Absolutely Endependeni. _
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30,1895:
'1‘ .ie Baily Gazette, established in 1890
The Weekly Gazette in 1800.
IlIA IL SUBSCRIPTIONS.
Daily, one year,$3; six months, $1 75; three
months. $1.00; one mont 300. _
lice/rig, one year. in advance. $1.00; Six
monts. 600. three months. 35c.
POSTAGE IRE-PAID.
Produce Them.
Up to the time of going to press the
Selectmen have not supplied the name
or names of any of the parties who re-
ceived one of the orders which are
charged to the Holmes, Keeler & Sel-
leck company, referred to by the
GM-ETTE on Tuesday.
The GAZETTE herewith challenges
the Selectmen of Norwalk to produce
one of the orders given out by them
and charged to the Holmes, Keeler &
Selleck company in their report of
1893.
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Uncle Sam is All Right.
The president issued a patriotic mes-
sage upon the financial situation and
gave good counsel to the misguided
factions of his party, whom he cannot
hope to control. While there may
have been a necessity for the message
there is no occasion for alarm among
the people, says the Norwich Bulle-
tin. “Uncle Sam will not make an
assignment this year. He may wear
short trousers and look cadavercus, but
his trade mark bears the motto: “One-
hundred-cents-on-a-dollar.” The “wild
team” embarrasses him and the money-
changers are fooling with his treasury,
but his backbone is still rigid and. his
credit can stand all ballastic tests.
, The Waning Strike.
The Brooklyn strike is evidently
waning and cannot, according to pres-
ent probabilities, be maintained until
the end of the twenty days allowed by
Judge Gaynor in' his alternative man-
damus, when the companies are re-
quired to be running to the full capac-
ity of their several lines. The snow
storm may delay resumption somewhat
or the riotcrs may temporarily resume _
wire cutting because of the absence of
a portion of the military, but these and
all other causes combined will fail to
turn the 'tide sufficiently to give any
promise of final success to the strikers.
The strike was doomed to failure when
the strikers and their sympathizers
first became riotous, and nothing that
can now be done or left undone can
t more than temporarily postpone its
final and complete collapse.
The Fiscal Year.
The idea of changing the ending~of
the fiscal year, as proposed by the peti-
tion for the special town meeting, to
August 31st in each year, is for the
purpose of having the annual town re-
port prepared and printed prior to the
election of town officers, so that elec.
tors will have a chance to know what
has been done during the year before
they are called upon to support any
candidate for a town ofiice.
Other tow'ns’about Norwalk have
adopted this plan, and it works well,
and there should be no difficulty in
having the same condition of things
here.
To require electors to support candi-
dates for town office without knowledge
of how the affairs have been conducted
the preceding year is wrong, and it is
for the purpose of having the accounts
of the town presented to the electors
before they are called upon to support
a candidate, that the resolution to
change the ending of the fiscal year
will be introduced on Friday next.
The Annual Report.
A taxpayer calls the GAZETTE’s at-
tention to the fact that at the recent
annual town meeting, when the annual
report was read, the lump sum only
was given, and that too, without a foot-
ing, and inquires why a clear, compre-
hensive report is not given.
The GAZETTE is unable to explain
why a clear, comprehensive report is
not made, nor can it explain the Select-
mens’ reason for bringing the report
into the meeting without having footed
up the account expended during the
year, and we must refer our inquisitive
friend, to the Selectmen for their
motive. ‘
In the annual report for 1893, the
usual array of names and figures is
spread over the pages, but only in a
few cases is it possible to ascertain
from the report Why the variou;1 indi~
viduals received the amounts set oppo-
site their names, and it is very doubt-
ful if the Selectmen themselves can
tell why these sums of money were paid.
It should be the duty of the Selectmen
in this report, to give the name of each
person she received money from the
town and show exactly what it was
received for.
This is but one of the many reforms
that can be made in the method of
keeping the town accounts, and it is to
be hoped that the taxpayers will rec-
ommend a change at the town meeting
on Friday afternoon. V
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-Hale’s Rose Cream for chaps.
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A complaint?—
tiunSon Lockwooa Jumps from a~
Second Story Window.
His injuries Likely to Prove Fatal.
