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L—COL’NTRY.

Over umbrageous fields and hills,

Where birds were joy) 1 throughout the day.
And warblsd their m? o 1.015 trills

In their own swee, melodious way,
The moon, the golden summer moon,
Turnsdurkness to an argent noon.

.A ghostly silencefills the earth,
A hush of golden strain and song;
There is no snarl,- sounl of mirth 1‘
Through all’ the tendo‘ttul night long.
And-sottwinds quiver through the trees.
Salt with theodo‘rs 01 the seas.
_ ‘ , " _'II. —CI'1‘Y. . ‘
Down shrouded lines or populous streets
And boisterous gas-lit avenues, ,
‘Where all life’s bitters- and its sweets, ._
Where all th-t life desires or rues, i
All that love holds and all it mars,
Wakens or sleeps beneath the stars— ,

The moon shines down like home far ghost,
Pitiful in its tender mien, .

Pitiflfl to the weary host _ -3H
That slumber silently unseen, ‘--" -- .

‘ A best of eager souls that bear

Glad hope and tenebrous despair.

~George Edgar Montgomery, 1n Harper's
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ACQUITTED BY‘ACCIDENT.

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f The case to be tried was one of arson
——a capital offense at the period to
which this story relates—and the pris-
oner .at the bar was one of the best-
known young men of the town in which
he resided, by name Walter Hood. He
had a widowed mother dependent
upon him for support, to' whom he was
devoted, and in most respects his con-
duct was irreproachable.

The trial commenced and we twelve
men took our seats in the jury box.
Of the eleven men with me there was
only one whom I did not like to see
there. That was Harvy Dudley, a dark-
faced, sinister looking fellow, and to
me in many ways objectionable. I
knew that young Hood had an incipi-
ent failing. He was becoming addicted
to drinking, and had been known, while
so excited, to visit questionable resorts.
It was for the burning of one of these
houses that he had been apprehended.
I knew further that it ”was this Harvy
Dudley who had been his most con-
stant companion; who had done more
than anyone else to lead him astray,
and who had accompanied him to these
undesirable haunts. I could only ac-
count for his being on the jury on the
hypothesis that Walter yet regarded
him as his friend, but, nevertheless, I
determined to watch him. '

The trial commenced and as the evi-
dence for the prosecution proceeded I
was fairly startled. One witness after
.another gave testimony, some of them
very reluctantly, but all" pointing to the
prisoner as the guilty party. Some
credible 'witnesses sw‘ore that they had
heard him swear he would burn the
house down; others heard him say re-
peatedly that he wished it were burned
down. Then came others who had seen
him lurking about the premises on the
night of the fire. On the score of mo-
tive it was shown, on his own admis-
sion, that he had been ill-treated in the
house and that he had said he would
have revenge; furthermore, it was
proved that he had been heard to say
that the salvation of his soul depended
upon the destruction of the house.
.Next came testimony stronger still.

The fire had originated in a. back
basement room, where shavings and
other stuff for kindling were kept. En-
trance had been gained by means of a
back window, which had been partly
pried open with a stout knife, and on
the floor had been found the blade of a
knife which had been broken off in the
«efforts to raise the sash. That blade
was recognized as belonging to a knife
the prisoner had owned. A maker of
cutlery had made that knife for him
and positively identified it. And this was
not all. The floor of the basement was
damp, and some of the outer shavings
to which the light had been applied had
not burned, and just at the edge, where
the fire commenced, lay a piece of paper,

rolled up and half burned. From the“

position in which it lay and its appear-
ance it was evident that this piece of
paper had been’ignited by match and
then applied to the shavings. The shav-
ings had blazed up at once, but the
piece of paper lying on the damp floor
had not wholly burned up. This piece
of paper was found to be a part of a let--
ter addressed to the prisoner and re-
ceived by ‘him only a week before.

