bran“... u. - w -,. WHERE!)lllllltllSJAllllfllllEElmliklllilllllilfltlli. .'~‘ ”J M LD & -.r A Fun: — ~. = P'- ‘ fl , It: ; ; may ;, THE AMEflltAll TllBAEtD COMPANY SUECESSUR E 9 a NEW YORK usix. m _ Do not be deceived by infringe- a. ments of name, package or.cigar- ._ ette.‘ ‘ THE ODE LY GENUINE sweat TaTITTI TTTTRTTs ‘ Bear thefac simile signature 0 %fl on the package and on each cigarette. TAKE NONE WITHOUT. “ OLE DAN.” He Had a Close Call, But He Wasn’t Quite Licked. _ There is an old raftsman. on the Sus- quehanna river whose proud boast it is that he has never been whipped in a fight. This means a good deal, for the sturdy raitsmen are all splendid speci- mens. Fights over the most trivial matters are of daily occurrence. “Ole Dan,” as he is called, says the New York Journal, has now grown very feeble and rheumatic, but he is never tired of recounting his exploits as a fighter when he was a young man. The old fellow always stoutly affirms that he has never been licked, but after . a good deal of pressing he can some- times remember that he once came very near being soundly thrashed. “Yes, sir, the nearest I came to be- ing whipped was over twenty years ago. I was carting a load of logs up to the mill one powerful hot day in Au- gust. The sun was a-shining fit to sizzle your brains. As I was goin’ along- side of a wood which threw a shadow just half way across the road I met a man in a buggy coming straight at me. “ ‘Turn out,’sez he. “ ‘Turn out into the sun yourself,’ sez I. “Well, after that we came to words, Bimeby we came to blows. “We fit till the sun went down and then I turned out.” . “Oh, you did turn out for him then, Dan?” “Yes, when the sun went down the shadow was all over the road. I didn’t care then. That was the nearest I ever came to being whipped.” ‘ EXPENSIVE NONCHALANCE. Experience of an Inn-deem; Young Man with a Hungry Girl. A certain young man living on the .North side went out to call the other evening upon a young woman of his ac- quaintance whom he especially de- lighted to honor. He was quite a young man, says the Chicago Tribune, and his experience with florists had been neither deep nor varied. It oc- curred to him, however, on this partic- ular evening to stop at a flower mcr- chant’s and choose some blossoms for the pretty girl towards whose home he was wending his way. “Give me a bunch of roses,” he said, carelessly, to the man of nosegays. “Yes, sir; how many, please?” “0, a couple of dozen or so.” In a-few moments they were ready, and the purchaser was feeling in his vest pocket for a two-dollar bill to pay for them. “How much?” he asked be- fore the bill made its appearance. “Eighteen dollars, sir,” replied the fiorist’s assistant, with what his hear- er said ~ afterward seemed diabolical glibness. The young man felt giddy for a mo- ment. He had unwittingly selected roses that were seventy-five cents apiece. But, as has been said, he was very young, and it seemed to him a very serious thing to go down before that flower clerk. So he paid (his money and took his bouquet, “and,” he says, “I spent Liz-e next hour watching a pretty girl nibble and chew up eighteen dollars’ worth of roses.” SULLIVAN'S NARROW ESCAPE. _._—..— He Might Have Been Killed by a. Lot of Impecunious Gamblers. New stories of Maurice J euks, the English gambler, known as “The Bac- carat King,”uare told whenever Ameri- can travelers get together. J enks, says the Cincinnati Enquirer, who is a gen- erous man and a good friend, is also a very game man. It was J enks who backed Mitchell against Sullivan in France. When the party got back to England Sullivan was informed of some remarks J enks had made at the ring re- flecting upon his professional ability, and he swore that he would make J enks eat his words. That evening Sullivan, half under the influence of liquor, visited the Empire theater, and J enks was pointed out to him on the prom- enade. The .prize fighter went to the gambler, who is about five feet six inches tall, and began: “You’re the fel- low that backed Mitchell against me.” “Well,” retorted Jenks, sharply, “if somebody didn’t put up the money for you loafers to fight for you’d have to work for a living.” Sullivan did not pursue the conversa- tion further, and when it was inti- mated to J enks that. he had narrowly escape a thrashing he said: “Why, there were twenty men hanging around there who are borrowing anywhere from a shilling to a sovereign a day from me, and they would be so eager to prove their gratitude that if that big ruflian had ever laid his hands on me they’d have killed him.” i Overlooked for Once. A very humorous story, and of course it is a true one, is told of a former su- perintendent of a Maine shoe factory. One of the employes not doing his part as the superintendent desired was dis- 7'" [charged,' but on the next day was found in his place at work. “What are you here for? Didn’t Idischarge you yesterday?” asked the superintendent. “Yes, sir; but if you don’t do it again I’ll overlook it this time,” was there- spouse. ,The superintendent was so dazed by the -man’s answer that he ‘ turned away, not knowing just