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MIKE fiATCHFORD, 44 Wain Street, "The Best Wines, Liquors and Cigars. GOODWIN l HE TAILOR, Clothier, Haller_ and Furnisher, 170 WASHINGTON STREET SOUTH NORWALK. C0NN.. ' Has alarge assortment of White and Blue Silk mixed Diagonal Suits. hand-made. good trimmed and furnished at very reasonab'e figures: Woosted Suits $8; Blue $11. and White and Blue, 5512. Fine Custom Work made to order. Fine~t Hats in So. Norwalk. from best shops in town. Gents’ Furnishings in all varieties: low figures. - Horace E. Dann, EXOELSIOL ' L1 very and Sales Stable." “u wuvm Opposite Danbury and NorwalkBailroad uepotl Norwslk. Conn. Stylish Single or Double Team with or without drivers - Safe horses for women andehildren. . . 8A DDLE HORSES A SPECIALTY ‘ length, and passed ___‘H A CASE OF .‘TELEPA'THY. ' The Old Lady Appeared in a Vision at the Time of Her Death. , A gentleman took a house in Ireland for six months, and was accompanied thither by his wife and daughters, says the Realm.~ The house was furnished, and had plenty of bedrooms. There- fore, it was decided not- to use a certain large, long room, with cupboards along one side (which had all been locked and Sealed up with tape), in which things belonging to the owners of the house had been put away. One evening one of the daughters, going up to her room, saw an old lady wrapped in a shawl walking along the passage in front of her. The old lady appeared to knpw her way and hurried on without hesi- tation into the unused room. The girl called her sister, and they followed the dame into the room. But all was silent; no one was there; the dust. lying about showed no signs of footprints. Shortly after the same young lady was reading on the hearthrug by fire— light. Looking up, she beheld the old lady in the doorway watching her. Greatly frightened, she sprung up and, rushing downstairs, was found faint— ing at the drawing-room door. At. last the family returned to Dublin. One day, when a friend was calling, the curious incident. which I have narrated was referred to. The young lady very unwillingly told her experience. The visitor seemed very much struck and asked for an accurate desciption of the old lady. “For,” said she, “that house belonged to two old ladies, sisters, and when they left their house they went to reside at Geneva. One of them, an- swering exactly to the description you have given, diedat the time you saw her appear.” SUFFER‘lNG FROM THIRST. Feelings Described by a Wyoming Man with an Experience. No one. can conceive the tortures of a person who suffers from real thirst. ‘ A Wyoming man who was lost on the plains describes his sensations in a vivid manner. It was before noon when he began his journey over a desert strip, and before night his horse had fallen dead and he had drained his canteen. Then he laid down and tried to sleep, but he soon awoke in the agonies of thirst. “I couldn’t cry out,” he said, “because my tongue was numb and useless from the pain. “When morning came I just beheld the out-lines of a wagon in the distance. With a super- human effort I gave a shriek and then I knew no more. When I regained consciousness I was on a bunch of hay near a fire, and two or three men were looking at me. I learned later that my scream had been heard b. a party of prospectors, who were skirting the desert in order to make a short cut to the Montana cattle trail, and that at. first they thought it was some wild animal, but one of the party insisted on a search, as he had heard a man make just such a noise before he died of thirst in the Mojave desert. It, was weeks' before' I recovered completely, and I haven’t been more than a mile away from water, and plenty of it, since.” THE COMETS. Big Ones That Have Come. Close to Our Sphere. From all that is known of Perrin’s comet, it does not seem, says the New York Sun, to be one of the largest of its kind. A very brilliant comet appeared in 1709, with a tail 40,000,000 miles in within 2,000,000 miles of the earth without hurting any- one. , The comet of 1811 was computed by Herschel to be 100,000,000 miles in length and 15,000,000 in breadth. It re- mained visible to the naked eye for sev- eral months. ' ‘ Biela’s comet, which many persons feared would strike the earth, first ap- peared in 18:26; it came back twice aft- erward, and then vanished. Donati’s comet, with a tail 40,000,000 miles long, was first seen in 1858, when it was 228,000,000 miles from the earth. It nearly ran into Venus, but- did not. The great comet of 1861 traveled at the rate of 10,000,000 miles every 24 hours and‘many persons thought that its tail came in contact with the earth June 30 