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THE FINEST TUNE AND MUST DUNlEvLflleiN
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The Lowest Possible Price.
Sold on Easy Terms and Rented.
01d Pianos Taken in Exchange.
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SEND FUR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE T0 WAEENUUNS:
NEW YORK CITY,
'9 WEST FOURTEENTH STREET.
MOUNT VERNON, N. Y.’
52 MM FIRST STREET.
FACTORY.
I ' STAMFORD. GON,~.:;!T.
. . BROIDERY SILKS, as well
BRIDGEFORT_
HE. M. Read
COMPANY.
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BEAUTIFUL
NEW
ART GOODS.
Handsome assortments of
the very newest designs in
centerpieces, doylies, etc.,
and latest outlines and col-
orings. Commenced work in
table covers and pillow cov-
ers with colored centers and
oddly beautiful new mate-
rials such as basket and plan-
tation cloths. Lunch and
Tea Cloths in fine linens and
in extra sizes. Orders taken
and designs finished when
so preferred.
ALL THE NEW LIGHT
TINTS IN \VASH EM-
as a brand new silk for flu-
ishing edges. Also doylies
with finished edge.
Something entirely new in
Denim Squares.
And Photograph Frames,
with glass covering to pro
tect the delicate embroidery
—-both in finished and unfin-
ished work—difi‘erent designs.
One could almost spend
hours at this department
looking over the various
beauties so temptingly shown
for every‘ moment would be
one of rare pleasure.
New Linen Ginghams. Of
all the novelties in the Wash
Goods department the new
linen and silk mixtures ap-
pear to be appropriate as any,
to be the proper material, for
new Summer dresses. We
want you to admire this
fabric with ourselves; to en-
joy the wearing as well’ as see-
ing. Plain linen shades or
silk stripes and checks of dif-
ferent colors.
Men’s Shirts and Drawers,
25 cents each. Nightshirts,
39 cents; all sizes. Great
values at the prices.
“Witchkldth.” Not a
paste, not a powder. Afabric
that will clean silver and
metal better, quicker, and
with less elbow grease than
anything heretofore offered.
Every bicycle owner ought
to have it handy at all times
—especially after a spin out
of town.
i TH E E VE N .1 N G. on [2 E TTE
NS.
' LAST FOR EIGHT YEARS.
There Will Not Be Another Leap
Year Until 1904.
It Therefore Behooves the Ladies to Take
Advantage of the Present Oppor-
tunity to Propose—A Rare
Occurrence.
The leap year which now begins is,
however, to a. certain extent peculiar,
since another will not occur for eight
years. Such an interval has occurred
twice before in the history of Scotland,
and only once in the history of England,
and two centuries will elapse before it
occurs again. The last year of the pres-
ent century, 1900, will not be a leap year.
but 2000, the last year of the succeeding
century, will. The year 2100 will again
be a common year, so that the next
period of seven consecutive common
years will be between 2096 and 2104.
The rule by which this seemingly ar-
bitrary interference with an established
order of things is regulated iscompara—
tively simple, but its history is in many
reSpccts both curious and interesting.
As everyone knows, the earth revolves
round its axis, and also travels round
the sun, the one revolution causing the
alternation of day and night, the other
that of the seasons. From the earliest
times men have made use of both these
series of changes as a means of reckon-
ing time, and had there been a simple
numerical relation between them, there
need never have been any trouble with
leap years and such devices.
Unfortunately, however, this is not
at present the case. The number of rev-
olutions which the earth makes when it
goes once round the sun, instead of be-
ing a whole number, is a number and a
fraction; or, in other words, the earth
goes round the sun in 365 days 5 hours
and 48 minutes 46 seconds, or 365.2422
days. This was not, howeVer, discov~
ered in a day. Various guesses were
made at the proper length 6f the year,
and calendars were drawn up in ac-
cordance with them. But in the course
of time the error accumulated, with the
result that the seasons changed places,
and the vernal equinox, instead of re-
maining at a fixed place in the calendar,
moved backward or forward, according
as the approximation was in excess or
defect, and extra day s had to be inter-
calated or omitted to set things right.
By the time of J uliUS Caesar the R0-
man year, which consisted of 355 days,
had worked loose by three months, so
that the winter months had been car-
ried back into autumn. In order to pre-
vent such confusion in future, with the
aid of Sosigenes, be fixed the length of
the year at 3651,{, days, or three years of
365 days, followed by one of 366. At the
same time, to bring back the equinox to
its proper place, he inercalated 90'days
into the current year of 355 days, mak-
ing it 445 days—probably the longest
year on record. This was the Julian
calendar, and to it we owe to this day
the leap year which comes every fourth
year.
