6 \ 'W Children like it 5 to Cure their‘ Coughs and Colds. USE WILLIAMS’ - NEW ENGLAND comm REMEDY. WILLIAMS & CARLETON co. ‘ HARTFORD. CT. . 1, EVE RYBODY S HOUTS FOR HALE’S § LUNG BALSAM. It Cures When all Others Fail. 256. at '12: AT;F‘.’S_ will; Bill ill PRIGE- 01" Round, Sirloin and Por- terhoase Steaks, Sausge, For an] Rib? Busts 4161116611 2-6. 6 Pound All First Q, 1a_l1t_v Meat. J. W. BOGARDUS, 6 “7 \TER SIX, NORIVALH an 6 16;: $96- '1 “32 lg .1366» Hillillfii‘l SPillilil WATER FOR THE Stomach, 5 Bo “Bis, , Liver and ‘ Kidneys. F’ R SALE BY , I l ,1 | . T1: 611. ll, 11613181861161 C0 r 6 -- —'-" h 1. W CAFll J11 ' .LJ WITH ‘5 ”l‘ lUll ll\ ”‘ TIM?) ., I .1 l l A'rs‘acun‘). ‘ NIKE. lRATCi-IFORD, 44.5%.”)?! 51122.1, The i’msl Win s, quu-n's and Cigars. 6061116 in: 111103, Blolhler, Halter and Furnish " .170 WASHINGTON eraser SOUI‘H NO I" ALK, CONN.. Hts alarze assortment of White and Blue Silk 11113 6d Diagdnyl Suits. hand-male. good tnmned and turns-led at View reaionab e figures. VVnost~:d Suits $8; Blue $11. and White :m(lB'u~1, 512. Fine Custom Work made to order. Fine-t Hats in Ho. Norwalk. from best shops in town, Gents' Furnishings in all Varieties: luv figures. HOfEIC’c: E. D Mm, E XUE 1391101. Lmrunifalas ............. ~. 5 ‘n a ,g, £31933“ Olin-"1551526 Dnnhury and Elm-walk Railroad depot“ Nan-walk, Conn. Stylish Single or Double Team with or without drivers Safe horses for women audchildren. l SADDLE Houses 11 so" ’THE’Evuxixu mascara GAMEBIRDS GOING. Quail and Prairie Chickens Are Growing Very Scarce. If Some Steps to Replenish the' Stock in This Country Are Not Taken They Will .Soon Become Extinct —— (jun Clubs Are to Blame. . Wtstern‘ lovers of that beautiful sport, hunting wild game birds, must be well satisfied with the vigilance of the Illinois game warden, Mr. Blow, aided by those gentlemen who hold sim- ilar positions in adjacent states. Ln- ergetic as their efforts are, however, it is to be feared they come too late to save the prairie chickens (pinnated grouse.) No measures, it is certain, can ever make them as plentiful on our prairies as they were a quarter of a century ago. Even if their slaughter were forbidden for a term of years, the utmost vigilance on the part of Mr. Blow and his assistants could not prevent the annual destruction of: large numbers. Quail are becoming equally scarce, and unless the different hunting clubs take 'some steps to replenish the stock, game of the grouse family will soon become ext-remel y rare. England has always been a great game preserving country, but even there, where the game laws are very stringent, it has been found necessary to import large numbers of birds from foreign countries. The dark-necked pheasant (phas- ianus colchicus) has long'reigned as the king of English game birds. This pheasant was first brought from Asia, but has been indigenous in England for centuries. They are polygamus in their habits, and as the brilliant plum- age of the male bird is in contrast to the somber brown of the hen, good sports- men can easily distinguish them apart. l‘hey invariably let the females pass un- scathed, so that the supply is fairly well maintained. It is impossible, however, when a covey of partridges gets up, to distin- guish the different sexes, so that both male and female have to fall alike to the unerring aim of the English country gentleman. Consequently they would become very scarce could not eggs and birds be obtained from abroad. The firsn imported were the French, or red- lcgged variety (caccabis urfa), but they proved very unsatisfactory, as when disturbed theyprepared to run rather than fly. In addition, they did not in- terbreed with the native variety, but being larger and more pugnacious threatened to exterminate them. A few years ago it was discovered that the Ilungarian partridges not only very nearly resembled the English species, but would interbreed, and dwell in har- mony with it. This discovery has led to the importation of myriads of these, birds; indeed, the business has grown to such prOport-ions that over a dozen ~ firms are engaged in it, and last season over 100,000 brace were shipped from It‘uime on the Adriatic, the only port for the large extent of country over which these birds are trapped. Most of them are taken on the broad plains and low foothills of the Carpa- thians, and in the valleys of the Bohem- ian Alps. In the dense woods that :lothe the lower spurs of the latter, pheasants are aISO very plentiful and large numbers are trapped and im- ported. In England live Hungarian partridges bring about $1 to $1.25 a brace (male and female), pheasants $2.25 to $2.50; partridges’ eggs, $8 to $10 a hundred, and pheasants’ about $7, a pretty high price considering that only about 80 per cent. of these eggs are for- tile. They are usually hatched by ban- tams, or common barnyard fowls. 