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nigh standard of favor among .
thepeople as that enjoyed by
For years no other soap
in New England has ever
approached it either in sales
or quality. It has proved its .
value over all substitutes, It
is soap, all soap. and nothing
but soap.
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SARATOGA!
Genuine Saratoga \Vater in
block-tin lined barrels ‘direct
from the celebrated Spring, is
for sale on draught at Had-
den’s, cornei‘ Wall and River
Street.
THE WATER
Is brought direct from Sara-
toga, and is dispensed iii-pre-
s“ cisely the same condition” in
which it flows‘from the spring
at Saratoga, and is sold at
5 Gents per Glass.
Houseecleaning.
Lustrine.
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Round, Sirloin and Por-
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Pot and Rib Roasts
Reduced 20. a Pound
All First Quality Meat.
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6 WATER ST.. NORWALK
NEW .CAFE
WITH,
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ATTACHE D.
MIKE fiAfi‘CHFORD,
44 {Main Street,
The Best Wines, Liquors and Cigars.
Horace E. Dann,
Excursion
Liverv and Sales Stable.
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Opposite Danbury and
Norwaik Railroad depot
Norwalk. Conn. Stylish
Single or Double Team
with or without drivers'
Safe horses for women
andchildren. .
.SADDLE HORSES A SPECIALTY
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A FLYING MACHINE.
PROF. LANGLEY, OF THE SMITHSO-
NIAN INSTITUTE, THE INVENTOR."
This Modern Darius Gree‘n Has a Scientific
Basis for His Work. He has it Sure—
Enough Elyer, but One that Is Uncon-
trollable.
It is rather surprising that Professor
S. P. Langley, of the Smithsonian In-
stitution, who definitely solved the
problem of aerial navigation has not at-
tracted more attention. Coming from
’such a man, and backed by thew word of
' so practical a man of science as Alex-
ander Graham Bell, it was not such an ‘
announcement as might have come
from some unknown and obscure in-
ventor. . .
Professor Langley would die a fa.
mousman if he had never taken up
aero-d amics or attempted to build a
flying'machine. He is, indeed, in his
chosen field of astronomy, a prominent
authority. ,
Some time ago he began a series of
experiments in flying, the‘ upshot
of which was that he believes he
has demonstrated that a. machine. not a
baloon, can be made which will produce
enough mechanical power to support
itself in the air and fly. “Though Prof.
Langley adds, “this is not saying that
we have yet got skill enough to manage
this power as to rise and fly about in
the air and descend safely.” What is
actually demonstrated, repeated hun-
dreds of times in the laboratory, and fi-
nally with the successful machine which
Professor Langley built, is that the fly-
ing machine is possible. All that now
remains is to perfect it and learn how
to manage it.
The experiments Professor Lang-
ley carried on resulted in showing that
an expenditure of one-horse power, in
horizontal flight,will support about 200
pounds and at the same time carry
this burden at a rate of fifty miles an
hour through the air. Now there have
recently been built steam engines which
with fuel and water for a short flight
weigh a good deal less than twenty
pounds. The relative weight of an en-
gine decreases with the number of its
horse power, so that there seems no
reason to doubt that what Professor
Langley has done on a small scale may
be done on a large one, and very shortly
at that.
Professor Langley’s machine measures
but fourteen feet from tip to tip, weighs
complete twenty-four pounds, is solidly
built of steel, and, compared with air
which supplies it, has a weight of a
thousand to one. It has no baloon ar-
rangement of any sort, and instead of
trying to build a vessel lighter than the
air and filling it with gasses to make it
rise, Professor Langley has practically
built a machine as heavy as he likes and
relied upon its shape and power for suc-
cessful flight.
This is just the opposite of what al-
most every other experimenter in this
field has tried to do, although it was
apparent to every one that a flying ma-
PROF. I ANGLEY.
' chine to be of any commercial . or prac-
tical value Whatever would have to be
heavy enough and powerful enough to
drive straight against or across and in
and out of the stoutest gale that blows.
Otherwise it would forever be at the
mercy of the element. What was neces-
sary was a ship which nvould ride a
storm in the air as a great ocean liner
rides a storm at sea.
