HERE AND THERE.
:An Epitome of Happenings of
Interest to the Public.
Barnered with Scissors and Pencil.
Miss Carrie Gregory is home from, a
visit with friends in Cranbury.
Mark Stevens is in Wilton this week
making hay while the sun shines.
Miss Ann Jennings of Merwin street,
celebrated her 86th birthday Saturday.
Elder Squires preached for the Lat-
ter Day Saints at Broad River yester-
day.
Miss Mary Donohue of Noroton is
visiting friends on Main street, this
city.
William Harbottle and Harry Rayner
wheeled to Tarrytown and back, yes-
terday.
Mrs. Perry and daughter of Union
Park, will leave for South Carolina,
this week.
Frank L. Allen of New York is a
guest of his brother George Allen on
Main street.
Contractor Leonard is connecting the
Moody block on Main street with the
sewer system. '
Mrs. Sarah, Holdsworth of Camp
street is viting Mrs. Wright Pulling of
Hoboken, N. J.
The Ministering Circle, K. D., of the
First Congregational Church will meet
in the chapel to-morrow afternOOn.
Mrs. E. P. Weed is having the
shingles covering the porch of her Wall
street residence replaced with slate.
Mr. and Mrs. John Hogan, Chauncey
Lockwood, A. A. Martin and Smith
Northrop are at Block Island to-day.
Mrs. D. S. Curtis, of Knight street,
left this noon for South Vernon, Ver-
mont, where she will make an extended
visit.
Miss Fannie Eoyt, of East avenue,
left this morning for Littleton, New
Hampshire to visit with relatives in
that place.
A chorus of four thousands voices
chosen from the ranks of Endeavorers
~ sang on the steps of the Capitol in
Washington.
The Knights of Columbus will perfect'
arrangements for their proposed ex-
cursion at a regular meeting to be held
this evening. ,
‘ A delegation from Clinton Com-
mandery, K. T. will take part in the
Masonic centennial celebration at Hart-
ford tc- morrow.
Jeremiah Ahern, and Miss Crawford,
Miss Lester and Miss Reynolds, clerks
at the Boston Store, are taking a two
weeks’ vacation.
Gen. Charles Olmstead has returned
from a brief sea trip to Maine. It is
needless to say he was not converted to
Sewell and silver.
Work Commenced this morning on
the regrading and sidewalking of that
portion of the Lawn Tennis lot front?
ing on Belden avenue.
, The Christian Endeavor Convention
at Washington, closes to-day and to-
morrow delegates will scatter for home
and various excursions arranged for
them. '
Mrs. Sylvester Grumman has re-
turned home from a visit with her
daughter, Mrs. William Parsons of
Bridgeport. Her neice Ethel Parsons,
accompaned her.
A number of Norwalk people went to
Roton Point yesterday. A good deal
or fault is found at the lack of accom-
modationsfurnished them by the Tram-
way for getting home.
There was an increase in the numb er
of passengers carried from here to
South Norwalk on the early trips, to-
day on the Street Railway line. The
corset factory has started up again.
Miss Juliette Gregdry of Danbury,
and Mrs. John Reed of Bethel are oc-
cupying the George Ward Selleck place
on Camp street, during the absence of
Mr. and Mrs. Selleck in Europe.
Miss Lillie M. Mead of New Canaan,
who entered the Presbyterian-Hospital
in New York four weeks ago to have a
bullet removed from her foot, returned
home to-day. The bullet was located
by means .of the X-rays and extracted.
The beautiful flower mounds in front
of Grace church and that in front of
the Bennett residence on Belden ave-
nue, are to be counterbalanced by an
ugly and uncouth bill-board being
erected adjoining the residence of John
H. Buckley.
Many residents of Stamford are op-
posed to license, and have already be-
' guna campaign to'close the saloons.
Most of the clergymen. and many in-
~fluential citizens are interested in the
movement, which will be'one’of the
features of thenext election. . '
THE EVENING GAZETTE
The hospital directors will meet to-
night. .
