I III, \ MANUFACTURERS OF raIGH-GRADE OVER FORTY YE IRS PR AGTI AL EXPERIENCE THE TTTTTT TIIIIT Iii MUST DURllflfi'PllIfl AT The Lowest Possible Price. veg. Sold on Easy Terms and Rented?“ . w: - o: ,5», 01d Pianos Taken in Exchange. “seTHEY ARE THE BESTDZL no in iLLTTTiITTT TITILIIIITT TII TITTIIIIITT; NEW YORK CITY, I 9 WESTFOURTEENTH STREET. MOUNT VERNON, N. Y 52. WEST FIRST STREET. FACTORY. STAMFORD. CON I... / 'i BRIDGEPORT. THE \ IO M. Read COMPANY. DESIGNS NEVER SEEN BEFORE. Come and see them. It’s the only way you can get any real good idea of what the new Dress Fabrics and Silks are like. It is one of the finest exhibits ever made so early in the season'before, because we’ve so much more room; more showing room, more selling room, more bundles and package room. Out of town folk can use our mail-order department to good advantage now ; it’s reliable and it is quick. SPECIAL F— Children’s can ton flan nel Night Drawers, 19 cents each or 3 for 50 cents. There’s a lot.of them because lots will want them at those prices; well made and loosely fitting—j ust right. I—Iaviland China Tea-Sets, new spring importation just in and opened; $8.49 for a 56 piece set. Granite Iron Ware, every- thing of the very best quality; at prices that you’d be obliged to pay for seconds in other towns. ' Separate Skirts, a regular procession of the newest out. Absolutely flawless in style, fabric and make; every one selected. Crepe Cloth—remnants of plain and figured crepe, the 125:0. goods, 2 to 6 yards in the piece, now 6 cents a yard. Twilled Flannel, without that “objectionable nap” that everything seems to Cling to; for dressing sacques and wrappers—Persian de- signs—15 cents the yard. Fancy Plaids, something like 50 pieces double width plaid, satin stripe, twilled weave, 150. a yard- ~ Just think of children’s Lawn Dresses, 'for 39 cents. Gingham Dresses, 50 cents. And Cambric Dresses, 50 cents. Think of the bother of making them; think of the cost of material—then wonder how we do it. . i . I“ . 01UT . WEST. Arizona’s calf amp is reported to be very small this year.~ The rarified'atmosphere of the city of Leadville, COL, is fatal to cats, rats, mice, etc. .' - The Pettijam family, of Walla Walla, Wash, numbers ten individuals. The average height of the ten is six and one-- half feet and the average weight 244 pounds. I In Lewistown, Idaho, a squaw has ap- plied to the courts for a divorce from her husband on the ground that he persistently refuses to attend church with her. Sitting Bull’s pony, which was in his possession when he was shot on the Standing Bock reservation some five years ago, is now owned by a farmer in Stanley county, S. D. The Choctaw council has passed abill making it treasonable for a citizen to even talk change of government, allot- ment and opening the country for settle- ment. _ ' 'Kansas is a prohibition state, which makes it seem odd that a noted temper- ance lecturer should be about to start on an aggressive tour of the state, under the direction of the Kansas State Tem- erance association. VARIOUS NOVELTIES‘. Quail from Egypt is the latest experi- ment in gastronomy iii the kitchens of the rich. A boa. constrictor with an advanced case of diphtheria has been found in a sideshowman’s home in. Indianapolis. 'A novel feature at recent receptions and afternoon teas at Springfield, Mass, has been the appearance of six colored boys as waiters, dressed in Nubian cos— tume of white turbans and bagg I trousers. A Richmond (Ky) couple stopped an auctioneer while' he was selling a lot of cradles and made him—mhe being a justice of peace—marry them. Then they bought a cradle, the crowd cheered and everybody was happy. A novel revenge for his discharge was taken by an elevator boy in,a big furniture store in Portland, Me. When everyone else had left the store he changed the price tags on all the furni- ture in the place, marking some things down in a startling way, putting high prices on common stock, and hopeless- ly mixing up things generally. THE WORLD OF ART. Queen Victoria has had a marble bust of Mme. Calve executed for herself by Countess Feodora Gleichen. The National Sculpture society has advised the New York park board not to accept the new I-Ieiiie fountain be- cause of its inartistic qualities. At Grosswardein, in Hungary, a stat— ue of St. Ladislas has been dug up from beneath the fortress, which is built on the site of the ancient cathe- dral. At Berlin the Academy of Arts is preparing an exhibition of the paint- ings of Adolf Menzel, Andreas Achen- bach and Julius Schrader, who are now all 80 years old and still painting. William L. Elkins, of Philadelphia, has