i Tobacco for is an end- of- thescentury century Smokers. are represented the Skill, experience, and know- ; ledge ”that have. come ’4 '1 from a hundred years of tobacco making end-of-the— In it 1 :I. 3,. 1.11 I'm Ask your tobaceo dealer for lorillard’ the Cottolene is ready. Tn." lures-rm Porn-I: Never let Cottolene get hot enough to smoke. The flying pII should be cold when the Cathleue I: put in. Cottolene heats to the cooking point Iooner than lard. it never spotters when hot. The Cottolene trade-marks are “C'ottolenc” and a user’s head in cotton-plant wreath. THE N. K. FAIRBANK COHPANY. Chicago. Produce Exchange,.lll. Y.. 224 Stats 81.. Bosfon. OOKS , Should remember to use only two-til jrds O as much Cottolene as they formerly llused of lard or butter. quantity they will get better results at less a cost than it is possible to get with lard or butter. When Cottolene 1s used for frying articles that are to be immersed, a bit of bread should be dropped into it to 9 ascertain if it is at the right heat. When the bread browns in half a minute i ‘ With two-thirds the A combination of leavening agents that are pure, strong and pre-eminentl’?s satisfactory in their action, has resulted in which is " The kind Boss makes his Ovc1 3,000,000 pounds sold in the past year testify to Mar popularity. MANUFACTURERS C. D. BOSS & SON, NEW LONDON, CONN. ! biscun‘s with " and has for 32 y'eais. .1 .1 GREAT SALE OF M ILLINERY —AT———— FAWCETT’S 11111111111111 rm- 111111111. Commencing Saturday the 16th, and continuing Monday and Tuesday, when we shall sell fine French Felt Hats. all styles and colors, including a full line of Black, bought specially for this sale. ‘We shall also make a reduction in all our Trimmed Hats, and will offer one "hundred Hats and Bonnets from $1.50 .up, The Season has been backward, hat is the reason for the extraordinary bargaiuslwe shall ofi'er thelcoming week. FAWCETT’S 3 WJPERSPIBEEP VURWALK J. D. J ennings. UNDERTAKER 4 Knight street. opposite Street Railway Depot NIGHT BFLL AT OFFICE. Piano Lessons. BS GEORGE W. BBKD LEY. (dau hter of the late Wm. B. finish.) gives 9 cent satisfactory instructions on the Piano at her home No. 193 Main street PAINT. We are now prepared to supply the public with a good reliable ready mixed paint in 1} pt , 1 qt. 2 qt. and 4 qt. pails. Also aw and boiled oils. turpentine, dryer, varnish. wh1te lead ,by the pound or hundred, weight, white and colored kalsomine. Putty, nails by the pound or keg. Good line of paint brushes. Our prices are all fight—same as the goods .\ fl. ‘1 H. H. WILLIAM. 17 Main St. FALL 'An wmnsd sumac-3. Having rpcnred a large line of hands-011.1: Fall and inter suitings, I am ready to make them up in the latest styles. F. KOCOUR. l7 llurihlllain 81., South lldrwallr. eras-seared NEW LOT IN BLUE AND BLACK. $6 to $103213515211;distant;:2“ :snaa-Nrsnt—d? $8.50 a Suit. Fm iiili‘é‘dlétihm. [Call and examined H. GOODWIN, 170 \VASHINGTON STREET BRIDGE fl DAILY GAZETTE Classified Business Directory. Cardsunder chtaheaa $2; 50 per linemen/ea N INSURANCE, ORWALK FIRE INS. 00. N. In business since 1860: no outstandidgcglinsiil: W ON. 0. E... Gazette bldg. Invest- ments and mongii to loan. Also insurance writtenin best ocomnaniesatlowestrates BUBBELL. JAMESOT. 9 Hggggfnlg’l'l‘ gbBEw;:Waterstreet. .N. an 01m 9 o stairs)G};zetto "villain:allfldlrllliviva11110011]4 (1111. Ann (I? (I ROGER. SELLECK.F GEUHGF ‘1 ARD 18 Wall st. Best goods Teas” 1111311 Coffees. Specialties DANN. H E..S . . R ”1333:; gt. Livery Stable» AYMOND. 11:111.. 461-;48‘71111111 R1Batelerhone- AT‘i‘rlJ’. W. Wat 1' . Bltodnmalrmll fingxrrs‘r,h.l\.: ileum,~ alt. 111 Work Horace E. has 11, EXCELBIOL Lurery and Sales Stab12. Wuuvuuwu uvk‘ Opposite .Danbury. and Sui-walk Railroad depot Nor-walk. Genn. Stylish - ,, single or Dnuble'l‘eam with or with out drivers. date horses for women / sudchilliren. . SADDLE HORSES A SDECIALTv .1 THIS AND THAT. _ The last- turnpike road in Connect-i- cut, the old Derby road, is soon to be made free. Green lake, Colorado, is 10,250 feet above sea. level, and is said to be the most elevated body of water in the w.orld Just what has led up to it' IS not stated, but the town of Williams, A. T., has just passed an ordinance prohibiting women from appearing in the street- in bloom- ers. Fishermen in the vicinity of New London, Conn. ,report- that. recently sev- eral of them have seen a huge whale about 80 feet long in the waters there. A seaweed of the South ' Pacific often grows to be 30 or 40 inches in diam- ter and. 1,500 to 2,000 feet long. It has no root, in the proper r use, the nour- ishment being absorbed from the water. Either living is remarkably cheap in Simpson county, Miss, or the paupers there get very poor board. _ It costs the county less than a. dollar a head a. week to house and feed its dependent poor. Bar Harbor is_ consoling itself. for :1. dull wir .