. , To Cure all kinds of Coughs or Colds, either Bronchial . or Pulmonary, also Hoarse- ness and Soreness use . ' .WILLIAMS’ NEW ENGLAND ‘s “A,“ com REMEDY Made from arecipe of one of the most famous doctors in New England. It contains no opium of any form and there’s no danger as with some preparations of forming the Morphine Habit. Children like it, - as it cures them without upsetting their stomachs. WILLIAMS‘EL GARLETON 60. Hone-cleaning. Lustrino. . 100 Ask your Grocers. a 4qu too In PRIGE- 01.l1 MEAT. Round, Sirloin and Por- terhouse Steaks, Sausge, POE azui Rib Busts “mounted 20. 5 Pound All First Quality Meat. ' ,J. W. BOGARDUS, 6 WATER ST., NORWALK DRINK HATHURN SPRING - WATER FOR THE l Stomach, Bo wels, Liver and , Kidneys. FOR SALE BY Tin-.- Huluou, Koolou &Sollool to NEW CAFE uusrliiuuu '1‘ V MIKE BATCHFORD, “ ATTACHED. 44 Wain Street, The Best Wines, Liquors and Cigars. ' GOODWIN. lHE TAILOR, Ololhier, Halter and ‘Furnisher, *1 7O WASHINGTON STREET SOUTH NORWALK, CONN.. His a_1arge assortmentof White and Blue Silk mixed Diag )nal Suits. hand-made. good trimmed and furnls'ied at verv reasonab‘e figures. Woosted Suits $8; Blue $11, and White and Blue, $12 Fine Custom Work made to order. Fine~t .Hats 1n So. Norwalk. from best shopsin town, i Gents’ Furnishings In all varieties; law figures. Horace E. Dann,‘ EXOELSIOL Livery and Sales Stable. “‘0‘.ku W‘. \ Opposite Danbury and Normal]: Railroad uepot' Nor-walk. Conn. Stylish Single or Double Team with or without drivers‘ Safe horses for women ' andohildren. . SADDLE HORSES A SPECIALTY l. I MONEY FOR MARRYING‘. 7 A Great Deal Necessary for an ‘Up-to-Date Ceremony. It Costs Like the Mischief to Belong to - the Swell Set and Keep Up with . the Fashions—Some of the ARequirements. —_— To get married nowadays consistent- ly with the regulations of fashion is very expensive, even for Ordinary folks who desire to keep up appearances. If you do not believe it, just do the sum in arithmetic for yourself, writes a. New 'York correspondent of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat: ' There is the church to begin with; p The fee for opening the sacred edifice is one hundred dollars. If you want the choir to sing you must pay one hundred dollars in addition. The clergyman’s honorarium is extra. What it shall be you are at liberty to determine, but it is hardly considered proper to give less than twenty—five dollars, whereas one hundred dollars is by no means excessive. At the church, as well as at the house, you must have awnings, and the price for these will be forty dollars. _ - ,, Flowers are a very important item. The altar has to be decorated, and you cannot make any kind of show for less than two hundred and fifty dollars. For fifty dollars you can only get a few palms. Palms come high because of the risk. If the weather turns cold and they are chilled, they will die, and it takes fifteen or twenty years to grow a palm of decent size. Obviously, the bridesmaids require bouquets, and for each of these you can hardly get off ' for less than twenty-five dollars. 'The posies are more apt to come to fifty dollars each at a season when fine roses cost two and three dollars each. Then there are the bridesmaids’ gowns. It is expected that they shall T HE E Van iNGG A Z E T E be furnished, and they will cost at 3 least one hundred dollars each. Of course, they are not made so much to 3 please the wearer as to satisfy the re- quirements of the occasion and the taste of the bride. It can hardly be ex- pected that a bridesmaid shall go to such expense for a. frock to be worn perhaps only once, and which is for the benefit of somebody else. Thus, as a mere matter of common sense, it has come to be regarded as the proper thing that these toilets shall be sup- plied. N coessarily, they are all alike. If there is a maid of honor she must have a dress, too. A bride may be married in a travel- ing dress, but for a really swell wed- ding she must have a special gown, which will hardly cost less than two hundred and fifty dollars. Dressmakers charge extra prices for articles of cos: tume furnished .for weddings, by the way. Of incidental expenses there is no end. In New York there is only one woman who knows how to arrange a bride’s veil properly. It is her special- ty, and she charges accordingly. In fact, she does very little else beside go- ing from one house to another and pin- ning brides’ veils. It is a business that requires a high degree of skill. Unless tulle is handled by skillful fingers, it is very unbecoming. To adjust the wreath of orange blossoms—always artificial, because real orange blossoms quickly fade and have too strong an odor—is an art in itself. It must be put on just so, else it is ugly. Fashion requires that the bridegroom shall give to each bridesmaid a pin or bracelet, and to each usher a scarf-pin or some such remembrance. It goes without saying that the best man and the maidpof honor are not left