'f A... It’s Soap; in All Soap. Welcome Soap is abso~ Iutely free from excess of alkali, corrosive, and other adulterations: that is why it is superior to any othersoap. If by special inducements they are led to try some other kind, they always re. turn to Welcome. Genuine Saratoga \Vater 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 the same condition in which it flows from the spring at Saratoga, and is sold at .5 Cents per lilacs. 1 _:¥ House-cleaning. Lustrine. Ask your Grocers. -BIG BUT IN PRIDE- 0F MEAT. Round, Sirloin and Por- terhouse Steaks, Sausge, Pot and Rib Roasts Reduced 20. a Pound All First Quality Meat. J. W. BOGARDUS, 6 WATER ST.. NORWALK NEW CAFE WITH RESTAURAN T ATTACHE D. MIKE fiATCHF-‘ORD, 44 Want Street, The Best Wines, Liquors and- Cigars. Horace I! E'. Dann, SIGELBIOB Livery and Sales} Stable. I ' ’ wwwuvvv‘k Opposite Danbury and Norwalk Railroad depot Norwalk, Conn. Stylish Single or Double Team with or without drivers' Safe horses for women - and children. ” . ySADDLE HORSES: A SPECIALT Y I ,.r. THEODORE PARKER ON MARRIAGE. Some Conclusions Arrived at by Looking Backward. Men and women, and especially young p60ple, do not know that it takes years to marry completely two hearts. even of the most loving and well sorted. But nature allows no sudden change. We slope very gradually from the cradle to the summit of life. Marriage is grad- ual, a fraction of us at a time. A hap- pyawedlock is a long falling in love. I know young persons think love only be- longs to browu hair, and plump, round, crimson cheeks. So it does from its be- ginning, just as Mt. Washington begins at the station. But the golden marriage is a part of love which the bridal day knows nothing of. Youth is the tassel end silken flower of love; age is the full corn, ripe. and solid in the ear. Beaut- iful is the morning of love, with its prophetic crimson, violet, purple, and . with its hopes of days thatare to come. Beautiful also is the evening of love, with its glad remembrances, and its rainbow side turned toward heaven as well as earth. Young people marry their opposites in temper and general character, and such a marriage is com. monly called a good match. They do it instinctively. The young man does not say “My black eyes require to be wed with blue, and my over-vehemence re- quires to be a little modified with somewhat of dullness and reserve.” When opposites come together to be wed, they do not know it, but each thinks the other just like himself. Old people never marry their opposites; they marry their similars, and from calculation. Each of these two ar- rangements is very iproper. In their long journey these young opposites will fall out of the way a. great many times, and both get away from the road; but each will charm the other back again, and by and by.,they will be agreed as to the place they will go to, and the road they will go by, and become reconciled. The man will .be nobler and larger for being associated with so much human- ity unlike himself; and she will be a nobler woman for having manhood be- side her that seeks to correct her defi- ciencies and supply her with what she lacks, if the diversity is not too great. and their be a real piety and love in their hearts to begin with. The old bridegroom having a much shorter journey to make, must associate him- self with one like himself. A per- fect and complete marriage is perhaps as rare as personal beauty. A real happy marriage of love and judgment, between a noble man and woman, is one of the things so very handsome that if the sun were, as the Greek poets fabled, a god, he might stop the world in order to feast his eyes with such a spectacle. True to the Scent. Crit Robinson, the wing shot, has the best' trained hunting dog on the Coast, a. black pointer. At the pigeon shoots, where other dogs go crazy at the crack- ing of the guns and the dropping of birds, Robinson’s dog lies in the shade asleep. A whistle and the dog is on his feet pointing with every muscle tense and every nerve strained. At a signal the dog retrieves and in another minute is as sound asleep again as if nothing happened. No matter where the dog is he will drop at a blast from Robinson’s whistle and lie there unmovable for hours at a time. Robinson tells a good story that illus- trates the true scent of the dog. He came down out of the Mills Building with an attorney one day, when the at1 torney found he had forgotten his gloves and‘propose‘d to return for them. “No, I’ll send the dog,” said Robin. son. “But how will he know my gloves?" asked the doubtful attorney. “Just let him smell of your hand.” The dog was given the scent and des- patched up the stairs. In a few minutes he returned with a ribbon the attorney’s typewriter had been wearing around her waist.