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For years no other soap
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or quality. It has proved its
value over all substitutes, It
is soap, all soap, and'nothing
but soap. ’
SARATOGA! 7
Genuine Saratoga \Vater in
block-tin lined barrels direct
from the celebrated Spring, is
for sale on draught at Had-
den’s, corner Wall and River
Street.
TH E. 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 Centers Glass.
House-cleaning.
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Round, Sirloin and Por-
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Reduced 2e. 3. Pound
All First Quality Meat.
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44 Wain Street,
The Best Wines, Liquors and Cigars.
Horace E. Darin,
EXCELSIOL
Livery and sues Stable.
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Opposite Danbury and
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Norwalk. Conn. Stylish
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with or without drivers? ,
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aoYCLING THE GLOBE.-
The Feat of Riding Around the "
World on a. Bicycle. '
How It Is Performed These. Days by
Wheeling Enthusiasts—Hair Rais-
I lug Stories Told by
the Heroes. ' i
A traveler just back from Japan says
that the passengers on the Pacific Mail
and Canadian Pacific steamships get
much amusement from seeing the mar-
velous exploits of the daring men and
women who are now making their .per«
ilous ways around the world on bicycles
in great numbers. Every ship takes
several of these heroes and heroines.
On the way to Asia the passengers do
not know the heroes, or even suspect
them. As the wheels are stored in the
cabin baggage rooms, it is impossible
for the rest of the passengers, looking
on at a pallid boy who turns ill at the
smell of a cigar or a girl who lies next
to death’s door in her stateroom, to
dream that these are the people who are
going to write home to the papers that
they have been chased by Persian
bandits and lunched with Kafiir kings
as they annihilated Puck’s record reund
the globe. When the ship stops at
Yokohama out come the Wheels, and
the heroes ride the full length of the
Bund—a commercial street about a
mile long. The rest. of Yokohama is on
a hill too steep for wheeling. At Kobe
and Nagasaki the town sites are more
nearly level and the heroes ride perhaps
two miles, having their wheels lifted
back aboard the steamer as she voyages
from place to place. Having done
Japan by going ashore at three points,
they forge fearlessly ahead. on the
steamship, yearning to brave the ter-
rors of China on their flying tires.
China they discover to be one of the
finest fields for this phase of reckless
deviltry in all the world. The ship takes
them to Shanghai, where the Bund is
nearly two miles long and all lined with
churches, clubs, banks and brokers’ and
shipping offices—as safe and occidental
as Broadway. They hear that they
can ride five miles on the Maloo and the
Bubbling Well road before they come
to the muddy towpaths that form the
actual roads of that part of China,
along which no wheelman can ride.
With their hearts in their throats, fan-
cying every poor devil of a coolie they
meet to be a murderer fresh from sack-
ing a missionary’s house, they pedal
onward. When they come to the tea
gardens, whose gateways swarm with
Chinese, they all but faint, and could
the Chinese dandies and courtesans at
these gates read what the bicyclists
afterward report of their experiences
at the time they would find themselves
described as an undisciplined mob of
soldiers and lawless retainers in front
of a mandarin’s palace, with this ad-
ditional statement: “They scowled so
fiercely and made such threatening
gestures that only the swiftness of my
wheel prevented another massacre be-
ing added to the list of crimes against
foreigners in China.”
Back to the ship the wheeling hero
flies and writes notes of his hairbreadth
escapes in central China until the ves-
sel passes VVoosungg and begins to rock
him back into seasickness. Hong Kong
is the next place at which the bicycle is
taken out—a British possession no more
to be regarded as dangerous for a for-
eign lady of the most timid tempera-
ment to walk about alone in than is the
European republic of Shanghai or the
haunt of mountain desperadoes in New
Jersey called Tuxedo. So the journey
around the world continues—aboard
ship with the historic wheel safe in the
baggage room and only an occasional
chance occurring to take it out in places
like Singapore, Aden, Port Said, Alex-
‘andria and the rest of the desperate
lurking places of European merchants
on the way to Europe. Terrible mo-
ments are experienced and recorded on
the way. For instance, on the Red see.
notes are kept of the ferocious charac-
ter of the inhabitants of the dark con-
tinent. On the Mediterranean the ship
passes Greece, with its pirates, and
Italy, with its banditti, each of which
savage and relentless bodies of people
is worked into the wheelman.’s or wheel-
girl’s diary in such an effective way as
to almost make the diarist turn pale as
he or she reads over what has been writ-
ten.