out. These must be handsome, and fifty dol- lars each is not too much to pay for, them. When he was married to Miss Gould, Count Castellane gave to each of the ushers and bridesmaids a pin the design of which wasa C and G tied together in a true lover’s knot. The G was in rubies, the knot was of dia- monds and the C was in sapphires. Thus were united the national colors of France—red, white and blue. In the above account no mention has been made of the cost of the reception at the house of the bride. It is expected that the drawing-rooms and dining-room shall be profusely decorated with flow- ers, and in this way five hundred dol-J lars does not go very far. Then there is the“spread,” which may run up to almost any price. Among the inci- dentals are invitations, which are not cheap when one thousand or so of them have to be sent out. On the whole, it isa costly business to get married in these days. , Curious Custom‘ in Holland. When young Queen Wilhelmina visited the other day the marvelous vaults at Maestriche, which are one of the sights of the place, she was re- quested by the authorities to inscribe ' her name upon a marble slab in the wall, which bears the signatures of many other sovereigns, Dutch and for- eign, prominent among them being the autograph of the first Napoleon. Just at the very moment when she was about to comply with the request three tiny gnomes sprang out from behind a pillar and exclaimedin accordance with the time~honored custom: “Who are you that dares add your name to that of William the Silent and. of the many illustrious rulers of the Netherlands?” Queen Wilhelmina, who had. been pre- pared for this little piece Of pantomine, replied: “I am the daughter of this King William III. whose signature you see here, and his successor to the throne of Holland,” whereupon the gnomes—— three small boys dressed up for the oc- casion—bowed low, received some coin, and retired. A Volcano iii-Maine. Much interesting and conclusive evi- dence that Knox county, Me., was once the seat of an immense 'volcano has been discovered by Prof. Bayley, of Colby university. Some of the evidence is in the presence to—day of great sheets of lava stretching over the northern part of Vinalhaven. How long ago the. Maine v'olcano was active has not yet been determined. The subject is being investigated by many geologists from universities outside the state. BICYCLE lit Loos-iviAaioie. Extraordinary Number of “ Scorchers” “1110 Are Skillfully Captured. “All our best racers are getting mar- ried like winking; in fact, there is an . epidemic of marriage going on among them just now!” That is the testimony that comes over from London, and it would seem to be an undoubted fact that throughout England and France at least the wheel is rapidly augment- ing marrying and giving in marriages. TheLondon County Cycling club has recognized this tendency and has pro- vided for it by offering prizes for the season’s racing that gentlemen com- petitors may find acceptable and suit- able to present to their wives. . The trouble is, says the New York World, that while a. cyclist. is still in his saladdays and before he thinks of mat- rimony, he ‘is greatly interested in racing, and delights in posing as a champion “scorcher” for the benefit of lady cyclists who are there to view. If there islanything a wheelwoman ap~ prcciates it is a man who is strong, powerful and enduring on his cycle, and who can put up a century at very nearly record speed. The. men who can do this the best are the favorites for , women to ride with; Long trips, the participants being a man and a girl ‘ alone, naturally follow, and after a few of these an engagement results. After marriage the “scoré‘hers” begin to subside and their pace becomes much gentler. Several of the leading cycle clubs of London have lost many of their swift-est members through mar- riage. In an attempt to do something to break this tendency the prizes for the one-hundred-mile race which is. to take plaCe in London on the 'I-lerne Hill track have been so designed that ' they can either be used as Clasps for gentlemen or as brooches for ladies. It is hoped that the married women de- sirous of acquiring these will force their husbands to practice and enter. The effect of cycling On the matri- monial market in this country has not been especially marked here, but it is likely to be within a few months. That is, if one may judge from the number ~ of engagements that are probably “on” at the present time. Claremont and the Casino in the park have countless couples who dismount shyly from their wheels and come into the restaurant each evening with a “Don’t speak to us; don’t look at us, please,” style. Daisy Bell’s bicycle that was built for two never panned out half so well as these two solitary wheels that scurry around through the darkness of New York in pairs. FINER THAN MARBLE OR ONYX. A Mountain of Beautiful Stone Discovered . in Utah. A number of years a‘go old man \Vads- worth, one of the earliest settlers in Springville, Utah county, made a dis- . covery of a mountain of stone of pecul- iar character, about eight miles up Springville canyon. I-Iis earlier expe- rience led him to believe that some day the deposit would prove of great value. but on account of the undeveloped con- dition of this country at the time of the discovery nothing was done with it, and its existence attracted but little attention. ' Just recently, says the Salt Lake Tribune, 8. 