Lk‘ Stick to- , In Welcome. New England housekeep- ' ers are too wide awake to be fooled into buying inferior soap more than once, just because there is a present given with it. e“; , On washing-day they war. only the best soap; next day they buy their own preSent. NEW CAFE WITH} RESTAURAN T ATTACHED. MIKE fiATCHFORD, 44 Wain Street, The Best Wines, Liquors and Cigars. -BIG GIIT IN PRIGE- 0i? ‘ MEAT. ~_ Round, Sirloin and Por- terhouse Steaks, Sausge, Pot and Rib Roasts Reduced to. a Pound}, All First Quality Meat. .1. W. BOGARDUS, 6 WATER. ST... N ORWALK ADAMS’ B la 2 o n Soap Powder, ~ For Kitchen Use Excells all others. Ask Your Grocer For It. The following Grocers have it on. sale: E. J . Finnegan. Main street; P. J. O’Brien, Chapel stret; M. Abraham. Plattsyille avenue; Mrs. Harriet A. Northrop. Umonville: A. Stull East Norwalk; _D. Rosen, South Norwalk; J. . June..W1nmpa.uk: N. Driscoll. Westport Fred Scribner. A. A. Avrson. Hugh Donnelly. George Pomeroy, Chapel street. E. II. More- house West avenue, D. Gormley. Spring Hill, E. Schachat, Harbor avenue. D. Schachat, Franklin avenue. F. Bailwitz & Bros.. 30 Main street; Buttery Bros, Belden Avenue; Anna Lubrous. 20 Ward street; Anna R. Qurke, East Norwalk; William Flynn. 25 Day street; 0. K. Scofield. 170 Mam street. ' SPECIAL SALE ._._.OF____ Sailor Hats NOW READY. llnirimmed, “It and llpwards, Trimmed, 50c and Upwards, *FA'WoTETTs: 3 Water Street, NorwaIk MEEKER COAL CO. GOAL, WOOD, BRICK, LIME, BEMEIIT, TILE PIPE. [OFFICE WITH G. WARD SELLECK WALL STREET. NORWA LK. Horace E. Dann. IXGELSIOL Livery and Sgles Stable. WW-“ Opposite Danbury and Norwaik Railroad depotI Norwalk. Conn. Stylish Single or Double Team with or without drivers: Safe horses for women . . -- ,. andcbildrea- . ’ canons HORSESZEA spacmnr v l ¢, A FAMOUS LEGEND. THE SLEEEPING BEAUTY STORY AS IT IS TOLD IN PERSIA. Goblins, Witches, Fairies, Princes, and, 01 Course, the Right Prince “’ith the Beauty. Waiting for the Waking Kiss ‘ \Vliich He Gave Her. A Persian woman of culture thus re- lated the legend of the “Sleeping Beau. ty,” as an old household servant was wont to tell it to the children: Once upon a time there was a King who wished to appoint one of his three sons as his heir. He summoned his Grand Vizier into 'his presence so as to consult him on this important question. They decided to watch the prinCes for a year and judge them according to each one’s conduct. One day at the beginning of the year the three proposed to go out hunting. After some time the eldest, Prince Abdullah. shot a lion, and, feel- ing tired, returned home; Prince Hou- sen, the second, shot a bear, and, as he was satisfied with his day’s hunting. returned to the palace. The younger. Prince Akbar, spied a gazelle and pur- sued it; he was soon lost sight of. His followers, who, after waiting a long time for their master and having looked everywhere for him, decided to return and tell his father the sad news. The Prince, meanwhile, was running as fast as he could after the gazelle, till at last he arrived in front of a pal- ace with an iron gate, over which the gazelle leaped and disappeared. He could not follow it there; so, being hot, tired and thirsty, he threw himself on the grass to rest a little. He noticed three doves perched on the gate. They were really fairies who had assumed that shape. “Well!” said one, “that Prince is do- ingavery foolish thing, lying down there; perhaps he does not know this is the goblin’s residence, and that every Sunday morning the goblin takes a walk round his property and devours anybody he finds on it. He is certain to find that Prince just near the gate.” “Well,” said the second dove, “he , can save his life very easily; he only has to go down that deep well, and when he gets to the bottom of it he will find himself in a dark room, where he will see an ugly old witch leaning over akettle and half sitting on a chair. Without waking her he must take the piece of glass which is under her left foot and break it, for it is the goblin’s life; as seon as it is in pieces the gob- lin will expire. He must then throw himself on the witch and kill her with his sword.” The Prince, acting on the advice he had heard, found the well and went down it by a circular path, but the lower he went the hotter it grew, till the poor Prince began to feel giddy, sick, and faint, though he kept on bravely and never thought of. turning back. At last he found himself in the