‘0 . HERE AND‘ THERE. An Epitome of Happenings of Interest to the Public. ‘ Garnered with Scissors and Pencil. Forty-five stars are 'now to adorn Old Glory. . —__———- John Canfield is critically ill at his home on Cross street: —Melons and vegetables at Gregory’s Wall street market. The officers of Our Brothers Lodge were installed lastnight. _ Regular meetings Of the different fire companies will be held to:night. A date for the next band concert will be decided upon to morrow night. Reporter Benedict will succeed Re- porter Allen on the News next week. ‘ Au adjourned meeting of the city council will be held Thursday evening. Will Glineswho has been visiting his parents in this city left for Chicago, to- day. ‘ The market gardeners are bringing in a fine line of vegetables every morn~ ’ ing. , Senator O. H. Platt left Meriden yesterday for a three week’s sojourn in the Adirondacks. Work on the Opera House annex will soon be commenced. It will be on the south side of the building. F. J. Curtis has been housed the past few days by an uncomfortable rather than serious indisposition. Master Chester Grifi’en, of Centre avenue, is spending his vacation in New York and Coney Island. The holder of the lucky number that won the bicycle at the Boston Store has not yet presented the same. ——A full line of fresh fishcan be found at Gregory’s Wall street market to- morrow. The city bicycle is now insured, but there isno denying the fact that the cyclometer is on the sick list. Charles Bessey, of New York, some years since a resident of this city, is calling on old friends in town. The newspaper reporters propose eating one of Landlord O’Sullivan’s shore dinners some night next week. The annual meeting of the corpora- torsof the N orwalk Savings Society is to be held. on the 22d inst. at 10 a. m. Such a murky day as this makes the most enthusiastic bicyclist envy the owner of a nice buggy and fast roadster. Rev. Father Matthew Traynor, of Danbury, will sail for Europe to-mor- row to be gone several months for his health.‘ A colored child named Louis Wil- liams, aged’13 ySars, and belonging in Stamford, died at the County Home, Sunday. Dr. George A. Faber of Waterbury, Charles B. Allyn and Arthur Cabot of Stamford have been appointed agents of the Connecticut Humane Society. Among others in receipt of a notice to call at the Selectmen’s office and pay a dog tax is Thomas S. Stout, who says that he has not owned a dog in fifteen years. The meeting to-night of Hope Hose company will be the last regular meet' ing of the company that Captain Cos- tello will attend until after his return from Europe. The directors of the Danbury Agri- cultural society have voted not to in- crease the price of admission to the fair. Those Danbury directors have something beside pumkin seed in their heads. ' —Choice meats of all kinds can be foundat Gregory’s Wall street market. A patriotic citizen of Chicago has put this sign in his window in letters big enough to be seen from across the street: “A Brief Political sermon—Free Trade, Free Silver, Free Hell, We Have Bad the First; Give Us the Sec- ond, and the Third is Sure to Follow.” Silas Remsen died at his home on Center avenue early this morning, aged about 75 years. A second wife and five children—Mrs. Louisa Griffin, Belle Remsen, William, Charles and Fred Remsen—survive him. The deceased suffered a paralytic stroke some months since. *fi An Affidavit. This is to certify that on Ma S H walked to Melick’s drug store on Z. 1311211}, cl“ crutches and bought a bottle of Chamber- lain’s Pain Balm for inflammatory rheuma- tism WlllCll had crippled me up. After us- Ing three bottles I am completely cured. I can cheerfully recommend it.-- CHAS. H. WETZEL, Sunbury, Pa. ' Sworn and subscribed to before me on August 10, 1894.-—WALTER SHIPMAN, J. P. For Sale at 25 and 50 cents per bottle by E. t. . P. Weed. druggis Homer M. Bylngton, Manager. The South NorwalK Office of the Gazette Is at the store of New- man 8; Pinney. No. 12 North Main Street,'where Advertisements'and' 'orders for Job Printing. as well as Items of News. can be left wlth Water at the Knob 68°. Thomas Perkins is visiting with his parents in Elgin, Ill. Schiller Stamm installed its newly elected officers last night. Ben F. Andrews has a party out sail- ing in the yacht Fannie to-day. J. A. James, of Hawleyville, has been appointed a railroad policeman. Germania Singing society held their regular monthly meeting last night. A patent for an improved bottle Washer has been granted S. Scam and J. Muth. People who paid twenty-five cents for those mail boxes are appearing in large numbers. Mr. and Mrs. George F. Bearse will go to Washington to-morrow on the Christian