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“Where do false teeth come from?”
said a well-known bone importer,
echoing a question that a Philadelphia
Times man had put to him. “Wouldn’t
you like to know? Most people, I im-
agine, think that all false teeth are
made from ivory. That is quite a mis-
taken idea, as the majority of false
teeth are now made from anything but
ivory. We import large quantities of
walrus’ tusks for no other purpose than
that they may be made into false teeth.
You go into some big dental establish-
ment where teeth are made and you will
doubtless find the remains of Walrus’
tusks lying around, and, indeed, a high.-
ly polished tooth made from a walrus
tusk is just as handsome, although not
so lasting, as an ivory one.
“A dentist once came to me for an ele-
phant's tusk, from which a good set of
permanent teeth might be made for a
wealthy client of his. He was to spare
no expense. I found him a tusk, which,
being an especially good one, I sold for
$12.50 a 'pound, the usual price being
from $2.50 to $3.50 per pound. I after-
ward learned that the dentist made $500
out of that set of teeth.
“Of course, it would be impossible for
dentists to sell teeth so cheaply as they
do now if the teeth were all mad from
olephants’ tusks. As a matter of fact,
so many people are now wearing false
teeth that I doubt if the ivory suitable
for this purpose would ever be found.
I am told a good many false teeth are
being made from vegetable ivory, ivor-
ine, etc. If so, the price of teeth must
naturally go down, and in time the
toothlessone will probably be able to
replenish his mouth for an absurdly low
sum. A set of teeth for $1.25,” con-
cluded the dealer, laughing, "would
create a boom in false teeth."
CONQUERS A TEXAS TERROR.
A Scientist Thoroughly Explodes the
“Cucurazza” Superstition.
Dr. Schwarz, an expert attached to
the bureau of entomology, has just re-
turned from a trip to 'lcxas, where he
went to investigate the sensational
stories about the deadly bite of an insect
known there as the "cucurazza." lts
bite was said to be certain death. All
through the southern part of the Lone
Star state it is regarded as a terror, and
is usually killed on sight. Dr. Schwarz
was informed that the creature in ques-
tion was too swift to be shot, and that
amputation was of no avail, inasmuch
as the person bitten usually died before
a surgeon could be secured.
At San Diego, Tcx., Dr. Schwarz in-
duced several young men to capture a
A crowd of people had as-
sembled for the purpose of seeing the
learned bug hunter and the cucurazza
settle matters between them. Dr.
Schwarz, with some caution, removed
the cover of the box containing the
specimen. The terrible creature was
there. It was a beetle, about an inch
long-and very pretty in color, a polished
black with a border of deep blue. To
the horror of all ooscners, the doctor
placed the insect on the back of his hand
and permitted it to pinch the skin with
its mandibles.
The cucurazza was nothing more or
less than a common species of ground
beetle—absolutely harmless, incapable
. f biting, and actually beneficial to man,
inasmuch as it devours caterpillars and
potato bugs. ,
HORRORS OF THE.SLUMS.
Prof. Huntley’s Description of the Lower
Part of London.
I’rof. Huxley was interested in an
especial London parish and wrote of it
"Over and above the physical
misery the impression has never died
out of my _mind of the supernatural
and entirely astonishing" deadness and
dullness of these poor people. Over
- that parish Dante’s inscription, ‘Leave
hope behind, all those who enter here,’
might have been written. There was
no amusement to diversify the dull
_ round of life exceptthe public house;
there was nothing to remind the peo-
ple of anything in the whole universe
beyond their miserable toil, rewarded
' by slow starvation. In my experience
of all kinds of savages all over the world
1 found nothing worse, nothing more
degraded, nothing more helpless, noth~
. ing so intolerabl y dull and miserable as
the life I left behind me in the east end
of London. Nothing would pleaseme
more than to contribute to the better-
ing of that state of things, which, un—
less wise and benevolent men take it
in. hand, will tend to become worse and
worse and to create somethingworse
than savagcry—a great Serbonian bog,
which, in the long run, will. swallow up
the surface crust of civilization.”-
. Heaven Enough.
' 'An editor who died of starvation was
being escorted to- Heaven by an angel
who had been sent out for that purpose.
“.May I look at the other place before we
ascend to eternal happiness ‘1” “Easily,”
w‘ALRus’TUSKs.‘
' Many False Teeth Come from the Man—
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said the angel. So they went below and
skirmished around, taking in the sights.
The angel lost track of the editor and
went around kudos to hunt him. He
» found him sitting by a furnace fanning
himself and gazing with rapture'upon
a lot of people inthe fire. There was a.
sign on the furnace which said: “De-
linquent Subscribers.” “Come,” said
the angel, “We must be going.” “You
go on," said the editor; “l'rn not com-
ing. This is heaven enough for me.”
