It Cures g couons and WllllsAMS’ ' 0003“ ntmzuv. , IEYERYBOD YNSHOU I‘o‘ FUR HALE’S LUNG BALSllM. , It Cures When all Others Fail. ”250. at HALE’S. I till Glll’lN PthE- or / r “l lEA l . Round, Sirloin and Por- terho'use Steaks, Sausge, Pot ital (ti) Hoists , Reduced 20. a P0111111; .. All First Quality Meat. J. W. BOGARDUS, 6 WATEE sT., . NORWALK lulu HATHUHN . 311111113 WATER . , FORTHE Stomach, Bo wels, Liver and Kidneys. ‘e 'lZfiFORSALE BY — Tie 211111111, Kaela 81811113911 81 NEW CAFE sunfish 1‘ MIKE BATCHFORD, 44 Wain Street, The Best Vines, Liquors and Cigars. GOODWIN l HE llllLOll, clothiar, Halter and Furnisher, I70 WASHINGTON STREET SOUTH NORWALK. CONN.. Has a large assortment of White Silk mixed Diagonal Suits. hand-mggg, $333 . trimmed and furnished at very reasonab'e figures. Woosted Suits ' $8 ' Blu Wpite sad Blue,%12. k ' 6 $11. and me ustom or' made to order. Fi ~ Hats 1n,So. Norwalk. from best shops in tdlvsnt 1131913,” Furnishings in all varieties : 1.)“; s. . Horace E. harm, EXCELSIO}. Livery and Sales Stable. vkukuum‘ \ Opposite Danbury and Norwalk Railroad uepor' Norwalk, Conn. Stylish Single or Double Team with or without drivers Safe boggles for woman andenilcren. . SADDLE notes-.35 .2. sesomnr .' \ They Are Being Courted by Politicians CHINESE VOTERS.- The Number in San . Francisco Is Rapidly Increasing. Who Are Looking Forward to the . Coming Elections—How They Are Entranchised. There are about 2,000 Chinese voters in this city, and within the next five years 3,000 or 4,000 male Chinese, barn in this city, will have attained the age of 21 years, and, therefore, will be en- titled to vote. They acquire this priv- ilege under the 14th amendment to the constitution of the United States. Yet, under the treaty between this country and China, the voter’s father cannot be naturalized, and is, there- fore, not a citizen. The population of the Chinese quarter is about 85,000, and the coming Chinese sulfragists, in ad- dition to those who have already ar- rived at the voting age, will soon cut an important figure in the politics of this city and state. They are now be- ing courted by the politicians, who are looking forward to 1896. Notwithstanding the prohibitory laws Chinese laborers percolate through British Columbia on the north and come up through Mexico on the south. The Chinese not only engage in all kinds of industrial labor, but are leading the Californians in the manu- facture of many articles apd are also entering the professions. They manu- facture shoes and sell them at 25 to 10 per cent. cheaper than does the Can— casian manufacturer. They have nu- merous shops, where mending and re- pairing are done at cut rates, and these cobblers are largely patronized by white people who are not averse to sav- ing a few dimes. They make fine calf— skin shoes for three and five dollars, for which the white- shoemaker will charge five and eight dollars. They manufacture and retail cigars at one cent, which the white man sells at “two for five.” These are mainly purchased by youths and blatant hood‘lums, who stand upon the corners and denounce. the “heathen.” Recently several new markets have been established in the Chinese quarter, where every kind of fish and game may be. had fresh. Hun- dreds of Chinese are continually en- gaged in fishing and trapping game. A great deal is dried and shipped to east- ern markets. But it. is common to see housewives and servants in the Chinese markets bargaining for vegetables and fish. A few years ago such a thingr was not to be thought of. Bevic-s of women are seen daily in the Chinese quarter buying ladies’ and children's shoes, the manufacture of whicn is a specialty with the Chinese. And wherever a woman can get .hings cheaply she will purchase, because she will then have. more money to buy other things with. The manufacture of ladies’ underwear is also a specialty with these deft workers, and their stores are daily visited by feminine shoppers. Selling vegetables and fish is one of their leading industries. Market hours continue throughout the day, and street vendors on foot and in wagons may be seen in all parts of the city crying their commodities in cracked voices and broken English.° .