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{- so think many authorities, why so many 7.
tombs have been rifled. Probably for 53“ “ elcome.
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Ten .
SWeet
Capcral
Little
Cigars
for 5 cts.
sou) BY ALL DEALERS.
ANCIENT ARR
They Were Physicallyjnferlor to Soldiers
of the Present.
The popular tendency to enlarge
everything that is far off and belittle
that which is so close by is responsible
_ for the opinion that the men of the
present time are degenerate reductions
of the amen} of medieval times, who
were giants clad in iron and with
muscles of steel. The Paris Figaro
thus shows the absurdity of this
opinion: -. «5‘
Our learned physiologists, after hav-
ing measured hundreds of skeletons,
testify that the men of our times are
from one to two centimeters taller than
the men of the middle ‘ages.
~ We possess their war garments, and
it turns out that we appear not only to
have grown taller since the time when
these were manufactured, but our
shoulders could never fit into the steel
corslets of our so-called athletic fore-
fathers. ‘ ‘
The superintendent of the museums
under the Second empire, wishing to
_ put on the armor of Francis I., the
largest of all in the Museum of Artillery,
was unable to do so. It was too small
for him, though he was in no sense a
a giant. ‘ '
And here is another example. In
Switzerland,- recently, on the occasion
of a gymnastic tournament, the young
men, wishing to close the festivities by
aprocession with historical costumes,
borrowed the arms and armor of the
arsenal. -
But it is evident that their ancestors,
people of little foresight, never thought
of their grandchildren, and these
grandchildren were unable to put on
the armor. It was too small for them.
So much' for the stature" of our an-
cestors. As to their supposed strength,
we have no proof beyond the weight of
the equipment of the men-of-arms.
But the harness of the knights was
very much lighter than has commonly
been supposed. According to one of
the catalogues of the Museum. of Ar-
tillery the weight of the complete
armor' did- not, as a rule, exceed fifty
pounds, and inasmuch as those who
wore it were horsemen, it was the
horse that had to bear the greater part
of the fatigue.
DOG WORSHIP IN FRANCE.
-——_
The Darling Pets Are Surrounded with
Every Comfort.
1A new religion has- sprung up in
France—that of dog worship. These
darling pets of smart women have a.
charming time of it when they are not
being vivisected by brutal scientific
men, as is often the case; for pet dogs,
like refined people, are peculiarly sen-
sitive, their nerves as well as their
tastes being ultra-developed. The prize
favorite of his doting mistress is armed
at all points, says the London Graphic.
He has his own tailor, who provides
him with a variety of clothes. He has
winter coats, summer wraps, mackin-
toshes, comforters, pocket handker-
chiefs, even respirators. .Dogs have
been trained to eat tfzzir dinner off a
tablecloth and to carry a sunshade over
their devoted heads. False teeth, too,
can be provided, and dentists are found
speciallyprepared to minister to the
canine race. And with all this luxury
the charm of the dog’s company will be
destroyed. Artificial and civilized he
will differ nowise from men; and we
all have experienced the value of a dog
who is our friend, who is funny, and
naughty, and mischievous, and frolic-
some, and faithful and undiscriminat-
ing; who loves us when we are unjust
as well as when we are good, who bears
no malice, and never philosophizes, and
lives only for pleasure and to have a
good time, innocently expecting us to
share it with him, and looking to us
confidently fdr sympathy—“that dumb,
'inarticulate ecstasy,” as Mrs. Browning
says, “which is so affecting—love with
out speech.” Dogs must be pagans
frank and free; therein lies their worth
as companions for men.
IN ANCIENT EGYPT.
Strlkes Said to Have Been Numerous
Along the River Nile.
The reporter of the time of Rameses
IX. does not take note of the walking
delegate, though strikes were numerous
then among the Theban workmen. As
laborers were paid in food, the con-
tractors were often behindhand with
their supplies. Erwin writes that “it is
one of the acknowledged characteristics
of 'modern Egypt, that payments can
never be made without delays; so also
in old Egypt, the same routine seems to
have] been followed out with respect to
payments in kind.” To build. or keep
the tombs and monuments of the dead
in good order must have required a
vast number of workmen. If they were
not paid and were ‘starving,,familiar-
ity with the mortal remains of the
great, and the property stored away
in mummy cases, had madethese work-
men 'indifferent to the idea of there
being ' .
abhor".
ogns.
that reason were built those vast
so as to guard an entrance from thieves.
