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”The South 'NorwalK Offlce of the Gazette Is at the store of New-
man & Plnney. No. 12 North Main Street,
orders for Job Prlnting, as well as items 0
Homer M. Byington, Manager.
where Advartisements and
f News. can be left with
- “ Chick ” Merritt has severed his. con-
nection with the Bridge Pharmacy.
, Miss Bessie Wilson left yesterday to
spend a month with her sister in Jersey
City. .
Mrs. T. B. Griffin and son have re-
turned from a two weeks trip in Ver-
mont. -
Miss Josephine Banolinde, of Brook-
_ lyn, is visiting Mrs. M. A. Giflin, of
this city.
Mrs. Charles T. Raymond, of Wash-
ington street, spent yesterday in New
York city.
Judge Hubbell this morning fined
Nicholas Farvella $3 for drunkenness. .
He paid up and was discharged.
Miss Sarah Henderson, of West ave-
nue, returned home yesterday from a
ten day visit with friends in New York
cit y. ’
A cablegram has been received from
Judge Russel Frost reappointing all of
the Town Court officials. The year
ended yesterday.
Dl‘: Farrell Martin, of Waterbury,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Martin, of
Chestnut street, sailed yesterday for a
trip around the globe.
Abreak in the Tramway feed wire
near the Washington street railway
bridge, was repaired by Dr. Frank
Willey at 6 o’clock this morning.
Thomas Leasing, who came- here
from England to purchase oysters from
William B. Reed, sailed for his home
in Grimsby on the Majestic yesterday.
Wallace H. Pelham was yesterday
fined $7 and costs with a Jail sentence
often days, by Judge Downs in the
Stamford police court, for hiring a team
- and failing to return it.
The Twin City Wheehnen will not
' meet to-night as reported by a local
daily yesterday. It is only a meeting
act the Board of Directors. The meet-
ing is called for 7.30 o’clock in the club
room on Washington street.» ».
A case of diphtheria in the Mills
. family, of Day street, is reported. Dr.
'Burnell has the case in charge and ' the
Health Officer has quarantined the
house. This is the second case in this
family and it is at present the only case
in this city.
The big eight driver engines and
their trains of fifty cars have not proved
as satisfactory to the Consolidated road
as was expected. It is said that they
are all to be turned over to the New
England road and new ones ordered of
much' lighter pattern.
Engineer Sanford of the Shell Fish
Commission reports that he has rebuilt
several signals used as ranges in loca-
ting the private oyster beds at the Nor=
walk islands; also the signals at Chim-
mons island, and at Little Captains is-
land. Some of the signals had not
been rebuilt since 1881.
The work of four tracking the Con-
solidated road through this city and
Stamford goes briskly on. 'The South
Norwalk job is about as difficult as the
engineers of the road have experienced.
Obstacles of an unforseen- nature have
been encountered here and there
causing delay. These have been found
mostly about the river. ,In Stamford
litigation has delayed matters some-
what, but the indications are that a
satisfactory settlement will be reached.
It became necessary yesterday to
' draw tw'o more jurors for the Common
Pleas panel and one of the two was F.
S. Lyon Sr. of South Nor walk. Mr. Lyon
lost- his right arm many years ago in an
accident, and yesterday when he was
sworn, he held up his left hand. Short-
ly after someone thought he had a good
joke on Deputy Sheriff (icorge Heisler,
and said to him: “George, you ought
to be more careful in doing court duty
and make a man hold up his right hand
when he is sworn.” To this Georgv
replied: “That man has no right hand,
and I was not going to ask him to lie
swurn by raising his right foot."
—Bridgeport Farmer.
While out ( Xcrcising his new pony in
company With Jack Seymour, thir
morning, Master Jimmy Hall met with
an unfortunate Yuccident. As the corner
of Spring and Madison streets he at:
, tempted to turn around when the wagon
upset throwing both boys out. As the
wagon turned over the pony with the
shaito, which had broken away, started
to run. Young Seymour caught the
lines but after being dragged several
yards was obliged to let go, escaping
with a cut hand and bruised hip. Mas-
ter Jim received a bruised leg. The
‘ pony kept on to Solmans' stable where
he was secured. While the pony was
running towards the stable Harry Mil-
ler attempted to stop him and was hit
by the shafts but not seriously injured.
The pony escaped injury but the wagon
had one whetl sprung.
Among the passengers of the White
Star Line steamer Majesttic sailing
yesterday were Olif Olsen and Hans
Anderson.
