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SOUTH NORWALK.
The South NorwalK'Offlce of the Gaze
man & Plnney. No. 12 North Main Street,
orders for Job Printing. as well as Items: of News.
rte Is at the store of New-
where Advertisements and
can be left with
Homer M. Bylpgton, Manager.
Mrs. James Jardine, of Burritt ave-
nue, is sick with tonsilitis.
Mr. Edward Mathewson is having
his home on West avenue painted.
The barge W. M. Worden is at John
H. Ferris’ wharf, loaded with coal.
0. S. Ferry Command. U. V. U. Will
meet to-morrow night in their hall on
Washington street.
Union Lodge, Knightsof the Golden
Eagle, held 'a smoker in their rooms on
Washington street lastnight.»
The J .T. Prowitt Co. have received the
contract for finishing up the ir'iside work
of the two new depots at Stamford.
The Fawcett versus Light case will
come up before Judge F. B. Hall in the
Superior Court at Bridgeport this after-
noon.
Oflicer Henry Decker is moving to-
day to Bridgeport. He will be much
missed by his fellow ofiicers and many
friends.
“Billy” Forsythe, 0f Danbury, was
in town this morning shaking hands
with, friends. He “goes on” at an en-
tertainment in Wallingford this evening.
The Elite Social club met with Ma r-
shallSmith at his home on Haviland
street last night and completed arrange-
ments for their dance to-morrow night.
Mrs. G. H. Millard is expected to
arrive to-morrow to visit Miss Clara
Hatch of West avenue. Mrs. Millard
is a sister of Mrs. Russell Frost and
Mrs. Charles T, Raymond,
Mrs. Cabel Frost, of Delhi, N. Y., is
visiting Mrs. Charles T. Raymond of
Washington street. Mrs. Frost is the
mother of Col. Russell Frost, [who sailed
for Europe yesterday on the steamship
St. Louis. '— '
Zerrebabel Senate, No. 65, Knights
of the Ancient Essenic Order, will elect
{officers at the City Hotel to-morrow
. evading. Adj. Gen. A. T. Lebaron,
supreme organizer,
present.
The Street Railway company have a
large “gang” of men at work laying
the bricks on North Main slreet. They
are rapidly advancing and will probab-
ly have one side of the street laid, by
to-night. A ' /
The5o’clock up train on the Dan-
bury road narrowly missed killing a
man walking on the tracks near Pine
street, last evening. As it was the man
was obliged to plunge down the em-
ibankment to escape being struck. I
Rev. Gerald H. Beard gave§a recept-
ion to the members of the Congregation-
al church choir last night in honor of
the new organist Mr. Thomas E. Per-
kins. It was a decided success and all
present enjoyed a very pleasantlevening.
It is said that Officers Pennington
and Reardon were not half sojfrightened
by the supposed blood stains on the
trunk they captured this morning, as
they were when on opening! it they
found exposed to view a fine display of
lace work.
Captain Gladstone and officer Penn-
ington captured Mrs. Jarvis’ show
case of spring hats, which'had been
left out last night. The bats were taken
to police headquarters where it is said
the Captain failed to find {one among
them that was becc ming to his complex-
ion.
John Meyers and Melvin Odell, the
two men who were arrested for fighting
"on Tuesday evening, were tried before
Judge Hubbell in the Town Court this
morning. The Judge thought Meyers
was more sinned against than sinning,
and discharged him. Odell was found
guilty and was fined 35?, which he paid.
The Elite Social club will give that
second sociable and dance in Music
Hall to-morrow nigh’. At eight o’clock
Powell’s orchestra will give a concert
and later will furnish music for danc-
ing. During the intermission the
Walerbury Mandolin club will render
selections. The evening’s entertain-
ment promises to be very fine.
About three o’clock this morning
officers Pennington and Reardon found
a trunk upon. the crosswalk in front of'
Trinity church. They went to Chief of
Police Vollmer’s house and notified him
of their find. He told them to open it if
they could do so without breaking the
lock. They carried it around to the
police station and succeeded in picking
the lock. When opened they found it
belonged to one of the actresses of the
Ellinwood troupe. About half an hour
and stafi‘ will be
.later the woman appeared in a car-
riage in search of the trunk. She iden-
tified the trunk but before it was turned
over to her the Chief telephoned up
town to find out if she was wanted. The
up town authorities had an attachment,
but as this was personal property, they
could not hold it and the Chief allowed
the woman to take the trunk away.
MYSTERY OF A MAINEJSLAND.
