Nice to Take—4' ' Children like to Cure their Coughs and Colds. it ' ' WILLIAMS" NEW ENGLAND BBUGH REMEDY ' WILLIAMS & CARLETON co. 55' ,- HARTFORD. CT: EVERYBODY 3 HOURS FOR HALE’S LUNG BALSAM. It Cures When all Others Fail. 256. et HALE-"S. EN till" IN PRlllE- 011‘ lVllE_A’4l_.‘.e Round, Sirloin and Por- terhouse Steaks, Sausge, Pet and Rib Roasts .Redeeed 26. 1 Pound All First Quality Meat. J. W- BOGARDUS, 6 WATER. SIX, NORWALK ' WATER FOR THE Stomach, Bo wels, Liver and Kidneys. FOR SALE BY The Holmes, Keelee &Selleek_ Ce FALL AND WINTER SUITINGS. Having procured a large line of handsome Fall and Winter suitinzs. I am ready to make them up in the latest styles. I F. KOCOUR, I? North Main St, South Nerwa’k. otuacouree NEW LOT IN BLUE AND BLACK, $6 10 $1 DIAGONAL WORSTED , ’ IN BLUE AND BLACK, SU.ITS. , $8.50 a Suit. Fine Custom Work. All great bargains Call . and. examine] . ‘ H. Goonw-rm, Tudor-made, latest style, sati -5 wave ts and sleeve linings. Horace E. Dann,‘ EXOELSIOL I V LL93: and Sales S__t_____able.: -wuouCLuTum.\ Opposite‘Danbury and Norwalk Railroad depotl‘ Norwalk, Cdnn. Stylish 7'? Single or Double Team with or without drivers ‘ Safe horses for women ' andchildren. . 170 WASHINGTON; STREET immune; THE EVENING GAZETTE IM PRESSIVE GLITTER._ The Metallic Splendor of the Diplomatic Corps on New Year’s Morning. , \Vashington’s most picturesque fea- ture, the diplomatic corps, never gets into action until, the reception at the white house on New 1ea1’ 5 day, says the Indianapolis Journal, although the indi1idual membeis 11 ill be seen out in society for a month 01 more befo1e the recognized social season. At the New Year’s reception, however, the diplo- mats comc out strong and the proces- sion of the members of the foreign le- gations and embassies from the white house to the home or hotel of the secre— tary of state, where the diplomatic b101l11ast is served, is one of the gala sights of the y ear. Many of the popula- , tion of Washington stay up all night in order to get a place on the white house fence w he1e they may see the proces- sion pass as soon as it has been re- 1: ch ed and properly attended to by the pres: '.de11t Afte1 the reception the entire organ- ization lines up and puts out on foot for the home of the secretary of state. As they pass from the white house grounds in their glittering raiment they are the showiest things in Wash- ington and worth coming miles to see. The lowliest attache in the crowd will give cards and spades to the most showily-dressed drum major in the country, and will win out with case; They have gold lace and bullion strung all over them, while the aigrets, plumes, epaulets, cords, tassels and ribbons of any one leg oatio‘n would stock a mil- lineiy store. Such is the effect of this aggregation of beaut 1 and v alor on the great Aine1ican 01011 d gathe1ed 111th- out tho r;ates that e1 e1 y man in it utteis at some time while the procession is passing, with contemptuous emphasis, the remark 11 hich occui s oftenest' 1n the 11:11 rative of the ad1entures of Chimmie Fadden. STRANGE STORY OF CRIME. Trustworthy Servant Turns Murderer— Husband to the Rescue. One of the most remarkable stories of th11 arted crime comes f1 0111 India. A lady with her tw 0 children, 11110 11 ere both young, was going in her own ekl1a f1 om Iiamnagar to a place in the center of the Bar tract. ' The driver was an old servant of the ' family and was thought to be trust-- worthy. For this reason the lady did not think it necessary to leave her jew- elry behind her. At a lonely part of the road the trustworthy servant stopped and ordered his mistress to pass her gewgaws along. She (lid so, not unnaturally, and then the man pro— ceeded to bind her, preparatory to kill- ing her. At her request he agreed to kill the infants after he had dispatched their mother. He lifted the ax to strike the blow, but the head flew off and disap- peared in the brushwood some yards away. By this time the lady was un- conscious. When she came to she found her hus- band leaning over her and undoing her fastenings. He explained that he had felt a dread as of some impending ca- lamity, and so had followed her. In the thicket the trustworthy servant was found dead, his body already blue, putrid and bloated. He had been stung by a Khagi snake, whose bite paralyzes the victim on the instant and decom- poses him in an hour. __ COTTON FROM FIR WOOD. Chemical Process by Which a Strong, _ Useful Substitute Is Made. Artificial cotton, says a Paris jour 11a], reseml les the 11.1 uial 1 Ioduet in this that both are formed Of cellulose, near~ ly pure; and, as nature has prepared cotton by means of the elements of the air and soil forming the cellulose in fine fibers by means of secret forces, and of- fering it in the state of wool to be trans- formed into what is'required 'of it, so he chernist in his laboratory takes the natural