Finally comes Southampton, or Liver-
pool, or Havre, and there the new world-
famous wheel makes its last. spin—so
that its owner can truthfully say it has
“done Europe”—before being hoisted
aboard a steamer hemeward bound for
New York—N. Y. Sun.
Fondness of Mice for Music.
A nice little animal Story is given in
this month’s Nature Notes, which raises
the interesting question whether mice
have a fondness for 'music. It is con-
tributed by a musician, who says: “One
evening I was somewhat” startled at
hearing my piano suddenly giving forth
sweet sounds, apparently of its own ac-
cord. A mouse, so it proved, had got
inside the instrument, and was making
music on the wires. Whether this was
intentional on mousie’s part or not I
cannot say; perhaps he was trying to
make a nest for himself there. Some
years ago, however, while a piano was
being played in the dining-room of my
old home, several mice came out upon
the hearthrug and began to jump about,
apparently with delight at the sound of
the music, and one was either so ab-
sorbed or overcome by it that he allowed
himself to be carried away in a tongs by
the housemaid.” After this, ladies
oughtto lose their antipathy to mice;
indeed, we may soon expect some hu-
manitarian dame to commence musical
parties for their delectation. It would
be amusing to see them dance, and
would form a really humane method of
. catching them.-—London News.
—Briggs—“I see you are calling on
the daughter of the head of your firm
now.” Griggs--“Yes, she is the only
girl I know of whose father has to work
nights.”‘—-Harlem Life. ‘ ' "
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DESERT BIRDS OF AMERICA.
The Cocopah Mountain 'Vultui-es Are
Larger Than the Condor.
While the international boundary
commission has resurveyed the terri-
torial lines betxveen the United States
and Mexico and has set up a string
of granite monuments all the way from
El Paso westward to San Diego, on the
Pacific ocean, since September, 1892, it
has been the means of giving to the
scientists of the world much valuable
information.
The most fruitful results of the
scientific expedition were those among
the birds and animals. Dr. Edgar A.
Mearns, U. S. A., had charge of collect-
ing ornithological and mammal speci-
mens in the progress across the deserts
and mountains and through the Coco-
pah Indian region. The doctor and his
assistants collected nearly 2,000 speci-
mens of curious life, and they have been
busy for weeks in arranging the enor-
mous collection. The doctor-has packed
his specimens in San Diego and has
gone on to the Smithsonian institution
with them, expecting to put in some
two years in classifying them and put-p
ting them in shape for theinformation
they will impart to naturalists every-
where.
Among other birds making their last
stand in the Cocopah mountains before
the advance of man is one of noble size
—a bird that, as a strong, powerful and
graceful flyer, is the peer of American
birds. It is the California vulture. In
'size it is larger than the South Ameri-
can condor, that king of birds in the
cloud-touching Andes. Few of these
birds are left in California, and they
are not numerous even in that part of
the Cocopah mountains traversed by
Dr. Mearns. It has been remarked that
the California vulture is a cowardly
bird, but the members of Dr. Mearns’
party do not think so after observing
one of these vultures fight'a rattlesnake.
It was in the early morning. The big
bird had seized the snake behind the
head and was struggling upward with
its writhing, deadly burden. The
snake’s captor appeared aware that its
victim was dangerous. The burden was
heavy, as the reptile was nearly five
feet long. The great pinions of the
vulture waved rapidly as it slowly as-
cended from the mountain mesa. Al-
though large in size, these vultures are
not as strong as they appear to be. Up
and up went the bird and the rattle-
snake.
The grip of the bird on the snake’s
body was not of the best. The ‘snake
seemed to be squirming from its cap-
tor's talons at least sufficiently to en-
able it to strike at the great bird. The
triangular head of the snake was seen
to recoil and dart at the mass of feath-
ers. It did this once or twice, and then
with a shriek, the vulture dropped its
prey. The bird was then probably 500
feet or so above the observers.
