Evening gazette, Thursday, July 30, 1896 · page 7

 

 

 

 

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=Because-

In It Is Best:

Why. is the demand for
Welcome Soap in New Eng-
land greater than ,for any
other family soap?

Because housekeepers, after
using it for years, and com-
paring it with others, know it
is the best and most econom-
ical; its quality never varies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SARATOGA!

Genuine Saratoga Water 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 Glass.

House-cleaning.

 

Lustrine. ”

Ask your Grocers.

‘ -BIG curm PllltE-

’or

= MEAT.

Round, Sirloin and Por-
terhouse' Steaks, Sausge,
Pot and Rip Roasts

Reduced 20. “a Pound

All First Quality Meat.

 

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’9 \ J. W. BOGARDUS,

6 WATER ST. . ' NORWALK

5 NEW CAFE
, : WITH . '
RES TAURAN T
ATTACHED. ‘

. MIKE fiATCHF-ORD,

44' Wain Street, ' ‘
i The Best Wines, Liquors and Cigars.

 

 

Horace E. Dann,

EXOELSIOL

Livery and Sales Stable.

Opposite Danbury and
Norwaik Railroad depot
Norwalk. .Oonn. Stylish
Single or Double Team
*1 with or without drivers’

Safe horses for womgn
andohildren. .‘ ‘

swat: HORSESLA SPECIALTY

 

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A BICYCLE RAILWAY.

Trains "Will Run Two-Hundred Miler
an Hour on it the Inventor Says.

'A . bicycie railway over which you
can ride two hundred miles an hourl
This is what Col. Geofge F. Brett, 0!
Washington, claims can be accomplish-
ed by his invention. He is very posl-
tive about it. The belief is roseate,
but practicality has not been shown.

Col. Brott says not only will his bi-
cycle railway be built, but in a compar-
atively short time it will extend all
over the country. Within two months
he says, he will have his structure
erected and cars will be running there
on by Fall.

When this road operates from ocean
to ocean, its inventor assures us, we
can breakfast in New York, lunch in
Chicago, and the following morning
take our morning cup—of coffee—where
the Golden Gate charms and the or-
ange blossoms grow. This very rapid
transit will impart no disagreeable sen-
sation to the traveler. In fact, if he
will avoid looking out of the windows,
he may not know that he is moving at
all.

The structure for the cars will be
slightly elevated, and will contain but
a single rail, for each car has practical-
lyfionly one wheel, the other two wheels
which run in grooves on the guard rail
being only intended for safeguards.

On each side of the main wheel, and
considerably higher, will be the guard
rails, so strong, that even the impact of
a moving train will hardly shake them.
All the rails are to be of steel. '

The power, of course, is electricity.
The propelling fluid will be furnished
by a motor in each car. There can be
no possible danger of a collision, for
the inventor says he has gained so great
a command over electricity that on the
approach of a current of electricity for-
eign to the one generated on the train
the cars will come to as sudden a stop
as” if air-brakes had been applied to
them.:

The cars which are intended to travel
over this remarkable road are peculiar
in shape. The front one will be pointed
something after the fashion of the
whaleback—that queer craft that jour-
neys about the great lakes. This is be-
cause it is believed that with such a car
in the front the resistance to the atmos-
phere will be less.

The cars will accommodate from 40
to 80 passengers each, and their bag-
gago will be stored in the truck be-
neath. No freight whatever will be
carried,

LlLLlAN RUSSELL AND THE STAGE.

The Famous Star Talks of Retiring to
K‘- Private Life. .

One of the reporters of the New York
Journal gives the following story of
Lillian Russell:

I called on Miss Russell at her home
in West 77th street last week, but she
would not talk. Her managers claim
they have lost a. fortune upon her this
past season and that it is her fault, I
stated these facts to her and asked her
opinion. The big blue eyes looked
meltingly sorry, but that was all.

