Stick to
In Welcome.
New England housekeep-
ers are too wide awake to be
fooled into buyinginferior
soap more than once, just
«because there is a present
given with it. ~
J
On washing-day they want
only the best soap; next :37
they buy their own present.
,eEL'S/
9' WATER ’8.
' ' EAR KIRGA
. SAR‘AITOGA I"
Genuine Saratoga TVater in
block-tin lined barrels direct
from the celebrated Spring, is
for sale on draught at Had-
den’s, corner Wall and River
Street.
THE WATER
Is brought direct from Sara-
toga, and is dispensed in pre-
cisely this same condition in
which it flows from the spring
at Saratoga, and is sold at
5 cents per Glass.
House-cleaning.
J
Lu‘strine.
Ask your Grocers.
ele cu m PRIBE-
' OF
MEAT.
Round, Sirloin and Por-
terhouse Steaks, Sausge,
Pot and Rib Roasts "
Reduced 26. a_ Pound
All First Quality Meat. '
J. W. BOGARDUS,
NEW CAFE
RESTAURANT
MIKE ~3‘:lld'ifHFORD,
The Best Wines, Liquors and Cigars.
Horace E. ‘Dann, '
EXCELSIOB
Livery and Sales Stable.
"mvwvwv'r'rx
Opposite Danbury and
Norwaik Railroad depot
' Nor-walk. Conn. Stylish
Single or Double Team
with or without drivers'
Safe horses for wdmen
sndchildrene . ~ ~
I SADDLE HORSESZ A eczema-ry-
STAND WAS NEAR IT.
OTHER FAMOUS MEN WHO HAVE
MISSED THE NOMINATION.
instances Where the Nomination was So-
cured, But the Election Lost. ‘Clay,
Webster, Tilden and Elaine were Disap-
pointed in Their Time.
Richard P. Bland was the truly logi-
cal candidate before the Chicago Con-
vention which nominated William J en-
nings Bryan, which fact leads one to
regard Presidential lightning as the
most eccentric form , of electric energy
known to either science or religion.
The men who missed the Presidency
were in most instances the men who
seemed at the time most worthy of the
honor. Clay and Blaine were wsgsin
and again within an ace of gaining the
coveted prize. Daniel Webster, the
modern Demosthenes, and Horace Gree-
ley, died of broken hearts because the
ambitions of their lives were denied
them.
Aaron Burr just missed the headship
of the nation. He was a man of remark-
ably brilliant mental attainments, ’ and
into the Presidential contest of 1800 he
entered with his accustomed energy and
determination. The Republicans tri-
umphed, but between the two highest
candidates, J elferson and Burr, there
was a tie. each receiving 73 votes, which
threw the election into the House
of Representatives and Burr lost.
Henry Clay would probably have been
President but for the grip upon his rep-
utation of the famous “bargain and
corruption” charge which, constantly
repeated, pursued him through the best
part of his public iife.
Daniel Webster, incomparable as or-
ator and defender of the constitution.
'never had but one really good chance to
become President and that he put aside,
for the very good reason that it was
unworthy of him and his great reputa-
tion.
The causes which contributed to the
loss of the Presidency by Samuel J. Til-
den are fresh in the public mind.
The election was very close. The
electoral vote, as finally declared, was
185 for Hayes and 184 for Tilden. Til-
den had a majority of the popular vote,
his vote being computed as 4,28 4,265, as
against 4,033, 295 for Hayes.
The result of the election was for a
long time in doubt, each side claiming
the victory. Both parties claimed the
States of Florida, Louisiana and South
Carolina.
An act was finally passed by Congress
referring all contested election cases to
a Commission, composed of five Sena-
tors, five Representatives and five
Judges of the Supreme Court, the de-
cision, of which Commission was to be
final unless set aside by a Econcurrent
note of the tan Houses of Congress.
.TheCommission refused to go behind
the certificates of the Governors, and
on March 2 declared Hayes duly elected
President of the United States. He was
inaugurated March 5, 1877.
No leader in the Republican party has
so often been a candidate for Presiden-
tial honors as was James G. Blaine.
