0.
man 8:. Pinney.
orders for Job Printing, as well as
Homer M. Byinzton, Manager.
Water at the Knob 71°.
The annual ball of the Riverside
Yacht club will take place Friday even-
ing, Aug. 28.
Quite a numberof the members of the
Norwalk Yacht club will spend Srtur-
day night at the Yacht club.
Arion Singing Society held their reg-
ular monthly business meeting in their
hall on Madison street last night.
Miss Mary Kirby Jennings, of West
street, is visiting in East Hampton.
She expects to remain there for several
weeks.
Eureka. Lodge, Daughters of Re
bekah, will hold their regular meeting
this evening in their rooms on Wash
ington street. -
Quite a large number of young peo—
ple from this city will attend a dance
in the Norwalk Lawn Tennis club’s
Casino this evening. --
Willie Masterson and Miss Lulu
Rodgers, of Spring street, are at Dr.
Peck’s, East Norwalk, for a week’s out-
ing.—Danbury News.
There will be a city meeting in Arion
Hall at eight o’clock this evening. As
important business is to be transacted
there will no doubt be a large attend-
ance.
Mrs. Lyman Clock and daughter
Miss Grace Bel Clock, of Binghampton
N. Y., are visiting with Mr. and Mrs.
M. H. Tolles at their roomy cottage on
East avenue.
A meeting of the Governing Board
of the Norwalk Yacht club was held at
the residence of vice-commodore Chas-
mar last evening. Routine business
only was transacted.
* Commodore Sanford has offered a
special prize for a race between the cat
boats owned by the members of the
N orwalk Yacht club. The race is sched-
uled to take place on Saturday August 15.
Irving Chambers appeared before
Judge Hubbell this morning charged
with vagrancy. As the Judge could
find no case against him he was set.-
tenced to 10 days in jail, but the sen-
tence'was suspended.
The members of the Indian Harbor
Yacht club will give a clambake on the
grounds at Rocky Neck to-morrow af-
ternoon, Yachtsmen of all the Sound
clubs have received invitations to be
present. .
Belle Sweeney, who recently abused
Mrs. Harris, of the Washington street
bridge was arrested on the charge of
breach of the peace. This morning In
the Town Court Judge Hubbell fined
her $5 and costs. She paid up and was
discharged. ‘
Ben. F. Andrews accompanied by his
father, Mr. B. M. Andrews, and Joseph
Thomas, sailed this morning in Ben’s
yacht Fannie, for Smithtown, L. I.
They will spend the night there and re-
turn to-morrow.
William Brown, who was arrested
night before last for riding a bicycle‘
after dark, appeared before Judge
Hubbell in the Town Court this morn-
ing. The Judge found him guilty and
fined him $1. He paid up and was dis-
charged.
The Haymakers Loft had a grand
time last night. After the work of in-
stalling had been preformed in the wig-
Wam the merry party adjourned to Ro-
tOn Point, where they enjoyed a shore
dinner. Charles Stowe acted as Master
of Ceremonies and all of the prominent
members made short addresses.
John Wilson, a brakeman on ,the
Consolidated railroad, was taken to the
New Haven hospital early last evening
from the Union depot. Wilson had
been struck by a low hanging wire and
was knocked off his train into the ditch
along the track. When he was picked
' up it was found that his right leg was
broken. Wilson lives in Torrington.
As the Tramway car conveying the
Red Men to the seashore last night
passed down South Main street, Rdell
caniles were discharged from the car
and red fire burned. About half an-
hour after the car had passed, or at. 9:50
o’clock, the awning over a front window
of the Lounsbury & Mathewson shoe
factory blazed up and an alarm of fire
was sent in from Box 3. The depart-
ment responded and the flames were
extinguished with a fire extinguisher
but not before the awning had been
completely consumed.
The w izard’i speech.
Mr. Edison has only once tried to
make a speech. It was before a girl’s
seminary, where he agreed to lecture
on electricity. He had engaged a. friend
named Adams to operate the apparatus
while he talked; but when the Wizard
arose before his audience, he felt so
dazed that he simply said:
“Ladies, Mr. Adams will new address
you on electricity, and I will demon.
strate what he has to say with the ap-
paratus.”—San Francisco Argonaut.
