,H' \ -' One Cent. DAILY -' N’ORWALKF GAZETTE. '. ' ‘. fine Cent- o \ Absolutely Independent. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1891. THE POST OFFICE, IN NOBWALK AS A NEWSPAPER. f I ENTERED AT THE WEATHER. The weather to-day promises to be generally clear and warmer. To-mor- row it promises to be warmer and gen- erally from fair to partly cloudy, fol- lowed by slowly falling temperature and possibly rain. ‘ ‘ SOUTH NORWALK. ’i’he GAZETTE is on sale ututhc news office of Fred Coleman, J.H.1"Iynn, ll’.L.Ather- ton, and H. E. Bod-well. Advertisements and Orders for all kinds of JOB PRINT- ING received at our branch oflicc on Rail- road Square. ‘ The Norwalk Lock Factory will start up Jan. 11. . Lawrence Brennan is out after a siege of the grip. - Butler Lodge, I. O. O. F., will elect officers to-morrow night. ‘ The grip is by no means losing its grip on people of this city. The Long Island Express was about four hoursIate this morning. , Young “Jack” Sheldon is doing quite a business selling artificial flowers. There is a young lady in this city (firom. Poughkeepsie named Anna Con- er. About $5,000 was realized at the sale of seats at the Congregational Church last night. W. R. Arnold and family have re- moved from Elizabeth street to Pres- cott Place. Jacob Linxweiler will sail for this country on the steamer Elba, from Bremen,‘to-day. It would be a blessing if John Com- stock was cared for either at the poor- house, or at the jail. John Buckley was arrested last night for vagrancy. This morning he was sent to jail for ten days. A car load of, camphor was side- tracked in this city last night. It was consigned to parties in Glenbrook. Jud ing from the large invoices of snow s ovels being received there are those who expect snow before spring. ' The physicians of this city were never as busy as now, and the number of their patients is being constantly augmented There was a sale of pews in the Con- gregational Church last evening. . The amount realized fell considerably short of lastyear’s sale. Postmaster Doty has received many applications for substitute mail carrier made vacant by the advancement of Joseph Tammany. Seventeen men stood on the station platform this mforning, watching two men driving spikes into some ties on the Housatonic railroad. The Sunday School of the Baptist , Church, held their annual Christmas festivities last night, and an enjoyable time was as usual the result. Mr. and Mrs. N. I. Meserve have re- turned from their wedding trip, and Mr. Meserve has resumed his duties with the N orwalk Gas Light Co. The sloop Ploughboy with starch feed, and the schooner George Hurst With paving stone for Borough parties, passed through the bridges this morn- ing. Contractor A. J. Hutchinson, wife, daughter Mrs. E. S. Lyon, J r., and grandson, start for Daytona, Fla., to~ 7. day. They expect to be absent about four months. Florist F. S. Lyon informs us that he finds it almost impossible to keep up With the present demand for out flow- ers, although he has thousands of flow- ering plants. John H. Dexter, who for the past year has conducted a variety store on l‘lorth Main street, has made an assign— ment to Geo. H. Bromfield for the benefit of his creditors. It is quite spring like to-day. Jacob Lassen 15 around this morning showing a live grasshopper which he captured yesterday, and Count Italic is around With a hand-organ grinding out spring ballads. Humbolt. Lodge, S. of 11., had a happy Christmas festival last night at Germania hall. There were lots of presents for the little ones, besides an abundance of refreshments for all both large and small. It was a happy occa- Sion. _The final meeting of the City Coun- Oil of 1891, was held last evening. A petition from R. H. Golden to errct a block of tenement houses on the south side of Madison street was granted. Pe- tition of Charles Diver asking for abate- ment of sewer tax on Burritt avenue was tabled. Mrs. Van Houten was granted an extension of time to March 1st in which to pay her sewer assess— ment. The assessment of Joseph Vroom was abated. Committee appointed in reference to electric light plant stated that they had visited different cities in the New England States. Plant de- scribed would double present capac1ty of light, and the cost