The case looked very dark. Many
witnesses were willing to testify to the
prisoner’s good qualities, but no one
could swear that he wasanot dissipated
and degraded. That house had been

to him indeed an infernal region. Final- ‘

ly the prisoner was allowed to speak
for himself. - He said that he had
threatened to burn the house down;
that he had said all that he-had been
sworn to and that he was around the
house on the night of the fire--indeed he
was not ten rods off when the flames
burst forth and he was one of the first
'to give the alarm. He had uttered one
cry of “fire ” when he noticed where the
fire was and the thought came to him
that if he was found he might be sus-
pected of having started it, so he ran
away. ' He also said that three nights
before the fire he had been in the house
and robbed of everything his pockets
contained, including forty dollars in
money and some valuable papers. He
had gone there on the night of the fire
in the hope of getting something back,
,but seeing some one enter whom he did
not Wish to encounter he hung about
awaiting that person’s departure. That.
was an hour before .the fire broke out,
but of setting the place on fire he was
innocent; he knew nothing of it, and
clasping his hands, with his tearless
eyes raised to Heaven, hecalled on God
to witness that he was innocent. _

‘ ‘ I knew Walter; I knew him so well
that from that moment I believed him
innocent. I knew his véry soul, and I
knew there was no falsehood in the
story he told. '

“My boy .is innocent!
nocentl” _, H ,
I" heard the cry and saw his poor old
mother, almost broken-hearted, sink
back fainting into the arms of her com-

My boy is in-

panion. All this, however, had little
effect on the spectators. The prisoner’s
course of dissipation; his many threats
against the house, and the very fact that
he had been robbed there were heavy
against him. The attorneys deli'vered’
their pleas and the judge gave his
charge. He told us, of course. that if
there was a lingering doubt in our minds
we must give the prisoner the benefit
of it; but I could plainly see that there
was not the least shadow of doubt in
his mind. The jury were conducted to
our room and locked up. A silence of
some minutes occurred, which Harvy
was the first to break. “

“Well,” said he", “I s’pose there ain‘t-
any need of our being here a great while.
Of course, we all know the prisoner
must have set fire to the place.”

There was something in his manner
as he said this which excited my curi.
osity. 1 will not say it was suspicion
then, but my curiosity. He spoke with
a forced effort at calmness, and the
more I looked at him the more I became
nervous and uneasy. I wondered why
he should be so anxious to get rid of
the case and have Walter convicted. I
knew he had also frequented the house
and that he had also done muchtowards
tempting Walter into dissipation, and I
knew, from what Walter had told me,
that he was in that house when the rob-
bery had taken place.

Presently the foreman suggested that
we should each take a piece of paper
and write down our opinion and then
compare notes. I went to my over-
coat, which was hanging on a rack with
the rest, and took out a sheet of paper.
I had got half way back to the tall-e
when I found that I had got half a let-
ter from another man’s coat. I was
about to turn back when the name of
the writer caught my eye. ’t was
signed Samuel Lasalle, and immediate-
ly above the signature I read these
words:

“And now, dear Walter, if not for
your own yet for your dear mother‘s
sake, let me hope you will do better.”

I started as if I had been shot. I had
in my hands the other half of the shcet
which had been used in the burned
house. I went back to the rack and
found I had taken the paper from H are
vy Dudley’s coat. I looked to see if I
had been observed; I had not. I put
the piece of paper back and took an-
other piece from my own coat, which
was hanging near. Then I returned to
the table and sat down. Harvy occu~
pied a place beside me. He‘ had already
written his opinion and had taken out
a knife to sharpen his pencil.

“Let me take your knife for a mo-
ment, please,” I said to him.

Without hesitation he handed it to
me. It was Walter Hood's knife—the
large blade was gone! I had all I could
do to restrain myself, but having sharp-
ened my pencil .I returned the knife to
him with a mere thank you. I learned.
afterwards that the accident of his hav-
ing that knife in his possession was at-
tributable to the fact that he had not
worn that pair of trousers since the
night of the fire, and now used the
knife without remembering the loss it
had sustained doing a very peculiar
piece of work, to the execution of which
it had been made silbservient.

After deliberating seme' ten minutes
or so it was ascertained that eleven of
the jury 'were bent upon returning a
x erdict of guilty, though most were fa-
vorable to recommending the prisoner
lo mercy. But Harvy was inexorable.
He would ext-end no mercy.

