ETrue é =1" .i aso‘Nc or THETHRUSH. “.PHlLADEliP-[Jl—A- TIEDUPI ‘ . ,-A..:fifim_m_r .3, In Merit Only can any article attain such‘a ‘ high standard of fayor among the people as that enjoyed by For years, no; other; soap in New England has ever approached it either in sales or quality. It has proved its value over all substitutesxvlt is soap, all soap, and nothing but soap. ‘ ' -Blll enrol PRICE- MEA Round, Sirloin and Por- terhouse Steaks, Sausage, Pot and Rib Roasts Reduced 20. e Pound. ' All First Quality Meat. J .« -W. BOGARDUS, 6 WATER ST. , NORWALK. REDUCTION THE GREATEST RE— DUCTION IN THE PRICES or MEAT EVER KNOWN, COME AND BE CONVINCED AT ._____—— BATES’ MARKET, 5 WATER- ST. DB‘N-IK HATHIJRN 1 SPRING ~ “ wme FOR THE Stomach, Bowels, Liver and Kidneys. FOR SALE BY 'lle Holmes, Keelee &Sellecl Ce HALE’S LUNG- BALSAM crass ALL cows Piano Lessons. .GEORGE W. BRADLEY. (daughter wt the late Wm. B. Nash.) mves efiieent a satisfactor instru t' ' ’ her home No. ills Main 2422:.“ the Piano at ! LIGHT PAncuI. a 1 lllllKWllllll S PACKAGE memvmi"!i Cheap rates, Will also take orders for mes- senger seryice'm New York. Goods, called vorand deliyered to all arts of the town Orders received if”! P. Wood’s Dru: Store: as Wall Street. with telephone connection un- til sac. _ C E. LOCKWOOD. . J. D. Jennings. . UN D EkTAK ER 4 Knight street. on its . Street Railway Dorm 9H1 BILL AT OFRIOE. When greenly blooms the bended wheat, And tiger lilies dot the vale, , ‘ And faintly scents the meadow sweet, And kins do b'rim the flowing pail: , - What time the pewoe leaves his .perch And on the stonefly tests his wings, Where whitely glenms the silv’er birch,~ Then in dark woods the wood thrush sings. Whenpjas’t the hay themcadows brown, And stands the wheat in banded shocks, ' - And slew-the streamlet trickles down, And nunbeams bake the rifted rocks; ' What time the dog days’gin to wane, And skies are dun, and June is o’er, And sulks the high poised weather vane, The wood thrush sings in woods no more. When asters fringe the woodland wofys, And wild grapes hang on fence and tree, ‘ And hills are hid in ripening haze, And down the gulch the streamlets flee; What time the first soft maple urns, And a red shade the sumac fi gs, And on stone walls the ivy burns. Once more in woods the wood thrush sings. —William Higgs in Youth’s Companion. THE SHIREWD GRAY SQUIRBEL. ' Attending Strictly to Business, He Gets the Better of a. Wily Hunter. “Of course,” said a hunter, “every- body knows that when a man with a guncomes along, the gray. squirrel goes around on the other side of the tree; 'he doesn’t get killed if he can help' it, and he can help himself pretty well. I re- member once coming across a gray squirrel up a big oak; he was out on a branch about 40 feet from the ground. He saw me as quick as I did him— quicker, I guess—and when I was ready to fire, he was around on " the other side of the branch.‘ This branch was very small, only a mighty little bigger than the squirrel, but he hugged it so close and he was in such perfect line with me that you couldn’t see anything of him at all except a little bit of the tip of his tail that was blown out by a strong wind. I blazed away at him and never touched him. Then I went around on the other side of the tree, thinking that possibly I could get a. shot at him from there, but as I went one way he went the other, and by the time I had got‘ over on the other side he was on the side I had come from, and in just as perfect thus with' me as he was at first, and just as safe. I tried him again with just the same result. “Then I pulled a stake out of a rail fence near by and planted it in the ground on one side of the tree and hung my coat on it, and went myself over on the other 'side; I thought that possibly I might make the squirrel think there were two men there, or put him in doubt long enough to enable me to get a shot at him, but he never paid the slightest attention to the coat. I don’t suppose it would have made any differ- ence to him if I’d opened a clothing store there; he knew the man with the gun, and it was the gun that he was looking out for. “Well, we dodged around that tree for quite a spell longer. There wasn’t any other tree near by that the squirrel could go to, and he knew his only safe- ty lay in sticking to the one he was in, and the way he did stick to