3. 'CLAsS We ' ‘ , l V: 0—“ fl :— .- 45;” (ON—57111611 /‘ . 0r- ) , H as... an. vinaigrette: w u: I I LIGHT PARCEL and LUbKWflUD 3 PAUaAGE nnnlvnnr Cheap rates. Will also take orders for mes ouuger service in New'~York. Goods called .0. and delivered to all parts ot the town, Orders received atE P. Weed’s Drug Store. “I all street. With telephone connection un- " ' e E. LOCKWOOD. ATV ' p, w. BATES’ 42 quin STREET. you can find as fine an assortment of Monumental u GenotorrWnrlr As can be found in any Yard in the State. Look it over and get prices ,. before going elsewhere. ‘W. H. HAYWARD & CO. Penstou Attorneys and Solicitors, 109 East Capitol Street, WASHINGTON. D. Cr‘ ...‘.'. All classes of claims prosecuted before the Interior Department. Rejected pension claims a specialty. Correspondence solicited. RNUNSGHWEIGER ' noun? 1‘ A runs MALT Enrica A SUBSTITUTE FOB soun roon. Highest percentage Extract. _ Lowest percentage Alcohol. An effectiveTomc. An agreeable Beverage._ A m11d_St1mu- lant. Just what physuerans wull pre- scribe for Nursing Mothers . Convales- cents and victims of Insomnia or Nerv- ous Disorders resulting from Impaired ‘ ' Digestion and Overworkt. For Sale and Delivered Anywhere Lona Island Bottling co., 280-284 Bergen St., Brooxlyn. FOR SALE BY EDWARD P. WEED. PRIVATE Instructions given in at the pupil’s home." Now folming, [and ap- plicants desiring to join should apply at once to Prof. Geo. Yoerger. South: Norwalk. or at this oflice. 00 You KNOW 0 That you carrsave’ money by buying your Meats and Fish at ' F. W. SHITII’S, 65’ Main Slrcc t Everything First Class” OPEN EVENINGS -up in the air off its foundations. a , didn’t lose consciousness. .atre tobacco and cotton, wool WE u —. _‘ . -.___.‘ lN A CYCLONE.' sass:- ‘ UP ”4&1 Reporter’s Experience Witha Worse \l’leizzeli than a. Bicycle. How it feels to be caught up in a cy- clone is graphically described by'Dr. W. I-‘. Michael, as reported by the Philadelphia Record. The doctor’s ad- venture occurred at Sherman, Texas. He was driving through a cemetery when a cloud loomed up before him, coming directly his way. He sprang from the carriage, unfastened the traces. turned the horse loose, and started to run for a place of safety. He had gone but fifty feet before the storm was Upon him. The doctor’s own words are: I heard a roaring sound when the storm was two miles or so distant, but it was beyond the hill, and I didn’t discover that I was right in its path until it reached the nearest hill, from a half to three-quarters of a mile south of me. It looked like a great ball of vapor rolling over and over, and seemed to be about two hundred and fifty yards wide and one hundred feet high. Whatever it struck was lifted right up from the ground. I saw the effects as it came to house after house between the hill and me. When the ball reached Mr. Chisholm’s house it went It was whole until it was up ten or fif- teen feet. Then it went all to pieces, just as if it had exploded. The same thing happened to the other houses. Above and around this rolling ball of cloud the air was full of bits of boards. tree limbs and other things which had been gathered up. W'hen the ball reached me I had got to the east fence 0f the cemetery, and had thrown myself down beside it. All at once the bright daylight disap- peared, and I was in total darkness. The picket fence, posts and all, was lifted up and came down fiat upon me. Then two trees fell on the fence. In a few seconds the trees went up in the air, and the fence followed. I felt myself drawn up off the ground by some invisible force. I It was so dark I couldn’t tell how high I went, but I was high enough to escape the monuments in the cemetery, and also the tree tops,,perhaps forty feet from the ground. " As I went along in the air I tried to keep an upright position, but couldn’t. Something kept turning me over and over in one somersault after another. I passed almost over the cemetery be- fore I struck the ground. I came down easily at an incline, just as if I were being lOWered in the tail of the storm. But I was still moving along, and when I hit the ground I went over and over for at least thirteen feet. The lessening force would raise me a little, and then let me back, until, at last, I dropped into a hole just out side the north fence of the cemetery. I was conscious all the time. until I stopped rolling and settled into that hole. After that I knew nothing more until people from the town were about me. My best friends did not recog- nize me. From head to foot I was covered with mud. My hair was plas- tered down with it. At first it didn’t seem to me that I was much hurt, but after a while I discovered that I was bruised from head to foot. While I was in the air it seemed as if things were peeking at me all the time. They must have been the boards and other flying wreckage. Development of the Pencil. There is something wrong with the common lead pencil, or else inventors imagine that there) is, for a great va- riety of new desiflns for making an ever-pointed pencil have been devel- oped and put on the