SOUTH N
CRWALK. "
The South NorwaIK Office of the Gazette Is at the store of New-
man & Pinney. No. 12 North Main
orders for Job Printing, as well as Items of News.
Homer M. Byington. Manager.
Miss Marion Hibbard spent Sunday
with Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Woodward.
George Govern, the popular night
clerk at Lane’s is sick 'with the chills.
R. H. Golden. of West avenue, spent
Sunday with Frank Taylor of New ‘York
city. ' ' _ ‘ 3
Joseph Tammany, of the postofiice,
returned to work this morning after a
two weeks’ vacation.
James O. Jennings of this city, the
artist was at one time in the employ of
the late General Tom Thumb.
Charles Graves and Loraine Brown
made some fast time between here and
Bridgeport yesterday afternoon.
Miss Louise Abendroth, {of Crescent ,
Terrace, wilbentertainjthe Ellis Musi-
acal club at her home this evening.
h6g6 Hubbell fined Frank Willis 35
this morning for drunkenness but sus-
pended sentence as it was the prisoner’s
first offense.
The Old Well Hook and Ladder com-
pany Will hild their regular monthly
meeting in their rooms on Haviland
street this evening.
Felix McCabe was arrested last night
.in drunkenness. Judge Hubbell fined
him 83 this morning in court. He paid
up and was discharged.
Mr. Andrew Nutting and daughters
sail for Europe on June 6th. Mr. and
Mrs. George C. Lockood, of Norwalk,
will sail on the same steamer with them.
The Young Men’s Debating club will
hold their regular monthly meeting to-
morrow evening: William F. Smith
and William Wilcox are booked for,
the debating.
Au eel got caught in the water pipe
in Owen’s bakery this morning and it
was necesSary to force it back into the
main pipe with a pump before they
Could draw water.
Ofi‘icer Reardon arrested Willihm
Weed about 6 o’clock this morning for
riding a bicycle on the Washington
street sidewalk. Later Judge Hubbell
fined him $1 which he paid.
The young Men’s Christian League
held their regular weekly services in
Kundsen’s Hall on Chestnut street yes-
terday afternoon. éi‘he subject was
“The Home” and F. S. Lent acted as
leader.
Mrs. Solmans had as her guest yes-
terday, Mrs. Gen. Tom. Thumb. Mrs.
Solmans drove Mrs. Thumb about the
principal streets and the lajtfh'r wa‘s’i
greatly pleased with the many hand-
some residences in town.
The Norwalk Barbers’ Union will
meet with Henry Froeb at his shop on
North Main streettc-‘morrow evening.
Howard Tilly acted as_corne_tist at the
services of the Men’ s Sunday Evening
club' In the Congregational church last
night. -
0. E, Barker took a party out fishing
for flat fish this morning. The party
was composed of E. W. Clarke, John
Yost and George Foote. They went to
the Yacht club house and took a boat
from there. As Oliver carried plenty
of bait they will no doubt make a good
catch.
James Davis alias James Lewis was
arrested on suspicion by Captain Glad-
stone yesterday morning at 2 o’clock.
On him was found a mackintosh, two
coats, two vests in addition to a goon
suit which .he wore. He told five, or six
conflicting stories and Judge Hubbell
sent him to jail for 10 day’s on the
charge of vagrancy.
James Foster appeared before Judge
Hubbell' in the, Town Court this morn-
ing charged with drunkenness. The
Judge recogLized him as a man who
had been tried before him in Norwalk
over a week age under the name of Wil-
liams. He therefore fined him $5 and
costs. As he had no money the Chief
escorted him to Bridgeport on the noon
train.
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All last w1nter Mr Geo." A. Mills, of
Lebanon, Conn., was badly afflicted with
rheumatism.’ At times it was so severe that
he could not stand up straight, but was
drawn over on one side.
remedies without receiving relief,” he says,
“until about six months ago I bought a bot-
' tle of Chamberlain’s Pain Balm. After using
it for three days my rheumatism was gone
and has not returned since.” For sale by E.
P. Weed, druggist. ,
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' ,OF THE CHINEE AND THEJAP.
The Japanese are extravagantly fond
of childicn, and treat them so kindly
that Japan has been called the chil- '
dren’s paradise.
The bridal veil of a. Japanese youngr
lady is subsequently used as her shroud.
Just after the marriage it is carefully
put away and reserved until her death
makes its use necessary.
China has the new woman, «too. The
daughter of a'magistrate in Shantun
acts as treasurer in her father’s dis-
trict, keeps the books, pays the bills
and stirs up delinquent debtors. Her
father has made 50,000 taels in six
months, and the district is trying its
best to have him removed.