For nearly 20 years his name was in
everybody’s mouth whenever a Nation-
al Convention assembled.
A recent writer on the subject has
wisely saidthat Blaine would have been
nominated in 1876 had not the gas been
turned OK in the convention hall.
There is still an unsatisfied , doubt in
many minds as to whether the “Plumed
Knight" was not actually counted out
in 1884, and there can be no two opin-
ions as to the certainty of his nomina-
tion in 1888, but for hisown declination
in favor of Harrison.
The election in 1884 turned upon the
State of New York, and, as will be read-
ily recalled, the State was lost to the
Republican party by the narrow margin
021,047 votes. This was the nearest
Mr. Blaine ever came to the coveted
prize.
Asabove stated, he only missed the
Presidency by a fluke in the Conven-
tion of 1876. On the first ballot at that
Convention he received 285 votes out of
a total of 754. On the seventh ballot
his vote rose to 351, lacking only 28 of a
majority, but at th'a supreme moment
the gas in the Convention Hall was
turned oil.
In the Convention of 1880 Blaine was
again prominent and powerful as a can-
didate for nomination, .and on the first
ballot received 284 votes.
General Benjamin F. Butler,warrior,
lawyer and Governor of the State of
Massachusetts,was once within a hair’s
breadth of becoming President, al-
though he knew it not. When Lincoln
was renominated for the Presidency in
1884 the second place on the ticket'was
offered to Butler. He declined it. Lin-
coln and Johnson were elected by a
great majority.
Butler was the candidate for the
Presidency of the Greenback and Anti-
Monopolist Parties in 1884 and received
133,927 votes. He was a little faroif
that time and perhaps thought with re-
gret of his declination in ’64-, when but
one short year would have stood be-
tween him and the highest place in the
nation.
PUNISHMENT TO FIT CRIME.
“Come out o’ dar, boyl' Dem arr.”
yoah peadhesl Doan’ yo” know yen:
‘layin’ yo’self liable ter impeachmentz“
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CZAR’,S TRUST IN HIS PEOPLE. "
Signs “'hlch Point to a Reign of Liber-
ality.
The Czar is said to take much more
after his mother than his father. The
Czar has already reigned for about
eighteen months, but' so far he has
wisely refrained from attempting to ini-
tiate any startling new departures.
What he has done so far has been in
the right direction. He has dispensed
with the excessive precautions with
which the police thought it was neces-
sary to guard his person. He has gone
in and out among the people as freely
as any merchant in St. Petersburg, and
one of his first acts, on returning to.
St. Petersburg from the funeral, was to
censure the Chief of Police for issuing
an order forbidding the people to Open
the windowsorto appear on their bal-
conies while the funeral procession was
passing through the streets, says the
Review of Reviews. ‘ '
Among the signs of a more liberal
tendency on the part of the Czar, the
observer noted the fact that he caused
the imperial manifesto addressed to the
Finns to be amended in accordance
with the wishes of the population.
When the Polish deputation came to
greet him, he received them with great
oordiality, and is said to have declared
that it gave him great pleasure to re-
ceive them. “Be assured, I make no
difference on. account of the religion
you profess. My subjects are all equal-
ly dear to me.” The press, also, was
treated. by the Czar’s special request,
witha generosity and liberality which
was previously unprecedented in Rus-
31a.
The Dog and His Doctor.
The best authenticated of all the sto~
ties of sagacity in dogs has been made
public this week. Mr. Arthur E. Reade,
Secretary to the Charing Cross Hospi-
tal, wrote to the times recently to say
that at 10.30 o’clock one night a rough
terrier barked outside the door of the
hospital till he was let in. When ad.
mitted, he limped in, squatted on the
mat, and held up an injured forepaw.
'The house surgeon came, whereupon
the dog followed him at once across the
hall to the accident room, jumped at
‘once, when invited- to do so. on the
chair, and again held out the injured
paw. '
It was dressed, when the dog licked
the hand of the surgeon and loudly
barked its gratitude till he had to be
turned out, showing great reluctance to
leave. Mr. Bellamy, the house sur-
geon, confirms this statement, and adds
that on the next Thursday the dog
came, like any other out patient, to have
his paw dressed. It is not known to
whom the dog belongs.
