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block-tin lined barrels direct
from the celebrated Spring, is
for sale on draught at Had-
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Street.
»THE WATER
Is brought direct from Sara-
toga, and is dispensed in pro.
cisely the same condition in
which it flows from the spring
at Saratoga, and is sold at
5 Cents per Glass.
House-cleaning.
Lustrlne. I
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MEAT.
Round, Sirloin and Por-
terhouse Steaks, Sausge,
Pot and Rib Roasts
Reduced Zn. 8 Pound
All First Quality Meat.
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Liver and
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44 Wain Street,
The Best Wines, Liquors and Cigars.
PLYMOUTH ROCK ICE.
. Stores and Families Supplied. '
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Opposite Danburyi and
Norwalk Railroad depot!
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Single or Double Team
with or without drivers:
Safe horses for women
andchildren. .
SADDLE HOBSVES‘A SPEC [ALTY
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WIVES WANTED.
'Inducements Offered Women in
' Northwestern Canada.
A Scheme for‘Encouraglng Female Eml-
gratlon to a. Region Where There
Is a Superflujty of
Bachelors.
A great deal of money has been spent
' by the Dominion government in the last
'ten years to encourage immigration to
Canada, and most of the schemes, to
judge by the last census, have been more
or less futile. , N ow the chief govern-
ment organ here comes forward with
another project to people the great
northwest. This paper, referring to a
statement by the land commissioner of
the Canadian. Pacific railway to the ef-
fect that the great want of the north-
west is more: women, says that the bach—
elor life of the farmers in Manitoba
and the northwestmakes them dissat-
isfied; that they soon get discouraged
and write to their friends in Great Brit-
ain about the cheerless, unattractive
lives they are leading; and that it is
well known that these letters have been
widely circulated in the English pro-
vincial press, and have .had the effect
of turning off the tide of emigrants
to other shores—to the United States,
Australia and South Africa.
“If these men,” the paper adds, “had
been mated with plucky wives, the
stories of their failure would not have
been written home. They would have
found life in the northwest tolerable
and would have taken a. pride in over-
coming their di'fliculties. A few thou-
sand women of the right kind would
probably do more to make that. country
than any other influence that could be
brought to bear upon it just now. Suit-
able immigrants of that kind can find
employment, and are not likely to have
to go long without husbands.”
This led to a new scheme for peopling
the northwest. It was started here a
few days ago, and a committee is now
hard at werk on the details of the plan.
A preliminary meeting was held to dis-
cuss the matter, and a committee. was
appointed to report on the feasibility
of sending girls to the northwest from
the overcrowded centers of population
of the older provinces of Canada. “Girls
wanted” was the motto of the meeting;
but, when one of the gentlemen pres-
ent unwarily declared that part of the
plan was to send girls out west to make
wives of them for the'prairie. farmers,
the ladies present. took up arms against
the matrimonial part of the scheme.
They said that this was too delicate a.
matter to deal with, and strongly ob-
jected to associating any marriage
scheme with the proposed female emi-
gration to the west. No society, it was
contended, could successfully arrange
marriages between people whose modes
of living had been so different, and no
such plan was likely to succeed. While
the ladies were willing to take part. in
any movement to encourage the. emigra—
tion of girls to the northwest, and find
employment as domestic servants for
them there, they absolutelyrefused to
have 'anything to do with any scehme
having for its object the shipping of a
train load of girls to the‘northwcst to
be married to the farmers of that part
of the country. There was also the pos-
sibility of ill-mating couples, and the
ladies apparently did not care to under-
take the responsibility of so delicate a
matter as the promotion of matrimony
among the farmers. It was soon made
apparent that the matter would have to
be handled very cautiously, and that if
the movement succeeded the question
of matrimony would have to be kcpt in
the background and the idea. of mar-
riage left to the emigrants themselves
to work out in the good old-fashioned
way. Lady Aberdeen, the wife of the
governor general of Canada, wrote to
Dr. W. E. Bessey, the organizer of the
meeting, that this was one. of the ques-
tions to come up for discussion at the
meeting of the women’s council to be
held in Montreal.
S. M. Jones, secretary of the meeting,
deplored the flow of girls to the cities
from the country, and thought they
should go to the northwest and make
homes for themselves and 'be- independ-
ent, rather than come to the centers
of population and work for apittnnce.
