-—rv saunas-Housesja SPECIALTY '1. oils/*. OWNER-04’ . ~ 5 A RAT 0 "RA SARATOGk-l 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. ‘ Lustuine. ‘ , 16c Ask your Grocers. -Blli BUT IN PRIGE- OF MEAT. Round,“ Sirloin and Pore terhouse Steaks, Sausge, Pot and Rib Roasts Reduced 29. a Pound All First Quality Meat. J. w. BOGARDUS, 6 WATER ST.. NORWALK HATHflliN' SPRING WATER ' ‘ FORTHE Stomach, Bo wels, Liver and Kidneys. F OR SALE BY The Holmes, Keoloo &Solleol to NEW CAFE unsufinnnu MIKE 'ATCI'HFORI‘), ‘44 Wain Street, The Best Wines, Liquors and Cigars. PLYMOUTH ROCK ICE. Stores and Families Supplied. Lowest Rates} Horace E. EDann, EXCELSIOL . Emery and Sales Stable. Opposite Danbury and Norwalk Railroad depot Norwalk. Obnn. Stylish Single or Double Team with or without drivers? ' - Safe horses for women ‘ ' audohildren. . 2.1 TRAMPS IN ENGLAND. They Are' Mega—tg—V-vbrk Hard for a‘,Night’s Lodging. An Experience Among the “Casuals” of London - American Vagrants Are Veritable Lords of Creation by Comparison. Josiah Flynt, who has given interest- ing studies on tramp life in Germany and in this country, has extended his investigations to England. He writes a paper entitled “Two Tramps in Eng» land” in the Century. He and his com- panion, a German student, completed a tour through the provinces with an experience in a, “casual” at N otting Hill, London. Mr. Flynt writes: We appeared at the door of the ward about half-past seven in the evening. A little window was raised, and I stepped forward torstate my business. Uncon- sciously I leaned against the sill of the window; which offended the inspector in charge considerably. ' “What’s yOur name?” he thundered. Still leaning on the sill, I gave him my name honestly enough. He then re- marked to some person inside that we were not accustomed to such places, evidently, and called out: “Stand back, will you!” Back I stood. He cried out again: “Take off your hat!” 'My hat came off instanter. Still again: “You come in here like a meeleeonary. You’re not; you’re a casual.” I was as meek as could well be. Ryborg was itching to grab the inspector with his long arms. The next question was as to where we had slept the night before. “Strawstack,” I replied. ‘ ‘ “None of your insolence! You slept out—why don’t you say so? Have you got any money?” “A ha’penny, sir.” “Hand it in.” In it went. Then I had to tell my trade, which was that of a sailor; and naturally the next ques- tion was as to where I was bound. “To Ameriky, sir, if I can ever get there.” “You’re goin’ to tramp it, aren’t you?” “Yes, sir; that’s my intention;” but for the life of me I could not see how I was to reach America that way. I was so frightened that I would have told him anything he wanted. When he was through with us, a kind-hearted attendant took us in hand, gave us some gruel and bread, a bath, clean night-shirts, and then a cell apiece, in which we slept very well. As there were only four inmates that morning, we were needed for the clean- which I dreaded exceedingly, and were put at various light occupations—or rather I was. Ryborg was the victim of his strength. -Our breakfast con- sisted of the same dish as our supper the night before. Iwas soon busy as general fireman, scrubber, knife-clean- er, coal-carrier, dish-washer, and help- .er of mysister-suiferer, Mrs. Murphy, as she washed her task of towels and shirts. At noon we had pea-soup and bread. I enjoyed it, but Ryborg did not. The poor fellow was feeling badly; he had had to scrub nearly twenty cells, and the bending over incident to such a feat had nearly broken his back. At dinner he said plaintively: “Flynt, I want to go home.” “So do I,” I re- plied; “but I fancy we’re wanted here till to-morrow morning.” This proved to, be the’case; but he felt better in the afternoon, and got through comfort- ably, wheeling nearly a ton of stone from some of the cells to the general pile. He earned his “keep,” if ever any poor prisoner did. I fear 1 was more shiftless, for about the middle of the afternoon the attend- antwho was with me at the furnace said: “You might as well rest; just keep your eyes on the fires, that’s all.” It was kind of him; and as I had at least earned my pea soup and gruel, I took his advice. He was kinder to me, I think, because I gave him a corn-cob pipe which he had had to take away from me the night before. During the day he had asked me several questions about it, and I said: “It’s a very de- cent sort of pipe—coolin’-like, you know.” “Doesn’t Mark Twain always smoke one 0’ them pipes?” said he. “Blest if I know,” said I,- “but I can well think it.” “I’m a great friend 'of Mark Twain,” he pursued; “an’ I’m a-thinkin’ 0’ get- tin’ one 0’ them pipes, jest out