--San Francisco Post. .IFWw- '“ His Theory. Lowfer—I notice you have put an or- chestra in your restaurant. Did you do it on the theory that music aids diges- tion? Mr. Eatonhous—No. The music sets the boarders’ teeth on edge, and they bite the toughest steak with the great- est ease.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Fluorscopic Possibilities. Miss Amide—Why did she break the engagement? , Miss Cathode—I believe she saw something in him she didn’t like.— Brooklyn Life. » Rivals. Lulu—eYou should get him to sign the pledge before you marry him. ~ Babs—Why, he doesn’t drink! ‘ Lulu—No, but he may be tempted later on.—Pick-Me- Up. A Delicate Reminder. Chollie—How do you account for this suit shwinking so? Tailor—Too much due on it, I ’spect. Indianapolis Journal. , Always Liked It. Mrs. Footlites—I see the Barnstormis to play at the Mohawk next week in repertory. , Mrs. N oitall—I always liked that play. What part does he take‘Z—Judge. In the Beauty Race. She—So Miss Decollette won a hus- band at last? , “He—Yes; Won by a neck—Buffalo Times. The shadOWs of the mind are like those of the body. In the morning of life they all lie behind us; at noon we trample them under our feet; and in the evening they stretch long, broad and deepening before us. . Tumblers that have been used for milk should never be put into hot water until they have flrst~been rinsed in cold water. The heat drivcs the milk in,and gives a cloudy appearance to the glass whiah cannot: be removed. IN FAIR BERMUDA. Famous Alike for Its Onions and Easter Lilies. Everything is fashioned on a small scale in Bermuda. about twenty square miles in the little toy islands altogether. The roads 'are from ten to twenty feet wide, instead of from sixty to one hundred; the fields cover from half an acre to five acres, in- stead of ten times that area; and even a mountain covered with cedar-forest, or what looks like one, proves to be only fifteen or twenty acres, with a twenty foot hump in the middle. But hidden away in the fertile valleys are tiny patches of onions, Easter lilies and potatoes, which products freight two steamships a week during the season. There are other things, of course—Sago. bananas, pawpaws, lettuce, plums, gar- den fiowers—but the lily, the onion and the potato are the chief products of the place. I have seen a little patch of half an acre from which eight hundred boxes of lily buds were shipped in spring, to be unpacked in New York and surprised into opening by hot wa- ter; and a beautiful sight the field was still, with the comparatively few lilies that had been left to bloom; for each stalk bears many buds, and the flowers keep on blooming long after Easter. As for onions, each day in the season the farmers’ helpers go through the rows pulling those which have reached stand- ard size and leaving the rest to grow. 5") the season lasts a long time. Visit- ors never tire of watching the onion boxes down under the big open dock sheds. They are brought down in the cool of the evening mainly, and are pro- tected from the sun by aWnings. Like little ants the donkeys come, and go, and presently there rise great heaps of two or three thousand tons of boxed onions. The same ship which carries the onions brings back material for the boxes—square boards for the ends, nar- row slats for the sides. Bermuia cedar is too precious to be sawed up for onion boxes. The price of onions is fixed by the Bermuda Exchange, and their qual- ity is strictly looked after. The Ex- change can deal in other things than onions. There is no reason why it shouldn’t supply the frozen North in early spring with lettuce and other garden “sass.” If to these oranges and added, it is only because the Bermudas have hitherto been lacking in push. It is natural that this should be so, in a land blessed possibly beyond all others by productive soil and tolerant climate. A climate where the cedar and the palm grow next door neighbors in a hedge- row, and where golden rod and snow- drops blOSSOm at the same time, a cli- mate withoutt either frost in winter or sunstroke in summer, enables its pos- sessors to get along without much ex- ertion, and they are not disinclined to enjoy their privileges. The Largest Newspaper. The largest newspaper ever published in this or any other country was The Illuminated Quadruple Constellation, which was issued in New York City on July 4, 1859. It was a 28,000 edition, and was sold at 50 cents per copy. The size of the page of this sheet was 70 by 100 inches, or almost 49 square feet. It was an eight page paper. 