Evening gazette, Tuesday, July 7, 1896 · page 2

 

 

 

 

 

Worn out, nervous women, receive ‘ '

criticism where they should have
sympathy. TheyF cannot help being
_ nervous, if their blood is impure.
\When the blood fails 'to _ feed the
nerves upon propeg nourishment what
can you expect but nervOus prostra-
tion, debility and nervous headaches?
If the cause is found in impure blood,
the cure must be in making the blood
pure. This is just what Hood’s Sarsa-
parilla does, and it has proved the true
nerve tonic because it is the true blood
purifier, and the solace, comfort and
defender of thousands of housewives,

Nervous

teachers, clerks and other sufferers of
of both sexes. Just read this letter: -

“I think it is my duty to tell what
Hood’s Sarsaparilla has done for me and
my family. Two years ago I was-in a weak,
nervous condition and had dreadful pal-
pitations or jumping of my heart, fol-
lowed by sinking spells, which would last
for several minutes. Sometimes it would
seem as though I would never come out
of them. I was treated bythe best physi-
Zcians, but only for a little time did they
ihelp me. I seemed to be growing worse
instead of better. I would often seem
hungry, but when I ate, no matter how
Ilittle, it would cause me such misery that
’I was often wicked enough to wish my-

{seu dead. I had that

T I ' ' I
languid, all-gone feeling and suffered aw-
ful distress in my stomach. I had given
up all hopes of ever beingfivell, when
my mother wished me to try Hood’s
Sarsaparilla. I consented, to please her,
’and before I had taken the whole of one

bottle I could see I was imprOving, and

soon was indeed very much better. Its
effects have been truly wonderful and I
hope this letter may be the means of help-
ing other suffering men and

;Women

to try Hood’s Sarsaparilla and be benefited
by it. We have used Hood’s Pills in our
family and find them very excellent, es-
pecially for constipation. We give Hood’s
medicines great praise, and if anyone
complains of feeling badly, I say ‘You
should take.Hood’s and only Hood’s.”’
MRS. KI'I'I‘IE SMITH, 326 Dane Street, Wa-
terloo, Iowa. Remember that

Hood’s

Sarsaparilla
Is the One True Blood Purifier. All druggists. $1.
Prepared only by C. I. Hood 8; Co., Lowell, Mass.

. the best familycathartic
_i‘_lood’s Pills

and liver stimulant. 25c.

 

 

 

 

 

, FOREIGN PERSONAL GOSSIP.

I CHRISTINE NILSSON has just revisited
Sweden, after an absence of eight
years, to attend her nephew’s wedding.

MR. STEAD wants to establish a baby
exchange, where those .who have too
many children may dispose of them to
those who have too few. '

M. DE PARIS, DIERLER, the execution-
er, was recently before a Paris police
judge for libeling the wine sold by one
of his neighbors. '

MR. ONSLOW FORD, the sculptor, and
Mr. W. B. Richmond, the painter, have
just been elected to the Royal academy.
They were made associates in the same
year.

MRS. LESTER, who recently shot her
husband in India, and was condemned
to ten years’ imprisonment, is a grand-
daughter of John Braham, the tenor,
and a niece of the famous countess of
Waldegrave.

CARDINAL LEDOCHOWSKI, Who bore
the brunt of the government persecu-
tion during the period of the Kultur-

kampf, is to celebrate his sacredotal
jubilee in a few days. The celebration
will be general throughout Germany
and Poland. ~

TWO TWIN brothers in Paris, MM.
Jerome and Isidore Franck, recently
celebrated their eightieth birthday to-
gether. One of them wrote verses for
the occasion. They are brothers of the
late Adolphe Franck, the philosopher
and member of the Institute of France.

THE list of lady knights of the Le-

' gion of Honor has been swelled by the
name of Mme. Henry, the superin- ,
ten dent of the Paris Maternity hospital,
who owes the honor to the excellent
service she has done in the manage-
ment of that institution.

THREE persons were recently saved
from drowning at Hythe, England, by
the courage and skill of Miss Evans, a
girl of twently-one. A man, WOman
and child were capsized in a boat near
the shore, and if Miss Evans had not
plunged into the water, clothed as she

. was, they would not have been saved.

As THE English law officers are no
longer permitted to retain their private
practice, Sir Edward Clarke, who was
solicitor general in Lord Salisbury’s
last ministry, has refused to again take
the office. though the salary is 830,000
and fees, averaging 812,000 a year, and
it is a sure step toward the lord chan-
cellorship.

