HouuHiiitHosm.
Ex-Siate Senator Michael J. Houli-
ban, of Newtown. was Tuesday nomi-
nated for Congress by the Democratic
Congressional convention of the Fourth
district at Torrington. The convention
was called to order in the Opera House
at 11:30 by Eli D. Weeks of Litchfield,
chairman of the Congressional commit-
tee for the district, 66 delegates being
present.
Homer _8. Cummings of Stamford,
the Democratic nominee for secretary
of state, was named as temporary chair-
man and later was made permanent
chairman. Bernard E. Higgins of
Woodbury, was appointed secretary for
Litohfield county and Joseph A. O’Brien
of Bridgeport, for Fairfield county.
After the reports of various commit-
tees John F. Cufi‘ cf Danbury, placed
in nomination for congressman,Michael
J. Houiihan of Newtown. There was
only one‘other nomination, that of Wil-
liam J. Bohannan of Stamford. One
ballot was taken, resulting as follows:
Houli‘han, 33; Bohannan, 29. Seat-
tering, 4. . .
The vote was immediately made un-
animous for Houtihan bv the conven-
tion, and Senator Houlihan was nomin—
ated. _
Resolutions were adopted endorsmg
the platform and nominees of both the -
Chicago and state conventions, and the
conventionadjourned at 1 o’clock.
Mr. Houlihan was a delegate to the
Chicago convention and is now a free
silver man.
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ONLY ONE LEFT.
Orlando, the Only Boy Among the Stickies
(luadruplets, Died Sunday Morning.
Orlando, the third of the Stickies
quadruplets, and the only boy of the
number, died at the Bridgeport Gen-
eral Hospital at 10:30 o’clock Sunday
morning. His death had been expected
momentarily since Friday noon, but
t? e child displayed amazing vitality.
Orlando was a few hours over a month
old, the children having been born on ‘
August 27, a month ago yesterday.
Elizabeth, the sole remaining one of
the quartette, is enjoying good health,
and will probably survive, at least un-
til the cholera infantum and teething
period, which comes to infants of a
slightly older age.
TWO IN ONE. CASKET.
Second and Third of the Stickies Quadru-
plets Buried Yesterday.
Two little babies with hands clasped
rested in a neat white casket at Bishop’s
Bridgeport undertaking parlors Tues-
day morning. They were two of the
famous Stickies quadruplets.
The little casket was covered with
choice cut flowers. The plate bore the
names and ages of the children, the
girl 25 days and the boy one month. 'A
. singular fact about the death of three
of the four children, is that they passed
away in the order they were born,
Amelia, first. Wilhelmina, second, and
Orlando 11., third.
There was quite a gathering in the
undertaking parlors when Rev. Mr.
Cone of Christ church read the funeral
service. The bodies were taken to
Woodlawn on the 12:40 train for 'inter-
ment. Their father 0. H. Stickies
owns a plot in- Woodlawn, and the
mother and other child are buried
there. '
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Want Him Back.
A. numerously signed petition to
Bishop Tierney askirc 'hat Rev. Father
Slocum be returned in rile an. Mary’s
parish, this city has been mailed to the
Bishop. It is not at all probable that
it will be seriously considered. Never-
theless Father Slocum would be gladly
welcomed back again by our citizens of
all faiths. It is stated that there isa
possibility of Mr.‘ Slocum’s being ap-
pointed to the charge of the parish in
Stamford if such should be his desire.’
He is however doing very nicely in
Waterbury and it is not known that he
desires a change. '
“Dan.” Honnecker’s Wit.
While the “grand old mischief-maker
of Isaacs street,” was struggling with
his anjournment motion at Monday’s
city meeting, “Dan.” Honnecker, with
true mother wit, remarked soto ooce,
“why not adjourn until after the No-
vember election and then if Bryan is
elected the Bridge won’t need widening
as there’ll be room enough then for all
the business we’ll have left.”
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A Serious Charge. _
J. A. Penfield, one of the speakers at
the regular weekly meeting of the
Bridgeport Temperance league, Sun-
day afternoon, startled his auditors by
announcing-that a well known rounds-
- man on the Bridgeport police force was
the proprietor of a house of ill fame.
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Wiii Wed in New Canaan.
The wedding of Knight Dexter Che-
ney, jr., of South Manchester and Miss
Ruth Lambert of New York is to take
place at New Canaan on Tuesday, Oc-
tober 13.