But one of the ladies thought that the
girls in the cities were not fit to make
farmers’ wives. Mr. Jones ventured the
remark, rather unfortunately, that they
might as well emigrate to the northwest,
for the men in the cities Would not
marry them, anyhow, and the lady
snappishly retorted that “the girls
would not marry them.”
A good deal of cold water has been
thrown on the scheme, but the commit-
tee is hard at work, and believes that it
will accomplish something. There is
certainly a. great lack of the softer sex
in the Canadian northwest. It is esti-
mated that there are in that part of the
dominion between 40,000 and 50,000 more
males than females. The organizer of
the movement, who is confident of the
practicability of the scheme, recalls the
days in the early history of French Can-
ada. when the French king regularly
shipped boat loads of girls to become
the wives of the pioneer settlers in Can-
ada. The railways would. it is thought,
furnish free transportation for any
number of girls who would be induced
to go to the northwest, and it is hoped
that government aid will be given to
the scheme. Some who are unfavorable
to the movement contend that the bach-
elor tillers of the soil in the northwest
have no need for women, and that they
prefer to do their own work; But there
are very few who sharc in this opinion;
and it is generally believed that the
men up there know how to appreciate
the companionship, sympathy and sup-
port of women—Toronto Cor. N. Y.
nun.
Darwin’s Cufl's.
Hubby—Darwin seems to have had
a lot of trouble with his cuif buttons.
‘ Blossie—How so?
“He was always howling. about the
missing 1ink.”—Philadelphia Bulletin.
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ABOUJ Psoicasas,
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A ’The Divver-s. for Example, May Be Vere
ole Yores innisguise.‘
A story in one of the magazines
about a.” woman named Divver, who
haunted genealogists and experts 'in
heraldry until she satisfied herself that
her family name was De Vere, and im-
mediately adopted that patriotic patro- ’
nymic, affords no end of amusement to
paragraphcrs as illustrating the height:
of absurdity in the quest of ancestry,
says the Boston Transcript. But -may
not the worthy Mrs. Divver have been
justified in her action? It is very prob-
able that Divver is a plebeian deform-
ity of De Vere, which time, custom,
carelessness and indifference to de-
scent brought about. Names suffer
just such mutilations and attrition in
the course of time, and are ground
down to an indistinct sound, losing
edge and accent in the process. We
once heard of a man who signed his
name Simmer Without the slightest
suspicion that genealogy would have
justified him in writing it Seymour.
This very beautiful and euphonius
name is treated with barbarity by
many who bear it, who pronounce it
Seemore, utterly oblivious that it comes
from St. Maur. in which form it is now
written by the duke of Somerset, whose
heir is Lord Seymour. This family of
Seymours, by writing the name in its
ancient and authentic form, and con-
serving its concentration as Seymour
in one of their titles, undoubtedly are
moved by the purpose of letting the
world know how they would have it
pronounced. They are a very old
race, associated with St. Maur in Nor-
mandy before the Cdnqueror invaded
England. They are as proud as the
proudest. When Sir Edward Seymour
joined William of Orange at Exeter,
the latter said: “I think, Sir Edward,
that you are of the family of the duke
of Somerset.” “Pardon me, sir,” said
the aristocrat of aristocrats, speaking
as the head of the elder branch, “the
duke of Somerset is of my family.”
If a man or woman in America thinks
it worth the time and trouble to trace
descent in search of an ancestor it is
quite possible that he or she may make
a. discovery gratifying to family pride.
Social lines have been much more close-
ly drawn in Great Britain in the last
two centuries than they were in the
times of the Plantagenets and the
Tudors. It was no uncommon thing
four hundred years ago for the sons of
nobles to go into trade in association
with men who had made their way
from very humble beginnings. The
sons of country knights were oft-en
glad to be taken into the counting
houses and households of the rich Lon-
don merchants. Marriages often fol-
lowed that united the tradesman’s fam-
ily with old, historic lines. Very kind-
ly relations sprang up between the pal-
aces and “the city.” Even monarchs
did not disdain to mate with ladies of
no higher rank than simple gentry.