For some time past Munson Lock-
wood, father of Henry S. Lockwood,
presrdent of the Lockwood Manufac-
turing company at South Norwalk, has
been ill at the latter’s residence on Elm-
wood ayenue, and a nurse has been 111
constant attendance upon him. .
Tuesday afternoon the nurse carried
his dinner to his room and while he was
eating she left him for a moment. She
had not been gone a minute when the
invalid arose and going to the. door
closed it. He then went to the Window
and opening it jumped out. In his
descent he struck a portion of the roof
below and then rolled to the ground,
where he was found a few minutes
later. He was picked up and Dr. L.
M. Allen called, who found upon exam-
ination that Mr. Lockwood had sus-
tained a compound fracture of the left
kneeand a fracture of the left thigh.
Owing to Mr. Lockwood’s .age and
the severe shock to his system it is very,
doubtful if he recovers.
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Fairfield County Cigars.
A truly surprising quantity of tObacco
is made up into cigars inFairfield coun-
ty, as the report of Deputy Revenue
Collector Sloan, for the year ending
Dec. 31st, shows. Upon the last day of
the year there were in the county 68
factories engaged in the manufacture of
cigars. Their output was 7,755,350
cigars, made fnom’ 161,000 pounds of
the leaf. The number of pounds 'of
lerf required for the manufacture of
1,000 cigaas was 21. During the year
four new factories have gone into the
field. Most of these shipped several
millions of cigars to New York, to be
handled by the large tobacco firms of
that city, very little being sold in the
city and a hardly greater quantity in
the state.
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Took Trout in Nets.
Richard E. Follett. one of the fish
commissioners of Connecticut, was
placed on trial in the superior court, at
Pittsfield, Tuesday, on a charge of
netting trout in the southern part of
the county. The commonwealth proved
that Follett and his men took a large
number of trout in nets and conveyed
them to the hatchery for breeding, but
they were found to be diseased and
were turned into brooks to recover.
After their recovery he took them out,
using nets. Follett was arrested by
Game Commissioner Smith of Pittsfield
at Great Barrington, from which be
appealed. -
The Barnes Will Case.
In the cace of Lizzie Barnes of Nor-
walk, who appealed from the decision
of the probate court in regard to cer-
tain provisions in the Will of her late
husband, the appellant again meets
with defeat.
against her by the Supreme court. A
motion to dismiss the case was en
made, and her council demurred. The
demurrer has been overruled by Judge
Prentice, and the original motion to
dismiss will now come up, and in all
probability be granted.
Stole Four Pair of Shoes.
About 6 o’clock last evening a little
girl saw a tramp take four :pairs of
shoes‘from a table'in front of the store
of A H. Hoyt & Son. She immediate-
ly informed Chief Bradley who soon
had“ the thief under arrest and in the
station-house. He admitted the theft
but refused to give his name. He was
very drunk, but remarked that he
would now have a good warm place in
which to sleep. This morning he gave
his name to Chief Bradley as Edward
Martin and his home Mount Vernon.‘
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A Big Purchase.
The Messrs. Hanlon Bros. of baking
powder fame are in receipt of 405 cases
of agate ware said'to be the largest
smgleshipment of agate ware ever
made into the east. It comprises an
assortment of eight different articles
any one of which will be given away
with a pound of baking powder. Mr. J.
Hanlon of this enterprising firm start-
led the wholesalers when he made the
purchase under the sobriquet of “Cash”
and a trades’ journal devotes nearly a
column of its space in speaking of the
ea c.
His Condition Serious.
A week ago last Sunday, Robert
Powell. while engaged in harvesting
ice, was struckgon the right leg with a
large cake of ice. He paid but little
attention to the injury at the time, but
a few days later the leg gave him much
pain and swelled up to four times its
usual s1ze. A physician was summoned
but the leg has burst two or three
times, .and Mr. Powell’s condition is
now said to be very serious.
Couldn’t Buy Any.
James E. Lees, treasurer of the Lees
Manufacturing company, Westport,
was in town, yesterday, and tried to
purchase some of that company’s stock
at$5 per share. He was not successful
in securing any. According to a state-
ment filed with the secretary of state
some time since the stock is worth $67
per share. The minority stockholders
have filed a petition for the appointment
of a receiver.
Hicks Restored to Citizenship.
