THE EVENING GAZETTE. Brennan or run Pos'r Omen 1m Nonwanx as A ansrsrna. MAIL SUBSCRIPTIONs, :Dmv. one year. :3: six months. 51.75; three. months. $1.00; one month, 30c. 'Wnnva. one’, year. in'Iadvance, $1.00; six months. 60c.; threetmonths. 3:0. MONDAY, JUNE 22; 1896. A Good Suggestion. Superintendent K. W'i Mansfield of the Norwalk Tramway company, urges amost sensible improvement in refer- ence to the 'Washington street draw— ‘bridge. ' Instead of continuing the old-time, slow and everyway vexatious method of moving the bridge turntable by hand-power, as is now done, Mr. Mans- field recommends the more speedy, economical and effective, modern svs-' tem of electric power and movement. The great carriage bridge draw at Bridgeport is thus moved and enor- . mously heavy as it is, it is swung by electricity with uuerring certainty and in less than a quarter of the time con- sumed in opening and shutting our Washington street draw by its two men power. All our citizens know of the vexatious delays daily and almost hourly caused our Trolley cars, loaded as they are with passengers, and the numberless toot passers, business wagons and car- riages, because of the frequent opening gm shutting of this draw and the long timmmmgmed in the operation. Whilelaitil on! pgople would welcome any improvement upon the 01d and yexatious metnod, the questidn of 005*. at-once comes up in 'most minds as an excuse for “enduring the ills we have rather than in flying to others we know not of,” but fortunately Mr. Mansfield’s proposition for substituting the present tamoxifen power with electricity, can be made to effect a decided. saving in cost to the town. Mr. Mansfield claims that the Select- —men can themselves purchase and have the electrical machinery introduced for a total cost of nine hundred dollars, or have it put in by contracting experts if they prefer that method, for about $1,- 200. That its introduction would srve thewages atom of the men now neces- sarily employed, and better still, he states that his Tramway Company will furnish the electric power to the Itown free of cost, if the newer and :quicker electric system is introduced. These are considerations that should engage the attention of our Town Fathers. .0. England’s Noble Queen. Th Herald appropriately calls atten- tion to the interesting historical fact that on Saturday, Queen Victoria very quietly in her Highland bomb, still darkened by a recent and sore bereave- ment, celebrated the fifty-ninth anni- versary other accession to the Crown oi“ an Empire upon which, like that of Charles V in mediaeval times,” the sun never sets. With the solitary exception of King George III, Queen Victoria’s reign has already lasted longer than that lot any monarch in history; and, unlike that of her grandfather, which was interrupted by mental afi’iiction, rendering neces- the appointment of a Regent, she has retained in her own hand the sceptre from the time of her succession on June 20, 1837, until the present day. No sovereign born and retired in an] epoch when popular rights and constitutional government were regarded as analogous to. the anarchy and Socialism of the present, day has manifested a more sagacious appreciation of the growth of democracy throughout the world, or has known how to submit to the altered conditions created thereby without either loss to her personal dignity or to the prestige of the Crown. A warm friend of the United Statesithe people of which cordially reciprocate her esteem and regard, there are many in this country who will join the English in an expression of the hearty wish that her well-spent life may be £13).th for many years to come. ‘ Judgment Agalnst Bedding. In the Common Pleas court Judge Curtis has given judgment for Emma Ferris to recover $25 and costs in her suit against'the town of Bedding. This judgment applies to the justice court where the case was originally tried, but on the appeal the defendant is to re— cover ceits. While driving in Redding in September, 1894, plaintiff‘s horse shied and went down an embankment and was hurt. The court holds that the town was negligent in'iailing to protect the road by a railing. ’ ‘ ‘ BRITiSr. .iOSPlTAhiT‘r’. Said to Be on the Decline—The nes- vtaurant Too Convenient. the decline? A writer in the London World believes that it is, and assigns as the cause “the adoption for entertain- ing purposes of that practice of nomad- ic dining which has been so largely borrowed of late years from the other side of the channel.” The home din- ner party is disappearing, he mourn- fully adds, owing to the multiplication of gorgeous and palatial restaurants, with all their alluring possibilities of vicarious hospitality. No one can 'se- riously pretend that to entertain at a. restaurant is the same thing as to en- tertain under one’s own roof. It is a trouble-shirking method of discharging social obligations utterly devoid of the sentiment ass’ociated with home. “Flat life” is another “foreign” abom- ination which is contributing to the downfall of the once cherished British institution. Home life and flat life are two totally distinct things, and to a large exetnt antagonistic. Flat dwell- ers are debarred from entertaining in any but the most restricted manner, and their only resource is the restaurant. Again, the art of conversation, on which the home dinner depended so much for its success, is on the decline, for to-day “so great” is the dread of mutual bore- dom that hosts and guests at restaur- ant dinner ”parties frequently take the precaution to arm themselves en masse with tickets for the play, and thereby escape from the necessity of enter- taining each other for a moment longer than is absolutely necessary by adjourn~ ing to the theater immediately the re- past is concluded.” 3‘ IN THE ANDAMAN ISLANDS. Rather Spicy Sport in the Fishing Line Reported. An Englishman tells in the London Field of a. painful experience he.had at the Andaman. islands with a parrot fish. The parrot fish was of a. dirty olive tint, with brown spots, and was possessed of a. formidable beak, not unlike a. ma- caw’s, only the points met instead of overlapping, and it was composed of bone instead of horn. It was brought to the surface by some experimental torpedoes, and the Englishman picked it up and began poking his finger about it, supposing the brute to be dead. All of a. sudden the open beaks came to- gether with a snap and the Englishman lost the top of his thumb. The chunk bitten ofi was given by the coxswain to a. panther (leopard) club. The same coxswain and a number of sailor-S. were drawing a seine for carna- tion carp, whose scales were the size of rupees and skin as tough as leather, fetched the Coxswain a blow in the ab- domen that knocked him galley-west over the boat’s rail and into the water. That upset the boat, but all hands were rescued, and the fish were taken out to be eaten. The Andaman islands furnish consid- erable sport with guns as well as rods, snipe and wild pigs being abundant at proper seasons. A CURIOUS MIRROR. Had Something of the Novelty of Famous ' X Bays. p A copy of the London PhilOSOphical Journal of 1832 contains an account of a. curious Chinese mirror, which had the power to reflect upon a. screen by the aid of the sun’s rays objects on the back of the mirror, the mirror being made of Chinese silver, a. composition of tin and copper. The Journal stated that there. were but few of the mir- rors then in exis‘ence. and that they were eviden 51y the remains of a- lost art. From this ‘t is inferred that the X my was origins‘ly discovered by the Chinese. This claim will surprise no one, for sooner or later every great discovery that has tended to advance civilization is attributed to the Chi- nese, and yet, strangely enough, the Chinese are now hostile to the civiliza- tion that has grown out of their dis- ooveries. There Was Lots of It. ' Among a lot of fresh air fund children sent to the seaside last summer was one poor little wail“ who did not join in the other children’s games, but. was found alone clown on the rocks surveying the ocean. “Wouldn’t you like to come and play some games with the other little girls?" she was asked. “Oh, no, sir,” said the waif, “I’d rather look at the water.” “And what do you find of inter- est in the water?” “0h, there’s such lots of it,” said the waif, enthusiast ically, “and it’s the only time in my life I ever seed enough of anything.” Too Good to Use in Spanking. Almost incredible sums are. some- times expended on slippers. Thus not long ago a. countess had a. pair made, ornamented with rubies, emeralds and diamonds, costing $20,000. But. at a masked ball given by the duke of Man-' Chester some years ago a lady imperson- ating Cinderella. wore a pair of slippers adorned with jewelry valued at over $60,000. Spectacles. Roger Bacon wasthc first to suggest the use of spectacles. When they came into use in Italy, about the year 1285, on the recommendation of Alessandro di Spins, a monk of Pisa, women were forbidden to wear them, because it was thought that such facial ornamenta- t-idns would make them vain. A Free Press in Austria. w Austria’s new ministry has sent a circular to all public prosecutors re- minding them that the freedom of the press is guaranteed by the constitution, and warning them that the illegal prac- tice of confiscating newspapers, on the ground that. they incite to hatred and contempt, will no longer be tolerated. ’ A Lawyer's Confession. A famous advocate confessed him- self: “I am never so happy as when I am defending a prisoner I know to be guilty; for if he is convicted, he will get his deserts; and if I get him off, it will be a tribute to my skill." l Is the art of British hospitality on, when, as the seine closed up, a. big fish - CHECKER—BOARD BUSINESS DIRECTORY. NORWALK Fire Insurance to. In Successful Oper- ation since 1860. . 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