Evening gazette, Wednesday, March 11, 1896 · page 8

 

 

 

 

 

 

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MONDAY MORNING MARCH 9, AT 9 ML

Something in every department We shall sell at HALF PRICE.
Newest Loveliest. Richest stuffs from all over the world Silks from sunny France and far away Japan

Goods from Paris and Berlin. Velvets f1 cm the valleys of the Rhine

Ireland and Scotland. Ribbons from the banks of the Passaic
Switzerland llluslins from the fruitful looms of Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

 

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In order to introduce the Spring Styles.

Dress

Linens from the green and dewy fields of
Laces and Embroideries from the Cantons at
China and Stoneware from

Havilands’ of Pa1is and Maddocks’ of England We shall sell some of these 1n every department at HALF PRICE
the evening. We expect a rash an day.

 

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05-" GENERAL INTEREST.

 

—An unusual silver wedding celebra-
tion took place a short time ago at
Lansingburgh, Mich. ,‘In 1870 Mr. and
Mrs. J 11105 Harmon were married. They
were divorced 16 years later, and about
a fortnight ago they were remarried,
on the 25th anniversary of their first
marriage.

-—A cable car in Washington struck
a wagon containing several chickens,
a lot of butter, and 1,200 eggs. The
wagon was overturned, falling upon
the driver, Edward V. Harrison, of
Hunter’s Mill, 'Va. He was a fright as
he crawled out from. the wreck, as the
collision had broken every egg of the
1,200.

—-The moisture of the eye is a genu-
ine solvent. Many persons have gone
to bed troubled with a foreign sub-
stance/in the eye, and have waked in
the morning to find it gone. In many
cases of this kind the foreign ma‘--ter
has been dissolved by the moisture of
the eye.

—The importation into the United
States of plants from China. and Japan
is forbidden. The reason for this is the
prevalence of cholera- in the Asiatic
countries. N early all of the plants that
come across the Pacific are shipped in‘
pots and in their native soil. Nothing
absorbs and holds the germs of .dis-
ease, especially an epidemic, so well as
the earth.

—Judge Morrow, of the United States
district court in San Fraicisco, decided,
a few days ago, that a Chinese born in
this country is a citizen of the Umled
States, and as such may leave and re-
turn to tins country at any time7 he
pleases. The decision was made in the
case of a Chinaman who arrived in San
Francisco from China recently, and was
debarred from landing by the collector,
on the ground that he was a laborer,
and as such barred out by the exclusion
act. The Chinaman was born in San
Francisco, and had been in China on a
visit.

-—The Alabama claims were claims
of Americans against Great Br1ta1n,
arising out of the damage done by the
confederate. cruiser Alabama and its
mates, which the British government
had allowed to be equipped in England
and to be taken to sea. The claims
were not presented in a lump. A high
court of arbitration was appointed.
which sat at Geneva. Switzerland, and
decided that Great Britain was respon-
sible for damages. These damages, the
court assessed at $15,500,000. The los-
ing party paid the damages and the
United States undertook to distribute
them. The damage caused by the Ala-
bama was about $7,000,000; the other
damages were caused by the Sumter,
Tallahassee, Nashville, Florida, Geor-
gia and Chickamauga.

PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL.

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——The once famous Louisa Payne.
who was one of England's favorite op-
eratic and oratorio singers, is suffering
in great poverty. Lady Burdett—Ccutts,
Sir Arthur Sullivan and Mr. Charles
Stanley have joined in an appeal for
money.

-John Wanamaker is credited with
having done more than any other per-
son to bring about the settlement of
the great trolley strike in Philadel-
phia. He has enormous influence
among the workingmen, and, though
an extensive employer of labor, he has
never had a strike. '

~——Douglas Jerrold was sometimes
witty at the expense of his wife. He
once told her, when she was no longer
young, that he Wished wives were lilac
tank notes, so that one of 40 could be
exchanged for two of 20._ On another
r:ccasion he was asked whom his wife
was dancing with: “Some member of
the Humane society, I suppose,” he re-
plied.

