1 '1‘ 11 is "EVENINGgGAZETTE > - ' It Cures Census and. g . COLDS QUICK.- wuiilus' WUEH RENEW. EVERYBODYS SHOUBS F01; _ HALE’S LUNG BALSAM. It Cares When all Others Fail. 250. ‘ at -H_A_LE’S. tit till IN PRIEE— Oil" MEAT. Round, Sirloin and Por- terhouse Steaks, Sausge, Put a. 1i Rib Rusts Reduced 211.1 Pound All First Q 1al1tv Meat. J. W. BOGARDUS, DRINK HAlHflRN SPRING WATER FOR THE Stomach, ‘ . Bo wels, [liver and Kidneys. FOR SALE BY The Ed 31,1(11111818111311 Cu NEW CAFE RESTAU'RAN T MIKE ATCI—IFORD, 44 mm 5 1536!, The Best Win .3, Liquors and Cigars. GOOD'WlN lHE lllllOR, Olcl'iier, 'l 1':’1 and Furnis I7OWA$HINGTON STREET " SOUTH NORWALK, 0011s.. ' Has a large assortment of Wlnte and Blue Silk mired Ding )ll'dl Suits, hand-male, good trimmed and fu~nisued at verV reasonab e figures. Woosted Suits $8; Blue $1], and White and B ue, S12 Fine Custom Work made to ruder. Fine t Hats 1n So. Norwalk. from best shops" in town, Gents’ Furnishings in all varieties: 1in figures. 0 Horace E. harm, 310151218101: $L1very and Sales Stable. wwuuws\ Opnosit'e Danbury and Norwalk lisdroad aebot' _ Norwalk, ,Oonu. Stylish . ~ Single or Double Team Ewith or without drivers Safe horses for women andehildren. SADDLE HORSES fem-1mm TV . . g ‘ _ Courtships in the Salvation Army LOVERS IN THE BANKS. . 1 Are Under .Strict Rules. one 01-“ DAY. ' ‘How It Looks to.the People of the”!!- Jacob Planets. 'The people of Neptune are often in doubt as to whether or not the sun is . There Is No Privacy About EngagementS, ' shining They are so far away from and There Is No Backing Out— Outslders May Not Court the Army’s Daughters. LOVe at first sight doesn’t go in the Salvation Army. There’s no 100111 there for lovesick maids or for sighing sw ains, and such amusements as flirtations are frowned upon f1 om headquarters down | the great central orb that it is amere i speck in the sky which only men with good eyesight can see. Plenty of plan- 3 ets that are swinging about' 1n the heav- ens look bigg ér than the sun to the peo- ple of Neptune. Those on' Uranus are little better 01f. ’ the sun comes up like an immense new intense Upon Mercury, on the other hand, 1 to subalterns. No exceptions are made i moon, and it burns with an to these rules 1n any case. The) apply glare, and issohot that the people there to the commandch as W611 as T0 the can cook their breakfast by the light of humble recruit- just received on proba- the morning sun When the sun sets tion. I on Mercury it is like a large part of the This was admirably exemplified in the heavens dropping out of sight, and a, case of Commander and Mrs. Booth cold breeze immediately springs up. more than ten y ears ago 13811111ng Even on Venus the sun looks so big as to . Booth son of the general, met and fell scare an inhabitant of the earth could in lOVe 7w ith Maud Charles“ orth, VV- he he be transported to that planet had recently joined the army in London. 1 From Mars it looks a good deal She VV as only 17 and he VV as 23. The rule smaller than it does from the earth but say s that a Salvation Army V1 oman a yea1 011 Mars IS equal to two Vears on must be 21 bef01e she marries, and there i the earth Another curious thing VV as nothing for the couple to d0 but, about Mars is that it has two moons, re- ‘Vflit. Gen. Booth hustled his 5011 Off to ; volving in different, directions One of Australia to look after the new field these little moons is hardly bigger in there, and to make: sure that. his af', the sky than a good—sized cheese, but fection for Miss Maud was lasting. As soon as Stafi Capt. Charlesworth be- came of age she married the com- mander of the American forces. ' This marriage VV as lemarkable fromi the length of the engagement. \IOSti engagements' 111 the army last about two V ears. The fl1 st y car it is termed court- ing, and no girl in the army can be courted until she has serV ed atleast one Vear. If a formal engagement follows it must last at least one year. lf’liere s no backing out how e1 er, after the en-' gagement has been entered. into, al- though there is nothing binding on either side during the courting period. ' As soon as the courting wbegins eV ery-l body is appraised of the relations, for the superior officers of the army must interest themselVes in the couple. A gi1l cannot be courted by an outsider unless he promises to enlist 1n the army and then he cannot marry her if he is below her rank. If the lover is below her rank he must show ability that will bring promotion, and this ability must be certified by his superior oilicers be- fore the engagement can beannounced. This requisite ability must be positive, moreover. The young man must be in- dorscd as being capable of filling a po- sition at least three stations above that which he holds when the courtship ended. All the Salvation Army laws relating to marriage are for officers. They do not affect the rank and file of the en- listed men and women. They are left free to do as they