Marshal Yamagata, the famous hero
of the late Chino-Japanese war, ex-
pects to pass through the United States
on his way to Russia. He Will land a
San Francisco, Where he will be the
guest of his daughter, who is the wife
' of the Japanese vice consul at the
Golden Gate. Marshal Yamagata is at-
tended by no less than six distinguished
“I tried different
where Advertisements and
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FROM UNCLE SAM’S DOMAINS.
, No man ever’chosen'vice president
has been elected prwident since 1836.
The branches of the Mississippi river
have an aggregate length of 15,000
miles.
Michigan land held for three years
by the state for non- -peyment of taxes
becomes subject to homestead entry.
Any citizen may then take up 240 acres
of it, by paying ten cents an acre for
five years.
The biggest and strongest man in
Maine, John Moriarty, a. lumberman,
died recently, of typhoid fever, at Old-
town. His height was six feet 9%
inches, and he weighed 245 pounds.
Notwithstanding his great weight, he
had very little flesh on his bones. ‘
Boston is about to make an experi-
ment in high liquor license. Sixty
hotels will be called on to pay $2,000
each instead of $1,500, as formerly, and
the tax of retail dealers will be $1,000
each. These are said to be the highest
licenses yet required in this country.
It is stated by one who has investi-
gated the subject that the average year-
ly expenses of a cooperative building
and loan association of Philadelphia' 18
$350. In most cases no salaries are
paid except to the secretary, and he re-
ceives about $150 per unnum. There
are over 40 associations in Philadelf
phia.
'SEMl-NEWSY AND INTERESTING.
Detroit’s mayor has fixed up a sys-
tem of street car transfers in that city
by which a passenger can ride 35 miles
for three cents.
The house in which Andrew Jackson
had his headquarters during the period
including the battle of New Orleans
was burned to the ground the other
day.
Acetylene gas is being used to light
up the cars of one ParisD street car line,
being generated in little tanks carried
on the platform. A month’s trial has
shown that the gas is cheaper than
either kerosene or electricity as an
illuminant.
A farmer in Bee-ch Springs, V's“, ac-
cused a neighbor of stealing a. calf from
him, and a lawsuit was the result. The
calf could not be found, and the suit
dragged along until each of the liti-
- gents had spent $50. Then the Cult
was found, starved to death, in a cave
where it had strayed.
A “midget” Testament, three-quar-
ters of an inch long and half an inch
'wide, weighing only 26 grains, and a.
“mite” Bible, 1% inches high, by 11/3
wide, containing 936 pages and weigh—
ing 180 grains, have just been published
by a Glasgow firm. They are said to be
“the smallest Biblia and Testament in
the world. '42.». ‘. .
SCIENCE AND THE SCIENTISTS.
Lord Blythswood says that he has an
instrument capable of measuring down
to the 60-1,000th part of an inch.
Glass bricks for building purposes
are being manufactured in Silesia.
They are translucent, without its being
possible to see through them, strong
and cheap.
Actinogram, which is Greek; radio-
script, which is Latin, and ray sketch,
which is English, are suggested as
names for the Rontgen pictures in place
of nondescripts like shadowgram and
radiografii.
In the British museum there are sun-
dried bricks taken from buildings in
Nineveh and Babylon, and they show
not the least sign of decay. No stone,
not even gran‘ite, is more durable than
well-made bricks.
Rontgcn's rays" have made their first
appearance in court. Miss Gladys
Ffolliott, an actress, brought suit
against the Nottingham theater for in-
juries received in falling down the _
stairs from her dressing-room. At the
trial she put in pictures of her injured
foot and of the other 011e, taken by the
‘Crays, and got her 1 erdict.
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P. H., DWYER.
DON’T BE SIDE-TRAGKED.
ALTERATIOII SALE STILL 0R.
GUSTOMERS ALL SATISFIED.
SALES LARGE.
VERDIGTi-dA SUGGESS.
Here areq few reasons.
HARNESS OILS.
34c quart were 750
[99 pint were 450.
l abels a little worn, torn, etc.
Oils are A No. I though,
btandard goods.
IISTERS.
98¢ were $1.50.
14c Were $1.25.
59c Were $1.00
38c Were 75c. ‘
Equally useful for house car
iiage. stme or bain. Always
useful. Never so cheap.
I still drum up )1] those 59, 98 flar.
nesses. Th1 y re weith it,
every cent
Also five drummers samples single
harness, W ill go at $1. 98.
M ads to sell at double. They
are a barga1n,a all new. Have
\ been care essly handled.