“They had been kind,” she said sim-
ply, settling down in the folds ofalight
blue tea gown, and then she, added earn-
estly: “I have been far from well this
season. I have worked hard and I have
sufiered intensely from a fall from my
bicycle. And everything hurts the
voice; an ache or a pain anywhere of
facts it. But I don’t want to talk; I
don’t want to be written about. I am
going to end it all right here and slip

 

quietly away into the country, where I .

shall spend this year and will probably
live.”

“Do you think you will enjoy an or-
dinary existence after the brilliant
stage life you have led?”

“Need home life be dull?” she an-
swered smiling. I scarcely thought as
I looked at her that her’s need be. Then
a burst of laughter and the clinking 0!
glasses sounded through the portieres
from ithe dining room. Miss Russell
lifted her_ brows and laughed. It was
so apropos.

“You have not given up singing on-
tirely, have you?” I asked.

Miss Russell coughed in a burst that
sounded like bells. “No, not I,” “I sing
all day, it is a part of me—the greater
part. When I’m happy I sing—which
is most of the time; when I’m unhappy
Ising, too. It is a very excellent rem-
edy. ,

“I think I can be perfectly contented
off the stage,” said Miss Russell, “for ]
have a very pretty home and derive a
great deal of comfort from it.”

And it is a pretty home and tastefully
arranged, and I haven’t the slightest
doubt ‘that she will iget plenty-of fun
out of it.

 

More Dangerous Now.

“What are you reading, Richard,”
asked Mrs. Meekton. .
“I happened to see something about

Ajax.”

“The gentleman who defied the light-
ning‘?”

“Yes. I suppose it was safe enough

in those days. But if Ajax had to ride
on a. trolley car and pay the bills of the
man who fixes the fan and the light-
ning apparatus, I’m willing to wager a
good deal that he would have been more
careful about how he got so familiar
with electricity.”—Washington Star.

A Blessing in Disguise.

"‘I know,” Mr. Meekton remarked to
an intimate friend, “that some people
say Mrs. Meekton wears the —er-——er the
pantaloons, you Lknow, but it isn’t
true.” ,

“I’m glad to hear it.”

“Do you know,” Mr. Mockton went
on, with a far-away look in hiseyes, “]
kind of wish she would wear ’em once
in a while! Then, may be, I’d get the
suspender buttons sewed on oftener.”—
Boston Herald.

There is a good deal of religion which
is purchased on the instalment plan.
You get a quantity of it, but you fail tc

pay up, and the first thing you know

you haven’t any—New York Herald.

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EDISON’S WORLD 0531' seven.

By Pressing a Few Buttons Electricity"

' Does the Best.

The astonishing progress of electrical
science is neatly satirized by a Parisian
paper, which imagines Mr. Edison in his
laboratory hearing the news of a decla-
ration of war between Great Britain
and the United States. A young man,
his assistant, rushes in, pale and out of
breath, and exclaims to the great elecv
trician:

“Oh, master, war is declared!
terrible 1”

“Ah l” says, the master. “War de-
clared, eh? And where is the British
army at this moment?", ,_ .

"Embarking, sir.” awaksths

“Embarking where?" “ ”WE"

“At Liverpool.” ' ' "“ ‘

“At Biverpool—yes. Now, my friend,
would you please join the ends of those
two wires hanging here against the
wall? That’s right. Now bring them
to me. Good! And be kind enough to
press that button.”

The assistant, wondering and half
amused, presses the button,

“Very well,” says the inventor. “Now
do you know what is taking place at
Liverpool?”

_ “The British army is embarking,
Sir." . '
The inventor pulls out his watch and
glances at the time. '

"There is no British army,” he said,
coolly. _

“What?” screams the assistant.

“When you touched that button you
destroyed it.”

“Oh, this is ' frightful i"

“It is not frightful at all. It is
science. Now, every time that a British
expedition embarks at any port please
come and tell me at once. Ten seconds
afterward it will simply be out of exist-
ence; that’s all.” '

“There doesn‘t seem to be any reason
whyzAmerica should be afraid of her
enemies after this, sir.”