of re- spect for him.” “Well,” said I, “permit me, in the name of your respect, to present you with my pipe; besides, you’ve got it, anyhow.” ' On Wednesday morning we were turned loose with our two ha’pennies. We were both so happy that 'we decid- ed to get oif the road that very day. We had been tramps for three weeks, and had walked most of this time fully . fifteenmiles a day; so we looked up my friend at the Temple, and in a few hours were respectable again. That same day I tookmy tramp clothes out to the casual ward, and presenthd them to my friend the attendant. I had told him the day before that I expected to get new “togs” soon, and he had put in a plea for my old ones. Good luck to him and them. Water for Ship’s Crews. A well-known Austrian engineer, M. Pfister, is announced as having discov- ered a remarkable property in the trunks . of trees, namely, that of retaining the salt "of sea water that has filtered ' through the trunk in the direction of the fibers. He has consequently con- structed an apparatus designed to util- jize this property in obtaining potable water for the use of ships’ crews. This apparatus consists of a pump, which sucks up the‘ sea water into a reservoir and then forces it into the filter'formed by the tree trunk. As soon as the pres4 sure reaches 1.5 to 2.5 atmospheres the water is seen—at the end of from one to three minutes, according to the kind of wood used—tomake its exit from ,the ‘ other extremity of the trunk, at first in drops and then in fine streams, the water thus filtered being potable, freed, in fact, frpm every particle of the usual saline taste which is such a‘ drawback to water obtained in the ordinary manner. ‘ . ing up, and so escaped stone-breaking, LOFTY AND 'LOWLY. . A sect-y of Two—RBI” Which Brings ‘ Tears of Joy. - One of the women attendants out at ‘ the children’s jsanit-arium on‘ the Lin- coln park lake shore tells a pretty story, says the Chicago Chronicle. ' “A woman who was sick enough- her- self to be in a hospital came up here with her child. It was a tiny thing, and so weak that it could hardly cry. The mother had to be assisted under the shelter, and then we gave her are- clining place from which she could see the lake. Soon after there stopped in front of the building an imposing car- riage and team. The occupants were a woman whose dress indicated riches and refinement, a pretty 'and elabor- ately dresSed baby, and the nurse. The three came in. The mistress of the party saw the woman and spoke to her. I did not hear what was said at first, but a few moments later I heard the rich woman say: “ ‘Don’t be afraid. I will leave you my child as security.’ And with that the rich woman picked up the tiny child that was so weak, and Carried it herself to the carriage and got in and was driven away. The nurse and the rich baby remained at the sanitarium and entertained the sick woman, and when the other returned the sick child had on a new dress, and a bunch of sweet peas was fastened, about its neck. It was all so quietly done, and so pretty, too, I just went off alone and cried from joy.” ' MORALS IN RUSSIAN ASIA. Mock Modesty of Natives Who Ate Used to Shocking Sights. ‘ The status of women, which is al- ready too low in Russia itself, is even worse in those parts of Asia which are under Russian control. A respectable lady there will not accept an invitation of a gentleman to any place of amuse- ment unless some member of her own family accompanies her, and this ten- dency of the really good women to draw the line between themselves and the extreme looseness of the lower classes has resulted in a prudishness which proved rather embarrassing a year or two ago to Thomas G. Allen, Jr., whose account of his bicycle trip across Asia-so interested the readers of the Century magazine a few months ago. The particular instance in question he relates as follows: “Whenever exercising on the wheel we had adopted the English custom of turning over the upper portion of the stocking to leave the kneecap free for action, but, far from suiting the exqui- site sensibilities of Tashkent society, this feature of our professional cos- tume was looked upon as actually in- decent. On this particular occasion a certain epauletted individual accosted us rather abruptly and, with a supercil- ions glance at our knees, informed us that our ‘indecent exposure’ had pro- duced considerable abashment among his lady companions. Of course we re- tired at once to avert the disastrous ef- fects of a second esthetic shock, but we wondered at the same time how it was that a community which could connive at social scandals and look with equa- nimity upon the half-naked natives working on the street should be so dis- concerted