Presently I started up and pretended
to be faint and asked to be excused for
a few minutes. I kicked at the door
and the sheriff came. He let me out,
and when we had gained a safe distance
I told him what I had discovered. He
went away and brought back the dis-
trict attorney and Walter‘s counsel. I
told them what I had seen and ex-
plained I-Iarvy’s conduct in the jury
room, his former connection with the
prisoner and his known character. The
lawyers retired for a. little while and
came back attended by a constable and

 

a freshly-drawu paper. They desired
me to point out the coat immediately on
entering the room, and together we
went in.
‘ I pointed out the coat, the sheriff tak-
ing it and demanding to know to whom
it belonged. I-Iarvy jumped up and
would have seized it, but he was held
back. Word was sent to the judge that
the jury could not agree. We were
summoned and discharged, and then
, Harvy was searched, the knife being
found in his possession, and his be-
iavior at once exposed his guilt. A
; new jury was impaneled and Walter
. was acquitted.

Shortly afterwards Harvy was tried
and it was plainly proved that he had
‘ set fire to the house; that the woman
who kept- it was to have been burned
in it, as he had looked her in one of the
rooms before setting fire to the place,
- because she had incurred his displeas-
ure in some way, and this was his rc-
ienge. Not only she, but two of the
girls living with her had suspected him
from the first, but they dared not com-
plain lest he should not be found guilty,
and then would be sure to murder them.

The hardened villain confessed his
guilt after he had been condemned, and
then it was that he told how he hap-
pened to get the paper and the knife.
It was he who had robbed IValtcr, and

 

when he took the old letter, which he

had found in Walter’s pocketbook, to
use as a torch in setting fire to the place
he did not notice what it was, and even
when the burnt half was produced in
court he had entirely forgotten that be
11 ad put the other half in his pocket, as
he must have done. As to the knife, he
had also taken that from V Taltcr's
‘ pocket and put it in his own, using it
: on the night of the fire to pry open the
i window, and then, broken as it was, re-
; turned it to his pocket without think-
! ing anything more about it. ‘~
Thus was Walter saved by an accil"
dent and Harvy sent to his due punish-
, ment; and the moral of the story is that,
while a youth can make all the good

‘If he continues on with evil compan-
', ionship he is not safe—Banner of Gold.
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-resolutions thought can? suggest, yet .

 

A. 'NEGHTMARE hoarse. i

She Was Sure of One Hundred Dollars at
‘ Least for the Picture Be Painted.

- She awoke with a start and there was 3

a little cry of alarm on her lips as she
sat up 111 bed. For a moment she did
not fully realize whereshc was. Then
she missed her husband from her side
and a hopeful expression lit up her face.
Propping herself upon one elbow she
proceeded to listen. It was as she had
hoped. In a few moments she heard
her husband out in the other room. 110
was uttering shrill cries of terror and

seemed to be trying to rout some;

enemy. »

“He’s got ’em again,” remarked his
wife, after she had listened to the
sounds for a little while. “I thought
that last hot-scotch Would fetch him "

Getting out of bed, she went into
the other room and lit all the gas jets.
Her husband was rushing up and down
the room in a frenzy, first pointing at
one of the corners and then running
his thin, tapering fingers through his
long hair.

“Do you see them all?” asked his
wife, anxiously.

“Yes," he replied, in a hoarse voice;
“there is the girl with the green hair.
over near the bookcase, the pink dog is
up in the chandelier, while you’ll find the
horse with the purple mane. in the \\ ard-
robe, where I chased him awhile ago.”

There was a happy smile on the wife's
face as she ministered to her husband's
needs. First she wrapped him careful-
ly in a large shawl and then led him to
a chair, in which she fastened him by
means of a clever arrangement of
straps, which allowed his arms to be
free. Then she drew an easel with a
fresh canvas on it before him, tied his
pallet in position and placed his paint
and brushes within reach.

“I‘ll be all right now,” he said. “If
you'll only give me a nip out of the
bottle to brace me up.”

“I hope so, Lorenzo," she returned.
“We owe two months’ rent and the
grocer has become rather tiresome."
After putting her arm around his neck
and kissing him. she went back to bed.

When she awoke in the morning and
went into the other room to turn out
the lights her husband was putting the
fininshing touches to a new-style
poster. “It will fetch $100,” murmured
the wife, as she saw that her husband
had faithfully reproduced all the mon-
strosities he had seen while in the jim-
jams.—N. Y. World. '

FEATHERED CANDLE SHADE.

How Idle .Woman Can Turn Barnyard
Trophies to Account.