13 columns to the page, or a total of 10-4 columns, each 48 inches in length. It was illus- trated with good portraits of President Buchanan, Edward Everett, Henry Ward Beecher, N. P. Banks, E. H. Chapin, Horace Greeley, Elizabeth Bar- rett Browning. Alexander von Hum- boldt, James G. Bennett, and several others. The paper contained 36 differ ent poems entire, one of them having as many as 64 eight line verses; among other articles of special note was the copy of the New York Sun, published in 1835. It required the work of 40 per- sons ten hours per day for eight weeks to “get out” this mammoth paper.— N ewspaperdom. “’Ka: .m, r[he Red Cedar. The red cedar, which is not a cedar at all in the botanical meaning of the word, but a juniper. is one of the com- monest and most widely distributed trees of North America. It is equally at home on the dry gravel hills of New Brunswick and New England, and on the northern shores of Georgian Bay, inthe fertile valleys of Pennsylvania, tucky and Tennessee, where it forms with stunted, shrubby growth, great forests or “cedar brakes"; in the swamps of the Florida peninsula, and on the rich bottom lands of the Red River and its tributaries, where it grows to the greatest size. Less com- mon in the West than in the East, the red cedar is apparently as much at home in one region as in the other. An Air Tester. An instrument for measuring the amount of impurity in the air of a. room trial Exhibition recently. It consisted of a. glass bulb containing a red liquid which turns white on contact with carbonic acid gas. The liquid in the bulb was kept from the air, but once in every 100 seconds a drop, drawn auto- matically from the bulb through a bent tube, fell upon the upper end of a stretched cord and began slowly to de- scend the cord. If the air was foul with carbonic acid the drop turned white at the upper end of the cord, and the purer the air the farther the drop 'descended before changing color. Alongside the cord ran a scale, like that of a' thermometer or barometer, indicating the degree of impurity of the atmosphere. Carnivorous Plants. That such plants as “Venus’s fly trap” actually catch and squeeze to death flies and other insects alighting on their leaves has long been known, but the discovery is comparatively re cent that the plants digest the softer part of their prey by means of a. peptic ferment secreted by the leaves. These, then, are real instances of plants feed- I There are only ' figs and lemons and other fruits are not ' celebrated “Moon Hoax,” taken from a" on the limestone hills of eastern Ken« : or sh0p was shown at the Zurich Indus. ing upon animals. .., - I MISS FRANCES, WILLARD. ”MI! Henry Somerset Describes the Great Temperance Apostle. Like all temperance women good and true, I had placed Miss Williard‘s image in the inmost shrine where I pay loyal devotion to those rare Spirits which lead the rank of reform; and yet, as the train glided toward Evanston, I felt tered,’ and this one also might possibly shortly be dashed 'vidlently to the ground. On the platform she awaited my coming—a delicate, fragile figure in a pretty blue dress, her small hand shading her eyes as she looked about at- tentively, seeking her guest; and as she came toward me I saw a face so frank and kind that it seemed as though the peaceful simplicity of childhood had somehow remained unrufiied by the chilling blasts of life. Extending her hand, she greeted me, and to one to whom her soul was linked by that strong fellowship and sufiering that binds us in our “peaceful war,” a n" ‘ \\‘\\ MISS FRANCES TVILLARD. for the uplift of humanity. From that hour I felt that we were friends—- not alone to joy in each other’s compan- ionship, but in that truer sense that binds souls, only to form a new link in the lengthening chain of love and loy- alty that holds humanity to God. A few minutes later I was in Res! Cottage, as it was then in its complete- ness; for since that day the sun has set on that great life which was the centre of the home circle. Miss Williard stood there then in the doorway to meet me, erect and queenly. She greeted me with that gentle kindness that showed at once her innate refined and quiet dignity; and as we sat round the sup- per table that night, amid the dainty, bright, yet simple surroundings of that charming home, and later, gathered roundthe open hearth in Miss Williard’s “den,” or walked next day on the pret- ty lawn, with its trees and flowers, grape arbor and rustic dovecote, 'I felt that, in all my wanderings up and down the world, I have never found a. more harmonious homes-a spot which seem- ed to combine the breezy atmosphere wafted from the great wide world with the fragrant family life which remained unruflied in its holy calm. GIRAFI-‘ES ARE GIRAFFES. Mighty Few of Them Anywhere, and No Danger of Their Becoming a Drug. There are only two giraffes in Amer- ica. This may seem a startling state- ment to people who think they can re- member seeing many of the long necked beasts, but it is nevertheless ab solutely true. There is only one in England, and on the