cellulose of the tree and sep- erates it from the substances with which it is combined, transforming it into threads by means of suitable appliances. For this purpose fir wood is employed, this being submitted to a series of me chanical and chemical operations, and the threads are drawn out, afterward being rolled on bobbins; the. material when manufactured resembles o1di- nary cotton, though having a slight. de- fect, which can be easily corrected— that is, it is a little less solid than natural cotton. On the other hand, however, the new substance is worked and woven easily, it can be dyed as readily as natural cotton, and when passed through a weak solution of tan- nin and certain other reagents, it will take every shade of artificial colors, and can be dressed and printed on just as are the tissues of natural cotton. Pasteur’s Carefulness. Once when Pasteur was dining with his daughter and her family at her home in Burgundy he took care to dip in a glass of water the cherries that were served for dessert and then to ripe them carefully with his napkin before putting them in his mouth. His fastidiousness amused the people at table, but the scientist rebuked them for their levity and diseoursed at length on. the dangers in microbes and ani- maeulae. A few minutes later, in a fit of abstraction, he suddenly seized the glassin which he had Washed the cher- ries and drank the water, microbes and all, at a single draught. The German Canary Trade. It is not at all generally known that Germany carries on a. very large trade in the rearing and exporting of cana- ries, and that the largest establishment in the world for the breeding of these creatures is situated Within the do- mains of that empire, away up among the Hartz mountains of Prussia. From this and the few surrounding but small- , er nurseries, no fewer than 130,000 birds are dispatched every year to the United States and Canada, while in the same time at least 3,000 go to Britain and 3 about 2,000 go to Russia. .1 I‘- . SCIENCE AND SCIENTISTS. No insulator of magnetism is known. Baron Larey, who is now ninety years Old, is the oldest member of the French Academy of Medicine} Hydrogen boils at 438.3 degrees Fahrenheit below the freezing point of water, according to Prof. Olszewki’s experiments. Centrifugal force is used to refine steel ingots at the Nykroppa works in Sweden; the pressure drives out all gases, leaving perfectly sound ingots. Russia is going to send astronomical expeditions to the mouth of the Amoor river and to Nova Zembla to observe the total eclipse of the sun that will take place on July 27 of next year. There'are many reasons in favor of the supposition that Mars is more like- ly to have been inhabited in past ages than at the present time, in spite of its atmosphere or water or clouds. The French institute’s biennial prize of 20,000 francs, which is awarded this year by the Academy of Sciences, has been awarded to Prof. Raoult of Grenoble for his chemical researches. Dr. Andree has selected his 'com- panions for the balloon expedition to the north pole. One is- the meteor- ologist Ekholm of Stockholm, the othe1 is Niles Strindberg, an amanuensis in the Stockholm university. Careful observations of heat were taken in a 1,650-foot boring recently made near Mulhausen in Alasce. At the lowest depth the temperature was 106 degrees Fahrenheit, at 770 feet it was 641/2 degrees; from that point down the increase was regular, amounting to 1 degree Fahrenheit for every 22 feet bored. ODD AND SERIOUS. A woman’s heart was really broken, burst into halves, in England recently, not from love or sor1 ow but from eat- ing too hearty a supper. 1“ orty-seven thousand tons of tea, 1' al- ued at over $17, 000, 000, ha1e been re- ceived at Tacoma, Wash, from China and Japan this season. , John Horner, while working on a farm at Bellefonte, Pa., was stung on the lip by a yellow-jacket. His lip at once began to swell, causing great pain, and eight hours later he died. A couple in Carrollton, Mo., with their baby, were on their way to the circus, and stopped at a physician’s office to learn why the child was so quiet. IIe declared it was dead. They then asked permission to leave the dead child at his house while they went to the show, and he obligingly consented. A cinder entered the ear of a negro in Athens, Ga, and caused much pain. A physician removed it and demanded a dollar. The man refused to pay it. The doctor put him in the chair again, re- placed the cinder in his ear, and in a few moments the negro was glad to pay the dollar to have it removed. A funny young man at Delhi, N. Y., arrayed himself in ghostly garb, and, striding solemnly on stilts, stopped four female bicyclists in a lonely road. T hrec of them ran away, but the fourth, Miss Grace Holden, of Jersey City, struck the ghost violently in the side with a cobblestone, and he had to be carried home for