‘er with the reflect-ion that the people who summered there last season 1'1" presented wealth to an amount greater by $30,000,000-jhan those who summered at Newport. Wooden water pipes with a- six—inch bore are used in the streets of several towns in Vi’ashington and Oregon. They lost as long as iron pipes, and are much cheaper. A pipe-line seven miles long, of pine logs, recently laid, cost only $2,000. Col Waring, of New York, in his cum- paign for clean streets, is making a. great effort to impress upon all citi- zens that it is their duty to abstain from littering the streets. This is a reform that. is worth imitating in Amer- ican cities generally. MARRIAGE AND DiVORCE. Mrs. Burt Johnson, of Franklin, 1111]., a white woman, is now ‘14 years old, has been married two years, and has a healthy daughter. .‘. 17—y ear- -old husband 1’: as 1. iv orced 1’1 om a 10 \ eai- -old wife 1n San F1 ancisco the other day. The husband 11' as a mes- senge1 boy. A boy of 14 and a. girl of 11 were mar- ried in Johnson county, Ga., the other day. The parents of the children inter- posed no object-ion to the marriage. A Chesterville (Me) couple recently celebrated their golden Wedding in the very house «into which they moved on their wedding day 50 years before. Mr. Jacob Kremier, of Madison, Wis, died recently while com plet-ing arrange- ments for celebrating his golden wed- ding. llc was buried on the 50th anni- versary of his marriage. Lewis and Amelia Darwin, of Black River Falls, Wis. have been husband and w ife for 75 years. His age is 107 and hers' 15 101. They have five living children, whose ages range from 60 to 70 years. An unusual g1 ound for div orce is an- nounced by a. wife' 111 San Jose, Cal. She says that her husband was so mean, and heartless, and exasperating, that, in- stead of eating her. pies, he threw them out of the window. —Advertise in the GAZETTE. as an [N PlilGE-i- MEAT. Round, Sirloin and Por- terhouse Steaks, Sausge, Pot and Rib Roasts, Reduced '26. 1 Pound. All First Q11al1ty Meat. .1. W. BOGARDUS, 6 WATER ST.,' NORWALK "COUNTRY "poms. 1» Hephazard S stem of Improving Some Reasons Advanced for the Poor Highways of Our Rural Districts -—The States Should Act Indi- vldually. Some time ago, in speaking of the widening use of electric cars, we pointed out that 1n the cities they have largely supplanted the horse as an agent of transportation. well to say a. word now concerning the state of our country highways, on which as yet the horse has"no rival, except, perhaps, the bicycle. The growth of our railways, steam and electric, is no excuse for the neglect of our common roads. If anyone doubts that we have neg- lected them most culpably, let him look into the volume of consular re- ports on foreign streets and high- ways, issued in 1891 by the govern- ment at Washington. From these re- ports it appears that no other country in Christendom, with the possible ex- ception of Russia, has been so negh- gent In France, for instance, the high- ways approach perfection—a. fact to which the prosperity of the French peasantry is generally attributed. The first Napoleon, in the intervals of his many wars, laid the foundations of the system. Napoleon III. completed it. The result 15 a netv orl: of admh- able roads stretching out. over the whole country, under the constant in- spection and care of specially trained engineers. Germany is not far behind. Great Britain learned her lesson a. century ago from the celebrated Mr. Macadam, and has never forgotten it. The coun~ tries of southern Europe have profited richly by their legacy from the R0- mans, the great road builders of an- tiquity. Hardly anywhere on the con- tincnt. in fact, would the mud and ruts of our American roads be tolerated. Our backwardness may be attributed to the newness of the country and the rapidity with which it has been set- tic-d; but a more abiding cause is found in the nature of our constit ition, and in the strong instinct of local self’gov- e1 nment among our people. Since the abandonment of the Cumberland road in 1838, the national government has done practically nothing. The states have for the most part confined them- selves to general and merely permis- sive legislation on the subject. Every- where the highways have been left to the local authorities. The result has been the wildest diver- sity of plan and methods. In some sec- tions the work IS done mainly by con- victs. In others, any citizen is liable to be called out to work on the roads for a. certain number of days in the vear. In certain counties of Virginia, and elsewhere, the toll system is still prevalent. The practical advantages of a more centralized system, like that of France, are manifest. Frequently towns and counties through which important highways pass are too poor to main- tain them properly. Important ques- tions of routes, topography and ma- terials constantly arising, which re- quire investigation on a. wide scale. Scientific training is needed to fit a.