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SOUTH NORWALK.
The South NorwalK Offlce of the Gazette Is at the store of New-
man & Plnney. No.
orders for Job Prlntin'g, as well as
Homer M. Bylngton, Manager.
001. and Mrs. Frost sailed for Europe
on the St. Louis this morning. '
Court Mahackemo met last night and
the committee on the dance reported.
it a success. _
Miss May D. Smith, of Haviland
street has ordered a bicycle and will be
among our fair riders in a few days.
Officer Decker handed in his police
accoutrements to Chief of Police Voll-
mer this morning and is no longer an
otiicer. ‘
Young society gentlemen, of this city,
will give a dance to their young lady
friends in Guider’s Hall at Rowayton
tc-morrow night. -
Mary Benjamin, infant daughter of
William Benjamin, of North Taylor
avenue, died this mOrning. The funer-
al will take place to-morrnw afternoon,
in charge of Funeral Director D. W.
Raymond. '
The Consolidated Railroad will con-
vey the title of the Railroad Square
property to the city in exchange for
the Whistleville property, the last pay-
ment on. which has been made.
The room committee of the “Twin
City Wheelmen” to—day purchased all
the furniture for their newquarters.
Matting has been bought for thefioor
and everything will be in order fo’r the
club’s first meeting on Tuesday evening
next.
The Y. P. S. C. E. Flower Commit-
tee’s entertainment in the Congrega-
tional Church last night was a decided
success. There was a large attendance
and all were, pleased with the talent
presented. The Kofler Quartette was
especially fine. All of the numbers on
the program were so well rendered that
'1 there can be no discrimination.
The S. N. A. C. committee met in
the club rooms on Washington street
last night and talked over the bill for
the coming entertainment. The date
‘decided upon was the 22d of May. One
of the committee stated to a GAZETTE
reporter this morning that the fiavin'd-up
would probably be eight rounds be-
tween “Dutch” Monahan, of this city,
and JaCk Lynch, of Brooklyn.
It was reported to Chief of Police
Vollmer last evening that there was a
fight on,Water street. With Ofiicers
Pennington and Gladstone he visited
the scene and learned that there were
four contestants. Two of them were
arrested. This morning before Judge
Hubbell,._ they plead not guilty and
their cases were continued until to-
morrow morning at nine o'clock. They
gave their names as Meloine Odell and
John Myers. It was a drunken brawl.
While at work digging sod in the va-
cant lot opposite the 'Franklin street
school Saturday, “Eddie” Hayes and
John Knapp, two young boys about
13 years of age, found a green looking
odject. They took it over to McQuhae’s
blacksmith shopand showed it to Mr.
McQuhae, who describes the object as
follows: It was of sheet iron, cylinder
shaped, with both ends blocked up
and a fuse hole in- it, He ‘ also says it
was loaded with powder, which was wet
and had caked so that it would not ex-
plode. When the boys showed it to
to Mr. McQuhae they had already dug
half the powder out of it. He thcught
it was a bomb and a very dangerous
thing for the lads to be playing With,
and threw it down the sewer near his
shop.
The “Twin City Wheelmen” held
their third meeting in the parlors of the
Mahackemo, last evening. The meet-
ing was called to order by President
Vosburgh. The reports of the several
committees were read and accepted.
The committee on permanent head-
quarters reported that the new club
rooms over the Flat National'Bank
Would be completed to-diy and the
next meetingcould be held there, if de-
sired. The committee Was empowered
to purchase the necessary furniture for
the rooms. The constitution having
been presented by the commiitee on
constitution, was adopted section- by
section. A committee consisting of W.
O. F oote, A. B. Russell and James Ma-
ples, Was appointed to petition the
State Highway Commissioner for an
extension of time in which to build the
Telford road. Before adjourning the
action of Selectman Selleck relative to
the road was- strongly condemned.
The meetingé then adjourned to meet in
their new rooms on Tuesday, evening
next. - '
Uncas Tribe, of Red Men, had their
“big time” in their rooms on Washing-
ton street last night. It was probably
the largest gathering of Red Men ever
held in this city. Delegations from
- the tribes'of the following cities were
present: Waterbury, Dauburj", New
Haven, New Britain," and two from
12 North Main Street,
lv- Smoking in Court.
where Advertisements and
Items of News. can be left wlth
Bridgeport. The officers present were:
Great Sachem; George W. Corbin, of
New Britain; Great Senior Sagamore
De Witt P. Preston,of Hartford; Great
Junior Sagamore James F. Smith, of
New London; Great Chief of Records
Charles W. Skiff. of Danbury; Past
reat Sachem J. R. Robbins, of Nor-
wich, and Deputy Great Sachem Fd-
ward L. Munger, of Waterbury. The
team‘ of Uncas Tribe worked the adop-
tion degree on one candidate and were
highly complimented by the officers on
their work. They also elected Stephen
S. Naphey and Joseph C. Miller to
represent them at the great council to
be held in New London in the fore part
of May. The Past Gr'c at Sachcms then
elected the state officers. The visitors
and members sat down to supper 150
strong. The hull was prettily decorated
with palms, flags and Indian parapher-
nalia. During the intermission, Red
Mal], George W. Hirst, sang a solo.