“I am inclined to believe you,” says
the master smiling slightly. “But in
order to avert future trouble, I think it
would be best to destroy England alto.
gether.” .' ‘ '

“To—to destroy England, sir'——”

“Kindly touch button number four,
there.” ‘

The assistant touches it.
tor COunts ten.

"—.—-—-eight, nine, ten—it’s all over.
There is no more England.

“N ow we can go on quietly with our
work,”,says the master. “And if we
should ever be at war with any other

Itis

The inven-

-nation, you have only to notify me.

I have an electric button connected
with every foreign nation, which will
destroy it when pressed. In ten min-
utes I could destroy every country in
the world, the United States included.
Be careful, now, that you don’t touch
any of these buttons accidentally—you

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might do a lot of damage.

ONE SCOTCH, OTHER—IRISH. a!

A Remarkable
in Two Countries.

The school census enumerators who
have been travelling about Chicago for
the past few weeks have had some
strange experiences. Every one could,
no doubt, tell an interesting story.

“I had several,” said one of them to a
reporter of the Chronicle, “but I think
the best was that away out on Seventy—
first street. I found ,two men in the
same fiat.

" ‘We are twins.’ said one of them.

“ ‘Nationality?’ I inquired.

“ ‘One of us is Irish and the other
one is Scotch,’ was the reply.

“I started to make the entry and then
it dawned upon me that there was some
sort of joke in the answer, and I told
them Iliked a joke, but that i had no
time to be indulging in any‘pcrsiflage.
Both insisted that the statement as to
nationality was true and was not meant
to be a joke. When they saw I was
non-plussed one of them made a dia~
gram of'the situation.

“ ‘You see,’ he said, ‘our mother was
coming from Scotlmd to Ireland.When
the ship was in what mother insisted
on calling Scotch twaters I was born,
and just then the ship crossed into what
our father called Irish waters and my
brother here was born just then. So we
are twins and one is Scotch and the
other is Irish.’

"No ,argument could shake their
statement, and I entered their national-
ity as they gave it.”

Pair 9f Twins Born

INVOLVED IN OBSCURITY.
The Wife’s Surrender of Her Name is of
Doubtful Origin.

The practice of the wife assuming the
husband’s name at marriage, according
to Dr. Brewer, originated from a Ro-
man custom, and became the common
custom after the Roman occupation.
Thus, Julia and Octavia, married to
Pompey and Cicero, were called by the
Romans, Julia of Pompey, Octavia oI
Cicero, and in later times married wom-
en in most European countries signed
their names in the same manner, but
omitted the "of.”

Against this view it may be men-
tioned that during the sixteenth, and
even at the beginning of the seven-
teenth century, the usage seems doubt-
ful, since we find Catharine Parr, so
signing herself after she had been twice
married, and we always hear of Lady
Jayne Grey (not Dudley), Arabella
Stuart (not Seymour), etc. Some per-
sons think that the custom originated
from the Scriptural teaching that hus-
band and wife are one, This ”was the

rule so far back as Braeton, died 1268,

and it was decided in the case of Bon
versus Smith, in the reign of Elizabeth,
that a woman by marriage loses her
former name and legally receives the
name of her husband. Altogether the
custom is involved in much obscurity.

 

Post (to farmer)-—See what a beauti-
ful prospect is unfolded in yonder bil-
lowy fields; and hark! the voice of the
ploughman! - ~

Farmer—Yes; he’s been cussing of
that mule since daylight; ’and it’s one 0'
them German mules that used to pull 0
beer wagon; so he can’t understand at
Md 0' it l—Am‘erican Planter.

 

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'THE' GIRL AT THE, POST OFFlCE'
Wanted to Make a. Bargain Counter Trade

for Stamps, but Failed.

The sad event chronicled in the fol--
lowing lines occurred several days ago
in the small and insignificant ’looking
structure on F street, which the United
States Government uses as a branch
post office.

She was an extremely pretty girl with
the brightest eyes, the pinkest (masks,
the reddest lips, the cutest nose and the
sunshinest face that had been seen in
that locality for years.