 

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MANY DOLLARS.

IN 1891 there were $407,000,000 in
gold, and $59,000,000 in silver.

THERE are over $120,000,000 worth of
hats now worn by our people.

OREGON, with all its resources, is es-
timated to be worth $52,522,084.

THE state of Louisiana, sugar planta-
tions and all‘,,is worth $160,162,439.

.THE state of Colorado was estimated
at the last census at $74,471,693.

WASHINGTON, including real and per-
sonal property, is valued at 823,810,693.

 

THE EVENINGll-GAZETT'E. ’ .'

FACTS ABOUT. FURS.

 

St. Paul, Minn. Is the Leading City
in the Business.

 

The Best Furs Come from the North-

'western States—Many of the Fur-

Bearlng Animals Have Been A1-
most Totally Exterminated.

 

Perhaps incredulity willsit in the
eyes of the readers, but it is neverthe-
less a fact that in St. Paul every year
there are upward of 225,000 dogs out up
for the manufacture of fur coats. In
the last year or two there has been a
scarcity of dogs, and the prices natural-
' 1y have advanced. The dogs come from
China, and are that peculiar animal
with the black mouth and black tongue.
They are a queer animal, and are known
in China by the name of :the monks.”

Nobody is prepared to believe, per-
haps, that in this city annually about
456,000 coonskins are cut up and made
into coat-s, but it is true, for we have, the
word of a; prominent fur man who deals
extensively in all kinds of skins, from
the skunk to the seal. In 1893 his firm
cut up 163,000 coonskins alone, and will
keep it up so long as the animals exist.

There are certain animals that have
surgived civilization, as, for instance,
the skunk, the raccoon and the opos-
sum, while the wolf. the bear and ani-
mals of their nature have almost en-
tirely disappeared. '

In Louisville there lives an old fur
buyer by the name of John White, who
has followed the business of buying and
selling furs for the past 50 years. When
asked a short time ago by a St. Paul fur
man what difference he noticed in the
business now from the first time he
went into it, IVhite replied that the
people are getting more coons, opos-
sums and skunks now than ever before,
proving conclusively that these animals
are not affected by civilization, and go
ahead multiplying without stint.

The vast majority of the otter, beaver,
mink and other._,skins of that ilk are
captured in the northwest, throughout
Manitoba and the northwestern states.
The wombat of Australia was for many
years a drug on the market, and dealers
found it impossible to dispose of them
until the coat manufacturers of St.
Paul took them up. They were found
very excellent for the purpose of coat-
making, and the hunters who had pre-
viously become discouraged and refused
to kill any more found their occupa-
tion renewed and profitable. In the last
two years the stock has been cleaned
out, the wombat has become scarce and
the prices have advanced proportionate-
ly. Everything seems to be declining in
quantity but the raccoon, the skunk
and the Chinese dog or monk, and these
constitute the bulk of furs from which
the coats are manufactured to-da-y.

The buffalo coat at. one time was the
most popular of them all, and it was the
prevalence of the buffalo that gave St.
Paul such a start. in the industry of fur
coatmaking. At the time the buffalo
were plenty on the western plains fully
90 per cent. of the fur coats manufac-
tured were made of buffalo skins. It
was a great industry, not alone for the
Indian, but the white hunter, who
flocked to the buffalo swamps by the
hundreds. The decline of the buffalo
was- so rapid as to almost exceed belief.

When the industry first started the
plains fairly swarmed with the animal,
and it was the easiest thing in the world
to kill all that were desired, but in three
years this noble animal was almost en-
tirely extinct. When the Northern Pa-
cific road was put through to Miles
City, Mont., in 1883, there were 225,000
or 250,000 buffalo hides shipped out of
that town. That was in 1883 alone.
All that number had been killed by
white hunters, while the Indian collec-
tion amounted to 20,000. The Indians,
of course, were not possessed of the im-
proved firearms and other methods of
destroying the restless creatures, and
that accounts for the size of their col-
lect-ion. So that in 1883 the collection,
all told, amounted to about 270,000 hides
and robes.

In 1834 there were not over 20,000 col-
lected by the Indians and white hunt-
ers, and in 1885 there were less than
5,000. In 1886 there were none, and now
the only buffalo that exist are the prop-
erty of the government and live under
its protection in the Yellowstone park.
Previous to 1883 all the southern herds
were killed Off, then the northern herds
were attacked, and they disappeared,
it seemed, in the twinkling of an eye.