Everything passed off successfully.
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. ENORMOUS HEAT. i.
A Figure Which Demonstrates the Power
of the Sun.
,',There is not more than one person in
each ten thousand who has anything
like the correct idea. what an icicle
forty-five miles in diameter and two
hundred thousand in length would look
like. It is also true, says the St. Louis
Republic, ‘that there is no necessity for
one being provided with a mind that
would enable him. to form a correct
conception of such a gigantic cylinder
of ice, for there is no probability that
anyone will ever live to see an icicle
even, half so large, yet it is interesting
to know that Sir John Herschel, the
great astronomer, used such an illus-
tration in one of his' articles on the in-
tensity of the sun’s heat. After giving
the diameter of the great blazing orb,
and a. calculation on the amount of
heat radiated by each square-foot of its
immense surface, he closed by saying
”that if it were possible for an icicle
forty-five miles in diameter and two
hundred thousand miles long to plunge
into the sun’s great burning sea of gas
it would be melted away ’and utterly
consumed even to its vapor, in less than
one second of time. Such an icicle
would contain more ice than has formed
on the rivers and lakes of the United
States during the past one hundred
years; its base would cover the average
.Missouri country and its length would
be almost sufficient to reach “to the
moon.
FEMININE VANITY.
It Crops Out Even Among Women Be-
hind the Bars.
Vanity in a female prisoner would
be merely laughable if it were not so
sad to behold. It is, however, the one
touch of nature which proves the hu-
man kinship, and there is perhaps some
hope for even these poor, degraded
creatures, if they are thus swayed by
such harmless emotions. Prison ma-
trons, says the North American Review,
would be perpetually busy if they
‘checkcd every attempt made by their
charges to adopt the last fashionable
coiffurc. “Fringes” are “going out,”
perhaps, in general society, but they
are still amazingly popular in prison.
Criminals will trim their hair as it
pleases them, and the wisest disciplin-
ai-ian affects to see nothing of the
fringe. In the same way, once, when
cliignons were in vogue, the female felt
happy whose locks escaped the prison
scissors and' were long enough to fold
over a. pad of oakum. The ingenuity,
again, with which some prisoners will
twist and turn their unbecoming uni-
form into some faint notion of the
fashions of the day might have earned
these artists good wages in a dress-
maker’s atelier. I have seen pannicrs
counterfeited and polonaises, skirts
draped or tied back, dress improvers
manufactured out of whalcbones or
horse hair; no doubt when the present
‘fbcll” skirt is fading out of fashion it
will be largely patronized in jail. The
craze for personal adornment leads
women to skim the grease off their
scanty allowance of soup, With which
they plaster their hair. Ionce knew
an aged prisoner who was! caught
scraping the dust from the red brick
cell wall to serve her as rouge.
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Commenting on the fact that not long
ago a pastor: of a church in the White-
chapel district in London announced
from the pulpit‘that in future his hear-
ers might smoke their, pipes during
service aif they chose, l’Indcpendance
Belge says there-is nothing so very
strange about that. In the Mexican
courts of law, it says, the smoking of
cigars is sanctioned by hoary custom;
there one may often see a prisoner
puffing away at the fragrant weed
while answering the questions put to
him by the judge, and the latter serene-
ly adds to the general smoke. Mexican
teachers reward their diligent pupils
by giving them permission to smoke
cigars or cigarettes during. school
hours, and whenever the worthy peda-
gogue is in good humor the schoolroom
is thick with smoke. Smoking begets
thirst; hence on the teacher's desk
stands a huge jar filled with“pulque,”
the national beverage, to refresh the
tutor and tutored.
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INTELLIGENCE OF HORSES.
Many Arc of the Opinion That a Horse
May Weep.
Do horses weep? is a. question dis:
cussed- by the Admiralty and; Horse
Guards Gazette. It tells us that there
is a..well-authentica.ted case of a. horse
weeping during the Crimean war. On
the advance to the heights of Alma,'a
battery of artillery became exposed to
the fire of a. poncealed Russian battery,
and in the course of a. few minutes it:
was nearly destroyed, men and horses
killed and wounded, guns dismounted
and limbers broken; a." solitary horse,
which had apparently escaped unhurt,
was observed standing with fixed gaze
upon an object close beside him; this
turned out to be his late master, quite
dead. The poor animal, when a. trooper
was dispatched to recover. him, was
found with copious tears flowing from
his eyes; and it was onlylby main force
that he could be dragged away from
the spot, and his unearthly cries to get
back to his master were heartrending.