P. H'. DWYER,
officers. .. . _ .
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RICH PEOPLE OF THE STAGE.
Einil Fischer can _—boast of valuable
securities. 4 .
Lottie Gilson and Maggie Cline each.
have bank accounts.
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COMING INTERNATIONAL FAIRS. 1
Russia is going to carry the war into
England. The min: sun of finance is
orgnnizing ,1 an erzhi bition of Russian -
products in London after the close of
the Nijni Novgorod exhibition.
Twenty-four governments. including
the United States, J span“, C liina, Persia,
and nearly all, the European countries,
have given official notice that they will
exhibit in Paris in 1E 00.
Pat 121. is going to celebrate the 500th
anniversary of the foundation of its fa;-
rnous Ccrtosa. The monastery w as be-
gun in 1396 by one of the V isconti, but
was not finished till 1542. It 1s now
a museum.
A French engineer has conceived the
idea of reproducing the house in which
napoleon liv ed at St. Helena. as an at-
traction during the Paris exposition
of 1900. The house “111 be an exact
copy of the original, with panoramic
canvases representing the natural sur-
roundings.
AT THE COURT OF ST. JAMES.
The prince of Wales has been re-
elccted grand master of the Mark Ma.-
sons for the ensuing year. He will be
installed on June 2.
Queen X ictoiia will w ear none but
black gloves since her widowhood, and
those of only the tw o-butboned length.
Her majesty‘ s glme bill for an entire
year is. less than $100.
Gen. Ferrero is the Italian ambassa-
dor at the court of St. James. 'He is
quite popular in diplomatic circles in
London, and the present digression in
the east made by England is due in part
to Ferrero’s tact. -
In return for the entertainment of
his son Nasrulla Khan last year, the
amoer of Afghanistan has sent presents
to Queen Victoria, which at Bombay
have been appraised at 13 lacs of rupees,
or $650,000.
STATISTICS FROM MANY LANDS.
The mortgages on the estates of Rus-
sian noblcmen are said to foot up $632,-
500,000.
It is estimated that of the 90,000
paupers in Loudon, two-thirds are able—
bodied and capable of working.
Italy’s deficit is about $12,500,000 a.
year, and Greece, Turkey, Portugal and
Spain are also running behind in rev-
enue.
Guy’s hospital in London is in finan-
cial straits. The prince of Wales has
undertaken to raise by subscription the
$2, 500,000 it needs.
Melbourne, Australia, has lost 43, 435
inhabitants in four years, the census
of 1895 giving a. population of 447,461.
The population of the seven Australian
colonies at the end of 1895 was 4,238,-
000.
.land. His fortuné' lS estimated at $250, -
000.
I Francis Wilson is a friend of Dame
Fortune, and though all his ventures
have not been successful, he is still a.
rich man.
Fannie Davenport has a fortune in-
vicinity, from which she derives alargc
income.
George Frothingham has sung him-
self into a fortune, invested in securi-
ties. He is one of the richest members
of the Bostonians.
Christine Nilsson owns property in
several large cities. She has a. com-
fortable bank account, and enjoys the
good things of life.
Tony Pastor is not what is termed a
rich man, but owns sufficient of this
world’s goods to render any fear for
the future unnecessary.
lion dellars when she died. She was one
of the shrewdést female financiers in
the profession.
Edwin Booth left over half a million
dollars when he died. He gave nearly
one- fourth of that amount away in
charity during his lifetime.
William A. Brady has investments in
theatrical enterprises that have netted
him a. good deal of money; At present
he is more than well to do.
Sarah Berhardt has spent a. fortune
in works of art, but she still owns a
valuable estate‘in France and has large
sums of ready cash in the banks.
Calve could draw a cheek for $100,-
000 that would be honored.
gasses much landed property in'France,
and is heavily interested in stocks and
bonds.
WHAT THE WOMEN ARE DOING.
Mrs. Ben Clemmons, of Breathitt
county, Ky., is 35 years old, and weighs
a, *trifle‘ over 400 pounds. She is still in-
creasing in weight.
Miss Jennie Young, of Scotland, has
been in Mexico for some time arranging
for the purchase of land for a. large
Scotch colony which she intends to
bring over.
Mrs. Ty ndall is making good headw ay
.11 ith her husband’s biography. She has
11. ad an enormous correspondence to
sift; but at last has reduced it to some
sort of order. 1.-
Mrs. Cannon, wife of the new Utah
senator, is an earnest believer in woman
suffrage, but is, nevertheless, an orthoe
dox Mormon and a stout defender of
thedoctrine of plural marriages.
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