A Hermit Engllshman Who Ended His
Misery by Cutting His Throat.
“Some years ago, up at North Haven
island, on the Maine coast,” said a. New
Yorker, according to the Sun of that
city, “I came across a mystery that
haunts me still. A bare rocky point
juts out into the sea. on one side of- the
island, and the first year that I visited
the place there was a rude cabin on the
rock. Having gone out there from cu-
riosity one day, I found a. man in
shameful rags trying out the oil from
the refuse from a. fish—canning factory.
When I came to examine the man his
appearance astonished me. He was an
extremely handsome, well-made Eng-
lishman of forty or thereabouts. His
hands, soiled with the material he
worked in, were small and well shaped.
When I tried to draw him into conver-
sation he at first answered in monosylla-
bles, and was almost sulky in his reserve.
He gradually thawed, however, and I
found that he spoke rare and beautiful
English, that of a well-read and well-
bred man. Glancing into the door of
his cabin, I could see perhaps a score of
well-thumbed volumes in library bind-
ing. His reserve was such that I could
not ask him about himself, but I left
the island deeply interested in him.
“I turned up at North Haven the
next year-,and one of the earliest things
I did was to go out to the point in
search of my acquaintance. The rock
was bare again, and there was no trace
of him and his cottage. I asked about
him of some persons I met on the island,
and here is what I learned: He had
come to the place mysteriously some
years before, having been dropped by
a. schooner. He found work at the fish
cannery, but later quit the place, built
his cabin on the rock, supplied himself
with food chiefly by fishing, and ob-
tained from the factory the privilege of
trying oil from the refuse. From the
product he obtained a little ready money
for tobacco and other luxuries. At
some time between my two visits his
cabin was discovered to be on fire late
one night, and, hurrying down, his
neighbors saw him amid the, flames
dead. with his throat cut. The fire had
so seized upon the but that his body
could not be removed until it was nearly
consumed. He was buried, and no so-
lution of the mystery was discovered.
Life had evidently become insupport-
able to him, and he had taken the way
of suicide as the easiest one out of mis-
ery.”
LIZARDS IN A TRANCE.
One Medical Authority Regards It as a.
‘ Kind of Hypnotism.
An English scientific journal has re-
ceived an interesting communication
on the subject.of the so-called “death-
feigning instinct” of certain reptiles,
says the Pittsburgh Dispatch.
The correspondent, who writes from
Syria, says that when a certain species
of Egyptian lizard is captured, it makes
a. few vigorous efforts to escape, and
then, if held firmly, falls into a. limp,
motionless state, which might easily
lead an inexperienced person to think
it dead. The animal, however, is sim-
ply in a. trance-like condition.
Gentle respiratory movements are
visible just behind the shoulders, and
sometimes show a rising and falling
rhythm with short intervals of com-
plete rest; the eyes remain wide open,
but are commonly half closed, and the
lids wink slowly from time to time
spontaneously or by reflex action; the
mouth is almost open, sometimes wide,
sometimes but little—and in either
case the jaw is quite rigid, and if closed
by force is apt to reopen when the
pressure is withdrawn; the limbs lie
extended and semi—flaccid, with some
approach to a cataleptic condition, i. e.,
if bent or stretched into position not
too strained, they maintain such posi-
tions when let go; and the same is true
of the trunk and tail.
A pin may be run through a. fold of
the skin, without fully rousing the
animal, a sluggish, feeble wriggle be-
ing the sole result. The trance usually
lasts about five minutes, when the
animal by a. brusque effort assumes its
normal position. This done, it lies
quite‘still, but evidently awake and ob-
servant for a. few moments more, and
then scuttles off in a. hurry.
Dr. Van Dyck looks upon this mani-
festation not as voluntary or conscious
death-feigning, but as a form of hypno-
tism. The natural enemies of these
lizards are foxes, jackals, martens,
birds of prey and snakes. .
“Can anyone believe,” asks Dr. Van
Dyck, “that any one of these animals,
having captured a lizard, would be in
the least inclined to let it go because it
lay motionless and apparently dead in
the captor’s grasp? Or will it be
argued that the trance condition is _a.
special gift ‘in mercy to the victim, to
mitigate or abolish the pain of death?’ ”
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, and in a short time brought
about a. complete cure.” When 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 years and constantly
grown in favor and pogglarit .' For sale at
25 and 50 cents per ttle y E. P. Weed,
Two Persons Killed at a Fire.
