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as mu m Pumi-
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MEAT.
Round, Sirloin .nd Por-
terhouse Steaks, Sausge,
Pet and Rio ltns'ts .
Reduced 26. a Pound
All First Quality Meat.~ 3,.
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6 WATER. ST. . NORWALK
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Stomach, .
Bowels,
Liver and
Kidneys.
FOR SALE BY
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44 With Street,
The Best Wines, Liquors jand Cigars.
Piano Lessons.
BS. GEORGE W. BRAD LEY. (daughter
of the lateWm. 3.. Nash.) irives eflicem
and satisfactory instructions on the Piano at
her home No. 193 Alain street.
PLYMOUTH Rock ICE.
Stores and Families Supplied.
Lowest Rates.
H-loraée E. Darin,
'IXOELSIOL ' ,
Livery and Sales Stable.
unwvuw‘
Opposite Danburye, and
Norwalk Railroad depot‘
Norwalk. Conn. Stylish
‘“ " Single or Double Team
with or without drivers
Safe horses for women .
andchildren. ‘. _
SADDLE Houses A SPECIALTY
A
NATURAL GAS some OUT.
Coal Again the Fuelin the Large
Pittsburgh Foundries.
The Supply of Gas Has Also Failed in
other States-Since 1888 the De-
mand for Coal Has Been
Increasing.
it
The first rolling mill that used nat-
ural gas exclusively was the Etna iron
works, in Allegheny county, a few
miles above Pittsburgh, and this es-
tablishment has been one of the last to
abandon this fuel in the Pittsburgh dis-
trict. After twenty years of dependence
upon natural gas, says the Philadel-
phia Record, the proprietors of this
plant have removed the pipes and are
now returning to the use of coal, long
after most of the other mills had sur-
rendered to the cheap bituminous fuel
which had always been the cheap foun-
dation of Pittsburgh’s great industrial
prosperity. The diminishing supply
and the consequent increase in cost
have necessitated the abandonment of
natural gas by most of the large manu-
facturing establishments in the Pitts-
burgh district, and its use is being
more and more restricted to domestic
purposes. Pittsburgh has 'again be-
come the smoky city of fifteen years
ago, alleviated in some measure by the
use of fuel oil and manufactured gas,
which have assumed importance with
the decline of natural gas in the last
four or five years. Natural gas was
not a factor of very great importance
in the Pittsburgh district until early in
the ’80s and the point of greatest con-
sumption was reached in 1888, after
which the decline b egan. It has never
been feasible to ascertain with accu-
racy the quantity of natural gas con-
sumed each year, but Joseph D. Weeks,
of Pittsburgh, has prepared for the
United States geological survey on es-
timate .of the value of the coal dis-
displaced by natural gas, which has
been accepted as the most practical
measure of the consumption of gas. In
the period of its largest'use the natural
gas consumed in Pennsylvania, meas-
ured on this basis, was valued as fol-
lows: 1885, $4,500,000; 1886,, $9,000,000;
1887, 814,749,500; 1888, $19,282,375; 1889,
$11,593,989; 1890, $9,551,025; 1891, $7,-
834,016; 1892, $7,376,281; 1893, $6,486,000.
In Ohio the supply of natural gas has
failed even more rapidly than in Penn-
sylvania. The largest consumption in
Ohio was in 1889, when it amounted in
valueto $5,215,000, but in 1893 it had
'fallen to $1,510,000. The suddenness of
the failure of the supply has caused
much inconvenience and loss to manu-
facturing establishments, which in
many instances Were deprived of fuel
almost without warning. While the
supply of natural gas in Pennsylvania
and Ohio has been diminishing a new
productive region has come into promi-
nence in Indiana, and interest in nat-
ural gas‘is now centered in that state.
In 1886 the value of the gas consumed
in Indiana was estimated at only $300,- ‘
' 000;‘in 1888 it was figured at $1,320,000,
and in 1893 the value was placed at 85,- »
718,000. The opening of this new field
has stimulated the development of iron
and steel and glass enterprises in In-
diana in a marked degree. N otwith-
standing the abundance of the present
supply in Indiana there is no assurance
of its continuance for, a. longer period
than in other states, and a return to
fuels more stable, if less convenient, is
merely a question of time.
is claimed by geologists and gas experts
that the point of greatest supply has
been reached. While it lasts there is
no fuel that possesses so many advan-
tages as natural gas. The uncertainty
of its duration is its only disadvantage.
A GREAT TIMEPIECE.
A Watch That Has m... Since 1754 and
Is Still a Good Tlmepiece.
Judge Frederick W. Moore, of the
superior court, is the possessor of an
heirloom in the shape of a watch that
no amount of money would buy, says
the St. Louis Republic. And, besides
its value as an heirloom, it has a his:
toric interest.
The timepiece is of the open-face
bull’s-eye pattern. As with all .old-
style watches of the pattern men-
tioned, the outer case must be removed
before it can be wound. The outer
case of this watch is of hammered
gold, and all the Work on it was done
by hand. While this is apparent from
the workmanship, it is further proved
by the date on the inside, which is
1754. There is an inscription on the
inside as follows: “Daniel De St. Leu,
In fact, it .
