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URHORSESHOER syn-ca FOR THE % ear E g, Ill" mme-smi; m.— i llllllllllfllllmm'in until" It ABSOLUTELY prevents slipping, and insures perfect safety and comfortto horse and driver. Shed with the “ Neversli ” your horse's feet are always in good condition—kept” b not having to constantly remove tho 5 oes for sharpening. The CALKS are REMOVABLE, Steel-Centered and SELF-SHARPENING When worn out new Calks can be easily in- serted without removing shoes. saving an immense amount of time usually eat at the blacksmith shop. On receipt 0 postal will mail free our de- scriptive circular containing Prices of Calked ‘Bhoes, ready to be nailed on, or trial. were“ this winter at very low prices. . L. L. EYWO ltTElI 8r. SON Sole Agts. 104 Front St.. Hartford, Ct. WINTER IS GOIIIE And my new line of Fall and Winter Suitings are now ready and awaiting your inspection. Call in and examine them though you do not purchase. Suitings are cheaper, and I make them up in the latest styles at prices that will surprise you. F. KOCOUR. MERCHANT TAILOR’ t4 llorthjlain Street. 7‘80. ltorwalk Horace E. Dann, EXOELSIOL Livery and. Sales Stable.‘ wuuuvw‘a‘awuw‘ 3pposite Danbury and Norwalk Railroad depot. ~ Norwalk. Conn. Stylish Single or Double Team with or without drivers' Safe horses for women ' andchildren. . ' SADDLE HORSES A SPECIALTV ”MEEKER COAL co, ”GOA-L, WOOD, BRICK, LIME, 0mm, nu.- PIPE. QFFIUE WITH G. ‘WARD SELLEOK WALL STREET. NOBWé LR. an”. ; .. .. ....._ lMMIGRATIONlllLL UP. ___._——— National Senate Discusses This Meas- ure at lluch Length. THE AGES FOR EXCLUSION. The Main Points Upon “fluid: the Solon: Disagreed—Olney to Tell Confiden- tially About Cuba—The Rou- tine ‘vVor'k of tho House. Wisnrxsrox, Dec. 18.-—On motion of Mr. Hale (Rep., Me.) the senate agreed that when it adjourn today it be until Monday next. . The house amendments to the senate bill as to the lands of the Atlantic and. Pacific Railroad company were laid be- fore the senate, and on motion of Mr. Hill (Dem., N. Y.) were nonconcurred in and a conference ordered, Messrs. Hill, Platt (Rep., Conn.) and Clark (Rep., Wy.) be- ing named as senate conferees. Mr. Chandler (Rep., N. H.) presented a large number of petitions from Alabama reciting that by reason of the election methods prevailing in Alabama the state was wi bout a, republican form of gov- ernmen' at the present time. It brought out a statement from Mr. Allen that the Alabama investigation proposed by him had been defeated by Republican votes. Mr. Chandler responded that the defeat was due to Mr. Allen’s mismanagement of his resolution and that the investigation could be resurrected. . . , Mr. Gall (Dem., Fla.) oflere‘d a resolu- tion, which was referred, appropriating $10,000 as a relief fund for the suflerer‘s from the tidal wave and storm which oc- curred on theFlorida coast last October. A bill was passed authorizing the Kan- sas City, Shreveport and Gulf Railroad company to build a bridge across the Sn.- bine river between Louisiana and Texas. ' The senate then went to the calendar and passed the bill to authorize the readjust- ment of counts of army ofiicers who were graduates of West Point Military academy. The Immigration Bill. At 1 o’clock the immigration bill was taken up, previous agreement having been made that the final vote would occur at .1, . m. Mr. Pasco (Dem., Fla.) moved a modi- fication of the senate substitute so that the exclusion will apply to “all persons over 14 years of age who cannot read and write the language of their native country or some other language, but an admissible immigrant over 14 years may .bring in with him or send his wife or parent or grandparent or minor child or grandchild, notwithstanding its inability to read or write.” Mr. Vest (Dem., Mo.) moved to make the age of admission 16 years, and Mr. Palmer moved that it be 21 years. The age limit caused extended debate. Mr. Lodge, in charge of the bill, opposed any change from 14 years. The senate finally agreed to a change in the immigration bill making the age limit of . exclusion above 16 years. Mr. Morgan proposed an exception as to Cu- bans, and the amendment occasioned ex- tended debate. Mr. Hoar proposed that the exception of Cubans from the restrictions of the immi- gration bill shall apply “during the contin- uance of the present disorder in Cuba.” This was debated at length. The senate then adopted the Morgan— Hoar amendment, excepting Cubans from the exclusion of the immigration bill dur- ing the continuance of the present war. In the House. When the house met today, the pending question was on the adoption of the amend- ment to the army appropriation bill to ex- cept the Army and Navy