Professor Langley has been very care-
ful to say that he never expressed an
opinion that man could fly by his own
strength. But he has demonstrated
that powerful machines, thousands of
times as heavy as the air itself, can be
built to navigate the air. As to just
the measure of his present success the
secretary of the Smithsonian is exceed-
ingly reticent. as reticent, in fact, as
Professor Bell is enthusiastic. The lat.
ter says that he entertains no doubt
whatever that a practical air ship for
use in war is but a very short way oif.
Indeed, Professor Bell inclines to the
idea that within five years his friend
Langley’s invention will have absolutely
changed the face of warfare, will have
made armies an impertinence and our
four million dollar prize battle ships so
much useless junk. Just 'so soon, he
thinks, as it is possible to build a ma-
chine that will carry half a ton or a ton
of dynamite through the air and be eas-
ily manageable nobody will want to
fight. An army will not care to rest un-
der the constant apprehension of having
a ton of high explosive, sufficient to blot
them out in a second, dropped down on
them. Nor will a battle ship be of any
stall against a similar attacking force.
Coronations are Expensive,
Theamount of money which 'Ambas-
sadors are compelled to spend at coron-
ations in Russia is enormous. A spe-
cial grant of $30,000 was made to the
British Ambassador on the occasion of
the coronation of the late Czar, but his
expenses far exceeeded that amount.
The Duke of Devonshire was the Brit-
ish Ambassador at the time of Nicholas
L‘s coronation, Spent no less than $250,-
000 of his own money on the "represen-
tion,” by which means he created a.-
lasting'friendsmp with the Czar.
Cave Caiiem.
“Givea doga bad name,” said the
Cornfed PhiIOsopher, "and the police-
man will come along and plug every-
body in the beast’s neignoornoo l'l'ull of._
bullets.”-—ln uianapolis Journal.
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3 and Christianity will permit—Detroit
' ner of her kind. But the trodden worm
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THE NEW METHODIST 'BISHOPS.
Rev. Dr. Earl- Cranston was Born in Mc-
Kinley": State.
The Methodists at their Quadrennial
Conference retired three Bishops—one
of them a missionary Bishop—as inef-
ficient, and elected others in their place.
There was a warm contest over theelec-
tion of two regular Bishops, and a num—
ber 'of ballots were taken before the
honor was finally conferred on the well-
known Chaplain C. C. McCabe, and Rev.
Dr.- Earl Cranston. " ’
By a singular coincidence both of the
Bishops were born in Athens, Ohio.
Charles C. McCabe, will probably be
better known to the end of his days by
his old title of chaplaih than his new
one of Bishop.
Rev. Earl Cranston, who was elected
Bishop with Chaplain McCabe,was born
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REV. EARL CRANSTON,
in Athens, June 27, 1840. He enlisted
in the army, but not as a chaplain. He
joined the Third Ohio Regiment and
was promoted step by step until he
reached the rank of captain. After the
war he entered the ministry and filled a
number of appointments in Ohio, Min-
nesota, Illinois and Colorado.
In 1884, while attending a general
conference as a delegate from Southern
Colorado he was elected one 'of the
agents of the Western Book Concern,
located at Cincinnati, and has filled that
position ever since. In the same year
he was given charge of the building of
Denver University, at Denver, and 511- ,
perintended its erection. He was given '
the degree of D. D. by both Allegheny -.
and Cornell, Iowa, in 1882, and was a I
prominent candidate for the Bishopric ‘
at the General Conferences of 1888 and
1892.
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A MADDENING PREDICAMENT. \
Disastrous Result of Carelessness in Nam-
ing Children,
“What under the canopy is the mat-
ter, Bartlett?”
“Crazy; only crazy.
Crazier thana
bedbug. The old age of King Lear was
beautiful and happy compared to
mine.”
“No, no, Bartlett. YOu’re just wor-
ried over something. It will all come
right.”
“Oh, yes,,, I just imagine things.
There’s nothing substantial in my afilic
tion. -Now, listen: My Christian name
is Edward Everett. My wife’s is Emily
Ellis. When our first born came to us
both wanted to furnish part of his name;
so it’s Edward Ellis'. With the first
daughter we were both possessed of the
same natural desire, and she is Emily
Everett. An auntnamed the youngest,
now sixteen, and she is Edith Elsa.”