what to say. The joke of the matter was that the man stayed at his work for more than a year afterwards and was paid ' regularly. We don’t give this as a rec~ ipe for unsatisfactory workmen. It won’t work every time. . The Undertaker Bee. . There was serious trouble in a su- burban beehive the other day, and in the midst of the excitement several bees dragged out one of their dead and left it on the edge of the hive. Many bees came and went, leaving the dead body unnoticed, but after awhile came along the undertaker bee. He seized the body, flew off with it some yards and dropped it in the grass. The oper- ation was repeated with another dead bee, and, as before, those whose duty lay in other directions left to the undertaker the task of carrying off the body. IN QUEEN VlC‘S LAND. PENNY postage for London and its suburbs dates from the year 1681. OVER 250,000 persons have signed the special appeal to the house of commons in favor of woman suffrage. ENGLISH curates are thinking of forming themselves into a professional union, on the plan of the trades unions. IN 1892 the cost of the election in " England was £958,522, an average of a little over 4 shillings a vote. In 1874 each vote cost 14 to 15 shillings, and in 1859 over £1. A GREAT photographic camera for taking full-length life-size portraits has been made and used with success by a Dublin firm. The camera takes a plate seven feet high and five feet wide. PERHAPS the new woman is responsi- ble'for the falling off in marriages in England. For the first quarter of this year only ten and six-tenths persons in athousand married, which is the lowest rate on record. ' A .LITTLE eight-year-old girl in Eng- land strayed away after school recently and was found at midnight of the same day in an exhausted condition twenty- eight miles from her home, having walked all the way. THE fee for a professional visit of a doctor in Nottingham, England, is one shilling—equal to twenty-five cents; and even this pittance often has to be traded out with the small shopkeepers, wno consider it an exorbitant demand. BIA‘SY of the sewers in Weybridge and Oakland, England, are below the level of the Thames, to prevent pollu— tion of that stream. from which Lon- don receives its water supply. The sewage is pumped three miles away and there chemically treated. LITERARY LETTER. _ Sir Lewis Morris has in press a new work containing three narrative poems. Prof. Henry Drummond has suffered much recently from ill-health, and has been recuperating at Tunbridge Wells. Mr. Purcell’s biography of Cardinal Manning has gone into a second Eng- lish edition. Mr. Gladstone’s letters to the author gave a stimulus to the sale. The London Literary World begs Mr. Gladstone to reconsider his refusal to write for the Cosmopolitan at $1 a word. It fears the indignation of the New York Critic. London gossip has it that Mr. Astor has offered some New York journalist, presumably Mr. Smalley, the princely salary of $25,000 a year to edit the Pall Mall Gazette. ' THE WORLD’S GOLD. Miners in the Transvaal earn about $150 a month, and pay one-fifth of it for their board. Nearly all the rivers in West Africa, within 1,000 miles east and west of Ashantee, yield gold. A happy man was lately seen in ’El Dorado, Va. He declared that he had just found a gold nugget weighing over 31 pounds, and worth about. $8,000. An agent of one of the Alaska trad- ing companies who arrived in San Fran- cisco recently says the Alaska Commer- cial company is now, and has been for a long time, operating a mine on Unga island, the output of which averages $60,000 a month. He says the richness of the mine has been carefully kept secret, and now is known to but few people in Alaska. THE state of Florida has a smaller valuation than most of the southern states, being estimated at only $30,- 938,309. MINNESOTA has developed more rap- idly than any other northwestern state. Its assessed valuation is 3258,- 028,687. ’ THE state of Georgia has developed greatly since the war, the estimate now reaching the respectable total of $251,- l 963,124. MISSOURI ranks high among the western states, the assessed valuation of real and personal property being $561,939,771. ‘ For Good Color and , Heavy Growth _ Of Hair, use . . Hair Vigor ‘ One Bottle will do . Wonders. Try it. Purify the Blood with Ayer’s Saraaparilld. BRIDCEPORT, The . o o 0 D. M. Read @ompany. HOT SPELLS AND COLD SPELLS Only seem to make Jackets and Capes more necessary, more impor— tant. It has reached that point where it is not safe to be Without one or the _ other. It is a good deal better to buy one and have it ready for use when the changes occur than it is to try and do without and run a big chance of taking a Severe cold, with perhaps a following of sickness that will entail twice the cost of a light, suitable gar- ment. Lansdowne is once more coming to the front. With the growing popu- larity for smooth finish and lustrOus fabrics they are rapidly falling into line with the other fine goods. Besides the plain colorings, such as navy. brown, tan, myrtle and gray, we ‘have something like six or seven dif- studies in the, two-tone, or