The
astonished men below were then treated
to a spectacle seldom seen anywhere;
Few birds but a vulture could accom~
plish such a feat. The instant the snake
escaped from the bird’s clutches it
dropped earthward like a shot. And
like a shot the bird dropped after it,
catching the astonished snake in mid»
air ere it touched the ground with a
grip that caused death. At any rate,
the snake ceased to wiggle, and the
vulture soared away to a mountain
peak to devour its hard-earned meal.
Why the snake did not bite the vulture
and. cause the‘death of the bird can
only be explained by the fact that the
thick feathers probably protected the
biped’s flesh from incision by the rep-
tile’s fangs.
These vultures are closely allied to
the common turkey buzzard. Their
color is a glossy black, with patches of
white underthe wings. The greater
part of the neck is bare, like the turkey
buzzard,with a ruffle where the feat-hers
begin. There is a bright orange patch
on the head. A fair-sized specimen of
the California vulture is four feet high
and weighs about 20 pounds. Years
ago, when these huge birds were com-
mon, it was a familiar sight in the val-
leys to see California vultures and buz-
zards feeding on the same carcass in
perfect harmony, While occasionally a
raven would join them. These vultures
were frequently caught alive, when
gorged, by a lariat in the hands of a
cowboy. One cause of the extermina-
tion of the vulture in California has
been through the medium of poisoned
meat, prepared” by ranchers to kill pes-
tiferous animals. The breeding habits
of the vultures are practically unknown,
although it is supposed to nest in caves
or cliffs, like the turkey buzzard. Ow-
ing to the practical extinction of the
bird, its eggs are as rare and valuable
as are those of thegreat auk, and will
probably become more valuable. Some
15 perfect eggs of the great ank are in
gcollections, one of these eggs being
worth $1,500 or more. Only two eggs of
the California vulture are known to ex-
ist. Even the national museum at
Washington d'oes n6t possess one of
these valuable specimens.
Observations of bird life at different
places along the route of the boundary
survey, which sometimes took the hat-
uralists into the mountains, were of
rare interest. At one point along the
shores of a small lake many dead birds
were seen. These birds were known as
the “cared grebe.” The bodies of the
birds found within the limits of a given
distance were counted,‘and the number
of dead birds about the shores of the
entire lake was estimated at 350,000. It
was thought that one of the two causes,
or both combined, must account for the
death of so many birds. Either the
water, which was saturated with salt
and soda, was in some way injurious to
them, or, remaining to search for prop-
er food, which did not exist in the
lake, they became so weak as to be un-I
able to fly and died of starvation. It is
said by old guides that this tremen-
dous bird mortality'occurs at this par-
ticular point regularly every year.—
‘Los Angeles Cor. Philadelphia Times.
suggestive.
Scene on the balcony.‘
Marie (in ballroom attire)-——I wish
I had a wrap to put around my neck.
Young Moonbeams—Won’t my arms
do ?—Texas Siftings.‘
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{ HELLO .GIRL’S DISCOVERY.
Bhe Listened to'the Vibrax'it Tenor Voice
at tho ’Phone.
In the Detroit Electrical works there
is a night watchman who possesses an
exceptionally fine tenor voice, and when
he has. nothing else to do he sings to
keep himself awake, says the Detroit
Tribune. Up in the big telephone ex-
change a dozen girls are told off for
night duty. They are, like the tenor,
fond of the songs of the day, but, unlike
him, they are not allowed to sing, and
they grow lonely after the calls begin
to be few and far betdl'een and the mur-
mur of the street traffic below has
ceased. .
Some months ago, it is related, one of
the girls who had agswered a call from
the electrical works, overheard the
watchman singing his favorite song.
Shc listened as long as'she could with-
out arousing the ire of the unmusical
individual at the other end of the line,
and then confided her discovery to the
rest of the girls. There was a short
but eager council of war, and the girl
who made the discovery was deputed
to call up the harmonious watchman
and ask him fora-song. The watchman,
who must be quite a phenomenOn in
that he is a tenor and also “an extreme-
ly bashful young man,” required a lit-
tle coaxing, but eventually complied
with the request. All the other girls
“out in” on the line, and the watchman
was encored so often that his throat
was sore when the concert was finished.