market within a short time. ' For many years a lead pencil meant one of two things, either a stick of baked black lead and clay enclosed in a cover of wood, or a little cylinder of similar substance inserted in a handle which had a screw arrangement back of the lead to Work the lead forward as it was used up. While the pencil-case makers were busy the pencil makers were schem- ing also, and the result was that a lit- tle ,while ago one maker got out a pen- cil enclosed in-paper. The paper is wound on in a spiral, and all that is needed to sharpen this pencil is to loos- en the end of the paper and unroll a spiral or two of it, disclosing the lead. The wooden pencil makers were beaten for a time, but now one of them has gone the paper pencil makers one bet- ter; he makes his casing of wood, cut into a spiral like the paper one. The wood can be torn oil? with the fingers. On the other end of the pencil from the point is a metal ferrule in whicha rub- ber is set. You can take this ferrule off when you have exposed a new hit of lead, and inside you find a spiral sharpener tobring the lead to a point. Good Times Coming. It looks that way! Crop shortages in Europe, India and the Argentine are creating an extraordinary demand in England and on the continent for American produce. Our exports are increasing so rapidly that ocean freight rates have. heavily advanced: _ consequently tramp steamers are all racing for our coasts to get cargoes. This will bring down rates again, and insure abundant means for transport- ing our surplus to the other side. , Prices are advancing all along the line. Wheat and oats are highéi‘, so is im- proving, and with last year’s extraor- dinary corn exports now being doubled even corn is advancing in the face of the biggest crop on record! Reactions are probable if prices go up too fast. but even if present values are only maintained it means millions upon millions of extra profit to American farmers.——Agriculturist. EARLY THIMBLES- Tlicy Tier-e Made in Holland and Worn on the Thumb. The thimble is a Dutch invention, and the first one was made in 1684 by a. silversmith named Nicholas Van ‘Bcnschoten, originally it was called a “thumbcll” because it was worn on the thumb, says the San Francisco “Chronicle.” In making thimbles the gold and sil- ver ingots are rolled out into sheets of the desired thickness and cut by a stamp into circular pieces of any re- quired size. These circular pieces are bent into thimble shape by means of a gold metal bar that is of the same size as the inside of the intended thim- ble; this bar is movgd by machinery up and down in a bottomless mold of the outside of the same thimble, and each time ,the bar descends it presses one of the circular pieces or disks into thimble shape. When the thimble is shaped the next work is to brighten, polish and deco- rate it. First the blank thimble is fit- ted with a rapidly revolving red. A slight touch of a sharp chisel cuts a very thin shaving from the‘end of the thimble, a section chisel does the same on the side, and a third neatly rounds off the rim. A round steel rod, well oiled, is held against the surface of the revolving thimble, and it is thus given a nice polish; the inside is brightened and polished in a similar manner, the thimble being held in a revolving fnold. Then a delicate revolving steel wheel, with a raised, ornamental edge, is pressed against the blank thimble and prints the ornament seen just out- side the rim. Another steel wheel cov- ered with sharp points makes tiny in- dentations all over the remaining blank surface of the thimble. The last operation is to wash it thor- oughly in soapsuds, to brush it care- fully and it is ready for my lady’s bas- ket. ' THE GENERALS’ TRAIN. An Interesting Feature of the Last Elec- tion Campaign. No feature of the late campaign was hailed with more interest than the trip of the Union Generals. They are all called Generals, although in reality the party was made up of five Generals, a Captain, and a Corporal. The Gener- als are 9. 0. Howard, Daniel E. Sick- tes, T. J. Stewart of Pennsylvania, 0. A. Mai-den of Massachusetts, and Bus- sell A. Alger of Michigan. The Cap- tain is John R. Tanner, the Republi- can candidate for Governor of Illinois, and the corporal is Corporal Tanner of New York. The Union Generals traveled in a special train, consisting of a baggage, dining, and combination sleeping and observation car, and at the tail end of the train was a flat car, on which, securely mounted, were a brass rapid- firing gun and a mortar. This fiat car was in charge of experienced gunners. By no means the least interesting person on the Union Generals’ train was the bugler, a very important man. At the stopping places the Generals left their car for seats on the flat car. 011 each side of their seats were the rapid—fire gun and a mortar. When Gen. Sickles arose on his crutches to address the audience the bugler was immediately beside him. - lIJ “Bugler,” cu;- ,uands Gen. Sickles, the sharp tents of an army officer giving orders. “call my comrades in this vast audience