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—Advertise in the GAZETTE.
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BURGLAIiilEil AGAIN.
While on a visit to their summer home
in Ridgefield, Sunday, Charles Swartz,
son of Christian Swartz. discovered
that the house had been entered by
burglars since the family returned to
South Norwalk a week ago. Every
room had been visited and the closets
and bureau drawers ransacked.‘ The
only thing missing that could be ascer-
tained in the short visit, was some
clothing belonging to Oh nice. A more
thorough examination may disclose
other articles gone.
A discovery made in one of the rooms
leads to the impression that the thieves
intended to, fire the house.
In this room which is on the west side.
of the house, the clothing had all been
taken from the closet and thrown on the
bed. At the foot of the bed and lying
on the floor was a consumed newspaper
which had been rolled up and used as a
torch. The paper had been thrown
upon the floor and left there by the
thieves to burn itself out. The windows
in the room being tightly closed there
was not sufficient draft to ignite the
matting on the floor and the fire had
gone out after burning a large hole in
the matting; There had been no at-
tempt to extinguish the burning paper
and it lay upon the fl ’0' j-i_~t as it had
been thrown, as though the thieves had
attempted to burn the house.
An entrance had been effected
through the outside cellar door, and
the door at the head of the stairs leading
to the cellar from the dining room,
which had been hailed up, was forced
open admitting the thieves to the house.
Some time ago the house was visited
by thieves and stripped of carpets, etc.,
and this makes the second time that the
house has been entered.
Fanious College in Ruins.
The main Mount Holyoke college
building at South Hadley, Mass, was
destroyed by fire early Sunday even-
ing. .The building has stood for many
years with the two wings and. gymna-
sium. The loss will probably amount
to $2000,0( 0. 4
The fire started under the gymna-
sium, probably in the drving room con-
nected with the laundry, and spread
rapidly to the rest of the building.
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Coney’s Elephant Gone.
The big wooden elephant at Coney
Island was destroyed in less than half
an hour Sunday by a fire which also
wiped out fourteen other buildings and
part of the Sea Beach Palace building.
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THE T‘RAMP’S MISTAKE.
He Ignorantly Tackled Buffalo’s Strong
Man. '
Buffalo has aprofessional strong man.
named Bert Bartram, who is a. genial
sort of a. giant, tipping the scales at
210 pounds, while, as is the case with
Sandow, his appearance does not give
the idea of unusual strength to the cas-
ual observer. Bartram was on his way
home late last Monday night, and had
reached a secluded thoroughfare along
his route when a big and burly tramp
suddenly stepped from behind a tree
and demanded money. i
“I haven’t a cent,” said Bartram.
The tramp took Bartram by the shoul-
der. ‘
"Now, see here, young feller,” he be-
gan, “you just—”
He didn’t get any further. Bartram
took the other by both elbows and tossed
him up in the air. Then he stood him
on his head and then turned him over
his knee and spanked him, afterward
tossing him over a seven-foot board
fence into a vacant lot. The tramp did
not follow Bartram as he proceeded on
his homeward way.
PADEREWSKI’S TWO BROTHERS
The Infant Prodigy Tells tho Family Who
_ They Are. ,
Apropos of Paderewski, says the Me-
tronome, here is an anecdote, hitherto
unpublished, to add to the already long
list of stories wherein the Polish vir-
tuoso‘s name figures:
It seems thatza young hopeful, mtat
4, who comes of a cultured family, and
hears matters. musical discussed daily
atithe dinner table, was present during
a conversation where Paderewski’s
name occurred several times. Mindful
of his mother’s previous exhortations
and the demands of good manners, he
struggled hard for a while to keep
silent.
But the conversational spirit moved
him too strongly, and at last he burst
out with: .. .
“Oh, I know about P—Paderesky.
There is three brothers of them, and
one's Johnderesky, and. the other’s Ed-
warderesky, and the other’s Paderes-
ky I”
And it will take the youngster several
years to find out why he raised such a.
laugh.
A Remarkable 535:.
One of the most extraordinary me-
chanical wonders of the world is a. clock
built by a Russian Pole named Gold-
fadon. He was at work upon it six
years. The clock represents a railway
' station, with all of its appointments and
details carefully carried out. On the
central tower is a. dial which shows the
time at New York, London, Warsaw
and Pekin. Every quarter of an hour
the station begins to bustle, telegraph
operators click their machines, the sta-
tion master and his assistants appear,
portersbustle about with luggage, and
a miniature train dashes out of a tunnel
on oneside of the platform. "All the
routine of a railway station is gone
. through, after which the train disap-
pears into. another tunnel, to reappear
at thenext quarter of an hour.
