SARATOG I Genuine Saratoga Water in blOck-tin lined barrels direct from the celebrated Spring, is 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. Lusthlne. I I Oc -BIG BUT IN PllltE- _ . OF ' MEAT. Round, Sirloin and Por- terhouse Steaks, Sausge, . Pot and Rib Roasts Reduoed' ho. a Pound All First Quality Meat. ' J. w. BOGARDUS, 6 WATER. ST.. N ORWALK DRINK ~ ' HATHIIRN - SPRING WATER FOR- THE Stomach, Bo wels, Liver and Kidneys. FOR SALE BY The Holmes, .Keelehll S‘elleol do NEW CAFE RESTAEIERAN T MIKE ATeHFORD, 44 Wain Street, The Best Wines, Liquors and Cigars. O PLYMOUTH ROCK ICE. Stores and Families Supplied. Lowest Rates. Horace E. Dann, EXOELSIOh - WV“ Livery and Sales Stable- "‘"\ , Opposite Danburyl and Norwalk Railroad depotl , Norwalk. Conn. Stylish Single or Double Team ' with or without driversf Safe horses for women ' andehildren. . ‘ , SADDLEHQRSES A spsclALr'v ' = were 0N SQUIRRELS. ._—— , Washingtou Farmers Having a. Hard Time with the Pests. __ They Are the Kind That Burrow in the Ground and Ruin Crops—Deadly In- struments or All Kinds Used Against Them. It has been the hope and prayer of all farmers in the southern and western parts of Whitman county, Wash, for several years past that some" kind of . wacontagious disease would break out or could be inoculated into the trouble- some ground squirrel. Several at- tempts have been made to breed some kind of a disease among them, but all seem to have been unsuccessful. In view of these numerous unsuccess- ful attempts, and the interest taken in the matter, considerable comment was caused a few days ago by the report coming from near Penawawa that there was some kind of a disease which was killing the pests in large numbers, and the country might hope to be free from their devastating ravages. . A Spokesman-Review correspondent has made an extensive trip through the infested district in order to investigate extent to which the disease is proving fatal. There seems to be no doubt that there is a contagion among them which is proving fatal to a few, though not to the extent that has been represented. The first effect on the animals is to make them dumpy and stupid, then scabs or sores appear on the body of the animal, and soon they lose the use of their hind parts and are barely able to get around. Very few dead squirrels were found, but the animals seem to be less numerous than they were a few weeks ago. This decrease in numbers is explained by some observers by the fact that the females have gone in their holes to have their young, but it has also been noticed in districts where the young squirrels are old enough to get out of the holes. Already preparations are being made to spread the disease. Inquiries come from all over the cor. :1- try concerning the authenticity: of the reports and the effect it i; 3111"“.1 , ‘ "decrease the numbers and rang-e" the pests. But while farmers are anxiously watching the outcome of tie ~2:4'1i‘e-3tvion, they are by no means idle in aiding nature to destroy their enemy. Traps, guns,bombs, and all kinds of poisons are used to aid in their destruction. One Colfax firm has already sold over five hundred ounces of strychnine 'and other poisons in proportion. Arsenic seems to be springing into favor as a de- stroyer, but some who have been ex- perimenting with it report rather un- favorably. Since the success of the western one-third of this county de- pends almost entirely on the discovery of some method which will promptly and effectively exterminate these mis- chievous little animals, all new sug- gestions to that end are thankfully re- ceived and given a fair trial. In Spokane county five hundred patent bombs for the extermination of squir- rels have been received by the county commissioners for distribution among the farmers. “They operate,” said Commissioner Thorpe, “on the same principle as the giant powder cones, with sulphur and other paralyzing ingredients, and at the close 'of the process a slight explo- sion occurs, producing a pyrotechnic display that sends the victims off to squirrel heaven in a blaze of glory, so to speak, from beneath the depths of the earth. The only objection we have to the bombs is that they come too high. The owners of the patent want two cents apiece for them. We feel that the county cannot aflord to pay that price while practically the same results are obtained by the giant pow- der suffocating process, which comes a great deal cheaper.” “The fact has leaked out,” said a farmer at the court house, “that much of the opposition to the giant powder for the extermination of squirrels has been wrought up by agitators in the interest of patented contrivances and venders of poisons, who are traveling over the country, decrying the efiicacy of all methods but their