-. In addition to shoes and all kinds of clothing, they manufacture brooms, jewelry, and preserve. and can all kinds of fruit for shipment. They learned this on the fruit ranches and in can- neries, where they were employed at one dollar a day. Now they purchase the fruit, can it, and undersell their former employers. When the Caucasian. manufacturers imported what they termed “these heathen,” they little thought that in a few years they would have a rival, and one that is gradually driving them out of business. The Chinese went to work at making shoes for $1.50 a day, sup- planting white men who were receiv- ing three dollars a day. The manu- facturer who employed from 50 to 100 men prided himself upon his stroke of economy. Now the Chinese have their own factories, and in order to compete the white manufacturer must get skilled labor at one dollar a. day or go out of business. The same may be said of the other branChes of indus- try into which the Chinese have en- tered. To the neglect of our own heathen, who are filling the prisons and reforn 1a- tory institutions, our overzealous‘but misguided missionary societies under- took to Christianize this “heat-hen,” who has a religious belief much older than our civilization. Missions and schools were established, and the. mis- * THE ' EV EN IN G ‘G A‘ZErTE ~ ¥ ; ' " '} WHISKERS FROM THE SEA. ll Something Concerning the Formation of 3 Curious Marine Growth» There is a marvelous marine growth called sertularia which has the appear- ance of a delicate bush, although its slender stalks or fibers are built up by thousands of minute animals, some- thing as the coral polyp builds up the coral. It is found, says the New York Sun, in clumps and bunches on wreck- age and stones and elsewhere, and sometimes it is torn loose in storms and driven ashore. The many thousands of tiny creatures which have built it up and inhabit it die, and the deadbush is called a. skeleton. Its fibers shrink some now and they are even finer than they were. They may be a foot in length; sometimes nearly two feet. They are brown, some bunches being dark and some of a lighter shade. As the children of the carpenter adorn themselves with shavings from their father‘s workbench, so do the children of the fishermen with the ser- tularia cast up from the sea. Its fibers - are pretty nearly straight, so they can- not be made to serve as ringlets, as curly shavings do, but the girls take the longer, finer bunches, which are us« ually the lighter in shade, and make of ' them long brown tresses. The boys make great mustaches of the sertu- laria, and flowing Dundreary whiskers and sober beards. In wandering along the shore one might come upon a stranded boat hauled high above the tide with her side stove in, perhaps, so that she would not float, but occupied by adreamingyouth in sertularia. beard and mustache, who imagined her a g’ah lant ship and himself her bearded com- mander. RUINED BY A CONTRACT. An Iron Founder Undertakes Something Outside of His Line. The founder of the Vendome column in Paris met with financial ruin in his contract. The French government, when it decided to erect the notable column, entered into a contract with an iron founder, says the Philadelphia Record. He knew nothing whatever of modeling or casting in bronze. The government agreed to supply him with cannon captured from the Russians and Austrians during the campaign of 1505, in quantities sufficient to found the monument. The contractor, know- ing nothing of the phenomena which the fusion of bronze offers, found when two—thirds of the column was com- pleted that he had used up all his metal. Sufficient bronze had been given him to complete the monument, and he was responsible for the entire amount. Finding himself face to face wit-h bank- ruptcy be melted up his scoriac and mixed the metal with cheap refuse which he purchased, and so completed the founding. The castings, however, were found to be so full of flaws that the work was stopped, and the founder ruined. The moldings of the different parts of the bus—relief were so badly executed that the chiselers who repaired the defects removed no less than 70 tons of bronze. They received for their labor £12,000, to which was added the 70 tons of bronze, which became their perquisites. The whole transaction was very, very French. = . BROKEN WlRE. How the Telegraph Operator Tells Where the Break Is Located. Perhaps the greatest of all mysteries, to the uninitiated, about telegraphy is the fact that when a wire is broken or damaged the. operator, sitting in his office, can tell exactly where the acci- dent hus occurred. '-." The explanation, however, is very simple. it requires force to send elec- tricity through a wire, just as itdoes to pump water through a hose. The longer the wire is the greater is the force required. This force is meas- ured; but, instead of calling it pounds, as in the measuring the pressure in a boiler, electricians call the units of elec- trical force “ohms.” Suppose a wire between two oflices is 150 miles long, and that, on a stormy night, it gets broken somewhere. T he telegraphist knows that when the wire was sound it takes just 2,000 ohms to send a current through, or 14 ohms per mile. He now finds that he can send a. current with only 700 ohms. I‘Ie di— vides 700 by 1-1, and finds that the break in the wire is 50 miles from his end. When the wire is under the. sea a eu- rious thing happens. The electricity decomposes the sea salt, and a new salt is formed on the broken ends of the wire; and until that is cleared away by whatis called a zinc current, acting for ten or twelve hours, no measurement can be made. >~ ‘."