SOLD BY ALL DEALERS. g1Tfi'FRENCH ' PENAL‘;COLONY.‘WSL1 Terrible “Islands of Safety” to Which Hardened Criminals Are Sent. The “Islands of Safety” are three in number and lie a few degrees north of the equator, off the coast of French Guiana. They are covered with dense tropical forests. The climate is some- thing dreadful. For eight months of the year, from November to June, rain falls continuously, the annual average measuring 180 inches The mercury . never drops below 85 degrees Fahren- heit, and during the four dry months it mounts to 115 degrees. It is said that to stand bareheaded for a moment in the blazing sun is sudden death. 'Add to this foul-smelling vapors and poisonous exhalations, and you have truly a murderous climate. Here France has begun to send her anarchists and her traitors. Compared with the Isles de Salut, New Caledonia is a little paradise. The exiles are generally shipped in the Bay of Biscay. Dressed in convict’s garb they are taken on board trans- ports and confined in great iron cages on the spar deck, each cage holding 50 prisoners. Here they remain huddled together like slaves, during the month it usually takes to make the trip across. .When the transport reaches the Isle de Salut the prisoners are taken to u place known; as the camp. This is a clearing on which are a number of large huts, strongly constructed and iron- barred. Inside are swung rows 0f ham- mocks. The atmosphere in these huts is fetid, and stinging .insects and ver- min render any but the sleep of ex- haustion impossible. . On his arrival at the camp the exile‘s ,name is dr0pped and he becomes known only by a‘ number. Then his work is assigned him, and killing work it is. The newcomers are set to draining marshes and clearing land — a. task which in such a climate is well calcu- lated to “break their spirits,” the: avowed intention of their taskmasters. Clouds of stinging insects hover round their heads as they labor, nipping red ants swarm over the exposed port-ions of their bodies, the blazing- sun tor— ments them, noxious vapors choke them, deadly serpents terrify them, and in some cases wounds. Under the terrible strain some of them soon go mad, others com- mit suicide, while others, trying to es- cape, find death from the rifles of the guards. And what would escape from this camp of horrors mean? Ninety» nine times in the hundred it would mean death from starvation or fatigue in the forest, death from wild beasts, or death from the poisoned arrows of the natives, who are given a liberal re- ward for every escaped convict‘s body. -—Boston Transcript. MAUSOLEUM IN AN OAK. Recently Discovered in Germany in a Venerable Tree. One of the most curious mausoleums in the world was discovered the. other day in an orchard at the village of Noebdenitz, in SEIKO--Lil’c‘hblll‘g. A gi- gantic oak tree, which a storm had robbed of its crown, was up for public auction. Among the bidders happened to be Baron von Thummel, scion of a family of ancient lineage, that has given the world of literature one charm- ing poet and the Fatherland many di‘s- tinguished statesmen. The baron, who lives in a neighboring estate, had ridden to the auction place quite acci- dentally. Finally the tree was knocked down to him for 200 marks, Upon his arrival at the castle he told an old servant of his purchase, describing the tree and its situation. The old servant said he remembered attending thezfuner- al of a Baron Thummel 70 or 80 years ago, and that the body had been buried in a thousand-year-old oak, belonging to the parsonage. ~ Investigation clearly proved that the orchard had once been the property of the village church, and that at one side of the old oak was an iron shutter, rusty and time worn, that the people of the town had always supposed to have been placed there by some joker or mischievous boys. The iron shutter proved to be the gate to the mausoleum of Baron Hans Wilhelm von Thummel. at one time minister of state of Saxe- Altenburg, who died in 184, and wished to be buried “in the one-thousand-ycar old tree he loved so u ell.” In the hol- low of a tree Baron Hans caused to be built a scpulcher of solid- masonry, large enough to accommodate his cofiin. 'The cofiin was placed there, as the church records show, on March 3, 1824, and the opening was closed by an iron grate. In the course of time a. wall of wood grew over the opening, which had been enlarged to admit the cofiin and the workmen, and for many years it has been completely shut, thus removing the last vestige of the odd use to which the old tree has been put. The tree has still some life in it. The coffin in which Baron Hans reposes has on one side it; :22 :1 to the tree, the dead and inflict mortal . L r ww . 5W he live‘woou Joining together in eternal embrace—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. _ An Ustricli’s Appetite. V Broken down with consumption an ostrich recently died, and below is alist of what was found in his stomach when he was dissected by a taxidermist in this city. The bird’s menu consisted in part of : One wooden Clothespin, the bottoms of two beer bottles, a mouth harmonica, five inches long and two inches wide, ferrule of an umbrella with a piece of the stick in it about four inches long, metal skate key, brass door key five inches long, woman’s black horncomb, two pieces of coal, woman’s silk handkerchief, three stones about an inch thick, some cabbage, grass, let- tuce, celery and a quantity of sand. The bird will be mounted in a museum, and it has been proposed to preserve this collection of objects as an indication of the gastronomic prowess of the bird in life, in much the same way that brave warriors sometimes have cases contain- ing their trophies by the side of their tombs, or as the saloons of doughty champions of the Schuetzenfest are dec- orated with the prizes won atthe tar- gets—N. Y. World. & FROM AN OLD LETTER. Wheroin New York Society Is Criticised by a Philad‘elphian. It must have been a sad day for our great-grandmothers in Philadelphia when congress no longer assembled there,'and New York began to dispute the social prestige of the Quaker city. A celebrated Philadelphia belle of the day, Miss Franks, writes of avisit made in the rival city, and her quaintvde- scriptions