"What of it? They’re all good
names.” ‘
“Don’t you see, man? Each of us has
our correspondents, and the young folks
are all in love. The postman calls with
a letter or an invitation addressed to
‘E. E. Bartlett.’ Who in thunder is it
for? Those initials belong to each and
every one of us. Mother and I could
get along; but those children. I‘ve
caught the girls pulling hair three times
within a week, and they don’t eat a
meal but what they make faces at each
other. I opened one of Edwards letters
fr0m his best girl, it was such a sweet,
breezy reminder of old times that I was
reading it without thought of doing
wrong when he came along, grabbed
the letter, and dared me out in the back
yard. They used to be such refined and
loving children, too. N ow, we’re all by
the ears and I dread a public scandal.
It’s awful, 'simply awful.”
“But we can certainly do some-
thing.”
. “N 0 ‘can’ about it. Something must
be done. If there is no other way out
of it I will have a special session of the
Legislature and have every infernal
name changed. I’ll get them as wide-
ly different as the world’s nomenclature
Free Press.
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A Storlette.
Mr. and Mrs. John Smith did not live
happily together. He was a pretty fair
average husband. and got along pretty
well with her, when she let him. She
did not get along so well with him, and
oft times let him know it, after the man-
will turn. Time, the great leveller and
evener up of all things, brought the oc—
casion. Her tombstone, erected by the
bereaved husband, has inscribed upon
it, alter the customary birth and death
announcement, the Scriptural quota-
tion: “There remaineth therefore a
rest unto the people of God.”—Judge.
A Family Blessing.
“My husband was a dyspeptic when I
married him.”
"That must have been a great afflic-
tion to you?” -
“On the contrary, it was a blessing.
He never alludes to his mother’s cook-
ing.”—Detroit Free Press. .
A Good Opening.
“I’m going to move my business to
Greenville,” said Pawl, the undertaker,
to a friend. ’
"Isn’t the town well supplied with
undertakersi’~’ asked the friend. .
“I think not. ,There are only two
there now, while the place has twelve
physicians. ”—Judge. -
Lots of people fool around love just as
if it wasn’t loaded-«Atchisoa Globe.
. ’ AN ‘ ’ASTOIJNDED SPARROW? "I”
It Tlcklcdthe Rhinosceros’s Nose, and‘tho
‘ Great Beast Sneezed. .
It is not easy to astonish a. sparrow.
You can scare it—“often scared as oft
return, a pert, voracious kind”—and
make it fly away; but that is only be-
cause the sparrow has the bump of self-
preservation very prominently devel-
0ped, and takes a hint as to personal
danger with extraordinary promptness.
But though it may remove its small
body out of harm’s way for the time be-
ing, it is not disconcerted. You can see
that by the way in which it immediate-
ly goes on with its toilet. Its nerves
have not been shaken—that is evident
from its obvious self-possession and the
way it scratches its head and makes a
note of the fly which went by. It
would not commence at once a frivo-
lous altercation with another of its kind
if it had been disconcerted.
And really, it is not to be wondered
at that the sparrow should not be be-
yond the reach of astonishment. Think
'of what it sees, and sees quite uncon-
cernedly, in the 'streets of London. Put
a tiger into Fleet street, or a. bear at the
bank, and the pOor beasts would go
crazy With terror. A single omnibus
would stampede -a troop of lions. Yeta
sparrow surveys the approaching fire
engine undismayed. and it sits with its
back to the street when a runaway van
comes thundering death down Ludgate
Hill. The small bird’s life is, in fact, so
made up of surprises that it regards the
astounding as commonplace. So a fly,
sitting down in a. train, thinks nothing
of finding itself in the next county when
it gets up. Its whole existence is vol-
canic and seismic. It cannot settle on a
hand without the hand moving. What
would a dog think if, on going into a
ten- acre field, the field suddenly turned
over? But the fly is not put out of
countenance by such “phenomena.” It
comes back to the hand. It is the same
with the sparrow. It thinks no more
of another wonder than the Seven Com-
panions did of another dragon in the
day’s work. .