of plant about $22,500. The report was placed on file. The protest of E. A. Woodward on sew- ei',_assessmcnt, on the ground that his p1".V8.te sewer was destroyed, was placed on file. Report of Library committee was read and accepted. Report of street commissioners was a detailed one, showmg number of streets graded, cost of. cleaning sewers, etc. The finance committee were instructed to borrow a sum not in excess of $3,150. The usual congratulations were extended, and the Council adjourned to the City Hotel, where one of Landlord Hall’s fine dinners was enjoyed. G 0 An Inv1tat10n. PHOENIX ENGINE CO. will keep Open p house on New Year’s Day from 1 to 4 . m. Citizens generally, and especially those ladies and gentlemen who aSSisted in procur- lllg the elegant piano that now stands in the Company’s parlor. are cordially inv1ted to call. 3t259 PH(ENIX ENGINE CO. ISTRICI‘ of Norwalk, 55.. Prob ate Court December 29th, A. 1).. 1891. W EEEEAS, written application has been made to this Court for administration of the_ estate 0’_I' CEAUNOEY B. Ross , late of Norwalk, In said district, deceased. OiiDEnED That said application be heard and determine at the Probate Office in Norwalk, I. on the 4th day of January, 1892. at 10 0’01 ock iorenoon - and that public notice thereof be given to a _1 persons interested therein by pub- lishing this order in a newspaper havmg a eu- culation In said District,“at least five days before said day :of heari _, V AS 11 . 1 A B.,wobDWARD. Judge. 1 Loving Words. Loving words will cost but little, Juiii-iioylug up the hill of life; But they lll‘zli-i the weak and weary Stronger. braver for the strife. Do you cm: .i'. them only trifles? What to earth are sun and rain? Never was a li‘nd word wasted; Never one its. a said in vain. When the cares of life are many, " And its burdens heavy grow For the ones who walk beside. If yr-u love them tell them so. thii ynll count of little value Has an almost magic power; . And beneath that cheering sunshine Hearts will blossom like a. flower. So, as up life’s hill we journey. Let us scatter all the way Kindly words. to be as sunshine In the dark and cloudy day. Grudge no loving Word. my brother. As along through life you go, To the ones who journey with you; If you love them, tell them so. ' -—Woman' 5 Journal. Experience “lira Cannibals. It is more than fifteen years ago— ln February, 1876—that I started away from Zanzibar with a score of natives, says the Rev. Edmund BaS« Sett, English missionary to the Congo country, in the St. Louis Globe-Dem- ocrat. I had a. journey of over four ‘months before I reached the chief village of the Aryumenari people. The king, who was afterwards con- verted, treated me kindly, but the day after I arrived went away with most of his people, leaving me to the care of the women, children and a. large guard. On the fourth day I noticed that the men in the king’s guard acted strangely toward me and my people. They watched us, but would not ap- proach us. The next morning one of my men was found dead from a spear wound, and the Ai‘yumenari replied sullenly to my accusations, neither admitting nor denying the crime. I made arrangements to bury the poor fellow that afternoon, but during a temporary absence the Aryumenari beat the guard I had stationed over the body, took the corpse, and when I returned all the people of the village were gathered about a. great fire, over which I learned they were roasting a human being. I did not see it. Idared not look at such a horrible sight, and the Aryu- menari motioned me to stay away under pain of death. There was a great festival that night, and during its wildest moments I tried to steal away with my people, but the camp was guarded, and one ‘Of the guards said I was to die next day. That was a. night of torture. In the morning the king came back and saved us. When I told him what his people had done, he pretended to be very angry, and made a show of punishing them, while I left as soon as I could. A con- verted Aryumenari afterward told me that the king himself partook of the flesh of that poor, helpless Z anzibari. Burning VVlth Curiosity. Some of the things in this countr which seem to have been an unen - ing source of interest to the English visitors who attended the Methodist