of that year, there being on that 1 day “a phosphorescent auroral glare.” Much of the knowledge of the compo- sition of comets is due to the late Prof. Henry Draper, who was very successful in' making photographs of several of them. ~ ~ ANCIENT MANUSCRIPTS. Astor Library Has $200,000 Wogth of Them—Gem of the Collection. , There are $200,000 worth of ancient manuscripts in the Astor library, but , the oldest of these, says the New York ‘ World, is the Evangelisterium, which is said to have been expressly executed for Charles the Bald, the grandson of Charlemagne. He was a pitrcn of the fine arts, and was especially fond of embellished manuscripts. This rare and precious manuscript- is written on fine vellum and is an oblong quarto of 400 pages. splendid full-length miniatures of the four evangelists, profusely illuminated with liquid gold and emerald green, purpled ground, the pictures covering the entire page. This superb manuscript was secured some 15 years ago by the late Mr. As- tor, from the famous London biblio- phile, Bernard Quartrich, who cata- logued it in 1880 at $5,000. There are more costly manuséripts in the Astor library—for instance, the Antiphonaire of Charles X., for which I am assured the late J. J. Astor paid $10,000. But this old manuscript of Charles the Bald has, as an antique, no rival. Mammoth Rings. In India at the time Of the British oc- cupation foliated rings were fashion- able. They were so large that when almost all the outer portion f”the hand. ' worn on the second finger they ?tered The first four pages have . . . . ', scra inrrs. shaded With red and white on an em- . p D A RATTLESNAKE DEN. Accidental Discover-v of the Subterranean Home of Many Reptiles. Rattlesnake creek, a small stream that empties into the Wabash river from the north a few miles'from Lockport, is one of the most. beautiful and pictur- esque streams in northern Indiana, says the Indianapolis News. One of the descendants of a pioneer settler in that region recently related the story that gave the name to this stream. Several miles up from the men th of the creek, near where the two main branches which form the stream meet, lived Mort Ellis, about 50 years ago. The pioneer's cabin stood on the brow of a long sloping hill at the foot of which was a spring which supplied the family with water. ' ' In those early days rattlesnakes were quite numerous and especially so in the Ellis neighborhood, and the father cautioned his feur little girls to be 'very careful in their play lest they be bitten. One‘Sabbath. afternoon, as the children were playing in the yard, one of the little girls, now Mrs. Alice Wilson, of Kokomo, suddenly broke through the ground and fell into an aperture up to her arms. Her cries soon brought out the family, and, in drawing her from the cave, three rattlesnakes were found hanging to her clothing. Down in the small cave could be seen many other poisonous reptiles. Although it was the Sabbath and Mr. Ellis, was a devout Quaker, yet be deemed the occasion one of moment and he sent for several of his neigh- bors, and with them attacked the den of snakes, and when they got through with their work 521 ‘dead rattlers were piled up in the yard. An examination disclosed the fact that the spring at the foot the hill from which the family used water was connected by a passage . to the snake’s den. ; THE FISH HAWK. j One That Was Drowned with the Fish It ‘ \Vas Trying to Catch. “The fish hawk,” said a fisherman, “al- most a-lways carries a fish with its head in the same direction as its own. An ordinary sized fish hawk will catch and carry off a. four-pound shad without any great difficulty, and nothing less than a charge of shot will make him let go. I’ve stood under a fish hawk flying not more than 75 or 80 yards high with a fish in his claws and shouted at him un- til the neighbors thought I was trying a new fog horn, and yet never disturbed him a bit. .. “But the fish hawk doesn’t always l have it his own way. Sometimes he gets caught. I once saw a big hawk, ' with a four-foot spread of wings, that was sailing along Monmouth beach. Suddenly he made a dive and fixed his claws in a fish’s back. The fish sounded. The fish hawk’s claws are sharp and strong; they sink far and hold fast. The fish was a 30~pound striped bass, a good deal bigger, in fact, than the hawk had calculated on and far more than he could carry away. He could not free his claw‘s nor could the fish free itself. So they struggled there in the water until both were dead. They were cast upon the beach, the fish hawk’s claws still fast in the fish’s back.” ‘ l Ran-n. Spending the Vacation.