Where the Sting Came In:
“Come, old man," raid the kind.
friend, “cheer up. There are others."
“I don’t mind her breaking the en-
gagement so very.much,” said the del-
spondent young man.‘ “But to think
that I have got to go on paying the
instalments on the ring for a year to
come yet. That is what jars me.”-In-
dianapolis J ou'rnal. »
. gnaw..-
-’-Advertisa in the Guerra;
' .
Items of. News. can be left with
I
"THE SAUCY SPARROWSc
A Pair Have Built Their Nest in a Very
Noisy Place.
It’s a noisy place for a. home, but a
pair of busy English sparrows have
chosen it. Just where the alley “L”
Railroad crosses a street, on the outer
' edge of one of the big iron girders, the
nest is built. It is made of straws in-
terwoven with horsehairs and twigs.
and it has [the usual fluffy appearance
of a sparrow'l nest. Every few minutes
all day long the trains roar past on the
track above, .jarring the structure, but
Mrs. Sparrow doesn’t seem to mind it a
bit. She has already laid part of her
eggs, and Mr. Sparrow often sits on
the iron rail near her side, and tells all
his friends about it in the loudest of
chirps.
Perhaps this sparrow family enjoys
being rocked to sleep by the jarring of
the trains, and perhaps the corner of
the iron girder is regarded as a particu-
larly safe place for a. home, because no
boy can get to it without a good deal of
dangerous climbing. The workmen on
the "L” road rather like to see the
birds about. They say that where the
birds build—and there is more than one
nest on the iron structure—accidents
will not occur.—'—Chicago Record.
WH‘IST PLAYING IN AMERICA.
“Cavendish” Surprised by the Skill which
is Widespread in This Country.
Henry Jones, the Englishman who is
known to whist players all over the
world as the court of last resort under
the name of Cavendish,'says that whist
is more studied here, and the general
run of players are more proficient than
in .England. “On my first visit,” he
says, “I met players as they came. and
I will confess that on more than one 0c
casion I suspected that the best man
who could be found had been selected
to meet me. I was Iii’uch astonished to
learn that this was not, the case, be-
causefit is not exceptional to meet at a
card table in our English clubs four
good players—men who understand
American leads or any of the modern
refinements of the game. The average
Englishman is content to play his game
as it is handed down to him by his
grandfather, while the American opens
his mind at the top, and is content with
nothing which his observation does not
commend to him as being the best; he
is always seeking to improve.”
This high praise of American players
from a recognized authority probably
will surprise many people who have
taken it for granted that England was
the home of scientific whist. Whist has
been developed here by American meth-
ods, and one of the players who are here
to attend the congress is a woman who
supports herself by teaching scientific
whist to classes in cities. '
Christian Science Forbids.
Miss Chudoba, of Grammar School
N o. 62, New York, is a Christian scien-
tist, and has declared that her religious
beliefs will not admit of her teaching
little children how alcohol, as embodied
in intoxicating liquors, is ruinous both
to body and mind. The fact that such
teaching has been made compulsory by
the State law does not disturb Miss
Chudoba’s resolution. She contends
that any such teaching is directly op-
posed to her religion, and that after
having obeyed her orders and taught
little children about the devastating ef-
fects of strong drink, she has come to
the conclusion that such teaching has a
badeifect on her pupils, and that they
come to school sufiering from all sorts
of imaginary pains and aches. Miss
Chudoba believes that a child will ac-
quire a taste for alcohol from merely
reading about it, and she does not pro-
pose to lead children to drunkards'
graves.
STREET CARS IN NAPLES.
AflBiot Produced by the Introduction of
Electric Propulsion.
“I was in Naples last summer when
the first electric car was put in Opera-
tlon, and was stoned by the populace,”
said Dr. 0. W. Terry, of Sacramento.
Cal. D.. Terry has been in Europe for
two years, mostly in Germany, pursu-
ing a. surgical course, and is now going
home to practice his profession.