Servant to Her Majesty. London.” Her '
majesty then was the queen of George
IL, the then reigning king of England.
The authentic history of this valu-
able timepiece is this: In the years pre-
ceding 1754 William Augustus, duke of
Cumberland, the second son of George
eII., was the commander of the British -
armies. In the Scottish campaigns and
.in,the campaigns against the Prussians ?
and the Russians, and when he was at
the head of the British, Hanoverian .
and Danish forces of fifty thousand :
men, Dr. Frederick William Schwartze,
a Hanoverian, was on his staff as sur-
geon. At the close of the campaign
against the Prussians and the Russians
the duke had three watches made like .
the one Judge Moore has, and of which
it is one. The watches were presented
to three officers of the duke’s staff by .
him as a mark of his esteem. One 3
went to Dr. Schwartze,
as a Hano-E
verian. one to a British officer and one E
to a Danish oiIicer.
were made in 1755.
services had ended in 1757, and the
duke had returned to London, it was
expected he would succeed to the
throne, but the birth of a son to his
elder brother cut him out. ‘
The presentations
Black Lake in Mexico.
After the doctor’s j
In the midst of the volcanoes of Mex- 1
ico is the “Lake of Ink,” which covers 3
about an acre of ground. The body of
water, or ink, or whatever it is, is so
covered {vith ashes from the adjacent
volcanoes as to appear a part of the sur-
rounding ground, which is all of the
same dull gray tint. ‘Where this liquid
comes from, what its chemical proper-
ties may be or what the supply is, are
matters of conjecture.
‘ oughly discouraged, I thought
CHEAE LIVING IN__JAPAN.
Average Expenses of Natlve Three Dollars
a Month —Man with 850,000 Is Rich.
Twenty millions out of 30,000,000 of
people in Japan live on $5 a month,
and the average on less than $3. Rice
audit-he merest nibble of vegetables
constitute their diet, and their clothing
is cotton. _
Rice costs $1.50 for 130 pounds, pota-
toes 75 cents forxathe, same amount an-‘J
‘ teal ducks 12 cents apiece; fish, liow~
ever, is dear. You would be surprise-.1
at the amount of cucumbers these peo-
ple consume, and a large basketi’u;
costs but 4 cents. ‘
Making gods is a remunerative trade,
and they are sold at all prices, from $201)
to $1, and in all materials, from gold to
unpainted wood. ,
, Paper lanterns furnish another occu-
pation, and the prices range from 15
cents to $15.
Law is a favorite occupation,>and the
fee for a license is $4 a year.
The Japanese are prejudiced against
the manufacture of quaclc medicines.
and the license to make them is $2 .1 '
year, but the druggists do not pay so
much to sell them.
Blind men make a good living by
shampooing, which is a luxury that
even the poorest Japanese will no‘
forego. It consists in a slapping and
rubbing of the joints and muscles until.
every sensation of fatigue is gone.
An ordinary laborer receives 10 cents
a day. ‘
Japanese value skill in writing, and a
famous scroll writeng‘ets a large sum
of money fora few strokes of his brush.
A seed shop is a curious place, where
they sell seeds done up in packages
with a picture of the root, flower and
leaves of the plant.
Schoolhouses cost from $400 to $1,200.
but the latter price is much above the
average. Native teachers are appointed
by the government, but their salary de-
pends upon fees and voluntary contri-
butions; these are from a half penny to
three half pence monthly for each
pupil, according to the means of the
parents. There are 13 grades of teach
ers, and they are said to receive $4 a
month.
Teachers of English receive $200 a
month; the highest salary paid is $900
a month, and the professors get from
$250 to $400 a month.
A foreigner, if he wishes to hire a
house, can do so at a cost of $10 or $29
, a month and can hire a man servant
: who will do all the housework for $5 :1
; month, and on this the servant will
support a wife and indulge in some
luxuries. '
In Japan $10,000 make a rich man.
$50,000 an exceedingly rich man, and
very few are ever worth twice that
amount. :
Board, lodging and traveling ex-
penses for a person and courier are
about $1.60 a day when moving and 0')
cents when stationary. The following
is a fair sample of the charges at hotels:
1. For night's lodging, supper and break-
fast for two, 80 cents.
2. For sugar, 2 cents. ., ....
3. For peaches, 8 cents.
Total, 40 cents.
For second—class accommodations
. they charge 12 cents a day.
The Japanese arenot free from the
vice of cheating any more than, their
eastern neighbors. Bales of silk are
sold with the outward hanks of one
quality and the inner ones of coarse
material ingeniously woven, jars of
camphor with the top genuine and the
rest powdered rice, tubs of oil with
lower half water.—Boston Globe.
COMMERCIAL AND lNDUSTRlAL.
Last year 195,000,000 tons of coal were
mined in thevUnited States.
Five hundred trading vessels leave the
Thames daily for all parts of the world.
The export of sheep from Ireland has;
been falling off enormously, but there
ha been an increase of cattle.
Dr. Ball, the eminent naturalist, says
that the whaling and sealing industries
in Alaska are practically exhausted.