Endeavor excursion. While carving a piece of meat this morning Carl Schaub’s knife slipped and cut a deep gash in the back Of his hand. Mrs. Emma Hebbard and daughters, and mother, Mrs. Lee, have rented a cottage on Lynes Place and gone to housekeeping. John Conroy, the best tonsorial ar- tist in the Twin cities, has accepted a position in Fred Scheidler’s Palace barber shop in the City Hotel. Andrew Selleck, of Lewisboro. visit- ed Roton Point, Saturday night. He claimed that while there he was the victim of knockout drops, and was rob- bed of about $35. Sixteen policemen preserved order in the central part of our city Friday night—Nerve. The News is in error. There were but fifteen, the sixteenth being over— come by the noise and had to be taken home. The ash pan on the engine drawing the 1:43 train, yesterday afternoon, gave Way while passing over the Monroe street bridge and a load of red hot coals came tumbling down dangerously near several pedestrians who were walking underneath the bridge at the time. The train was stopped and re- pairs made. George Virortko, who accidently shot young Guy Guerriero on the morning of the Fourth, was arrested yesterday afternoon on the complaint of the wounded boy’s father. He was taken before Judge Hubbell and placed un- der $500 bonds which he was unable to secure and was locked up. This morn- row afternoon at 2 o’clock. Daniel D. Youman, the well-known Broadway hatter, and his wife Were drowned inalake near Bergen, Nor- way, Saturdaywhile driving along the carriage road at the side of the lake. Mr. Youmans and his wife left New York June 18 last for an extended trip on the continent. Mr. Youman was well known by many residents of this city. No further particulars of the catastrophe are given. Danbury Jack visited East Norwalk early on the morning of the Fourth and called upon a well known resident of that place and asked for a pair Of shoes for Mrs. Jack. Upon being told they were out of shoes Jack asked for an umbrellato mend. This was brought out and soon repaired when Jack re- peated his request for a pair of shoes. Finally the shoes were found, one a narrow and the other a broad toe and both rights. These were handed Jack, who after inspecting them, being 2% in size, was doubtful about their fitting Mrs. Jack’s Trilby feet. He, however, took them away and no doubt ex- changed them for a drink as both of the tourists were soon after gloriously drunk on Riverside avenue. 0 WESTPORT. The special school meeting of West Saugatuck district this week, it is ex- pected, will be a lively one. The dis- trict proposes to have its own way for once, in the employment Of school teachers. It is reported that this week Will wit- ness the commencement of the trolley road to Compo Beach. The Rev. Mr. McKenzie hopes to be well enough to resume the conduct of the services in Memorial church July 12th. There will be a meeting of the W0- man’s Foreign Missionary society of the Congregational church at the parson- age this afternoon; George Sloven, forman of Wake- man’s mattrass faatory, was suddenly taken ill yesterday afternoon and had to be removed to his home in a car- riage. In the five mile handicap bicycle race for the boys Saturday, Howard Fair- child won by two-fifths of a second. Clark Kirke was second and Dolge and Pennoyer tied for third place. In the tossup Dolge won. The prizes were: First, Search Light bicycle lamp; second, bicycle watch. Thebest time wa’s'made by'Fred Kemper: in 15 min- utes. ‘ . ing the case was adj ourned until to-mor- ' WORK OF THE MISSISSIPPI. Every Year the'Father of Waters Carries Down a. Square Mile of Land. The Mississippi has in the course Of ages transported from the mountains and high land within its drainage area sufficient material to make 400,000 , square miles of new land by filling up an estuary which extended from its original outfall to the Gulf of Mexico for a. length of 500 miles, and in width from 30 to 40 miles. This river, says, Longman’s Magazine, is still pouring solid matter into the gulf, where it is spread out in a. fan-like shape over a. coast line of 150 miles, and is filling up at the rate of 362,000,000 tons a year, or six times as much soil as was removed in the construction Of' the Manchester ship canal, and sufficient to make a. square mile of new land, allowing for it having to fill up the gulf to a. depth 05.80 yards. Some "idea of the vastness of this operation may be conceived when the fact is considered that some of this soil has to be transported more than 3,000 miles; and that if the whole of it had to be carried on boats at the lowest rate at which heavy material is carried on the inland waters of America, or, say, for one-tenth of