it and keep around always on the other side of that branch was something wonderful. I‘fired five or six shots at him altogether and filled the branch under him half full of shot, but never touched him, and when I thoughtl had wasted time and ammu- nition enough, I left himf ”44—Ncw York Sun. ‘ Water on the Moon. Astronomer Pickering of the Howard observatory at Arequipa, Peru, has late- ly been making some interesting ob- servations relative to the presence of water on the moon. A writer, quoting from a bulletin of the French Astronom- ical_society, says that over 35 narrow ravines on the moon’s surface have been catalogued, and these are all regarded as beds of ,rivers from their resemblance to terrestrial water courses. There is no reason to suppose that these formations contain water at the present time, but the observer argues that the presence of - a certain degree of humidity on the sur- face of the great satellite seems proba«' ble. The observer affirms that no other satisfactory explanation than the exist--‘ ence of water or a partially thawed fro- zen region can- account for the dark patches in the various craters or. cre- vasses. That vegetation exists is not yet demonstrated, but the observers regard such a discoveryas by no means unlike- 1y. —Revue Scientifique. LigntmiEEN ‘ , The curious fact has been observed that while buildings generally are more liable to accidents from lightning during the first half of the year than during the last, barns form an exception to this rule. In attempting to account for this it has been suggested that a full barn is warmer than an empty one and that the heated and somewhat moist air rising from the straw or hay is more conductive than cooler air and “at- tracts” lightning. ~ Cold-l . Weather. I There are seven million pores in the ordinary sized man, which act as sewers. in cleansin the system of impurities. hen they become clogged, perspira- tion ceases or is less than nor- , real in quantity. Cold weather restricts the amount of perspira- tion,_and in nature’s struggle to free the system of waste matter the Kidneys become overworked. Buker's Kidney. Pills counteract the effects of overwork, prevent disease, and cure the Backache incidental to Kidney troubles. When the back aches, try’ the pills. Druggists ,sell» them for' 50 cents. 'A book about Back. ache and Kidney troublesfor the asking. Baker P271 Ca, Bangor, Ml. 'MW Few Street Cars Running In- the City ' of Brotherly Leve.‘ ' BIG, STRIKE INACCURATED; Men Who Are Out Are Generally Order ‘ ly—The Demands of the Employee-U Principal Thoroughfares Crowd- ed \Vith Pedestrians. . PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 18.-'-‘-Tho strike 0) the motormen and conductors of the Un. ion Tractioncompany has begun, and the trolley lines ,of the? company all over the city are practically tied up. The strikers are keeping quiet, and up to noon there ber Welsh of the Union Traction company moved from his Walnut street offices and established temporary headquarters in the office of General Manager Beetem at Eighth and Dauphin streets in the upper end of the city, one of the, busiest ca! barns owned by the company. Mr. Welsh, who is personally directing the affairs of his company, says that hundreds of men are applying for employment, and he naserts that nearly all the cars will be running regularly soon. Cars are running with more or less frequency on Chestnut street, but not enough to accommodate all the persons who usually ride, the result be- ing that that street and the other princi- pal thoroughfares Were alive with pedes~ trlans. Nearly everybody, however, seem- ed to enjoy the novelty of walking to the office, store and factory, as the weather was all that could be destred. Although extra policemen were ordered on duty at all the station houses, there was no serious demand for their services. Soon after a car had left the up town depot of the Fifth and Sixth street branch somebody on the sidewalk threw a brick at it, but it missed its mark. The wife of n nonstriking conductor on the same line jumped on to a car and fairly pulled her husband from the platform. The our continued down the street without a con- ductor. . _ Policemen were placed on the front platform of early cars of the Tenth and Eleventh street branch. but as there was no likelihood of trouble they were with-- drawn