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Onset 'ihotnaohlnoo has teouitlybeon eotoh- liohod in NowYuhuditiotho ln- veuhn'sbonevolonthopotoseethemin uselnalloitieoforrlohandpoorolih Railway insurance for the benefit of “a. road unployeeo is compulsory by state lkwin England and From TboAmer- icon system of voluntary insurance oi Ioilwoy nopleyeos is better then the compulsory one. The system was begun hero by the railway companies them- selves. the Baltimore and Ohio taking the loud in thallium. Onsevoral of the largest rend: i! the country therein mm W against loss to employees resulting from accident. sick 0 noosordosth. Thooxpenooot maintain- ing the fund is shared between our- ployeeooud the companies. Employees pay from 75 edits to 03.75:: month each. according to amount of is Not quite one-lourth 0! oil the railway men the United State's are members of th insurance societies. In mm or u troinrnon's death his family receives “.000 if he has pnldlnin the fund .8 a month. The railway composites, since the mutation of the insurance organics- ltiou. are poyiug mist attention to the sanitation oi odious and cars. It is es- pectcd that in course of a little time , money will have meumnlutod sumoient ' to establish a mole- lnod for retired or permanently disabled numbers. The war against the notional bank in the limo 0! Jackson was aroused because at its bod management. says llotthow Marathon in the New York Sun. and not impose oi any innit inherent in the mo ‘ tent itoell. in his Judgment "mend illusnee would promihe tho eeinblish ' intent of it great notlwsl hauls. to not as less the povernrncht'o ilsrtsl sprint. collect ‘ m bevel cud disburse its revenues. loud out any mm and temporary ourpluslhot might nucruouilll , ' , attire supply. by lmrrowing in the open lull!“- It! lint. temporary deficiencies. Taught ”gum“ If . wisdom by experience. every illustrious when 'natloo into its tool; through which it sienn- 5tnuutooto its linonolol We. and out- 0. bury ‘tors normal the lummvenisoees which . , wheel oorlodopoudoottrsomryontoilouus." - m I TboUultsdhotsshIl-otthistimin Por‘io at last.“ ongotwliototho .. oatmmyhspnod. _ iollooryo. ‘ l'l‘ounsrdl’hilodoiphio. Holtoohosno pupil oi Bernstein amulet. under wbcnoytnltiouhohosmmdsorop» ldlyastohsvohodtorsovorolyosrs his piotoroomosbibitimoithol'ronohoo. ion. iii-tomorowmllysolootod hutsmhiblostery. Thisuoseohos witno'usd tor thoyooogdtuoriesn year‘s-liar") ' f _ "1 o liviogrotutisoulioruy two bones the s -» ‘ mitoshtholosnltyorotohmhmotholr ‘ cogsohiooro‘otoot the somewhere» ‘ siblo noariymiomtho lilo, . lidsrovenwlththo incubator. Seventy» chinohod never been invented. butthao' as sis- is?! 5 turnout-sol postal communication. our country one: out 810.000.000 a year more than it receives. ' It hos long boss the homely and Iflr cloua custom of stony persons oi tor- .eigo notivity or sneeotry. roaidontin the United States. and portlculorly those 0! German. Elvin. Swedlfll. Dutch. Danish or Norwqian birth or descent. to remember the old felts at home at Christmas time. The custom. too. hes a general nod generous obser— vsnoe among lrishnion sud lrlshwo- men. though the Irish-American rosi- dsuts of the United slots- are sending remittances to Ireland all thmh the year. The Christmas gifts of money are intended in port to promote the emigrotion oi the younger gonorstlon to the United Ststes. and in part to promote thocheertulnoas of the hoil~ day season on the other side oi the At‘ inntlc; and it [out be remembered that the setual purchasing power of the money sent abroad, is. in most European countries greater than it is here. where wealth is more generally distributed. and the compensation of labor is larger. On I single dsy of this week 10,000 money orders were sent. shroud. smouuting to more then “00.000. It is n romowhat curious incl. that while one-bolt the total numbn- of such thon- ey orders went to Great Britain nod to Ireland” twice as many so were sent to Germany. the totol sum of the w nxltiences to Germnny was twice as large so all the remltuuceato Eng- land. Ireland and Scotland. Thu Is to soy. the remittances to Germany were lower in number but larger in amount. Twenty-five per cent. of the money orders hurt tor their destination thnthrec Scandinavian countries. Swe- den. Norway and Denmark. The re- mittances to France were practically no such mmlttonces. Borne wont to ltely. but not a lnrgc number as com» pared with the other European coun- tries. Money order rctnittnnroo to the iolhs screen the sea! A happy and wholesome Incident of the holiday aeo- son in the United Biotes. the great ro- puhllc of open doors and open purses. «New York Sun. COLORS 0F POSTAGE STAMPS. “rm—mm...” Many