One fur that is not used extensively
in St. Paul is the seal, although a great
many ladies’ garments, coats, mufis and
the like are made from this most desir-
able of furs. Strange to say, every seal
that is captured in Canadian or Ameri-
can waters must be shipped to London,
England,for dressing and dyeing. They
are then returned to the United States
and made up. Naturally, all this trans-
portation adds to the cost of the gar-
ment, and that explains why seal is so
much higher than the other furs. Raw
skins, of course, have no duty on them,
and most other skins can be made up
in this country, but all efforts to dress
and dye the seal successfully in this
country have failed—St. Paul Dispatch.

Doctors Starving in France.

In the British Medical Journal a
Paris correspondent says at least 2,500
physicians in France are battling with
starvation, and he adds that physicians
themselves are largely responsible for
this state of affairs. They "have taught-
lady patronesses of different societies
to diagnose diseases, to dress and band-
age wounds, to vaccinate their own
children and those of their neighbors.
Medical science is vulgarized in every
way. Doctors write to important daily
papers explaining how bronchitis and
cramps of the stomach are to be cured,
and in fashion journals they teach how
to cure pimples and avert headaches.
Five hundred thousand gratuitous con-
sultations are given yearly ”in Paris dis~
pensaries, and in this way a. large
amount of fees is diverted from the
medical profession.” -— Chicago Jour-
nal. ' . .

 

 

 
 

STRANGE WHEELS.

. Time.”

Archaeologists xvii-l be interested to
know that the first record of a bicycle
is that of a stained-glass window in the
church of Stoke Pogis, near Windsor,
in England. It was this -churchyard,
bythe way, that inspired Gray to write
his ever-famous elegy. The rider of the

.cycle in the picture on the window,
writes John Gilmer Speed, in Lippin-
cott’s, which is dated 1642, would be mis-
taken for Pan with his pipe were it
elsewhere than in a Christian church,
where pagan deities are not made at
home. But history is silent as to the
use of any such vehicle at that time.
One hundred and twenty years or so
later there was exhibited before the
French court a manumotive carriage of
several hundred pounds’ weight; but
the bicycle can scarcely have grown
from that. It was much nearer our
oWn time that the first genuine bicycle
was invented. It was quite the fashion
to ride such a vehicle in England
in 1819; the new invention was vari-
ously called ' the “dandy horse,” the
“hobby-horse,” and the “velocipede.”
There are many allusions to it in the
records of the day, and in a letter from
John Keats in February, 1819, to his
brother in America I find this mention
of it: “The nothing of the day is a ma-
chine called the velocipede. It is a
wheel carriage to ride cock-horse upon,
sitting astride and pushing it along
with the toes, a rudder wheel in hand.
They will go seven miles an hour.”

How it would have stimulated the
poet’s imagination if,‘ in the year he
wrote that epistle, he had been grant—
ed a vision of the modern bicycle, a
thing of grace, swiftness, and outdoor
delight. Perhaps a really great poem
of the wheel might have resulted. For
there is poetry as well as utility in it,
and anybody with a spark of ideality
must feel this, except in those moments
when the mind is taken up with the at-
tempt to escape being run down by one
of the reckless fiyers.

Think of seven miles an hour and sev-
eral hundred pounds weight set against
the figures concerning the modern
“bike!” Verily, the world moves and

bicycles move with it. It would be
dangerous in the light of the past to
say what the machine of the future
may evolve into, one can hardly believe
in an improvement proportionate to
that of the last fifty years, but anyway
it furnishes another reason for wishing
to live a. hundred years or so that one
might behold the wheel of 2000 A. D.
The “nothing of the day” Of 1819 has
become an almost indispensable of per-
sonal -business and pleasure 1895. It
must be left to some John Keats of the
present to attempt a better prophecy
than his fellow bard of England eighty
odd years back, whose gifts were not
of the kind to give him ahint of the
great prospects of the “velocipede.”

——.A——

TOWNS OF SETTLED HABI‘I'S.

London and Philadelphia Alike in This
Respect. ~

In her article on “The Myth Of the
Four Hundred,” in the Cosmopolitan,
Mrs. Burton Harrison tells of an Amer-
ican calling upOn a lady in London and
finding her seated in a big chair by the
window, engaged in some sOrt of
needlework. A young man came in
and paid his respects, as it was her day

Three years later the American was
again in London, and again he called
upon the lady. It was her day at
home. and there she sat in the same
chair by the same window with the
same needlework, or some very like it,
in her hand, and, more remarkable
still, the same young man called and
made the same remarks he had made
three years before. Mrs. Harrison tells
this anecdote to show how unchanged
things are in England, and how you
are pretty sure to find people just
about as you left them. The illustra-
tion is a good one, but I can match it
with a. better one over here.