after one trip. Novel Way of Stopping Cars. In the southwestern part of the city re- peated efl'orts were made by the company to run cars, but they only succeeded in going, a short distance, when they were forced to stop. Today being the regular time for the collection of ashes, the strik- ers as well as many residents were not slow to take advantage of the opportunity for stopping the cars. Boxes, barrels, tin pails and every style of receptacle contain- ing ashes were dumped on the tracks. Al- though some of the cars carried policemen, they Were not permitted to run. The sen- timent of the public in this section is clearly with the strikers. Several cars were thrown by the obstructions and now lie stranded in the streets. When one car was stepped, a bystander darted to the front pla'form, grabbed the trolley crank and ran away. As the day progressed many of the men who had started to work early abandoned their cars. and the trolleys on Chestnut street and the other busy thoroughfares were less frequent. The strike caused an enormous increase in the suburban busi— ness of the Pennsylvania and Reading railroads. People swarmed all over thd early trains which stopped at stations within the city limits. If the strike con- tinues, these companies will arrange to run extra suburban trains to accommo- date tho increased travel. The sympathy of the majority of the people seems so far to be with the strik- ers, but many persons think the men were too precipitate. It is argued that they have very little money in the treas- ury, and it is not believed that they can expect much substantial support from the National Amalgamated Association ol Street Railway Employees. Merchants who anticipated a rush of holiday business have regarded the rumors of a strike with apprehension, and today their fears Were realized. There was a noticeable falling off in trade at the big retail shops. There was no strike on the single inde- pendent trolley line in the ,city which runs its cars on Race and Vine streets. The Broad street omnibus line was also running. The Union Traction company employs about 6,000 men. and the officers of the Employecs’ association assert that two, thirds of them are members of the organi- 'zation.‘ At the meeting the leaders do- clared that they would take all of the nonunion men out with them, and they seem to have kept their word. The men complain of unfair treatment on the part of the company, and their grievance has been growing for some time. Their de- mand is for a work day of ten hours with 82 pay and reasonable time for meals. They also want protection from the Weather and recognition of their or- ganlzation. The \Veather. Increasing cloudiness; warmer; caster; ly winds. ' FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL Closing Quotations of the New York Stool ' Exchange. New YORK. Dec. 17.—-Money on call offered a: 2% per cent. Prime mercantile paper. W pei' cent. sterling exchange firm, with actual business in bankers’ bills at 34.88W.BS% for demand and S4.87}[email protected]% for 60 days. Posted rates, SAWSQ and 34.89%.90. Commercial bills, 34.86%. - Silver certificates, sales 310.0!» a! 06%. Bar silver. 66%.. Mexican dollars. 52%. Government bonds steady. State bonds dull. Railroad bonds firm. -' - General ‘Mnrkeu. N" Yonx. Dec. 17.—FLOUR-—State and western dull and easy; city mills patents. 846 1.26: winter patents, 884503.65: city mills clears 33.9mm: winter straights. 833103.45. , WHEAT—No. 2 red opened steady. but lscon Weakened under easycables and big spring wheat receipts, with a short scare at noon: March, GTMWWJ Mar. 6654M 9-16c. CORN—No. 2weakened on the late deliveries owing to heavier arrivals: new months were steady: J anuary. 83 fie: May. 34mm 9-16c. OATS—No. 2 quiet and easy: May Wide.- track, white. state. 25%. PORK—Steady; mess. M950: family. 8106 10.56. . LARD—Easier; prime western steam. 85.55. nominal. . ' . BUTTER—Firm: state dairy. ,16®23c.; state creamery. sarcasm. CHEESE—Steady; state. large. 7%010c.: small. ”(@lolfic. ‘ EGGS—Steady: state and Pennsylvania. 243 28c.: western. 21@24c. SUGAR—Raw strong: fair refining. 3M3Kc4 centrifugal. 96 test. We: refined steady: crushed. 5521c; powdered. 4%c. . TURPENTINE—Quiet at We. MODASSES—Firm: New Orleand‘mmc. ffiyfl‘, . , has been little disorder. President J. Low- . . RICE-jStead-y: domestic. mom Japan. -, , . _ 2.: '31. The Wonders That May Be Seen nerd: ,, “real-Eli a. microscope.