oWn.” More than a dozen farmers testify to the good results of the giant powder method, ' as advised by the commis- sioners, one man expressing the opinion that. if systematically operated there need not be aground squirrel left in the state of Washington within two years. ‘ UNHARMED IN- FIRE. German Fireman Wears the “Scaphander” and Secures Immunity. There are some fire apparatus and appliances in which the firemen of Berlin, Germany, are undoubtedly ahead of us. Of these apparatus the most notable is the fire “scaphander.” The word “scaphander,” which means either “hollow man” or “hollow to re- ceive a man,” is generally applied to the suit of impermeable material in which the diver arrays himself before he goes down into the water. The fire scaphander is on the lines of the diver’s scaphander, the only difference, in fact, being that it is made of a different -material._ The fire scaphander is made of asbestos and rubber, and is abSolute- ly proof against fire. It neither takes fire nor is permeable to the heat of fire. A man in an asbestos suit or scaphander can take a leisurely walk through roar- ing flames or through the thickest vol- ume of smoke with comfort, or at least with complete immunity from being burned or choked. The helmet is donned apart from the rest of the suit and is hermetically fitted to the suit, the riveting being so perfect that air is excluded. A plate of glass, specially prepared to stand great~- heat without cracking, is imbedded in the front of the helmet and allows the wearer to see plainly. To the fireman thus equipped air is supplied, just as it is Supplied to the diver at work, through a tube, the one end of which is held at the earth’s Surface and the other end isin the helmet. A. the authenticity of the reports and the . I GETTING A NAVY CHEAPLY. Cash and Certain Monopolies Odered by Portugal to Shipbuilders. Of all strange proposals made lately to the builders of ships the strangest is that of Portugal, which desiresto have a. modern navy, but desires to get it on the lowest possible terms, says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The govern- ment intends to ask shipbuilders how many vessels of a stated type they will supply annually for twenty years or less for an annual payment of about dollars, plus certain advantages in the way of monopolies. American, Brit- ish, French and German builders of the first class are to be asked to bid, and the successful tenderer will be that firm giving the most inthe least time and for the shortest period of monopoly. First, a yard is to be built at Lisbon and the government ship- building plant closed. The new firm will get the ‘machinery and also the staff and operatives. Nothing is said about foreign workmen, but, since the government hopes to educate the peo- ple in shipbuilding, it expects native labor to be employed. Machinery, ma terial and fuel will be admitted to the establishment free of duty. The new plant will have a monopoly of repairing work, not only in Portugal, but also in her colonies, Azores, Cape de Verde and Angola, no other new establishments being permitted, al- though existing small works will con- tinue. The new vessels which it is hoped to get for the annual payment of five hundred and. fifty-five thousand dollars are all of rather’ unusual con- struction. The cruisers are to be of wood and copper sheathed, of forty-two hundred tons displacement, twenty- three knots speed, with a protective deck and a steaming radius of ten thou- sand miles at ten knots. The now famous Japanese cruiser Yoshino is re- garded as a pattern of the desired type. Then there are to be ten torpedo boat destroyers of the type of the speedy Havock, which are to be able to make twenty-eight knots, and steam four thousand miles at ten knots: ten first- class torpedo boats of seventy tons and of the greatest speed possible; several colonial gunboats of two hundred and eighty-nine tons and river gunboats of forty tons. This seemsapretty good navy for about eleven million two hun- dred thousand dollars, «but perhaps some of the companies will find that the twenty-year use of a well-located shipyard with modern tools is an in- ducement worth considering. AN INDEPENDENT WOMAN. She Belongs to an Old Family and the “Smart Set?’ Doesn’t Trouble Her. Perhaps, from a social point of view, one of the most comfortably self-satis- fied persons in the world is the New York woman of moderately independ- ent means, who, secure in a long line of unimpeachable Knickerbocker an- cestors, is completely satisfied with her position and who will never know or for one instant imagine that she is irrev- erently called one of the “frumps” by the “smart set,” says the New York Tribune. . The members of this smart set wel- come new people without hesitation, always providing that -the newcomers are‘rich, up-to-date, and have the neces- sary tact and savoir faire to adopt the shibboleths of the set; The genuine old New Yorker is, however, very con- servative, and the opinions of the afore- said set trouble her but little, for her and though storms may beat and waves break against the structure, it is, she believes, as secure as anything can be in this mortal life. She is also apt to be very independent, and if her income is small has no fear of public opinion in carrying out her economies. She will take a “bus” or car for a dinner or aball with as great a sense of dignity as if she were stepping into her carriage at- tended by her footman. “Don’t let us take that open car, mamma,” pleaded the daughter of one of these Spartan aristocrats. “It is so common.” “My dear,” said her mother, “if we do it, it is not common,” and in she got, reluctantly followed by the girl who, unluckily for her, had not inherited her parent’s equipoise. When this independence is united With the artistic temperament the re- sults are sometimes a little eccentric. A certain member of a well-known family who feels that her actions are quite unassailable, calmly boarded a Fourth avenue car not long ago with a large clothes-basket. Wishing to spend a few days in the country with a friend and finding that a hand-bag would not hold her requirements, while a trunk would be impossible for her to carry, she packed her belongings in a big ordi- nary clothes-hamper with handles, tied a sheet over the top'and took it herself from her house uptown to the ferry. Why the Hair Gets Thin. When one’s hair shows the first evi- dence of thinning out most people rush to the barber shop and have it clipped, with the thought that it will come in again in greater luxuriance. This is a fallacy. The cause of baldness in man is, says Dr. Leslie Phillips in the Med- ical Record, to be found in the fact that he cuts his hair. In men the hair is habitually cut short from childhood, while in women the converse is almost universally true. In boyhood and man- hood, by clipping and cutting the hair, we remove the gentle traction on the bulb and follicle which the natural weight of the hair exercises, and which constitutes the essential and natural stimulus necessary to seeure due innervation and vascular supply to the hair-producing structures. Loss of vigor, and finally more or less pro- nounced atrophy,.is the inexorable re- collateral circumstances, predisposi- tions or conditions. Dr. Phillips warns the “new woman” against wearing her hair short. Almost every theory has some defect, and we might ask Dr. Phil- lips why men who clip their beards or shave for a long time do not get bald on their chins. i . m E ; E v E N 1 five hundred and fifty-five thousand. position, she feels, is founded on a rock, . EYE WILLIAM P. SANDS, Cashier sult, modified or delayed, it may be, by - Z Nvi‘iG j '~ G A I '- HE 2m TUAL'. L INSURANCE oo. OF NEW YORK. E'ITE . . . RICHARD A McCURDY President $221,213,72133 A 194,347,157 58 $26,866,563 75 $48,597,430 51. , $23,126,728 45» Assets, Liabilities . . Surplus Total Income _. > . Total Paid Policy-holders in 1895, . Insurance and Annuities in force, . $899,074,453 78 - Net gain in 1895 4 . $61,647,645 36 NOTE—Insurance merely written ls dlscarded from this Statement as wholl I ' actually issued and pald fdr in cash ls Included. v m sleadlng. and only insurance _' I have carefully examined the foregoing Statement and find the same to be correct. ’7, CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor. FrOm the Surplusa dividend will be apportioned as usual. ‘ Report of the Examining Committee. . Office of the Mutual life Ineuranee casually of New York, February 11,1896. At a meeting of the Board of Trustees of this Company, held on the 181; 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. 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. . . H. C. Von Post, Robert Olyphant, Charles R. Henderson, 'Wm. P. Dixon, Committee James C. Holden, J. H. Herrick. ROBERT A. GRA’NNIS, Vice-President. WALTER R. GILLETTE, General Manager. ' HENRY E. DUNCAN. Jr., Cor. Secy. ALBERT KLAMBOTH, Asst. Seoy. ISAAC r. LLOYD, Second Vice-President, WILLIAM J. EASTON, Secretary, FREDERIC CROMWELL, Treasurer. JAMES TIMPSON, 2d Asst. Trees EDWARD P. HOLDEN, Asst. Cashier IOHN A. FONDA, Assistant Treasurer. EMORY MoCLINTOCK LL.D., F. I. A., Actuary. JOHN TATLOCK, J 3., 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 Dmncrons ELIAS, J. MARSH, M. D. GRANVILLE M. WHITE. M. D. ' _ Jenn w. summons. New Haven, General Agt. for State of Connecticut. . 1 ' A. He GAE/Ire “ ‘ A . , . Local Agent ..emen or eYear ndingeodhlfllh. ' "h
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