oifered a prize of $5,000 for the best picture painted by an American artist and exhibited at the annual exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. IN THE KAISER’S LAND. Kaiser Wilhelm’s latest exploit was to take the baton from a bandmaster and show him how to conduct his orchestra. Moorfield Storey says that in Berlin the streets are. actually washed and scrubbed every night. There are no slums there. Six of the newspapers now publiShed in Germany were established over 200 years ago, the oldest being the Frank— furter Journal, founded in 1615. Marcel Herwegh, the son of George Herwegh, “The Iron Lark,” who in 1848 was leader in the republican movement in Germany, is going to publish his father’s correspondence with Lassalle, the socialist. When the recruits were sworn in at Potsdam recently the pastor who ad dressed them warmed them that they must think not only of the “Watch on the Rhine,” but also of the “Watch on the Vistula.” WITH THE SCIENTISTS. When water freezes it expands with a force which Trautwine estimates at not less than. 30,000 pounds to the square inch. The water animals were lower in or- ganism and older in existence than the air~breathing animals. They naturally found their existence easier than did the animals exposed to the vicissitudes of the atmosphere. A heavenly census is now being taken by the Paris observatory; to count the stars the heavens are photographed in sections. Some of these sections show only a dozen stars, while others of the same dimensions show over 1,500. J. E. Gore, writing on the “Size of the Solar System,” says that “enormously large as the solar system absolutely is, compared with the size of our own earth, it is, compared with the size of thevisible universe,mere‘ly as adrop in the ocean.” HINTS TO HOUSEKEEPERS. . Wilted roses can be restored by plac« ing the stems in hot water for a minute. Coffee stains on white goods should be washed in warm water before plac- ing in suds. A dish or plate of water set in the oven when baking cake will prevent scorched edges. Don’t clean brass articles with acids. Use putty powder with sweet oil. Wash off with soapsuds, and then dry. This will insure drightness. Pink and blue ginghams-'of a Wash- able make can be kept from fading by washing in a weak solution of vinegar and water. Rinse in the same way and dry in the shade. r ‘ - »_ »... . --.- WAS ii any ELATION. ’l do Her and Many Othersg It was a ievelat-ion to every sufferer from kidney complaints. Sui prise 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 mushrooms but are soon de- clared toad stools from the luck of pjroht. The people lived too far awnv. heels are Wanted. Whom have you cured? That is Win 1; is “BIJI'Cd. “Tell we or neighbors that. have found relief and I will believe you.” That is plain English. The disease may have aLuiin name, but anyone understands pain. AD\ one would rather have relief from backache than to know the Latin name tor ii, And. still it is well to know the cause. bins times out of ten it. comes from the kidneys. 'lhat’s why boan’s kidney Pills are so successful With all kinds otbad bucks. What proof have we of this success? The only satisfac- tory proof for you, Norwalk testimony. Norwalk lady has good reason iio speak well of Doan’s Kidney Pills. We refer to Mrs. Alex C. McLean who lives at No. 18 Maple street. Mrs. McLean is Well known to Norwalk people being theiwfle of the pupular manager of a big rNew York jobbers Drugr House. She has been a sufferer for two years and a hull, was under treatment of a Brooklyn specialist who claimed she had chronic Briggt’s Disease. She got Donn s Kidney Pills at Hale’s drug store and began taking them. Mrs. McLean says. “I do not care to so in- to the details of my case. DOBD’B—IKld- ney Pills are helping me and I feel Very niuchbetter. I have great confidence in their merit. ‘ Dunn's liiuney Pills are for sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents ner box, six boxes for $2.50. By mall on receipt of price by Foster—Milburn 00., Buffalo, N. Y. sole agents for the U. S. glhousands are suffering excrucin ting misery trom that plague of the night, Iiching Piles, and say nothing about it through a sense of delicacy. All such WIII find an instant reliel ii. the use uI' Doun’s Uinimenr. It never iuilh. J- D. J rankings. , UNDERTAKER 4 Knight street. opposite otrectltalan.) Depot. ;. NI GE '1' [IE LL H ’1‘ OFF! CE Piano 143530313. MIIS._GEORGE W. bu’ADLEY, (daughter of the lateWm. it. Nash.) Hives etiieent and satisiactory instructions on the Piano at her home No. 193 .i-aiv: wrest. DAVID . Win-RAYMOND FTTITTI BITTTTTT aid Ehllalllitl‘. flflashington