Evening gazette, Tuesday, June 9, 1896 · page 7

 

 

 

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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 pet Glass.

Home-cleaning.

 

 

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-BII} INIT IN PRIDE-

OF

MEAT.

Round, Sirloin and Por-
terhouse Steaks, Sausge,
Pot and Rib Roasts

Reduced 2e. . 5 Pound

All First Quality Meat.

J. W. BOGARDUS,

6 WATER ST... N ORWALK

DRINK .
HATHIIIIN

SPRING .
WATER

FOR THE

 

 

Stomach,

Bo wels,
Liver and
Kidneys.

FOR SALE BY

The Holmes, Keeler &ISelleel to

NEW CAFE

 

RESTTNINRANT
I [VIIKE ATCHFORD,

44 Wain Street, .

The Best Wines, Liquors and Cigars.

 

 

 

. PLYMOUTH ROCK ICE.

 

Stores and Families Supplied.
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EXCELSIOL a

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Opposite Danbury and
Norwalk Railroad depot

Nor-walk. Conn. Stylish

Single or Double Team

with or without drivers?

Safe horses for women
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gWILD ANIMAL FARM.

The Novel Project of the Ringling
Brothers, Circus Men.

 

 

An Immense Inclosure in Southern Call-
fornla Where Lions, Panthers, Ele-
phants, Etc., Will Be Raised
on a Large Scale.

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A novel scheme for raising and per-
petua'ting rare. varieties of‘ wild ani-
mals is the latest zoological idea of
Ringling Bros. .

A special agent of the company 15‘
now negotiating, for a tract of landat
Long Beach, near San Pedro bay, south-
ern California, for the purpose, while
Messrs. Dr. Rupert Hoffman and Oscar
Newman, who recently started on a
tour around the world to secure wild
beasts for the menagerie and zoological
exhibits, will make special efiorts to
collect some very perfect and healthy
specimens of forest-reared. animals for
breeding purposes. It is proposed to
secure four or five square miles of the

 

most thickly-wooded land in the vi~ .

cinit-y mentioned. The land desired is
to embrace swamp, timber and rocky
sections and will be inclosed by a solid
brick wall.

This wall. will be two feet in height
and will rest upon a’firm foundation
of stone masonry, implanted several
feet in the earth. From the top of the-
brick wall up to a. distance of about 12
feet a fence will be erected of half-inch
pieces of iron, six inches apart. In the
main the land will be left in its natural
state, but caves made as nearly as pos-
sible to imitate nature will be dug and
formed of rocks, and it is expected
that the animals will make their homes
in these. The idea of Ringling Bros.
is to turn the animals into. this in-
closure and let them follow their nat-
ural inclinations and habits as much
as possible. As the animals to be prop-
agated are principally of the carniv-
orous kind, such animals as they nat-
urally prey, upon will be supplied as
food. If, of course, at any time the num-
ber .of antelOpe and other herbivorous
animals which are to furnish food for

I the lions, tigers, hyenas, leopards, pan-

thers and other carnivore. is depleted,
domestic animals, such as sheep and
goats, *will be placed within the in«
closure, to be hunted by the denizens of
this peculiar jungle.

A considerable portion of this ex-
tensive establishment will be separated
from the rest by' secure partitions for
raising the delicate giraffe, camels.
zebras, quaggas and other herbivorous
families of the animal kingdom. In
order that fresh water may be always
on hand, pipes will be laid under-
ground, ending in fountains in the in-
closure, and fed from spring water
pumped in from the outside. It is pro—
posed to lay a concrete walk just out
side and extending around the entire
wall, and a watchman, perhaps on a
bicycle, will make a. tour of inspection
of the entire inclosure‘twice each day.
The idea, if a success, will probably re-
sult in preserving certain animals, such
as the giraffe, from becoming entirely
extinct.

Elephants will also be raised within
the inclosure. On account of their
great strength it was at first thought
that an elephant inclosure would. be
impracticable, but a scheme has been
devised which it is believed will pre-
vent them- from breaking down the
walls. Forty feet within the outside
w all will be erected a second fence com-
posed and built of logs driven into the
ground by means of a pile driver.
These timbers will be about three feet
apart and will be cross-braced by a row
of timbers bolted on the upright logs
toward the outside and braced with
cross
braces to the ground. This will make a
very strong shield against which the
assaults of a large and vicious elephant
will have no effect. :

The cost of such- an inclosure will'not
be so great as one would at first think.
as the material used is very plentiful
in that section of southern California
selected for this purpose. The elephant
inclosure is located 'so- far from the
outer wall in order that no tiger, lion: or
other animal of the cat family could
leap from it to the top. of the iron grat-
ing and thus gain access to the out-
side world. Certain grasses and herbs
indigenous to the countries from—Which
the animals are to be brought will be
planted in order that the animals may
have as nearly as possible their native
foods.