But precautions extending over thou-
sands of‘ years are impossible. If the
thief of one generation was foiled, his
descendants were more enterprising or
expert, or, may be, curious. Bearing
this in mind, the more remarkable are
the recent finds made by M. de Morgan,
at Dachouar.
He Knew Some English.
A Frenchman was boasting that he
had thoroughly mastered the English
language, when he was asked to write
from dictation the following choice
specimen of our choice eccentric ver-
nacular: “As Hugh Hughes was hew-
ing a . yule log from a yew tree aman
dressed in garments of dark hue came
up to Hugh and said: ‘Have you seen
my ewes?’ To which he replied: ‘If
you will wait. until I hew this yew I
will go with you to look for your ewes.’ ”
After an attempt the Frenchman ad—
mitted his mistake. He used to imagine
he was used to English speaking, but
he would be more careful how he used
the language in future.
REFRIGERATI NG FLOWERS. .
New Scheme f0; Making Plants Bloom
Out of Season.
Quite a revelation in horticulturehas
been in progress durin g the past decade,
although, owing to tl‘ 9 secret manner in
which. the experiments leading up to it
have been conducted, comparatively few
persons have been aware of the'new de-
parture, says Chambeos’ Journal.
Everyone knows that flowers, as well
as fruits and vegetables, are forced,
so that those who are rich shall have
the use of them before unaided nature
brings them to maturity. The forcing
business is an expensive one, requir-
ing constant attention and skilled la-
bor. Many attempts, therefore, have
been made to get at the golden eggs
by cheaper means, and as a result of
many trials the opposite process to
forcing has been adopted with suc-
cess. .:,;. - ..,,.;--,_ -
The system consists in retarding the
flowering of the plant by refrigeration,
and is,of course,only afpplicabletothose
which are hardy in. this country, by
which we mean those which will stand
several degrees of frost. The lily of
the valley is one of them, and it is much
in request for purposes of decoration.
Under the old forcing conditions only
about 50 per cent. of the buds treated
could be induced to flower, but by the
freezing process an average of 95 per
cent. can be secured from the end of
summer up to Christmas. It will be
noted that the process cannot be ap-
plied to cvcrgrecns of any kind and it
would certainly be the death of came-1-
lias and probably hyacinths and tulips.
It is said that near Berlin three grow-
ers alone have nearly- 300 acres of 1in
of the valley under cultivation and
that they have adopted the refrigerating
method with great success. It has long
ago been proved that the plant can
be cultivated in England with equal
success, and we trust that the new meth-
od will soon be tried on- an extensive
scale in this country.
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COLOR OF WOMEN’S EYES.
The More Question of Pigment Has Set-
tled Many a Man’s Fate.
Did you ever notice that men always
instinctively put confidence in a girl
with blue eyes, and have their sus—
picions of the girl with brilliant black
ones, and will you kindly tell me why?
asks a writer in the Ladies’ Home Jour-
nal. Is it that the. limpid blue eye,
transparent and gentle, suggests all
the soft, womanly virtues, and because
he thinks he can see through it, clear
down into that blue-eyed girl’s soul,
that she is the kind of a girl he fancies
she is? I think it is, but some. of the
greatest little frauds I know are the
pu'rry, kitteny girls with the big inno-
cent blue eyes. Blazingblack eyes, and
the rich, warm colors, which dark-
skinned women have to wear suggest
energy and brilliance and no end of
intellect. Men look into such eyes and
seem nOt to be able: to see below the
surface. They have not the pleasure of
a long, deep gaze into immeasurable
depths. And so they think her design-
ing and clever, and, perhaps (God save
the markl), even intellectual, when,
perhaps, she has a wealth of love and de-
votion and heroism stored up behind
that impulsive disposition and those
dazzling black eyes, which would do
and dare more in a minute for some man
she had set that great heart of hers
upon, than your cold-blooded, tranquil
blond would do in 40 years. A mere
question of pigment in the eye has set-
” tled many a man’s fate in life, and es-
tablished him with a wife who turned
out to be very different from the girl
he fondly thought he was getting.
N 0 ANIMAL will grow faster in pro-
portion to the food consumed than a
lamb. - '
FIX A trough in the pasture in a little
inclosure so that the lamb can go in and
get a daily ration of grain.
PUSH them just as fast as possible so
they will be fit for market early and be-
“fore the rush of ordinarily raised lambs.