hospital at Hot Springs, Ark., from all benefit in the ap- propriation for hospitals. The attempt to cut oif all provision for this hospital was again put to a vote today. Mr. Little (Dem., Ark.) made the point of no quo- rum, the vote having resulted 90 to 27, and thus forced the yeas and nays. The amendment was adopted, 151 to 80, and the army bill was passed without di- vision. Mr. Curtis (Rep., N; Y.) reported the Military academy appropriation bill. Mr. Babcock (Rep., Wis. ), chairman of the committee on the District of Columbia, under the agreement made on Monday, claimed the day for the business from his committee. Three resolutions relating to the inauguration of Mr. McKinley were adopted. One permitted the railroads en- tering the city to lay temporary tracks for the accommodation of the traveling pub- lic, another permitted the inaugural com- mittee "to occupy government reservations along the route of the parade, and the third authorized the secretary of war to loan all the United States ensigns, flags and signal numbers not in use at the time of the in- auguration for the purpose of decorating the streets on that occasion. The Pacific railroad funding bill will be the first business taken up by the house after the holiday recess. on rules has decided to give the railroad committee the three days which Chairman Powers has. asked for to debate the bill, and the debate will begin on the 5th or 6th of January. Olney May Tell All. I WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—It is stated that Secretary Olney will go before the senate committee on foreign relations tomorrow and give the committee a. great deal of confidential information relative to Cuba which is in his possession. A majority of the members of the com- mittee express ignorance of the intention of Mr. Olney to appear before the commit- tee; but there is no doubt that he told Senator Sherman, who Saw him for a few moments today, that he would be glad to appear at the committee’s meeting to throw all the light possible on the subject for the guidance of the committee. It is the expectation of all the members of the committee that a vote will be reached at' the meeting tomorrow on the Cameron resolution, declaring for Cuban independ- ence, and the friends of the resolution ex- . press no doubt that the measure will re- ceive the approval of a majority of the committee. . As Secretary Olney in his report to the president made a. special point of the neces- sity of concealing the identity of the agents relied upon by the state department to keep it informed of the progress of events in Cuba, as well as the details of their re- ports, it is probable that he will give his information under pledge of secrecy, made necessary to insure the safety of such coné sular officers in Cuba as may have served the department in a news capacity. Victor Hu‘go’o Rival Dead. Pants, Dec. 18.—Thadeath is announced of Viscount Auguste Morgen, a drama- tist famous as a rival of Victor Hugo. The committee LIKE A LAVEROCK IN THE LIFT. It’s we two, We we two, it’s we two for aye, All the world and we two. and Heaven be our stay. lke a laverock in the lift, sing. O bonny bride! All the world was Adam once, with Eve by his side. — What’s the world, my lass, my love—what can it do? I am thine, and thou art mine; life is sweet and new. . If the world have miss’d the mark, lot it stand by, . . For We two have gotten leave, and once more We’ll try. Like a laverockiin the lift,sing, O bonny bride! It's we two. it‘s we two, happy side by side. Take a kiss from me. thy man, now the song begins ‘ All is made afresh for us, and the‘brave heart wins. When the darker days come, and no sun will shine, Thou shall'dry my tears, lass, and [‘1] dry thine. ‘ It’s we two, it’s we two, while the worlds away. . Sitting by the golden sheaves on our wedding day. DECEIT OF DEV OTION. A good deal of water has flowed un- der the bridge since then. I was a novice at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, where I had arrived from my native village, and as I necessarily received a very meagre allowance from my pa- rents I boarded at a modest “pension” in a quiet little street on the out- skirts of Paris, at Montrouge. The meal hours were at noon and six o’clock, and I soon remarked that when those hours came around a big bell, like the hell that announces the suspension of Work in a factory, was set ringing. This puzzled me greatly, for there was not a factory, or even a workshop of any importance, in the neighborhood. At length I discovered that the ringing came from a miser- able little dwelling-house opposite, whence I had occasionally seen an itinerant cutler issue and start on his rounds, leading a sedate old