All the same, I have seen a sparrow
totally confounded and all to pieces. It
was, I confess, only a young one, with
just the promise of a tail, nothing more,
and some odds and ends of fluff still
clinging . between the red feathers. -
was looking at the rhinoseeros, which
was lying down close to the railings,
and a very sleepy rhinosceros it was.
Except for slight twitches of the tail
and an occasional fidget of the cars, it '
was quite motionless. And the young
sparrow hopping about in the enclosure,
coming to the beast, hopped onto it,
looking into the chinks of its skin for
chance grains or insects. And it hopped
all along its back onto its head (the
rhinosceros winked), and along its head
to the little horn, and from the little
horn onto the big one (and it blinked),
and then off the horn onto its nose.
. And then the rhinosceros snorted.
The sparrow was a. sight to see. Ex-
ploded is no word for it. And it sat all
in a heap on the corner of the house and
chirped the m‘ournfulest chirps. “I
hadn’t the smallest notion the thing was
alive,” it said. “Oh, dear! oh‘, dear!"
and it wouldn’t be pacified for a long
time. Its astonishment had been severe
and had “got into the system.” I re-n
membez ed the story of the boy who sat
on the whale’s blowhole. Behemoth
had got stranded on the Shetland coast.
While the population were admiring it
an urchin climbed onto the head of the
distressed monster, and exultantly
seated his graceless person upon its
"forehead. He had but a short time to
enjoy his triumph, and the next instant
the whale, filling itself with air, blew
such a- blast through its blowhole that
the boywas blown up into the air and
out to sea. So said the veracious chron-
icler of the day—and I hope it was true,
for little boys should not, under any cir-
cumstances, sit on the blowholes of
whales. Nor young sparrows on the nos-
trils of a rhinosceros—English Illus-
trated Magazine.
'WRONG HALF ON TOP.
Difficulty of Complying‘with the Minis;
ter's Temperance Views.
A preacher with views on the tem-
perance question was walking soberly
along a dusty road, says the Boston
Budget. A farmer with an empty wag-
on, save that it contained a. gallon jug,
overtook him and asked him if he did
not wish to ride. The preacher assent-
ing, climbed into the wagon, and as
they jogged along toward the next vil~
lage, the two fell into conversation.
Now, the preacher had his suspicions
concerning the jug. and led the talk
around to the subject of temperance, ex-
pounding his views at great length and
with appropriate emphasis. Much to
his surprise. his companion agreed with
him. Nevertheless, the preacher still
continued to suspect the jug.
"My friend,” he said, presently,
“would you mind telling me what you
have in the jug there?”
"Liquor,” said the farmer.
“I feared so,” continued the preacher.
“Ne w. my dear friend, you have agreed
with all I have said on this great ques-
tion of temperance?”
"'Yes.”
"Can you not give proof that you
mean what you say, and pour out that
accursed liquor?”
"N0." \
"But I cannot understand——”
“Wail,” said the farmer, “ye see I’d
do it for ye, only half the liquor in that
ing belongs to my brother.”
”Then empty your half, my friend."
“But I can’t do that, nuther. Ye see
his hall’s on top.”
More Peace Arrangements.
Arrangements have been made to in-
crease the numb:r ofquick- firing guns
which are kept in readiness by the Brit-
ish Government to arm the subsidized
cruisers. At 15.16 present time there are
104 of the large sized guns distributed
among-the stations at W‘oolwich, Dev-
enport, Portsmohh, and Sydney, Aus-
tralia. There are alsp a number of old
fashioned quics-firiug guns at Houg
Kmm.
Norwalk’ls Learning It—Lea‘rnlnc 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 011'. '
You would be ihealthlul and strong.
So you can. .
= If you go at it right.
First learn what it means.
Some say it’s had blood.
Others say it’s a lazy liver.
They’re all wrong.
Tired feeling means tired Kidneys.
Just as lame back means Lame Kid-
neys. ‘ .
And- backache means kidney ache. -
How do we know it?
Because Doan’s Kidney Pills cure it.
And they are for kidneys only.
How can we prove it ?
Because Norwalk people say so.
Here is a case in point. '
, Mrs.’ White wife of A. C. White the
batter, address No. 47 River street.