One of the most interesting features
of the jungle will be the monkey farm.
For this purpose several acres will be
used. A wooden frame will be erected.
extending above the height of the trees
and completely surrounding the farm.
This framework will be covered with a
network of wire, so that the monkeys
will be at liberty to climb about the
trees and feed on the fruits and nuts,
but will be unable to escape;

The idea in its entirety embraces the
scheme of propagating the animals by
giving them the natural advantages of
a jungle, leaving them to follow their
natural habits, but keeping them with-
in the inclosure, so that they can 'be
trapped when wanted for exhibition
purposes—Chicago News. -

Bicycle-Ostrich Race.

A queer race was run in South Africa-
a few weeks ago. For some time the
question. of the speed of an ostrich has
been a subject of some discussion, and a
noted cyclist determined to test his
speed against the powerful bird. A
smooth course was selected and the
chase began. The wheelman drove the
pedals around with great velocity and
came abreast of the. bird. No sooner
did it perceive the man than it started
at a headlong gait, and, although the
wheelman was covering ground at the
rate of a. mile in two minutes, the
ostrich swift-1y distanced him. A stern
chase is a long chase, and no doubt the

powers of the rider would enable him to

overtake the ostrich in the end, but he
could do nothing in a mile race—Lon-
don Truth. ’

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A NICE "AUDIENCE.

It Was So Because It Was Compelled
to Be.

Daniel Frisbee, once a. newspaper
man, now an actor, tells the San Fran-
cisco Call: . .

K At one place called West Union, in
Iowa, we had the oddest experience I
have yet met with. We played in a hall
thirty feet underground that ,had for-
merly .been two saloons, the stage be-
ing composed of dining tables. Though
the theater was packed with people,
we’might have been playing to wax
figures for all the interest they exhib-
ited in the play. There was not one
laugh or sign of applause from the be-
ginning to the end of the performance.
We noticed a man going up and down

the aisles, but did not pay much atten-.

tion to him until he came behind the
scenes after the show and was intro-
duced as the proprietor of the theater
—the ex-saloonkeeper.

“Pretty nice lot of an audience,” he
remarked to me with the pride of own-
ership.

“Yes, quite a lady-like one,” I an-
swered; “very gentle and timid.”

“They've got to be. I walk up and
down the aisles with a club, and if I
see anyone making a noise I throw
him out.”

And that accounted for the silence.
The people stood in such awe of the sa-
loonkeeper that they did not dare to
smile. . .

If a luckless Wight smiles it never
smiles again.

A DOG’S QUEER TRICK.

Evidence of Reasoning Power Shown in
. His Actions.

"1' 1 A dog and horse owned by 001. W. J.
HulingS, of Oil City, Pa, says the Der-
rick of tnat city, afford the neighbors
considerable amusement. The animals
are companions and full of intelligence.
The horse has learned to pick and un-
tie all sorts of 'knots, and unless the
door is fastened by a padlock it is im-
possible to keep him in the stable dur-
ing the present hot weather, with the
lawns in the neighborhood offering
overpowering temptations in the way
of juicy, clean grass. This trait gives
the dog much trouble, for the horse
pays no attention to his barking or
sharp nippings, but keeps trespassing
on the colonel‘s lawn or that of neigh-
bors without discrimination. After
trying by all manner of stratagems to
get the horse back into the stable

 

‘ where he belongs, the dog will give up

the job in disgust, rush into the house,
and by barking or dragging at the
dress of some of the lady members of
the family, entice them to the window
or yard, and as plainly as if he told in
words show that the horse is in mis-
chief. This performance has been re-
peated a dozen times during the sum-
mer and in no case has the dog begged

outside assistance until he had tried by .

every effort of his own to persuade his
companion to return to the stable.

CORNS AS WEATHER PROPHETS.

Said to Be Infalllble by a Man Who Uses
~ Them. I ;

2' “Do you know that the best weather
predictor in the world,” said a well-
known physician to a Philadelphia.
Record reporter, “is a well-developed
hard corn on any of the principal toes?
I have one on the third toe of my right
foot that informs me of a coming
change in the weather far more relia-
bly than the signal service man with
his wealth of scientific instruments.
Of course, I keep the corn well pared,
but that doesn’t make a particle of dif-
ference with the merit of it as a prog-
nosticator. Just about twenty-four
hours before a change in the weather
the corn begins its predictions by a
sharp pain that I can only liken to a
red-hot needle being thrust into the
joint of the toe. The pain is intermit-
tent,‘and for this I am thankful, for if
it should pain without pause it would
drive me daft. I can assign, no cause
for the phenomenon, nor have I. ever
been able to get a reason from the hun-
dreds of doctors I know, many of whom
are afliicted the same as myself. A
great many of my patients are possessed
of a similar infallible barometer, and
many of them have come to me for re-
lief. But the only relief I can suggest
is to remove to a country where the
weather never changes.”

