24-. SARATOGM, Genuine Sarato'ga Water in block-tin lined barrels direct from the celebrated Spring, 13 for sale on draught at Had- den’s, corner Wall and River Street. 'THE WATER Is brought direct from Sara- toga, and is dispensed in pre- cisely the same condition in which it flows from the spring at. Saratoga, and is sold at 5 Cents per Glass. House-cleaning. Lnstrine. 10c Ask your Grocers. en euro IN emce- MEAT. R,ound Sirloin and Por- terhouse Steaks, Sausge, Pot and Rib Roasts Reduced 2c. 11 Pound All First Quality Meat. J. W. BOGARDUS, 6 WATER ST.. NORWALK *HATHflflN . SPRINT} WATER ‘ FOR THE Stomach, . Bowels, Liver and Kidneys. FOR SALE BY The Holmes, Keelcr &Selleck n NEW CAFE nEsngfiuANT MIKE ATCHFORD, 2-44 Wain Street, The Best Wines, Liquors and Cigars. PLYMOUTH ROCK I‘CE. Stores and Families Supplied. Lowest Rates. Horace E. Dann, 310314810]: L1 very and. Sales Stable wwvuw“. 1 Opposite Danbury and Norwalk Railroad depotl Norwalk. Conn. Stylish Single or Double Team with or without drivers Safe horses for women sudeh1ldren. . SADDLE HORSES A SPECIALTY 1 ‘ ' THE Ev EN _1 , WHEELING IN THE AIR. A Bicycle That Is Intended‘to Fly Like aBird. _- 011 Which the Rider Can Rise. or Demand at Will—When Perfected the Ma- chine Will Be a Valuable . War Agent. Every little while some one an- nounces that he has come near the solu- tion of the problem of aerial navigation, but the aeronauts are still far from evolving a practical machine. Some of ' them continue to experiment with fly- ing machines, doing away to greater or less extent with gas as a buoyant force, and others make gas their main- stay, confining themselves to means of controlling the balloon when once in the air. Everybody has probably heard of Prof. Carl Myers, the famous aero- naut, of Frankfort, N. Y., and readers of the Illustrated Express may remem- Iber several articles which have ap- peared in this paper from his pen. Some months ago the Express contained an illustrated article describing his bal- loon farm, as he calls his headquarters at Frankfort. Naturally, Prof. Myers is one of those who are studying the problem of aerial navigation, and, equally naturally, in his efforts to solve that problem, he does not discard the use of gas as a buoyant force. One of his latest machines he calls an air bicycle, and the novel point about it is that it provides its own wind. A re- cent description says it is a curious and ingenious affair and looks like a. large balloon or bag shaped like' a boat turned botttom uppermost. It is round- ed on top and flat at the bottom, slight- ly hollowing toward the center, as an inverted boat would. The bag is filled with hydrogen. Attached to the net— ting which covers the bag are two stays, which support a very light but strong skeleton of steel. On this is placed a bicycle saddle, with a bicycle handle in front, and cranks and pedals below. Instead of wheels, ,the pedals (and the handles also when desired) Operate a piston rod, which extends about fourteen feet ahead, and on which is fitted a hollow tube ratcheted onto or cogged into the mechanism operated by the pedal. At the extreme end of this tube is a rigid steel arm, which, when at rest, lies at right an- gles to the head, and about six feet nearer the rider is a corresponding arm rigidly fixed on ‘the tubes. On these two arms of steel is stretched a piece of light canvas, hanging” perpendicularly down in the same plane as from chin to feet of the rider, and looking like the topsail of a ship beating to windward. When the pedals are operated the steel arm at the extreme end of the shaft is turned back and forth, and this action twists and untwists the sail into a right and then into a left-hand helix, such as would be produced by taking a square sheet of paper with one hand at each end and twisting the hands in op- posite directions. This action of the cloth produces a current of wind, which strikes backward and upward against ’ the under surface of the balloon and causes it so soar up in the air. The machine is like the toy balloons one buys at the dry goods stores for chil- dren, which will not rise by them- selves, but blow under them and up they go. The entire weight of this machine' is about fifteen pounds. The hydrogen is made from water by a patent process of Mr. Myers, and its purpose is simply to counteract the weight of the rider. There is no rudder. To rise it is only necessary to lean backward and work the pedals; to decend one leans slightly forward; to turn to the right or left one leans in the direction desired. In short, it is like riding a. bicycle, except that there is no front wheel to turn. To start the machine the rider places himself _astride the saddle, springs into the air, and as the bicycle rises six or eight feet, the rider works the pedals, leans back Slightly and up he goes. Prof. Myers claims that a head wind of ten or fifteen miles an hour will not‘ interfere with the machine’s progress, but is rather an aid as far as labor- and speed are concerned. Owing to the backward tilt of the spindle, the head wind rushes underneath, forcing it