But this unique tenor is as fastidious
as he is shy. It is said that there was
only one girl at the “central” who can
induce him to sing, and she is the maid-
en who made the original long-distance-
concert discovery. When the other girls
begin to. grow tired at night, she calls
up the electrical works, and the watch-
man sings for her, unconscious of the
fact that all the girls have “cut in” on
entire night force of the exchange. The
others hint that there- is a. romance in
it, but that is a matter which concerns
only the young watchman and the girl
at the “central.”
OUR PLAYING CARDS.
Conclusion That the Suits Originated in
Arrow-Shaped Characters.
“I have it,” exclaimed an enthusiastic
whistplayer who was engaged in a. rub-
ber at a Madisonavenue whist club, re-
lates the New York Herald.
“N 0 you haven’t,” answered his part-
ner. “It was trumped.”
“I don’t mean the trick,” replied the
first; “I refer to the origin of the char-
acters on the cards. They have always
puzzled me. I have studied the matter,
read all that has been written on the
subject and have never until this mo-
ment been satisfied as to how the cards
came to bear the shapes we call hearts,
diamonds, clubs and spades. Just now,
as those spots representing the four
suits lay there together, the significa-
tion of their forms flashed on me.”
“,Well what is it?” asked his partner.
“Simple as can be,” answered the
other. “Look at those four suits and
see how much alike they are in form.
Can’t you see they are all arrows?
Cuneiform, and no mistake. They
quite evidently originated with the old
Assyrian inscriptions. I have no doubt
that these figures originally represent-
ed arrowheads. When t-he Germans
adopted the heart, bell, leaf and acorn
on their cards they preserved the
ancient form. Here are four varying
shapes of the arrowhead, likely coming
from four different and opposing
tribes. Hence conflict between the
suits as we play the game to—day.”
FROM THE ORIENT.
Homely Bridegroom Hires Another to
Stand in His Place.
A" queer Arabian Nights’ tale comes
from the Punjab. A few weeks ago a
party of weavers formed a marriage pro—
cession and started for a village in
Ferozpore. The bridegroom was bald
and blind of one eye, and his father
feared the bride’s parents would refuse
him, so the weaver adviSed them to pre-
sent a barber’s boy who was with them
as the groom. The barber was dressed
in the groom’s wedding garments and
was accepted. When the marriage was
over and they had returned home the
weaver demanded his bride, but the
barber refused to give her up, and now
they have gone tolaw to settle the ques-
tion. '
ENGLISH POTWALLOPERS.
A Picturesque Survival of One of the
Oldest Franchises.
Says the London Globe: “The last of
the ‘potwallopers’ is dead. His name
was Richard Atkinson, his age 97, and
the scene Of his potwalloping glories
the ancient borough of Pontefract. The
‘potwalloper‘ was a. man who acquired
the franchise by the extraordinary
process of having boiled his own pot in
the constituency for six months before
the election. As an electoral class they
were, as was natural, sublimely corrupt,
and were deservedly abolished in 1832.
They were, however, a. picturesque sur-
vival of, probably, the oldest franchise,
next to that of the ‘40-shilling freehold-
er.’ “ -
Cool Enough.
A Massachusetts congressman who
was on board the train which was
wrecked at Hyde Park, Mass, last fall,
says that when the shock came one of
the passengers was pitched over several
seats just in time to receive the con-
tents of the water-cooler, which tipped
over and soaked his clothing with ice-
water. A highly-excited passenger
rushed up to him and told him to keep
cool. . ,
“Go way,” said the wet man; “I am
the coolest man in the car. I have just
had two buckets of ice-water emptied
down my back.” ’ ' '
- Old Bridges. , .
Themest numefous‘ of the medieval
bridges existing in England are of one
arch, of which the fine old bridge near
Danby castle, in Cleveland, with its
circular arch ornamented with the arms
of Lord Neville of Baby and built in
1386, is a. good example.
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GREGORY’SPOINI.
. WHAT ir MEANS;
Norwalk is Learning It—Learnlnsr it
Fast—Proof Not Lacking.
Everybody has it.
That Tired Feeling.
Don’t know. what it means.
Keeps you awake at night.
Destroys daily comfort. , ' ‘
Wearies the body. Worries the mind.