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FOUNDHUMANBUNES
Some time during Saturday night or
early Sunday ‘morning the house of
Silvanus Middlebrook, the hermit, sit-
uated near Bedding, was burned down
to the underpinning, and the old man
perished in the flames. Nothing was
known of the fire until yesterday morn-
ing about 9 o’clock when the smoking
ruins were discovered by a person
passing that way. After the embers
had cooled off enough to permit an in-
vestigation, a search was instituted
with the result that human bones were
found in the cellar, confirming the sus-
picion at once aroused that the aged
bachelor had been cremated alive.
“Hermit” Middlebrook was 80 years
old. He was worth a snug little for-
tune. and perhaps more. He owned
thehouse he lived and met death in,
besides a block in Danbury. His one-
story-and-a-half dwelling was located
on a lonely road, and a half mile from
the nearest neighbor. The man and
the house were inseparable in the minds
of Bedding and Danbury people, for he
was seldom seen on the street of either
place. The house was nearer Bedding
than Danbuiy, being about a mile north
of the former place, '
There is some suspicion in the minds
of the people that the old man was
robbed and then the place was fired to
conceal the robbery. He is known to
have had a brother living in Michigan.
Middlehrook left a will. It is in the
possession of John Todd, a neighbor,
in whose care he. placed the document
some time ago.
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YOUT'HFUL GREAT MEN.
Famous at an Age When Most. Men Begin
Their Career.
Many of the greatest careers have,
been made by young men. Washington
was but forty-three when he was called
to the command of the American Rev-
olutionary army. Henry Clay was
Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives at 34. Stephen A. Douglas was
but 39 when he first became a. candidate
for the Presidency. John Jay was
Chief Justice of the United States at 45.
. James G. Blaine was only 39 when he
became Speaker of the House of Repre-
sentatives. Alexander Hamilton took
charge of the Treasury at 32 years of
age. Martin Van Buren, at 36, organ-
ized the famous Albany Regency, and
was Governor of New York at 40.
John C.‘Calhoun, in his 42d year, was
Vice President of the United States.
John C. Breckinridge, of Kentucky,
was Vice President at 32, and a. candi-
date for the Presidency at 35. George
B. McClellan was only 38 when nomi-
nated for the Presidency.
In military life, especially, young men
have been most conspicuous. Gen.
Grant was but 40 years of age when
he began winning a. name‘ \for himself
in our civil war, and was only 43 when
the war clOsed.
Napoleon was master of France and
Europe before his 30th birthday. Alex-
ander the Great had conquered the
world and left it before he was 33 years
old. Fremont, the “Pathfinder,” had
explored the Rocky Mountains before
he was 30, and was running for the.
Presidency at 43.
Columbus was in the 30’s when he ex-
plained his ideas of the Western pas-
sage and enlisted the Spanish sovereigns
in the project that led to the discovery
of America.
Richard Cobden was but 34 when he
- founded the Anti-Corn Law League,
which revolutionized the commercial
policy of Great Britain.
William Pitt, ranked by some histori-
ans as the greatest of modern British
premiers, was practically ruler of Eng-
land at 24.
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[THE NEW SALVATIONIST.
He Gained the Confidence of the Native-
of India by Going Barefooted.
The new British commander of the
Salvation Army of the United States is
forty-three years old and his full name
is F. De la. Tour Booth-Tucker.
Commissioner Booth-Tucker belongs
to an old English family, and prior to
his joining the Salvation Army, eight
years, ago, he was a Resident Magistrate
in the Punjaub District in India. He
became \interested in the Salvation
Army and finally threw up his position
and went into the work of evangelizing .
the natives of India. He even donned
the garb of the inhabitants and went
barefooted among them as a travelling
preacher and apostle, begging his bread.
F. DE LA TOUR BOOTH-TUCKER.
It is his work which has given the
Salvationists such a. tremendous hold
on India. He rose rapidly in the coun-
cils of the organization. and has held
the office of Foreign Secretary for some
time. '
His wife, Emma. Booth-Tucker, is
the second daughter of Gen. William
Booth, and a. sister of ex—Commander
Ballington-Booth. He was married to
her about ten years ago.
active in army work, and has" charge of
the organization of training schools for
recruits.