room, took the piece of glass without .waking the witch, broke it into a hun- dred pieces, killed the witch and climbed out of the well, and was surprised to find himself in a lovely garden, near another iron gate much bigger than the first, which he tried. to open. As he could not .do so, he stretched himself under a tree, where he soon fell asleep. He awoke hearing the same'doves speak- ing in the tree, on a branch just over his head. The third one was speaking: “If he wants to open this iron gate, he must try and do it with the point of his sword, and as soon as its doors fly open put his hand in his pocket and take out three gold coins, which he must throw into the mouth of the black serpent which will come out of the gate with its mouth open, ready to eat the Prince. If he can 'do this quickly, the Serpent will die as soon as the money is in its mouth, and the Prince will set free a lovely Princess, but he will have to look for her.” Rising, the Prince once more did as the doves had said; when his sword touched the gate the doors flew open and the horrible black head of an enor- mous serpent came out, showing its fangs. The Prince threw the money and the reptile died. The Prince soon found himself in another and much prettier garden, through which he walked up to the beautiful palace he saw in front of him. In the handsomest room of this he found a rarely beautiful young lady asleep on a couch. He hesi- tatingly approached her to have a better view of her face, and thought her so lovely that he stooped over her and kissed her. She opened her eyes and was sur- prised to find a young man near her, and told him to go away as fast as he could. for this was the goblin’s castle, and that either the goblin, the witch (his mother) » or the black serpent would eat him. Then he told her his adventures, and she told him hers. When she was a child she had been stolen from her father’s kingdom, and many princes and young men had lost their lives in trying to save her and take her away from the goblin’s castle. She thanked Prince Akbar very courteously for having freed her. After living a few days with the love 1y Princess, the-Prince, finding he loved ' her much indeed, asked her to become his wife. She consented. They then mounted on horseback to go back to the Princess’s father’s kingdom, but as the Princess was afraid of their not being able to find their Way back to the gOb- lin's castle, which was theirs now, she loaded a horse with two bags full of lime, and cut a hole in each bag, so that a trail of lime lay all the way. They soon arrived at the kingdom of the Prince’s father. The King was very happy to see his son again, and also to see what a beautiful bride he had chosen. The Prince told his father about all the adventures he had had. The Prince now inhabits the goblin’s castle, where his father occasionally visits him. And if any of you little sahibs and khanoums (gentlemen and ladies) wish to goand. see him, you only have to find the goblin’s castle, for the Prince is very hospitable, and will make you we mule—Westminster Budget. “.‘v ' 1 W EEKLY _' NO RlW AIL“, KL. - GA. ZE T TE. 6 "'7 II'GREAT IS THE BANANA. All the People of the Earth Could Liv on it Alone. The banana, which alone of fruit- possesses all the essentials to the 311:. tenance of human life, is worth more than all the others, and is thus the mom valuable fruit in the world. Even witl. us it fairly holds its own when com pared with any other fruit, while i1. some countries—Africa, for instance— its position is as important as that of wheat in this country or rice in China. Over the larger part of the Dark Con- tinent it is the staple article of native food, and every African village has its banana fields, as we have fields of pota- toes or corn. - Although some varieties of the ba- nana attain the size of small trees, it is an herbaceous plant; and the kind most generally cultivated for their fruit are the dwarfs, which grow to a height of but four or five feet. The smallest of these produce the delicate fig bananas, unknown to Northern markets, but al- most the only ones eaten as fruit in countries where the 'banana is grown. While the little fig banana is always classed as a fruit, plantains, whichZare the largest of the family, are invariably fried or baked and regarded as vegeta- bles. A number of delicious desserts may be prepared by cutting ripe bananas in- to thin slices and serving with custard, with lime