“The new style of street cars.” he
continued, “gave offense to the N eapol-
itans, simply because they were an in-
novation. The people over there resent
everything that is new, regardless of
merit. Naples is one of the toughest
places in Christendom, anyway. It is a
rare thing in that town to meet with
any one who seems to recognize the
bath as an institution of civilization.
Men, women and children revel in dirt,
particularly the latter. Boys and girls
of ten years are bften seen in public
without a single garment to hide their
nudity. The ordinary refreshments of
life, as practiced in America, are un-
known there. The public conveyances
are crowded with passengers so redo-
! lent of garlic, that it is often preferable
to get out and walk. Doubtless, every-
body eats garlic in order to keep from
being overcome with its odoriferous
scent, as a. matter of protection. \
“But worst of all in Italy is the terri-
ble drain of taxation and corruption on
the part of men in high official position.
The railroads, for instance, which
ought to bring in large revenues to the
Government, are a source of expense.
The explanation is that everybody con-
nected with their operation is engaged
in stealing. The charge is made openly
and I never once heard it disputed.
A Schooner Stranded.
HIGHLAND LIGHT, Mass, Aug. 7.—-The
schooner Welcome R. Beebe, from Iceboro,
Me, for Richmond, with 400 tons of ice,
ran ashore, filled with water and at high
tide the water covered the decks. The
“crew of six men were taken off.
.,
, . :wEEKLY-aNoewanK'
SOUTH NORWALK- "
The South No'rwaIK Office of the Gazette Is at the store of New- '
No. 12 ,No‘rth Main Street, where Advert:sements and
NO'THEOSOPI-IY FOR HER-
Sfie Preferred Soap to all Soul, and Didn’t
' Need a Mahatma.
She was an exceedingly practical wo-
man and had listened to the interesting
dissertation upon politics, religion, and
theOSOphy by her cultured caller for
half an hour.
“I can’t {quite (understand it, but I
suppose it is all right,” she said. “I’m
more -worried about that new gas
stove.” '
“The system of theosophy,” contin-
ued the enthusiast, “presupposes the
existence of the absolute.”
“N ow, if I could only apply the sys-
tem to keeping bugs out of the house—
absolutely, you know, I would join any-
thing 1”
“Man, according to theosophy, is
endowed with seven difierent natures,
and———”
"That’s about right, anyhow. I can
count six of them in my husband. One
is to throw things down on the floor for
you to pick up; another to invariably
forget to mail a letter to his wife’s
mother, and another to attribute his
headache to overwork, when he knows
he’s just been trying to drink Broadway
dry the night before. That is three. I
could name half a dozen more natures
and not half try.”
“It is in Nirvana that man loses these
earthly natures and merges into the
all- soul as a drop unites with the
ocean.”
“I don’t believe itl All of these
nerve tonics just set you up awhile, and
then leave you worse than ever. As for
morphine and opium and all those
drugs that merge you into the all-
soul—-—”
“The Mahatma—"
“N ow, for goodness sake, tell me
what a Mahatma is! I’ve seen his name
in the papers very often, and——” '
“A Mahatma is one who has achieved
Nirvana, but resolutely refuses to enter
it on account of his great love for man-
kind.”
“He’d rather be here on earth, eh?
and have fun with us than to be an all-
soul wandering around space? Well,
that’s like the rest of us. What kind
of kitchen soap do you use?"
“Soap! Good heavens, what a carnal
thing you are l”
The visitor shook out her dress with
a frown.
“That’s right, I guess,” responded the
practical woman—“I’m on earth, and
while I’m on earth I’m going to wrestle
with earthly things. I’d rather be a
good cook than a mahatma, any day.
Good-by, dear! Call again—but re-
member, we wash Thursdays.”
THE DOWNFALL OF SHANTYTOWN.
Squatters of Upper New York Fast Losing
Their Possessions.