Ecumenical Congress in this city have been the sleeping and parlor cars on the railroads. These illustrations of an aristocratic democracy have ~been puzzling to them to some extent, and their observations have en- tertained their fellow-travelers. On a train which Came to this city was an English woman who manifested a. great deal of interest in the historic or architectural points to which her at-- tention was called. There were many others in the car with her, and they noticed that sud— denly she seemed to have ceased to give heed to what was being told her, and to be in a kind Of revery, her eyes fixed on a group Of three in the car engaged in a steady conversation. It maylhave been a novelty for her to be in the big moving drawing- room, in which she was unknown except by her companions, but at any rate she Was decidedly distrait. One of her friends finally said: “What is the matter?” “I’m burning,” she replied, “ burn- ing with curiosity to know what they algre t talking about.”—Washington OS . North Carolina. Precious Stones. An exhibit of the precious stones of North Carolina. attracted great atten- tion at the Southern Inter-state Expo- sition at Raleigh. In the collection were beryls, in the form of emeralds, chrysoberyls, and aquamarines. They are of a very rich green color, and sell, it is said, for the price of dia- monds. There are also garnets of al- madine colors, others of a bright cherry red, and still others of a. cinna- mon color. Gems out from rutile are also conSpicuous, varying in color from red and brown to a. shining black. They are found in the Coun- ties of Burke, Catawba, Alexander, and Iredell. Sapphires and rubies in limited quantity are also found in the western North Carolina. Mountains. There is no regular‘market yet for any of these stones, but northern capitalists are putting up works and sinking shafts in Alexander county with a. view to turning the new indus- try to account. Jewelers say that the North Carolina stones can be cut into tasteful ornaments. Cleansing the Pipe Lines. The cleansing of the pipe lines which connect Philadelphia and New York with the oil regions, and of which there is a strong probability that another will be constructed between this city and lube new field in South- western Pennsylvania and West Vir- ginia, is a very ingenious matter says the Philadelphia Record. The crude petroleum, in passing through the pipes, leaves a. waxy deposit on the sides, which, if allowed to accumulate, would soon fill them and check the flow of oil. To prevent this a. clever spiral contrivance of knives is forced through the pipes with the oil from the pumping station, cutting out the wax and effectually cleaning the pipe. There are now about half a dozen pipelines between the oil fields and tidewater, and they. are kept open in this way. J O b Printing neatly done at this office. RATS AND THEIR WAYS. NATURAL CHARACTERISTICS or _,'THE LITTLE RODENTS. They. are Remarkably Intelligent Ani- mals—How They Can be Trained— The Rat as a: Food Animal—An In- teresting Rat Story—A Rat’s Cunning. A rat’s tail is a wonderful thing, ob- serves the Washington Star. The great naturalist, Cuvier, says that there are more muscles in this curi- ous appendage than are to be found in that part of the human a‘Ifatomy which is most admired for its ingenious structure—namely, the hand. To the rat, in fact, its tail serves as a. sort of hand, by means of which the animal is enabled to crawl along narrow, ledges or other difficult passages, us- 'ing it to balance with or to gain a hold. It is prehensile, like the tails of some monkeys. By means of it the little beast can jump up heights other- wise inaccessible, employing it as a projectile Spring. ' Rats are remarkably intelligent animals, as may be perceived from the difficulty that” is experienced in catching them. They can be taught many tricks. Among other things it is possible to make them learn how to beg, to jump through a hoop, to drag alittle cart in harness and to carry sticks or money. Rats have never found favor as ,a delicacy for the table in Europe or in this country, but in many lands they are relished as an article of diet. The negro slaves of Jamaica used to re- gard them as dainty, their masters not providing them with any other