horse that was harnessed to a very small ped— ler’s cart, very much the worse for wear. My curiosity was aroused, and one morning at luncheon, when the bell rang, I questioned the boarding- house keeper about, it. ' She gazed at me with indulgent pity, and said: “Why, it announces the din- ner hour of Rizel's workmen, of course.” Iiizel was the name printed on the cart of the itinerant cutler. I con— cluded that she was poking fun at me. “Rizel’s workmen!" I re-echoed, with depreciating incredulity. “I am not joking.” she went on se- riously; “I said that it announced the dinner hour of Rizel‘s workmen. and so it does. Hasn’t anybody told you about it?” “Of course not,” I remonstrated, “otherwise I should not have ques- tioned you.” “Well, I will enlighten you," said. “About twenty years ago the Rizels were master curlers. Besides a shop in the centre of Paris they had a fac- tory and carried on a wholesale trade. When their parents died the two sons. John and Edward assumed control of the business. Edward, the younger, managed the shop, and John, who was far cleverer, managed the factory. He was a very skillful workman, and used to toil at the trade as hard as any of his men, with whom he lived on terms of the most cordial camara- derie. “The brothers were devotedly at- tached to ca h other. There was nev~ er the sligh st cloud between them. What John decided upon Edward rati- fied without question. They would have died for each other. One day when the question of marriage was brought up by John‘, Edward ob- served: “ ‘If we both marry, our wives may quarrel and cause trouble between us; whereas, if only one of us takes to himself a wife there can be neither jealousy nor dispute. and nothing can come between us. You are my senior, marry if you wish to; I shall remain a bachelor.’ “John would not at first entertain such an argument, and asserted that he would remain a bachelor. But he counted without Cupid. Shortly after the above conversation he fell madly in love with a daughter of one of his customers, and married her, after vain- ly endeavor-ing to persuade his brother to follOw his example. “It would, however, be impossible to imagine a more united family. John’s wife was a good, affectionate little wo- man, who adored her husband, and Ed- ward loved her like a sister. “Suddenly their happiness was turned to sorrow by a catastrophe from which they have never recovered, and probably never will. Eight months after his wedding John’s right eye was destroyed by a steel splinter. This ac- cident in itself was terrible enough, but it was nothing to the terrible con- sequences that followed. Notwithstand- ing the care with which he was sur- rounded, and everything that science could do for him, after months of ter- rible suffering, John became stone blind. The operation necessitated by the ablation of the injured eye induced complete and incurable paralysis of the optic nerves. “John had been the very soul of the business. Edward knew absolutely nothing about the manufacturing part of ‘it, and even had he possessed-suf— ficient initiative to assume direCtiop cf the factory, his sister-in-law was too crushed and broken by her despair to replace him in the» shop. Moreover, “the money they had succeeded in saving had largely melted in the hands of the surgeons, physicians and druggists. Edward, being unable to attend prOper- ly to the business, the latter went from bad to worse, and though he made superhuman efforts "to avert it, she the final crash came, and they found themselves reduced to penury. “Yet during all the trouble, amid all their sorrow and worry, while the edi- fice built up with so much labor was crumbling about their heads, Madame blind man to know anything about it. Both were animated by the same no ble anxiety—to make the sufferer be- lieve that the business continued to prosper. While their creditors were knocking at their door and they knew that failure was inevitable, and that poverty stared them in he face, they choked back their sobs, and with tears of anguish in their eyes talked cheer- fully about the activity of business and the orders that were pouring in. had been forced to give up the hope- less struggle, and, the shop having been sold, they came to live in yonder ‘house, after buying a horse and cart with which to peddle cutlery in the sub- urbs, they kept up, and continue to keep up, the illusions of the blind man, whom grief and suffering have con- fined to a bed of pain, from which he will soon be released by death. In order to do this they reserved the old little garden in’ rear of the house. “At noon and six o’clock in the even- ing, the hours when the workmen used to be rung out, the wife or brother sets the bell