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THE WEALTH OF NATIONS.
Proportions Coming to Each Inhabitant ii
an Equal Division Were Made.
There is a very old story, which
sober‘minded statisticians reject as er-
roneous and apocryphal, that tells how
a very needy man in the city of Paris
obtained an audience with the head of
the banking house of Rothschild. To
this financial magnate the needy man
recited his distress, and _ argued that
there should be an equal division of all
property, doing away with the existing
disparities, which, he alleged, were un-
just. M. Rothschild, so, the story goes,
took from his desk apiece of paper and
figured upon it the total wealth of
France. Then he divided the total by
36,000,000, the population at that time,
the result being the per capita share of
the wealth to which his visitor Would
have been entitled. Then M. Roths-
child redivided that total by the popu-
lation of the country, and handing his
visitor a one franc piece, twenty cents,
said: , .
a. “My friend, here is your share of
Iwould owe you on the redivision of
the property of the country. Collect
the balance from others.”
It is, of course, unreasonable to base
any plan of division on the total num-
ber of inhabitants, for a very large
number of these are infants below the
age of five years, and a still larger
number are male minors between five
and twenty-one, and female minors be-
tween five and eighteen. But even on
the basis of the total inhabitants of the
United States, a division of its wealth
would yield more than $1,000. There
were by the last Federal census 17,000,-
000 male adults in the United States,
and a division of the wealth of the coun-
try among them would give $5,000
apiece as the share of each. The word
“wealth” has a somewhat elastic mean-
ing when applied as a designation of
property, but among the statisticians it
covers first, and chief of all, land, next
houses, then the contents of houses, and
in the order of importance cattle. money
metal, railways, merchandise, ships and
sundries. On the basis Of all these the
average wealth to each inhabitant in
the following countries is in excess of
$1,000 per person: TheUnited States,
England, France, Denmark, Holland
and Australia. Between the $750 and
$1,000 limit are Switzerland, Belgium,
Canada. Below that are Germany,
Spain, Italy and Sweden. In Russia
the average is $300, and in no country
from which authentic statistics are at
tainable is the amount of wealth less.-
, On the basis of the actual money in
circulation amOng the inhabitants, irre-
spective of such forms of invested
wealth as houses, land, ships and mer-
chandise, France is the wealthiest coun-
try, with an average of $60 to each
inhabitant, the largest proportion of
which is in gold com. The average in
the United States is $35, in Holland $40,
in Great Britain $22.50, in Spain $22.25,
in Italy $15, in Belgium $30. in Canada
$10, in Russia $10, in India 85, in Japan
$7.50, and in China $52. A division of
the wealth of any country on an exact
and indiscriminating basis among its
inhabitants is, of course, chimerical,
buta consideration of the results of
such division gives a very clear indica-
tion of the relation which the wealth of
one country bears to the wealth of
another. The growth of material
wealth is more rapid in the United
States than in any other country, but
the growth of population keeps on, too.
Going to Church.
Churchgoing implies church support,
the maintenance of public worship, a
periodical assembling of men, women
and children in places where subjects of
eternal interest are considered anddis-
cussed. It is not easy to estimate the
benefit arising from a departure once in
seven days from the routine of business
or occupation pursued during the rest
of the week. The Sabbath services af—
ford an excellent opportunity to the
individual, perplexed With secular
cares. weary with the tasks imposed by
necessity and seeking a foil for the
sharp edged blade of worldly anxiety,
temporarily to divert his mind from all
that is harassing by joining with his
friends and neighbors in the worship of
the.source of truth and goodness. There
is something in the act alone of sitting
with those whom one knows and loves
best, where words are spoken which
suggest a higher and better life and ex-
hortation is made to live in accordance
with the principles of righteousness,
where sacred music fills the soul with a
melody to which it is on ordinary days
a stranger, to breathe the atmosphere of
an interest which will remain after all
things earthly have become a memory.