meat. Their method of cooking the toothsome rodents was to impale each one on a long wooden skewer, after cleaning the animal and cutting off the tail, turning it briskly around over a fire until the hair was all burnt off. Then it was scraped until free from fur, and finally the end of the skewer Was stuck into the ground, in- clined toward the fire, until it was toasted dry and crisp. Rats may com- monly be seen for sale in the markets of an Chinese town, split and pressed unde aheavy weight, so as to look somewhat like dried fish. In this shape the pig tailed Oriental buys them, soaks them in water and then boils, r’oasts or fries them. When the French zouaves were first in Africa a new sort of rat made its appearance there. It was called the. boscis. The sale of a specimen by one of the soldiers to an enthusiastic naturalist gave rise to an action at law. Said the plaintiff in court :— “This zouave has cheated me out of 100 francs. He knows that I am much interested in natural sciences. I have collections of fossils, of shells, of rare animals, of curious plants. ‘One day he called upon me and said :— ‘SirI have a kind of animal, which has never been mentioned by any naturalist. It is a trumpet rat, and has a trunk like an elephant’s. It is alive and well; if you wish to' see it you have only to come to my house.’ “ I was very anxious to behold this strange animal. We arrived at his house and he showed me in a cage an enormous rat, very lively and in good condition, which really had on its nose a. slender excresence more than - an inch in length. The excresence was covered with hair like the body of the animal, with vertibrae in it, and (a most extraordinary thing), larger at the summit than'at the base , —the contrary to what it ought to be in the usual course of things. To convince myself that it was nota dupe' and a mystification,_I'stuck a pin into the trumpet. The animal cried out and a drop of blood came from the prick. The experiment was conclu- sive. It was really a trumpet, form- ing part of the rat. “I was amazed. I asked this man if he would sell his rat. He said yes, and I paid him 100 francs for it. My friends and servants all admired it and I was enchanted. My rat was a male. I asked the zouave if he would procure for me a female, and he said he had two. I saw them and bought one for fifty francs. Some months afterward the female had young. I looked at them and they had no trumpets. I said to- myself, ‘They will sprout.’ I waited one month, two months, six months; every day I looked at the noses Of my rats, but the trumpets never appeared. “ In a. house where I go frequently, I made the acquaintance Of an officer who had served along time in Africa. Itold him about my trumpet rats, and he laughed as though his sides would split. When he was calm again he told me that the trumpet rat was, not a freak of nature, but an inven- tion due to the leisure momente of the zouaves. This is how they make them :—You take two rats and fasten their paws firmly to a board, the nose of one close to the end of the tail of the other. Then with a pen- knife or lancet you make an incision into the nose of the rat which is hindermost, and you graft the tail of the first into the nose; you tie firmly the ,4 muzzle to the tail and you leave the two rats in this position for forty-eight hours. At the end of that time the union has taken place and the two parts are grown together; then you cut off the tail of the rat which is in front to the required length and let him go, but still keep the other fas- tened to the board, with his head loose, and you give him somefiiing to eat. At the end of a fortnight the wound is perfectly healed, and the eye of the most curious investigator would not see a. trace of the grafting. This is the way the zouaves make rats with trumpets.” On the part of the defendant it was urged that he had certainly made up the rats as stated, but he affirmed that he had not sold them to the plaintiff as having been “born” with trum- pets. Verdict for the zouave. . Advertise in the DAILY.GAZET1‘E: “trumpet rat,” having a. long prO-, _ DUTCH CLEANUNESS. In Holland the Kitchen is Kept in as' Neat Order as Ihe Parlor. - The Holland cities are the cleanest in the world. The Hague, a city Of perhaps one hundred