Now that candle shades are so much
used, new ideas in this line are very
much in demand. One of the very lat-
est fancies is to make these little
shades of feathers. The way this 1..
done is very simple. First, cut a card—
board foundation, and cover it with
silk to match your feathers. This must
be done very neatly. Then get some
soft, long feathers from your poultry
man, who will probably keep a few for
you when plucking fowls if asked to do
so; or, if youlive in the country. and
have a hen-house of your own, all the
better, as you can then have as many as
you like. Dye the feathers any artistic
shade you fancy. When quite .lrg.
shake them out before a fire, anal Si‘Y.‘
them around the foundation so that the
long ends come for below it. Catch
them here and there invisibly, so that
they may not slip, and round the top
twist baby ribbon and tie in a tiny bow
at one side. The best colors and those
which conceal the light least are scur-
lct and yellow. The little brass holders
which fit on to the candle and hold the
shade in place can be bought anywhere
for a small sum. Parrots' feathers look
charming on these shades, and very
good effects can also be obtained by

 

using peacocks’ feathers, the lovely
shades of blue and green looking quite

delightful with the soft light under-
neatli.—-Chicago Inter Ocean.

 

Worked the Other Way.

“Madam,” he said in a gentle, sooth-
ing voice, which only the man who has
something to sell can successfully as-
sume. “I have here an article of soap
which—”

“Don’t want any soap,” she replied,
flatly. '

“But your younger brother there
must get a great many grease-spots on
his clothes. p N ow, if you would provide
some of that soap—”

“When you allude to my younger \bro-
ther, I suppose you mean that boy who
is standing over by the fence?” ,

“Certainly.” '

“Well, heisn’t my younger brother.
He’s my son, and what’s more, he’s the
youngest of four, and what’s more than
that, I read the papers, and if you think
you can flatter me by pretending that I.
look youthful, you’re wrong. I don‘t
need any soap, and my time’s precious.”
—+Detroit Free Press.

Taking a Broad View.

WearyWatkins—They ain’t no use to
call this a free country as long as a man
kin be fined fer workin’ on Sunday. l:
hadn’t-ought to be done; don’t 32-: r;;‘. 7.-
so ?

Hungry Higgins—Leastways no; as
more than for workin’ on week days——
Indianapolis Journal.

~A Presumptuouo Beast.

W'heler—Saw a thrilling thing to-daj
Runaway horse went tearing along the
sidewall; out in the edge of town and
nearly ran over a half dozen children b6-
fore he was stopped.

\Valker—I guess the fool beast
thought he was a bicycle—Indianapolis
Journal. > -

Clrcumlocutory. .

An Irish street car conductor called
out shrilly to the passengers standing in
the aisle:

“Will thim in front plaze to move up,
so that thim behind can take the places
of thim in front, an’ lave room for thim
who are nayther in front or behind ?”—-—
Tit-Bits. ’ ‘

Sufficient Reason.

Mrs. Wickwire—Why don’t you ever
wash your face ?

Dismal Dawson—Don’t want the sun
to git. a chance to spile me cpmplextion.
—Indianapolis Journal. ' " ‘

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WORK .OF THE MlSSlSSlPPl.

. Every Year the Father of Waters Can-lea

| Down 3 Square Mlle of Land.

The Mississippi has in the course of
ages transported from the mountains

1 and high land within its drainage area

isutlicient material to make 400,000
1 square miles of new land by filling up
an estuary which extended from its
original outfall to. the Gulf of Mexico
for a length of 500 miles. and in width
from 30 to 40 miles. This river, says
Longman‘s Magazine, is still pouring
solid matter into the gulf, where it is
spread out in a fan-like shape over"a
coast line of 150 miles, and is filling up
at the rate of 302,000,000 tons a. year, or
six times as much soil as was removed
in the construction of the Manchester
ship canal, and sufficient to make a
square mile of new land, allowing, for
it having to fill up the gulf to a depth
0580 yards.