A LITTLETNESSAGE”
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It Was from His Sweet Young Wife to His
Mother-ln-Law.
“Gilbert, dear,” said young Mrs.
Honeymoon, leaning over the fliall rail-
ing and calling down to her husband
as he was hurrying on the gloves and
overcoat, “would you mind calling at
mamma’s and leaving a little message
for me on your way down town? It
Will be but a block or two out of your
way." .
Of course Gilbert said lifhnrt lie
“would not 2min ,” as it was the duty
of a newly-wed young man to say.
“That’s a. dear. Well, tell mam-ma
. that if it is real pleasant this after-
noon I’ll come for her to go out and
make a. few caiis’ivnh me, and tell her
to decide where we shall go before ‘I
comegbut that I won’t come if it looks
like rain because I’m almost certain
that rain will spoil my new calling
suit. I didn’t think so when I bought
it, but I’m awfully ufrnldit‘s going to
spot; so if it looks threatening I' l not
go, but if it’s fair-I’ll be around by 4
or maybe by half-post 3; but by 4. aflym
how, and tell her to wear her real lace
and 'her new black satin if she wants
to call on the Vanderslips; ant], Uh,
Gilbert, ask ‘her to send meetihnit re-
ceipt for the' scallop she had when we
were there to tea. it - horn evening.
You know you liked it o‘much. and—
wait a moment. dear; tell 'her that I
bade letter from Aunt Fannie ite-day
and that she really thinks .01? making
us a. visit this fall, and ask her fiche
can’t come home with me to tea. after
we make our calls, that is if we do
make rthem; but ‘tell 'her that 'if it rains
I won’t think of coming to have my
dress all spotted up, and be sure and
don’t forget.”
PREPARATIONS FO F
reat .
Battle
Of November 3are already 'weil under way. A New
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THE. GREATEST OF ALL MODERN
SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES-
A Full Exposition of the Wonderful Light
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iblo' to: the Camera. Photographing
Through Wood.
Unprecedented is the history of an-
cient or modern science is the swiftness
with which the discovery of William
Konrad Roentgen, a comparatively ob-
scare German professor of physics, has
spread to the four corners of the earth.
Un edented, also, is the unanimity
wi which it has been , taken ‘ up
throughout the civilized world and the
extraordinary interest it has awakened.
It is now a little more than three'
months since Roentgen announced and
demonstrated that he had found a new
and wonderful property in certain rays
of light, and in that time experiments
have been inaugurated by hundreds of
scientific bodies and by thousands of in-
dividuals. . ,
The lay as well'as the'scientific press
has teemed with voluminous descrip-
tion. and a popular interest has been
created that has never been hitherto ob-
served in the announcement of any imo
portant step forward in the realm of
scientific search and endeavor.
And this is in the very infancy of the
discovery; in its germ condition; at a
point where the human mind is just be-
ginning to grasp the multiplicity of its
great possibilities. No such specula-
tion as to future accomplishment attend-
ed Watt’s discovery of the power of the
vapor from boiling water; nor the birth
of modern photography, fathered by
Daguerre; nor the invention of the mag-
netic telegraph by Morse; nor the re-
cording of the human voice on the phon-
ographic cylinder by Edison. All these
PROFESSOR BOENTGEN.
were of slow propagation.
What they might eventually become
was conservatively discussed and rea-
soned out as they progressed and im-
proved, but Roentgen has in a short
time flashed a new ray of light around
the earth, and has lighted up a pathway
so far ahead that its termination cannot
be conceived by the present generation.
Nevertheless, the speculation as to pos-
sibilities even at this early day is start-
ling.
What Prof. Roentgen has found to
be possible—to begin at the beginning
—-is the “photography of the invisible,”
and it isn’t so much how he does it or
how he tells others to do it as it is wh at
may be accomplished in the future from
this discovery.
The operation itself is not at all com-
plicated. The principal is the employ-
ment of a current of electricity dis-
charged through a highly, rarefied at-
mosphere, so highly rarefied indeed that
it is the nearest approach that can be
made to a perfect vacuum.
This is secured in what are known as
Crookes tubes—glass bulbs in which
the atmospheric air has been exhausted,
and containing the positive and nega-
tive poles of a battery. The current is
obtained from a large induction coil.
