SARATOGA!
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 1s dispensed' 1n pre-
cisely the same condition in
which it flows from the spring
at Saratoga, and is sold at
5 Cents per Glass.
House-cleaning.
Lustriue.
IOc
Ask your Grocers.
me emote PllltE-
MEAT.
Round, Sirloin and Por-
terhouse Steaks, . Sausge,
Pot and Rib Roasts
Reduced 26. a Pound
All First-Quality Meat.
J. W. BOGARDUS,
6 WATER ST.. N ORWALK
DRINK ‘
HATHEIIIN
, SPRING
WATER
FOR THE
Stomach,
Bo weis,
Liver and
Kidneys.
FOR SALE BY
The Helms, Keeler &Selleeh to
NEW CAFE
EEsrTlmIiEAN T
MIKE ATCHFORD,
44 Wain Street,
' The Best Wines, Liquors {and Cigars.
PLYMOUTH ROCK ICE.
Stores and Families Supplied.
Lowest Rates.
Horace E. Darin,
EXOELSIOL -
Livery £1111“ gigs Stable.
Opposite Danbury: and
Norwalk Railroad depot|
Nor-walk. Oonn. Stylish
Single or Double Team
with or without drivers?
Safe horses for women
andehildren. .
SADDLE HORSES A SPECIALTY
,rnn*avnsusc*eiznrrE
NIAGARA HARNESSED.
A Wonderful Results Achieved by
Skilled Mechanics.
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Scientific Tests Show the Enormous Power
‘Which Will Be Developed—Great
Expectations of the Mam-
moth Project.
The experiments which have been
going on at Niagara falls have been as
delicate, as carefully conducted, as are
those which the chemists or scientists
make in the field of original research.
The human intellect can scarcely conv
ceive of the enormity of some of the
results already obtained and of others
which are expected. In the harnessing
of a majestic implement which 1s to be
used to develop an electric current of
enormous pow er to another colossal ma.-
chine, which 1s to receive the prodigious
power that is in the Niagara current
and convey it to this electric trans-
former, work was necessarily as deli-
cate as that which the watchmaker has
need of. The expectation is, says the
New York Sun, that the revolutions of
this dynamo will be .so rapid that only
by comparison can they be understood.
Therefore, it has been necessary to test,
and, with gradually increasing speed,
the relations of the various parts of
this complicated whole machine to one
another. Suppose there had been a
deviation of a fraction of an inch in
measurements, or some chance for fric-
tion, which had been overlooked, and,
therefore, unprovided for, or some vari—
ation from the quality of the bearings
of the machine; then there was danger
that after a certain rate of speed was
reached there might come one mighty
crash involving the whole machinery in
destruction.
A few days ago some of the capital-
, ists and a few scientists went to Ni-
agara to see how far the tests had been
made. Their going and coming was
not known by the public, nor have they
felt free to give any detailed informa-
tion of their experiences. The number
of revolutions of the dynamo was run
run 11p to about one hundred and fifty
and with perfect success. The wheels
spun with the beauty and evenness of
a top, upon which only the laws of na-
ture operate. One hundred and fifty
revolutions a minute do not convey the
idea to the mind of the prodigious
force that is required to produce that,
but some idea may be obtained by say-
ing that if the wheel were placed upon
a railroad track and was set agoing at
that speed it would cover a mile' 1n a
minute.
3,. That, however, is scaicely fifty pe1
cent. of the power that is contemplated.
Gradually, carefully, patiently, this
speed will be increased, and probably
within the next three or four weeks,
until, at last, when the full force of
Niagara, so fast as the penstock can
carry it, is delivered to the turbine,
and by that agency redelivered to the
dynamo, that instrument will receive a
force capable of making it 1evolve at
the rate of nearly three 5hundred revo-
lutions a minute—not quite that, about
two hundred and eighty, to be ap-
proximately accurate. That will rep-
resent a speed upon a railway of two
miles a minute, and it is only by such
comparison that the mind can grasp
the enormity of these figures. At the
rate of two miles a minute the conti-
nent would be crossed in twenty-four
hours. The trip from New York to
Chicago is made in six hours, or from
Philadelphia to Queenstown in a single
day. But that is not all. When at
last this wheel is set going at this
speed it must go day and night, week
in and week out, at a rate equivalent to
nearly three thousand miles every
twenty-four hours, or equivalent to a
journey around the world in eight days.
Of course, when the other wheels are
set up, occasionally this one will be
stopped, but by and by, if the com-
mercial development of the electricity
there obtained proves to be as great as
now expected, there may be as many
as three or four transformers whirling
at this speed, which can be likened
only to some of the movements of the
celestial bodies.