PARIS, Tern, April 30.-—John Salmon,
deputy United States marshal, was burned
to death inra fire which destroyed the By-
waters building. He was an important
witness in several pending trials. There
is a theory that Salmon was murdered In
his room and the building set on fire. S.
Ramsay was crushed to death under the
falling walls.
The Magyar Celebration.-
BUDAPEST, April 30.—Emperor Francis
Joseph arrived here today to attend the
celebrations commemorating. the thou-
sandth anniversary of the Magyar conquest
and settlement in Pannonia, a feature of
which is the opening of the exhibition
here. His majesty was welcomed at the
railroad station.
Cloudburst In Wisconsin.
SHEBOYGAN, Wis, April 30.—The in-
habitants of this place were terrorized by
a cloudburst. Residences in the lowlands
Were inundated to such a depth that the
police and fire departments had to use
~ boats in rescuing the women and children.
Many people had narrow escapes from
death. '
To Investigate the Raines Law.
ALBANY, April 30.—-The finance com-
mittee of the senate has reported favorably -
the resolution calling for the appointment
of a committee of five to investigate the
workings of the Raines liquor tax law,
amended so as to only allow an expendi-
ture of $2,500.
Kent’s Leading Citizen Dead.
KENT. Conn, April 30.—John Hopson,
77, long known as the leading citizen of
Kent, died after an illness continuing over
a period of two years.
. FUTURE OF THE HORSE.‘
Uses to Which the Animal 37m Always.
I Be Turned.
When railroads were first put in op-
eration it was predicted that there
would bea great fall in the value of
horses, a. deterioration of horse flesh,
and finally that the animals would
soon become curiosities on the
way towards extinction. ‘ Of course,
says the Boston Transcript, everybody
knows that nothing of the kind hap-
pened. Horses increased in number,
value and quality. The business the
railroads developed. an along their
lines occasioned a. demand for more and
better horses. Just at present the
popularity of too bicycle and the appli-
cation of electricity to transportation
are causing some people to repeat the
predictions of fifty years ago concern-
ing the horse. It is even said that the
horse in the near? future will be raised
simply for slaughter for food. If the
horse could learn of this prediction his
intelligence and his sense of his value
would prevent him from taking it.
seriously. He might ask: What good
is the electric car off the rails? How
doesabicycle act on plowed ground,
and what can it draw without the as-
sistance of human energy? If horses
become very cheap will not more peo<
ple buy them, and will not the aggre-
gate of individual wants occasion a.
great demand that will send up prices?
7 The intelligent horse asking these
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questions could well afford to munch
hls oats calmly while the alarmists
were cogitating as to _what' reply was
possible.
A MODES'I.‘ AND PRETTY BICYCLE {OSTUME
Noe. 7731—2—3—PRICE 30 CENTS.
Experienced riders who d) not lip-
prove of bloomers, find therather short
skirt the ideal garment. It is behem-
ing off the wheel as well, and is grace-
ful and really more modest than the
longer skirts which are narrow enough
not to catch in the wheel, for these lat-
ter cling and show the ou'line of the
form very plainly. The skirtif proper-
ly made ne‘v‘er annoys one by blowing.
To insure this the fabric must have
some body to begin wnb, and it must
further be faced up about five inches
with the goods. Tle neatept finish
for this is small rows of stitching.
If the goods is heavy,
an interlining of canvas may be use”
betw—en lac ng and shirt. The stir?
should be lined with nutine, t: irsure r.
freedom of movement I-linl :s impossible
with woolen goods. The knickers may
be made of the satine for summer wear,
and then a skirt lining as not recessary.
The leggings should match the costume
or the facing. A cheviot of mixed tone
is very J~unty with leather facing and
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then-at also, and the gloves- and buttons
should-be of the color of the leather.
I The skirt has: a front gore, and from
that is seamless to the centre backs,
where one pleat is Iaiul on either side.
The skirt buttons at v-he top of the
front, The top fits porfvcl-ly‘ smooth
'without darts, as it is cut Circular at the
sides and back. The waist fits smrothly
over the hips, and is cut with fhe back
and side forms in one. A plain cloth,
black or lire-WV, lowks exceidingly well
with White. cuffs and collar.
This skirt is appropriate to wear with
shirt waists for the summer.
This costume shows three patterns.
The Jacket is No. 7731 and is cut in
BIZPS from 30 to 42. in. bust measure.
The —I\':r‘- :e No. 7732 and is cut in
rizes from 2-0 to 3‘3 ins. waist measure.
The Knickers and Leggius are No.
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