30th partridges and pheasants are prolific egg producers, their nests con- taining from 13 to 17 eggs, olive-brown in color, much rounded at one end, but pointed at the other. Their nests, how- ever, are always on the ground, and the owners make but slight attempts to conceal them, so that the contents fall an easy prey to their many enemies. The English variety lay measurably well in confinement, but their eggs are frequently infertile. This, however, is not the case with the Hungarian birds, who, if not too closely confined, lay large numbers of eggs, a surprising per- centage of which will hatch out. The young birds are much hardier and easier to raise than those of the English variety. Their hardiness would enable them to withstand the rigors of this climate. So if some of our gun clubs, who have large territories at their command, were to obtain a consignment, their preserves would soon he stocked with this very desirable game bird. They never fly high, so that the expense of inclosing a few acres of land suitable for them to breed on would be trifling. Another bird which has attracted 1 he attention of game ircscrvers in Ire- land and Scotland, who control large areas of waste land. is the guinea fowl (gallina numidica). They are occa- slouallv met with in this country in a domesticated state, but those who have shot them in the African jungles will readily acknowledge that few game birds surpass them, either in the ex- cellence of the sport they furnish or their edible qualities. This bird has been strangely neglected by epicures in this country, though he is really bet— ter eating than any other of the domes- ticated fowls. In consequence hunt- ing clubs could obtain large numbers at a nominal price. If these were turned out on some wide expanse they would become as wild as hawks in the second generation, and would increase very rapidly, as they surpass all other game birds in ,the number of eggs they lay, and the cunning with which they conceal their nests. — Chicago Inter Ocean. Twentieth Century. Farmer—Tom, press th’ button ’n set th' cornfield plow goin’. 5 Tom———Oh, pshaw! Let} Bill do it! I'm tired—London Tit-Bits. sci/211 r» l. ’1': . ‘THE EGG DANCE. A Beautiful Feat Performed by Hindoo Juggling Girls. One of the most wonderful of the many feats performed by" Hindoo jug- glers is the egg dance. Usually it is executed by a girl fantastically dressed. She makes use of the willow 'wheel, around which at equal distances are threads, and at the end of each thread there is a noose, held open by a bead. This wheel the girl places on her head, while she carries a. basket of eggs on her arm. When the music strikes up she begins to dance and the wheel begins to spin around. She then takes an egg from the basket, places it in one of the thread nooses, and throws it from her with sufficient force to draw the knot tight. The spinning of the wheel keeps the thread stretched with the egg at the end of it. She then takes another egg from the basket, places it in another noose, and repeats this until there is an egg in every noose. IIer fantastic costume, her perfect mot on, and all the eggs swinging on the stretched threads at once, presents a very pretty sight in- deed. It requires much art to execute the dance, for at one false step the eggs would be dashed together, the dance spoiled and the dancer thereby dis- graced. After dancing for‘a. time with all the eggs swinging around her head, she takes them out of the noose one by one, all the time keeping the wheel balanced and in motion, and again places them in the basket on her arm. - When the dance is finished the spec- tators are allowed to examine the eggs to see that they are real. SENTENCED TO SIBERlA. An Entire Reglment' Sent to Exile for Their Blunderlng Maneuvering. _ On one occasion during a parade of his Horse guards, Emperor Paul, of Russia, was extremely dissatisfied with the “manner in which the troops per- formed their evolutions. At length, says the San Francisco Argonaut, after a more than ordinarily stupid blunder on the part of the troops, the czar could stand it no longer, and he deter— mined to preside over the drill in per- son. The troops were well aware that thc czar’s temper was on the verge of bubbling over, and the knowledge so unnerved them that things Went from bad to worse, until at last a blunder supervened (a blunder in which officers and men shared alike) which proved the climax. Galloping up to the disor- ganized lines and reining up his charger at their head, livid with the fury which he no longer attempted to suppress, Paul gave vent to the follow- ing original and effective speech: "Of- ficers and troopers of the Imperial Horse guards! Right about face! Quick march to Siberia!” The en- tire regiment with unbroken composure and dignity, wheeled to the right and started off then and there upon their terrible march into exile. By the time that’they had arrived at a point lying some few days’ march frOm the capital, the czar’s temper having cooled down: swift couriers were dispatched after the exiled guards with news of the im- perial clemency and the troops were allowed to return. Recording 3 Vessel’s Course. A.naval engineer at