a. penny per ton per mile over an average Of half the total distance, the cost would be no less a. sum than £238,000,000 a year. Through the vast delta thus formed the river Winds its way, twisting and turning by innumerable bends until it extends its length to nearly 1,200 miles, or more than double the point-to-point length of the delta, continually eroding the banks in one place and. building up land in another, occasionally breaking .its way across a. narrow neck which lies between the two extremeties and filling up the old channel. PEN AND INK DRAWING. Modern Imitation of the Ancients by a New Process. It is easy, of course, to understand how pen drawing should have come to be so largely employed and elaborated. It is a. matter of reproduction for illus- tration. An etcliinguwill not print with type, nor with a steel engrd’ving. This, says the London Spectator; led in the early part of the century to the imita- tion of steel engravings by wood en- gravers, who did the business most skillfully with immense labor. The drawings for them were mostly made in pencil. But photographic process rendered the intervention of the wood engraver needless, if the artist made a. pen drawing that would photograph and process well. A pure technical difficulty can be overcome by large numbers of craftsmen; large numbers, accordingly, have learned to make pen drawings to supplant wood engravings. But it should be noted that to do this is itself a kind of reproductive process. Few elaborate pen drawings are made without a‘studiou's foundation in some other material. The pen line must fre- quently be traced or drawn over the pencil line, very much like the engrav- l er’s tool. The point about the modems and an- cients, then, resolves itself into the imitation by the moderns in a. new medium of theatechnique of an old. It is certain that the ancients could have performed this feat if they had chosen, not altogether certain that they would have chosen. For, to consider those other points of reproduction and dis- semination, the: modern master .seems to be in no greater hurry than the an- cient to make use of the new facilities. When such a master does take up the ' pen, he handles it to much grander ef‘ fect than do its devotees. - ——-v-~-—Coo-A Price List of Chamberlain’s Medicines. Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diar- rhoea Remedy. The most successful medi- clue in the world for bowel complaints, 25 and 50 cents per bottle. , Chamberlain‘s Cough Remedy. Famous for its cures Of coughs. colds, croup and whooping cough, 25 and 50 cents per bottle._ Chamberlain's Pain Balm. For rheuma- tism, lame back, sprains, bruises, cuts, burns, scalds, frost bites and chilblains, 25 and 50 cents per bottle. For sale by E. P. Weed, druggist. ABOUT'EUROPE’S ARISTOCRACY. . WITH the exception of the king of Denmark, Queen Victoria is the oldest _ reigning sovereign of Europe, , p - PRINCESS FEODORA of Saxe-Meinin- ,ger, the oldest of Queen Victoria’s ’ great-grandchildren, is sixteen, and has just been confirmed. The queen may be a. great-great-grandmother yet. . PnINCE Oscar. of Prussia, the young son of the emperor, had his first tooth pulled the other day. It was the birth- day Of his English governess, and. among other presents he sent the tooth to the lady as a. gift. _ ‘ WE‘LL}: a train was going at full speed near Mollersdorf in Austria, a gust of Wind blew open a carriage door, and the three-year-Old son of Prince Alex- ander of Solms fell out. The train was stopped and the people who ran back met the little thing running along the track without a scratch. COUNT DE GOVEN, a. great grandson of Marshal Clarke, duke of Feltre, has just passed, at the age of fifty, his ex- amination as doctor of medicine. He was formerly a deputy, but on her deathbed, five years ago, his wife begged him to, devote himself to the care of the poor, and he at once began to study medicine. her daily walk of four or five miles, she wears a. short black dress that does no't reach the ankles. She walks straight on Wherever she wishes and her Greek teacher follows close behind talking Greek or reading to her. She has to get a new teacher every year. THE ISLAND KINGDOM. THE royal plate at Windsor is valued at over $10,000,000. fi anrIcEss has come to be commonly pronoun cod with the accent on the sec- ond syllable in England. IN London now there are eleven dis- trict post offices, 101 branch oflices and 877 town subofiices. ANOTHER American word has been appropriated by England. Truth‘prints a doggerel: “Moan Of the Mugwump.” MOUNT COOK, the highest peak in New Zealand, 13,632 feet high, has just been climbed for the first time. A NEW order of members called ‘ craftsmen is