choose. The laws are. framed, though, to protect the women, because three—fourths of the officers in the army consist of women. They are as a rule superior in mentality to the men. and the aim of the rules is to spur the. men on by making them work hard for what they desire. Some men in the army do not amount tomucli until they begin to court a girl, when they “take a brace” and soon win promotion. It might be noticed in passing that this is frequently true of men in other walks of life. The Salvation Army insists 011 this display of energy before a- man can aspire to the hand and heart of one of the army‘s daughters, no matter how humble she may be. Before persons can be in line for the position of officers they must state clearly whether or no they are. in love, and must subscribe to each of the seven rules regarding courtship and marriage. The most important of these is the one forbidding engagements with outsiders. There must be unquestioned proof that the outsider will become an officer in the army before even the courtship is al- lowed. Strict as are the rules, they are not always lived up to. Girls even in the Salvation Army will fall in love and in forbidden directions. Disobedience to the rules means discipline and some- times expulsion, and not infrequently the army loses a bright young female officer simply because she insists on loving and clinging to a man who will not join the army. Ofiicers must not be allowed to carry on any courtship in the town where ' they are appointed. Their influence is destroyed when it is known that they are engaged to soldiers. The laws add that soldiers so situated should ask for remOVal VVhen‘ ‘surrounding influences are found to be too strong.” In everything lOVers pre told that helpmates mustbe chosen ‘for the VV er," and “consent will never be given to any engagement or marriage which would take the officers out of the army.” In explaining the object of this law the field book states that the army cannot aiford to educate and train officers to. have them lcaVe. In leaving they are impressed that they violate their most solemn pledges. —-—N. Y. Press. 5-5;. How to Pronounce Peking. i It 15 a very singular thing that so few persons know how to spell or pro— nounce the name of a. Chinese city which we all spell and pronounce so many times 0Ver especially since all Chinese afiairs have become of more: ' consequence to us in the last year. That city of Peking No one, except some person who has lived in China, orl 11 he has been told by some one VV he has liVed there, ever calls it anything but Pekin. Even the geographies make the same mistake Yet it 1s as ineorrect to omit the “g” as it would be to leave of]? the “k” in New York. It should be pro- nounced with the accent on the latter syllable, instead of, as most peopleg (rive. it, on the first .—Golden Days. Au Unhealthy Business. 1'11 a recent medical report of Prof. Celli it is stated that in the rice fiellds around Ilavenna, Italy, the workers, mostly females, are bowed nearly double, emaciated, with ashen-gray complexions. all to gain 12 centsada. , and their children are anaemic, tym-l panitic and under-sized. —- St. Louis I it flies through space with the speed of a cannon ball. This little moon goes skimming close to the surface of Mars, and'the people there, with their long- distance guns, could easily shoot up and hit it. They have to look sharp on Mars to see this little moon, which comes noise- lessly from one direction and disap- pears around the corner in another, re- gardless of the movements of the reg- ular moon. STRANGE, BUT TRUE. Wonderful Things That Happen to Man \Vho Shoot. A well—known naturalist and sports- man was shooting quail one day near the Pyramids, says Pearson’s Weekly. Sighting an owl, he raised his gun, and was about to pull the trigger when, judge of his surprise, the bird suddenly twisted in its flight as if shot, and came fluttering to his feet. On examination he discovered that the bird, although in midair, had broken its wing through the mc1cexe1tion of its flight. “'l1en shooting on the moors in York shire an unlucky sportsman had hisone solitary chance during the beat spoiled by an extraordinary accident. Just as he was shooting at a grouse flying about 40 yards away, another bird, which had evidently lost its presence of mind, fluttered in front of his gun, recen mg the whole of the charge in its body. It VV as literally blow 11 to pieces. Booth, the well -known collector 01: Brighton once did the very same thing. He VV as firing at a. small flock of com- mon pochald when the charge hung fire, in consequence of which a raw specimen had time to fly into the line of shot. It is now in the Brighton mu- scum. Apropos. a strange freak of par- tridges may be mentioned. Upon cer- tain occasions they will fly far out to sea and settle on the top of the waves with as much unconcern as if they were on a turnip field, although it means certain death to every one of the