changeant effects. These should not by' any means be confounded with other inferior goods of a similar style. We are making an excellent show- ing of Mozambique, a line of high- grade novelties that are not only handsomely antique, but _they are beautifully modern; and extremely moderate in price as well. They are composed of silk, wool and mohair, and in quite a variety of designs and colorings. But not many yards of any one style. ' We’ve also a choice line of Colored Mohairs, such as are used extensively for traveling . dresses; different weaves, colonngsfland prices. ferent The Upholstery department is show- ing a very choice variety of Bobinet Lace Curtains with deep ruffles, in prices ranging anywhere from $3.75 to $6.50 the Pair. Fish Net Curtains, with lace edge ruffle, from $2 to $6.50. Swiss Tambour Curtains, from $3 to $10 a Pair. Ever since this department was changed to its present quarters, and enlarged, it has been steadily and ef~ fectively growing until the class of - goods shown and the prices asked cannot be matched anywhere. It is a whole store in itself ; and a big one at that. man-a, TTTTTTTTLTLTTTTT MANY GENERALS RETIRED. Spitz, Branchitsch and Caprivi Are Among the Number—Military Discontent Is on the Increase—Chancellor Von Hohenloho Is Seriously Ill. BERLIN, April 27.-—-The Spring list of promotions and retirements from the ar- my has just been published and has in- creased the discontent already displayed. The number of ofi‘icers retired is larger than ever, and their age and rank plainly shoWs that the emperor is adhering to the plan of rejuvenating the army. . A pamphlet published by an ofiicer of the general staff shows that the retire- ments and promotions are much more rapid in the German than in the French army. The average age of the German officer of the rank of major or upward is 4% years younger than the French. None of the generals just retired are very old phsyically or incapacitated. Among them are Generals Spitz, 64 years of age, who habitually represented the war depart- ment in the reichstag and who is said to have been too liberal in politics and not energetic enough to suit the emperor; Brauchitsch, chief of the War academy, and Caprivi, a younger brother of the ex- chancellor. These numerous changes in the army affect not only Prussia, but Wurtemberg and Baden. The chancellor, Prince Hohenlohe, has ’been suffering from an inflamed throat during the past week. due to the bad weath- er. The case is somewhat serious owing to the advanced age of the sufferer. Baron von Hammerstein, the former Conservative leader and ex-editor of the Kreuz Zeltung, who was sentenced on April 22 to three years’ imprisonment and a fine of 1,500 marks after having been convicted of forgery, said an press repre- sentative after his conviction: “1 am sorry now that I did not accept an invitation to go to America which I re- ceived through a friend soon after my flight from Berlin last summer. A New York editor offered me a fine editorial po- sition; but, owing to my ignorance of the English language, I refused it. ” ' The Jubilees. The jubilees on May 10 at Frankfort- on-Main and on May 11 at Berlin will be grand affairs. The city council of Frankforton-Main has appropriated 90,000 marks to decorate the streets, and the citi- zens have raised another sum of 25,000 marks with which to illuminate the mon- ument of William I, a colossal affair, as the statue alone is 16 feet high. A sig- nificant speech from the emperor is ex- pected at the unveiling. In Berlin there will be divine services in the open alrmear the Schloss in the pres- ence of the emperor, and there will be an enormous parade in the afternoon, in which 20,000 veterans from all parts of Germany will take part. A number of German army ofiicers, in- cluding representatives of the war depart- ment. by invitation of a representative of the Maxim company, attended an exten- sive test in the Hasenhaide district of quick firing guns of a new pattern. The excellence of the guns was admitted, but it was pointed out that there would be difficulty in getting sufficient ammunition to the spot to serve them, and this difficul- . ty was looked upon as being insurmounta- ble. Besides. it would cost 200.000, 000 marks to equip the German army with the new maxims, and just- now. until France or Russia adopts a field gun vast- ly superior to the present weapons in use, Germany will retain the guns she has at present, although it is admitted that they are too slow. The reichstag committee on the new civil code bill has rejected the Conserva- tive and Centrist amendments in favor of the abolition of obligatory civil marriage. The National Liberals, Frelsinniges, anti- Semites, Socialists and Imperialists voted with the majority. They Love the Duel. The development of the Socialist party in Germany has'shown an increase in its press. In addition to The Vorwaerts, the Socialists now have 40 daily papers, 19 of which appear three times a week, 7 weekly newspapers and 7 biweekly papers. An extraordinary instance of dueling as an institution in Germany is shown in a case which has just