before me.” The bugler gave the regulation call. The old comrades in the audience step to the front and salute. “Bugle-r.” roars ’len. Sickles, “call us back to the old days of ’61.” The bugler then run the gamut of infantry, artillery, and cavalry calls, and between them he played the revil- le and the call to arms. The old corn- rades roared with delight. The rapid- fire gun blazed away and the mortar belched skyward a bomb, which when it broke was a ball of red, white, and blue fire. There was a band at every point and the national songs wereflre- played. All joined in singing “The Star Spangled Banner.” These scenes were repeated all along the route and excited wildest enthusiasm. Henry Irving’s Ring. It was long known among the friends of Henry \Vard Beecher that he had a passion for collecting curious arid beautiful precious stones, which he was accustomed to carry in his peck ets, occasionally making a present of one to somebody he admired. It seems now‘ that one of the finest of these gems graces the hand of Henry Irving in a ring that Mr. Beecher were for many years. - It contains a beautiful aquamarine, gem. \Vhen Miss Ellen Terry was on her first visit to America she lunched with Mr. and Mrs. Beecher, and being shown the gem, expressed so much ad- miration that Mr. Beecher urged her to accept it. . She was very proud of it and wore it constantly, but, as she tells the story, “On the day that Queen Victoria knighted Irving, I took the ring from my finger and gave it to him in honor of the occasion. _Sir Henry now wears Mr. Beecher’s ring and will wear it as long as he_lives.” Coffee Blindness. The Moors are inveterate coffee- drinkers, especially the merchants, who sit in thir bazaars and drink cof- fee continually during the day. It has been recently noticed that almost in- variably when these coffee-drinkers reach the age of forty or forty-five their eyesight begins to fail, and by the time they get to be fifty they become blind. Strangers are impressed by the num- ber of'blind men that are seen about th'c streets of the city of Fez, the capi- tal~of Morocco. It is invariably attri- buted 'to the excessive use of cofiee. This opinion has been confirmed by that of European physicians, living EKLY-NORWA ',, ’.' .3— ,u... . men meet, their way of saying “ How do you do? " is ‘.‘ How are your It . same thing. If the bowels are in good condition the rest of the system is pretty sure to be all right. But when they are ,consti- pated, it has a half- paralyzin sheet on the rest 0 the body —and the mind too. Headaches, dyspep- sia, -biliousness, v nervousness, poor sleep, weakness, heart palpitation and gloomy spirits, all come from constipa- tion. And that isn’t the worst of it: It lays your s stem open to all sorts of serious and angerous illness. . It isn’t safe to neglect constipation and it isn’t safe to use dangerous wrenching carthartics, to overcome it, either. They leave you worse off than before. What is needed is a mild natural laxative like Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets. They act surely but without any violence. . They regulate and strengthen the intestines to do their own work. When the “Pleas. ant Pellets” cure you, you are cured. You don’t become a slave to their use. Take care the druggist doesn’t give you something else he calls “ just as good.” It may be for him, but how about you ? You might learn a thousand valuable lessons about preserving your health by reading Dr. Pierce’s Common ~- Sense Medical Adviser. It is " a grand book and the present . edition is absolutely free to all who send 21 one-cent stamps to cover cost of mail- ing only. It contains 1008 pages and over 300 engrav- ings. 680,000 cloth-bound cop- . ies have been sold at $1.50 ‘ each. This free edition is in strong msnilla paper covers, otherwise it is just the same. Address World’s Dis- pensaryMedical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. CENTRAL NATIONAL BANK, 26 WALL 811, N 0R WALK. — CORPORATED SEPT. 1. 1876. CAPITAL. - - - - - - $100.00c GEORGE M. Home. President. E. L. . Berna. Vice-President. WILLIAM A. Gnarls. Cashier: DIE-MRS : GEORGE M. HOLMES, H. E. DANN, P. L. CUNNINGHAM. J. T. Paowrrr E. L. Bonn, S. H. HOLMIs. J . Oousms. J n. illscount nay, Saluriav- DAVID . ’W. RAYMOND Funeral Director and notation 39 Washington Street ’South Norwalk Residence. Mahackemo Hotel. When two China- “LKrGAZETTE? rue’onzuruo , “ Prruuriu « _.