But the approximation on which the
calendar was based, though much more
accurate and convenient than any that
had preceded it, gave too long ayear by
the difference between 365.25 and
365.2422, the error amounting to a day
in 128 years. In the course of the cen-
turies, the equinox gradually receded
toward the beginning of the year.
Caesar hadfixed it on March 25: by the
time of the council of Nice, and by 1582
it had receded to March 11. In order to
restore the equinox to the position it oc-
cupied in 325, when the council of Nice
had drawn up regulations for the fixing
of Easter, Pope Gregory, in 1582, di-
rected ten days to be suppressed, and as
the error was found to amount to three
days in 400 years, he laid down that in
future the last year of every century
shrould be an ordinary year, unless it is
divisible by 400, in which case it was to
be a leap year. Thus 1900 will be an
ordinary year, but 2000 will be a leap
year. ’
Pope Gregory’s correction gives an
average year of 365.2425 days, or 26 sec-
onds longer than the true year. These
cdd seconds will amount to a whole year
in~3,323 years, and it has been proposed
to allow i' or this error by providing that
the year 4000, and all its multiples, shall
be common years. But this would be a
pedantic foresight, and itisunneccssary
to discuss, thr question whether the
year 4000 ought or ought not to be a.
leap year. In ages yet to come, when
the friction of the tides has so retarded
the rotation of the earth that 365 days
make a year, leap years will be unneces-
sary. But that is a still remoter eon-
tingency, and in the meantime Pope
Gregory's calendar is likely to remain
in its present form.—Edinburg Scots-
man.
Japanese Ladies in Washington.
The native ladies of the Japanese le-
gation in Washington are a. most polite
and friendly cotcrie, and hospitable to
a degree, with quaint and gentle man-
ners. Sometimes at their afternoon
entertainments they serve tea grown
in their own gardens in their own far-
away land, the tea being gathered,
dried and brought or sent to this coun-
try. . These kindly foreigners have their
particular mode of brewing their favor-
ite beverage. From akettle of boiling
water they pour into an earthen or
china teapot enough to heat the pot
thoroughly; then they empty out the
water and put in the tea, over which
they pour boiling water, let stand for
five minutes, and serve. The teapot
must not touch the stove. A little tea-
cozy of Japanese paper is clapped over .
the teapot the moment the water is
poured on, and a delicious cup of tea
is thus secured without having ex-
tracted the inurious ingredient—the
tannin. The Japanese are very gener-
ous with their material, using twice as
much tea as the Americans to the same
quantity of water.-St. Louis Republic.
Little Sunshine in London.
Greenwich records show that for 14
years there‘has been an average of only
20 hours of sunshine in London in De-
cember.—Chicago Chronicle.
0.
——Advertise in the “Gazette.”
-I,FuIIIIIal lliEiIIIi and Embaliiei.
- was A REVELATION.
To Her and Many Others.
It wasu revelation to every sufferer
from kidney complaints. Suiprise and
gratitude are the impressions it leaves
behind. Medicines have come and
gone, some with merit, others with
none. Cures spring up in the papers
like mushroous but are soon de- .
olared toad stools from the lack of
profit. The people lived too far away.
Facts are wanted. Whom have you
cured? That is what is wanted. “Tell
me. of neighbors that have found relief
and I will believe you.” That is plain
English. The disease may have aLatin
name, but anyone understands pain.
Anvone would rather have relief from
backache than to know the Latin name
for it.._.-.And still it is well to know the
cause. N me times out of ten it comes
from the kidneys. That’s why Doan’s
Kidney Pills are so successful with all
kinds of bad backs. What proof have
we of this success? The only satisfac-
tory proof for you, N Ol'Wfllk testimony.
A Nor-walk lady has good reason to
speak well of Doan’s Kidney Pills. We
refer to Mrs. Alex C. McLean who lives
at N o. 18 Maple street. Mrs. McLean
is well known to Norwalk people being
the wife of the popular manager of a.
big New York Jobbers Drug House.
She has been a sufi'erer for two years
ands half, was under treatment of a
Brooklyn specialist “who claimed she
had chronic Briggt’s Disease. She got
Doan’s Kidney Pills at Hale’s drug
store and began taking them. Mrs.