You would shake it off. ,
You would be healthful and strong
So you can. .
If_you go at it right.
First learn what it means.
~ Some say it’s bad blood.
Others say it’s a lazy liver.
They’re all wrong. ‘ '
Tired feeling means tired Kidneys.
Just as lame back means Lame Kids
neys. ’
And'backache means kidney ache. '
How do we know it? -
Because Dean’s Kidney Pills cure it.
And they are for kidneys only.
How can we prove it ‘3.
Because N orwalk peoiile say so.
Here is a_cas_e in point.
Mrs. White wife of A. C. White the
batter, address N 0. 4‘7 River street.
Mr. White says. “My wife took Doan’s
Kidney Pills.” .
“I‘ook them for backache.”
“Found them Just as represented.”
3:13 much filgorovfid.”
oan’s i ney ills did the work.”
“Got’them at Hale’s drug store.”
Doan s Kidney Pills are for sale by all
dealers; once 50 cents, or mailed by
Foster—Mllburn Co, Bufl'alo, N. Y.,
sole agents _for the United States.
For Itching Piles, irritation of the
genitals, or itching in any part of the
body, Dean’s Ointment is worth its
weight in gold. No matter how long-
standing the trouble, Dean’s Ointment
Will not fail to give instant relief.
AN INNOVATION
Commencing Monday, June
New OPEN FOR THE sneer UP 1896.
——
Shore, Dinners,
MIMIC Island Glam Bake. ‘
Bathing, Boating, Fishing.
Electric cars to Hotel, every twenty
minutes. '
JOHN E. O’SULLIVAN,
Manager.
MEEKER COAL 00.
con, ween, BRICK,-
IJME, CEMENT, TILE PIPE.
OFFICE WITH G. WARD SELLECK
WALL STREET. NOBWE LK.
Piano Lessons.
8. GEORGE W. BRADLEY. (daughter
of the late_Wm. B. Nash.) g1ves eficent
and satisfactory instructions on the; Piano at
her home No. 193 Main street.
ADAMS’ .
B l a z o n
Soap Powder,
For Kitchen Use
EXGELS ALL OTHERS. '
Ask Your GroCer For It.
The following Grocers have it on sale: E. J.
F innegan. Mam street; . J. O‘Brien. Che. el
stret; M. Abraham. Plat sville avenue; rs.
Harriet A. Northrop. Unionville' A. Stull,
East Norwalk; D. Rosen. South Norwalk; J.
. June. Wmmpauk: N. Driscoll. Westport. ,_
”Fairlield county National Bank. -
’44 Wall Street, Nor-walk, Conn.
NCORPORATED. 1824.
15, and for one week there-
after, I will manufacture to
order my $35.00 Single Har-
ness for $22.48. This offer
is made in order to reduce my
stock of I leather purchased
during the recent drOp in the
market—hence the price.
' Orders will be received d ur-
ing the specified time, but har-
ness will not be ready for de-
livery in two weeks. I
For specifications and sam-
ples, write or call
P. H. DWYE'R,
MANUFACTURER OF
Capital, $200,000
Enwm O. Kama President.
. DAVID E. ILLEB. Vice-President.
L. C. GREEN. Cashier
DIRECTORS .
Enwm 0. KEELERI Mosns H. GLovnn
DAVID E. MILLER, A. J. M
naannss,
Cor. Knight and‘ Wall Sts., r
. Br. J GEN Locxwoon, Tnnononn E. S
N O RWALK, CO N N. IRA COLE. Cass F. Thing)?
TERMS CASH.
Accounts of Manufactu ‘
Individuals solicited. rers
Safe Deposit Boxes free to Depositors.
Boron Pomr '
SOUTH NORWALK. CONN.
A Charming Summer Resort on Long Island Sound.
FIIIE HOTEL! FIIIE BATHIIIG HOUSES! SEIIEIIAL ATTBAGTIOIIS!
Merchants and
Every facility for providing for large excursions.
Reton Point Improvement Cov.
OWNERS AND PROPRIETORS,
J. FINKENSTEIN, Manager.
Towle Vault Light Company, .
MANUFACTURERS. ,
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Office:
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’ Factory:
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