The discharge creates certain rays of
light in the tube, one of which is called
the cathode .or X rays—the algebraic
appellation of an unknown quantity,
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PHOTOGRAPHING THE HAND.
and used for convenience sake. It has
a singularly penetrative power and is
invisible in the daylight. In a darken
ed room it can be seen to shine through
a book of a thousand pages, to light up
two packs of cards held together and to
penetrate an inch of solid wood. Al’
these substances lose their opacity un
der the X rays.
When a. picture is to be taken of in
visible objects, say the bone of a. hand.
a Crookes tube is suspended about six
' inches over the hand. Beneath 'the
tube is a lead diagram with a hole in it,
through which the rays shoot. Under
the diaphragm the hand of the subject
is placed on a sensitive photographic
plate, the plate being first wrapped in
heavy paper to keep out the ordinary
light. Both it and the hand are then
covered with a. blmk cloth. The current
is turned on and kept on from 35 min-
utes to an hour and a half. The long-
er the exposure the better the result will
be.
After it is believed that sufficient ex
posure has been made the plate is taken
to the dark room and developed in the
regular way. The print is then made,
and if everything has been properly
f. done it will be found that the image 01
the hand, in slightly dim shadow, has
been projected on the plate, through the
cloth, the paper, and the black card-
boardplate cover, whicn may be used
if desired. The hand is outlined in
:iiadow. but the bones within it are
i made more clearly visible than the
flesh.
If an envelope containing several flat-
placed over a sensitive plate and expos-
ed to the X rays for twenty minutes, the
image of the invisible articles will be
very distinct. Key and coin ,will be
sharply outlined.
for the least resistance to the rays.
As soon as Roentgen’s communication
to the Wurzburg Society was given to
.the world. experimenting began every-
where. The new radiant energy became
the subject of discussion among the an-
atomists and surgeons all over the
world. It was contended. that if the x
rays could picture the bones in part of
the human organism, they could dis-
close a malformation or lesion of those
bones. . - -
If the rays could penetrate the flesh
of the hand, they might penetrate the
flesh of the chest and discover the ex-
act location and extent of diseased lung
cells; they might find a. tumor in the
stomach where none was exp acted; they
might determine the certain existence
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or absence of appendicitis ; the location
of a bullet in muscular tissue or in the
osseous structure, the determination of
a dislocation, the precise seat of adhe-
sion in pleurisy, the discovery of a. brain
lesion—in fact, it is hoped and expected
from the'present outlook that the‘ca-
thode ray will some day become the
great search light in surgery, the great
diagnostioian, as exact and as irrefuta-
ble as a mathematicial axiom.
If the penetrativs quality of this mys-
terious property be still further devel-
oped the possibilities in other directions
are well nigh limitless. The internal
secrets of all structural work will be
laid bare with its employment as a de-
tector of faults.
Nothing invisible in the concrete
world can escape after it has been
brought to the zenith of perfection.
Caught a “’hale in His Net.
The sharks drove a hump-backed
whale into the nets set by W; D. Geri,
_of Capitola, recently, after giving him
a merry chase for his life. When they
got the whale tied up they left him and
went off to seek other prey. ’
Gori came down to his nets in the
morning and found. instead of the bass
for which he had set his nets, the whale,
for which he had no particular use. It
was a. question of saving his nets.- He
‘and his men found the hump-back a
tough fellow to deal with, and finally
had to resort to dynamite, which was
driven into him with a. pointed gas-
pipe.
The huge fish, which was over forty
feet long, dropped immediately to the
bottom of the bay as soon as the explo-
sion occurred, carrying the net with
him. The seine was worth about one
hundred dollars, and the oil to be se-
cured will not cover half the cost.—
San Francisco Examiner.
Saw the Chesapeake and Shannon Fight.
William Endicott, of Beverly, Mass,
who has just celebrated his 97th birth-
day, and is in enjoyment of good health
is the nearest direct descendent of Gov-
ernor John Endicott.
He was an eye witness of the battle
between the Chesapeake and the Shan-
non during the War of 1812. and after
the fight he attended the funeral of
Lawrence and Ludlow, who were killed
'u that conflict‘.
UP HILL AND DOWN. ‘.
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“Land Sal: es, it’s just a toy to ride.
Sort of a. winged toboggan slide.
Learn? Why, he takes me for a fool
With his polytechnic ridin’ school. ..
“That was an earthquake. can’t fool me,
That; tipped me over beside this tree.
And a. Western cyclone bent my nose
And ripped the stitches all out of my clothes!
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