repairs. PERSONAL PICKINGS. Rev. Mr. Slick of Atwood, is said to be one of the most smooth-tongued preachers in Kansas. Mrs. Mary Hovey Hooper. of East Franklin, Me, died last week, within two weeks after celebrating her 100th birthday. Prof. Prothero, besides superintend- ing the preparation for the press of Prof. Seeley’s posthumous work, is writing a memoir of the author. - Six bouncing boys are sons of Mr. and Mrs. Harmon Coleman, of Finesta, Pa. One is six feet in height, another is six feet two inches, two are six feet three inches, and two others six feet five inches. One of Senator German’s peculiari- ties is that he neither drinks nor smokes, and if he can help it he will not allow anyone to do so in his pres- ence. Even 011 a night of a general election if anyone comes into his room smoking a cigar he will ask him to lay it aside. ABOUT FLOWERS. The coloring principle of the madder affects even the bones of animals that devour the plant. The ivy-leaved lettuce opens its leaves and flowers at eight- o’clockin the morn- ing and generally closes again by four. A great many flowers close at night. The marigold shuts up at sundown and remains closed until morning. All plants are provided with flowers, though sometimes these are so small and so hidden as to escape notice. The pollen of flowers is in grains so small that many kinds are no more than a thousandth of a millimeter in diame- ter. The earthamine flower has for thou- sands of years been used to dye fabrics of a yellow color. The mummy cloths fennd in Egyptian eoflins are dyed yellow with this flower. THE CELESTIAL EMPIRE. Storekeepers in China seldom give credit. If their patrons need money they borrow it of the money-lenders. The oldest firearms were used in China. The Chinese were fighting with guns at a time when Europeans-used bows and arrows. ' . The Chinese have a singularly com- plicated calendar. Their cycles have 60 years, each year, month and day having its own name, and by combin- ing these the day, month and year are designated. The foot of a Chinese woman, from the heel to the great toe, measures only four inches;~ the great toe is bent abruptly backwards, and its extremity pointed directly upwards; While the phalanges of the oil ' ' it's sare doubled in beneath the solo ‘. 'foot. I THE. MUTUAL LIFE" lNSUEANCE CO. OF NEW YORK. RICHARD a. McCURDY President. BlllBll Assets. . Liabilities ' . Surplus . Tutal Income . eYea fetal Paid Policy-holders in 1895, . Insurance and Annuities in force. . Net gain in 1895 actually issued and paid for' I n cash ls include . ing Dee. 31.189 $221, 213, 721 33 194,347,157 58 » $26,866,568 75 $48,597,480 51 $23,126,728 45 $899 074,453 78 $61, 647, ’645 36 NOTE— Insurance merely mr Man Is_ discarded from this Statement as whOllv misleading, and only insurance I have earefmly examined the fmegoing Statement and find the same to be correct. CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor. From the Surplus a dividend will be apportioned as usual. Report of the EXamining Committee. Biiiee oi the Mutual Life Insurance company of New You, parison with the assets of the Company. The Committee have carefully pert termed the duty assigned to them, and hereby certify that the Statement is in all particulars correct and that the assets ‘specified therein are in possession of the Company. In making this certificate the Committee bear testimcny to the high character of the investments (1' the Company and express their approval of the system, order and accuracy with which the accounts and vouchers have been kept, and the business in- general transacted. H. C. Von Post, Charles R. Henderson, ‘ James C. Holden, February 11, 1896. At a meeting of the Board of Trustees of this Company, held on the 18th day of December last, the undersigned were appointed a Committee to examine the annual J Statement for the year ending December 31st, 1895, and to verify-the same by com- Robert Clyphant, Wm. P. Dixon, J. H. Herrick. ROBERT A. GRANNIS, Vice-President. WALTER R. GILLETTE, General Manager. ISAAC F. LLOYD, Second Vice-President, » WILLIAM J. EASTON, Secretary, IOHN A. FONDA, Assistant Treasurer. WILLIAM P. SANDS, Cashier .. EMORY MCCLINTOCK LL.D., J'OHN TATLOCK, J 3., Asst. Actuary. CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor, HENRY E. DUNCAN. .11., Cor. Secy. ALBERT KLAMROTH, Asst. Secy. FREDERIC CROMWELL, T1easurer. JAMES TIMPSON EDWARD P. HOLDEN, Asst. Cashier. r ,2d Asst. Tress F. I. A., Actuary. WM. W. RICHARDS, Comptroller. HENRY S. BROWN, Asst. Comp. JOHN C. ELLIOTT, Superintendent of Domestic Agencies, EDWARD LYMAN SHORT, Gen. Solicitor. GUS l‘AVUS S. WINSTON, M. D. MEDICAL DIRECTORS ’1 ELIAS J. MARSH, M. D. Committee _ GRANVILLE 11. WHITE, 11. DZ; ,. JCEN W... NEC HEELS, " New Haven, General Agt. for State of Connecticut. . mm. unmet. Local Agent. "l’t
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