combustion. W10! IA‘I'SSr-By mall. in ad- m Md: One month. me: three WM .1; months. 52.50101“ rear. 3630 . blunboymlacswwk.mbspald ' onion-.119. us win-1111mm street. Infill Kuwait: telephone call, on. Branch m M43 Wall street. Norwalk: telephone if! IA IWIGATIONH should in all cases be ml murmur BHTINIL. sou-1'11 Nominal, 001111. . Good on any the Ive-lax oblioatlon sold at Incl. In York lot-Id Weather ram-s1. . III N" ballad today fair to partly cloudy W and light westerly winds will pre- vail. with llthtly lower. followed by slowly . thiamine-stars and by light local rain in “I. MIND districts. On Friday, fair. filth“! warmi- wssther and southerly winds will M and on Saturday higher tempera- ture and fair wuther. Ibumomotor Be cord. The lowest point of the thermometer for the . Man-turban“ ending at noon today was 80° above zero: hithest. £93. Mill-Ian Almanac for 'l'o-morrnw. ,Soansas Sun Fetal High Tide Low Tide “Ia at 7:23 It 1:15 It 7:” Out of 85 United States senators 44 an Democrats and only 8 Populists. Those are Puffer of Kansas, Allen of Nebraska and Kyle of South Dakota. If thoDemocrats all stood together, they could carry a vote against the Republic- ans and Populists both, providing they were all present to vote. But the shave launch aclose one that the Democrats must depend on the three. Populist sena- tus to help them out on measures de- termined on. In order to keep the three . Populists in good humor and get their votes, it is necessary to make conceso 810118 to Populist ideas. ()neof these ideas is that the income tax clause must heretained in the tariff bill, Another is that the interests of the agricultural population must be. 11- gunk-d 1n making up the tariff lists. “It is the best armor plate ever tested ' anywhere.”_ was the verdict pronounced on' the'last 17 inch Harveyized plate ‘ it T611131. Head. Just so. But '. when the company furnishes the rest of the armor for the. big ironclnds Indiana and Massachusetts will it be equal to that tested at Indian Head. or will it be as worthless as that discovered some time ago at. the mills after supposed specimens of it had triumphantly stood the government trials? It is to be hoped that Bill Dalton. the western outlaw, is dead sure dead this time. It would be money in the pockets of the world it Bill had never been born. How do you take yours—with sugar? Pass the Burur' The Chileans—the Yankees of South America—are distributing the £1 rtibzer known as nitrate of soda free in the United States at present. This nitrate puts into exhausted wheat ground and other soils the mineral qualities the plants have taken out of it. Chile wants to develop a great nitrate trade with the United States. Taxation of the for- tilizers she exports are the largest source of public revenue Chile has. The more nitrate shipped, the more rein-hue. Therefore the government is shipping at its own expense quantities of nitrate of lodato the United States. Considerable basalroady been distributed to furmors and gardeners. A bureau of’ distribution will be establishml in New York city. The Chilean minister 111 Washington or the Chilean consuls at any of our ports will be able to give needed information. .» The fertilizer is 1111111111 at ’l‘nrupum. the most northern province of Chile. It is npplled as a top dressing. The club craze has seized on colored women and last of all on (31111111111011. In Chicago 150 Chinese have organized themselves into 11 political club. They intend to follow this by the organization of other similar clubs in the other large ' pm". These are to band together, _' Work as one and agitate and press the 7 subject till Chiuamcn in the United More permitted to he citizens and have ovate and all the rights of other ultimo. ‘ The gas stove manufacturers of the country have formed a trust. It into in called the “United Vapor and Gas coupsny. " The Cordage trust ,. banged itself with itnowriropes. ”like any danger that the Gas Stove w will blow itself up? M smootheml sword of the sea ,1. mt yet this summer. Maybe the i “warrant-"11111111110111. Wheat race-of the college girls at M, Your and elsewhere m be- to excite as much interest a 1;. bill into its nest. A first class French cook won't broil meat without charcoal. Windsor (Ia-.1111 has been used as a royal residence 1111113 Lhe your 1110. There are 11 illions of people on the face of the globe “1111 don’ t know what soap is. There are more iron safes made in Cln~ cinnati than in all the cities of the Union combined Frozen tea appears as a season'sdolfcacy at social functions. It bids fair to rival cafe frappe. The rare instance of the coming of out of a whole trio of triplets was celebrated recently at Whitenast, Englnnd. A year or so ago, in Hanover, PIL, a Mr. Smith and 11 