McLean says. “I do not care to go in-
to the'details of my case. Doan’s Kid-
neyPilis are helping me and I feel very
much better. I have great confidence
in theirmerit.
Doau's Kidney Pills are for sale by
all dealers. Price 50 cents per box, sxx
boxes for $2.50. By mail on receipt of
price by Foster~M1lburn 00., Buffalo,
N. Y. sole agents for the U. 8.1,...
Thousands are sufl'ering excruciating
misery from that plague of the night,
Itching Piles, and say nothing about it
through a sense of delicacy. All such
Will find an instant relief in the use of
Dunn’s Ointment. It. never mils.
The GAZETTE
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Merchants, Manufactur-
J . D. Jennings.
UN DEkT AK ER
4 Knight street, opposite
Street hallway Depot
NIGHT BELL AT OFFICE.
Piano Lessons.
MBSCEORGE W. BRADLEY, (daughter
of the late _Wm. B. hash.) Hives 'eflicent
and satisfactory instructions on the Pia-no at
her home No. 193 Main street
DAVID . w. RAYMOND
ers, Lodges and Societies
will consult their own inter-
ests by giving us a call.
REMEMBER—elf you ham
e-v’f‘f‘? @114. with
89 Washington Street ,'Soutli;l\lorwalk
work to do, write to us.
Residence. Mahackcmo Hotel.
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Brisk IBusmess In February.
is only possible by sellingat prices below competition.
We intend to keep busy, and this is how we’ll accomplish
it--by continuing our Tgreat sale or shoes during the
month. ' — "
; We have purchased of Lounsbury, Mathewson & 00., all their La-
dies Fine Shoes, made for the insolvent firm of Hayding & 00., of Brook
lyn. and will close them out at about 1} their Actual Value.
120 pair Ladies’ 20th Century Enamel Shoes, worth $6.00, at - $3 79
150 pair Ladies’ Razor Toe Kid Shoes, worth $5.00, at - 2 98
150 pair Ladies’ Razor Toe Cloth Top Shoes, worth $5.00, at - 2 98
90 pair Ladies’ Calf Opera and Razor Toe Shoes, worth $5.00, at 2 98
60 pair Ladies’ 20th Century Russia, Lace, worth $5.00, at - 2 98
All of Harding & Co’s $4 00 Shoes, at - - - — - 2 50
All of Harding & Co’s $3.00 Shoes, at - - - - - 1 98
All of Harding & Co’s $2.50 Shoes, at - - - - - 1 74
200 pair Ladies’ Opera Toe, Pat. Tip, Shoes, worth $1.50, at 896 all sizes
150 pair Ladies’ fine C. S. Shoes, worth $1.50, at - - 890 all sizes
Men’s First Quaiiiy Hill Rubber 'Boiiis.
AT $2 _ 75 A pm...
90 pair Men’s $3.00 Patent Lace Shoes, ati . . $1 95 apair
120 pair Men’s $2.00 Invisible Cork Sole Ba]. and Congress, 1 48 “
140 pair Men’s Lace and Congress Shoes at 980, worth§$1.25
120 pair Men’s Invisible Cork Sole Shoes, worth $3.50 at $2 29 a pair
5 Cases of Men’s Tap Sole Split Boots, worth $2.00, at l 48 a. pair
Boys Shoes. . . . , 880, 98c, and $1 23 a pair
This is positively the best chance ever offered to buy
HIGH—CLASS SHOE at less than the cost of manufacture.
We want you to come and see this lot of goods. They
are worthy your inspection. These shoes can only be found at
OLSEN Enos:
WHITE SHOE STORE
3 GAZETTE BUILDING, NORWALK.
STORE OPENED EVENINGS YOUR SHOES SHINED FREE
"THIS IS WORTH READING.
. 1' 65 Cents
Hood’s Snrsaparilla, . . ‘ . I .3 _
Greene’s Nervura, . . . . ,- . . 3 75 “
William's Pink Pills, . . . . . . 4o ..
Castoria, . . . . - . .1 j ' 25 "
Allcock’s Plasters, . . . . . 2 1 10 “
Pears’ Unscented Soap, . . . . . ‘ . 10 “ ,
100 two grain Quinine Pills, , . . . 25 "
R. H. Plaisted, 43 Washington Street,‘i_So. Normlk.
Norwalk Chronicler