a-ringing, and John’s pale and wrinkled face lights up with a feeble smile as he exclaims: “ ‘Ah! there go the boys!” “On New Year’s day. when the work- husband and about a dozen of the neighbors troop upstairs to shake hands with him and drink to the ‘guv. ’ner’s health. And be thanks them and calls them his dear comrades. and chinks glasses. to the success of the firm. “Ah! sir, it is sad enough to make you cry your eyes out.” This was the story told me by my boarding-house keeper, and it has re- mained grave‘n on his mind as one of the most beautiful examples of devo- tedness and charity of which I have ever heard. HIS UNMARRIED AUNT. Gibbon Owed the Best Pleasures of His Life to This Friend. Of Gibbon the historian it is written that “the true mother of his mind was a maiden aunt,” and as well, it is re- corded, fhat she was through his child‘ hood the guardian of his health. In appreciation of her imtiring devotion - and watchfulness he has expressed himself in language of most affection- ate rememberance. “Many anxious and solitary days,” says the grateful nephew, “did she con- sume with patient trial of every mode of relief and amusement; many sleep- less nights did she sit by my bedside hour would be my last.” As opportunities occurred, it was this Aunt Catharine Porten who taught him reading, writing, and arithmetic; all of which, as he writes later in life, “were acquired with such ease and pleasure that no remembrances of weariness or pain are associated with these lessons of my youth.” His mother, somewhat of a society woman, and by nature, as the record goes, “lacking in due consideration of mostimportant matters,” seems not to have addressed herself to the needs of her boy, the only survivor of~.a family of children, and very fortunate it was that this “dear unmarried aunt" de- voted herself to the culture of his mind and to the care of his health. All through his school career, which was entered upon at the death of his mother, when he was but ten years old, young Gibbon kept up a hearty, cheerful correspondence with his be- loved relative, recounting progress un- der different masters at different schools of learning, jotting down everyday details with a zest and fresh- ness indicative of an earnest wish to make her the Sharer of all his joys, sorrows, and aspirations, and regard- ing no ,hour weariness that he could fill withv‘glimpses of enjoyment for this patient: loving, life-long friend—Har- per’s Bazaar. Nothing Like Electricity. New uses for electricity are constant- ly being discovered. “A fish dealer runs a wire up through his counter and shoves it into a huge block of fish, and then labels it “Electric fish.” Any one curious enough to touch the fish with his fingers receives a very perceptible shock, which convinces him that the fish is correctly labelled. Yesterday a local dealer in pickles, who has a dozen varieties on display in pans set on top of the different casks, had a wire run along with a little branch of copper wire runninz:r into each pan. This charged th. 1.”! - :‘s so that anyg'one putting a finger in 1‘ c pan to sample one received a smzm :.l.cck. Just whether this was intended In keep people from sampling the pickles or as a joke on those who intended to do so, is not known; finger near one pan no one. attempted to touch another. If one took up the pan or put his hand on the pickles he received no noticeable shock, but the sensitive end of a finger'put near a pickle received a rather unpleasant jar. -—Oregonian. ' He Had Tried It. l Hayseed—Where is the durn gas- light in my room? Hotel Clerk—You will find the elec- tric light near the window. HayseedLDo- you mean that old fish hook in a glass case? I turned the crank and the fish hook got red hot. Then I shut her off for fear it might bust.—-Haruer’e Bazar. ‘ . Rizel and Edward never allowed the “And when all was over. when they factory bell, which now hangs in the. WEEKLY - 'Nonw Auk -- Gaza-rain; men w’ere accustomed to cailinabody i and pay their respects to him my- in trembling expectation that each at. but after putting a ‘ ‘HORSES BECOME -lNSAIEE. Statement of a Man Who Has Handled Several Cases. . Insanity among animals is not very common, and we, seldom hear muqh said about it; but'there is no doubt that the minds of animals. like the minds of human beings, become de- ranged. That animals-have minds and some of them minds superior to the minds of some men, no person who is well acquainted with them will dis- pute. My father traded for a fine large bay mare which had been raised in our neighborhdod, and which we had often seen at work, and never heard that she had any vices. She was turned out to pasture for a few days, and when my brother and I went