Ancient Ale Tasters in England.
The a‘le tasicr‘s office in England was
an ancient one. He .was chosen at the
annual court leet, and was sworn to ex-
amine and assay the beer and ale, and
to take care that they were good and
wholesome, and sold at the proper
prices. All defaults of brewers he
was bound to pre‘Sent at the next court
lcet.
Bloodshot Eyes.
The eyes become bloodshot because,
while ordinarily the vessels of the cor-
nea are too small to admit the red cor-
pusclcs of the blood, when inflamed
they enlarge and the red particles enter
and give their color to the white.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
—-Alabama has 27 national banks
wit-h a combined capital of $3,694,000.
The state banks number 11.
——All the members of the Vanceboro.
(Me) board of health are quarantined
on account of scarlet fever in their fam-
ilies.
——Of the eighteen people who died
at Norwich, Vt, during 1805 ten were
more than 73 years old, and of these
ten five were more than 80 years old.
——A box of earth has been sent from
the grave of Gen. Lafayette to the
Daughters of the American Republic
at San Francisco, in which to plant a
tree of liberty. .
—A hunter in Bracken county, Kym,
last week out down a tree to get at a
’possum, and when the tree came down
he found it contained four ’possums,
two coons, five young squirrels and
about 100 pounds of honey. '
——An authority-on deaf-mutes says
that the ratio of deaf-mutes. to hear-
ing is about one to each 1,600, accord.-
ing. to which there are about 40,000
such persons in the United States and
about" 1,000,000 in the world’s entire
population.
—-The oldest post-master in New
England, in point of continuous serv-
ice, is believed to be Samuel S. Fuller,
of Mansfield, Conn. He has been post-
master. in that place during the past
45 years. He is a. democrat, but his
place has never been threatened by
political considerations.
——'l‘hc Norwegians are supposed to
have been the first who attempted the
perilous enterprise. of killing the
whale. The Iliscayans engaged in a
regular whale fishery in the twelfth
century, but the whales then caught
were of a small size and were employed
as food. \Ylialcbonc appears to have
been then used for‘the first time.
-‘——The boundary line between Cana-
da and the United States is marked
with posts at mile intervals for a great
part of its length. Cairns, earth
mounds and timber posts are also used,
and through the forests and swamps
a line a rod wide, clear of trees and un-
dcrwood, has been cut. Across the
lake artificial islands have been put
to support the cairns, which rise about
eight feet above the high water mark.
SMUGGLING BY RAILWAY.
Engineering Appliances as Carriers of
Contraband Goods.
There is a story of several years’-
standing to the effect that at one time
a locomotive on one of the lines run—
ning across the German—Russian fron—
tier was used most successfully as a
carrier of contraband goods, and that
the fraud, so long practiced, was dis—
covered only while overhauling the cm
gine in the repair sh0ps. The exact cir-
cumstances cannot now be called to
mind, though the essential facts ‘of
such illegal use having been made of
a legitimate piece of engineering work
is brought back to memory by a re—
cently published item which chronicles
a somewhat similar bit of deception.
The Belgian customs authorities, it
appears, knew for along time that
large quantities of jewelry'wcre smug-
gled over the French border, but how
it was done puzzled them. In the lug-
gage. van of the express which runs
between Paris and Brussels .is a case
which holds the accumulators when
the train is electrically lighted. A key
of the case is held by the conductor
of the express, a foreman porter and an '1
excise official of the border station,
but none of these over appear to use
it. The other day, as the train ran into
Quevy, the border town, a customs in-
spector took 'it into his head, more
through ofiiciousness than suspicion.
to open the chest. To his amazement,
it was filled to the lid with watches,
chains, rings, bracelets and all kinds
of dutiable jewelry. ' It was found that
the foreman porter at Quevy had, for
a long period, been carrying on a con—
traband traffic for a well-known Paris
jeweler, who, it is said, had had to dis-
gorge'heavily, both in jewelry and hard,
cash. in consequence of the disclosures
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That is th way our new
spring stust run. Probably
no store ever had a greater
variety of what everybody
will want than the kinds we
are showing just now, for
spring and summer; out<
doors, indoors, city, country,
'mountain and seashore-—
everything for everywhere.
Good values, good styles,
good choosing—all new.
Capes, Jackets and Separate
Skirts enough to fill a book,
a big one. Some of the most
fetching garments that ever
touched elbows with genteel
tastes and good judgment.
Saw them during the fair,
didn’t you? Liked them,
didn’t you ?
\Ve make and lay Carpets
so nicely that a good many
call~them tailor made. Odd
way of putting it, but a sug-
gestive one. "
Carpets and Mattings, as
we are selling them this sea-
son, were never better prop-
erty to buy; better qualities
or prettier patterns. And we
are selling a good many.