—- Department. _ wot-To TO THE WISE Merchants, Manuuamm. ers, Lodges and SMlelICt will consult their own inter ests by giving us acall. . REMEMBER— -If you have work to do, write to us. ht Reputation h Put In . llur Instruments. + Just one hits- Itake and we are hurt. That is the Reason Why SOHLEICHER & SON Np ~ ‘ ARE WHAT THEY ARE. HONEST wont AT AN Hoursrrnucrz Let :‘us build you a piano to match you. furniture. Come and see our factory. Pianos 'Sold’ on Easy Terms and Old lines Taken in ., . l Exchange. Factory: Pacific St; Stamford. EDISON THE ”DREAMER. His Way of Géfting Rid of Tiresome Tolo- ' graphic Drudgery. ’ Some one'had referred to him‘ as Victor Hugo when he made his ap-, pearance (as an operator in our tele- graph o'flice in Boston), and it was by . that name that we generally spoke of him. Every device wasemploycd to thwart his soarings after the infinite and his divings for the unfathomable, as we regarded them, and to get an amount of work out of him that was equivalent to the sum paid per diem for his services, and among them was that of having him receive the press report from New York. He did not like this, the work continuing steadily from 6:30 p. m. until 2 a. m., and leav- ing him no time in which to pursue his studies. ‘ One night about 8 p. m. there‘came down an inquiry as to where the press report was, and, on going to the desk where Edison was at 'work, Night Manager Leighton was horrified to find that there was nothing ready to go upstairs, for the reason that Edi- son had copied between 1,500 and 2.,- 000 words of stock and other market reports in a hand so small that he had only filled a third of a page. Leighton laughed in spite of himself, and saying: “Heavens, Tom; don"t do,that again!” hastened to cut the copy up into minute fragments and have it prepared in a more acceptable manner. While this was occurring Edison went on receiving, and the frequent trips of the noisy dummy box, which communicated with the pressrooms on the next floor, gave evidence that he 'was no longer gauging his handwrit- ing with an ultimate view to putting the Lord’s prayer, on a three-cent piccc. But all at once there was a great noise, and it ”was evident that Press Agent \l'allaco. a most profane man, was coming down stairs, swearing and shouting as he came. Everybody grew excited except lldisou, who was perhaps dreaming of the possibilities in some of the realms of electrical en- deavor in which he has since won re- nown. But we did not have long to wait to know the cause of \‘Vallace’s visit. Kicking open the door, he appeared to us, but he was speechless. The last note of his voice and the last remnant Df avocabulary of blasphemy which was famous throughout the city was gone. Standing there with both hands full of small, white pages of paper, he could only beckon. gLeighton ap proached him, and tenderly took the streets of paper from him, to find that Edison had made the radical change from his first style of copy to simply putting one word on each sheet, di- rectly in the centre. He had furnished in this way several hundred pages in a very few minutes. He was relieved from duty on the press wire, and put on another circuit, while the much—tried Leighton devoted himself to bringing \Vallaceback to a normal condition, admitting of the use of his voice and the flow of his usual output of profanity—Electrical Ile- View. DIED TO ESCAPE DlSHONOR. Armenian Women Prefer Death to Falling into the Hands of the Turk. Private letters received by a lady from two English friends who have been traveling in Armenia give a sad account of the general desolation. Writing from a large town in the in- terior, they say: , “We find things in a terrible state here. The distress is dreadful. They say there is not a Christian in the place who has not lost some near rela- tive, husband or father or brother ,or wife, while the sufferings of the poor abducted women and girls is beyond words. , “Many of these helpless and needy women were once 'vealthy ladies who had their own servants, and lived in, every (Eastern) comfort. Now, with husbands and sons killed and their homes entirely pillaged what can they do? “Then there are the maimed and sick. One poor young woman was brought for me to see, both of whose hands had been literally cut to pieces while endeavoring to save her head, which was also wounded; her husband was killed at the same time, and she, after his death and her own mutila- tion, bore twins, but, from being una- ble to nurse them, the babies, of course, died. Three thousand were massacred here at once, and all the Christian shops and numbers of houses burned. . “Only a short distance from this city thirty-two women, headed by a noble and very intelligent woman, well known to the missionaries, threw themselves into the river to escape dis- honor. and more than one father played the part of Virginius, and killed his daughter outright.” Faithful to His Lost Master. A large black collie dog prowls up and down the platform at Camden Station outside the gates watching ev- ery train that arrives and departs. 'As soon as he sees a train he makes for the baggage car ’and mounts the plat- form. It is said that he came in on a Royal Blue train about two, months ago, and that ever since that time he has been waiting for the same bag- gage car to come back. When it does, the'people around the station say. it will be the last of the dog, for when he- has found the car he will, it is be- lieved, have found his master.—Balti~ more Sun. The Regular Thing. Statistically InclinedTourist (in Ok- lahoma)—What is the death rate here? Alkali Ike—Same as it is everywur else—one death for every inhabitant. —'.l‘ruth.
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