I have the pleasure of knowing a
family in Philadelphia, who have lived
in the same heuse for forty years. AS
the children Of this family grew up,
they developeda musical talent from
four or five generations of men learned
in the law, as well as skilled’with the
bow. Every Sunday between twelve
and one o‘clock, it was the custom of
the father and the sons to play classic
music, the father being first violin, one
son viola, one second violin, the other
Violoncello. They played well, and, as
I lived nearer Philadelphia in those
days than I do to-day, I often dropped
in at these rehearsals, as they called
them; Five years ago I was in Phila-
delphia on a Sunday. I had not seen
my Old friends in fifteen years, but I
was sure that they were living at the
old place. I walked around the house.
and, as I mounted the marble stem, I
heard sounds of music. Could it be
possible that a “rehearsal” was going
on? Yes, sure enough. There sat the
father, his hair snow white, with his
violin tucked under his chin, and three
‘ 'boys”——fathers themselves—:53 play-
ing away as they had ,becn doin, ~ nee
they were children. To be 5:7 12., they
were married men and did not live at
home, but they. met every Sunday
morning at their father‘s for, the usual
music. I. expect to run on to Philadel-

at my old friend’s house, I expect to
hear the music on Sunday morning, for
I shall time my visit so as to include a
Sunday. ,

 

The Fire Cure. ,

The native doctors of India practice
a peculiar system known as “firing.”
Afflicted persons, no odds wh at the
disease may be, are, immediately upon
the arrival of the family physician, sub-
jected to the tortures of the fire. At
the beginning of the present century it
was used chiefly. for aches and pains,
but at present it is said that it threat-
ens to become the universal remedy for
all afflictions. A late report by a med-
ical authority declares that there is not
one to the thousand of total population
in Bombay and the larger cities gener-
ally, who does not bear trace of the
“fire Cure” in the shape of hideous
scars on head, back, stomach, or limm.

 

 

I Hanna‘uo‘mx.- . »

Such Were the Bicycles of “Ye Olden.

at home, and then bowed himself out. '

New York Announcement.
‘Our American Homes and How to Furnish Thom."

‘Hurner’s Furniture’

Reasons why you should. buy It
in preference to any other.

(1). Because this firm have long en-
joyed the reputation of keeping only
the best Furniture that can be pro-
duced, both in medium and finest
grades; (2). Because their assorti
ments are unequalled; 3). Because
their prices, are the lowest» at which
goods of standard quality can be sold.

Latest. produc'ions in Dining Room Bedroom. Par-
lor, Drawing Room. Library and Hall Furniture—

.Venetian Carved Furniture—Novelzies in Imported

Furniture—White and Gold Enameled Furniture—
Enamelcd and Brass Berlsreads—Euglish Brass Bed-
steads. (75 patterns); Maple and Bamboo Furniture——
Bestiul Easy Chairs and Sauces—Smoking and Bill-
iard Room FurniiuremEveryzhing for city or country
homes—eight spacious floors—Ali prices in plain figures

R..I. Homer 6: (30.,

Furniture Linkers and Importers,

61-65 West 23d St., N. Y.
(Adjoining Eden Musee).

Home: (l: Co.’s establishment is one of the
lights of New York—Newspaper Comment.

MADAMROSSI‘i’iolTi”
CLA I RVOY'A N T

Throughout the States. Consultation on Past
Present and Future In regard to any matter
busmess 9r otherwise that may be desired
Consultation for Ladies and Gentlemen, 81
Short sassmn for Ladies. 50c. Office. Room 10
Lauder Building. No. 4 South Main Street
Can be seen at any hour. “r

 

 

J. D. Jennings.

. UNDERTAKER

4 Knight street. opposite
btreet Railway Depot

BELL A1 OFFICE.

 

I I LIGHT PARCEL and
LUIIKWIIIIIIS PACKAGE DELIVERY
Cheaprates, Will also take orders for mes
wager service In New York. Goods called
0. and deliyernd to all parts of the town,
orders received atE P. Weed’s Drug Store.
.‘lWall Street, With telephone connection un-

" ' (I. E LOCKWOOD.