IN like know it. '
l’lzuu ‘ Black Sateen—
spct'lzil who for the Coming
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4 ‘m-lieco, 100. a yd.
Simpson’s, lQic. a yd.
lfi'cucli, 190. a yd. _
iii-ouch Dimity, in the lat‘
est French designs and color-
in gs ; lace and corded stripes,
.170. ayd. More than usual
pains have been taken to give
you the newest at the lowest
figure.
Black all-wool Moreen
Skirt-s, a few dozen of good
light weight that we will sell
at $1.69 each. '
SPECIAL. _
-We have put on special
sale all our half-wool Chal-
lies, those that have been
selling for 18 and 25 cents a.
yard, for 6 cents a yard. All
one quality but in two differ-
ent widths, 24 and 30 inches;
light and dark colors and 4
to 16 yards in the patterns.
'1 ' ‘ TH E 1E“ v E xi NG f”
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TO STEAL VANllllllBlLl
A: Sensational Story of an Alleged Plot
of Despair: lies.
(TO BE 14?" it UP IN HIS TRAIN
The \Vhole Thing Given Away to a Sher-
lock Holmes by a Mythical Individ-
ual IVhose Name Is lVell Known,
of Course, but 18 Not Given.
SAN FnAscrsco, April 7. —George E.
Gard, late chief of the Southern Pacific
company’s detective service, came up from
Los Angeles and gave publicity to one of
the most remarkable stories of an anarchist
plot that was ever heard in San Francisco.
The plot, according to Mr. Gard, was
nothing less than a conspiracy to hold up
the Vanderbilt special train and abduct
Cornelius Vanderbilt, and it has trans-
pired that the officials of the Southern
Pacific company, who were informed by
Mr. Gard before the Vanderbilt party
reached El Paso, have, been taking all pre-
cautions to' prevent the carrying out of the
plot.
“Shortly before the Vanderbilt party
reached El Paso,” said Mr. Gard, “I re-
ceived a letter which detailed in some de-
gree the'plans of a gang of extremists for
making money out of the kidnaping of
Cornelius Vanderbilt. ' As to my inform-
ant, I do not think it is necessary to say
any more than that he is in San Francis-
co. The lctt-cr was written from here, and
the men who were working out the plot,
so it was given to me, were making San
Francisco their base of operations. The
letter went on to say that the men had
been conspiring to obtain money somehow
for some time, but had not been able to
agree on any plan until the announcement
appeared in the papers that Vanderbilt
and Depew were on their way to Califor-
nia. They immediately picked out Van-
derbilt for a. shining mark and proceeded
to lay plans for a hold up.
The \Varning Letter.
“My informant was one of the gang,
and in his letter to me he said that he
would continue to act in the role of con-
spirator and keep me informed of their
movements and any further develop-
ments in their plans. The letter was the
most startling epistle I ever received, but
I was convinced immediately of its gen-
uineness, for I know the person that wrote
it, as Well as his history and associations.
I lost no time in going to J._ A. Muir, su-
perintendent of the Southern Pacific com-
pany at Los Angeles, and laying the whole
case before him. We deemed the communi-
cation of such startling importance we
immediately entered into telegraphic cem-
munication with the officials of the gen-
eral office of the Southern Pacific in this
city. '
“Mr. Muir telegraphed the facts con-
tained in the letter, so that the officials in
the general ofiiicor might have plenty of
time to take such precautionary measures
as the occasion demanded.
“From what I could judge by the letter
the conspirators had at that time perfect-
ed no plans further than to agree among
themselves to hold up the Vanderbilt spe-
cial train at some point in the San Joaquin
valley and make the best haul that was
possible. If no money was to be had any
other way, Cornelius Vanderbilt was to be
kidnaped, and every one in the party was
to be killed it necessary in the accom-
plishment of the end in view.
“Just what steps were taken by the
railroad company to prevent the hold up
after they were warned by telegraph from
Los Angeles I have not been fully advised.
“’hat Upset the Plans. ‘
“It was suggested that a pilot engine
be sent out ahead of the special train, but
as far as I know this was not done. The
anarchists, if they may be called such, had
laid their plans to hold up the train at
some convenient point in the San Joaquin
valley, and it therefore is unnecessary to
fear any violence below, Bakersfield.
“This side of Bakersfield the Special
train was run only during the daytime,
and it is barely possible that this precau-
tion upset the plans of the conspirators.
As every one who kept track of the Van-
derbilt party will remember, the visitors
remained over night in their train at
Bakersfield after visiting Santa Barbara,“
and came up through the San Joaquin
valley by daylight on Tuesday last. This
or some other cause upset the plans of the
robbers. The train was not held up and
Cornelius Vanderbilt was not abducted. I
am rather inclined to think that the men
who concocted the plot became frightened
into the abandonment of their plans.”