The making of cod liver oil is an im-
portant industry in Christiania. The
quantity exported last year was 70,000
barrels. ' -
The amount paid in the form of inter—
est to shareholders in public companies
in Britain annually is something like
81.100.000.000.
., When lovc
M knocks at a we-
. " man’s heart he
usually comes, in
disguise. Doesn’t
want it k n o w u
what he’s up to.
I f she knew all
about the little
rascal, would she
let him in ? That’s a question.
Women are apt to look upon
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a matter of sentiment and af-
fection. That is pretty nearly
right; yet there is a ractical
side to it too ; and the est way
to preserve the ideal aspect of
marriage and maternity is not
to forget the practical part of
it. A woman cannot be a thor-
oughly hep y wife and mother
unless the istinctive physical
organism of her sex is in a
healthy and vigorous condi-
tion. The best friend that wo-
man ever had is the “ Favorite
Prescription,” of Dr. R. V.
Pierce, Chief Consulting Phy.
3 Lsician of the Invalids’ Hotel
.,..and Surgical Institute, Buffalo,
M N. Yr The “Prescription,” is
a perfect and infallible remedy for every
form of “female weakness.” It cures by
restoring health and strength to the inter.
nal organism, which cannot be reached by
“ local applications ;” thus the cure is radi<
cal, complete and constitutional.
Dr. Pierce’s eminent reputation as a phy‘
sician of wide learning; and his-spemal
knowledge of the delicate and intricate or-
ganism of women, accounts for the unpar-
alleled confidence, which women place in
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his “Favorite Prescription,” over every .
other remedy. Its use obv1_ates the neces-
sity of dreaded “ examinations ” and the
stereotyped “ local treatments.”
Dr. R. V. Pierce, Dear Sir :—-I suffered fourteen
years with female weakness, nervousness. and
general debilit , trying everything I could find
to help me—al to n avail. I then heard of
Dr. Pierce’s medicine nd although I was thor-
I would try oncg
more to find relief. I took your “ Golden Medica
Discovery" and “ Favorite Prescri h0n,': and tot
great praise cannot be given for t e rapid reliei
they ave me. I am now free from the fennel
troub es. Very sincerely yours,
(Mrs) W ~
Box 46, Saratoza.
Santa Clara Co.,
love and marriage as purely .
OF NEW YORK.
: ‘ RICHARD A. McCURDY President.
' amen ur huYeu Endingflm. 31. 19‘
Assets.
Liabilities . .
Surplus . i .
I
. $221,213,721 33—
194,347,157 58-,
. $26,866,563 75: -_
Total Income . .
. $48,597,430 51
Total Paid Policy-holders in 1895,
. $28.126,728 45
Insurance and Annuities in force,
Net gain in 1895
$899,074,453: 78,
. $61,647,645 36.,
NOTE—Insurance merely mr'ucpn, is dlscarded from this Statement as wholly mlsleadlng. and only insurance.
us: actually issued and paid for in cash Is Included.
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.
~ , Office cf the Mutual Life Insurance Company of Neil Yurx,
Report of the Examining Committee.
February 11,1896.
At a meeting of the Board of Trustees of this Company, held on the 18t b: day of
December last, theundersigned were appointed a Committee to examine the annual
Statement for the year ending Decemb< r 31st, .1 895, and to verify the same by com-
parison with the assets of the Company.
The Committee have'barefully performed the duty assigned, to them, and, hereby
ccrtify that the Statement is in all particulars correct and that the assets specified
therein are in possession of the Company.
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In making this certificate the Committee bear testimonv to the high character of
the investments (1' the Company and express their approval of the system, order and
accuracy with Much the accounts and vouchers have been kept, and the business in
general transacted.
H. 0. Von Post,
( harles E. Henderson,
James C. Holden,
Robert Clyphant,
\Vm. P. L'iron,
J. H. Herrick.
Committee
ROBERT A. GRANNIS, Vice-President.
WALTER R. GILLETTE, General Manager. ,
ISAAC F. LLOYD, Second Vice-President,
WILLIAM J. EASTON, Secretary,
IOHN A. FONDA, Assistant Treasurer.
WILLIAM P. SANDS, Cashier
HENRY E. DUNCAN. Jr., Cor. Seoy.
ALBERT KLAMROTE, Asst. stay.
FREDERIC CROMWELL, Treasurer.
JAMES TIMPSGN, 2d Asst. Treas
EDWARD P. HOLDEN, Asst. Cashier
EMORY MOCLINTOCK LL.D., F. I. A., Actuary.
" JOHN TATLOCK, Ja, Asst. Actuary.
CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor,
WM. W. RICHARDS. Comptroller.
. HENRY s. BROWN, Asst. comp:
JOHN C. ELLIOTT, Superintendent of Domestic Agencies,
EDWARD LYMAN SHORT, Gen. Solicitor.
MEDICAL DIRECTORS
GUSTAVUS S. WINSTON, M. D. ELIAS,'J. MARSH, M. D.
GRANVILLE M. WHITE. M. D.
JOHN W. Nromons.
New Haven, General Agt. for State of Connecticut.
Local Agent
A. m. CAMP,
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Norwalk Chronicler