juice and sugar, with lemon juice and desiccated cocoanut, or in other ways that will suggest themselves. Bananas can be dried as easily as peach- es or apples. In this condition they will keep for a long time, and may be eaten by themselves or used in the mak- ing of pics, cakes or puddings. Bananas require a damp, rich soil; but that being given, they repay the labor of planting and such slight culti- vatiOn as is required to keep them free from other growths, with a yield so great as to be out of all proportions to the work expended upon them. After a while, too, the plants aid in their own cultivation by so covering the ground about them with their own refuse leaves as effectually to prevent any other growth in their immediate vicinity. So generous is the fruitage of this ex- traordinary plant that its food product was estimated by Baron Von Humboldt to be one hundred and thirty-three times greater than that of wheat, and forty four times more than that of po- tatoes. In other words, if a certain area of ground would produce thirty- three pounds of wheat or ninety- nine of potatoes, an equal area of banana land would yield four thousand pounds of fruit, containing all the life sustaining properties of both wheat and potatoes. Von Humboldt also asserted that the arable lands of Central America alone can produce enough of the fruit to feed the world. Few bananas are raised within the limits of the United States, only the ex- treme southern portions of Florida and California being available for their cul< t-ivation; but with the ever increasing facilities for their importation they are becoming so plentiful that new and hitherto undreamed of uses are rapidly being found for them. A banana. meal which will keep as long as wheat flour, and make an in- finitely more nutritious bread, is prom ised for the immediate future. Beer and sausages made from the fruit have successfully passed the experimental stages. Banana skins contain a tough fibre from which the finest of cloth can be woven. The juice yielded by these skins during the process of extracting their fibre can be used either as an in delible ink or fermented into good vine. war. 6 Could anything be more contrary to our preconceived notions than bananas as a food for babes? Yet only last sum mer I was introduced to a perfectly, well, sturdy and rosy checked little chap a year old who, so his parents as sure me, had never tasted milk, and had, during the first six months of his life, been fed wholly on ripe bananas.— Youth’s Companion. TWO CANADIAN STAPMS FOR $1,320. High Prices Palm Postage Stamps by Collectors. Two little pieces of paper, which. when originally issued by the Canadian Government, were valued at 12 cents each, were sold at auction in Boston re- cently for $1,320. All Canadian stamps of the issue 0: 1851 are rare, but these two 12-cent stamps are believed to be the only un- used ones of the ' kind printed on laid paper. The stamps were bought by Mr. Needham, of Hamilton, Ont., who sold these stamps to the company hold ing the auction and got $1,500 for them. Mr. Needham bought a number of other Canadian stamps at prices ranging from $10 to $185. A five- cent St. Louis, 1845-6, which was a postmaster’s provisional issue. $251, while a 10- cent specimen of the same date brought 3105. United State: Government issues sold from $90 down. The former price Was paid for an 1851- 6 30-cent unperforated, unused, which is one of the .rarest of United State stamps. How Turkey and Nevada Differ. ‘How customs and practices differ on different sides of the earth,” remarked Mayor Sutro, apropos of a discussion in the City Hall Commission of thé‘d‘fir‘i bility of mosaic. ' “One reason that it lasted so long in Venice and other cities was, that no shoes with, nails in the Soles were worn, and in Turkey every man who enters a mosque must first take off his shoes. They were going to send me to jail once because I objected to remov- ing my shoes when I went in the place. Now I remember that once when a drunken miner in Nevada insisted on taking his boots OH in church so that he could sleep better one of the deacons shot three of his toes ofi."—San' Fran- cisco Post. " This is the season of the year when your neighbor buys a hoe 'and rake and a tew garden seeds and pretends to be better than you are.