Experiments Mario Necessary by the lh‘urthcomlng Changes. M... The mmloilleo department is en- gaged in solving an artistic question. lly the terms or the international ogrccnwnt adopted at the posisl con- gress last spring. we shall be coiled “mo. in the mom oi another year. to choose the colors of two oi our stumps which are now in l‘ONIIIOfi use. other chouges smoug the less fre- quently used dououlnotlons. The head of Franklin on the one cent stomp moot then be printed in green. sod the hood of (trout on the Ivoveeut stamp in blue. The ongrsvlog oi most at the do» signs of the otostpo hos bod speciol reference to the color in which oooh was to be printed: sod sithomh the solar oi the two-cool statue hos been ehoogodirenl rod to green and hook €323???" *1 ngod ninety years, out! toned that 0 this hetero. tor the reason that the le- stitution ot. alert-lusts sprood all over Ind the maiorlty oi persons worried. ‘stotlstics show thot the snortollty out] those changes to turn will require “ nonwhithsdooohmotthoun.._ “mm W was n o WK; or. on Suppers sud Bonnets listoad‘ Wild resent ‘ , Mil too my *. m h m “out Mainline» ...... venom-Mumps -, menses m ‘ our 4;: wore married and only 88 unmarried. “lie nest took 88 mom-coon of when too in his soventloth year. end he found that 27 were mar-led and 11 no» married. mostly he took 13 men. each were married nod 3 unicorn-led. it elon- be elolrnod that no sure oouciua Ilon con be drown iron otstlstlcs of the world. ond honoo'it to osturol to Dr. Schwsrtsrln reply. again brings forward some curiousntnl‘lstlos. Those oluong bachelors between the ages of thirty and tony-five is as high as 37 per cent. whorono-oinong those who ore married it does not exceed 18 per cent. “it is evident." says is French writ- er who has closely studied Dr. Schwsrts’s statistics. "thst we must Acknowledge the potency of these fig- ures. end that. if we desire to live to a good old age, we should get. married so soon as possible. We should cor- tsinly do so if we wish to live a full century. for Dr. Schworls- cites the cases of fifty-centenarione. not one of whom is s bachelor. A curious feet. too. that those coutonoriono were all widowers." PROPOSALS. Proposals will be received by' the undersigned Selectmen of the town at Norwnlh. between this date and the 18th day of December. 1807. for the gutting oi the highwny known so the Connecticut Turnpike, between the west side at Btusrt avenue and the. south line or the city of Norwalk. ac cording to tho specification on die in' theflolocttnon's once in Norwalk. Said specifications can be examined at sold cities. by persons desiring to llle pro- noools for said work. All proposals must be in wrltlni: signed by the party; must state I sep- sroto price for rock excavation. nod . eorth escsvatlou. per cubic ysrd. and o. price for cobble paving. by the square yard. and be enclosed in ,e tooled envelope. endorsed “Proposals for grading Connecticut Turnpike." and left at the oldesvof the Selectmen on *or before [Member 18th. next. at 10 o'clock a. m.. on which day all bids received will he opened. The on- tractor for said work will be required to give a bond with surely as required by the specifications. and the delect- mcn reserve the right to reject all bids. or to swept ouch es in their judgment will be for the best interest of the town- 0 FRANK it. ItEltRlLL. El’llltAlhi THOMES. BAhillEl. LYNES. Selectmen o! the Town of 'Norwsllt listed nt Norwslk. Conn. December “II! it IE its IOITMK ’97. out "tidbit“ "own. use! amlzi’tnlou. and lupin more Irons. canon to the had I. l’wmiflflhflsl.“ contain-timbre. . . oss, lichens”. ...... fl. sullen... . . . nemesis. . Whitetails-tune 0o GIIIII‘I'e l I. II. I ”IV ill! II. h mm , Till NEW i ll Mohsekemo. museum. soul «WWW troll-minnow“. emmfirs‘r wuss. Wm ‘ W: ' is ‘ SiTfiRDAY. DECEMBER we Our Ninth Holiday Season. we shall open with a grand array of sttrootionsfor L the child, the adult. the mother and ihezlother. Toys to please the babies. Dolls to please the child. Sleds. sud Wagons for. the boy. flue China for the mother. Books. s“ ,vei. Umbrellas. Handkerchiefs, Neckties. Satchels, etc., etc, for the father, all in great variety to suit all persons and all pocket-books. blade in Norwulk before this season things for presents. Book Department. We hove bought our times as many books this seem so we did lost Iflr titles include: Uncle Tom’s Cobin. Sign Four. ’ H. B. Stowe. Conan Doyle Visor of Wakefield. Goldsmith. Foul Play. Chas. Rondo. Edna. Lyells. Lord Lytton. Charles chhens. Win Thackeray. Chutes lover, George Eliot. Conan Doyle. It. L. Stevenson. And the Popular French and Eng- lish authors. A greet rouge to pick from, at 15 cents a volume. 