Miss lloke were married, and recently their first baby was chris- tened Hoke Smith. The South park commissioners in Chl- cogo hove decided to turn Midway plai- snnce into a canal 10010111. wide, with walks and lawns upon each side. A Liberty (M9,) man has a 12 years' growth of board which is between 6 and 7 feet in length. He wears it plalted in a pigtail resembling a Chinnmau’s cue. That the 1,760 flcld ofllccrs in tho Salva~ tion Army of America reach some 1,100,- 000 people through indoor meetings alone __ every month is the statement made by General Bullinlgton Booth. There's a widow in Merna, Nob, for whom the prosperous citizens have just chipped 111111111 bought a house and lot. llor pluck in supporting three little chil- dren by taking lawns-hing bud elicited general admiration. During the seven months ending with Nov. 1.111113, 2” buildings were struck by lightning in England. 'l‘hcnbovo included :21 churches and chapels, 21 farmhouses. ll~i residences of all kinds, 0 hotels and public houses and 3 saloons. ' The success of the Manchester ship canal has reviwd the scheme of the Forth and Clyde canal across Scotland. This project was mooted some years since, the. idea be- ing to connect the east and west coast of Scotland by a cutting sufficiently large. to admit the largest vessels afloat. Now Ed- inburgh will hold 11 meeting on the sub- ject. C leaned the Chimney. A couple of Marion county ranchers hooked t‘ .10 ir 1I bins o1 er the six rail fence that dliided their [MlSSt‘ShlflnS and com- 1111Iiiced irrigating each other’s land with tobacco juice. “Feel any ’nrthqunko over your way las' night?" inquired uno. “Nop; not as I recollect on." "Maybe you wuz blastln out stumps?" “Nap; I alluz burn 'cm 0111:." “Your hired man nin’tturncd common- weal anarchist and tried toblow up yer house, has he?" “Nop; he's spadin's nrun the fruit trees over yon. " “’l'licoid woman didn't build a fire with kerosene, did she?" I.N‘)p‘ H “Well, it mout u bin your boy .lnkoa playin with the powdvr born arena the llreplm‘e. " “Say, neighbor, you're trottiu down purly Ultlhl‘ to linuu‘ now. Is‘puse your ’trulion was ’lrm:t1~1l l11 suthin u\'1‘l' my way yish-nluy?" "Yep; I thought 11 bungshell had lmst~ (Id owr that direction 81'11111leier1'. ” “Well, it was 1110 rloiuiu out the chlmv blin. It golstopped up with sut till it Wouldn't draw, and my family wuz smoked till we looked like 1111111111. When I wuz in town Sutolly, I bought one 0' those hero big skyfiwkets that packs a whole l)l'1,ll)ll 11' little melietsnlong with it, and when it busts sends them scootin in every direction. I lied a big gunny suck to the tale of it to swab out the rhliublvy, stood it up in tho finIplnce and touched her off. " “Did it clean abut the. rhlmblcy’“ “Yep, «11-1111 111: n whistle. Didn't leave a brick, 1111 11111110 might hear 111111111111 out the much. l‘:Illinl11"11Il-.s killed lu’o calves over in 1111- lot :111 :1 llllero' pigs back 11' the barn. I'm thinkin o' gl-tlin some llt- th- 1111115 to 141-1111 lump 1-lii111bluys with. "-— 51111 A“I'llll"lm'~1 l'orsi. the Little "lb-manner." Lillie Tummy is exi'essively fond of pro serves 111111 asks his mother for 11 second h1I,.lp Shi- win-.11. “31111 youngster appears resigned. 'l‘l1e11 11'l1111I I,11ce and very gray-o ly 11111111511: “Do you know, 11111, What happened the other day in the 111-.“ 1-11 reel! There was a little elmplowlmmhis111ofl11-r wouldn't give any preserves. And tl11-11"——-- “Come, what next?” “Next day he tumbled into 11 11'ell.”—- Calemlricr .li1111111111rr1-1-o111112 Big Price For an Egg. At the sale of duplicate-s of birds' eggs and skins from the collection of lluron d'llnmom‘lllo, held 11 few days 11151511111233 of the great auk, n fillt't'll'u which is now extinct, was sold to Sir Vanna-y ll. (‘rewe for 800 guineua. ll. was formerly in the collection of the late Mr. Yum-ll, from whom it passed in 1856 to the lute Mr. F. 1101111 and then to lluron d'llumonvillc.—— Paris Herald. lly ron used 11 11113111. deal of hair dress- ing. but was very particular to use only the best to be found in the market. If Ayer’e llair lVigor had been obtainable than, doubtless he would have tested its merits, as so many distinguished and fashionable people are doing nowadays Some people are constantly trouble] with pimples and boils, especially about the face and neck. The best remedy is a thorough course of Ayer’s Sanaparillo, which expella all humors through the proper channels, and so molten the skin, become soft, healthy and fair. Last June Dick Crawford brought his twelve months old child, suffering from infantile diarrhoea. to me. It had been weaning at four months old and being sickly everything ran through It like water through a sieve. I gave it the usual treatment in such cases but wltb~ out benefit. The child kept growing thinner until it Weighed but little more than when banner perhaps ten pounds. 