—Atchison Globe. . IA STORY OF JEWELS. ANTIQUITY 0? THE CUSTOM OF .WEARING RINGS. Precious Gems Worn in the Time of Pharaoh. Aaron’s Remarkable Ring. Wonderful Gems of the Persians and Other Ancient People. Many of the habits and customs of to day have their roots in remote antiquity. Among these that of personal adorn- ment, such as the wearing of rings and amulets. must have been coeval‘with the earliest civilization, says the Boston Herald. . The use of rings is very ancient. The ' Egyptians were the first inventors of them; which seems confirmed by the person of Joseph, who, as we read in Genesis, chapter xii., for having inter- preted Pharaoh s dream, received not only his liberty, but was rewarded with the Princes ring, a collar of gold and the superintendency of Egypt. Aaron, the high priest of the Hebrews had a ring on his finger,whereof the dia- mond by its virtue. operated prodigious things. For it changed its livid lustre into a dark color when the Hebrews went to. be punished by death for their sins; when they were to fall by the sword it appeared of a blood color; it they were innocent it sparkled with us- ual brilliancy.‘ It is observable that the Ancient He- brews used rings in the time even of the war of Troy. Queen J azebel, to destroy Naboth, as is related in the third Book of Kings. made use of the ring of Ahab, King of the Israelities, her husband to seal the counterfeit letters that ordered the death of that unfortunate man. 0 Though Homer is silent in regard to rings, both in his Iliad and Odyssey, they were, notwithstanding, used in the time of the Greeks and Trojans, and it was from them several other nations re- :eived them. The rings of the ancients often served for seals. Alexander, the Great, after the defeat and death of- Darius used his ring for sealing the letters he sent into Asia, and his own for those he sent into Europe. It is also remarkable that the greatest personages wore some stones in the col- let of their rings, which could not but be esteemed as rarities, either that they were natural in regard to the figures they represented, or were engraven. The first who adopted rings in Egypt ‘ had in them the figures of their gods, or I rather hieroglyphics. I Silenus, as Alexander says, had a . take thekyars. fatal ring, with the figure of an anchor in the collet. This mark became nat- ural in his prosperity, for his descend. ants had it impressed on the thigh at their birth. Josephus makes mention that Arius, a king of the Lacedemonians, had in his ring the figure of an eagle holding a dragon between his talons, and that this figure was natural. JUDGE LYNCH’S KINDNESS- One Half Hour’s Grace Given an Offender, to Run Away. They were holding the west bound express at Reno for the east bound to pass, and after awhile a rough looking character asked of the ticket agent: “Wall, how long afore this train leaves?” “Can’t tell,” was the curt reply. The man went away, but in the course of half an hour he returned to inquire: “Heard anythin’ yit?” (£N0.” . “Can’t you tell when this train will pull out?” “No, sir. If you are here .when the train goes you can go with it. It’s no use coming here to bother me.” “I don’t wan’t to bother you nor no— body else,” slowly replied the question- er, “but mebbe you don’t understand how I’m fixed. I’m Prairie Sam’s pardner.” “Well?” “Sam got into a little shootin’ scrap uptown this forenoon.” ' ‘SYes?” "And about an hour ago the boys turned out and pulled' Sam up to a limb.” “Did, eh? I hadn’t heard of that. Why didn’t they pull you up with him?” “The blamed limb wasn’t stout ’nufi to hold the both of us, and they was too tired to hunt fur another. They gim me two hours to leave town in. One of the hours has gone, and I’m kinder anxious about the other. I kin buy a boss and ride out if that train won’t be here in time, but Pd a heap rayther I don’t want to bother you, but under the circumstances—” “I see. Well, the train’ll be here in half an hour.” . “Good. That gives me thirty minits to play on, and I won’t look fur a boss. Nice weather, this.” “Beautiful weather for a lynching bee!” ‘ . “Of course. That’s what I meant. [’11 jest step up and take one long, lin- gerin’ look at Sam, and then ketch the train l”—Detroit Free Press. Not Likely to be Disappointed. An inquisitive person passing along a country road stopped to talk with a farmer hoeing corn. “Your corn is small,” said the in- quisitive person. . “Yes. I planted that kind,” replied the farmer. “It looks yellow.” “I planted yellow corn." “1 don’t think you’ll get more than half a crop.” * ' “Don’t expect to—I planted it on shares.”