About the last of Shantytown has de-
parted from Manhattan Island, and
persons in search of the aborigines of
the American metropolis will have to
seek them henceforth far up in the An
nexed District, in Blissville, or at some
other equally remote corner of the
Greater N ew York. A small scattered
settlement of this once powerful tribe
remains over on the west side, cluster-
ing about the Boulevard, but the dozen
wigwams banished by the Board of
Health from the Bad Lands, between
97th and 100th streets, just east of the
Park, were the most considerable vil-
lage of the fierce and untame’d squatters
that remained on the island since their
defeat and banishment by the police
from the present site of the 7th Regi
ment Armory.
So it used to be, in the days when
their council lodge, the shanty saloon
on Fifth avenue, was the scene of many
and notable powwows. but the persist-
ent hostility of the tribe of the Cops
had discouraged many, and not over
two dozen wigwams remained when by
the treaty of the Criminal Court House
their possessors were finally made to
surrender them and the reservation,
and to move out. Five or six who con-
sented to abandon the glorious tradi-
tions of the past and to connect abject-
ly with the sewer, were allowed to stay.
But these are henceforth mere depend-
ents. They have lost caste, and their
names will not be remembered at the
council fire. They are already for
gotten.
THE BIBLE.
The Cheapest Book with the Largest
‘ Circulation.
The past 90 years have seen the dis-
tribution of more than 250,000,000 vol-
umes of the Bible, printed in about 350
different languages and dialects. Of
course, no one need be reminded that no
other book ever had in the history of the
world a tithe of this circulation. Yet
the people who are devoting their labor
or their money to the spread of the Gos-
pel realize thoroughly that their work
can be said to be only fairly begun. At
the rate it has gone on since its incep-
tion, in 1804, it will take many centu-
ries more to furnish the entire race with
the Bible. For, it must be remem-
bered, books are perishable, and the
race is increasing in numbers. .
Would Smile All Over.
Wallace—For the life of me, I have
never been able to laugh at one of these
mother -in -law jokes yet. ‘
Ferry—If you had a mother-in-law
worth $85,000, as mine is, you would
laugh at every joke she made—Cincin-
nati Enquirer.
The man who cannot: control his
temper is not fit to drive a good horse.
He ought always to use a mule team—_
two of a. kind, as it were. “saw
Advertise in the. Gazma.
SELECTING A PROFESSION.
The . Scheme Adopted by a Scotchman
to Test His Son.
A Scotchman who wanted to learn
what profession he would have his son
enter put him into a room with a theo-
logical work, an apple and a sixpenny
piece. If he found him, when he re-
turned, reading the book, he intended
to make a clergyman of him; if eating
the apple, a. farmer, and if interested in
the money, a. banker.
When he did return he found the boy
sitting on the book, with the Sixpence in
his pocket and the apple almost de-
voured.
“That settles it,” said the keen
Scotchman, “the lads a born lawyer, I
can easily see.”
The Pleasures of Romance. -
Life would be nothing without its
illusions. Destroy the halo of senti-
ment and happiness ceases to exist.
Were there more of romance in the
make-up of the average man, the world
would be better and nobler, for when
defined, romance is that exquisite poet-
ry that imparts to everyday happenings
something above the ordinary, some-
thing that is beautiful in the truest
sense of that word. Mawkish senti-
mentality, however, arouses only con-
tempt and makes its possessor appear
feeble of mind and dwarfed in the best
of worldly knovfledge. Therefore many
persons, fearing to be regarded as weak
and silly. endeavor to repress their real
feelings and build up about themselves
a wall of reserve, endeavoring to stifle
all emotion, lest the world should think
them weakly sentimental. They are
ashamed to showthat they do feel, and
little by little close their hearts to the
atmosphere of romance hovering over
even the most prosaic duties of life and
become callous and indifierent. It need
not be an ideal world, this one where
romance and sympathy grow to the
fullest fruition. Look at life in its long
perspective, watching the variety of its
light and shade, but keep up the enthu-
siasm of youth, do not let the poetry
die out of your soul, and wherever
rugged reality can be turned into ten-
der romance, do so, for life in this way
is made better apd higher, and far more
worth the living. -
N —""—‘ A...— —
Great Waves.
A traveler who crossed the Atlantic
in company with an army officer says
that in spite of his sympathy for his
companion’s sufiering from the pangs of
seasickness, he could not help deriving
considerable amusement from it.