into the field with a halter to catch her she came at us 'on a full run, with ears turned back, mouth wide open, nostrils expanded, and eyes glowing like balls of fire. She evidently meant murder, and of course we jumped the fence and got out of her way. Having provided ourselves with clubs we returned to the field, when she immediately charged upon usas before, and was only repulsed by the blows of our clubs oniher head. Defeated in her purpose of trampling us under her feet, she showed her evil intent by wheeling and kicking at us with great violence. A day of two af- terwards she appeared gentle, offered no resistence to being caught, was harnessed peaceably, hitched to a wa- gon beside another horse and driven by my father across the river on a good smooth fordway. She behaved well until returning across the river in sight of home and near the home shore, when she suddenly stopped, and no coaxing or driving could make her budge a step until she got ready, which was a full half hour after stopping. ‘\ Golf Widows. . There are the “bicycle face” and the “tennis arm,” and now there is the “golf widow.” She is the woman who doesn’t play golf and whose husband does; who hears of nothing else than that relating with more or less rele- vancy to the game, but who personally knows nothing of it. Nothing, that is to say, beyond the fact that for hour upon hour and for day after day is she widowed on its account. Golf is real- ly one-of the most formidable foes to connubial peace and happiness recently invented. while as a promoter of mar- tial dirztprd it has few equals. Much has been done to try to alleviate the the thing. Women have endeavored to learn golf on their own account, with more or less success as regards skill, but very little as regards numbers. Somebody has invented a game called “parlor golf,” belonging to the school of Drawing Room Athletics, and sup- posed to be peculiarly appropriate to women, but all to no purpose. The golf widow still exists. Like the bicy- cle face, the tennis arm and numerous other developments of sport, she con- tinues to hold her own. The golf widow refuses to be comforted—New York Sun. Indian "Girls 5. Nurses. Three young Indian girls have re :ently completed the course for trained nurses in the Philadelphia Hospital. Miss Phoebe IIood, one of the young women, is the’daughter of a Pawnee :hief. Miss Kate Greenod is of the Wyandptte tribe, and Miss Lily Wind, )f Canada, belongs to the tribe of the Dttawas.——New York Tribune. -.(——.-.'-"——.- Italian Opera. The first Italian opera ever per- formed in England was given January 5. 154'". under the auspices of Cathar- ine of Braganza. Queen of Charles the Second—Harper’s Bazaar. ‘ “*y ._ “—\-— -w§.—r~. . “P ' Sticldiig to the ‘Tr'uth. “Have you steam heat?” asked the prospective tenant. And the janitor, who had been through a “revival,” could only an- swer: “We have steam pipes.”~--In- dianmmlis Journal. BMW all others . Both in the public’s estimation and in it’s intrinsic value. All because B—L Tobaccos have always been kept up to their high stand- ard. That’s why B-L stands for best leaf, best flavor, the kind that suits, and is too high a. standard for competitors to reach. lWindow Glass. Odd Sizes Out to Order. Putty i'n Bulk,fand' I, 3 & 5 Pound Cans. Prepared Paint, Oils and Turpen- tine, Hardware 3. Housefu r n i s h- H. H. WILLIAMS ‘7 Main St. J. D. Jennings. UN DERTAK ER. 4 Knight street, opposite Street Railway Depot. HIGH 1' BELL AT OFFI CE. Telephone Service. ' The Southern llew England Telephone Bo- TELEPHONE SERVICE OFFERS in this City with an equipment of Metallic 5 a year Circuit, and Long Dis- tance Transmitter at and upwards. according to the amount and character of the. service. For details, address the Local Office of the Company, Sentinel B’ld’gqusitlaglonll. SOUTH NOIt WALK. HEATING srovrs, At Reduced Prices 2 ELECTRIC 01L HEATER With Pure Combustion. l New Patterns in Lam 3. Din- ner a Torlet Ware, ancy China's: Housefurnish- mg Goods. F. J. CURTIS 85 CO. 23 MAIN STREET, NORWALK. HALE’S LUNG- .BALSAM - 25C. Ask Your Druggist Mrs. MEAD’SI‘ ___scuoon WILL REOPEN autumn 1896. Al’lPLLICATION S For admission should be made at Hillside at; an early day. AT’ P. W. BATES’ 42 mm smear, you can find as fine an assortment of llfllllllllflllllllilliflillfllfll'YWfll'i As can be found in any Yard in the State. Look it over and get prices before going elsewhere. 'IIEIIE’S YOUR GIMME. A fine building lot on Wilton ave: _ nue. If you intend to build, look at this before purchasing. I Water, gas and sewer on the avenue. Will be sold at a Bargain. w. n. evmcron, Real Estate and Insurance _ Room I.Gazette B'l'd.
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