The Sloop Flash, Captain P. Martin,
arrived at the Washington street bridge
last night with a load of 400 cod fish
'which he is now rapidly disposing of.
The body of the unknown man killed
near Whistleville yesterday morning,
is still at Raymond’s morgue, no clue
having as yet been found as to his
identity. .
The new piston for the Electric Light
engine arrived but was found too short
and an effort is being made to repair
the old one so as to be able to light the
streets to-night. .
Builder S..B. Wilson raised the frame
yesterday, of one of the four Cottages,
he contracted with Commodore Frank
Burrztt to erect for him, on his Meadow
street property.
There was a big smash—up on the Con-
solidated road at Harlem Bridge this
morning and the Washington express
due here at midnight did not put in ap-
pearance until eight o’clock.
OMcer William Pennington arrested
Irving Stone last night for riding a bi-
cycle after dark without a lantern. ' He
gave surety and was releaSed. This
morning in the Town Court Judge Hub-
bell fined him $1.
The following program has b+en ar-
ranged for Arbor Day celebration at the
Franklin street school: Chorus.
“Echoes in the Forest,” school. Read-
ing. f‘Selectious from State Laws con-
cerning Arbor Day,” Charles Hill.
Recitation. "The Cherry Blossom,”
Helen O’Brien. Chorus. “With what ‘
a Lavish Band,” school. Recitation,
“The Legend of Forget-memot,”
Ilna Force. Recitation. ”A Joke,”
Charlie Hamilton. Reading. “Bluster,
Bright and Sprinkle,” Mabel Benton.
Chorus. “Wandering in the May Time,
school. Recitation. “The Little
Brown Seed in the Furrow," Eunice
Diver. Recitation, “l‘o Let—~Bird’s
Nests,” Charles Lockwood. Chorus.
“The Alder by the River,” school.
Recitation, f‘tlood Cheer,” Harriet
Bogardus. Exercise, "Planting
Trees,” Joe Quittner, Frank Berg, Tom
Brilto, George Gale. Recitation,
“Come Let us Plant a Tree,” school.
Atwater’s hlurderers Sentenced.
ST. Louis, May 7.-—Samuel Foster, a
negro,and John Smith, who murdered Ber-
tram Atwaier of Chicago in Webster Grove
Jan. 21, were sentenced to be hanged on
June 18. Atwuter was on a vlslt to his
sweetheart and engaged Smith to direct
him to her home.
lonely spot and shot to death.
Floated Without Damage.
PROVINCETOWN, Mass, May 7.——Tbe
British steamer Forest Holme put into
Provincetown harbor and anchored after
having been ashore on Peaked Hill bar,
near Highland Light, all night. She lost
her bearings and grounded. With the aid
of her own anchors she worked herself
afloat without damage.
Excavations at Delphi.
ATHENS, May 7.-—The French excava:
tors at Delphi have unearthed a life size
bronze statue of a bearded man, the lar-
gest yet discovered. The date of the work
is 500 B. C. The statue is holding the
bridle of a horse, and portions of the
horse’s figure have also been found.
— 09D
FROM SCHOOLSaAN D COLLEGES.
About 4,000 women are graduates of
the principal colleges for women. Prob-
ably another 4,000 graduate from co-
educational institutions. '
Prof. Henry Jones, upon whom the
University of Glasgow has conferred
the degree of LL.D., began life as a shoc-
maker in a small village in Denbigshire,_
England.
Germany and Austria have about 150
cookery schools. A four years‘ course
is necessary before a diploma‘ is granted.
Most of the hotel chefs have diplomas
from these schools.
Miss Helen Gould, daughter of the
late Jay Gould, has completed the full
course of the law school at the New
York university, coming out with a.
high average, and will receive a diploma
of LL. B. v
David Masson, professor of English
literature in the University of Edin-
burgh, and widely .known as the biog-
rapher of Milton, is about to retire,
says the Electric Magazine, and will
begiven the title of Emeritus professor.
Z What an Expert Says of Insomnia.
~ ir James Crichton Bro’wne, the ex-
on brain diseases, holds that in-
nia. is not attended with such dis-
rous consequences as is commonly
' posed. It is not- as dangerous as
th‘ solicitude of the sufferer. He sug-
g ,sts that the brains of literary men,
who are the most frequent victims, ac-'
qu‘ire the trick of the heart, which
ta res a doze of a fraction of a. second
at :er each beat, and so manages to get
si ' hours rest in 24. Some brains, in
es of insomnia, sleep in sections,
dill .ercnt brain sections going off duty
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