upward instead of backward only. Prof. Myers finds no difliculty in ris- ing to heights of one thousand feet or more and circling about at will. He claims it is almost impossible tohavc an accident unless the rider throws himself off. He says: “The bicycle is not yet perfected, although with patent varnishes, new cloths and new styles of gearing them, I have produced balloons which will last for years instead of months. My aim is to provide a suita- ble motor to drive it. Then it will be a machine, indeed. You remember that in the Franco-Prussian war bal- loons were used for spying purposes and the conveying of letters, and the Prussians had to make special guns with which to shoot at them? Do you remember that only one or two of the balloons were ever hit, although they were, totally at the mercy of the wind currents? Well, suppose I get a motor for the bicycle, and coming from ten miles away at an altitude of two thou- sand feet, do you think anything in the shape of a gun would be likely to hit me? Suppose, too, that I. sail over a fleet or an army with half a dozen dyna- mite cartridges hung on to the horizon- tal shaft, properly weighted to drop and strike the. ground with the busi- ness end; suppose one or two of these are cut loose by me at that height, what would happen? The air bicycle is capable of such work, as well as car- rying a life-line to 'a wrecked ship, or a thousand other things.” Triumph oi! Engineering. One of the. most remarkable things about the Baltic and North Sea canal, soon to be officially opened for traffic, is that the appropriation which was made for the work has not. been ex- ceeded. On the contrary, there is a balance, it is stated, of about one hun- dred and seventy-five thousand dollars. Besides this the Work has been com- pleted within the time estimated be- fore work was commenced. .1 GATHERED FROM GRAVES. A Colored Barber Buys Up Wire; Frames and Sells Them Again. “The wire frames in two-thirds of the floral designs that are placed on graves in the Chicago cemeteries have been used on graves before, and some of them ten times before.” This statement, says the Chicago Tribune, . was made by a wholesale manufacturer of these frames. Sald he: “Some years ago there was a colored barber who had a shop at Rosehill. Business was dull and he began to look for a new job. In his ramble through the cemetery he was struck with the number of floral offerings placed on the graves, and also with the fact that after they were withered they were gathered up by the workmen and thrown into a pile as useless rubbish. “It occurred to him that the wire frames of these designs were nearly as good as ever and ought to be worth a good deal of money. He inquired of some one employed about the place on whatcterms he could get possession of this rubbish, and it was not long before he madeja contract to take it all the year round at five dollars a wagon-load. The barber then gave up his barber- shop and rented a place on Division street, where he established a depot for the storing, renovation and sale of these goods. “In some cases the moss is retained in the frames and sold with them. But it is'always necessaryto paint the wire, ’whether it has been painted before or not. After being revamped they are hawked around and sold to the small florist establishments for probably one—fourth as much as new frames would cost. “The barber’s new trade is not now confined to Rosehill, but takes in all the large cemeteries in the city, the rates being different at different cemeteries. One of them charges five cents for each design, large or small. When you understand that these wire frames cost all the way from a few cents up to seventy-five dollars you will easily see that this may be a profitable business. In fact, it is profitable, and the barber is getting rich. “Up to the present time, so I am in‘ formed, he has a monopoly of the busi- ness. Meanwhile his business is death to mine. I suppose if it were not for this ‘barber and the cemetery employes who stand in with him my business and the business of the other manufacturers of these goods would be three times as large as it is. But, you see, frames that I made a year ago have been in use on first one grave and then another ever since I made them.” GENEROUS AND JOLLY. Wonderful Kindness of- Some Bright Lit- erary Men. The dinners at which the artistic and literary staif of Punch—most powerful and renowned of comic papers—has for many years gathered weekly for com- bined festivity and business have be- come a unique and famous institution. Arecent article in the Magazine of ' Art relates their history and some of their most brilliant episodes and witti- cisms. Never, surely, was a happier mingling of play and purpose than at some of these dinners, where often amid almost boyish frolic, laughter and flying personalities of the freest and funniest kind, has been evolved the le- gend, motto and cartoon that a few days later have turned the force of wit to serious account in indicating or in- fluencing the policy of an empire. Among the many amusing anecdotes ‘of the merry