at the sight of a kneecap.” s: A TREE SUNSTRUCK. Hot Weather Puts an End to a Large ' Maple. The editor of Meehan’s Monthly tells of being summoned to hold an inquest over a dead sugar maple tree. It was supposed to have been destroyed by a leak in the city gas main, near its roots, but an examination convinced Mr. Mee- han that the tree had died literally from sunstroke. This maple had been planted on the street about twenty-five years, and was some four feet in girth. The trunk, however, instead of being cylindrical, was shaped like a triangular prism, a peculiarity owing to the fact that on three sides of it the inner bark and wood had been killed, while the outer bark continued to cover up the injury so that the only living wood was at the angles of the trunk. Practically no more than one-third of the surface of the trunk was alive, and when the ex- ceedingly warm weather came the lim- ited number of ducts were not sufficient to supply the moisture needed to meet the rapid transpiration from so large a surface of foliage, consequently the leaves wilted and the tree died. Whenever the trunk of a tree takes On this angular form it should be ex- amined under the bark, and if the flat- ter portions are found dead the bark and the decaying part of the wood should be wholly cut away and the de- nuded part painted to check the rot-I ting. In time healthy wood may grow over such a scar, and the life of the tree may thus be eventually saved. It is Poor in Fishes. The Colorado basin is the largest in the United States, draining not less than two hundred and twenty-five thousand square miles, yet, according to a paper prepared for the United States fish commission by Messrs. Everman and Rutter, it contains but thirty-two species of fish of eighteen genera. These belong to the following five families: Catostomidac or suckers, eight species; Cyprinidae or minnows, nineteen; Salmonidae or trout and Whitefish, two: Poecilidae or top min- nows, two; and Cottidae or blobs, one. All but seven of the species are thus far known only from this basin. ' In comparison it is stated that eighty dif- ferent species are known from the basin of the Rio Grande, one hundred and forty from that of the Missouri and one hundred and thirty from the Wabash basin. ‘ To Keep Him frorn Unraveling. _ At one time the Presbyterians of Ulster were discussing the ignorance and stupidity of One of their “number. “And what a notion he has in his head now!” exclaimed one of the. elders, in dismay. “His head!” echoed one of the ministers: “he has no head! What you call a head is only a top-knot that his» Maker put there to keep him from rav- cling out.” - , . ' on T H E E v EN I NG GA ZEI‘T E . INSURANCE no, ‘,_ 4 T OF NEW YORK. ‘ RICHARDA. McCURDY President. ‘ 8mg“ ”" helo?"immunoloollo. ! ' 8221,21332133 194,347,157 58‘ $26,866,563 75 1 $48,597,430 51 . $23,126,728 45 . I J Assets, . Liabilities . Surplus . Total Income . Total Paid Policy-holders in 1895, . Insurance and Annuities in force, Net gain in 1895 actually issued and paid for in cash ls Included. I have carefully examined the foregoing Statement and find the same to be correct. . CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor. I $899,074 $61,647,645 36 . NOTE—Insurance merely written, Is discarded from this Statement as wholly mlsleadln From the Surplus a dividend will be apportioned as usual. ‘ Report of the Examining Committee. ‘ fltfioeol lhe Mutual Life lnsuranee company of New York, ‘ February 11,1896. At a meeting of the Board of Trustees of this Company, held On the 18t b 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 performedthe 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, Charles R. Henderson, . James C. Holden, Robert Olyphant, Wm. P. Dixon, g. and only insurance J. H. Herrick. ROBERT A. GRANNIS,‘ Vice-President. WALTER R. GILLETTE, General Manager. ISAAC F. LLOYD, Second Vice-President, \ WILLIAM J. EASTON, Secretary, IOHN ‘A. FONDA, Assistant Treasurer. WILLIAM P. SANDS,'Cashier JoHN TATLOCK, .13., Asst. Actuary. CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor, } Committee HENRY E. DUNCAN. .11., Cor. Seoy. ALBERT KLAMROTH, Asst. Seoy. EREDERIG CROMWELL, Treasurer. \ JAMES TIMPSON, 2d Asst. Trees EDWARD‘P. HOLDEN, Asst. Cashier EMORY MoGLINTOCK LL.D., F. I. A., Actuary. . WM. W. RICHARDS, ComptrOller.‘ HENRY s. BROWN, Asst. Comp. JOHN C. ELLIOTT, Superintendent of Domestic Agencies, 7, EDWARD LYMAN SHORT, Gen. Solicitor. GUSTAVUS ‘3. WINSTON, M. D. JOHN W. moments, I MEDIOAL DIRECTORS . ELIAS, J. MARSH, M. D. GRANVILLE M. WRITE, M. D. New Haven, General Agt. for State of Connecticut. ”TLocal Agent: , 5 ..~.,...' , ,453 78
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