The capitalists and most of the scien-
tists who witnessed the experiments.
the other day have now no doubt about
the commercial as well as the scien-
tific success of this- mighty work. Yet
they admit that the problem will riot
be solved until the transformer con-
verts the mighty force of Niagara into
an electric current, and delivers that
current to the shop, the trolley, the
electric lighting plants in Buffalo and
elsewhere.
When returning from Buffalo some
of the scientists talked about this prob-
lem. The experiments they had wit-
nessed were purely mechanical, for the
transformer has not yet been permitted
to convert the force into an electric
current. Yet there was not one of the
scientists who did not express the opin-
ion that when the electrical machinery
is attached and the current developed
it will be found to have as perfectly
solved the problems as all of the work
hitherto has done.
The Telephone in Honolulu.
Each family of standing in Honolulu
keeps a telephone, for which the charge
is ten dollars a year. The invitations
to all social functions are sent by tele-
phone. This is not only a saving to the
hostess in the matter of cards and post-
age, but it also obviates the necessity
of the physical labor that attaches to
such work. Some houses have a dozen
telephones scattered about the’dilfer-
ent rooms, so that the family may com-
municate with friends without having
to leave their chairs.
Retribution.
An interesting incident connected
with recent changes in Corea, is that of
a native Corean who united with Foun-
dry Methodist Episcopal church in‘
Washington, 'D. 0., when he was a.
student in this country a shirt time
ago, and who is now the magistrate in
charge at Ping Yang. He sentenced
the mandarin who so severely perse-
cuted the Christians there just before
the war to be beaten with ninety-four
blows for his misconduct on that oc-
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'C‘HEAP LIVING.
How One Could Subsist on Five
a Day.
A writer in the San Francisco Call is
authority for the statement that if
dried olives possess all the qualities
Cents
and economical persons be furnished
with a food product palatable and high-
ly nutritious, which will cost no more
than five cents a day. I .
W. S. Manning, of Ballard, Santa Bar-
bara county, has sent a. sample of the
dried fruit for the inspection of the
board of trade. He contends that no
product on earth contains as much of
the 'elements of nutrition necessary
for the sustenance of the body as a
ripe olive. The dried fruit will, of
course, contain all these qualities, and
all that is necessary to render it pleas-
ant to the taste is soaking and salting
it. The 1011 of the olive. is equal to
meat and the pulp is as good asbread.
Three of the largest olive groves in
the world are planting in southern
California. One grove of 400 acres in
Orange county will contain 40,000 trees.
Another, near Colton, will have 34, 000
trees, and the third, near Pomona, will
have 24,000 trees. There is more olive
planting this season than at any pre-
vious time, the boom being due to the
increased popularity of California
olives in American markets. The olive
crop of southern California last sea-
son wus worth $120,000, and the growers
say that three times the amount of
fruit could have been sold.
NECKTIE BAROM ETERS.
Fabric Changes Color with Varying
Weather Conditions.
’ A fabric that changes color under
varying conditions of the weather has
just been produced.
No practical use of the new invention
has yet been made, exceptafew sample
neckties which the inventor has dis-
tributed among his friends. The fab-
ric of which the neckties are made, says
Answers, resembles a coarse linen.
When the weather is warm and fair the
color is a dark blue. In cold weather it
changes to purple. The approach of
rain is heralded by pink, and snow
causes the necktie to become a startling
green.
The invention marks a new era in
fashions. Shirts, trousers, gowns and
other articles of dress can be made of
the material. The invention is yet in
its infancy. When it has been developed
to a greater extent the woman of fash-
ion can array herself in a blue gown in
the morning. By noon it will turn to a
mauve. The afternoon will find it pink,
and the evening some other color.
As a labor-saving institution the new
cloth is exceedingly valuable. Ther-
mometers and barometers will go out
of fashion. The “city man” as he puts
on his shirt in the morning has but to
glance at the color. If it is purple, he
wears his heaviest overcoat. If it is
pink, he takes his umbrella under his
arm. When sails are made of chameleon ‘
cloth the yachtman has but to glance
at his mainsail to know what kind of
weather is coming.
GENEALOGICAL SEARCH ERS.
They Spend Hours in the Libraries Trac-
ing the Family Tree.
' The attendance in the public libraries
are kept busy these days by a horde of
callers who have suddenly developed
a mania for genealogical research. In
fact, says the New York Herald, it seems
to have become a fad to trace the family
tree. The cause of it is not easily ex-
plainable. It is possible, however, that
circulars calling for heirs to large for-V
tunes, scattered broadcast by many law -
yers throughout the country, may be re-
sponsible for this fad.