men of Punch one is re- lated, however, which is not merry, but which shows how wholesome, kindly and human that mirth must have been. One of the earliest contributors—— Percival Leigh—nicknamed on account of his early studies the “professor,” lost in later life the sense of humor upon which his maintenance depended. He came still to the dinners, where he told flat stories and sent to the editors reams of dull manuscript. They never thought of rejecting it, remembering his usefulness in making the paper’s first success. But that was not all. By a tacit con- spiracy the staff at the weekly dinner never failed to listen patiently to his dullest anecdotes, nor to gratify him with laughter and applause at their close. ‘ Not only was his worthless work. ac- cepted and paid for, but the editors, dreading to hurt the old man’s pride and self-respect, took pains to have his contributions put in type and his proofs duly sent him, trusting that he might account, by some exigencies of space or convenience in arrangement, for the small portion ever actually published. That portion was very small indeed. Yet occasionally they would tuck into an obscure corner of the paper the most passable of the poor old "‘pro- fessor’s” jokes, for his eyes alone of all the hundreds that would scan the col- umns. The unwearying patience and in- genuity of their devices actually kept him to the end in ignorance that he had ever lost the faculty of fun which once could set all England laughing. Dancing 01' Pet Wasps. A young lady living near Monroe, La., has a pair of pet wasps that she has trained to do various tricks requir- ing remarkable intelligence. Among other things she has taught them to drink water from a thimble and to per- form the “skirt dance,” as she calls it, by fluttering their wings as they rest in the palm of her _.hand They will sing at her bidding, making a faint, al- most inaudible cheep, and seem- to be passionately fond of music. The young lady' 1s a musician, and when she plays on the piano the wasps take up their positions on the music rack and never budge till the performance is over. The wasps seem to have a good deal. of van- ity, and nothing delights them more than to be allowed to walk about and inspect themselves on a little hand mir- ror which is kept for their exclusive use. Strange to relate, the wasps have never been known to attempt to sting anybody, although they have free ac- cess to all parts of the house and are seldom confined, even at night. OF NEW YORK. RICHARD A MCCURDY President: cmen ‘ or hech ndingflec. 31. 18.95. 5 $221,213,721 33 194,347,157 53 $26,366,56375. $43,597,430 51 $23,126,723 45 Assets. I 1 . , . ', , . Liabilities . . . Surplus Total Income . . rl‘otal Paid Policy-holders in 1895, . Insurance and Annuities in force, $899, 074,453 78 Net gain in 1895 $61,647,645 36 NOTE—Insurance merely written, is discarded from this Statement as h H actually issued and paid fdr in cash is included. w o y misleading. and only insuranoer .. I have carefully examined the foregoing Statement and find the same to be correct. fist... . CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor. From the Surplus a dividend will be apportioned as usual. Report of the Examining Committee. Office of the Mutual Life Insurance company of New You, February 11,1896. At a meeting of the Board ‘of Trustees of this Company, held on the 18t h day of December last, ,theundersigned were appointed a Committee to examine the annual Statement for the year ending December 31st, 1895, and to verify the same“ by com- parison with the assets of the Company. ' The Committee have carefully performed the duty assigned to them, and hereby certify that the Statement is in all particulars correct and that the assets specified therein are in possession of the Company. I In making this certificate the Committee bear testimony to. the. high character of ' the investments of the Company and express their approval of the system, order and accuracy with which the accounts and vouchers have been kept, and the business in. general transacted. Robert Olyphant, ‘Wm. P. Dixon, J. H. Herrick. H. 0. Von Post, Charles R. Henderson, - Committee James C. Holden, ROBERT A. GRANNIS, Vice-President. WALTER R. GILLETTE, General Manager. HENRY E. DUNCAN. Jr., Cor. Secy. ALBERT KLAMROTH, Asst. Secy. _ISAAC F. LLOYD, Second Vice-President, WILLIAM J. EASTON, Secretary, '- FREDERIC CROMWELL, Treasurer. IOHN' A. FONDA, Assistant Treasurer. JAMES TIMPSON, 2d Asst. Trees 13553 WILLIAM P. SANDS, Cashier EDWARD P. HOLDEN, Asst. Cashier EMORY MCCLINTOCK LL.D., F. I. A., Actuary. JOHN TATLOCK; .13., Asst. Actuary. WM. W. RICHARDS], Comptroller. - CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor, _ HENRY s. BROWN, Asst. Comp. JOHN C. ELLIOTT, Superintendent of Domestic Agencies, EDWARD LYMAN SHORT, Gen. Solicitor. MEDICAL DIREoroRs ELIAS, J. MARSH, M. D. GRANVILLE M. WHITE. 11.. D.. GUSTAVUS ‘3. WINSTON, M. D. JOHN W. N METHODS, New Haven, General Agt. for State of Connecticut. 9 _ . Ac flea @AME9 . : , Local Agent.
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