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Norwalk, from best shops' in town, , Gents’ Furnishings in all varieties: low figures. 7 Horace E. Dann, EXOELSIOL Livery and Sales Stable. M“M\ Opposite Danbury and Norwalk Railroad depotl Norwaik. Conn. Stylish Single or Double Team with or without drivers Safe horses for women .. andchildren. . ' SADDLE HORSES A SPECIALTY MARRIAGE IN COREA. Some Peculiar Features of the Matri- monial Ceremony. Corean girls, after enjoying freedom until they are eight years old, are con- signed to the women’s quarters, where they live in seclusion till they are matr- ried, at sixteen or seventeen years. After marriage, says Popular Sci- ence Monthly, the woman is allowed tosee no man but her husband. The boys, on the other hand, are taught that it' 1s undignified for them to enter the women’s part of the house. They never see their brides till the wedding day, all having been arranged for them, often when both bride and groom 'are infants. The bride and bridegroom invite their most intimate friends to assist them in dressing theii hair' 1n the manner befitting their new estate. Then the bridegroom mounts a white pony, which is led by two servants, while two others on either side support the rider in his saddle. Thus he proceeds to the bride’s house, in which the bride and her relatives are awaiting their arrival. A goose (the Corean symbol of fidelity), which the bridegroom brings with him, is then produced. The bride (who has to cover her face with her long sleeves) and the bridegroom then bow to each other until their heads almost touch the ground. This they do three or four times, and are then man and wife. A loving cup is passed around, and then the bride is taken off to the women’s apartments of her husband’s home, where she is looked after by her mother and mother-in-law, While the groom entertains his friends. The husband must maintain his wife prop- erly and treat her with respect. Mar- riage is the great event in a Corean’s life, for he then attains man’s estate. Before marriage, no matter how old he may be, he is treated as a boy, and has to maintain a deferential attitude toward the married men, even though they be only half his age. NO SMOKING IN PUBLIC. In Some German Towns the Weed Is Pro- hibited on the Streets. The consumption of tobacco of all kinds in France, according to recently compiled statistics, is nearly one hun- dred and twenty-five million pounds per year. An analysis of the figures shows that the people of northern France use nearly four times as much per capita as those in the southern provinces. Almost every other country of Europe, however, consumes. more smoking tobacco in proportion to its population than does France. This is especially the case with Ger- many. In many small German towns smoking in the streets is forbidden. Less than fifty years ago if a man ventured on the streets of Berlin with a cigar in his month he would be liable to arrest. .. The same provision existed until 1848 at Vienna, though the law was not observed by the populace. The town of Broeck, in Holland, which is said to be the cleanest city in the world, has long forbidden the people within its walls to smoke after sunset in the streets unless with a covered pipe, “in order that the Cinders may not be blown out.” Smoking with an uncovered pipe in German or Austrian forests is an offense that is rigorously punished, and as a result of this regu- lation forest fires are rare in those countries. TUSSLE WITH A DEER. The Desperate Fight of a Hunter with a Dying Buck. The literature of hunting is full of . anecdotes which show the danger of a too hasty assumption that a wounded animal is dead or past the power of de- fending himself. A new illustration is furnished by Mr. Roosevelt in. his “Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail.” Not only will a big, black-tail buck beat off a dog or a 'wolf coming at him, in front, but he is an awkward foe for a man. 1 One of them nearly killed a cowboy in my employ. The buck, mortally wounded, had fallen to the shot, and the man rushed up to kill him. Then the buck revived for a moment, struck down the man, and endeavored to gore him, but could not, because of the despairing grip with which the man held on to his horns. Nevertheless, the man, bruised and cut by the sharp hoofs, was fast becom- ing too weak to keep his hold, when in the struggle the two came to the edge of a washout and fell into it some twelve or fifteen feet: This separated