—President Kruger, of the Trans-
taal republic, has been a remarkable
man physically. It- is said of him that
in his youth he could run for half adav
and keep pace with a horse. Now at,
the age of 70, he shows little sign 0.
having lost any of his physical or men-j
tal vigor. H e is a rough, uncouth, opin-

 

ionated man, but possesses the cruder I

qualities of a statesman.

—Mrs. McKinley, whose husband has
just retired from the governorship oé'
Ohio, recalls the fact that during thi-
term of President Hayes she and her
husband occupied the white house IO‘
ten days by invitation to‘ keep house"
there while the president and his fair —
ily were absent. She says she had al.
of the white house she ever cared 1'11:~
having had “all its pleasures with now
of its woes.”

A LITTLE NONSENSE.

——“Does Scribbles \\ rite. man)r
stories?” “Well I should say so; he 1111:
10 use an incubator to hatch his plots.
—Chicago Record.

—“l don“ mind getting caught,” set"
the lox. bitterly “What giinds me i.-
i‘hat they set this trap for a rabbit!“—
(‘hicago Tribune.

—-'i‘lse Chicago—“And do you find the
water here so very bad?” The Else-
whe1‘e-—“Oh, no. With salad dressin:
it is not at all bad.”—Detroit Tribune

———“Ilow is your daughter getting 01,
with the piano, Numson ‘2” “First-rat:-
She can pla ' with both hands no\"
She says she will be able to play with
her ear in six months.”—Household
Words.

—It’s all right, we suppose, to sex
that a man is homely enough to stop a
train, but he’ll find he’s not homely
enough to stop it if he has arrived :11

he station a minute after it. has started
——Yonkers Statesman.

—Mother—“I hear thatt‘ 1elieutenant
had the impudence to kiss you at tht
station. What did you do ’1’” Daughtci
——“Oh, I think I kissed him, too, so .13
to make people think we were rela-
tives.”—Flicgende Blaetter.

——He—“Why do you like the Wag-
nerian operas so much better than those
of the Italian school ?" She—“Oh.
Wagner operas make so much noise
that you can talk all you like through
the performance, and nobody can hear
you.”—Somerville Journal.

FERTILE LANCASTER.

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The Banner County of the United States
in the Value of Its Farm Products.

There has been much rivalry among
counties in various states over the claim
of superior fertility and productlve-
ness. The largest agricultural coun-
ty in each state concerned makes claim

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to supremacy in this regard, a claim

sustained in the case of many western
counties by much valuable oratory. Ile-

. cently an authentic statement of the

agricultural products of the several
states made its appearance, and it
shows that the banner county of the
United States, so far as agricultural
products are concerned, is Lancaster
county, Pa.

The farms of that famed and beauti-
ful county of southern Pennsylvania,
on the Susquehanna river border line,
yielded, in the year recorded, produce
to the amount of $8,000,000. Next in the
value of agricultural products is St.
Lawrence county, N. Y., with a total of
$6,000,000, though the comparison is
hardly a fair one, because the area of
St. Lawrence is three times as large as
the area of Lancaster. The value col-
lectively of the farms of St. Lawrence
county is $32,000,000, while those of
Lancaster are valued at $70,000,000.
Lancaster has much better railroad con-

nections than St. Lawrence, and, more-'

over, iscloser to a desirable market for
agricultural products. ' Third on the
list of fertile American counties
is Chester, 'Pa., which has an envia-
ble record for chickens and dairy prod-
uce. It adjoins Lancaster county to
the east, being nearer Philadelphia. It
is smaller by about 25 per cent. than
Lancaster, and yielded last year $5,800,L
000 in agricultural products.

Still further to the east in Pennsyl-
vania, but beyond the Philadelphia line
is Bucks county, noted for its market