Mr. White says, “My wife took Doan’s
Kidney Pillsz”
“I‘ook them for backache.”
“Found them just as represented.”
“Is much improved.”
“Dean’s Kidney Pills did the work.”
“Got them at Hale's drug store.”
Doan‘s Kidney Pill's are for sale by all
dealers; mice 50 cents, or mailed by
Foser—Milburn "GO , Bufi'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, Doan’s Ointment
Will not fail to give instant relief.
A?!"
P. W ’ BATES’I
42 WATER STREET, 1
you can find as fine an assortment of
MOOIIIIIOIIIOIIIOOIOOIOI‘I’WOI‘I
As can be found in any Yard in the
State. Look it Over and get prices
before going elsewhere.
J. D. Jennings.
UN DERTAKER
1 Knight street. Opposite
Street Railway Depot
BELL .41 OFFICE.
I I LIGHT PARCEL and
LUOKWOOOS PACKAGE DELIVERY
Cheap rates, Will also take orders for mes
wager; service in New York. Goods called
0.- and deliyerr‘d to all parts of the town.
orders received at E. P. Weed’s Drug Store.
Wall Street. With telephone connection un-
’°’ O E. LOCKWOOD.
CENTRAL NATIONAL BANK,
.26 WALL ST., NORWALK.
ORPORATED SEPT. i. 1876.
API’I‘AL. - - - - . - $100.00C
use M.HOLMEs. President.
. L. Berna, Vice-President“?
WILLIAM A. CURTIS. Cashier
DIRECTORS :
036.1: M. HOLMES. H. E. DANN,
L. CUNNINGHAM, J. T. Pnowrr'r
I. L. Borne. S H. HOLME
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GREGCRY’S POINT.
NOW OPEN FOR‘THI‘. SEASON OF 1896.
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A C.
ShoreIIinners,
. Rhode Island clam Bake.
Baihing, Boating, Fishing.
a .
Electric cars to Hotel, every twenty
minutes.
JOHN E. O‘SULLIVAN,
Ma nager,
MEEKERCOAL 00,
con, noon, “BRICK,
LIME, OEMENT, TILEPIPE.
OFFICE WITH G. WARD SELLECK
WALL STREET. NOBWI‘ LK.
Piano Lessons.
MRS. GEORGE W. BRADLElff'Maughter
of the late_Wm. R. Nash.) gives efficent
and satisfactory instructions on the, Piano at
her home No. 193 Main "meet.
ADAMS’
B l a z o n-
Soap Powder,
For Kitchen Use
EXOELS ALL OTHERS.
Ask Your Grocer For It.
_The following Grocers have it on sale: E. J.
Finnegan. Mam Street; P. J. O’Brien. Chapel
stret; M. Abraham. Plattsyille avenue: Mrs.
Harriet A. Northrop. Unionville; A. Stull,
East Norwalk; D. Rosen. South Norwalk; J.
L. J une. Winnipauk: N. Driscoll. Westport.
Fairfield County National Bank.
44 Wall Street, N oru'alk, Conn.
NCORPORATED, 1824. Capital. $200300
Enwm 0. KEELER President.
DAVID E. MILLER. Vice-President.
L. C. GREEN. Cashier
DIRECTORS .
EDWIN O. KEELER‘ Moses H. GLOVEB
DAVID HullllLLER, A. J. MEEKER,
F. ST. JOHN Locxwoon, THEODORE E. SMITH
TBA COLE. HAS F. Tnisrmm.
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Accounts of Manufacture ' M
Individuals solicited. rs erchants and
Safe Deposit Boxes free to Depositors.
sores POINT ‘*
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SOUTH NORWALK, ICONN.
A Charming Summer Resort on LOng Island Sound.
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GENERAL ATTRACTIONS!
Every facility for providing for large excursions.
.Roton Point Improvement 00-.
OW’NERS AND PROPRIETORS,
J. FINKENSTEIN, Manager.
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Towle Vault Light Company,
MANUFACTURERS.
VAULT LIGHTS. SKYLIGHIS '
' ANOPATENT LIGHT DESIGNS.
Factory:
481 names avenue,
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