CENTRAL NATIONAL BANK,

746 WALL ST.. NORWALK.'

 

URPOBATED SEPT. 1. 1876.
APITAL. - - - - - - $100.00C
nun M. HOLMES, President.
. 1.:- Emma, Vice-President.
WILLIAM A. CURTIS. Cashier

DIRECTORS :

own llI. HOLMES. H. E. DANE,
h. CUNNINGHAM. J. T. PBOWITT
.3. L. Bonus, 8. H. HOLME

J . COUSINS.:JR.

illsuuunl Day. Salurdav-

unluu
HATHUHN

sunluu
WATER

FOR THE
Stomach,
Bo wels,

Liver and _
Kidneys.

FOR SALE BY

Thu Huluuu, KBBIBI‘II 8311qu Cu

WILLIAM S. KEMP,

Carpenter -:- and -:- Builder,
34 West Main St.. NorwalK.

Mr. Kemp has been a carpenter and builder
in Norwalk for the past 25 years. and refers to
owners of buildings erected under 1118 super-
vismn as to workmanship.

Chilton Paint,

Every gallon of paint made by the
Chilton Mfg. Company is mixed and
ground in pure Linseed Oil. All shades
are mixed and ground by machinery
seven times, making them uniform and
even. Compare the size of cans and
weight with the cheaper makes. You
get an honest gallon. Give it a trial and
you will be convinced.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

phia again before long, and, though it .
has been at least five years since I was -

II. H. WILLIAMS

17 Main St.

 

SPECIAL SALE
——0F——-—

Sailor Hats
NOW READY. ‘

lInIrImmed, I01: and Upwards,
, Trimmed, 50c and IIpwards,

.FAWIIETTS.

, 3 Water street, . Norwalk

 

 

,'STEARN “*
:“ abicxc'tcg- -
(67.3333)?!-

 

San Francisco, Cal.

 

stylish, speedy mount.

is known throughoutcycling as a light, staunch,
.. There’s a best in every-
thing; the ’96 Stearns is a veritable edition dc quc
among bicycles. F inishcd in black or orange.

Stcarns riders are satisfied riders, and always
proud as kings Of their mounts.

Your address will insure receipt of or hand-
some new catalogue.

E. C. STEARNS 8: (30., Makers, Syracuse, N. Y.
Buffalo, N. Y.

 

 
 
 
 
 

Toronto, Ont.

 

 

A WINNER”

The Reduction in Hartford Bicycles has proved a drawing card. Ladies,

Pattern No 2,

along. Come in and examine it.

Columbia, standard price to all, $100.'

The F. S. Ambler cycle 00., 29 Wall Slreel.

15 in great demand, and orders are being received right

 

 

I’mDoingIt

 

If you Don’t believe it, Come and See!

$|00 BICYCLES FOR $65.

PIEIIGE,
ANES,
LIGHT,
IIIILIINBIIS,
NIIIISNAN,
NIIIINAN,
DIANA,

SW;

 
 

 
 
 

Lalesl ’96
Pattern.

Built to Sell at
Top Price.

Full Guarantee.
Easy Terms.

WE ARE NOT, IN THE COMBINE.

For Terms and Lease of Norwalk ”Fair Grounds, apply to

LUTHER M.WRIGHT,

Carriage Faolory and Repository, Franklin & Madison Sls., So. Norwalk.

Branch Shops at Broad River and Darlen.

 

THE WHITE snuE STORE

Is still in the lead.

We shall sell all of our Ladies’

$2.00 and $32.50 Tan, Lace and Button Shoes at

$ I .75 a pair.

About 300 pairs in this lot.

Come early and make

your selections and get the greatest bargain in town;

 

OLSEN BROS.’

WHITE SHOE STORE

6 GAZETTE BUILDING, NORWALK.

 

 

 

YOUR FRIENDS ARE USING

PLtISIED’S CDUGH IIEIIIEDY

AND RECOMMEND I’I'S USE

Get a Bettie at once. 25 and 50 Cents.

ALL DRUGGISTS.

 

 

‘IIII YIIII IINIIW
That you can save money
by buying your Meats

and Fish at

F. W. :SNITN’S,

55 Main Slrool.

Everything First Class.

 

 

 

 

 

OPEN EVENING”

PRIVAT

E

Instructions given in

BOXING

OLAss

 
 

at the pupil’s home.

Now fanning, and ap-

. plicants desiring to
join should apply at
once to-

Prof. Geo. Yoerger,
South Norwalk,

or at this office.