thousand in- habitants, is so thoroughly clean that everything shines. Not one speck of dirt is allowed to soil 8. building and _ every street is so thoroughly washed, and swept that one hesitates to walk too carelessly on’ them. - Every morn- ing from 8 to 9.30 o’clock the servants are seen engaged in a. general scrub- ~ bing and cleaning-up operation. They scrub the doors, the porches, the front steps, the front wood- work and wash the sidewalks. Companies engage to wash windows by the month, and their men are seen with force pumps all over, the cities washing the panes and giving the front of each house athorough shower bath; this is not periodical, but it is done every morning, and not at an occasional house, but everywhere. And then you ought to see aDutch kitchen? That is a genuine treat. I was enabled to see several; not in homes of the wealthy, but in ordinary dwellings. The floor is paved with stone, marble or granite, and is so clean that you could take your meals off of it with relish. The walls are covered with snow-white tiling, which shines like lamp reflections. The ceil- ing is hard wood, painted and varn- ished, and it is as lustrous in its way as the walls. The stove is generally in a. recess. Lace or snow-white linen is hung from this alcove. Imagine it, a kitchen stove behind lace or linen lambrequins! The kitchen uten- sils are in pautrics, which have hang- ings of neat stuff of different sorts; the sinks, brasses, cocks, in fact all the mental work that is visible is so polished that it glows like burnished steel, One enjoys a meal prepared in such a kitchen. Such habits of course produce thrift. A lady told me she paid her cook ten fiorins ($4) a month, and out of this pittance she had managed to save enough to accumu- late a neat- little nest egg at a bank to prepare a wedding outfit. In cold weather the Hollander blankets his cows and their stables are as clean as their kitchens. One stable I saw had sawdust piled to form pretty little figures; the stalls were bordered with fringe of braided straw, and neat little curtains hung at the entrance, and by the proper use of disinfectants and thorough careful cleansing theiodor. was a perfume of hay, and not a sug- gestion of stable smell couldbe de- tected—Letter in Chattanooga Times. SHOE NEWS. BEIDGEPORT. 001111.. December 29. 1891. The weather to-da'z/ : Clear. ’ Women’s Mackintosh water- proof gaitereites are a neat protection for rainy days, $1. School girls’ high ‘1 button over-shoes, neat Jersey Cloth, best quality, $1.50. Women’s high button over- shoes, best Jersey cloth, $2. Neat buckle, arctic 100.1"WO-. . menand children. Women’s storm= 500. . . Men’s arctics, $1, 1.25, 1.50. Men’s calf foxed beaver boots, $2.50. , ' Alfred Dolge Felt shoes and slippers. rubbers JL IlN C. HOWLAND. 405 Main Street L 081'. OST, either on Main or School street, a Pocketbook containing a sum of money. The finder W111 be rewarded by returning to TULLY dc bHEEHAN, 5 Main street. t258 To RENT. O RENT, on Mcrwin street. six rooms. Inquire of MRS. H. G. JOHNSON, 33 Merwni street. 3t258 0 RENT—Rooms on Smith street. Ap‘~ ptlyzgg Mus. FITZIIAUEIOE. _6 Wilton‘ave. T0 LET—A Cottage of seven rooms, three minutes walk from the bridge. to let to a good tenant Apply to CHARLES OLMSTEAD, or at office of DAILY GAZETTE. tf252 T0 RENT—Cottage on West Main street. Enquire of GEO. S. GREGORY. tt‘227 ROOMS T0 LET—First floor. 11 .High street, to small family only. Inquire of TAFT BROS... Clothiers. 23 Wall street. tf231 0 RENT, if applied for at once. the eli- gible office room in GAZETTE BUILDING. Opposute the telephone station. Apply at office of DAILY GAZETTE or of lw‘zi CHARLES 0LMSTEAD. Agent. FOR SALE. OR SALE—1 Top Buggy. 1 Open, 1 Pleas-V are, 2 One-horse Lumber and 1 Two- horse Lumber Wagons, at RUBY’S. Cross street. " 3t259 TO LET CHEAP to’ 1'1 lit parties—Four or six rooms on first our, No. 41 Belden five rooms, at No. 2 Chest— avenue; and nut street; also houses and lots for_sale. App/1y to S. B. WILSON. Carpenter and Builder. 92 all street. 1w257 OR SALE—13 pounds Fresh~ Pork for $1. (3m233) PEOPLE’S MARKET. 