Some idea of the vastness of this
operation may be conceived when the
fact is considered that some of this soil
has to be transported more than 3,000
miles; and that if the whole of it had
to be carried on boats at the lowest
rate at which heavy material is carried
on the inland waters of America, or,
say, for one-tenth of a penny per ton
per mile over an. average of half the
total distance, the cost would be no less
a sum than £2:38,000,000a year. Through
the vast delta thus formed the river
winds its way, twisting and turning by
innumerable bends until it extends its
length to. nearly 1,200 miles, or more
than double the point-to-point length
of the delta, continually eroding the
banks in one place and building up
land in another, occasionally breaking
its way across a narrow neck which
lies between the two extremeties and
filling up the old channel.

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PEN AND INK ,DRAWING.

Modern Imitation of the Ancients by a
New Process.

It is easy, of course, to understand
how pen drawing should have come to
be so largely employed and elaborated.
It is a matter of reproduction for illus-
tration. An etching-will not print with
type, nor with a steel engraving. This,
says the London Spectator, led in the
early part of the century to the imita-
tion of steel engravings by wood en-
gravers, who did the business most
skillfully with immense labor. The
drawings for them were mostly made
in pencil. lint photographic process
rendered the intervention of the wood
engraver needless, if the artist made a
pen drawing that would photograph
and process well. A pure technical
difficulty can be overcome by large
numbers of craftsmen; large numbers,
accordingly, have learned to make pen
drawings to supplant wood engravings.
But it should be noted that to do this
is itself a kind of reproductive process.
Few elaborate pen drawings are made
without a studious foundation in some
other material. The pen line must fre-
’quently be traced or drawn over the
pencil line, very much like the engrav-
er’s tool.

The point about the modems and an-
cients, then, resolves itself into the
imitation by the modems in a new
medium of theatechnique of an old. It.
is certain that the ancients could have
performed this feat if they had chosen,
not altogether certain that they would
have chosen. For, to consider those
other points of reproduction and dis-
semination, the modern master seems
to be in no greater hurry than the an-
cient to make use of the new facilities.
When such a master does take up the
pen, he handles it to much grander ef-
fect than do its devotees. .

TIPSWRICANS. "'

GEORGE T. ANGELL, the well-known
friend of dumb animals, is seventy-two
years of age.

ANDREW CARNEGIE has aroused Brit-
ish wrath by saying that it Would pay
England to burn up her railroad equip-
ment and replace it with American
models.

THE movement to erect a monument
to the memory of Anne Hill Carter, the
mother of Robert Edward Lee, is gain-
ing in the south. ,

THE late 0. II. P. Burnham, the Bos-
ton bookseller, who conducted his busi-
ness for years in the basement of the
Old South church, left nearly $400,000
to various charities.

Mas. MARY E. HUNT has sued the city
of Nashua, N. H., to recover $50,000
given by her for a memorial library.
The suit is brought because the city,
after, having the money for four years,
cannot agree on a site. ‘

 

 

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A FAMILY CURSE.

It Seems to Have held 0:: for More Than
a Century, ’

For more than 100 years, it was said,
a fatal spell hung over the Goldsmids.
Toward the close of the 18th cen-
tury there died in London the Rabbi
de Falk, who enjoyed a high reputation
as a. seer. He left to Aaron Goldsmid, a
great-great-grandfather of the late

member for St. I’ancras, a sealed packet, .

with injunctions that it was to be. care-
fully preserved, but never opened. The
old Dutch merchant who fennded the
branch of the Goldsmid family in this
country was warned that as long as
his order was obeyed, so long would
the Goldsmids flourish like a young
bay tree. If it were‘lisregarded, ill-
fortune would for all time dog the foot-
steps of the race. Aaron Goldsmid left
the packet inviolate for some years.
One day, curiosity becoming ungovern-
able, he opened it. When his servant-
came to call him he was found dead.

Aaron Goldsmid l'eft a large portion of
his fortune to two sons, Benjamin and.
Abraham. These went into business
on the London stock exchange, and vast-
ly increased their patrimony. Benja-
min founded a naval college and per-
formed many acts of less known gener-
osity. He lived long, but the curse of
the cabalist overtook him. Enormous-
ly rich, the delusion that he would die
a pauper fastened upon him, and to
avoid such conclusion of the matter,
he, on April 5, 1808, being in. his 55th
year, died by his own hand. Two years
later his brother Abraham, being con-
cerned in a ministerial loan of £ 14,000,-
000, lost his nerve, blundered and
bungled, sank into acondition of helpless
despondency, and on September 28,
1810, a day on which a sum of £ 500,000
was due from him, he was found dead
in his room.