to be established by the Royal Institute Of British Architects, to be selected from the artistic trades closely connected with architecture. SIR J 05291: RENALS is the eighth lord mayor of London to receive a baronetcy in the last twenty years. The others were all knighted except Lord Mayor N ottage,_who died early in his year of office. TECHNICALLY, any inhabitant of the united kingdom is liable to be called upon to underrake the uncongenial task of hangman. The salary is one pound sterling a week as a retaining fee and two pounds sterling after an exe- cution. A MEMORIAL tablet has been placed in the Church of St. Giles, Cripplegate, commemorating the marriage of Oliver Cromwell and the daughter of Sir James Bourchier, which took place in this church in 1620. It was here, too, that John Milton wrs buried. . . .3» " BAD ‘ CHIMMIE FADDEN'. an. —_._. [ He Mlsbehaves Himself on Board a New . . York “L” Car. \A small boy carrying a big cage, with a parrot in it, got aboard a Third avenue “L” train at Fourteenth street the other day and took a. seat next to a benevolent-looking man wearing a lwhite tie, says the New York World. ' ”The boy set the cage down in front of him and, as the train started, the par- rot began to mutter in most unintel- ligible fashion. The benevolent-look- ing;a man glanced up from his paper and sal : “Nice parrot, isn’t he?” “Yep.” . . . “Is he yours?” “Nop; m’ uncle’s.” “What‘s his name?” “Chimmie Faddcn.” “Can he talk?” “0’ course; hello, Chimmie!” bending over the cage. . “What t’ell! what t’ell! what t’ell!” screamed the bird, without an instant’s hesitation. . The benevolent-looking man got red : in» the face, and a. girl across the car . giggled. . Other passengers laughed, ‘ also. The owner of the white tie got 3 behind his newspaper, while the small ' boy looked innocently out the window. I I n unapproachcd 'by- any XI umbin sure a IneWIImaII’sBicycle In strength, lightness, grace, and elegance of finish and equipment Model 41 Colum- bia rs other make; , physicians as proper in shape and adjust- A... “ ’ ment, and every detail of equipment . contributes to comfort and pleasure. 5‘00 TO ALI. ALIKE. “The added plenum-e of riding a Coi- is worth every dollar of ithe Columbia costs." " Beautiful Art Catalogue-of Columbia and Hartford Bicycles is free ifyou call upon any , ,‘5’2; Columbia Agent; by marl from us for two 2-cent stamps. POPE MFG. CO., Hartford, Conn. Branch Stores and Agencies in almoat every cit . properly represents i ' and toer If Columbias‘are not a your v1 ity, let us know. . i l l,”5AIo BY I WHEN the empress Of. Austria takes , » Saddle 'is the only ' stiffness, and makes T u E m E}... I s c GAZETTE SOUTH NORWALK}: ' ‘ ' THE SCIENTISTS. A FRENCH medical authority asserts that death causedtby a. fall froma great height is absolutely painless. The=mind acts very rapidly for a. time, then un- consciousness ensues. face of the earth contains 31,625,625 square miles, of which 23,814,121 are water and 7,811,504 are land, the waiter thus covering about seven-tenths of the earth’s surface. ALFRED 0. LANE writes that ten miles above the earth the cold is far below zero, while ten miles below the surface everything is red hot. This lat- ter is not so certain. It is thought by some thatthe heat of the earth may be and so may decrease after a. certain depth has been reached. MUSIC relieves muscular fatigue in man, says Prof. Tarchanofi', of St. Pe- tersburg, who has been experimenting on the subject from a. purely physiolog- ical standpoint. It helps to drive out carbonic acid in dogs and increases their consumption of oxygen; it' also makes them perspire. He thinks it may be regarded as a serious therapeutic agent. NATURAL HISTORY ,NOTES. WHEN flying at its highest speed the house fly makes 600 strokes of-‘itswings per second and the dragon fly 11,500. A GLOW worm has a. brush attached to its tail, because it is necessary that , the back be kept clean in order to show its light. - THE song of the English male'sky- lark is best when the female is‘on the eggs. At such times he soars to great heights and sings rapturously. ONE of the most remarkable features of earthquake pulsations is their great duration. The originating earthquake may last but a few seconds. while the ground at a. distance may rock gently through a. small angle for hours. IT is not generally known that, size for size, a. thread of spider silk is de- cidedly tougher than a bar of steel. An ordinary thread will bear a weight of three grains. This is just about fifty per cent. stronger than a steel thread of the same thickness. ‘ TIPS ON AMERICANS. GEORGE T. ANGELL, the well-known friend of dumb animals, is seventy-two years of age. ANDREW