The president has restored to citizen-
Ehlp Robert S. Hicks, sentenced’Jan—
uaiy 31, 1888, to four years JD. the Con-
necticut state prison for embezzling
bank funds. President Harrison re-
fused a pardon to Hicks while he was
undergomg his imprisonment.
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His Birthday.
Fred, the oldest son of Landlord
Garrison of the American House, was
thirteen, years old yesterday, and he
was given‘a birthday party. All had
ahappy time and a splendid supper
was served. Fred was in receipt of a
number of presents. ,
Shot Himself.
Fred Rest, aged 25, shot and killed
himself With a rifle, at Waterbury on
Tuesday. He had a severe attack‘cf
typhotdjfevera few months ago.and
had not-since recovered his health.
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—Pictures framed at Hayes’ Main st.
1013 ti.
and was fined $150 in the district court ,
The case was decided’
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Electric Road Crossings. <
The Railroad committee of the 'Gen-
eral Assembly was ready yesterday to
hear parties in interest concerning the
proposed-1 electric road crossings of the
Consolidated read'a't South Norwalk.
The railroad was represented by Hon.
Lynde Harrison of New Haven, and
Hon. Henry C. Robinson of Hartford
and Attorney “W. H. Perry of Bridge-
port, appeared for the electrlc road.
. Mr. Perry said there were many par-
ties in interest. There were two townsz
two boroughs and two drawbridges and
to harmonize all these interests, in
addition to the interests of the rail-
roads, was a matter of no small moment.
The interests of the town of West-port
were also represented by counsel. It
was mutually agreed that the hearing
be postponed until February 7 at 2 p.m.
Stamford Military Officers.
The adjutant-general has appointed
the following officers in Company C,
Fourth Regiment, 0. N. G., Stamford:
Second Lieutenant Oscar Cossum to be
captain, Sergeant Philip W. Prior to be
first lieutenant, Quartermaster~Ser-
geant Grant Archibald to be second
lieutenant; all with rank from January
11, 1895.,
_ Had Tuberculosis.
Nine valuable cows belonging to ex-
Mayor Charles Parker, of Meriden,
were killed yesterday. They were af-
flicted with tuberculosis. The animals
were valued at $100 each.
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Amusements,
HOYT’s OPERA HOUSE.
A glass of sparkling, fruity cham-
pagne can scarcely be more invigorat-
ing than the evening spent in witness-
ing an interpretation of Charles Hoyt’s
greatest farce-comedy success, “A Trip
to Chinatown.” An unusual event in-
cidental to this production, unusual be.
cause it has never been paralleled in
the history of farce-comedies, will be
the bringing to this city of a complete
carload of scenery built by Voeghtlin
for this production. The great success
of the play in previous years is fresh in
the minds of theatre-goers.
uoxT’s OPERA Housn.
Lincoln J. Carter’s new scenic melo-
drama, “The Tornado,” will be pre-
sented at Hoyt’s Opera House, Friday
evening. With a rushing roaring torna-
do uprooting trees and carrying away
houses; with two vessels colliding in
mid ocean ; with a green sea tossing. a
drowning man high on its 'great crests
and with a shadowy corpse with golden
hair lying on a dissecting table, there
will be enough to satisfy the most ard-
ent admirer of the realistic.
TERSE TALES or THE TIMES
Is yOur income over $3,500 ? .
Buckingham_ Post, G. A. 3.,
meet tonight.
will
_ Editor Jones of the Westporter was
in town to-day. ‘ '
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Walter Callan is , cry sick-at his home
on Riversxde even no.
John L. Elliott has been appointed
postmaster at Clinton.
Nearly all of the Norwalk lawyers
are in Hartford, to-day.
Daniel Fairchild died in Bridgeport,
yesterday, aged 90 years.
A young lady residing .on Franklin
avenue is soon to be married. .
The Norwalk and Saugatuck Forty-
five clubs will meet tonniglit.
. Mrs._ M. P. Stone of Camp street,
is ViSiting friends in New York.
. Astory-telle'rs sociable will be held
in the Y. M. C. A. rooms tonight.
The civil court of Common Pleas will
convene in Danbury next Tuesday.
George P. Carroll has been confirmed
as Judge of the Bridgeport city court.
——If your hair falls out‘get it singed
at Emil Durbeck’s, 6 Knight street.