The fortunes of the family were re-
stored by Isaac Goldsmid, nephew of
the hapless brothers and grandson of
the founder of the English house. Like
all the Goldsmids, Isaac was a man of
generous nature and philanthropic
tendencies. With him it seemed that
the curse of the cabalist had run its
course. It is true that before he died
he lapsed into a state of childishncss.
But he had at the time passed the limit
of age of fourscore. years, after which
as one of the kings of his race Wrote
centuries back, man’s days are but
labor and sorrow. Isaac Goldsmid was
succeeded in his fortune and his baron-
etcy by his son Francis, on. whom the
curse of the cabalist seemed to fall when
he was fatally mangled, between the
engines and the rails at Waterloo sta-
tion.-—H. W. Lucy, in “From Behind the
Speaker’s Chair.”

WOULD NOT CUT HIS HAIR.

Marshal Canrobert Refused to Obey the
Army Regulations.

It was a singular fact that the late
Marshal Conrobert, the last- of the
French marshals, offered in himself a
constant example, of the violations of
the regulations of the army in which he
was so conspicuous an officer. Through-
out almost the whole of his military
service Canrobert wore long hair flow-
ing down his shoulders, and this hair
was a- sort of oriflamme to the soldiers.
But ever since the year 1833 the French
army regulations have positively re-
quired that every officer and soldier
shall wear closely cut hair, “without.
any tufts, curls or ringlets whatsoever,”
and severe penalties are provided for
persistence in letting the hair grow
long.

Canrobert had a-profuse mass of hair,

which he was very proud of. It was
cropped to his great. grief when he went
into the military school of St. Cry in.
1826, but when, as a young officer, he
went into the Algerian war in 1835 he
profited by the relaxation of many reg-
ulations there to let his hair grow down
his shoulders again. Several years later,
also, in Algeria. Col. Canrobert, bare-
headed, led a heroic charge at Zaatcha
and his long floating hair, in the thick
of the combat, served as a rallying sign
to the zouaves as they swarmed through
the breach. After this war Canrobert’s
head of hair had already become- so fa-
mous that no superior ventured to com-
mand him to cut it off, t-ho‘ugh Gen.
Pclissier, who hated him, once called
liim “professor” in a cafe in, Paris, and
by way of excuse affected to have mis-
atken him for a doctor of philosophy on
accpunt of his hair.

The emperor Napoleon IIVI. did once
venture to remonstrate with Canrobert
for wearing long hair. The marshal’s
response was very “Frenchy.”

“Sire,” he said, “my hair belongs to
history!”

He did not cut- it off. It floated all
through the French and German war,
becoming legendary among the soldiers.
Long since it. became snow white and
fell upon the old marshal’s shoulders
in his declining days, and it. clustered
about them as his body lately lay in
state in Paris—London Tit-Bits. .

Canadian English.
When Jean Baptiste goes on his trav-

els he takes a ticket, with a. check for

his baggage, and‘enters a train. (He
used to go to theistation in a gig, ac-
cording to M. de Gaspe,lbut I never
heard him use the word, though I; know
he pat-ronizes the cab—stand rather than
the “place de fiacres.") “All aboard!”
Ihouts the French guard. “All right.”
says the French passenger. I remem-

ber one day, going down from Mon-z

treal to Quebec, hearing the. guard ask
a swarthy habitant for his “billetz”
“Eh?” said he, puzzled. “Votre ti-
quette,” explained the guard. “0h, Je
comprends.' Le voici.” I have even
encountered 'a‘. sentence like this: “Nous
leur donnerons des free ticket.” Jean
Baptiste will also tell you, if you desire
such information, that the train con-
sists of “douze chars et un cngin,” in-
stead of “douze wagons et un locomo-
tive;” but he still finds time to call the
railway itself a “ch’min d’fer,” having
cut down the syllables from. four to
fwd—Contemporary Review.

 

--A traveler by mail routes may cover
the distance between New York and
San'Doming-o city in nine days.

 

FUR SAL-EBY ‘

‘s. B. WILSON.