Queer Facts About Colors.
According to information given by a
German army oficer to the House
Guards’ Gazette, an experiment was
recently made in Europe to determine
What color in a soldier’s uniform is the
least conspicuous to an enemy. Of ten
men who were dressed in light gray uni—
form, two in dark gray, two in green,
two in dark blue and two In scarlet.
All were then ordered to march off,
while a group‘of .ofiicers remained to
watch them. The first to disappear in
the landscape was the light gray, and
next, surprising as it may seem, the
scarlet. Then followed the dark gray.
While the dark blue and the green re-
mained visible long after all the others
had disappeared. Experiments in fir-
ing at the blue targets, according to the
same authority, proved that the blue
could be more easily seen at a distance
than red.
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Glass for Bearings.
Should not something more be done.
than is being done, experimentally, if
not practically, in the use of glass for
bearings? Some experts speak highly‘
of it for woodworking machinery. It
is said to require less care than any
other material, running with little oil
and keeping cool. In methods of shap»
ing and cutting glass such advances
have been made that it should be now a
comparatively simple matter to adapt it
to general use. Glass sleeves could, of
course, be easily furnished, perfectly
true, both inside and out; and there are
numerous places where such sleeves,
brushes, thimbles, or whatever they
might be called», could probably be em-
ployed with great satisfaction. Glass
would probably be better adapted to
high speeds than to heavy loads.—
American Machinist.
Unique llIail Service.
The inhabitants of the small group of
islands situated on the south of Iceland
possess a very curious method of com-
munication in their so- called “bottle
post.” When the wind blows from the
south and one of the islanders wishes to
communicate with the mainland, he
puts his letters into a well corked bot-
tle, and to insure their delivery, he in-
closes at the same time a plug or twist
of tobacco or a cigar. The wind speed-
ily impels the bottle to the shores of the
mother island, wherepeople are usually
on the lookout who are willing to de-
liver the contents of the bottle in return
for the inclose‘l remuneration.
Killed by Light.
Dr. James Weir, Jr., who has studied .
the strange inhabitants of the Mam-
moth Cave in Kentucky, says that the
Celebrated blind fish from that cavern
when placed in illuminated aquaria‘,
seek out the darkest places, and he be-
lieves that light is directly fatal to
them. for they soon die if kept ina
brightly lighted tank. The avoidance
of light seems to be a general character-
istic of the sightless creatures dwelling
in the great cave. Dr. Weir has seen
an eyeless spider trying to avoid the
light, and animalcules from the waters
of the cavern hiding under a grain of
sand on the stage of his microscope. He
thinks the light in these cases isin
some manner perceived through the
sense of touch.
The nightingale always begins his
song softly, like a well trained orator,
and gracefully swells to a climax.
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THEE VIENING- geezer-TE
PHOTOG'RAPHING THOUGHT.
Dr. Baraduc Announces His Success and
Shows the Plates.;
It may be rash to pronounce that any-
thing is beyond the photographer’s art.
But the cbmmunication just made to
the Paris Academic de Medicine by Dr.
Baraduc is so astonishing that if he had
made it before Dr. Roentgen had ren-
dered his discovery public. very few
people would have been inclined even
to inquire into the matter. Indeed, Dr.
Baraduc [afi‘irms he has succeeded in
photographing thought, and he has
shown numerous photographs in proof
of his assertion.
His usual method of proceeding is
Simple enough. The person whose
thought is to be photographed enters a
dark. ream, places his hand on a photo.
”phic plats, and thinks intently of the
object the image of which he wishes to
see produced. It is stated by those who
have examined these photographs that
the‘most of them are very cloudy, but
that a few are comparatively distinct,
representing the features of persons and
the outlines of things. Dr. Baraduc
goes further, and declares that it is pos-
sible to produce a photographic image
at a great distance.