Can it be denied that the effect on one,
apart from strictly religious considera:
tions, is elevating?
Advice to Hotel Guests.
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1N FAIR BERMUDA.
Famous Alike for Its Onions and Easter
Lilies.
Everything is fashioned on a small
scale in Bermuda. There are only
about twenty square miles in the little
toy islands altogether. The roads are
from ten to twenty feet wide, instead of
from sixty to one hundred; the fields ‘
cover from half an acre to five acres, in-
stead of ten times that area; and even a
mountain covered with cedar forest, or
what looks like one, proves to be only
fifteen or twenty acres, with a twenty
foot hump in the middle. But hidden
away in the fertile valleys are tiny
patches of onions, Easter lilies and
potatoes, which products freight two
steamships a week during the season.
There are other things, of course—sago.
bananas, pawpaws, lettuce, plums, gal“
den flowers—but the lily, the onion and
the potato are the chief products of the
place. I have seen a little patch of half
an acre from which eight hundred
boxes of lily buds were shipped in
spring, to be unpacked in New York
and surprised into opening by hot wa-
ter; and a beautiful sight the field was
still, with the comparatively few lilies
that had been left to bloom; for each
stalk bears many buds, and the flowers
keep on blooming long after Easter. As
for onions, each day in the season the
farmers’ helpers go through the rows
pulling those which have reached stand-
ard size and leaving the rest to grow.
F‘s the season lasts a long time. Visit-
ors never tire of watching the onion
boxes down under the big open dock
sheds. They are brought down in the
cool of the evening mainly, and are pro-
tected from the sun by awnings. Like
little ants the donkeys come and go.
and presently there rise great heaps of
two or three thousand tons of boxed
onions. The same ship which carries
the onions brings back material for the
boxes—square boards for the ends, nar-
row slats for the sides. Bermuda cedar
is too precious to be sawed up for onion
boxes. The price of onions is fixed by
.the Bermuda Exchange, and their qual-
ity is strictly looked after. The Ex-
change can deal in other things than
onions. There is no reason why it
shouldn’t supply the frozen North in
early spring with lettuce and other
garden “sass.” If to these oranges and
figs and lemons and other fruits are not
added, it is only because the Bermudas
have hitherto been lacking in push. It
is natural that this should be so, in a
land blessed possibly beyond all others
by productive soil and tolerant climate.
A climate where the cedar and the palm
grow next door neighbors in a hedge-
row, and where golden rod and snow-
drops blossom at the same time, a cli-
mate without either frost in winter or
sunstroke in summer, enables its pos-
sessors to get along without much ex-
ertion, and they are not disinclined tr.
enjoy their privileges.
The Largest Newspaper.
The largest newspaper ever published
in this or {any other country was The
Illuminated Quadruple Constellation,
which was issued in New York Sity on
July 4, 1859. It was a 28,000 edition,
and was sold at 50 cents per copy. The
size of the page of this sheet was 70 by
100 inches, or almost 49 square feet.
It was an eight page paper. 13 columns
to the page, or a total of 104 columns,
each 48 inches in length. It was illus-
trated with good portraits of President
Buchanan, Edward Everett, Henry
Ward Beecher, N. P. Banks, E. H.
Chapin, Horace Greeley, Elizabeth Bar-
rett Browning. Alexander von Hum«
boldt, James G. Bennett, and several
others. The paper contained 36 differ-
ent poems entire, one of them having
as many as 64 eight line verses; among
other articles of special note was the
celebrated “Moon Hoax,” taken from a
copy of the New York Sun, published
in 1835. It required the work of 40 per-
sons ten hours per day for eight weeks
to “get Out” this mammoth paper.—
Newspaperdom.
The Red Cedar.