them. The dying buck was too weak to renew the attack, and the man crawled off; but it was months before he got over the effects of the encounter. Fashion for Farmers. A western farm paper, humorously inclined, gives the following “hints to farmers in regard to their attire:” Don’t wear a kid glove when teaching a calf to suck the finger. Don’t wear a silk hat when plowing corn. Don’t wear diamonds while breaking a col-t. Don’t wear a starched shirt while mowing away hay. Don’t wear a spring overcoat with diagonal stripes while killing potato ' bugs. Don’t wear a white vest while curry- ing the horses. Don’t wear a tight collar while dis- cussing the currency question. Don’t appear in 'evening dresswhen you are called upon to meet a note. Don’t wear any clothes on any occa- sion that you don’ t feel that you have honestly earned. Fragrant Orris Root. French women. are so passionately fond of the sweet, clean fragrance of - orris that some of the more fastidious among them have a bit of orris' root put in the water in which their clothes are washed. It is related of one French woman, that upon being reprimanded ' by her father confessor for her extrav- agance in this particular, she said that g 1 she was sure that if she went to perdi— . tion on its account, Satan would find the smell of orris much pleasanter to his nostrils than sulphur. TH E “HIE V E N 1 NG GAZ E T TE 'TH G LA DSTON E’S GR EAT POWER. No Other Man of the Century Has Wielded , as Wide an Influence. Happy the man who can sit on the fence and wait! Happy the politician who is old enough to have gone through all the turmoil of electioneering and is not too old to find enjoyment as a looker-on! Happy the man smoking the pipe of peace and listening to the echoes of the fight and turning them to the music of his own reminiscences! Mr. Gladstone, says the Newcastle Chronicle, finds it hard to sit still. He hears the trumpet call and the roll of the drum and would gladly be in the contest once more, but the joints are stiif and the eyes are mim. He does not hear so well as he did and he must be content with the reports of the fighting and a passing remark of com- mendation or dissent. There is something peculiarly pathetic in the situation of Mr. Glad- stone, still moved by the desire to fight but without the power of physical im- pulse. It might have been better for the world had he confined his vast in- tellect to moral philosophy or to abstruse theology, or had been a priest or even a soldier, than to have put his heart and soul into politics. A soldier, would he not have smitten the enemy hip and thigh? A priest, who could have stood against his aggressive theology? A philosopher, what subtle theories he would have launched against the schools? Now that he is old and still brave as a lion, we can only rejoice that he has done less harm as a political dictator than might have been permitted to him had time. re- newed his lease of active life. No man of our day has exercised such a fascination upon his followers. His personality was suificient to im- press the Scotch into acquiescence with his least practical schemes. The spell of his name and his remarkable individ- uality withdrawn, Scotland gradually assumes her normal characteristics. It was the same in England as in Scot- land. Mr. Gladstone, not his policy, was the mainspring of his party suc- cess; and his opponents may be forgiven for believing the desire to have the same influence over the Irish brought about his strange and sudden conver- sion to home rule. Anyhow, he is a remarkable man, a statesman whom all parties are willing fto honor, a figure and a personality that will always fill a deeply interest- ' ing chapter of British history, and a scholar who will hold a high place in . the esteem and respect of the learned all the world over. While the new lights of statecraft are flashing upon the horizon of a general election fraught with tremendous issues to the country, his lantern burns dimly, his sun is setting, and if “England to her- self prove true,” the popular statesman will have reason to exercise the patience that belongs to age and to philosophy when the last echoes of the present contest reach Hawarden. _— WHEN MEN ARE HELPLESS. It Is on a Shopping Expedition or When Piloted Into a Tea-Room. “Of course,” said. the social philoso- 3 pl) er, according to the Philadelphia Times getting interested in her sub- ject, “you understand about the shop- ping question. You must never, under j any circumstances, take a man into a dry goods store with you, for the first thing he’ll say will be an emphatic ‘There’s not another man in this whole place except the clerks,’ or a soft, meek little ‘I feel like a fish out of water.’ There is something about the heaps of dress materials and the hangingrows ; of gloves and hosiery that makes a man appear ridiculously funny to the femi- nine eye, and you don’t dare laugh, be- cause if you do he will be highly indig- nant, and will be very likely to march off in a towering rage. “And never, never, under any circum— stances, take him into a downtown tea- room. The short trip in the elevator, along with a dozen hurrying women and six dozen bundles, is enough to make him say swear words under his breath, and if he happens to be big and broad-shouldered, he seems as out of place as a washtub in a drawing-room. Unless he is especially good-natured,he will tag along behind you like a crimi- ‘ nal shunning the detectives,and when he strolls toward the table he looks around in the vain hope of finding a fellow- mortal in the same miserable distress. If he locates any such shipwrecked male being, his face brightens percepti- bly; if he sees only a wriggling mass of bonnets, he is crosser than ever. He rebels at the idea of eating 01$ 11 little dessert plate and sneers silently at the E silly little sugar bowl. But he can’t 1 help it, for he probably feels as uncon- § fortable as a girl would were she' in a : barber shop or a men’s clothing store.” News Indeed. A geography published in 1812 con- tains the following startling descrip- tion of that section of our country which Charles Dudley Warner has bap- tized “Our Italy: ” “California is ‘a wild and almost unknown land, cov- ered throughout the year by dense fogs, damp as they are unhealthful. On the northern shores live anthropoph- agi, and in the interior are active volcanoes and vast. plains of shifting snow, which sometimes shoot up col- umns to inconceivable heights.” The book adds that some of these state- ments would seem incredible were they not so well authenticated by trust- 5, worthy travelers! Not So Much After All. A Frenchman was boasting that he , had thoroughly mastered the English language, when he was asked to write from dictation the following choice specimen of our choice eccentric ver- nacular: “As Hugh Hughes was hew- ' ing a yule log from a yew tree a man dressed in garments of dark hue came up to Hugh and said: ‘HaVe you seen my ewes?’ To which he replied: ‘If you will wait until I hew this yew I will. go with you to look for your ewes.’ ” After an attempt the French- man admitted his mistake. He used to imagine he was used to English speak- ing, but he would be more careful how he used the language in future. MUTU SURANCE 00. OF NEW YORK. L RICHARD A. McCURDY President. men in ieYearEn ingfleu 31. (1895. $221,213,721 33 194,347,157 58 $26,866,563 75 $48,597,430 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 $6], 647, 645 36 NOTE—Insurance merely written ls dlscarded from this Statement as wholl mlsl actually issued and paid fdr in cash ls Included. y eadlng. and only insurance 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. Officeuf the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New Yurx, February 11, 1896. H 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 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 testimony to the high character of the investments of 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. H. 0. Von Post, Charles R. Henderson, James C. Holden, Robert Olyphant, Wm. P.‘ Dixon, J. H. Herrick. ) Committee ROBERT A. GRANNIS, Vice-President. WALTER R. GILLETTE, General Manager. ISAAC F. LLOYD, Second Vice-President, HENRY E. DUNCAN. J 1., Cor. Secy. WILLIAM J. EASTON, Secretary, ALBERT KLAMROTH, Asst. Secy. FREDERIO CROMWELL, Treasurer. IOHN A. FONDA, Assistant Treasurer. JAMES TIMPSON, 2d Asst. Tress WILLIAM P. SANDS. Cashier EDWARD P. HOLDEN, Asst. Cashi 1f , EMORY MoCLINTOCK LL. D., F. I. A., Actuary. JOHN TATLOCK, JB., Asst. Actuary. WM. W. RICHARDS, comptroller. CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor, HENRY S. BROWN, Asst. Comp. JOHN C. ELLIOTT, Superintendent of Domestic Agencies, EDWARD LYMAN SHORT, Gen. Solicitor. Munro“. Drnuorons GUSTAVUS S. WINSTON, M. D. ELIAS, J. MARSH, M. D. was w. Nrcnons. New Haven, General Agt. for State of Connecticut. GRANVILLE M. WHITE, 11. D; A0 Ho GAME! V Local Agent.
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