Sm ct I'Souilizh‘orwal ls Eltcsideiice. Mahackemo Hotel. -_.. A ‘ WORD T0 ' . THE WISE ' Merchant-s, Manufactur. ers, Ledges and Societies will consult their owninter- ests by giving us a call. REMEMBER—If you ham work to do, write to us. YOUR. FRIENDS ARE USING : PLAISIEB’S CDUGH RENEW AND RECOMMEND I'IS USE Get a Bottle at once. 25 and 50 Cents. ALL DRUGGISTS. SWORD AND GUN. Gen. I, a Tartan commander in the Chinese army, can probably boast of having the shortest name in the world. But he has a long ancestry. In the construction of the new battle- ships fireproof wood is to be employed. The process offireproofing consists in forcing Sulphate and phosphate of am- monia. into the wood by hydraulic pres- sure. At the seige of Jerusalem by Titus the captive Jews were crucified by the Romans in such numbers. that, Jose- phus says, there was no longer wood of which to make the crosses nor space for them to stand. V The war department is experiment- ing with rubber heels for shoes, and the tests made by troops at- Fort Leav- enworth indicate that the new heels lessen the jar to the body in marching, and thus add to the comfort of the troops. Arrangements have been made by the German military authorities on the first intimation of war to instantly con- vey by rail all the women and children in such large towns as Metz and Stras— burg, as well as smaller places, into Germany. Switzerland is alarmed at the possi- bility of an attack by warships. .The Italian government has placed in the Lago Maggiore and the Lago diLugano unarmed torpedo boats provided with search lights, in order to catch smug- glers. The Swiss papers look on this as a violation of neutrality. “Running the gauntlet,” a punish- ment supposed to be peculiar to the American Indians, was originated in the British navy. Every sailor in the crew but the offenders to be punished was provided with a. switch, 'which he ‘ was required to lay briskly on the bare shoulders of the man who did the run- ning between the two lines. ALL KINDS. .A panther weighing 150 pounds was killed in Butler county; M0,, recently. Gottingen university has added to its curriculum courses in insurance, exchanges, and the theory of naviga- tion. ' France has solved the problem of ap- plying the rule for compulsory mil- itary service to priests by assigning them to ambulance work. . Virginia negroes own $11,000,000 of the $303,000,000 worth of real estate and improvements in the state reported l by the assessor for the year. From Turin 89 brothers of the order of St. Francis de Sales and 20 sisters were sent out in October as mission- aries to South America. An instance of remarkably well pre- ' served old age is reported from Green Lake, Me, where a. log that had lain on the bottom of the lake for '75 years was brought up and found to be as sound as the day it was cut. , Masters of oyster boats sailing on of South Norwalk, Conn., are arming their crews. It is said that oyster pirates have made their appearance again, and oyster men will make an at- tempt to run them down. 0N LAND AND SEA. Geographers say that the entire coast line of the globe measures 136,000 miles. A Brunswick (life) family has owned a piece of real estate for 158 years, and the present owners have the original deed to prove its ownership. . Germany is going to try the triple propeller system on several of her new war ships. The only triple-screw steam- er she now has is the Kaiserin Augusta. The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the city of New York recently celebrated its 110th anniver- sary. _ ~ An ocean race to Japan between the British ship Dunham and the British bark Durfion for $1,000 has just been ar- ranged in Philadelphia by the masters of the vessels. ‘ All the copper tubes in the English torpedo boat destroyers of the reserve' fleet at Portsmouth are to be taken out and galvanized steel tubes Substituted. The copper fittings have broken down in a number of the boats that have been tested. ,. .5 CYCLING PICK-U PS. Dr. Smith, vice chancellor of Cam- bridge university, fell from his bicycle in the: Cambridge streets and was se- ‘ verely injured. Paris women who wear bloomers or knickerbockers When riding bicycles will be disqualified from receiving the sacraments of the church, according to the instructions issued to the clergy by the cardinal archbishop of Paris. As the $2,000 “Grand Prix de Paris” race for bicyclers this year attracted aicrowd that paid 37,000 francs for ad- mission, 15,000 of which went to the city poor, the Paris municipal council has decided to make the prize an an- nual one. ,
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