 

 

 

 

 

NOT SAVED BY HIS RANK.

German Emperor Was Hazed by the Stu-

dents at Bonn.

Dr. W. Clark Robinson, of Edinburg,
was a classmate of Emperor William of
Germany at Bonn, says the Boston
Transcript. Telling of his first meet-
ing with the German emperor he said
the other day: “It was in the fall of
’78 when Ifirst met the emperor. He
was a. student at Bonn. I shall never
forget the amusing spectacle he pre-
sented. You know it is the custom of
the students at Bonn to take adaily
plunge in the waters of the Rhine.
For the new man this isa trying ordeal.
When they go down to the Rhine to
take their first swim they are repeat-
edly ducked by the older students un-
til they cry for mercy. ' Everyone was
on the lookout for the prince's initial
appearance, and when he ventured into
the river he was ducked unmercifully.
But William ‘would never give up.
Down again and again ‘went the future
emperor‘s head, but he pluckily refused
to give up. Finally, when he had
reached the verge of total collapse, he
was pulled out of the water looking
more like a drowned rat than alive
man. It took us nearly twenty min-
utes to bring around Germany’s future
ruler.

 

 

Artificial Snow.

The Popular Science Monthly tells a
curious instance of the formation of ar-
tificial snow. It was witnessed in the
town of Agen, in France, one night
last winter. A fire broke out in a saw-
mill when the temperature was ten
degrees below the freezing point. The
water thrown upon the fire was in-
stantly vaporized, and, rising into the

cold, dry air, was immediately con‘ ’

densed and fell as, snow. What with
bright starlight and a strong north-
west wind blowing, the whirling snow
above andthe raging fire below, a.

brilliant spectacle was’presented.

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INSURANCE 00. .

OF NEW YORK.

Assets, , , .
Liabilities . a. .

Surplus .’ V .

RICHARD A. McCURDY President.

. 1 men or heYear Endiugfleullg,

. $221,213,721 33
194,347,157 58

 

 

 

Total Income . . .

 

Total Paid Policyvholders in 1895,

 

Insurance and Annuities in force,
Net gain in 1895

 

actually issued and paid for in cash Is Included.

Report of the Examining

Office of the Mutual Life Insurance colnany

parison with the assets of the Company.

therein are in possession of the Company.

general transacted.

‘ " , r H. C. Von Post,
Charles R. Henderson,
James C. Holden,

ISAAC F. LLOYD, Second Vice-President,
WILLIAM J. EASTON, Secretary,

FREDERIC CROMWELL, Treasur
JOHN A. FONDA, Assistant Treasurer. 1
WILLIAM P. SANDS, Cashier

JOHN TATLOCK, .73., Asst. Actuary.
CHARLES A. PRELLEB, Auditor,

MEDICAL DIRECTORS

GUSTAVUS S. WINSTON. M. D. ELIAS, J. MARSH, M. D.

 

 

 
 

Local Agent;

JOHN C. ELLIOTT, Superintendent of Domestic Agencies,

‘ I AO.,EOQAMP, ‘

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.

Committee.

of New York,

February 11,1896. 7 _

At a meeting of the Board of Trustees of this Company, held orilthe 18t h day of
December last, theundersigned were appointed a Committee to exa ine the annual
Statement for the year ending December 31st, 1895, and to verify thei‘\same by com-

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

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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 bus‘ipess in

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Wm. P. Dixon,

Robert Olyphant,
J. H. Herrick.

ROBERT A. GRANNIS, Vice-President.

WALTER R. GILLETTE, General Manager.

HENRY E. DUNCAN. Jr., Cor. Seey.
ALBERT KLAMROTH, Asst. Sony.

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JAMES TIMESON, 2d Asst. Treas
EDWARD P. HOLDEN, Asst. Cashier

EMORY MOCLINTOCK LL.D., F. I. A., Actuary.

WM. W. RICHARDS, Comptroller.

HENRY S. BROWN, Asst. Comp.
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EDWARD LYMAN SHORT, Gen. Solicitor. .

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GRANVILLE M. WHITE,’ M. D.

" when w. NICHOLS.

New Haven, General ~Agt. for State of Connecticut.

 

$26,866,563 75
$43,597,430 51
. '1 $23,126,728 45

$399,074,453 73 .
$61,647,645 36

NOTE—Insurance merely written, Is dlscarded from this Statement as wholly mlsleadlng. and only insurance

Commkttee