The seekers look carefully through
the old books, records and histories,
and every little clew found'therein is
coveted with avidity. There have been
rare cases where some startling and im-
portant clew has been found, but they
are few and far between.
One of the library attendants told me
that many of the genealogical callers
were young men, who think a good
. family tree may help them along in the
world, as he expressed it. However
that may be, the fad, if it' 1s really a fad,
is by no means flippant, as it opens the
avenue to much interesting and useful
information, and instructs the searcher,
even if hisown wish for la mily informa-
tion is not gratified.
MEXICAN MUMMIES.
The Grewsome Spectacle in the Catacomb
’.- at Guanajuato.
In different places, including Guana»
juato, Mexico has a display of compara-
tively modern mummies and of cata-
combs. .The practice, prevails, as in
Barcelona and some other European
communities, of renting tomb space for
the use of a corpse. In Mexico, if at the
expiration of the original term there
is no renewal of the lease, the corpse is
evicted. and dumped into an extensive
underground chamber.
air the evicted mummifies he stands
against the wall; if he tumbles to pieces
the bones join the vast miscellaneous
heap. The Guanajuato catacomb is
ghastly enough to satisfythe most ex-
acting connoisseur of the grewsome.
Few Children in France.
Of all the peoples of Europe the
French have the fewest children and
the Irish the most. The average French
family numbers 3.03 persons and the
average Irish family 5.2. In England
the average is 4.8 and in Germany it is
4.1. The Spanish and Russians closely
approach the Irish in prolificness. Con-
trasted with the French in Europe, the
French in Canada are the most prolific
race in Christendom.
Chlorotorm Manufacture. .
Pure chloroform is now successfully,
prepared by electrolytic method. A'
constant current is passed through a
salt solution in an enameled/vessel by
means of lead electrodes. ’l‘his liber-
ates chlorine, which reacts on a stream
of acetone diffused into the vessel, and
the chloroform produced is thus col-
lected by distillation.
If in the dry;
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THE MUTU
claimed by their advocate a new in—‘
dustry may be developed in that state.
INSURANCE 00.
OF NEW YORK.
RICHARD A. MCCURDY President.
emen fur eYeal ingflee.31.lflll
Assets. -~ .
Liabilities .
Surplus . .
Total Income .
Total Paid Policy-holders in 1895, i .
Insurance and Annuities in force,
Net gain in 1895
NOTE—Insurance merely written, is discarded from this Statement as wholly mlsleadlng. and only insurance
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.
$221,213,721 33
194,347,157 53
$26,366,563» 75»
$48,597,430 51
$23,126,728 45
$899, 074,453 78'
$61,647,645 36
From the Surplus a dividend will be apportioned as usual.
Report of the Examining Committee.
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Office of the Mulual Lila Insuranee‘ tosuany elllew Yerx,
February 11,1896.
At a meeting of theBoard 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 Decembc 1' 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.
IOHN A. FONDA, Assistant Treasurer.
ROBERT A. GRANNIS, Vice-President.
WALTER R. GILLETTE, General Manager.
<1; ISAAC F. LLOYD, Second Vice-President,
WILLIAM J. EASTON, Secretary,
{E153 WILLIAM P. SANDS, Cashier
$.74. ”JOHN TATLOCK, J1: Asst. Actuary.
CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor,
H. 0. Von Post,
Charles R. Henderson,
JamesC. Holden,
Robert Olyphant, ‘
'Wm. P. Dixon, Committee
J. H. Herrick.
HENRY E. DUNCAN. Jr. , Cor. Seoy.
ALBERT KLAMROTH, Asst. Seey.
FREDERIC CROMWELL, Treasurer.
JAMES TIMPSON, 2d Asst. Tress
EDWARD P. HOLDEN, Asst. Cashier
EMORY MOCLINTOCK LL. D., F. I. A., Actuary.
WM. W. RICHARDS, Comptroller.
HENRY S. BROWN, Asst. Comp.
JOHN C. ELLIOTT, Superintendent of Domestic Agencies,
GUST-AVUS S. WINSTON, M. D.
Jenn w. NICHCLS. ,
New Haven, General Agt. for State of Connecticut;
MEDICAL DIRECTORS .
‘ ELIAS, J. MARSH, M. D.
LAQHQIGAM’ ' 6' {I‘- g
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EDWARD LYMAN SHORT, Gen. Solicitor.
GRANVILLE M. WHITE. 11. D.
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