of New York society were probably colored by jealousy for home supremacy. The letter, which is a possession of a Brooklyn woman, a descendant of the observing writer, says, among other things: "‘By the bye, few ladies here know how to entertain company in their own houses, unless they introduce the card table. Except the Van Homes, who are remarkable for their good sense and ease, I don’t know a woman or girl who can chat above half an hour, and that on the form of a cap, the color of a ribbon, or the set of a hoop, stay or jupon. I will do our ladies—that is, the Philadelphians—the justice to say that they have more cleverness in the turn of an eye than those of New York have in their whole composition. With what ease I have seen a. Chew, a Penn, an Oswald, an Allen and a thousand others entertain a large circle of both sexes, the conversation, Without the aid of cards, never' flagging or seeming in the least strained or stupid. Here—or, more properly speaking, in New York— you enter a room with a formal set courtesy, and after the howdo’s, things are finished; all’s a dead calm till the cards are introduced, when you see pleasure dancing in the eyes of all the matrons‘, and they seem to gain new life. The maidens, if they have favorite swains, frequently decline playing, for the pleasure of making love; for to all appearance it is the ladies, not the gem tlemen, who nowadays show a prefer- ence. It is here, I fancy, always leap year. For my part, who am quite used to quite another Style of behavior, I can- not help showing surprise—perhaps they call it ignorance—~when I see a lady single out her pet, and lean al- most into his arms, at an assembly or a playhouse (which I give my honor I have too often seen, both with the mar- ried and single) or hear one confess a partiality for a man, whom, perhaps, she has not seen three times. ‘Well, I de- clare, he is a delightful creature, and I could love him for my husband! ’ one ex— claims; or ‘I could marry such a gen- tleman!’ Indeed, gossip says that in the cases of most who have been mar- ried the first advances come from the lady’s side, or she got a male friend to introduce the intended victim and pass her off. This is really the case, and with me ladies thus lose half their charms. I suspect there would be more marriages were another mode adopted ——they have made the men so saucy that I believe the lowest ensign thinks he has but to ask, and have—thata red coat and smart epaulet is sufficient to secure a female heart.”—N. Y. Times. Japan’s‘Anciont Banking House. Commercial houses which have ex- isted for over 100 years are by no means common in Europe, and quite rare in this country. " It is curious to note that commercial houses a hundred or more years old are quite frequent in China 'and Japan, where a great many firms have for centuries been handed down from father to son, and remained in the family. The oldest existing business is probably a Japanese bank- ing house at Kobe, which has for more than 350 years been in the hands of one and the same family, the style of the firm not having changed once in this long period—Detroit Free Press. Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it.—Hazlitt. WHEN Rev. Dr. Henry M. 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My new line of Spring and Summer Suitings, which will be made up in the latest styles and at the lowest possible price consistent wilh good work. Call in and inspect them. F. KOCOUR, MERCHANT TAILOR, IlNorth Main St. South Norwalk. Raymond fl: Son. Successorsto George H. Raymond. Furniture Dealers and General Funeral ircctors. . i6 and 48 Main Street Norwalk ’Ct liceirlaace, Berkeley Place. Telephone No. 77‘; rustle. NEW, near. Much Energy. Saved, the Pitch Belat- ened and the Cost Reduced. NEW YORK, May 29. —- Nicola Tesla thinks he will soon be ready to describe thcpelectrio light he has perfected. He'Was asked to do so at the electrical show. but refusedbecause, though the apparatus is completed, the subject is not yet exhaust- ed, and his grasp of the details is not such as to warrant him to essay a full scientific statement of his discoveries. At least a. month or tw0 more will be necessary, Mr. Tesla says, to finish up his research in this direction. It is an economical device by which a high pitched, snow white light is got. by the ordinary method and expenditure of energy procurable over the street circuit. .No carbon is used, and the loss of force is NICOLA TESLA. reduced many times. 'Mr. Tesla declined to say how many. When asked if he could save 5 per cent, he laughed. “Much more than that,” be said. “Twenty times that would be nearer.” Considering that 5 per cent of the energy expended is a liberal and profitable estimate of the proportion converted into light by the best present methods, the industrial value of that Mr. Tesla believes he has perfected can readily be conceived. The general method was de- scribed first by Mr. Tesla. five years ago. It was to use yacuum tpbo 13 which the vibrations could be obtaine by a aratus near but. not necessarily in mégiliunical contact with the tube. The increased vi- brations attained produce the snow white light which is diffused steadily through- out a large room. It. is a mistake in the essential principle of the light, the maker declares, to say that the bulb contains a. mechanical vibration, such as a needle. Ether, or. as Mr. Tesla prefers to express it, electricity, is matter and a sufficient vibrator. - Exact figures as to the vibrations or as to the intensity Mr. Tesla said he would not give now. He could not do so with sufficient precision. It was plain that he thinks his light will replace the incan- descent lamp now in use. but he would not say so for reasons which he stated. The Usual News From Denvorr DENVER, May 22.-C. H. Dow, president of the Commercial National bank, who failed in the pdnic of 1893, has been ar- rested here on indictments charging hiln with misappropriation of funds of the bank and making false reports to the gov- ernment. He was released under $6,000 bail. Sibley R. McClurkin, paying teller ot the bank, indicted with Dow, has been arrested at Colorado Springs. Big Street Railway Company. 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