1 then started the father to ulvlngGhsm- barkin’l 001111.0110101: and Diarrhmanosl aim at In. Ital. coup Grounds. ' , ' Under the direction of Quartermaster General Rubicon extensive improve- ments are being made at the Risotto camp grounds, which will1bViato former difficulties and establish new and impor- tant advantages. The stale buildings are being painted a light cream color with brown trimmings. Two thousand feet of board fence six feet high is be built on the west side of the stats propofiy on- closing the newly acquired property with the old ground. Surveyor Burke has spent much time in establishing plans for more perfect grading and that work is being prosecuted rapidly and success- fully. At the present time there is I force of twenty-five laborers with trams employed in grading the new rifle range ground and butt ranges have been built for 200 feet and 500 feet shooting. The several holes which have always been a menace and an aggravatidn to the C. N. G. boys and which are located east of the driveway on the big field are being filled with earth urawn from the new property. By the lime the troops go into camp the property will be in better shape than it has ever been before. HOTEL FIRE ESCAPES. The Law Passed by the humid-lure oI 1893 How in Force. The law, passed by the Legislature of 1893, requiring that hotels furnish each room in such hotels with knotted ropes asfire escapes, is now in force, having gone into effect last Saturday. The law requires that the rope "shall be securely fastened to a suitable iron hook or eye, to be securely screwed into one of thes joists or timbers next adjoining the frame of the window, or one of the win- dows of the room, at least five feet from the floor, which rope shall be at all times kept coiled and exposed to the plain view of any occupant of said room; the coil to be fastened in such manneras to be easily and quickly loosened and uncalled; such rope shall contain knots not more than eighteen inches apart, and a loop on the end, at least three inches in length, and shall not be less than one-half inch in di- ameter, and of sufficient length to Mich from the window to the ground. Such rope, iron book. or eye and fastenings shall be of sufficient strength to sustain a weight of four hundred pounds, and there shall be plain directions how to use such rope or other better appliance print. ed and posted within six inches of the book or eye to which the rope is fasten- ed " It is thought that all the Norwalk hotels have complied with the law The maximum fine is $500 and six months in jail. Tearing Down the old 0111le The work of tearing down North Mid- dle. one of the oldest dormitories of the Old Brick row at Yale, has been begun. in accordance with a vote of the Yale corporation taken last spring. North Middle was erected in 1800 and was ori' gioally known at Berkeley Hall, in hon- or of Bishop Berkeley, of England. In in 1824 its, name was changed to the present one, inchiof the dormitories of the brick row being named according to location. It was originally designed for juniors but clans distinctions were not perserved. Willi the erection of White, Vander- bilt and Berkeley Hulls. the three new dormitories at Yale, older buildings were doomed and South, the Athemeum and North Middle will have disappeared by the opening of the full term. Literary Notes. fast vanishing, might never have bad a competent historian. had not a happy chance taken a young Philadelphian into Wyoming and Arizona three years ago. After his return to the East, Owen Wis- ter wrote a story about the cowboy and his life, and this story was so successful that he wrote others. and then went West again. at the request of the Editor of Harper‘s Magazine, to continue his study of this interesting type. To sketches of the cowboy, Mr. Wister has added the desert inn-keeraer and trader, the frontier troop. and the Indian de— bauched by civilization, “Specimen Jones," his latest story, in the July liar. per's, deals with the chance inmates of on adobe tavern in Arizona. The pic-I turn of this lawless company will not attract timid persons to lho Southwest. at least not until the favorable reports of bulletproof clothing has been confirmed, but it will hold the reader from the first word "1.111.112.1111.-- - .. No 'I‘runblo Anticipated. Although the ofllcinls of the New York, New Haven and Hartford road anticipate no trouble over the Pullman car difficulty, they have placed the unit~ ter of caring for the situation in the bands of Vice-President Mellon. Pull~ manual-um run only on the Pullman and Washington expresses (four trains s daytundara special contract with the road. In the opinion of officials the only chance for trouble on the New York, New Haven and Hartford road In through: strike of switchmon at New York. w. 11.111.11.03. whoishistbadru 1m 0 . I0“ mus con. 1mm in “83mm... ’ scum swim-abyss wmiucbm, tit bottle and In to Mandala 313.