Going into the stateroom one partic-
ularly rough day, he found his com-
panion tossing in his berth, muttering
in what at first appeared to be a sort_of
delirium.
Stccping over to catch his words, "the
friend heard him say, “sergeantmajor,
sergeant, major. oh, only eighth corpor-
al; brigadier-general, brigadier-gener-
ai, ugh, lieutenant-general, ah 1”
“What are you saying?" asked the
friend in some alarm, as the sufferer
looked piteously up at him after his last
gasping "a-a-ahl"
, "Assigning the waves their ran ,”
said the military man, rolling over to-
ward the wall again. ‘ “There have
been eight lieutenant-generals within
the last twenty minutes!”
Smartness.
A gentleman traveling in England
some years ago, while walking near a
railway encountered a number of insane
people in charge of a. keeper. Nodding
to one of the lunatics, he said:
"Where does this railway go to?”
With a scornful look, the lunatic re-
plied:
“it doesn’t go anyway; we keep it
here to run trains on.”—Philadelphia
American.
A inbitious.
“Our new cook has gone already.”
“What was the matter?”
“When she found we had a gas stove I
slie left; she had burned a ton of coal at
week in each of her former places, and
she said she had to be where she could
live up to her record.”—Philadelphia
Record.
Significant.
Katie — Mamie Garson is terribly
mashed on Charley Sweetser.
Edith—What makes you think so?
Kate—Why, he has been three weeks
trying to teach her to ride a wheel, and
she doesn’t make the least progress.
The very instant he lets go of her she
dis uti".-—Boston Evening Tran-
fle Didn't Know,
As little Willie finished his prayers
and was about to retire his mother ask-
ed him if he had prayed for everybody.
Replying in the affirmative, the young
one was asked to tell for whom his
prayer had been said. He enumerated
father, mother, brother and sister.
“Haven’t you forgotten some one?”
asked his mother. .
Willie could not recall an omission.
“J ust think of grandmother,” said
his mother. “She is on the ocean, and
the big ship is rolling on toward home.
Don’t you think you ought to pray for
her safety?"
“For her safety?” exclaimed the
youth, with surprise in his tone. "Why
I didn’t know grandma wanted a bicy-
clel"—-New Orleans Times-Democrat.
G A: 2 strain
TAX COLLECTOR’S
NOTICE :
N0 I‘ICE is hereby given to all per-
sons liable to pay taxes to the town of
Norwalk, in the County of Fairfield and
State of Connecticut, on the Assess-
ment List of 1895, that I will meet them
to receive said taxes, at the following
times and places, to wit:
At the store of W. S. Hanford, East
Norwalk, (Down Town) on Tuesday
September 1st, 1896, from 10 o’clock
forenoon, until 12:30 afternoon.
_At the store of J. C. Randie, at Win-
mpauk, on the afternoon of Tuesday.
September let. 1896, from 8 o’clock
until 4:30 o’clock.
At the store of Alphonzo Dibble, at
South Five Mile River, on the evening
of Tuesday, September 1st, 1896,‘ from
7:00 o’clock until 8:30 O’clock.
At the ofiice of the Collector, Room
No. 1 Masonic building, In the City of
N orwalk. in said town of Norwalk, on
Wednesday, September 2d, 1896, from
9 o’clock torenoon, until 3 o’clock after-
noon, and from 7 to 8 o’clock in the
evening.
Mr. Stephen Comstock, of Comstock
Bros, Norwalk, and Mr. J. M. Layton,
at his office, Railroad Place, South Nor-
walk, are authorized to receive taxes
for me.
On all taxes which shall remain un-
paid after the lat dafiof October, 1896
interest at the rate of INE PER CENT
Will be charged from the 3lst day of
Anglust 1896, until the same shall be
pal .
GEORGE B. ST. JOHN,
Collector,
In and for said Town of lNorwalk, on
the List of 1895.
Dated at Norwalk, Ct., July 8, 1896.
MISS BAIRD’S
INSTITUTE.