continent of Europe the- dearth is remarkable. In the wild beast market there are none to be had, and collectors are compelled to send agents into the interior of South Africa to secure them. . Three years ago the last of a large herd of girafies that had been imported by the Barnum &. Bailey show was killed by getting down in a railroad car and having its spinal column badly bent. Its death occurred at Glovers— ville, N. Y., May 21, 1893. For two years Manager James A. Bailey was constantly trying to replace the ani- mal, and he succeeded last summer in getting a fine one after hunting over half the earth. THE FOOL A-WHEEL. You. Meet Him at Every Cross \Valk and in Every Town. Since Buffalo Bill has been in Paris he has come to regard the French son with more respect than he does the American Sioux. This is his franc opinion—Washington Capital. The failure of a Philadelphia wool inn is said to be due to the fact that as banks wouldn’t take their paper. Some all1wool suits will doubtless be he result.—Rochester Post. Extract from a young lady’s letter rom Venice—”Last night I 'lay in a gondola on the Grand'Canal drinking it ..l in. and life never seemed so full be- Olav-hal'ilbl‘h Monthly. ’ that our idols seem made but to;be shat- _ not as a. stranger but as a sister beloved. holy comradeship in the common cause _ T E E : E V E El No w; an MI Ti E... LIKE AN OCTOPUS. And Just as Bad—f-You Can Find Them in Norwalk as Well as Florlda. Ever see an octopus? All arms, you know. Has eight of theme—and all bad. . Do you know how it catches its vic- tims? Throws out an arm, then another, and another. And you’re in the toils. Then it drags you down to death. Just l1ke Kidney disease. Seizes you with backache first. Then acute pains. Then urinary disorders. Then sediment or gravel. 'J hen Diabetes, or Bright’s Disease. Then, the cemetery. Not pleasant reading, is it? Well the disease isn’t pleasant either. We knowfiwhat will kill this octopus. Dean’s Kidney Pills do it every time. Norwalk people know it too, now. You read about it every day-and it’s Here is. Norwalk testimony. Miss Hanna Cline resides at No. 58 Belden avenue. Her mother 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 Pills. The Pills cured her.” What better proof than this of merit, home testimony, the statement of a Norwalk-cltlzen. ’I‘is easy to endorse 1t,.and there are many more, just like this, .whlch 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. Dean’s Kidney Pills for sale by all dealers, 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 help to make life miserable for us,ar6.caused:by external parasites. Dean S Ointment kills the parasite and cures the disease. Perfectly harmless, never fails. AU?" P. W. BATES’ 42 WATER STREET, you can find as fine an assortment of IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII 81 UflIlIflIflI‘I’ WUI‘II As can be found in any' Yard in the mac. Look it over and get prices before going elsewhere. LIGHT PARCEL and LUUKWUOU'S memos DELIVERY Cheap rates. Will also take orders for mes scuger service in - - ‘ .or and delivered toNgII York. COOds called Orders received at E. P. eed’s Dr Wall Street. with telephone conneldtgioiugge .ao. (‘- E. LOCKWOOD‘. arts of the town, I DORLON HOUSE ’GREGORY'S POIN I. NOW OPEN FOR THE SEISUN DP 1896. Shore Dinners, Rhode Island (Ham 3.... Bathing. Beating. Fishing. Electric cars to Hotel, every twenty minutes. . . JOHN E. O’SULLIVAN, Ma nager. MEEKER COAL CO. GOAL, WOOD, BRICK, LIME, OEMENT, TILE PIPE. OFFICE WITH G. WARD SELLEGK WALL STREET. NOBWI LK. AOAHS’ B Ia z o n Soap Powder, For Kitchen Use Excells all others. Ask Your Grocer For It. _The following Grocers have it on sale: E. J. F mnegan. Mam Street; PJJ. O’Brien. Cha 9‘. stret; M. Abraham. Plattsvifle avenue; 3. Harriet A. Northrop. Unionville' A. Stull. East Norwalk: _D.Rosen, South orwalk; J. 1:. June.'W1nn1pauk: N. Driscoll. Westport. Med Scribner. A. A. Avnson. Hu h Donnelly. Eggggeygomeroy, Chgpeéstreft. ‘S. H. Mloirlel- . est avenue, . orm ey. prin i E. Schachat, Harbor avenue. D. Schgechat: Franklin avenue, J. D. Jennings. UNDERTAKER " 1 Knightstreetmpposite Street Railway Depot. NIGHT BELL AI OFFICE. ALL DRUGGISTS. ~ YOUR FRIENDS ARE USING PLAISTE‘D’S coueH REMEDY AND RECOMMEND ITS USE Get a Bottle at once, 25 and 50 Cents. POINT ROTON FINE HOTEL! I—n‘ \ \ SOUTH NORWALK, CONN. A Charming Summer Resorton Long Island Sound. FINE BATHINO HOUSES! Every facility for providing for large excursions. Roton Point Improvement 00-. OWNERS AND PROPRIETORS, GENERAL ATTRACTIONS! J. FINKENSTEIN, Manager. Factory: “I: OHIOOS AVENUE. snoomu. Towle Vault Light Company, MANUFACTURERS. VIULI users, SKYLIGHIS AND PATENT LIGHT DESIGNS. Office: m an STREET, NEW YORK. I an; 4‘", ~ 1.
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