In his communication to the Acade-
mie de Medicide he relates that Dr. Is-
trate, when he was going to Campana,
declared he would appear on a photo-
graphic plates of his friend, M. Hasden
of Bucharest. 0n the 4th of August,
1893, M. Hasden at Bucharest went to ,
bed with a photographic plate at his
feet and another at his head. Dr. Is-
trate went to sleep at Campana, at a
distance of about 300 kilometres from
Bucharest, but before closing his eyes
he willed. with all his might that his
image should appear on the photograph-
ic plate of his friend.
According to Dr. Baraduc that mar-
vel was accomplished. Journalists who
have examined the photOgraph in ques-
tion state that it consists in a kind of
luminous spot on the photographic plate
in the midst of which can be traced the
profile of a man—London Standard.
Two “’ise Geese and the Pigs.
A gentleman living in Eastern Geor-
gia owned a pair of geese and some half
grown pigs, both of which resorted to a
small plum thicket on the hillside to
pick up the fallen fruit.
A small branch of one of the trees was
broken and bent down to the ground,
and the geese had somehow discovered
that. by catching the end of the branch
in their bills and shaking the tree by
means of it they could bring down the
plums. ‘
The pigs, seeing what was going on.
soon found it was to their interest to
follow the geese to the plum thicket.
The geese would shake the tree, and
the sound of a grateful shower of fruit
would be heard, but before they could
eat the plums the pigs would have
greedily gathered up most of them.
Greatly exasperated, and with good rea-
son, one of the geese would seize a pig
by the ear while the other marched on
the other side of him, screaming and
scolding. By this way,‘ beating poor
piggy with their wings at every step,
they would escort him to the top of the
hill and there let him go.
Then they would return to shake the
tree again, with a similar result.
Two Miles a Minute by a Runaway Car.
A runaway freight car that had be.
come detached from a train caused a
flurry on the Philadelphia and Reading
Railroad. It was a box car loaded with
merchandise, and broke loose on the
steep grade at Alaska, ten miles east of
Shamokin.
It started from the main line at great
speed. The express for Philadelphia
was about due, and the trainmen were
horrified over the thought of a possible
collision. 'A telegraph operator ,was
summoned: he sent a message to the
place and the track was cleared. The
train shot by at the rate of two miles a
minute. At Weigh 'Scales the express
was flagged and the passengers got out.
As the train was running on the south-
bound track, there was no collision.The
runaway car dashed by the train two
minutes after the express had come to a.
stop. Messages were flashed over the
divisions as far as Sunbury, and a clear
track was Opened for the runaway,
which, owing to a broken wheel and
heavy up grade at Shydertown, came to
a stop.
The distance from Alaska to the lat-
ter place is 22 miles, and was covered
in sixteen minutes by the runaway.
False Alarm.
A woman, giving the name of Mrs.
Matthews, called at the Armory the
other afternoon for a warrant. While
the blank was being filled out she wait-
ed in the operatOr’s room.
Operator William Mahoney was send-
ing his daily report over the police telen
phone to the sub-stations and was giv-
ing the description of a mouse colored
horse which had been stolen. He he-
gan:
“Look out for a mouse—-—-”
_ Just then there was a fortissimo
screech in high C as Mrs. Matthews
gathered her skirts about her and jump-
ed on a chair. ‘
“———colored horse,” continued Ma-
’icney.
Tue woman turned red, climbed down
from the Cdall‘ and left the room.—Chi-
cago Inter Ocean.
None but Novices.
Max—I swear to heaven that you are
the first woman Iever kissed.
Delia (with a sigh)—That’s the
trouble with this miserable season of
year. One has to break in so much new
material, and for some other summer
girl's benefit, likely as not—Truth.
The Truth Not Half Told.
“You are charged,” said the Judge,
'-'Wltl1 riding your bicycle through the .
streets at a- rate exceedingten miles an
.our.” ._ g ..
"Ten miles?" said the man, Whose
new. wheel had run away with him;
"ten miles? I‘ll bet I was going three
zlllllul'dq." . '
, {LIKE AN ,‘oc‘roPUs.