Revolging fans are being placed in
the Batchford cafe. '
The M1sses McAllister of Danbury,
are visiting friends in town.
W. F. Bryant clerk at the H. K. & S.
00 stores is taking a week’s vacation.
4 Matt Lambert of Darien‘ will open a
saloon in Stamford, on Wednesday. I
According to the cyclometer 484
miles have been wheeled off by the city
bicycle. ‘
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Earle have re-
turned to their summer residence on
East avenue.
Our Brothers Lodge, I. O. O. F. will
meet to-night, and so will Concord
Division,_S. of.T.
“Leb” Morris left town Saturday
night for Nashua, N. H, where he has
secured a situation
Joseph Leonard of this city is visiting
friends in Norwalk for a short time.—~
BridgeportStandard.
If the Democratic press keeps on
bolting Bryan there will soon be a cor-
ner in the bolt market.
The Carpenters Union will meet to-
morrow night and make arrangements
fora public meeting.
The members of Court Narruk, F. of
A. are requested to meet at their hall
at 7:30 to-morrow evening.
The approximate population of Dan-
bury, calculated from the number of
names in the new directory, is 18,731.
The Westport Savings bank, which
for many years has paid 5 per céz t. 111-
terest on deposits, has reduced‘tue rate
to 4.
Judge Hubbell flned James Cook $3,
Saturday afternoon, for being intoxica-
ted. The prisoner paid up and was dis-
charged.
'Ihere will be a grand moonlight ex-
cursion to Pleasure Beach, Wednesday
night under the auspices of Court Nar-
ruk, F. of A.
Anumber of Norwalk firemen wit-
nessed a-parade given by the Eagle
Hook and Ladder company in Darien,
Saturday night.
The reporters of the different papers
in town will eat clams and otherwise en-
joy themselves at Gregory’s Point, to-
morrow night.
Albert Gehebe caught a twenty pour d
snapping turtle yesterday, and his
father is fattening the “bird” for a Sun-
day feast of turtle soup and clams.
Gregory’s Point was well patronized
Saturday night and yesterday. The
dancing on Saturday evening was en-
joyed by a goodly proportion of the
visitors.
In the ball game at the Fair Grounds,
Saturday afternoon, between the Bar
Harbors and the Lulus the former nine
won by a score 016 to 5. Ten innings
were played.
Bridgeport gunners defeated Nor-
walk gunners ina match shoot at Gre-
gory’s Point, Saturday afternoon. And
it is the second time they have done
the same thing.
The nineteenth annual summer meet-
ing of the Connecticut Commercial
Travelers’ association will be held at
Compounce Lake, near New Britain,
Saturday, July 25.
P. W. Bates’ men are still at work
trying to make holes large enough for
the reception of telegraph poles beside
the railroad tracks near the tunr el.
There-are to be but three of them but
they are cut through rock.
Willie O’Donnell who was burned by
the premature explosion of some powder
on July 4th isable to see a little with
the aid of glasses, but his face very
much resembles a pepper-box as to
holes, and he: will probably wear the
marks made by the powder as long as
he lives.
Insurance Against Twins.
What worse domestic calamity can
befall a. poor man’s home than the ad-
vent of twins, unless it be triplets?
That, at least, is the idea. upon which
the projectors of the Provident Bounty
Association, organized recently, propose
to bank the prospects .of the concern.
As a financial-document it is unique.
It bears some respectable names, and
subscriptions to thecapital stock of
$50,000 are invited, with the most
tempting inducements.‘
“It is notorious,” say these projectors,
“that many people marryin the hope of
improving their fortune; but frequent-
ly disappointment comes with the ad-
vent of an unexpectedly large family.
This association provides to some ex-
tent for that contingency by at once
giving a substantial sum in the case of
the birth of twins.”—_-Pearson’s Weekly.
An Affidavit.
This is to certify that on May 11th, I
walked to Melick’s drug store on a pair of
crutches and bought a bottle of Chamber-
lain’ 8 Pain Balm for inflammatory rheuma-
tism which had crippled me up. After us’
ing three bottles I am completely cured. I.
can cheerfully recommend it. -- CHAS. H.