21 Wall street. A PRETTY Cottage of seven rooms, near the End 6. P 106 $2,500. Onlfi $500 down. Apply to 513., ILSON. Bea] state Agent GAZETTE Buildinz ‘ OR SALE—A number ‘Of‘ large‘ Coimter Drawers, that were in use at the Ambler store will be sold at a bargain. Apply at TRISTRAM A: HYATT’S. GAZETTE Building. th9 WANTED. OARDERS WANTED—Two gentlemen can secure board and rooms at 12 Leon- ard. street. 2t259 ANTED—A neat and honest girl for general housework in a. family 0 two persons. Apply any time afternoon or even- ing at 13 Union avenue. tf257 NOTICE. '“ r OOD SAWED by the cord orby contract 111 large or small quantities. Steam ass L.. power furnished. Ad .- . GER. 3W4!) Box 45.Winnipauk Conn. PLYMOUTH ROCK ICE. fare : TOBES AND FAMILIES, SUPPLIED at t. LOWEST BAI’EB ti".‘.5 I L ' Opera ,_ House. .FridoyEvoningion. ,1. tourley and Hart __I N_. STRUCK : GAS, ' The Greatest Farce-comedy on ‘ the Road. ' PRICES AS USUAL. Seats on sale at lliggs’ drug store, Norwalk. Shoo- Bargains. Our Ladies’ Shoes at $ I .25, _l .50, 2, 2.50 and 3, are Superior in style, »fit and durability to any- thing we ever saw at anywhere near the price. A. H. Hon 8.. SON. THE CELEBRATE'T) — .. lVERS & POND PIANO With all their patents. including soi’t stop attachment, can be seen by calling on or ad- dressmg N. K. FERRIS. Organist of the Norwalk M. E. Church and TEACHER on THE PIANO,DEGAN AND HARMONY. Residence—30 West avenue, Norwalk, Conn.; P. O. Box 131. At home Mondays. Thursdays and Fridays from 9 a. m. to 12 Ill. 3nillo PROBATE SALE OF REAL ESTATE. URSUANT to an order of the Court of Probate for the District of Norwalk, the subscriber Offers for sale a Tract of Lan , situated in said Norwalk, at Broad River, in quantity three acres more or less. Said land isa )art Of the distributive share of Joseph -B. E is in the estate of Robert Ells, deceased, and is fayorably located for building purposes. For particulars enqsuire of tf257 . g CHA . OLMSTEAD, Trustee. ‘ Thomas E. Gregory, . HORSE - CLIPPING. Leave orders at CHAS. E. MILLEL’S BLACK- SMITH SHOP. KMIGIIT STREET. 3m222 AGENTS WANTED . O canvass the town of Norwalk. For particulars address 11125:) HENRY ,SELLEOII, Danbury, Conn. ' PeOpIé’s Market Corner. Where are you going for your New Year’s dinner ? Here is our bill of Turkeys, Chickens, Ducks and Geese, Beef, Veal, Pork and Sausage, Mutton and Lamb, Pickled Pigs’ Feet, Pickled Tripe, Salt and Cured Meats of all kinds. D And the prices. Well, HAS ANY BODY. UNDEBSOLD TEE PEOPLE’S DIABKET “THUS FAB? I GUESS NOT. Here to stay. Come and look. Lots of room. Have you seen it? If not, don’t miss the opportunity of viewing Nor-walk harbor from our back door. E. J. WADHAMS. Prop. People’s Market, 21 Wall st. 171240 ' ' E ask one and all to be particular and not confound The Great Atlantic & Pacific. Tea Co. with mushroom concerns glint Imitate our system.stv1e and manner of ~oinlg busmess as near as they dare do. Al checks issued by us are as good as gold. and are redeemable at any Of our 200 stores or from our wagons when presented by the propeo'vparties. ‘ W e are 111 husmess to stay. ‘ tf52 l‘heGreo-tll.&P.TeoGo., '4'I’Main Street, Norwalk, Bonn. Daily Carrier Service. ON and after Monday, J anuary’4, the DAILY GAZETTE will institute 3. DAILY CARRIER SERVICE by which the DAILY AND TVEEELY GA- ZETTE will be delivered at any house, ofiice, shop or store in the Borough of NOTWalk for 10 cents a week. This System Owin be under the supervision of MR. S W. BYINGTON', and any order addressed to him at the GAZETTE OFFICE will receive attention.- - OB PRINTING Of every description neat- done at DAILY GAZETTE Omar. 2 GREAT CLEARING OUT SALE ‘ : COMMENCING SATURDAY, DEC. 19. I will Offer to the public my Entire Stock of Holiday Goods, Dry and Fancy Goods, Furs, OIL CLOTHS' AND NOTIONS AT PRICES THAT WILL SELL THEM. BARGAINS IN ALL DEPARTMENTS. Everything to be sold. A rand t ' 't ' ‘ - ~ - ' meet the favor of the public as Ighave aoppor .nm y 18 now ofieied “Ht W1” GOOD STOCK OF NEW GOODSr. _ J.1='. BENNETT, 19 MAIN STREET, NORWALK. THIS SPACE ' IS RESERVED. w I N E. INVALID 5! IMPERIAL WINE,» per SHERRY _ -“ g ‘ . ‘ OLD PORT 4 a: . I BLACKBERRY “ ’ CATAWBA “ , /‘_ These Wines are Pure, aged at the Ware— houses. ” Are bottled by us from the Origi- nal Casks. ‘ * BETTS & FARRINGTON, Grocers \ Quart. .4" .r-‘QT ’"v-I. ..,...l-- \ i N l l
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