occurred. In a court in west Germany three persons were arraigned on the charge of cowardly as- sault committed on a. fourth person. The assessor who was hearing the case express- ed the opinion that the conduct of the ac- cused was not gentlemanly, whereupon oner'of the accused, an officer of the army reserve, challenged him. The assessor, who is also an officer of the army reserve, refused to accept the challenge on the ground that he spoke in his judicial capa- city. A military court of honor, however, insisted that the assessor must accept the challenge, and, upon the assessor persist- ing in his refusal, his name was removed from the army list. Professor Conrad, the noted economist, speaking on the currency question at Hallo, said that nobody can foretell how the situation will develop in America. if the silver standard is introduced there at the same time as an increase in the pro. tective tariff. Europe, he added, would be flooded with American cereals without the chance of exporting products to Amer- ica, and the only one preventive was, in his opinion, to establish a pan-European tariff league. This, Professor Conrad also said. was only a. question of time and must come eventually. Three \Vere Lost. NEW ORLEANS, April 27.—The steamer ,Foxhall brought the first authentic in- formation from the wrecked steamship City of Dallas of the Royal Mail line, which went down 80 miles off the port of Colon on April 10. The lost are Thomas Smith, oiler; Charles Valondefl, coal passer and Warren Jackson, steward, all of New Orleans. The balance of the crew and all the passengers Were saved. \. Yamagata In Havre. marshal of the Japanese army, arrived here on La Touraine last night. Marquis Yamagata was given an enthusiastic re- ception in the saloon of the steamer by the representatives of the Japanese lega- tion at Paris. The officials of Havre also cordially welcomed the famous Japanese 0 soldier. Fearful Mine Disaster. ST. LOUIS, April 27.——A special to The Post-Dispatch from El Paso, Tex, says: The Santa Eulalie mines of Chihuahua caved in. Seven miners Were taken out dead and 13 wounded. Forty-four others are still in the mine. ‘ ‘—Advertise in the GAZETTE. . G It AZ ET T E HAvRE, April 27.—'—Marquis Yamagata. ' ' BANGS RIGHT ON: Like a Barnacle. Clings Closer Than Ivy and Grasps Like an Octopus. Why go crawling through the world suffering from backache. From lumbago or imaginary rheu- matism. Strange how peOple will procrastinate prtfiirt with an opportunity until too 8 -e. It’s only little things that- muke up every day existence. .But'we frequently overlook them. Take backache for example. It. is generally a little thing at first. Sometimes arises from a cold or heavy work. It will pass away you say to yourself. I have only over taxed myself. t Ypu get used to it—yes actually used 0 l . t Until the mole hill becomes a moun- am. ’L‘hen you use liniments and plasters. You consult a physician. You are dosed with salt petre, nitre or buchu. The little thing'hangs to you like a barnacle. ~ ~ . “If 1 had only attended to it in time” is your constant refrain. And. you thoroughly realize that an opnce of preventlon is worth a pound 0 euro. _ Mr. C. A. Owens, No. 190 Main street, 18 a painter and paper hanger by trade. Like the majority of men who follow this occupation he is troubled with dis- ordered kidneys. The requisites to his calling, benezine, turpentine and other dryer excite and inflame those organs and late in the fall he found himself sufiferlng from a return of his old com- plaint. Mrs. Owens, ever mindful of her husbands welfare, procured for him a box of Doan’s Kidney Pills at Hale’s drug store and he used them. Mrs. Owens says: “My husband has been greatly benefitted by the use of .Doan’s Kidney Pills. Constant working in white lead and mixing paint has brought on kidney trouble and a severe head- ache. Relief in any form is always welcomt- and we are pleased to recom- mend Doan’s Kidney Pill for what they have done Doan’s Kidney Pills for sale by all dealers, price 50 cents. Mailed by Foster—Milburn 00., Buffalo, N. Y. sole agents for the U. 8. Do you scratch and scratch, and won- der what’s the matter? Doan‘s Oint- ment will instantly relieve and perman- ently cure any itchy disease of the skin no matter of how long standing. \ DAVlD . W. RAYMOND Funeral TTTTITT TTT Emlalmer. 39 Washington Street'b‘oufh Norwclk Residence. Manackemo Hotel. The GAZETTE . “"- PRINTING ’ Department. .1 A WORD TO THE ”WISE Merchants, Manufactur- ers, Lodges and Societies will consult their own inter- ests by giving us a call. REMEMBER—If you have", work to do, Write to us. Because none but first-class workmen are employed. Because an experience of forty years counts. 5 Reasons Why . Schleicher’s Because for years we have given special attention to designing im- proved features which none butour planes have. Pianos Lead. IV. Because they are low in price and high in artistic beauty. V. Because when Schleicher says it’s so, it’s so. on) PIAHOS TAKEN m EXGHANGETV T0 Main Office .... Factory, P'Aolrlosf. . Stamford. ,
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