privilege of cul- tivating. The literature professor prophesied that she would makea shin- ing place for herself in literature. The professor of mathematics shed tears at the thought of her absence from his class. As for the girls, her fellow students, they each and all regarded her as a sort of George Eliot and Maria Mitchell rolled into one. And, in spite of these many fond hopes and bright predictions, the girl, immediately after she was graduated, married. Ten years later'her class met for a reunion. The members made it a sort of experience meeting. Each arose and told what had happened during the interval since they had last met. One had won re- nown in music, another in philanthrop- ic fields. Another had written her heart out in verse, and a fourth had be- come a successful teacher. At last it was the turn of the girl with a mind. Everybody held her breath as she arose and began: “Girls, I, too, have not been idle. During all these years I havIa won a name like the rest of you. I am known in the city where I dwell as the woman who averages. nine cooks a month.” . ’ THE ', MUTUAL CLIFE INSURANCECO. ‘ OF NEW YORK, A RICHARD A. McCURDY President. = emen fer eYeai ingfleefitlfllfi. $221,213,721 33 194,347,157 58 $26,866,563 75 $48,597,430 51 $23,126,728 45 Assets, ‘ . . . Liabilities Surplus Total Income . . Total Paid Policy-holders in 1895, Insurance and Annuities in force, $899,074,453 78 Net gain in 1895 $61,647,645 36 NOTE-Insurance merely written, ls discarded from thi I - actually issued and Dald for in cash ls Included, 8 Statement as Wh°uy m‘s'ead‘"g' and °“IY Insurance I have carefully examined the foregoing Statement and find the same to be correct. . CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor. From the Surplus a dividend will be apportioned as usual, Report of the Examining Committee. offieeef the Mutual Life Insurance company of New York, February 11,1896. At a meeting of the Board of Trustees‘of this Company, held on the 18t h day of December last, theundersigned were appointed a Committee to examine the annual Statement for the year ending December 31st, 1895, and to verify the same by com- parison with the assets of the Company. I The Committee have carefully performed the duty assigned to them, and hereby certify that the Statement is in all particulars correct and that the assets specified therein are in possession of the Company. In making this certificate the Committee bear testimony to- the high character of the investments of the Company and express their approval of the system, Order and accuracy With which the accounts and vouchers have been kept, and the business in general transacted. H. 0. Von Post, Charles R. Henderson, James C. Holden, Robert Olyphant, Wm. P. Dixon, J. H. Herrick. Committee ROBERT A. GRANNIS, Vice-President. WALTER R. GILLETTE, General Manager. ISAAC F. LLOYD, Second Vice-President, HENRY E. DUNCAN. Jr., 001. Sécy. WILLIAM J. EASTON, Secretary, ALBERT KLAMROTH, Asst. Secy. FREDERIC CROMWELL, Treasurer. IOHN A. FONDA, Assistant Treasurer. JAMES TIMPSON, 2d Asst. Trees WILLIAM P. SANDS, Cashier EDWARD P- HOLDEN . Asst. Cashier . EMORY McCLINTOCK LL.D., F. I. A., Actuary. JOHN TATLOCK, .13., Asst. Actuary. WM. W. RICHARDS, Comptroller. ETCHARLESA. PRELLER, Auditor, HENRY S. BROWN, Asst. Comp. JOHN C. ELLIOTT, Superintendent of Domestic Agencies, EDWARD LYMAN SHORT, Gen. Solicitor. MEDICAL Drnuorons GIUSTAVUS S. WINSTON, M. D. ELIAS, J. MARSH, M. D. dons W. NICHOLS. New Haven, General Agt. for State of Connecticut. GRANVILLE M. WHITE. M. D. - Annmarie, ‘ " ' . .. , . ' Local Agent.
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