gardening, and producing In a year $5,-

400,000 of agricultural products. Bucks
county is 610 square miles in land area,
but. it very nearly equals 1n the yield of
its farms the most fertile and pro-
ductive of the New England counties,
Worcester, Mass. ,the products of which,
according to the table at hand, were
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is literally, in the middle of Massachu-
setts, for it extends clear through the
state, in the most central part, from the
New Hampshire boundary line on the
north and the Connecticut and Rhoda
Island boundary on the south. It is an
important agricultural county—the
most important in New England—but
is larger, as has been seen, than any of
the fertile Pennsylvania counties with
which it ranks in value of products.
The sixth of the very productive farm-
ing counties of the United States is
Colusa county, Cal.
than the three Pennsylvania counties
together, and has a record of $5,300,000
of agricultural produce. Colusa county
is in the northern part of the state, and
it is not supposed by any patriotic Cal -
if ornian that the time is or can be very
far distant when it will rank at the head
of all the counties of the United States,
even though now it is the last of those
which have passed the $5,000,000 mark
in the. products of their farms in a
single~ year. When the reports from the
Missouri, Kansas and "Nebraska wheat
farms are in this year a claim. for a
place somewhere near the top may be
made,'but the fact is that corn-growing
or wheat—growing counties stand rela-
tively low upon the list when compared
with those whose products are much
diversified—N. Y. Sun.

 

 

The Ideal Schoolboy.

The ideal schoolboy is an orderly ma-
chine, always obedient, receptive, sub-
missive, ready in the cricket field and
with real or simulated enthusiasm for
football, despising all other games, and
conservative to the backbone. He is
the darling of the master, who. sends
him home with glowing reports and
arms full of prize books. It seems never
to occur to anyone that there may be
natures to which the classical lan-
guages and history make no appeal,
who have not the gift of the mathe-
matician and who do not even care to
play at cricket or football. If such ap-
pear in a public school they have a bad
time of it, dragging out their miserable
days at the bottom of the form, regarded
as fools by the masters and as muffs by
the boys. And yet among these school
failures there may be Liebigs or Dar-
wins, or, at any rate, there may be, and
commonly there is, the material out of
which good and useful citizens are
made, if only they had a chance to show
what they can do.—-Nature.

 

 

.A new Application of Scripture.
There was rejoicing in the village at
the killing of a pig. Being dead, it was
cut up; a neighbor’s cat stole secretly
into the larder, and annexed a piece of
of pork, which she brought in triumph
to her mistress. Next day the clergy-

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man of the parish visited the old wom-
an, who recounted to him the remarka—
ble sagacity of the beast. “It was quite
beautiful, sir,” she said piously, “to see
the way the sweet creature brought me
the piece of pork; it brought to my
mind what we read in the Bible about
Elijah and the ravens.”—The Realm.

 

 

Why the Beggar Was Insulted.
A traveler relates a story illustrative
of life in Spain. ' Alighting at the door
of an inn, :1 man extended his hand,

and, naturally supposing him to be a .

porter, the traveler offered him his
valise, says Golden Days. The man

stepped back, tossed his head and '

frowned scornfully. “Do you take me
for a porter?” he demanded. “I would
have you understand that I am no
porter.” “Indeed!” said the traveler,
apologetically. “Then, may I ask,
sen01, what you are?” “I am a beg-
gar, Sir, and asked you for alms!”

 

—Prof. Ramsay’s last conclusion is
that argon and helium contain as a
common ingredient a gas not hitherto
identified, two lines in the spectra in
the newly discovered elements being
identical. The atomic weight of the
new gas would be aboutxten. Prof.
Ramsay has found helium in meteorite.

WRITE JUVENILE STORIES. ~j

J. T. Towbridge has 30 or 40 books to
his credit. He writes for grown-ups,
too, and is also a poet. He writes only
when he is in the mood, not believing in
forcing himself. He is nearly 70 years
old. '

Nora. Perry does most of her writing
in the morning. She rises early and
works till noon, when she goes out. If
she feels like it she will work an. hour
or two more in the afternoon, but never
in the evening unless she is especially
hurried.

Susan Coolidge has written very lit-
tle, comparatively speaking, but iswell
known among juvenile readers. Her
real name is Sarah Chauncey VVoolsey.

 

 

She is about 50 years old and. has a .

sweet face. She lives in Newport and
writes only in the morning.
Oliver Optic, whose name is William

T. Adams, is past 73, but he still goes -

on writing. He has written more than
100 books and more than 1,000 stories
for various papers. He took his queer
name from the name of a character in
a. play which was running at the time
his first poem was printed. '
Edward S. Ellis began life as ‘a
teacher and used to tell his scholars
stories Friday afternoons. The popu-
larity of these tales caused him to write
them out and so he started on his career

 

of author for the young. He does all
his work on a. typewriter which is
placed on an elevation, as he stands to
do his writing. He makes brief mem-
oranda. of the characters and incidents
of his stories and then'clicks off the
story itself in two or three weeks.