“ The entire Smith family took a fortr' night’s vacation during the summer. It was an unusual thingfor them all to go away together, and they talked about it, individually and collectively, for weeks beforehand. They were g0- ing to do and they were not going to do all sorts of things during the precious vacation periodJ Big sister said that she meant to ride the bicycle. Little sister said that she meant to make mud pies all day long, and big brother said . that he meant not so much as to look at a Latin grammar. “I tell you what I mean to do,” cried small brother, all on fire at the prospect of so much do-as-you-pleaseness, “I’m not going to say my prayers." ' Japanese Noses. In Japan the nose is the only feature which attracts attention. The nose determines the beauty or ugliness of the face, according as it is big or small. This is probably due to the fact that . differences in noses constitute about he only distinct-1011 between one J ap- anese face and another; In Japan a 3 lady who has a huge proboscis is al- ways a great beauty and a reigning belle. '4 "» : l i” An Odd Bequest. An eccentric old bachelor, who died lately at Odessa, Russia, bequeathed 4,000,000 rubles (about $2,000,000) to i his four nieces on condition that they .‘ first go into service as chambermaids, . washerwomen or coalwomen for 15 ! months. ~ The local police are charged , with the duty of seeing that, the con- ; dition of the will is strictly complied with. So far the heiresses have re- ceived 863 offers of marriage. Reclaiming Welsh Wastes. Large tracts of sand wastes are now being reclaimed along the Welsh coast. Series of parallel fences are put up sea- ward, closely. interwoven with wires ! and furze, and ‘spaces between these posts are filled with earth and road In these various trees, such as sycamore, willow, pine and alder, are i planted, while the ridges are sown with ~ gorse and broom seed and plant-ed with bri'ar. Early Prejudice Against Gas. “Ti-en it was first proposed to light the streets of London with gas great ob- jection was made by the public and newspapers on the ground that the peo- ple would be poisoned, that the trees and vegetation would all be killed and that domestic animals could not pos- sibly survive the deadly fumes. Mexico's Greatest Temple. The great temple in the City'of Mexi- co was a stone structure of five stages or stories, 300 feet square at the base and 120 feet high. There were eight similar structures of almost equal size in the city, and nearly'2,000 much smaller. ' /' istNiseficizErrs 11E. Assets, . ~ .' Liabilities . Surplus ‘ . . Total Income . Total Paid Policy-holders in 1895, Insurance and Annuities in ferce, Net gain in 1895 OF NEW YORK. ‘ O RICHARD A. MCCURDY President. mumldu'hmhmflh $221,213,721 33 194,347,15758 $26,866,563 75 $48,597,430 51 $23,126,728 45 $899,074,453. 78. $61,647,645 36 NOTE—Insurance merely written, ls dlscarded from this Statement as wholly mlsleadlng, and only insurance actually issued and paid for i I have carefully examined the foregoing Statement and find the same t ’5' n cash Is Included. 0 be correct. . CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor. From the Surplus a dividend will be apportioned as usual. - Report of the Examining Committee. Office of the Mutual Life Insurance company of New You, 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 311st, 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 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 testimony to the high character of the investments of the Company and express their approval of the system, order and general transacted. r ROBERT A. GRANNIS, Vice-President. WALTER R. GILLETTE, General Manager. ISAAC F. LLOYD, Second Vice-President, WILLIAM J. EASTON, Secretary, . WILLIAM P. SANDS. Cashier CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor, GUS l‘AVUS S. WINS DUN, H. D. I OHN A. FONDA, Assistant Treasurer. JOHN TATLOCK, JB., Asst. Actuary. H. 0. Von Post, Charles R. Henderson, James C. Holden, FREDERIC CROMWELL, Treasurer; accuracy with which the accounts and vouchers have been kept, and the business in Robert Clyphant, Wm. P. Dixon, Committee J. H. Herrick. HENRY E. DUNCAN. .11., Cor. Seoy. ' ALBERT KLAMRO'I‘H, Asst. Secy. JAMES TIMPSON; 2d Asst. Tress EDWARD P. HOLDEN, Asst. Cashier. EMORY MCCLINTOCK 'LL.D., r. I. A., Actuary. WM. W. RICHARDS, Comptroller. HENRY S. BROWN, Asst. Comp. MEDICAL Dmuorous ELIAS J. MARSH, M. D. Local Agent... JOHN C. ELLIOTT, Superintendent of Domestic Agencies, \ EDWARD LYMAN snoirr, Gen. Solicitor. GRANVILLE M. WHITE, m. D. Jenn W. Motions. New Haven, General Agt. for State of Connecticut. 'A.H.CAEEE. '- '
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