covey. "TIP IT." A Trivial Pastime Popular Among Lan- eashlre Gamblers. Among the strange sports of Lanca- slure 1s a game known variously as “coddam” 01 “tip it.” As the Lancushire man of sporting tendency must have a wager on every- thing tliut engages his attention, 11 lot of money changes hands on this game. generally in a small way, but quite fre- quently in substantial sums. Indeed, says London Answers, there is a recog- nized champion player of “tip it,“ who is open to back himself for at" 25 to “lick creation.” And this is how it is played: The rival players take a button, or some small article, and sit on opposite sides of a table. The beginner puts his hands under the table, and. taking the button in one of them, raises his closed lists into View, and the business of the other is to say in which hand the. button is held. The button changes sides as it is found, and the game goes on until the points are redehed. It is often played with two or four a side, and the champion will meet a dozen at a time, and discover the hand holding the button by a sort of instinct. The position of the thumbs decides whether the game is “coddam” or “tip it.” On this trivial pastime hundreds of pounds change hands every year in some, parts of Luncashire. THE SYRIAN ARABS. Styles Set by the Patriarchs Still in Vogue in the East. I' r The Syrian Arabs have changed their style of dressuless than any other na- tionality. At any rate there is no record of its having changed during 111e period covered by human history, either as regards male or female dress or adornment. , Saving only for his firearms, there is no reason to believe that the Bedouin oi the desert does not clothe and adorn Maui}: as he did in the days of th'é'Patriarchs, and the wom’en‘we'ar their ornaments in the nineteenth century of the same shape and in the same style as Sarah and Re- becca did. Among articles of western costume. the two oldest are probably the Highland kilt and the smock- frock of the west country Englishlaborer. It is not probable that either of them has altered much for 1,000 years. The 'smock- frock VV as the peasant dress in early Saxon times, and the kilt would seem to be a development of the kirtle or fringed girdle, which was probably the earliest garment worn by man. 1 Racing Pigeons in Belgium. _ Belgium is the home of the racing pigeon. pastime, and a good pigeon frequently wins for its owner large sums of money , the prizes being conbiderable, to which DWI-“1‘ '~"1o'uu‘ ‘6 c. There the sport is a national' GUSI'AVUS S. WINSL‘ON, M. D. HE MUTU INSURANCE 00—. OF NEW YORK. RICHARD A. MCCURDY President. amen fur eYuar ingfluudl. 1895. $221,213,721 33 194,347,157 58 Assets. . . ._ Liabilities ' . , . ’ ' LL Surplus Total Income. . _ Total Paid Policyvholders in 1895, . Insurance and Annuities in three, Net gainin 1895 . . . . actually issued and paid for in cash ls included. I have carefully examined the foregoing Statement and find the same to be correct. CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor. A From the Surplus a dividend will be apportioned as usual. Report of the Examining Committed. Uifioe 1f the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New Yuri, 0 At a meeting of the Board of Trustees of this Company, held on the December last, the undersigned were appointed a. Committee to exami Statement for the year ending December Slst, 1895, and to verify the same by com,- paiison with the assets of the Company. - The Committee have caiofully performed tl: e duty assigned to them, and hereby certify that the Statement 1s in all particulars correct and that the as 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 VV hich the accounts and vouchers have been kept, and the business in general transacted. H. C. Von Post, Lharles It. Henderson, James C. Holden, Robert Clyphant, Wm P. Dixon, J. H. Herrick. ROBERT A. GRANNIS, Vice-President. WALTER B. GILLETTE, General Manager. ISAAC F. LLOYD, Second Vice-President, ' WILLIAM J. EASTON, Secretary, FREDERIC CROMWELL, Treasurer. [OHN A. FONDA, Assistant Treasurer. JAMES TIMPSO WILLIAM P. SANDS Cashier EDWARD P. HOLDE EMORY MOCLINTOCK LL. D., F. I. A., Actuary. jOHN TATLOCK, .13., Asst. Actuary. WM. W. RICHARDS, CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor, HENRY s. BROWN, JOHN C. ELLIOTT, Superintendent of Domestic Agencies, ~ EDWARD LYMAN snonr, Gen. Solicitor. ‘ MEDICAL Dissorons "ELIAS J. MARSH, M. D. GRANVILLE M. Jenn w.N1enoLs. New Haven, General Agt. for State of Connecticut. OAEIE. Local Agent HENRY E. DUNCAN. _ ALBERT KLAMBO'I‘H, Asst. Secy. $26,866,563 75 $48,597,430 51 $23,126,728 45 $899, 074, 453 78 $6], 647, 645 36 NOTE—Insurance merely mrittrn. Is_ discarded from this Statement as wholly mlsleadlng. and only insurance February 11,1896. 18th day of no the annual sets specified N, 211 Asst. Treas N, Asst. Cashier. Comptroller. Asst. Comp. IEE Jr. , Cor. Secy. WHITE, M. D.
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