Apropos of the intense love that. cavalry
horses havcfor music, a correspondent
of the Gazette writes that when the
Sixth dragoons recently changed their
quarters at more belonging to one of
the troopers was taken so ill as to be
unable to proceed on the journey the
following morning: Two days later
another detachment of the same regi-
ment, accompanied by the band, ar-
rived. The sick mare was in a loose
box, and, making her way through the
shop of a tradesman, took her place in
the troop before she was secured and
brought back to the stable. But the ex-
citement had proved too great, and the
subsequent exhaustion proved fatal.
No Chance of Being Caught.
Judge Andrews, of Georgia, used to
tell an amusing story of the way in
which he was once “taken down” by
one of his audience during a. political
address. He was a candidate for gov-
ernor of his state and was explaining
to the crbwd of people that had assem-
bled to hear him how his friends had
pressed him to be a candidate and that
the office was seeking him; he was not
seeking the office. “In fact,” he ex-
claimed, “the office. of governor has
been following me for the last ten
”years!” At this point a. tall country-
man at the rear of the audience rose.
“But here’s yer consolation, judge,” he
shouted. “You’re gainin’ on it all the
time! It’ll never catch you!” This
cheering prophecy proved to be quite
correct, in spite ofrthe mirth it pro-
voked at the time of its utterance.
Not as English as He Was.
He regarded himself as very English,
and he certainly was very young. He
fancied that he cut a; very imposing
figure as he sauntcred past the theater
just as the matinee girls emerged on
the street. But a large, coarse man
who was going by spoiled it all by re-
marking in a loud voice: “llcllo, Willie!
What are you going to‘ do with that
pipe? Going to blow soap bubbles?”
And now there is one young man who
will never again smoke a pipe on the
street. ~ - ' ' '
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THE*EVEtrxcfielznTrsr
“TRAmwAvn—Confinued.
bIe track on East. avenue to: run to
Oranhurv, a place from which the traf-
fic would be comparatively small. We
have a righthtoi'éxpecta large patron-
age, on the Westpmt, and there isa
need of double tracks. ,
Hurlbuit: Do you mean to say that
you need double tracks to the city line
and only a single track the rest of the
distance to Weatport ? '
Mansfield: We are anxious to have
the Council reach a determination in,
ihc matter, and if given a liayoutwill
Commence work atonce. '
Hurlbutt: I’ll bet ten cents that you
huve'not as you say received any bids
for the work. '
Mansfield: I leave it with the Council
to decide on Mr. Hurlbutt’s remark.
And then the hearing was closed.
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fretes L‘ef’erit Turks.
ATHENS, 'A prll 29.—-Advices received
here from the Island of Crete say that the
Cretan reform committees have repulsed
the Turkish troops at Sella, killing 20 of
them.
During the winter of 1893, F. M. Martin,
of Long Reach, ‘West Va., contracted a
severe cold which left him with a cough. In
speaking of how he cured it he says: “I
used several kinds of cough syrup but found
no relief until I bought a bottle of Cham-.
berlain’s Cough Remedy, which relieved me
almost instantly, an‘déin a short time brought
about a complete on .” \Vhen troubled with
a cough or cold use this remedy and you
will not find it necessary to try several kinds
before you get relief. It has been in the
market for over twenty ye. rs and constantly
grown in favor and popularity.‘ For sale at
25 and 50 cents per bottle by E. P. Weed,
druggist.
TO the Board of County Commissioners for
Fair-field County. . . .
I hereby app y for a license to sell spiritu-
ous andiintoxicating liquors. ale. lager beer,
Rhine Win”, and older at 25 Wall street. town
of Norwalk. My place of business is not loca-
ted within 200 feet in a direct line of a church
edifice or public school-house. or the premises
pertaining thereto. or any post-office or public
n irary. .
Dated at Norwalli this 29th day of April., 1896.
JOHN CULLEN. Applicant.
We. the undersigned, electors and Tax-p.Q ’-
ers, as defined by law, oftheItown _of Norwal .
hereby endorse the application of the above
named John Cullen f} -r such license. _
Dated at Norwalk this -29th day of April. 1836.
Michael McMulIen, FranCis O._Farrell. Ber-
nard Feeney, Charles Gehebe. Richard Casey.
I hereby certify that the above named en-
dorsers are elecr- rs --nd tax-payers, as defined
by law. of the town of INorwalk. _
Dated at Norwalk this 29th day of 4 pm] 1896,
' ..v AN NIE E. SMITH, Aest. Town Clerk.
[STRICT of Norwalk. ss. Probate Court
April 13_‘h, A. D . 1896. 7
Estate pf ESTHER L. SMITH, late of Norwalk
in said District. deceasi-d. . . ‘
The Court of Probate for the District of
N orwalk hath limited and allowed Six months
from the date. hereof .forthe creditors of said
estate to exhibit their claims for-settlement.
These who neglect to_ resent their accounts.
properly attested. Wlt in said time. Will be
debarreda recovery. All persons indebted to
said estate are requested to make immediate
payment to GEORGE E. RAYMOND,
Administrator. ,
PLYMOUTH ROCK ICE.
Stores and Families Supplied.
’ Lowest Rates. '
"A YOUNG GIRL’S EIGHT DRESS.
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