WETan, Sunbury, P.
Sworn and subscribed to before me on
August 10,1894.—WALTER SHIPMAN, J. P.
_, For sale at 25 and 50 cents er bottle b E
.P d. drusaist, 'p . x, y
SOUTH NORWALK.
The South NorwalK Office of the Gazette Is at the store of New-
man & Plnney, No. 12 North Main Street, where Advertisements and
orders for Job Printing, as well as
Homer M. Bylngton, Manager.
Items of News. can be left» with
/
Victor Wood Ferris of the News, is
on duty again to-day after a week’s vas
cation.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis St. John Keeler,
of Southpoat, spent Sunday with friends
on Fairfield avenue.
Harry Hipson has purchased the
Banks house on Seaside Place and will
move into it sometime this week.
Henry Froeb punctured the tire of
‘ his bicycle while riding home from
Bridgeport yesterday afternoon.
Ernest Wilson, who was shot in the
leg on the 4th, began work again this
morning. His leg still troubles him
slightly.
William Masline, the popular baggage
master at the depot, is wearing a new
hat to- day with the insigna of his ofiice
decorating the front of it.
Mr. E. R. Benedict a licensed preach-
er of the M. E. church yesterday acted
in the place of Rev. B. O. Sher wood,
who is in Washington D. C. attending
the Endeavor rally.
The Christian Endeavorers, of the
Congregational church, have invited
the members of their brother society,
of the Baptist church, to meet with
them next Sunday evening.
Mrs. Boston, of Danbury, who sings
in the Trinity church choir was unable
to come to this city yesterday owing to
the illness of her husband. Mr. Bouton
is sick with the diphtheria and the
house has been quarrantined.
A large party will start from Roway-
ton this afternoon in Fay Whit’s large
sailboat and picnic at Nauvoo Island.
The clambake has been arranged for
thirty people as that is the number
that is expected will go. Among the
party are a number from this city.
An accident occurred under the
Washington street bridge this morning.
One of the priests of the Manresi Insti
tute was driving under the bridge when
an Adams Express wagon tried to pass
him. The driver of the express wagon
attempted to turn out but his wheel
caught in the trolley track and the
wagon slewed into the priest’s carnage
overturning it. The reverend gentle-
man spryly jumped out and was un-
injured, as was also the carriage. The
extent of the damage was a broken
seltzer bottle which was in the priest’s
carriage.
IN SUNNY AUSTRALIA.
The Heat Terrible to a Man “rho is Fresh
to the Country,
A letter from a man living on the bor-
ders of New South Wales, about 300
miles from Broken Hill, gives some par-
ticulars of the terrible effects of the
heat wave that recently passed over the
colony. The record for the week ended
Jan. 20 is given as 115, 116, 117, 119.
115 and 120 degrees. “We are all done
up,” he wrote subsequently. “The
thermometer at 122 in the shadiest spot
we can hang it! We have had many
sad deaths, among others our poor gar—
dener. I heard he was ill, and ran
down to his hut, to find him lying in-
sensible. The manager and I did all
we could for an hour, and I saw it was
hopeless from the first.
nightfall. We dared not wait to make
a. coffin; indeed, the exertion of digging
his grave was as much as we could do,
so we laid him in the earth in his
‘bluey,’ with a. sheet of galvanized iron
off the roof under him and another over
him. We could not even read a. prayer
as it was dark and too far to go for our
book and light and return.
The sheep are dying by thousands;
horses are knocked out for want of
water; the mail coach cannot run, and
we have to depend on a camel or two
that are being sent. So C——— and I are
determined to start and walk to Broken
Hill, as if we wait longer we may not
have the strength. Many squatters here
are quite ruined, the millions of rabbits
own the country, and this drought has
finished their ruin. Even the blacks
have prickly heat, a fact hitherto un-
known.
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The Factor of Safety in Bicycles.