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A horse trot on Cove pond, at
Stamford, will take place this afternoon.
Mrs. Abby Jennings, mother of Post-
master Jennings of Southport, died
yesterday, aged 89 years.
Snow ladened clouds are hovering
over this city, and the air is disagree-
ably cold and penetrating.
The remains of the late Mrs. Mary
Selleck were taken to Scotts’ Corners,
N. Y., for interment, to-day.
The Doorkeepers Circle of the King’s
Daughters will meet at the home of
Mrs. T. K. Noble, to-morrow.
Electric cars with smoking compart-
ments have been placed upon the
Hartford system oftrolley lines.
William Mitchell who has been sick
for the past few days is said to be some-
what better of his illness to-day.
E. A. Woodward and Hubert E.
Bishop will sail for the Azores, on the
La Tourraine, next Wednesday-
The funeral of William H. Cousins
was attended from his late home on
Franklin auenue, this afternoon. -
The High School at Westport, will
celebrate the anniversary of its founder,
Horace Staples, to-morrow night.
A New Haven fish dealer, yesterday,
gave away 2,500 pounds of fish to 500
unemployed residents of that city.
Don’t forget the special city meeting
called for Friday evening, nor the town
meeting called for the same afternoon.
——-Money saved by buying drugs and
chemicals at Hale’s. , 1019tf
Mayor Hubbell and Corporation
Council Lockwood are in Hartford, to-
day, in the interest of the new Town
Courtybill. ~
. Aconvocation of Washington Chap-
ter, No. 24, R. A. M., will be held this'
evening. The R. A. degree will be
conferred on C. Ford Seeley. ‘
DAILY- NORW'ALK'jGAZETTE'. g
' The plumbers are meeting with con-‘
mderabie difficulty in repairing the
break in the water pipp in front of
Raymond &. Sons furniture store on
Main street. ' "
:Senator Marigold has introduced a
bill in the legislature increasing the
number of deputy sheriffs in each
county, Fairfieid county’s quota being
increased from 15 to 20.
At a meeting of the county repre-
sentatives in Hartford, Tuesday, an ap-
Pl‘Optifl-tion of $2,000 for heating and
furnishing the school-room at the
County Home, in this city, was voted.
Messrs. “Vet” Taylor and Frank
Riley challenge “Willi’ Burr and J.
Osterbanks to play a series of fifty
games of dominoes, muggins preferred,
the prize to be a bushel of doughnuts
or ten silver dollars.
“The Civil War” was the subject of
an interesting lecture delivered to a
large audience at the St. Mary’s church
last evening by Rev. W. J. Slocum of
Norwalk The lecture was given under
theauspices of the St. Mary’s Literary
society—Bridgeport Union.
The first annual ball and concert of
Welcome Stranger Lodge, Sons of St.
George, will be held in the Opera
House, Feb. 20th. The committee of
arrangements is composed of William
Beadman, George Goodwin, William
Cwlllite, Joseph Whitley and Walter
a en.
At a bar meeting held in Bridgeport,
yesterday, Julius B. Curtis of Stamford,
Levi Warner of this city and Curtis
Thompson of Bridgeport were ap-
pointed a committee to draft resolu-
tions on the death of Francis Ives, one
of the oldest lawyers of Bridgeport,
whose death occurred on S unday.
A charter for a town ‘court for Nor-
walk has'been prepared, much on the
plan of Stamford’s City Court, only
thatthere are two sections of it, one
for each end of the town. Norwalkers
ought to welcome with open arms any-
thing that will rid them of the bur-
lesque upon justice which they have
had heretofore, but the idea of a city
court seems so novel to them that they
are hesitating about clasping it to their
breast, as it were—Stamford Advocate.
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THAT RIEDIATION OFFER.
Mexico “7111 Continue to Insist on Dam-
ages From Guatemala.
CITY OF MEXICO, Jan. 30.——It is prob-
able Mexico will decline with thanks the
attempt of the United States to intercede
in the Guatemalan affairs. The receipt of
a. telegram from Washington, saying that
the United States will endeavor to act as
mediator, and that Minister Gray has start-
ed on his return to Mexico to co-operatc
with United States Minister Young of
Guatemala, created much unfavorable com-
ment in the limited circles in which it was
made public. President Diaz, when asked
how the proffer would be received by Mex-
ico, very politely replied that the country
in general naturally felt grateful to the
United. States as asistor republic in its dc-
sires to sustain peace. which were exactly
his own wishes, but while expressing his
gratitude the president did not say the
offer would be accepted.