The red cedar, which is not a cedar
at all in the botanical meaning of the
word, but a juniper. is one of the com-
monest and most widely distributed
trees of North America. It is equally
at home on the dry gravel hills of New
Brunswick and New England, and on
the northern shores of Georgian Bay,
'11 the fertile valleys of Pennsylvania,
on the limestone hills of eastern Ken-
tucky and Tennessee, where it forms
with stunted, shrubby growth, great
forests or “cedar brakes”; in the
swamps of the Florida peninsula, and
on the rich bottom lands of the Red
THEODORE PARKER ON ll'lARmALiE.
- Some Conclusions Arrived at by Looking
Backward.
Men and women, and especial}? young
people, do not know that it takes years
to marry completely two hearts. even
of the most loving and well sorted. But
nature allows no sudden change. We
slope very gradually from the cradle to
the summit of life. Marriage is grad-
ual, a. fraction of us at a time. A hap-
py wedlock is a. long falling in love. I
know young persons think love only be—
longs to brown hair, and plump, round,
crimson cheeks. So it does from its be-
ginning, just as Mt. Washingtbn begins
at the station. But the golden marriage
is a part of love which the bridal day
knows nothing of. Youth is the tassel
end silken flower of love; age is the full
corn, ripe, and solid in the ear. Beaut-
iful is the morning of love, with its
prophetic crimson, violet, purple, and
with its hopes of days that are to come.
Beautiful also is the evening of love,
with its glad remembrances, and its
rainbow side turned toward heaven as
well as earth. Young people marry
their opposites in temper and general
character, and such a marriage is com-
monly called a good match. They do it
instinctively. The young ‘man does not
say “My black eyes require to be wed
with blue, and my over-vehemence re
quires to be a little modified with
somewhat of dullness and reserve.”
When opposites come together to be
wed, they do not know it, but each
thinks the other just like himself. Old
people never marry their opposites;
they marry their similars, and from
calculation. Each of these two at-
rangements is very ,proper. In their
long journey these young opposites will
fall out of the way a great many times,
and both get away from the road; but
each will charm the other back again,
and by and by they will be agreed as to
the place they will go to, and the road
they will go by, and become reconciled.
The man will be nobler and larger for
being associated with so much human-
ity unlike himself; and she will be a
side her that seeks to correct her defi-
ciencies and supply her with what she
lacks, if the diversity is not too great.
and their be a real piety and love in
their hearts to begin with. The old
bridegroom having a much shorter
journey to make, must associate him-
self with one like himself. A per-
fect and complete marriage is perhaps
as rare as personal beauty. A real
happy marriage of love and judgment.
between a noble man and woman, is one
of the things so very handsome that if
the sun were, as the Greek poets fabled,
a god, he might stop the world in order
to feast his eyes with such a spectacle.
True to the Scent.
Crit Robinson, the wing shot, has the
best trained hunting dog on the Coast,
a. black pointer. At the pigeon shoots,
where other dogs go crazy at the crack-
ing of the guns and the dropping of
birds, Robinson’s dog lies in the shade
asleep. A whistle and the dog is on his
feet pointing with every miracle tense
and every nerve strained. At a signal
the dog retrieves and in another minute
is as sound asleep again as if nothing
happened. No matter where the dog is
he will drop at a blast from Robinson’s
whistle and lie thereé? unmovable for
hours at a time.
Robinson tells a good story that illus-
trates the true scent of the dog. He
came down out of the Mills Building
with an attorney one day, when the at
lorney found he had forgotten his gloves
and proposed to return for them.
“No, I‘ll send the dog,” said Robin-
1011.
“But how will he know my gloves?”
isked the doubtful attorney.
"Just let him smell of your hand.”
The dog was given the scent and des
patched up the stairs. In a few minutes
he returned with a ribbon the attorney’s
typewriter had been wearing around
Jer waist.——San Francisco Post.
His Theory.
Lowfer—I notice you have put an or-
chestra in your restaurant. Did you do
it on the theory that music aids diges-
tion? .
Mr. Eatonhous—No. The music-sets
the boarders’ teeth on edge, and they
bite the toughest steak with the great-
est ease.-—Cincinnati Enquirer.