Hamburg, John Paul, has invented an apparatus re- cording graphically the course of a- ship during the entire voyage. Upon a strip of paper the angles of the rudder in relation to the longitudinal axis of the ship and the relation of the mag- netic needle of the compass to the axis of the ship are continually recorded. The paper is moved along by clock- work, while the recording pencil re- ceives its motion by means of electro magnets connected by wire with the ship’s Compass and steering engine. . The recording instrument, working au- tomatically, may be shut off so as to be inaccessible to any but the captain, and such a. record would doubtlessly fur- nish the most satisfactory evidence of the ship's course during the entire v0}:- age. \Yith the automatic register of revolutions of the propeller and oi mots traveled, previously patented by the same inventor, the entire maneu- vering of a, ship during a given time or an entire trip may be critically inspect- ed by the ship‘s owners or captain. A. Big Black Diamond. The largest black diamond ever seen was lately shown to the academy of sciences in Paris by M. Moissan. a French chemist. It weighed three thousand and seventy-three carats. This gigantic carbon was found by a digger in July last in the diamond field of Bahia. ts hard: ass is greater than that of a. brilliant. and for this rensm: ithas great industrial value. I pra- scuts a surface partly smooth an-l part L!;‘l_‘l‘ll,';‘l!.t;‘(.. and is exactly similar to the particles of black diamonds pr.»- duccd by AI. Moissan in an electrical furnace. The three largest of the species previously found weighed sis: hundred and twenty, eight hundred and ten and seventeen hundred carats. and the latter was not free from flaws The present specimen is as big as a. large pear and apparently perfect. Didn't Like Bright Colors. Experiments have shown that birds avoid the bright colored caterpillars as a rule. And this seems almost to have become a second nature, for a jackdaw which had been raised in captivity and had had no experience in judging the edible qualities of caterpillars was ob- served to regard the brilliant cater- pillar of the figure-of—eight moth with suspicion and aversion, although it eagerly devoured dull, plain caterpil- lars placed within its reach. When it was driven by hunger to attack the other it finally refused to eat it, giving plain evidence that there was some- thing distasteful about the prey. _ Thinness of Beaten Gold. The surface of any given quantity of gold may be extended 310,814 times by being properly beaten with the ham- mer. A gold dollar if beaten until its surface was enlarged 310,814 ‘times would become a golden film not more than the 1-566,020th part of an inch in thickness. i HE '. MUTUAL '.LIFE INSURANCE 00. OF NEW YORK. RICHARD A. MCCURDY President. - emen 1 Blur ndingllecillfllfi. -. 4 622121372133 194,347,157 58 326,866,563 75 $48,597,436 51 $23,126,728 45 Assets, - . . Liabilities . . Surplus . Total Income . -. Total Paid Policy-holders in 1895, . Insurance and Annuities in force, $899,074,453 78 Net gain in 1895 , . $61,647,645 36 NOTE—Insurance merely mricnen, ls discarded from this Statement as who" ml ' actually issued and paid for in cash 15 included. y sleadlng, and only Insurance I have carefully examined the foregoing Statem ant and find the some to be correct. ' . ~ CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor. From the Surplus a dividend will beapportioned as usual. ‘ Report of the Examining Connittee. (Effluent the Mutual life Insurance Company of New York, ' 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 Statement for the year ending December 3151, 1895, and to verify the same by com~ _ parison with the assets of the Company. , . The Committee have carefully performed the duty assigned to them, and hereby mun 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 testimony to the high character of the investments 1f 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. Robert Clyphant, 'Wm. P. Dixon, J. H. Herrick. H. C. You Post, Lharles It. Henderson, James C. Holden, Committee ROBERT A. GRANNIS, Vice-President. WALTER It. GILLETTE. General Manager. ' HENRY E. DUh'CAN. Jr., 001. Secy. ALBERT KLAMROTH, Asst. Secy. ISAAC F. LLOYD, Second Vice—President. 5 WILLIAM'J. EASTON, Secretary, FREDERIC CROM WELL, Treasurer. . J AMES 'I'IMPSON, 2d Asst. Trees EDWARD P. HOLDEN, Asst. Cashier: lOHN A. FONDA, Assistant Treasurer. WILLIAM P. SAN DS, Cashier EMORY McCLINTOCK LL.D., r. '1. A., Actuary. JOHN TATLOCK, JP.., Asst. Actuary. WM. W. RICHARDS. Comptroller. CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor, HENRY S. BROWN, Asst. Comp. JOHN C. ELLIOI‘l‘, Superintendent of Domestic Agencies, EDWARD LYMAN SHORT, Gen. Solicitor. DIEDICAL Dina-c.1035 GUSI'AVUS S. WINS ['03, M. D. ELIAS J. MARSH, M. D. .16 vv. Nit/133633 New Haven, General Agt. for State of Connecticut. .. GRANVILLE M. WHITE, 11;. I}. .59... @Afi/fifipe Local Agent
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