DREAM LORE.

To dream of a hen and chickens
means that your sweetheart will desert
you and marry another.

“'alking in the street in a dream
signifies that some one is waiting a
chance to do you injury.

9T0 dream of a ditch indicates that
you will soon be placed-in imminent
dangers either of life or limb.

To dream of eating soup means that
you will readily recover from any ill-
ness which may befall you.

A dream of being clothed in silk de-
notes ultimate wealth for yourself and
happiness for your family. |

To dream that you are flea—bitten in-
dicates that your enemies will causef
you great annoyance.

For a 1n arrI-ed man to dream of wear-
ing old clothes means that his wife will
soon have a new dress.

To dream that 'you are attending
church means that you will have a law—
suit ending to your advantage.

A dream about the devil means that
you will have many dangers, but that
you will overcome them all.

ALL. SORTS.

A grocer in Chaplin, Ky” recently
found a. diamond worth $70' in a. barrel
of sugar.

The oldest school-teacher in Connec-
ticut, is said to be Horace Staples, of
Wes tport, who celebrated his 94th birth-
day recently.

In Murray, Ky., a farmer arranged
with an auctioneer to sell a. mule at.
auction. The mule brought one dol-
lar, and the farmer paid 50 cents auc—
tioneer’s fees.

Vermont has made a new move in

 

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the attempt to enforce prohibition.
Persons who rent places where liquor is
sold are to be fined as well as those
who actually sell the contraband.

The largest dog in Connecticut is
said to be. a St. Bernard, owned in Mys-
tic. It is :32 months old, and stands
33 inches high. is 6 feet 10 inches long,
and weighs 170 pounds.

PEOPLE OVER THE SEAS.

Queen Victoria, owns $2,000,000 worth
of china. A Sevres set is estimated at
$5.”),OCO.

Dean Hole says that the only case of
discourtesy towaid him by reporters
with 1. l:..'::'1c came in contz. ct- while
he we... in this country occurred in Bos-
ton. '

Miss Jennie Young,o of Scotland, has
been 211 Mexico for nor e etimc arrang-
ing ‘- the pi: rehase of land for a Iago
Scotch colony which she intends 1-)
bring over soon.

Rossini was born on February 29 (or
“leap-day"), 1792, and whimsically re-
fused to keep any other birthday,
reckoning himself toward the end of:
his life as entering upon'his 20th'year.
His birthday at his native Pesaro‘ is
also kept only once every four 3%; _:

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A THE SPORTSMAN. V 3‘ .

 

A sturgeon weighing more than 600'

pounds .was caught near The Dalles,

Oregon, recently. Its heed weighed
125 pounds. W

England has to import her pheasants
now; an order for 50, 000 old English,
dark-necked live pheasants has been
sent to Hungary. 1» 1}

Sir Augustus Flemming, the new gav-
ernqr of British Guiana, though 54 years
old, is an active cricketer, playing with
the Incogniti club on its annual tours.
When younger he used to play in the
“Gentlemen versus Players’ ” matches.

Five fat’ possums were caught. by a.
farmer in Auburn, Ga, in an odd way
recently. He cut down a tree, which
fell across a hollow log. The log broke
open and five fat ’possums were evicted.
The farmer and his dog succeeded in
bagging them all.

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YOUR FRIENDS ARE USING

PLAISTED’S CDUGHREMEDY

AND RECOMMEND If S USE

Get a Bottle at once, 25 and 60 Cents._

ALL DRUGGISTS.

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The Old Veteran Shoe Dealer,

0. H.

Harvey Will Positively Close Out
His Business Regardless of 00st.

The Fixtures will be Sold And the

Store Leased.

Now 1s the Time to Buy Boots and

Shoe-sat a Bargain.

HARVEY’S SHOE STORE.

SOUTH NORWALK.

'70 NORTH MAIN ‘ smear,