“: mom-1b- fled 111.111.1101: no Mullahs Mouths loll ’ for fies; all sizes, 251:. sale this week. at 5c each fine quality, 140 each; Corner Main and Wall Streets. Norwalk. Conn. m TO CLEAN OUT onus AND 11st we HAVE MADE Special Reductions for This Week- Shirt Waists. A full line 110111 491-. up to $1. 59, all new and choice styles Handkerchiefs. TV 0 have been 101 tunate in securing the balance of an im- pmter’s stock at extremely low prices and Will place the same on ‘ 3,000fi1113 Swiss Embroidered, very choice effects; were im- 1101 ted to sell at 25 cents; our p1ice, 123113. 200 dozen Men’s White Hemstitched, extra 1.1.1go and very cost 20 cents to land. 100 dozen Ladies’ White Hemstitched and Colored Border, 150 (102% Men’ s Ilemstitched, Colored 13011191, 1111! size, 90 each. AbOut half regular price Kitchen Department. F01 four days, beginning Saturday, all 0111' Oil Stoves Will be sold at specially reduced prices. One lot lVindow Shades at 1513. In 01"1191 to satisfy the great demand 111 this department we, have enlaiged the space on our second floor and increaSed the stoCk, so that this week Will be found the largest and best display of Shirt Waists ever shown 1n Connecticut. , 200 dozen White Lawn Waists, all new designs, 49c, 69c, 79 c 980, $119, $1. 25, $1. 39, $1. 79, $1. 98, $2. 19, $2.98. This lot comprises everythiiig desirable in White Waists, and prices are A fully 25 per cent. less than 111211 lict value. In 00101911 Shirt Waists we have added many 119 W de esigns to our already laige stock. Prices 110111 190 up. Children’s Guim cs. 50 dozen White Lawn, Hamburg yo es, lace. trimmed ruf- *fi WALL PAPERS. I am selling white back Blanks from 100. to 20c. per double roll. These goods are all new and in combination side, ceiling, and 9 in. or 18 in. borders; of course we break the combination when desired. Gilts are from 150. up, double roll. I have been told by a great many customers that my price for BORDER is much less than has been quoted elsewhere. I have also been told that my stock of FINE goodsis larger than is shown anywhere in Nor- walk. Painters' supplies at lowest The life of the western border, new“ prices. Painting, Paper-hanging and Decorating. E. E. Gorham, No. 2 Fiat Avenue EAST NORWALK.3 W. A? Podmore 65 NORTH MAIN STREET]. "as ovorythln for over) body in the shape of household 51101 a, large or small FURNITURE No lower prices in the town. CKRFETS. in all wool Mid medium grades. Mattings, in now and novel offer in. Oil ClOths I all widths, and various designs. Refri crators The best make. an lowest prices. GASOLINE'SIUVES D. P. Morrell. Jr. ”Bill 1111 111111 Tilllcllllll. long lllltfllill momma I spatially .s‘simremmmw EAST AND PLEASANT Til TAKE. Patent Medicines xterm Paiors. Ill FAGT. HAllll NOT T0 TAKE. Loxntonik, $1.00 110011 s Samparillla, .60 Ay ers' Sarsaparill a, .67 Dana‘ s Sarsaparilla. . ‘l Cuticura Resolvent. .7 Scott's Emulsion, .60 Green' 5 Nervura, 711 Stillson' a Specific for Malaria. Paine s can; Compound .65 Brandreth s ills, .12 Alcock s Floaters, .lil Benson's Capsice lesters, .12 Castoria, .23 Carter's Pills. .12 Atwood’s Bitters, .13 Radam's Microbe Killer, 11111., Radam‘s Microbe Killer, gal. jam, Yankee Lung Soother, 81111.0. Stillson’s Drug Store, 02 Washington Street. A Good Rocking Chair Free. We have received a few more rocking chairs and will give arm with each pur- iurchaso of 1 lb. of Temflilc. ,or 1 lb. linking Powder, 4 w, Buy quick as they go fast. We give with 1 lb. Tea or flaking l’ow- dcr or 1 lb. Blend 001190.380, your choice and saucer, 1 butter dish and other use fui articles. Fine Klein Creamery flutter. 2111: ex— tract of Lemon. lilo. Vanilla, 12.1 bottle; Ammonia. ”10.1mm: lb.: Shoulder. 911.3. Hams.12c. Leave your orders with us and save your money. 600., or 1 lb. Baking Powder, 45c. THE CENTRAL CASH GRUBERY l5 lllllllll IAIN STREET. 1. 0. JENNINGS. Prim Ilium, 11111111111. P11111111 of l fancy fruit platonl decorated (up 'I bottle; extract of , Sardines, 60.; loom Cocoanut. 201:, per ' .: '1" 4Masonfruit jars with 1 lb of Ten, 9 All! “III II 11111 1111111 1111 Bonus, “ I“ m a . ll. H. Plaisteil IS AGENT 1011 LAND Willi ( SE: CL": BELOW.) "I'I“1”r'~10é1313‘é’ r. A Pun Wain. llmlleotul by 11mm. Give nalnroa fair chm-n11 abs will can Would” our. budget 13% out nodanmlnf 1511“ Mood My 11:10:11 Minot of tbo kidneys or b sedan-ml sot-ad only award at. the ovid‘ purity. and as a natural Ens» muses? mm. 1 mongoose