'party of Springville men, made .up of John Hafen. the artist; John V. \Vadsworth, a son of the dis- coverer; John Tuckett and Charles J aske, started to investigate the de- posit, and found that it covered a large territory, on three quarter sections of which they have located. _ Samples or the stone were submitted to Dr. Tal- mage, who pronounced it a concretion- ary limestone. It is of a grayish browrz color, showing the most beautiful V' - riations on ,accout of the presence of sedimentary sea shells, and when fin- ished it is superior to either marble or onyx in appearance. In character it is a little harder than marble, but not quite so hard as onyx, and so far as prospected is entirely free from any iron. ‘ The opening up of this deposit gives further evidence of the extent and va- riety of the wonderful deposits of valu- able stone in this territory. The quar- ries, it is said, can be opened up to any extent, so that stones of almost any di- mensions can be taken out, and on this account the deposit may prove of great. value as a means of securing large pil- lars, while the general run is adapted to all decorative uses to which marble or onyx can be put. The locators are taking the preliminary steps to form a company and develop the quarries. GRAND OAK IN SOUTH CAROLINA Standing Over a Bed of Phosphate, It Is Likely to Be Cut Down. _ What, so far as we can judge from our observations, is the most massive, symmetrical and imposing tree in eastern North America, is a live oak, quercus Virginiana, standing on one side of the entrance to Drayton manor house on Ashley river, near Charles- ton, S. C. The home of the Drayton family, says Garden and Forest, a handsome red brick Elizabethan man- sion, was built while South Carolina was a British colony, and it is said that the site of the house was selected on account of this tree, although, as the live oak grows very rapidly, it is not impossible that it was planted with its mate on the other side of the drive when the house was first built. At the present time the short trunk girths twenty-three feet four inches at the smallest place between the ground and the branches, which spread one hun- dred and twenty-three feet in one di- rection and one hundred and nineteen feet in the other. This tree is growing overabed ‘of phosphate, and the de- mands of trade will, therefore, probably cause its destruction before its time. More than once we h ave visited this tree, and each visit has increased our rever- ' ence for nature as we stood in the pres- ence of this wonderful expression of her power, No one who has not seen the Drayton oak can form a. true idea of the majestic beauty of the live oak, the most beautiful of the fifty species of oaks which grow within the borders of the United States, or of all that na- ture in a supreme effort at tree grow- ing can produce. l 1 0 iii. MUTUAL-ii , ? INSURANCE co. . OF NEW YORK. ' . RICHARD A MOCURDY President. ' omonfo oYoar ingleolllflll. Assets. $221,213,721 33 Liabilities I. .' ' 194,347,157 58 Surplus . . . $26,866,563 75 Total Income . .. ' .. $48,597,430 51 Total Paid Policyiholders‘ in 1895, Insurance and Annuities in force, $899,074,453 78 Net gainin. 1895 V $61,647,645 36. NOTE—Insurance merely written, is discarded from this Statement as who" I ‘ ‘1 actually issued and pald for in cash ls Included. y m Sleadlng' and only insurance $23,126,728 45 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. 0f the bombing Committee. Uffioeol the Mutual Lilo Insurance company of New Yorx, , 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 3lst, 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. Robert Clyphant, 'Wm. P. Dixon, J. H. Herrick- H. 0. Von Post,- ( harles R. Henderson, James C. Holden, Committee ROBERT A. GRANNIS, Vice-President. WALTER R. GILLETTE, General Manager. ISAAC F. LLOYD, Second Vice-President, ’ HENRY E. DUNCAN. Jr., 001. Secy. WILLIAM J .' EASTON, Secretary, ‘ ALBERT KLAMROTH, Asst. Seoy. FREDERIC CROMWELL, Treasurer. IOHN A. FON DA, Assistant Treasurer. JAMES TIMPSON, 2d Asst.'Treas ‘ WILLIAM P. SANDS, Cashier ' EDWARD P. HOLDEN, Asst. Cashier . .. _ 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. MEDICAL DIRECTORS GUSTAVUS s. WINSTON, M. n. ELIAS, J. MARSH, M. D. JOHN w. Nionions. New Haven, General Agt. for State of Connecticut, GRANVILLE M. WHITE, M. D. _Ao Ho GAME} ' ,. f . l Local Agent.
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