- man for the difficult work of road- building, and this is certainly not com- mon among town and county officers. 'An authority on the subject declares that the present haphazard system has not produced fifty competent high- way engineers throughout the United States. It has been demonstrated by 'actual tests that the force required to draw a. ton on a muddy earth road is sufficient to draw four tons on a hard macada- mized road. When we remember that nearly all agricultural products, not to speak of other commodities, must be hauled at least two or three miles in wagons before the railroads can touch them, it is appai out what an advan- tage the European 1:. ’ over the Amer- ican farmer in this 1-.:-pect. Multiply by three or four the cost of hauling‘ UO the stations the total of the crops which the railroads handle every year, and you have a. rough estimate of the annual saving to the farmers alone which would result from a. system of properly constructed highways. In the long run other classes would derive al- most an equal benefit from the change. Even if we concede that the aban- doning of road- building by the nation- al government is final, there seems to be no reason why the states should follow the example. Some of the older states have recently awakened to the importance of the subject. Certainly it is hard to find a better investment for the public money than the better- ment of the common roads. —Youth’s Companion. Rustic Physiology. Old Farmer Rebd was driving some of the boarders over the beautiful New Hampshire hills, Where the winding roads are either uphill or downhill, and a level space is not found in many miles. As he urged the strong. wiry horses up one of the steep ascents, lie worked out the following line of argument: “Ncaw, I sposc you city folks think it kinder tough to make. the 01 1tters pull up these hills, but ’taint so mean as you think. It’s a big sight meaner to run ’cm downhill, and I’ll tell yer why. Now, when a boss runs uphill, his vitals presses on his in- nards, but when you run him down- hill. his innards presses 0:1 his Vitals. An’ that’s a sight wuss, no'w ain’t it?’ -—-Youth’s Companion. , 5 Sought an Easy Fate. Captain (to belated passenger who has suddenly appeared on the deck of the abandoned ship)———Jump, man; jump quick! Don’t you see she-ls going down? Passenger—Is my wife saved? “Yes.” “Well, so long. I can’t spend the rest of my life explaining why I let her take this steamer.”—-Boston Com- mercial Bulletin. . r It may be _ ,of national wealth. ENVELOPE FLAPS. Old Nags Said to Be Used to Make Them . Adhesive. Envelope-lickers will do well to pause and ponder on the fact theta man has died in consequence of- in- dulging in the popular but disgusting. trick; of moistening the adhesive ,en- velope with the tongue, advises Oak- land Echoes. Some will say: “How can gum arable poison any person?” Gum arable? Are they so innocent as to believe that this article, raised to a. prohibitive price by the Egyptian war and subsequent closure 'of the Soudan, sused on the envelopes? Do they see that ancient nag hobbling down the sheet? There is the parent of their gum arabic; and in a few weeks’ time. when that decrepit animal has made his bow to the knacker, and yielded up his hoofs to the glue-boiler, perhaps they may have a lick at his remains on the envelope they are dispatching to a friend or sweetheart. And should some taint of animal poison lurk amid that‘ ‘gum,” they may soon require other, and black-bordered, envelopes to b licked for them when their mourning cards are sent out. Perhaps no more unpleasant part of a visit to a stationer’s shop is when, hav- ing folded the small purchase in a flimsy envelope, the tradesmen raises it to' his lips, opens a. hippopotamus mouth, pro- tindesa. tongue which looks at least two sizes too large £01 its habitation, and then with a smirk hands the damp delicacy to his customer. May he, of all men. be warned by the pi ematme departure of a fellow-licker, and may all who send literary missivcs to their friends rest assured that the recipients of ~thesc envelopes woilld feel better pleased if these coverings had been, closed without any exhibition of moist anatomy. ' T HE WEALTH OF NATIONS. W’hile America Is the Richest, France Is Richer Per Capita. ' The United States is the richest coun— try in the world, according to M. G.’ Francois, the eminent French statisti- cian, who has been making a. careful study of the wealth of ninct ecu of the principal nations of the globe. It will interest penniless people to know that this calculator estimates the riches of this country at 3 3,000,000,000 francs, or reckoning 5 francs to the dollar, nearly s-13,000,000,000, says. Wmld. England is the next with 265,000,000,- IOOO francs and France the third in line, being the possessor of 225,000,000.000.‘ , Germany s fortune is conside1 ably less ——-only 161, 000, 000, 000; and the Russian empire, though for more vast, is con- _ siderably poor or, with but 12 ,,000 000, - 000. Three states possess more 1111.11.11 - 000,000,000 and less than 100,000,000, 000 each. Austro-Hungary, 82,000,000,000; Spain, 63,000,000,000, and Italy, 54,000,- 000,000. The fortunes of the eleven other countries vary between 3,000,000,- 000 and 34,000,000,000 francs. The actual amount of money pos- sessed by the vm 10115 nations bears but a feeble pl oportion to the above figures The Bank of F1 once for example, is responsible for only about 0, 500. 000,000 francs 01. a lit- tle less thann 0 per cent. of the total for- tune of that country, while other coun- ' tries have still less. cash in their pock- ets or strong b :zes, for France has the greatest per capita. wealth of any coun- try in the world. HE READ THE MESSAGE. But the Drug Clerk's Translation of the Telegram Was Not Correct. ' They were standing on the corner of Seventh and Vine streets not many nights ago. One of them had received a telegram, says the Cincinnati Tribune, and he was making a great effort to road it. He tried it for several minutes, and then handed it to his friend with an air of disgust. The second individual gave it up after struggling with it a quai ter of an hou1. I never saw anything to beat that,’ he remarked, as he handed the message back, and I’ve seen some pretty bad writing in my time, too.” 2 “Well, .I can’t read it, and I’d like to know what it says badly.” “Let me see. Ah, I have it. Drug clerks can read most any kind of writ- ing. Let us go and see.” They went to the nearest pharmacy and handed the message to the pre- scription clerk. Before an explanation could be made, he darted in the rear of the shop and disappeared behind a screen. After an absence of fifteen minutes, during which time both men had grown very restless, the clerk appeared, and as he handed the bottle to one of the men, he said: “Sixty cents, please.” Rather stunned for. awhile, the man opened the package and read on the label: “One teaspoonful, to be taken three times every hour.” When an explanation was made the clerk set up the soda water. The Poor Love Art. Those persons who profess to believe that among the poorer and ,more ig- norant classes art is not appreciated should note the fact that when some years ago Toynbee hall, London, held an exhibition of paintings for the dwellers in Whitechapel no less than 50,000 visited in five weeks. The ex- periment was tried in New York in '1890, and' 1n forty-one days the eXhibi- tion was visited by over 36,000 perSons. The next year 50,000 came in six weeks, and this year the attendance for thirty- three days was 105,696. Sir Walter Scott, Lawyer. ‘ An old man in Glasgow told James T. Fields that he had once carried a law case to Sir Walter Scott for adjustment. “How, did he manage it?” asked Mr. Fields. “Oh, beautifully!” returned the old client “he told me a bonny story about a coo and a. calf’ in Dundee, and then he sent me over the way to a brither lawyer, who, he told" me, had a larger head for sich affairs than him- sel’. But it was a brew story that he told me about the cattle 0’ Dundee, and it makes me laugh to this day when I , think on’tl” “11...... many in Stay? . Of the many brands of soap placed upon the market dur- - ing the past fifteen years, how many are now in exist- -_ once? 1.... stood the test of time. It fulfils the exacting re- quirements of the New Eng- — is dangerous. the New Yorlr land housekeepers. Shortness of breath—a sensation HALE’S of dryness ' and heat "DNEY in the HOBEHOUNI TAB - Hal'e’ 3 Honey of Horehouud and Tar acts like a charm on the throat and bronchial tubes. Use it before it's too late. Sold by druggists. throat. Neglect Pike’ s Toothache Drops cure in— one minute. It Cures . COUGHS and WILLIAMS’ lllllllill , REMEDY. Celebrated COUCH DROPS. . Best known remedy for Coughs, Colds- and all throat .troubles. o 0 O EUREE ALL SKIN. AND , l. 1 3|.an 0151/1515. Physicians endorseP. P. 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