-—-Buffalo Courier. Big Pay for Skill in Cookery. When ex—Scnator Sawyer’s daughters were little girls their father promised to make them a handsome present when they were able to cook him a satisfac- tory dinner. Ten years later they re- minded him of the promise and served nim with a dinner with which he had not the least iault to find. That same day the Senator gave each one 9f the young women a check for $5.000. / I ax» .... ' DWARFS OF THE ANDAMANS. . They Look Like Darky Babies and Are Genuine Little Savages. A remarkable ethnological collection from the Andaman 'Islands has just reached the National Museum. It com- prises a large number-of objects illus- trating the arts and industries of the- strange race of dwarfs which inhabit an archipelago in the Bay of Bengal. Sailors have long known them some what disrespectfully as “Little Nig' gers,” because the average height of the men is only about 4‘feet 10 inches, while the ordinary stature of the wom- en is 4 feet 7 inches. . Perhaps the Oddest thing about them is that they look like babies all their lives, seeming never to grow up. Withal they are probably the most primitive savages known to civilized man. The dwarfs of the Andamans, until quite recently, have not known how to make fire. On one of the islands of the archipelago is an active volcano, from which they were accustomed formerly to obtain fresh supplies of fire at inter- vals. Special expeditions for this pur- pose were not often necessary, inas- much as they knew how to keep fire burning in decayed wood for an indefi- nite length of time. Formerly the dwarfs of the Anda- mans were accustomed to murder ruth- lessly all strangers who approached their shores. Melancholy, indeed, was the fate of shipwrecked sailors who chanced to seek shelter on the islands of the archipelago. They were sure to be shot to death with arrows. Indeed, distressed mariners cast away in that part of the Bay of Bengal would be likely to be massacred even at the pres- ent day. It is believed that the inveterate hos- tility of the Little N iggers arose origi- nally from the cruel practices of Ma- lays, Burmese, and Chinese, who visited the Andamans to get edible birds’ nests and sea cucumbers. They used to kid- nap the natives and sell them as slaves in neighboring countries. When the British established a settle- ment there the savages frequently at- tacked them, and took every opportu- nity of stealing the iron tools and other implements that excited their cupidity. Within recent years they have become comparatively tractable, however. These dwarfs are almost naked. The women wear small aprons of leaves. but the men wear nothing except bunches of leaves attached to their knees and wrists. Garters. bracelets, and necklaces of bones, shells, or wood are common or- naments. Tattooing serves to a certain extent as a. substitute for raiment. Women do the tattooing. As a protec- tion against the hot tropical sun, the people smear their bodies with a white- wash of clay and water. Eiforts to' reclaim the Adamanese from their savage state have not pro- duced results of unmixed good. Homes having been established for their bene- fit by missionary influence, those ac- commodated at these institutions are fat and lazy. spending whole days to- gether in singing, dancing, and gor- mandizing. It is an old story that wherever civil- ization goes, with its diseases and whis— ky, it wipes out the primitive savage races. The Andaman Islands afford no exception to the rule. The original population there is fast disappearing, the death rate far exceeding the birth rate, and before long these interesting little people will be practically extinct. They have delicate constitutions, not being able to withstand sicknesses from which Europeans easily recover. Fifty years is the extreme limit of age among them. and, partly owing to the great mortality among infants, the average length of life is only a little over twenty years. A COMMON ROBBERY.