CARNEGIE has aroused Brit- ish wrath by saying that it would pay England to burn up her railroad equip- ment and replace it with American models. THE movement to erect a. monument to the memory of Anne Hill Carter, the mother of Robert Edward Lee, is gain- ing in the south. ' THE late 0. H. P. Burnharn, the Bos- ton bookseller, who conducted his busi- ness for years in the basement of the Old South church, left nearly $400,000 to various charities. ' Mus. MARY E. HUNT has sued the city of Nashua, N. H., to recover $50,000 given by her .for a. memorial library. The suit is brought because the city, after _ having the money for four years, cannot agree on a site. SCIENTIFIC scanps. THE water in the ocean is said to contain thoua ands of tons of gold, but no practical way has yet been devised to extract it. EXPERIMENTS to find whether argon can be obtained from vegetable or ani- mal tissue have resulted negatively, the quantity of the new gas obtained in this way not being appreciable. ' PROF. EMERY E. SMITH, of California, has succeeded by experiments in cross fertilization in producing an entirely new violet, highly scented and of great beauty. In size the flower covers an American silver dollar. Its color is a clear violet purple, which does not fade. The fragrance is very power- ful. LIQUORS may be aged artificially by gradually cooling them, in the case of brandy, down to two hundred degrees centigrade below zero anal t" gr adu- ally bringing them up a to the ' normal temperature. The Srigorlc lab- oratory in which the new discovery is to be applied will shortly be established in Paris. '. Don’t forget that every child should be entitled to a happy childhood, and that in later life you may not have the power or privilege of making it happy The Saddle Question. 1 -"-'s- This is an illustration of the old style saddle. If you will observe it carefully you will note that it fits like a glove (and a saddle should not). It presses the sen- sitive parts, causes sore- ness, stiffness and chat? ing, and [has made cycl- ing to a certain extent injurious, because few could enjoy a long ride . without fear of injury. All this is now changed. 1 Here is repre- sented the perfect saddle—the Christy Anatomical fiddle," f~ o’ showingthepelvis as it ,I' ‘ , rests on the pads.‘I.The y ' Christy Anatomical ' Shows pelvis as it rests on the or- ,- drnary saddle. ’ saddle that is built right. Made of metal, of light weight, cannot warp or change its shape, has pads. that rest the entire body, does not press the sen- . . Shows pelvis an it rests. sitive parts, prevents on the Christy Saddle; cycling a pleasure. , , Price, $5.00 FREE Boonxr‘on Saunas. A. G. SPALDING & BROS.‘ New York. Chicago. Philadelphia. ASTRONOMEBS calculate that the sur- .. wholly due to absorption from the sun, . or guarding it from unhappiness.——De-- BRIDGEPQRT. The: . o o o ' ‘ Do‘Mo Read - Company. T FOR EVERYTHING IN FLAGS Come here. Muslin flags, mounted. by the gross, dozen or single one. Cotton bunting flags, mounted or un- mounted, 50 ’cents to' $5.00. Wool bunting flags. Best standard bunting f1ags,felled' seams, 45 stars sewed on both sides —-warranted best made—sizes 2 x 3', 3x5, 4x6, 6x9, 6x10, 8x12," 10 x15,12x18,15 x 24, up to 25x 45. ' .. Silk flags, any sizes—2 x 3 inches to 36 x 60—mounted or unmounted. . All flags mounted on staffs haVe a , staff ornament. This is FLAG head- ' quarters. ' Those Oil Stoves which burn with a blue flame and have no wick are a great success. . There's one burning in the Housefurnishing department}. see. it. . BathingCaps, oil silk, rubber and pure gum, 15, 25, 38, 50 and 75 cents. Special lot of silk Elastic in garter lengths, 19c. For men’s 'Shirts, best percale, 36-in. wide, for 12%c. yd.; fine cam- bric, _ 15c. yd.; cheviots, 15c. yd.; Scotch Cheviot, 25c. yd. Still leading in fine washables, the newest things reach us first. A line of imported Dimity that has been selling for 25¢. yd, we are now selling for l9c.—stripes and figures—and the most pleasing part, aside from the beautiful patterns, is the fact that we camsell them at that price. Corded Silk Ginghams—down goes the price to 350. a yard; stripes and plaids that are fine wash fabrics. Embroidered Sateen. Skirts, for 980., $1.48 and $1.98 each; talk of the town. .—————- ' The brittleness of glass is offset by its own flexibility—in the hands of Prof. Dufour, the glassblower. ,He can spin glass as fine as cobwebs. All day long, either in the window or down stairs in the Crockery depart- ment, he is busy creating articles of glass that are as light as a feather. 7 ‘ . .t- . 0.4L .- 7’*‘--'.-:: .. m. 149‘?“ . .. .. ; 41:“
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