"In all such cases settlement of the mat-
ter at issue must depend upon the consent
of the parties directly concerned, ” said
General Diaz.
While giving no hint that Mexico will
not listen to a proper extent to the voice
of the United States in the matter, the
press was given the general impression that
Mexico will continue to occupy the present
position on the boundary dispute and hold
to the claims for damages from Guatemala
which it has all along held.
THE MANITOBA SCHOOL CASE.
Appeal From Decision of the Supreme
'Court of Canada Allowed.
LONDON, Jan. 30,—In the presence of
Baron Watson and Lord McNaughton, lords
of appeal in ordinary, and Lord Shand, a
member of the judicial committee of the
privy council, Baron Herschel], the lord
chancellor, today delivered judgment al-
lowing the appeal from the decision of the
supreme court of Canada in the case of
Brophy and others against the attorney
general of Manitoba, rendered on Feb. 20,
1894, and known as the "Manitoba school
case.” No costs Were allowed. Edward
Blake, M. P., leader of the Canadian Lib-
eral party from 1880 to 1891 and formerly
premier of Ontario, and Mr._ Ewart of the
Canadian bar are counsel for the appel-
lants. Cozens Handle, Q. C. ; Mr. Haldane,
Q. C., and Mr. Bray appear for the re—
spondent. ' -
In their lordships’ opinion it is the twen-
ty-second section of the 'Manitoba act
which has to be construed‘in the present
case, though it is of course legitimate to
consider the terms of the earlier act and
take advantage of any assistance they af-
ford in the construction of the enactments ’
with which they so closely correspond and
which have been substituted for them.
Engineers May Strike Now.
OAKLAND, Cal., Jan. 30.—Chicf Arthur
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers is on his way to the Pacific coast.
Under his instructions all the brother-
hoods are being polled on all the roads in
order to get a. vote on the question of or-
dering a general strike. According to the
rules of the brotherhood. a general strike
cannot be ordered without a consent-ing
vote from two-thirds of the members of
the organization.
To Pardon Mrs. Fitzsimmons.
Pirrsnune, Jan. 30. —-An effort is to be
made to have Mrs. Lucy R. Fitzsimmons
pardoned from the penitentiary. She is
the Wife of F. C. Fitzsimmons, who shot
and killed Detective David H. Gllinson
near this city on March 21, 1891, and who
committed suicide in New Orleans aftci
his capture there. She was convicted as
an necessary of her husband and sentenced
to eight years in the penitentiary.
' Stockholders to Be Held Liable.
DENVER, Jan. 30.—Receiver_ Frank Ad-
ams of the defunct Commercial National
bank has received notice from Comptroller
Eckels to enforce the individual liability
of the stockholders. The assessment
amounts to $250,000, and the stockholders
are given until Feb. 16 to meet the obli-
gation. Each shareholder will be required
to pay 8100 upon every share he possesses.
.. Charged With a Fearful Crime. .
. ‘ .~L_A J UNTA, 0010., Jan. 30.—Charles
. Donnevan, a barkeeper, was arrested on a
charge of attempted assault upon the
blind man. If Donnevan can be secured,
'his chances for hanging are good. Don-
nevan has been regarded as a harmles
‘ drunkard._ ' g _, .
9-year-old daughter of James Claussman, a ‘
‘Selectmen'of 't‘he‘Town of N or-
o
The Selectmen of Norwalk
having boycotted the GAZETTE
for supporting the- demand for
an investigation of their ac-
counts, and are apparently try-
ing to keep the Call for a special
meeting from being seen at
this end of the town by pub-
lishing the notice in both
newspapers at South N orwalk
and withholding it from the
columns of the GAZETTE, the
the call
herewith, so that all persons
GAZETTE publishes
who desire to know what is
being done with th;,tO_Wll’S
money each year may be on
hand on Friday next.
Nflllll.
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Special Town'llieet-
ing.