- To the ordinary mortal a drop of wa- ter is what the primrose was to'Peter Bell, a drop of water and nothing more, ' but to the student of nature; armed with a highupower microscope,»it imme- diately becomes; a worldrtceming with ~ living-creatures, the most minute repre- sentatives of animal life, These thoughts .were suggested by reading. Professor Grace’s description of a. battle he once witnessed while examining a collection of rotifers,’ which we): amaSsed in a single drop‘of fresh we or. Among oth- ers, Mr. Grace noticed a fine specimen of infusOrian, which was" swimming, back and forth among the rotifers, as if , intent on mischief. On the following day it was noticed that the rotifer col- vcny hadlost several of its members, and that: the infuserian’s form' had rounded; out until he- resembled aiminiatu‘re- St; 7 Louis bartender. Mr. , Grace now re- solved to Watch the infusorian’s move- ments and ascertain, if possible the- modus dperandi whereby -=the",;capture. of such expert swimmers as the rotifers are known to be was effected. A few minutes’ wait sufficed. Soon it was noticed that the infuscrian was slowly and continuOusly working his way around the foot of a rotifer, which was resting on the glass slide. Around and around he went as slyly as a mouse in an oats bin, and when he had finished it was noticed that the rotifer’s foot was firmly cemented to the glass. The infusorian, seeming to know his victim was secure, began to good the tethered creature and torment it in all the ways that devilish ingenuity could suggest. He would jump upon its back and bite it in several places with lightninglike rapidity and then spring off. and seize a leg and. pull it almost from its socket. Mr. Grace says that he watched this unequal combat for nearly a half hour, when it was noticed that the rotifer was dying from exhaustion. Noting the death of his victim, the in- fusorian proceeded to devour his prey, as he doubtless had done the others that were missing. Mr. Grace next examined a small body of water, consisting of four drops, in which there were several infusoria and rotifers. The former proved the enemies of the latter, just as in the sin» gle drop previously examined. It was also noticed that the infusorian, having devoured a victim, would almost imme- diately divide into two or four new ani- mals, each of which would quickly swim away in sear of prey, just as its parent had done before. —St. Louis Re- public. STEVENSON’S STYLE. We Was No Mere Epigrnm Tamer or Pyro- technist In Expression. Brilliant as were Stevenson’s powers of thought and word, he was no epi— gram turner, no pyrotechnist in idea or11 expression. A clear and coherent train of thought runs through his most spar- kling chapters; in its elucidation every phrase plays an indispensable role, and the garment of style fits the thought so closely that, although each sentence is in itself a work of art, none exists for itself, but all for the sake of the gener- al effect of the whole. Singularly excellent is this whole as a medium for the transference of thought; impeccably lucid and limpid, translating all shades of perception, sensation and emotion with such case and preciseness that the reader scarcely remembers he is absorbing the thought of another. But even this rare merit does not necessarily imply great charm of style. To achieve. the highest kind of charm, of beauty, the car must be en- chanted while the mind is‘ definitely and delicately led. If you do not possess an ear for the music of prose ( which has nothing at all to do with the ear for music proper and is different even from an ear for verse, and a good deal less common), no one can make you understand the ex- traordinary beau: r- Stevenson’s work. But if you do possess this organ you will rate him, as an artist, at least as high as any poet. The essentials of good. poetic form, with its organized meas- ure and accentuation and often its de- termined rhymes, are symmetry and ‘balance, diversified uniformity, varied repetition, echoing assonance and reso- nance. The essentials of good prose form are a graceful symmetry, a discreet avoidance of actual in favor of suggest- ed balance, harmony in perpetual diver» sity, no obvious repetitions or echoings, and yet in every phrase a