‘ How Ladies Sell Tickets to Their Gentle- men Friendl. - “Of all the unkind, insidious and out- rageous things that a girl ever does to a fellow,” announced a young man the other day, “this ticket-sending business is the worst; the practice, you know, of mailing a man some dozen or twenty tickets for some lecture, musical or charity entertainment, the sender’s card enclosed, and the expectation being that the man will send her the money for the lot, which is just what the man gener- ally does. He feels obliged to do so, as otherwise he would appear discourteous and, above all, ‘mean I’ But it’s an un- fair advantage, and one that a girl has no right to take. It's clear highway robbery; aregular your-money-or-your- life sort of game. Not once in a hun- dred times does it. happen that a man is able to use the tickets himself and he has too much consideration to give them to any one else as they are nearly al- ways to things that no sane person could be hired to go to. That’s why they’ve been sent to the man. Women well know that they couldn’t work off any such stuff upon their own sex. And the man calmly chucks them into his waste paper basket and dashes 01$ 3 check to the girl—and there’s just about as much ceremony and graciousness in the one act as in the other. let me tell you. For my part, however, I’m going to call a halt on the thing. The next girl who sends me any such set of tickets will have them promptly re- turned to, her by the next mail. No, it isn’t rudeness or perversity or ‘mean- ness.’ It’s self-preservation, pure and simple. Why, my Lenten mail has been fairly deluged with tickets. Every day brings in a fresh instalment. But I’m no longer going to put up with such an unwarrantable form of taxation with- out representation.”—-N. Y. Evening Sun. ' Little Mrs. J ustwed—And, do you know, my husband never even thinks of somnch as going for a scuttle of coal wihhcmtfirst kissing me.- . . Old Mrs. Hornbeak—In about two years; my dear, you may consider your- seii’lucky if begets thejoalfi-liucl}. A sniLon's sronr. «' Not the ‘Proverbial Sailor's Yarn An Old Salt Speaks in ' Norwalk. The life of a sailor has many ups and downs. The hardships of the man who sails the briny deep are not appreciated. by the land lubbers who know not what it is to struggle With the elements to keep above water, it takes brawn and muscle and good constitutions to stand it. While men, even the ha‘rdiest, when they return from nautical life find the exposure has left them With a legacy as a constant reminder of the past. And often when a Jolly Jack Tar is relating an experience, the back that has car- ried him through it all is burdened with a far heavier burden. Our representa- tive had a pleasant chat the other day with just such a man. A sailor for thirty years. Thomas Coonev, by name, a Norwalk citizen, residing at N o. 73 Harbor avenue. He has also held the position of dockmaster for ten years, and to add to the difliculties he has had to contend with, he fell from a tree when a boy, striking a fence. This ac- cident left him with back trouble, and the life on the water With its hardships added their share until he found back- ache was more or less a steady thing, coming on from time to time. Like most people he did not understand that it came from the kidneys, but reading that Doau’s Kidney Pills cured. back- ache he got 9. box at Hale’s drug store and was surprised to find how quickly they acted. “Why.” says Mr. Cooney, “they simply cured me, and'you may be sure I have a good word for Doan’s Kidney Pills, they have done such good work for me. 'I shall be glad to tell anyone about it who wishes to know.” It’s like a case of mistaken identity. Mr. Cooney did realize that it was kidney ache and that his kidneys were injured, not his back. That exposure had simply increased the kidney com- plications. It’s easy for Doan’s Kidney Pills to cure such cases. ~ ' For sale by all dealers. price 50 cents, or mailed by Foster-Milbnrn Co. . Bulf- alo, N. Y., sole agents for the United States. ‘ Itching Piles, night’s horrid plague, is instantly relieved and permanently cured by Doan’s Ointment. Your deal- er ought to keep it. ‘ QELS/ *wn: R 04’ SARATOGA SARATOGA! Genuine Saratoga \Vater in block-tin lined barrels direct from the celebrated Spring, is for sale on draught at Had- den’s, corner Wall and River Street. THE WATER Is brought direct from Sara- toga, and is dispensed in pre- cisely the same condition in which it flows from the spring at Saratoga, and is sold at 5 cents per Glass. DRINK HATHdflN SPRING WATER FOR THE Stomach, Bo wels, Liver and Kidneys. FOR SALE BY The Holmes, Keeler &Selleei Co DORLON HOUSE" GREGORY’S POIN I. N W OPEN FOR THE SEASON UP 1896. _— Shore Dinners, Rhoda Island clam Bake. Baihlng, Beating. Flshlng. ' Electric cars to Hotel, every' Nut!" minutes. ' MW.
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