‘-' 5)... . Nature Plaints of Negroes. A writer in Progress Artistique, in discussing the music‘of south Africa, sionaries passed through the slums of our city to the field of Chinatown. The shrewd Chinese took advantage of this opportunity to learn English without purse or scrip, and after they had grad- uated the missions saw them no more. Some of them even wore American clothing, or “civilized clothing,” as it is termed, but not One of them ever cut off his queue—the badge of his re- ligion. About the only real conver- sions were those of the white women teachers who married their Chinese pupils. ' As an evidence of their underhanded dealing, a Chinaman will seek work in i a basket factory, and in a few months ‘ after he has learned the secrets of the 2 business, where the material may be ob— tained and who are the customers, he will bring his “cousin” to his employer, , saying: “Me quit; me go to China; my cousin work, all samee!” The fellow, instead of going to China, sets‘up .1. basket-making or broom-making shop in the Chinese quarter, and begins to ; undersell his former employer, and also i capture his cuStomers. The other Chi- l nose. soon quits, and brings his cousin ' to take his place, continuing until enough of them have learned the busi- ness to set up a large factory. It is ; by this means that they acquired the i knowledge of shoemaking, etc—San . Francisco Cor. Philadelphia Times. . vivid intensity. says the races living there possess to an astonishing degree the faculty of assimilation and imitation. They re- produce --with surprising fidelity the songs of birds, cries of animals and the various sounds of nature. Child-people, they receive in their otherwise obtuse brains impressions of freshness and Their long solitary wandering upon hills and prairies,unit- ed with fleeting association with for- , eign-ers, results in a species of melodic nature plaints, as one might imagine, a developed monkey music. ' Pointed and Witty. A lawyer residing in. the north of England and noted for his laconic style ~ of expression sent the following terse and witty note to a refractory client who would not succumb to his reiter- ated demands for the payment of his bill: “Sir, if you pay the inclosed you will oblige me. If you. do not I shall oblige you.” A \Valking Encyclopedia. __ Lord Bacon was a walking encyclo- pedia. He was a: master of all the knowledge of his time and remembered it to the minutcst detail. He rarely made a note of anything, trusting to his memory all the particulars of" the complicated legal cases brought before him, and seldom was it found at fault. . , UT AL..L 'Ei . , INSURANCE CO. 4’ RICHARD A. . MOCURDY President. emen 11 elear ndingflemlufil , $221,213,721 33 194,347,157 58 $26,866,563. 75 . $48,597.43051 $23,126,728 45 . Assets, . . ' . Lia bilities . , . ' Surphis ’ . . . 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 "77‘1"“!!an discarded from this Statement as wholly misleading, and only insurance 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. From the Surplus a dividend will be apportioned as usual. Report of the Examining Committee. ‘ .Dlficenf the Mulual life lnsurance Company of New Ylll; February ll, 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 Decembu .- 31st, 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 testimonv to the high character Of the investments (f 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. L'ixon, J - H. Herrick- H. 0. Von Post, Charles H. Henderson, Committee James C. Reich 1:, ,7 ROBERT A. GRANNlS, Vice-President. WALTER R. GILLE’ ‘TE. General Manager. ISAAC F. LLOYD, Second Vice-President, HENRY E. DUNCAN. Jr., Cor. Secy. WILLIAM J. EASTON, Secretary, ALBERT KLAMROTH, Asst. Secy. FBEDERIC CROMWELLKTIeasm-cr. [Oi-IN A. FONDA, Assistant Treasurer. J A MES TIMPSF «3, 2d Asst. Trees WILLIAM P. SANDS, Cashier EDWARD P. HOLDEN, Asst. Cashier. . EMORY MCCLINTOCK LL.D., F. I. A., Actuary. JOHN TATLOCK, J 3., Asst. Actuary. WM. W. RICHARDS, Comptroller. . CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor, ' nEsnY s. snows, Asst. Comp. JOHN c. ELLIO r’r, Superintendent of Domestic Agenéies, EDWARD LYMAN SHORT, Gen. Solicitor. ‘ MEDICAL DIRECTORS GUSI‘AVUS S. WINSEON, :11. l). ELIAS, J. MARSH, M. D. JOHN w..N11oEoES. New Haven, General Agt. for State of Connecticut. GRANVILLE M. WHITE, M. D. A. l Local Agent.
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