1.500 Classics. 10 mm, by Ruskin, Do Quincy. Bacon. Scott, .Shsltosposre, lamb. 15 cents. 1.000 popular novels. fine binding. gllt top, 25 cents. , 500 volumes of all the poets. in line binding. gilt top. 25 cents. . Red Line edition. nodded covers. the. A beautiful present. Sets in two. three and tour volumes. 30c. 75c, 31.00. and 31.00 per set. Children's books by tho thousands. lrorn a penny to 50 cents each. Slutuettee and bric—n-brnc. Dolls. Hundreds of the little hesutios. from the doll baby to the exquisite doll bride. . * Kld bodies. undressed dolls. iron: 25c to ".50. Dremd dolls. from 25¢ to $3.50. Chinese Dolls. ludisn Dolls. Unbreakable Dolls. Rog Dolls. Chino Dolls. Rubber Dolls. son. 2.000 books mo in cloth, 160 Pictures. 0 Beautiful Medallions. «the. Copies of Etchings. 40o. Photographs token from colebrotod paintings and from life. ironed in the gold from. 49c. ‘ . 13:24 white—ironed etchings, sec. Genuine postols. gold frames. 81.98. We have s greet variety of pictures. It will pay to look at them. Christmas Cards For Sunday Schools. Men’s Suspenders ‘ For Presents. Perfumes. The largest stock or perfumes in .the county. Brndley'e Triple Extract. bottle in box. 25 cents. Violet Water. Eau do Qulnino. Florida Water. Dentlfrlceo. All Toilet 80st ~ 2-ounec Toys. All kinds. from Jumping Jacks to Elephants. including Cats and Dogs. _ Never has such a display been. . We shall mention a few of the many attractive China Ware. Nor-walk never saw anything like the line of Chino Cups end ileum Chino. Candlesticks. Chino Crooner. Jon. Chins Pitchers. Chino lingo. Everything in Chloe. China Dinner Bets, Ten Bets. etc. A beautiful line of Lumps. Silk Umbrellas for presents. lion’s Night Shirts for presents. Pocket Books. ,Ablglotofthelnh‘ommtnw. . Neckties. A choice selection for Christine! Presents. 25c and 500. (lollies. For all ages. including Helms Ind the new genre or the Klondike. How to reach it by Chllkoot Pass and how to get book. being a good map of the gold regions. Silverware. A beautiful variety of choice proo- cuts. Teaspoon. quadruple plate. warranted for tewnty years, the set. Dessert Spoons. tomotch, 31.09 not. Tablespoon. $1.75 a set. Knives and Forks, 81.15 h set. Pie Knives. 08c. ” . Fish Forks. 98c. " ' «All! Children's Cups. 35c. ' Water Pitchers. Fern Dishes. Pud- ding Dishes, etc. ‘ p A Grand Collection of Everything Suitable for Presents. , lies provon u Booming Success. And it is an acknowledged fact that our store. is HEADQUARTERS for first- clsos. high-grade Staple sud Fancy Groceries. Nothing but the best goods the Market affords are paring In and out of our store. snd‘they are Trude Winners. Also. the lowest cash prieeoprevull. .Come and visit our place of business end you will admit it is the New Pearl Barley. 0r. lb. New Pearl Topless. 0c lb. dilver Cord Deeded Rollins. We a whose. lam lb package. llr. liautiy's celebrated double pro- lOc. like and the lb. Est Quaker Oats. 10c package. l Owl or Cactus Brand Seeded Raisins. place to more your goods. it) tho First Prize Buckwheot. 25c. Choice Suds Waters. 10c lb. New Currants, the to package. Fancy new Evslmrutcd Apples, 12o pared prunes. none better produced” package. 3 the Boss Milk Crackers. 250 ‘(Top l notch of perlectlon). Extra Fine New Italian Prunes. 100 3 lbs Sperry & Bernes' Pure Leaf mood. ‘ lnrtl. 25c. Fancy Moorpurk. Evaporated Apri- cots. lfllfic lb. Extra Fancy [0030 ltulslus, 9c lb. 3 lbs‘for' 25c. l-‘nucy [nose Raisins. 101‘ 25c. 4 the Hood llicc. 20c. ll Dem (500 matches in a box). 250. 7c!b.ilbl it is demonstrated by our immense trsde that the public appreciate a good thing when they see it. Notice our Delivery Vans and see where they go and who they go to. l“ l 3 CHARLES E. SEYMOUR, as Washington Etroot Honor Cured limos. per lb.. lilo. Lending Grocer. Voluntary: call. .. wwwww South Norwnlls. Conn. at Prices that Please Patrons is It is not an idle lmabt. to will this store “South Norwnlk’ii Bull.“ Grocery.” Shrowd buying has provided extraordinary tumutity and variety. but the low prices prevailing here will unlike goods ily merrily. and our great streak will melt away long before Christmas day. mullahs. 70 MWllbyhgu 0o mommporot. lo Momm.w.. loo losdodlaldsodllophan. loo moments. to: “mishap-ruse. lilo MUMM‘ww. the “mouth. 10s snowmen-e. lilo “Ms-lo. lee IplitMllNi. to “memoirs" tel mmmmomu on museum 1. mumbling... 1o summonses lilo Ishtsglooonuuut. lo linger Cured Shoulders. per 1b.. 7c. Very best Elsie Creamery Butter. 25o. lb. 'l'wouty [liltlllilll Best (lease , slated Sugar for two Mend 8. Floor, 75c. boll: $5.90 barrel. . , v New t York t Grocery 1 Company 7 MG‘IWW
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