BUILDER, 9e WALL shutEEt.’
One b-room cottage, Boron Point-
1 lot Myrtle avenve and 1 lot Howard,
avenue, 37x300 feet, East NorWulk - 1
lot, 129x180 feet, Broad River; 1 Cabin
Steam Launch, 30x7 feet; 1 two-seated
Sleigh; 1 two-seated Business Wagon'
2 good Stoves; House and Lot on easy-

terms.
’ a

Wm. Lockwood,

Real Estate, Insurance and Investment
Securities.
. —MONEY T0 LOAN...
Insurance Placed in First-Class Companies.
Office—Corner Main A: Wall Sts.. Norma-l

 

ETER L. 'GUIGUE, Florist and Nursery
‘ man ,Uuion: Avenue; north of Union
(Jemtery Norwalk, Conn. Dealer in Green
House Hot House and Bedding and Vege.
.‘able Plants. _Fruit and Ornamental Trees
bhubbery, Vines. Cut Flowers. always on
hand, and all sorts of designs in flowers ar-
ranged to order. .
We‘rradmg and refilling cemetery lots at-
tended to.

HENRY TILLY.

 

CARRIAGE MAKER .

SOUTH NOR WALK, CONE ,

 

’ —¥Manufaeturer of—

Famlly Canines. Victurlasluums it

ALL KINDS or- REPAIRING.

 

TNA INSBUANCE 00., of Hu’tford
Incorporated 1812. Charter Perpetu a
depltal and Assets, $8,902.272JM.
Insures against loss and damage by man on
terms adapted to the hazard and consistent
With the laws of com ensation
CO LES 8t MERRILL.
Sole agents for Norwalk and vicinitv:

 

J. Belden .llurlbutt,
Attorney and Camilla at Law

Room 4, up stairs,
GAZETTE BUILDING.

 

ADAMS EXPRESS COMPANY

Low Rates. Prompt Delivery
tracnh Office, Norwalk,'at Morris Benedic t
Main Office. depot. South Norwalk.
L. HUNT. Agent.

 

 

 
 

 

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TRADI MARK“
DINO" PATCH?!-
GOPVIHOH‘I'S. etc
For information and free Handbook write to
MUNN a CO. 361 BROADWAY. NEW Yo .

Oldest bureau or securing patentsinAm ca.
Every patent taken out by us ls brought before
the public by a notice given tree otcharge‘ 1n the
steam gamma
Lar est circulation of any scientific paper in the
war (1. S lendidly illustrated. No intelligent
man shou d be without it. Weeklyr, $3.008.

ear; $1.50 six months. Address, MU N a 00.,
51.153335. 361 Broadway, New York City.

The Celebrated

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casts;

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Delivered bypareful
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Send Order for Sample Load and Satis ’3' Your
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rewroaunnw HAVEN & nAarrom
b RAILROAD.

—an Your DIVISION
, June 14, 1896.
Trainsleave South Normans asjotlowv: ,
F03 N aw YORK—Accommodation trains at

9.36 'a.m., 1.11. 2.51. 4.07. 5.40, 6.50. 8.11. 10:20- _ .
Express trains at 4.55.5.45. 6.15 (local) ,
(local). 7,05. (local). 7.55. (local). 8.21.. .s

p. m.
6.55.
9.03 '(local) 9.58, 10.40. 11.37. (local) 21. m. 12.52

225.120.535.630 7.35 p.m. For Washington via.’ f

Harlem River 12.53 a.m. (daily.)

Seamus—Accommodation 9 15 a.'m.. 5.43, f

(local).7.23,(local) 9.28 p.'m Express 4.5 5.45
a. m. . . .
Fon New HAVEN AND ran Elisa—Accommo-

 

datiou trains at 0.32. 7.33. 3.46 and 11 44 a. m.‘, ' '

.5.

1.37, 2.42. (to B’p’t). 4.20, 5:27. 6.27. 7.28 (to B’p’t). ,

8.41.9.41 and 11.15 p. m. Express trains 3115.12.40; «'3'
5.04;(Nauga,~_;

1.11. 9.11 10.12-11.08 a. m. 12.05, 3.05.
tuck Express) 7.10 p. m. .. » ,
sUNDus.—-Accommodation7.38.9 2s
.15 mm. Express 12.40 and1.11 ' ‘

cur. HEMPS m; Gen-J13.

 

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