Norwalk,Conn.
25TH YEAR.
15th Year in Norwalk.
BOARDING MID IIAY SGIIOIIL
Primary. intermediate, academiciand college
preparatory classes. Specialists employed for
physical culture, elocution, music, art and the
languages. Careful attention to morals and
manners. A limited number of day pupils
and special students admitted. Send for cir-
cular. Early application desirable.
Miss Baird is at home to visitors on Thurs-
day and Friday of each week until 5 D. m.
IIERE’S YIIIIR IIIIIIIIIE.
A fine building lot on Wilton ave-
nue.
this before purchasing.
Water, gas and sewer on the avenue.
Will be sold at a Bargain.
W. H. BYINGTON,
Real Estate and Insurance,
Room I. Gazette B’I’dl
IIIIVE ARRIVED.
My new line of .Spring and
Summer Suitings, which
will be made up in the latest
styles and at the lowest possible
price consistent with good work.
Call in and inspect them.
F. KOCOUR.
MERCHANT TAILOR,
ll North Main St. South Norwalk.
Fairlield county National Bank.
44 Wall Street, N orwalk, Conn.
NGOBPORATED. 1824- Capital, $200,000
EDWIN O. KEELER President.
DAVID H. ' ILLER. Vice-President.
L. C. GREEN. Cashier
DIRECTORS .
EDWIN 0. KEELEB Moses H. GLOVEB
DAVID H...MII.LER, A. J. MEEKEB,
F‘- ST. J our! Locxwooo, THEODORE E. SMITH
Ina COLE. Cues F. Tarsram.
Accounts of Manufacturers Merchants and
Individuals solicited. ~
Safe Deposit Boxes free to Depositors.
News, Stationery, Novelties, Etc
Dailyf'iznd Sunday EPapers delivered to al
t o own.
pi"Lrafiira Jean Libbey’s latest bg’qk, “When
Lovely Maiden Stoops to Folly. .ts havmg a.
big sale—selling even better than When His
Love Grew Col .”
Croquet Sets From 98c Up.
Hammocks From 750 Up.
, - . lcc' edes Tricycles, etc,
Wagons Carts Ve 1D LAB BOOK EX—
Don’t forget our POPU.
CHANGE. Cheapest place In town to secure
Books.
JOHN T. HAYES‘
NO. 5 MAIN STREET. NORWALK.
Important -:- Notice!
A Great Sale of
WALL ' PAPERS.
$3,000 Worth of Wall Paper: ’will be sold AT cos-r
During the next Thirty Days.
I
I2 North Mam Street,
Nevvman .& Pinney,
South N'orwalk
If you intend to build, 1001. at '
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Wyc—
BRIDGEPORT.
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BLACK
FARMERS’ SATIN
UNDERSKIRTS
With fine dimity ruffles, for $3.48:
they’ve been selling for $2.25. Quite
a mark-down.
Then we are selling those skirts
with three dimity ruffles, trimmed
with two rows silk lace, for $1.98.
Plenty of good values in underslkirts'
just now.
REMNANTS of Scotch Ginghams
and other wash stuffs; such goods
that have sold lively. They have
from 2 to 8 yards in the piece, and
they’re only 12{,c. a yard—half and
more than half off in price.
Tooth Powders-—
ROYAL,
COMFORT,
CALDER’S,
RED SEAL,
ALTHEA, L4,;
STILLIMAN‘S W
COLcATE’s, j
LYON's,
SOZODONT—
and something like a dozen others,
including the different pastes and
washes.
We also have a powder specially
prepared for us, put up in bottles
under our own label, that we think is
about as good as any—19c. a bottle.
The mention we have made of
Wrappers—$1.25 and $1.50 ones
for 75 cents and $1.00—doesn’t be-
gin to convey sufficient knowledge of
the extraordinary offer; it's great.
They are not only handsome to look
upon but they are beautifullymade—
made to do good service.
——
Large people should not forget our
Muslin Underwear—
nightgowns.
in
drawers,_ skirts and
Neither should medium-size folks
outsizes
overlook our regular sizes.
is
Norwalk Chronicler