Fluorscopic Possibilities.
Miss Anode—Why did she break the
engagement?
Miss Cathode—I believe she saw
something in him she didn’t like.—
River‘ and its tributaries, where it
grows to the greatest size. Less fini-
men in the West than‘inxfihehmgegy
red cedar is ”REESE das much at home
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Babs—Why, he doesn’t drink!
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Interment-M6“ UP-
,gniceve A Delicate Reminder.
ni ChamefiiHow do you account for this
unit mwfink‘lng so?
Tailor—Too much due on
Indianapolis J ournal.‘
euodqelei II1———“—'——
Always Liked It.
and eoiho as _ , ,
Fpgtlites—I see the Barnstorm is
33%??? fighe Mohawk next week in
fire L O ‘r
mm. Nh'ftall—I always liked that
play. What part does he take?——Judge.
Fla aid we“! the Beauty Race. ,
”0 SEQ—ISBVTHSS Decollette won a hus-
«Hacienda?
TsaMeefi won by a neck.-—B~uifalo
«Timesen oi :1 '
it, I ’spect.
10 Sittl‘t‘tmws of the mind are like
those of'the body. In the morning of
lifg they 11 ,lie behind us; at noon we
'1 ’ beggar under our feet; and in
they stretch long, broad
bowie
Iadfiflmg before us. .
hill .bereb'ow
Ifli s,,.that have been used for
flit dapever be put into ho fwuer
W13: 1 e “ave first been tins in acid
‘ . ghost drives the milk in and
'Oflfdfla'hl ufl'y appearance to
the glass
whinh cannot, be removed. . .
nobler woman for having manhood be- .
_ lBeware of Olntments for Caartrh
Your Boy Wont Live a Month.
So Mr. Gilmau Brown, of 34 Mill St.,
South Gardurr, Mass, was’ told by the
doctors. His son had Lung trouble, fol-
lowing Typhoid Malaria, und he spent
three hundred and seventy-five dollars
with doctors, who finally gave him up,
saying: “Your boy wont live a month.”
He tried Dr. King’s New Discovery and
a few bottles restored him to health and
enabled him to go to work a perfectly
well man . He says he or. es his present
good health to the use of Dr. King‘s New
Discovery, and kn0ws it to be the best
in the world for Lung trouble. Trial
bottles free at E. P. WEED'S drug store,
Norwalk, and MONROE’S, l~ ew Canaan.
Miss Jessie Hart 1 f EDBIBWOULI, N. J.,
is a guest of Mrs. Helena Hill of this
city.
Free 1’11 :9.
' Sen-.1 your address to H. E. Buckleu &
Co., Chicago, and get a free sample box
of Dr. King’s New Life Pills.
will convince you of their merits. These
pills are easy in action and are particu-
larly effective in the cure of Constipation
and Sick Headache. For Malaria and
Liver troubles they have been proved in-
valuable. They are guaranteed to be
perfectly free from every deleterious
substance and to be purely vegetoble.
They do not weaken by their action, but
by giving tone to stomach and bowels
greatly invigorate the system. Regular
size 25¢. per box. Sold by E. P. WEED’S
drug store, Norwaik, and MONROE‘S, New
Canaan.
Mrs. Sterling Wilson is having an
addition put on her house on Orchard
street.
, Relief in Sign Hours.
Distressing Kidney and Bladder dis-
eases relieved iu siz hours by the “New
GREAT SOUTH AMERICAN KIDNEY
CURE.” This new remedy is a great sur-
prise on account of its exceeding pfOnrpt,
ness in relieving pain in the bladder
kidneys, back and every part of the urin-
ary passages in male or female. It re-
lieves retention of water and pain in pass-
ing it almost immediately. If you want
quick relief and cure this is your remedy.
Sold by E. P. \Veed, Druggist. Norwalk,
Conn.
The seventy foot telephone pole in
front of the GAZETTE building is to be
cut down.