The inhabitants, legal vot~
erslof the Town of N orWa‘lk,
are hereby notified and warn-
ed that a Special Town meet-
ing will be held at the Town
House, in said town, on Friday,
the 1st day of February, A. D.,
1895, at 3 o’clock in the after-
noon, for the following pur-
poses, to Wit: To consider
and take action upon the
following petition of Matthew
Corbett and others, viz ;
“To the Selectmen of the
Town of N orwalk, Gentlemen :
The undersigned respectfully
petition you to call a special
meeting of the voters of the
Town of Norwalk for the fol-
lowing purposes :
To order that the fiscal year
of the town shall end on
the thirty-first day of August
in each year.
To appoint a committee to
examine the town accounts,
methods of book-keeping man-
ner of publishing the same,
and to advise what changes, if.
.any are necessary to secure
accuracy and publicity.
To appropriate such sums
of money as the meeting may
direct to meet the expenses-of
the committee as appointed.”
Dated at Norwalk, January
25th, 1895. _ .
OSCAR W." RAYMOND, ‘
EPHRAIM- THOMES, '
SAMUEL DASKAM,“
Walk.
WHEELS IN His HEAD l
fFORTUNES'THAiéifHAi/sl'BE-ENT 'MA‘DE' -
, “BY INvEN__T_IVE CRAN’KS.
Most-of the Little Labor Saving-Devices
in Every Day Use ar'e Protected by
Patents and arc Earning Fortunes for
Some One.
Small ideas are sometimes worth for-
tunes. The Patent Office records are full
of trifling suggestions that have -won
riches for lucky thinkers. More than
half of them have been hit upon by acci-
dent. M'ost thoughts are blank in the
lottery of the human mind, but now and
then out pops a. prize. Catch it on the
fly, and you needn’t do any more work.
For example, take a little metal
paper fastener, used to keep the pages of
documents or manuscrips together.
Though but a. trifle, it made wealth for
Mr. J. W. McGill,who invented it in 1867.
The rubber pencil tip was devised by a
Philadelphia. man, Hymen L. Lipman, in
1858. It earned $200,000 for him. It was
in the same year that George A. Mitchell
got a patent for the metallic shoe tip.
His application for exclusive rights cov-
ered shoe tips ' of silver and all other
metals, but copper was preferred. From
that time on every bootmaker who sold
shoes with copper toes had to pay a
royalty, which enriched the originator of
the idea. An immense amount of money
was made by William D. Ewart, out of
an improvised attachment for machine
harvesters called a drive chain.
An-improved pattern of thumb latch
was produced by Philos Eli and John A.
Blake of New {Haven Thirty thousand
were sold during the first year, and the
brothers reaped a. small fortune. It is
reckoned that $1,500,000 has been made
out of the simple device of metal plates
for protecting the heels and soles of
boots. No less than 145,000,000 of them
were manufactured in 1887. The notion
of utilizing the feathers of'chickens, tur-
keys, geese, and other domestic fowls as
a. subsitute for Whalebone in women’s
corsets has been worth more than afairly
productive silver mine to its inventor.
The quills are woven into strips, or what
is called feather bane. A man named
Canfield first conceived the notion of
making armpit dress shields seamless
with a sheet of cloth covered rubber. It
brought .him an income of many thou.
sends a year.
Heaton, who hit upon the notion of a
metal fastening for buttons, doing away
with sewing, got a. fortune by it. A wood‘
en screw proved a mint for Thomas S.
Sloan in 1816. The man who invented
wooden pegs for shors was B. F. Sturte
vant. He lived near Boston and went
mad later on. The barb wire fence was
worth more than $1,250,000 in royalties to
its originators. Formerly many eggs got
'brokgn on their way to market by rail. A
countryman conceived the plan of pack-
ing them in trays of pasteboard, with a
separate compartment in which each
egg might stand upright. The happy
though was worth a fortune.
. There was a fortune in the inverted
glass bell hung over a. gas jet to prevent
the ceiling from being blackened. Big
money has been made out of 11.13811 for
shading in different colors, and a darning
weaver, for repairing stockings has like-
wise been immensely profitable. The
ball and socket glove fastener was pat-
ented in American by a. Frenchman,
named Raymond, .Whose idea has proven‘
golden. Rogers got an independence for
life out of his screw wire nail. A common
needle threader has brought an income
of $10,000 a. year to its inventor. Patents
for gold, silver, and copper tinsel yarns
for upholstery, have fetched a profit of
$45,000. Paul E. \Virt’s fountain pen has
made him rich. A peculiar crook in the
wire of a. recently patented hook and eye
is producing hundreds of dollars a day.