——~Farm J Ournal.
Sick - ‘
Or Bilious
Headache
(lured by. Taking.
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Medal and. Diploma
peculiar kind of sacrilege ,
That “‘cplains,
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New England housekeepa
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fooled into buying inferior
soap more than once, just
because there is a present
given with it.
. On washing-day they '\"
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'LIIDIES OF FASHION
Patroniz'e me regularly, because
‘ they realize that I never sell Hats,
Bonnets, and other Millinery that
are not strictly up-to-date. A per-
sonal visit is necessary to appre-
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58 Wall Street, Norwalk, Conn.
IIVER JACKSIIII’S JEWELRY STORE.
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My new- line of Spring and
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MERCHANT TAILOR,
ll North Main St. South Norwalk.
. I‘M-\I‘M
Raymond. fl: Son.
Successors to George H. Raymond.
Fariilture Dealers and General Funeral
Directors. ,
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EV EN 1 NG
“ CONDITIM mu.
Volume of Business Is Small, Though
There Is No Reaction.
MEN or MONEY ARE WAITING
Contract-s Deferred From Miotives of Pru-
dence—Cotton Again Takes a Drop.
Shoe llIanufacturers In 010-
ver—Failure Statistics.
NEW YORK, May 23. -'R. G. Dun 85
Co. ’5 weekly review of trade says:
There is nothing like reaction in busi-
ness, though the volume is small. The
stock market refuses to obey orders for a
panic. Manufacturers are not gaining on
the whole. but very few are losing. Rall-
road stocks average a shade higher than a'
Week ago, and there is abundant evidence
that men of money are watching for the
right moment to buy at the bottom, cer-
tain that good crops and definite political
prospects will bring improvement in the
fall. Men of all parties have faith that the
American people will find the right way
to maintain the soundness of their cur-
rency. There is no longer the threatened
danger that both houses of congress will
go wrong, and the success of the sound
money men in both parties as far west as
South Dakota is most significant. The
business world has the best of reasons for
refusing to go into a. panic, and it looks
hopefully forward to definite improvement
as soon as political uncertainties are out
of the way.
The Waiting condition. which seems to
some people nothing better than stagna-
tion, still continues. But there is a differ-
ence. Thousands of orders and contracts
are merely deferred because they can be
more safely given a little later. Railroad
earnings are 3.6 per cent larger for the
month than a year ago and 12.2 per cent
smaller than-in 1893. Foreign trade is on
the Whole more favorable, imports being
at New York for the month about 2 per
cent 10wer than last year, while exports
of merchandise are about 10 per cent
larger. ,
“'lic'at and Cotton.
lative market for exportable products, and
the stories about damage to wheat have
been numerous, but the general belief re.
garding the future supply is fairly reflect
ed in the decline of 1.62 cents per bushel.
The western receipts continue larger, for
three weeks 5,818,625 bushels against
4,362. 537 last year, while Atlantic ex-
ports, flour included, have been only
3,198,803 bushels for the some weeks
against 4,749,674 last year. The home
market fails entirely to respond to short
crop stories, for it is known that Western
reports indicate a crop exceeding last
year’s. Cotton speculation lifted the price
a fraction for a day or two, but it declined
again, and such movements are always
easy at this season, when stocks can be
easily controlled. The European and
American mill supplies. with commercial
stocks, still exceed maximum consump-
tion for the crop year, and the promise for
the coming crop is decidedly good.
If the output of pig iron Were always a
reliable barometer of business conditions,
as some suppose, the returns of furnaces
in blast May 1. according to The Iron
Age, 188,319 tons against 187,451 April 1,
would be convincing. But the increase of
915 tons, and this, deducted from the out-
put Of furnaces, leaves 2,976,348 tons for
four months, which is certainly in excess
of the actual consumption. because the
stocks of the great steel companies are not
included in the statement. Since the steel
billet pool was formed these stocks have
doubtless increased largely. There is
scarcely any improvement in the demand
for finished products, though the Bar as-
sociation has become strong enough to an-
able makers of steel bars to get a slightly
higher price. The demand for nails is so
light that a reduction of price is expected.
The demand for structural works is less
urgent, but yet orders are encouraging in
number, although new contracts are for
small quantities. Bessemer pig is a shade
lower, $12.50 at Pittsburg, and the ablest
observers of the iron market notice that
there is glaring incongruity betweenpig
at $12. 50, billets at 820.25 and steel rails
at $28.