The manufacturer of the modern bi-
cycle presents one of the most complex
and delicate problems known to me-
chanics. The reason is that what sci-
entists term “the factor of safety” is
lower in the bicycle than in almost any
other mechanical product. In high
pressure guns, for instance, the factor
of safety is even as great as twenty—
that is, guns are made twenty times‘as
strong as is theoretically necessary for
the strain they are to bear. In ordi-
nary guns the factor of safety is twelve,
in boilers it is about .six, in bridges
usually five, and in almost every other
form of machine it is at least four.
Such wide margins of extra strength
are deemed as an ofi'sett to trend in the-
oretical computations or defect in ma.-
terial construction.
With the modern light construction
in bicycles it is reduced to a very low
margin, being as low in instances as
1.25. Such being the case, it can'be‘
. understood readily why the makers of
standard high-grade machines main.
tain a. rigid system of inspection. In
fact, every well-appointed bicycle fac
tory has a thoroughly equipped testing
department, in order'that there may be
no miscalculations or guesswork in the
material entering the construction 'of.
their wlieels.—Boston Evening Tran
’ script.
V—Advertise in tlie Gazarrn.
He died at ‘
FOR OBESITY.
Not Medicine, But Exercise and Diet Pro-
duce the Best Results.
As a matter of fact, the very best
method of reducing obesity 'is not by.
taking any of the medicines which are
advertised for the purpose—which, al-
though they may agree with some, often
prove very disastrous to others—but by
resorting to ordinary means, such asby
taking plenty of exercise, especially
walking, using dumbells in moderation
in themorning when unincumbered by
clothes.
These should not be heavier than
from two pounds to four pounds, and
should be used for about ten minutes.
Turkish baths are also very useful
things to reduce this adipose tissue, and
a cold bath every morning is a very
great help.
_No heavy meal should be eaten imme-
diately before going to bed. and at all
times things of a. fattening nature
should be avoided, such as pastry,
sweets. puddings. All these things.
with many others, tend to make flesh,
and they are therefore. better left alone
altogether.
A meat diet at any time is not nearly
so fattening as one composed of other
things; but if the diet is restricted .31-
together to meat, the probabilities are
that although the body may lose in
weight, the complexion will suffer, so
that it really becomes a question of
which it is heat to do, and this is best
settled by avoiding extremes, eating at
regular hours, and not taking food at
all times and at all hours.
:B't" Like’ tv'hi‘strer.
The following story is told in London
in illustration of Artist Whistler’s cor-
dial esteem for himself: _
“Mr. Whistler,” said a certain
Duchess, “I was at Richmond the other
day, and the view of the river was al.
most as beautiful as one of your
pictures.”
And William’s reply was:
“So nature has begun to look up.”
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“Most extraordinary man.’
“In wlflt way?”
“I think he’s the only man in the
country who hasa. manufacturing plant
of any description and hasn’t begun to
make bicycles.”—Chicago Post.
Yeast—Whom do you suppose origi—
nated that saying: There's nothing
like leather?”
Crimsonbeak — Oh, some fellow who
never tackled a railroad restaurant pie,
T annoose.-—Yonkers Statesman.
Telegraiiln Boles Attract Bears.
Every telegraph pole in the remote
districts of Norway has to be continu-
ally watched on account of the bears,
which have a mania. for climbing the
poles and sitting on the cross-beams,
swaying backward and forward until
the pole finally falls.
The Spanish Cork Industry.
Cork is the third most important of
Spanish exports, and our Consul at Bar- ‘
celona says that in the province (it Go-
rona alone it is estimated that 198, 000
acres are devoted to the cultivation of
cork trees, which produce about 20,000
tons valued at £1,610,000. The machin-
ery‘for cork cutting goes mainly from
France, ,although some of the machines
are of English manufacture, “and in
this industry there is possibly an open
ing for British trade and enterprise, but '
only by the personal attendance of ca-
pable men. ”—London Times.
A Clever salmon".