The roller skate earned a cool million for
the person who caught the idea. as it
floated in_his brain and put it into tangi-
ble shape. .
A self-made millionaire was 'quoted a.
while ago as saying that one of the best
ways for a young man to -make money
quickly was to rack his brain until he
found something the public wanted and
to supply it. Common sense may be
more useful than a. mechanical educa-
, tion. In using bath brick for cleaning
knives, housewives formerly found that
the must troublesome part of the job was
scraping the powder from the brick. One
day it occurred to somebody to sell the
. brick ready powdered in neat packages,
and he got a. fortune by it. Everybody
knows how troublesome it is to pick coins
off a. smoothcounter. A way to get over
this diil‘fliulty suggested itself to a,
thoughtful person, who promptly devised
a rubber mat, with rubber bristles stands
ing all over it. From this the coins can
be picked up as easily as if they stood on
edge. Henceforththis thoughtful person
will not be compelled to toil for his liveli«
hood.
......
' Dress as Well as Youh Means Allow.
well. A good appearance in these days
means the battle half W‘on. For a man is
.judged by his :gcoat and a. woman by her
gown, proverbs ;: and all“ the other old
fancies to the ‘coiitrary. " ‘
James Whitcomb Riley, the poet; says
that he would be well dressed if he had
to go hungry. '
“If I arrived in a town with only 50
cents in my pocket,’ ’ ‘he said to me once
as he was saying he considered good dress-
ing indispensable to success, “and had
to get work, I would go first to a barber
shop, pay 25 cents for a shave and give the
other quarter to the barber for a. tip.
Then I would start out, and I know I
would get work, for wouldn’t we rather
give money to a clean beggar than a dirty
one, and doesn’t the sighsvof past respec-
tability in a tramp arouse an interest we
could never feel for a burn ?” ‘
Big. .
Paddy has been telling the story of a.
big pike he caught—too big to get into
the boat, so that he had to be towed be-
hind (with the gaff in it, it must be un—
derstood). Then followed this dialogue:
“‘vVhat weight, Paddy?”
“Divil a know I know, but he was an
ojous baste.”
“How big, Paddy?”
“Sure, I can’t tell to a fut or two, but a.
a man could walkdowu his throat.”
On this incredulity; but Paddy clinched
the matter and silenced all controversy
by adding:
“W'id his hat on.”
Electric Seal. .
Among the new furs is what; is called
electric seal. The name is to an extent
misleading, as the fur is merely a sheared.
coney, and while rather pretty looking at
first does not wear in a satisfactory mam
ner. Indeed, it will scarcely stand one
season’s use and look well. It; is like
many other things, a. makeshift, and.
for that purpose may have a limited
sopularity.
., My Blood
Became overheated, causing pimples allover ms,
. developing into large and Dreadful Running
aroliite H. Fella
Londonderry, Vt.
‘ Mo's
I
Sores, the worst on my ankle. . I could notstep.
Soon after I began to take Hood’s Sarsaparilia,
the sores healed, and two bottles entirely cured
me and gave me renewed strength and health.
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\ Hood ’5 Pills cure all Liver Ills.,Biliousnesa
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All the Latest Styles at
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Cor. Wall and Water Sts.
[STRICT of Norwalk, ss., Probate Court
January 15th. A. D.. 189.3.
Estate of Agnes rus W. MERWIN, late of Wil-
ton. in said district, deceased. ~
The Court of_ Probate for the District of
Norwalk, hath limited and allowed six months
from the date hereof for the Creditors of said
Estate to exhibit their claims for settlement.
Those who neglect to, present their accounts,
groperly attested, Within said time. will be
charred a recovery. All persons indebted to
said estai e are requested to make immediate
payment to
JOSIAH GILBERT, Administrator.
‘lewsbovs wanted.
Life-Time.
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The Chance of a
THOUSANDS 0F 901M118 WflRTll
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When buying goods-please state that you saw this in the
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SUCCESSORS TO .- _
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we will dispose of our entire stock of Lamps,.Crockery,_ ‘
in the next 60 days,‘cemmenning Feb. 1, ’95.
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