Boots, Shoes and Leather.
The boot and shoe manufacture has
quite the best of it at present, and although
shipments from the east are for the month
thus far about 7 per cent less than last
year, they are larger than in any previous
year, and the factories are nearly allem-
ployed full time, most of them having
orders for some months ahead. A slight
advance in women’s grain shoes Is the
only change yet made in prices, but a gen
eral advance is expected when manufac-
turers’ supplies of cheap leather have been
exhausted, because the market for leather
is much stronger in tone, though this
week unchanged in quotations, while the
Chicago market for hides is quite excited
because of scanty supplies, and the aver-
age of quotations is nearly 7 per cent
higher. The textile manufactures are still
waiting, as they" have been for months
past, and the offensive curtailment of
production does not strengthen prices in
the least. Some large cotton mills have
discontinued production this week, but
the only change in representative quota-
tions is an eighth decline in brown sheetr
ings. The market for woolens is exceed~
ingly dull, notwithstanding the stoppage
of many mills, and while clay worsteds
and clay mixtures are both a shade lower,
there is nothing like confidence or activity
as yet. in any branch of the manufacture.
Sales of wool have been 2,648,200 pounds
for the week at the three chief markets,
and for three weeks ending May 21, 9,187,-
,, 400 pounds, of which 4,882,300 were do-
mestic, against 15,948,350 in the same
weeks of 1892, of which 8,601,700 were
domestic.
The volume of domestic trade reflected
by clearing house exchanges is for the
Week 11.2 per cent less than last year, and
for the month 10.1- per cent, and for the
month it is 16.8 per cent smaller than in
.1893, although the panic had at this date
in that year become serious. Prices of
commodities are remarkably low, and the
average for all is again the lowest ever
known. Failures for two weeks of May
178,756 last year and $5,071,116 in 1894.
Manufacturing were $2,003,157 against
$1,524,527 last year, and $1,589,933 in
1894, while trading were $4,635,987
against $3,279,2291ast year .and $3,356,-
637 in 1894. Failures for the week have
been 227 in the United States against 207
last year and 28 in Canada against 23
last year. -
One Day's Government Receipts.
WASHINGTON, May same-National bank
notes received for redemption today, 8421,-
334; government receipts from internal
revenue, $439, 149; customs, $520,104;mis'.
cellnneous, $33,438. ‘ . , .
There is nothing exciting in the specu- ‘
stocks unsold since Jan. 1 has been 243,- ,
show liabilities of $6,719,153 against $5,— '
; ,se-Advextiiéintbeefiwme- . 91:2
Doctors are often handicapped by the
mere fact that when treating the diseases of
women, they suggest and insist on “ exam-
inations” and “local treatment.”_ A great
many of them do not know that this is abso-
lutely unnecessary. Many a woman has
been thrown into a. dangerous state of ner-
vous excitement by the mere suggestion of
such treatment. Many women lie to the
doctor. That sounds hard, but it is un-
doubtediy true, They know that if they
admit pertain symptoms that the doctor
will inevitably insist on an “ examination.”
They do not give him all the facts 111 the
case, and so he works in 1334? £33m Quite
often the doctor is too hue; and too binned
to makethe necessary e art to chitin the
facts. He frequently mat; symptoms f0?
what they appear to be on the £112-93. when
the real cause and the real sickness is deep’f."
and more dangerous. A derangement of
the distinctly feminine organs will derange
the whole body. The woman herself may
not know exactly what is the matter with
her, but whenever she is sick, there are two
things she should look out for first. One is
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healing mission for 30 years, and tens of
thousands of women have been made happy
by It. Di‘. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets are for
const1pation, and contingent ills. Druggists
sell them, but sometimes in well meaning
ignorance, they will try to sell you some-
thing else. There is nothing “just the
same” or “ just as good.” The druggist
who tells you there is, is either mistaken
or dishonest. .
If on care to know more about your own body,
sen 2r one-cent stamps to cover cost of mailing
only, and you W111 receive absolutely free a copy
of Dr. Pierce’s 1,008 pa e book, “ Common Sensc
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AT
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BROOKLYN, N. Y.
A short walk from the Brooklyn end of
the Bridge and Fulton Ferry.
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Funeral Director and Emhalmer.
39 Washington Street'South Norwalk
Residence, Manackemo Hotel.
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will consult their own inter-
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