Edward IV. married Elizabeth Wood-
villc, who, though the daughter of a
baron, was the widow of a simple
knight when the king, who was always
taken by a pretty face, met her. The
mighty Queen Elizabeth had among her
near kinsfolk on her mother’s side some
good-natured everyday country people
who bore the name of Brown, and who,
when she came to the thrOnc, visited
London in the expectation of nepotism.
The great queen was more Tudor
than Brown—by the way, Owen Tudor
himself was but a plain Welsh knight
W110 made a lucky marriage—and she
sent her country relatives back with an
intimation that court life was not their
sphere, and with no sinecure to console
them. Dr. Doran conjectured that the
slang phrase: “Astonishing the
Browns,” long in vogue in England,
may have had its origin in this inci-
dent. The Browns were types, for
there was many a plain coun-
try gentleman who might with genea-
logical justification “call the king
his cousin.” All this has changed;
caste has hedged itself in within the
last two centuries; classes do not min-
gle so much as they did in the time of
the Tudors, which is the best period for
”Americans to study when in search of
ancestors. If a lady or gentleman with
a taste for ancestors wants to gratify
it, it is only an embittered enemy of
the heraldry oflice who. will seek to
thwart the endeavor.
WHY DON’I' IT WOBBLE?
The Earth’s Balance Must Have Changed
Since Columbus.
A New England scientist says there’s
going to be the dickens to pay if the
rest of the United States continues to
cart away granite and marble from the
land of the Pilgrims and Puritans.
“It is not unlikely,” says he, “that
the equilibrium of the earth is already
considerably disturbed, and that we
shall shortly feel a pronounced wob-
ble.” '
Of course, if there is to be a wobble
anywhere we would prefer it in New
England, but perhaps the outlook is
not so desperate as at first glimpse.
The summer rush of people to the
White mountains, Bar Harbor, New-
port and a thousand other New Eng-
land summer resortsmust in a very
great degree restore the weight which
existed before there were quarries in
New England.
And there is another thing. It is
computed that there were in the west-
ern hemisphere, when Columbus set
foot on it, not more than 1,000,000 hu-
man beings.
There are now, at a. very low esti-
mate, 101,000,000. '
These 100,000,000 of additional per-
sons have increased the weight of the
western-hemisphere some 5,000,000 of
tons, ”in the roundest of numbers.
Surely there is an opportunity for a
wobble in this state of affairs, and we
ought to be conscious of it by this
. time.
If there has been no wobble an ex-
planation should be demanded.
Some man of science should rise to
tell us why we don’t wobble.
Nothing is more dreadful, says the
Buffalo Courier, than this uncertainty
when and where the commotion will
begin. Probably only those who are,
holding to the car straps at the time
l will keep their feet.
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RICHARD A. McCURDY President.
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OF NEW YORK.
.; omen u heYear J ing
Assets. ' .
Liabilities .
Surplus
Total Income .
Total Paid Policy-holders in 1895,
Insurance and Annuities in force,
Net gain in 1895
I
Deudldfldd. -
$221,213,721 33
194,347,157, 58
$26,866,568 75
‘ $48,597,480 51
$28,126,728 45
_ $899,074,453 78
$61,647,645 36
NOTE—Insurance merely written, ls dlscarded from this Statem n '
actually issued and pald for in cash is Included._ 6 t as wholly mlsleadlng. and only insurance
‘ 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.
Report of the Examining Committee.
titles of lhe Mutual Life Insurance colony of New York,
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-8 _
therein are in possession of the Company.
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
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. 0. Von Post,
Charles R. Henderson,
James C. Holden,
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Robert Olyphant,
'Wm. P. Dixon,
J. H. Herrick. '
Committee
ROBERT A. GRANNIS, Vice-President.
WALTER B. GILLETTE, General Manager.
ISAAC F. 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.
WILLIAM P. SANDS, Cashier
HENRY E. DUNCAN. Jr., Cor. Seey.
ALBERT KLAMROTH, Asst. Secy.
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EMORY MOCLINTOCK LL.D., F. I. A., Actuary.
JOHN TATLOCK, J 3., 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.
GUSTAVUS ‘3. WINSTON, M. D.-
MEDICAL Dinncrons
ELIAS, J. MARSH, M. D. ,-
GRANVILLE M. WHITE. M. D.-.
1 Junior w. Nicholas.
. New Haven, General Agt. for State of Connecticut.
' ‘ a. a. cause.
- \ Local Agent.
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