recognition of ' the form and color of all accompanying ’phrases. Thus a more subtle, if not a higher technical sense, goes. to the m_ak-. ing of very good prose than of even very ~ good poetry; there are no formulas or rules togive assurance or warning, no, signal cries determined upon in advance and thereafter loudly audible as helpers of a doubting can—“Robert Louis Ste- venson- and His Writings,” by Mrs. M. G. Van Rensselaer, in Century. . An Arctic Rhinoceros. A gigantic specimen of the arctic rhinoceros has lately been discovered frozen up in an iceberg .which stranded at the Lena delta. This specimen was seven feet taller than the largest variety of the rhinoceros of today and was armed with .two nose horns, the shortest of which was 3 feats inches in'length. The animal. doubtless belonged to an antediluvian species ,of rhinoceros, and his immense size gives some idea of the enormous and terrible beasts which in- habited this planet ' in the “days when the earth was young.” The creature‘s body was entirely covered'with very long, thick hair, which proves that the , arctic regions were his natural habitat. —'-St. Ironis Republic. The fool is always‘dead sure thathis own way of doing things is the best, if not the'only way, but the wise man wonders if there isn’t a better way than the, one‘ he has adopted. * What an admirable recipe for happi- ness to know how, to‘do without things! eVictor Jacquemont. ' . ’ ., 'An Oi‘llollunllv Weflhy ' if You .- llolice. " ' , If you suffer with kidney ‘disea‘se or any ailment arising from an :improper, action cube kidneys orurinery‘Organe, this offer we' make to the people of Nor- vvfalk should interest you. In the ad- vancement of medical science, the kid neys, being almostjhe organs of great- est importance to human health, have not been neglected, and in placing be- fore you such a cure as Dean’sjigKidn'ey far so many statements of th’elmaki‘er's of similar preparations have fallen short of their claims, being convinced that'no remedyfor ..kidney complaints. in oxistence equals Dean’s Kidneyl’rlls for such ailmentsmtreng thened in these. convictions by letters that are daily re- ceived of the work they are doing for mankind's benefit, old backs and young backs are being constauly freed from never-ceasing aches, and many a lame and shattered one, stdoped and contrac- ted, is strengthened," invigorated and infused with new life. ‘ With such a medicine an offer of this kind can be made without hesitancy, for while we lose the box we give to you, we make a friend that assists us in the sale of many others. . ONE FULL Box ‘ of Doau’s Kidney Pills will be given Away free to every person sufi'ering With kidney ailments at, the under- signed address ‘ First come, first serv- ed, and only this one chance. offered fiemember this is not a sample box, but a regular size box of Dean’s Kidney. I’llls, which retails at 5'.) cents. For those in the country who cannot call in time. free hexes will be mailed up to and including Dec. 23d for all "letters received, in the order of receipt. lie- member. Free Distribution (lee Day Only, Thursday Dec. 20th at H. B. Hale, Druggist. Cor. Main 8: Wall Sis. Nor- waik, Counu Cut this advertiSement out and name this paper. , . Sole Agents for the United States, Foster Milburn§00., Bufi'alo, N. Y. THEY DEVELOPED YOUNG. Two Famous Poets, Oliver Wendell Holmes and William Cullen Bryant. , Oliver Wendell Holmes received the degree of doctor of medicine in 1836, being then 27 years old, and in that year he also published his first volume of poems. Nothing of Dr. Holmes’ has been more popular than “The Last- 'Leaf,” contained in this early collec— tion, and none has more richly deserved to please by its rhythmic beauty and by its exquisite blending of humor and pathos so sympathetically intertwined that we feel the lonely sadnessof the old man even while we are smiling at the quaintness so feelingly portrayed. Dr. Holmes was like Bryant, who composed “'I‘hanatopsis” and the “Lines to a Waterfowl” long before he was 20, in that be early attained full development as a. poet. Although each of them wrote many verses in later life, ' nothing of theirs excelled these poems of their youth. In their maturity they did not lose power, but neither did they deepen nor broaden, and ~“Thanatopsis” on the one side and “The Last Leaf” on‘ the other are as strong and characteris- tic as anything either poet was ever to write throughout along life.’ What Bry- firstvolume of poems, each was to the end of his career. To neither of them was literature a livelihod. Bryant was first a lawyer and then a journalist. Holmes was first a practicing physician and then a teacher of medicine. He won three prizes for dissertations upon' medical themes, and these essays were published together in 1838. In 1839 he was ap- pointed professor of anatomy and phys- iology at Dartmouth, and the next year he married Miss Amelia Lee Jackson. Shortly afterward he resigned the posi- tion at Dartmouth and resumed practice in Boston. He worked hard in his pro- fession .and contributed freely to its lit- erature, and in 1847 he went back to Harvard, having been appointed pro- fessor of anatomy and physiology, :1 position which he was to hold with great distinction for 35 years. —St. Nicholas. ~ secular—ionic BIG HEAD. Measurements Showing That the Space For Brains In It Is Extraordinary. Bismarck’s head, says a correspond- ent of ,L’Anthropologie, has been care— fully measured acCording to the rules of ,anthropometrics by the sculptor Schaph of ' Berlin, who made the statue of Bis- marck set up at Cologne. ’ The measure- ments prove that Bismarck has a head of extraordinarily large size. Measured horizontally from the frontal bone to the occiput the head is 212 millimeters, or more than 8.35% inches. The dis- tance from temple to temple is 170 mil- limeters. or a trifle over 6.69 inches. Bismarck’s cranium has a capacity 'of 1,965 cubic centimeters, and his brain should weigh 1,867 grams; These figures become especially sig- nificant when compared with the meas- urements 6f other heads. Of 2,500 heads measured at ‘ Baden Baden only one ex- ceeded '200 millimeters horizontally fro'mfront to back, and that one meas- ured 2,06 millimeters, or six millimeters less than Bismarck's. The mean meas- urements of 80,members of the Natural Science society at .Carlsruhe were 195 millimeters from front to back by155 biggest of these heads measured 205 by 162 millimeters. The cubic :measure ment of 245 German heads was-nearly 500 cubic centimeters under Bismarck’s, while the estimated weight 'of Bis: marck’s brain is 35' per cent above that, of the average adult European brain. In fact, Bismarck is a man not only of , blood and iron, I) t as wellxof brains. :' 9...»: .. . ’ ~ Pills. the propriem‘rs recognize, :hew’, ant was, what Holmes was, in this, his, 'brella. stands, paper racks, wall pockets, hat racks, medi— 1 millimeters from temple totemple. The .I ' BRID‘GEPORT. TH; , , , D... M. IRQZKE .' company. SHORT DAYS AND ‘ LONG EVENINGS About equalizes the hours for shopping, leading up with Christmas things. And it’s pretty sly work to... get your purchases into the house without their being seen— little eyes are watching, little ears are listening and little minds are suspicious of every rustling and crackling .of store paper nowadays—one side is trying to outwit the other. It’s great fun, all around. ‘ Big black rubber Footballs, numbers 3, 4,- 5 and 6, for 50, 59, '69 and 75 cents resPezztivr-iy. Sleds, Wagons, Boats and. Drums at special priCcs—low prices. A lot of iron toys, 25 0. kinds. ., Dolls, of every Nationality if. they could only talk. *' Doll Houses, with furniture '__.-_made to sell for 75 cents, ‘ and we are letting them go at 39 cents; big ones that sold last year for $1.49 are selling ’now for. 99 cents. Toy Sweep- ers, for littlegirls. Satin stripe Plaids—plaids in beautiful dark rich shades of brown, blue, wine and green barred off with bright satin lines—an unexpected - new arrival of goods promised for [the middle of January that are here in season for Christmas. We are happy to say that we are new: in posi- . tion to supply the demands for these goods that have been crowding in upon us; some awfully rich things among 'them. ' ' , In the Car-pct department there’s a veryfine display of Fancy Furniture Novelties in oak, mahogany and bamboo; nothing more useful for, a Christmas gift—handsome cabinets, dainty stands, artis- tic' tables and pretty stools. There’s any quantity of cm- cal cabinets, iardiniere stands, ‘music racks, tea tables, win- . dow seats, book racks, corner brackets, , blackin g cases, screens an d easels. ‘ ‘i‘ >3
Norwalk Chronicler