A birthday book has been made 113
by an enterprising London storekeeper
from the announcements of births in the
newspapers. A little before the child’s
birthday arrives {its mother receives a
typewritten letter calling attention to
the [suitable gifts in the tradesman’s
stock, with wishes of many happy re-
turns of the day.
Desirable Tenant:
“Are you a chess player?” asked the
landlord of a prospective tenant. "I
much prefer to have my houses occu-
pied by chess players.”
“No, I am not a chess player, and I
can’t account for sucha singular prefer.
once.”
“It is simple enough. Chess players
move so seldom, and only after great
deliberation.”
HERE’S YOUR GIIMIGE.
A fine building lot on Wilton ave-
nue. If you intend to build, look at
this before purchasing. '
Water, gas and sewer on the avenue.
Will be sold ‘at a Bargain. .
W. H. BYINGTON,
Real Estate and' Insurance,
Room I. Gazette B’I’d.
MISS BAIRD’S
INSTITUTE.
Norwailfionn.
2521111 YEAR.
1511 Year in Norwalk.
BOARDING 11111 on senool
Primary, intermediate, academic.and college
preparatory classes. Specialists employed for
physical culture, elocution. music, art and the
languages. Careful attention to morals and
manners. A limited number of day pupils
and special students admitted Send for cir-
cular. Early application desirable.
Miss Baird is at home to visitors on Thurs-
day and Friday of each week until 5 p. m
WAR PA NT.
SOLD UNDER GUARANTEE.
Actual cost less than $135 per 2'3"
Is What the
Redskin uses when
he is looking for
fight, but for mak-
ing the home look
bright and cheer-
ful the American Knight of theanrush
uses none but Longman Martinez’
Paint. which is unexcelled.
For Sale by the:
South Norwalk Hardware 00.,
24 SOUTH MAINIEST‘REETJISOUTH NORWALK,ilCONN
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Notice 2
A Great Sale of
WALL PAPERS-
$3,000 Worth of Wall Paper will be sold AT 'COST
During the next Thirty Days.
2 North Main Street,
Newman & Pinney,
South Norwalk'
each.
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BRIDGEPORT.
THEE o o o o I ‘
D. M Read:
@ompnnye
DRESS skiers
MADE TO ORDER . ,
FREE OF CHARGE. ‘I
Commencing Monday morning
July 13th., and continuing during‘the
remainder of the month, you can buy'
your material, lining, etc. here (just
as you would buy them for your
dressmaker) and we will cut, fit and
make the skirt FREE ; not one single
cent will you have to pay—tailor-
made skirts that willbe absoluthly
perfect in all the difficult details of
hang and fit—1n less than 36 hours
A money.
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.Q.,_v_, 3 a,
after your order is given.
saving idea!
Selections of material can be
made from our entire stdck of wool
dress goods running anywhere in price
from 39c. 21 yard to 7'5c.—75c. to
$125—$125 colored or
black, plain or figured.
upward ;
Just notice how men's Underwear ‘
is selling: Ribbed Shirts and Draw-
ers that sold earlier in the season for
75c. each are now going at 29c.
Intended to be one of the
greatest offers ever made, it IS the
greatest. Balbriggan Shirts and .
Drawers, 29, 39 and 50 cents each.
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All the new COl’lCCIiS in Veilings,
main and bordered. black and white,
nets and chiffons. But then every
woman hereabouts knows all about
this department.
Constantly adding to the Ribbon
stock. New designs and coldr com-
binations in fancies—prices away
down.
July prices will rule :
GOOD CHALLIE, 3c. yd.
New PERCALES, 4c. yd.
F1141: DIMITY, 61c yd.
JACONETS, 36-111. 10c. yd.
White Duck, for skirts. 10, 12%..
15, 19 and 25 centsa yard.
White Navy Duck, the best duck
made for boys’ suits, l9 and 25 cents
a yard.
Underskirt bargains, colored mo-
hair, wide ruffles—reduced from
$5.00 to $2.50.
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Norwalk Chronicler