And Just as Bad—You Can Find
Them in Norwalk as Well
as Florida.
Ever see an octopus? All arms, you
know.
Has eight of them—and all bad.
Do you know how it catches its vic-
time?
Throws out an arm, then another,-
and another,
And you’re in the toils.
Then it drags you down to death.
\Just like Kidney disease.
Seizes you with backache first.
Then acute pains.
Then urinary disorders.
Then sediment or gravel.
'Ihen Diabetes, or Bright’s Disease.
Then, the cemetery.
Not pleasant reading, is it?
Well the disease isn’t pleasant either.
We know what will kill this octopus.
Doan’s Kidney Pills do it every time.
Norwalk people know it too, now.
You read about it every day-and it’s
60. -
Here is Norwalk testimony. Miss
Hanna Cline resides at N o. 58 Belden
ayenue. Her inother says: “Mydaugh-
ter has had a weak back. Has been
troubled with backache. Went to Hale’s
drug store. Got a box of Doan’s Kid-
ney Bills. The Pills cured her.”
What better proof than this of merit,
home testimony, the statement of a
l‘lorwalk citizen. ’I‘is easy to endorse
it,.and there are many more, just like
this, which render doubt out of the
question. Ask your neighbors if they
have used Doan’s Kidney Pills, and if
they have you are not forced to take
our recommendation; take theirs and
we are satisfied.
Doan’s Kidney Pills for sale by all
dealer-s, price 50 cents. ‘Mailed by Fos-
ter—Mllburn Co , Buffalo, N. Y. Sole
agents for the U. S.
All those terrible, itching diseases of
the skin that helpjto make life miserable
for us are causedlby external parasites.
Dean’s Ointment kills the parasite and
cures the disease. Perfectly harmless,
never fails.
ATE"
P. w. BATES’
42 WITER STREET,
you can find as fine an assortment of
Mnlumelldllfledeterlwdl
As can be found in any Yard in the
State. Look it over and get prices
before going elsewhere.
I ‘ ! LIGHT PARCEL and
LUIJKWIIIIIIS PACKAGE DELIVERY
Cheap rates, Will also take orders for mes
wager seryice in New York. Goods called
.mand dellyered to all arts of the town,
orders received at E. P. eed’s Drug Store
Wall Street, With telephone connection un-
'3°' 11 E. LOCKWOOD.
{DORLON HOUSE ‘ a
NEW OPEN FOR THE SEASON OF 1896.
Shore Dinners, '-
Ilhode Island Glam Sake.
Bathing. Boalins. Fishing.
Electric cars to Hotel, every twenty
'minutes.
JOHN E. O’SULLIVAN,
Manager.
MEEKER COAL 00.
con, ween, BRICK,
LIME, BEMENT, me PIPE.
OFFICE WITH G. WARD SELLEOK
WALL STREET. NOBWI LK.
ADAMS’
Iaz o n
Soap Powder,
For Kitchen Use
Excells all others.
Ask Your Grocer For It.
The following Grocers h ve it on sale: E. J.
Finnegan. Main street; P.-J. O’Brien. Cha e1
stret; M. Abraham. Plattsyille avenue; rs.
Harriet A. Northrop. Umonville- A. Stull
East Norwalk; _D.Rosen, South Norwalk; J.
L. June..W1nnipauk: bl. Driscoll. Westport.
Fred Scribner. A. A. Anson. Hu h Donnelly.
George Pomeroy, Chapel street. . H. More—
house West avenue, D. Gormley. Spring Hill,
E. Schachat, Harbor avenue, D. Schachat.
Franklin avenue,
J ._ D. Jennings.
UN DERTAKER
1 Knight streetmpposite
Street Railway Depot
N 1 GE 1‘ .8171 Eli A! OFFICE.
YOUR FRIENDS ARE USING
A 'PLIIISTED’S DOUGH REMEDY
AND RECOMMEND 11‘ S USE
Get a Bottle at once, 25 and 50 Cents.
ALL DRUGGISTS.
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