Mother’s Delight With Hand’s Colic Cure
HAVEREILL, Mass, 11-30-’95.-—Hand
Medicine Co.—-“I “1511 to say that I pro-
cured a sample bottle of Dr. Hand’s Colic
Cure and am delighted with it. My baby
is new four months old. and has suffered
every day of her short life with col-
ic. I have tried almost everthing ever
heard of, but can truthfully say that any-
thing I have tried cannot compare with
Dr. Hand‘s Colic Cure. Yours respect-
fully, Mrs. G. G. Miller, 38 Arch St.”
Sold by all druggisis, 250.
'l he case of the State vs. E. Church
was yesterday afternoon continued for
one week. __
Try Alien-’5 Foot-Ease.
A powder to be shaken into the shoes.
At this season of the year your feet feel
swollen and hot, and get tired easily. If
you have aching feet, new shoes or tight
shoes, try Allen‘s Foot-Ease. It cools
the feet and makes walking easy. Cures
and prevents swollen and. sweating feet,
blisters and callous spots, Relieves corns
andbunious of all pain and gives rest and
comfort. Try it to-day. Sold by all
druggisls and shoe stores for 25c. Sent
by mail for 25¢ in stamps. Address,
Allen S. Olmstead, Le Roy, N. Y
Van Renssalaer Silvernail died at his
home in Danbury Tuesday night.
Widow and ten children survive him.
Shake Into Iour Shoes
Allen‘s Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet.
It cures painful swellings of the joints
and instantly takes the sting out of come
and bunions. It’s the greatest comfort
discovery of the age. Allen’s Foot-Ease
makes tight-fitting or new shees feel
eaSy, It is a certain cure for sweating,
callous and hot, tired, aching feet. Try
it today. Sold by all drnggists and shoe
stores, 25c. Trial package free. Ad-
dress, Allen S. Olmstead Le Roy, N. Y.
Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Mossman, of
Meriden,who have been visiting friends
in this city returned home yesterday.
Mother-ts Find Nothing to Equal Dr. Hand .9
Colic Cure.
WATERBURY Conn , 4-2-’96—Hand
Medicine Coz—Dear Sirsz—“I am using
Dr. Hand’s Cough and Croup Medicine
and Colic Cure for my children and find
nothing to equal them, They work
like magic. I would not be without
them in my house. The little ones love
Dr. Hand’s Colic Cure and cry for it ; it
relieves them almost instantly. Mrs.
Frank Smith, 22 Wood St. At all drug-
gists, 25.
The Emerald beat the Colonic. in the
run of the New York Yacht club fleet
from New London to Newport, yester-
day.
Bucxlln’s Arnica Salve.
The Best Salvein the world fox-1.3111;-
Bruiees, Sores, Ulcers. Salt Rheum,
Fever Sores, Tetter, Chepped {lands
Chilblaius, Corns and all Skin Eran.
lions, andpositivelycnres Piles. or no
Pay required. It is guaranteed to give
perfectsatisfaotion,or money refunded
Prireafi cents per box. For Sale by
E-P. Weed, Norwalk and Monroe, New
Canaan.
China is going to establish an un-
perial bank under the control of the
revenue board and With a capital of10,-
000,000 taelr.
STATE OF OHIO, CITY or TOLEDO, 1
LUCAS COUNTY J
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he
is the senior partner of the firm of F. J.
Cheney & Co., doing business in the
City of Toledo, County and State afore-
said, and thatsaid firm will pay the sum
of ONE HUNDRED ‘ DOLLARS for
each and every case of Catarrh that can-
not be cured by the use of HALL’S CA
TARRH CURE.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in
my presence, this 6th day of December,
A. D. 1886.
MA
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Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally
and acts on the blood and mucous sur-'
"faces of the system. Send for testimon-
ials, free. ‘ ' ' - .
CHENEY & Co., Toledo, 0.
F. J.
@Sold by'DruggiSts, 75c.
A. W. GLEASON,
Notary Public
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