Detective Gard enjoys the distinction
of being probably as well acquainted with
train robbers, stage robbers and crooks of
other stripes as any other man in Cali-
fornia, and the statement that he knows
the person who assisted in the conspiracy
and then divulged the plans of the. con-
spirators can hardly be doubted.
Neither Mr. Vanderbilt, Mr. Depew
nor any of the members of the visiting
party was informed of the anticipated
hold up, and they left the city on their way
east without learning that they had been
made the objects of a conspiracy by a gang
of desperadoes.
X Bays In Surgery.
PITTSBURG, April 7.-—Another practical
use of the X rays in surgery was made in
the Homeopathic hospital and was suc-
cessful in every particular.’ By means of a
photograph the exact location of apiece 01
needle in the foot of 7-year-old Rachael
Newall was ascertained, and in less than
a minute after the first incision the needle
Was found.
Caught by 3. Prairie Fire.
TOPEKA, April 7.——News reaches hertz
of the death of William and Alice Johnson
in a prairie fire. The children were driv-
ing‘from Richfield when they saw a great
fire following them. They made a great
effort to outrun the fire, but their horse
became exhausted. The flames were soon
upon them, and. they were burned to
death. -
Murdered by His Farmhand.
FOX LAKE, Wis., April 7.——E. W. Da-
vids, a prominent farmer, was shot and
instantly killed ten miles north of here by
Julius Zilke, a. farmhand. Zilke was an.
gry at Davids for having prevented him
from striking a boy.
Brooklyn’s Trolley Consolidation.
ALBANY, April 7.—A certificate of the
lease of the Atlantic Avenue Railroad
company of Brooklyn to the Nassau Elec-
tric Railroad company, dated March 4,
1896, was filed today in the office of the
secretary of state.
A Man's Strange Suicide.
CHICAGO, April 7.—An unknown man,
suspected of theft, of which he was inno-
cent, committed suicide here while being-
Pursued by the police. x
—Advertise in the GAZETTE.
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THE REASON. WHY.
Every Why Has a" Wherefore and
’Tis Well to Look for itat Times.
In these days people want to know
the whys and wherefores.
rThe. 19th century man is a natural
skeptic. - - ., 1
The why and wherefore of {rich is
plain. ‘ .
_He is told that every ailment of man-
kind can be cured. ‘
He has an ailment and tries some. pan-
)ICPH. , .
1t fails; he tries another with the
same result.
‘ Such experiments make him look
askance at future claims.
Often the fault is his, but he don’t
see why.
He may have a‘ backache or perhaps
a lame or weak back. ,
_ He used plaster or'liuiments, they re—
lieved him for a time, but miled to
cure the trouble. .
did not know the wherefore of his
aches. . '
Had he know: that the kidnevs were
the cause,
‘ That backache generally means kid
ney ache,-
‘lhat the kidneys must filter the
blood consmn tly?
Thatfnilure to do so immediately ef-
fecta the back.
'1 hat backache is'only the first step
toward many kidney disorders.
Urinary troubles follow.
hetentiou of urine.
Excessive urine.
DiabetesiBright’s.disease.
Dean’s Kidney Pills are a specific for
all kidney complaints.
. Plenty of Norwalk proof of this.
Mr. G. S. Partric, Notary Public,
No. 127 Mam St. says. ‘ My wife got a
drug store, for a severe backache she
was suffering from. She found quick
relief and she thinks Doan’s Kidnev
Pills are a good thing.” ‘
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Sent by mail on receipt of price, hv
Foster—Milburn 00., Bufialo, N. Y.
Sole agents for the United States.
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boreet Railmu Depot _
NIGHT BELL AT OFFICE.
DAVID . W.~ RAYMONID
Funeral Binomial Emlalmer,
39 Washington Street’Scuth Ix'cmalk
Residence. Mahackemo Hotel.
He reads statements of supposed facts:
This is hisfault; the why is that he'
box of Doan’s Kidney Pills at Hale’s.
The GAZETTE
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will consult their own inter-
ests by giving us a call.
REM EMBER—If you have
work t6 do, write to us.
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Reasons
Why
Schleicher’s
Pianos
Lead.
IV.
V.
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PIMIIIS
TAKEN.
.l, Because none but first-class workmen
are employed.
Because an eXpericnce of fOrty years
, counts.
Because for years we have given
special attention to. designing im-
proved features Whlch none but our
pianos have.
Because they are low in price and
high-in artistic beauty.
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Because when SChleicher says it’s
so, it’s so.
Mainlllffice
and
Factory,
Plchle St.
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Norwalk Chronicler