So pretty she was that the suscepti-
ble clerk at the stamp window gulped
as if he had swallowed something when
she came trippingly up to the window
and spoke to him.

“Have you postage stamps?” she ask-
ed as innocently as if Government post
ofiices usually dealt in haystacks and
grindstones. ‘

But the clerk never noticed that. He
didn’t notice anything but the sparkling
vision before him with three ‘unstamped
letters in her band.

“Yes, miss,” he responded, making
a herculean efiort to suppress his emo-
tion. ‘

“Can I get three for a nickel?”

Now this clerk loved his little joke,
and a man who will joke on a sacred
subject is fit for treason, stratagems and
spoils.

"Yes, miss,” he answered, and quite
tenderly, too. _

“Oh, how nice,” she twitted. Momma
said they never sold them any less, no
matter how many we wanted. But I
said I was sure they would, and now
won’t mamma be surprised when I tell
her that I received three for a nio-
kel?”

The coy, arch smile she sent flutter-
ing through the window at the clerk
was something to be treasured in the

heart of any man to his dying day.

"I am sure she will,” he murmured,
smiling back at her as best he could un-
der the circumstances.

“Well, give me three, please,” and
she laid a nickel on the window before
him.

He did not dare look at her, but kept
his eyes on the drawer where the stamps
are confined. .

As he picked out two twos and a. one
and laid them beside that soft little
hand waiting for them there cameinto
her beautiful eyes such a look of tender
reproach that he mnt right over to the
registry desk and registered a solemn
vow that never, no, never again would
he permit his serice of duty to dull the
finer faculties of his feeling—Washing
ton Star.

JAMES G. BLAINE’S GRAVE.

His Body to be Removed to His Favorite
Resort Near Augusta.

When James G. Blaine was alive
and in Augusta, Me., his favorite re—
sort of an afternoon was the top of
Winthrop Hill, which commands an
uninterrupted view of the Kennebec
Valley for miles. His favorite spot on
the hilltOp was near the site of an old
house and beneath the shade of some
thick-trunked trees.

Froin this hill the tips of the Camden
Hills loom in _ the southeast, Mount
Blue and the Farmington Hills in the
northwest, while far on the southwest-
ern horizon the snow cap of Mount
Washington may be discerned on a
clear day. Mr. Blaine used to take his
friends to this height that they might
enjoy with him the scene and sunsets,
and he often said it was the most de—
lightful place he ever visited.

On account of his love for the 'Spot
Mrs. Blaine decided recently to buy it
and have the remains of the great
statesman taken from Washington and
buried there. The place is known as
the old Millikan farm, and. was owned
by W. H. Gannett, who intended to
build a. fine residence there. It con-
tains about three acres of land, and as
situated on the east side of the road,
connecting_Western avenue with Green

street. As soon as Mr. Gannett learned

for what purpose Mrs. Blaine desired
the property, he relinquished it at
once.

Mrs. Blaine in tends making Augusta
her permanent home, and as soon as
the place on the hill .is ready the re—
mains of James G. Blaine and Walker,
her son, will be brought here for
burial.

ALL DUE TO THE BICYCLE.

Queer Effects of the Craze Upon Various
Lines of Business in New England.
Business men in New England- in all

lines complain of the injury that is

done them by the bicycle. Thousands
of wheels are sold every spring on the
installment plan, and the surplus earn-
ings of the season are exhausted in

As a

consequence money that should go to

the butcher, the grocer, the clothier,
goes to the agent.

“Why don’t you buy a wheel?” asked
one business man of another, me they
stood on the sidewalk and watched the
scorchers go whizzing by.

“I own forty or fifty now,” was the
response. _ '

“How is that?” came the question.

“Well, guess there must be forty or
fifty men in this town riding wheels
who are taking the money they owe me
to pay for them.” .

There are certain towns in New Eng-
land, which from the peculiar nature of
their industries,~ are feeling the bi-
cycle craze severely. The watch and
jewelry making towns are hard hit.
There was a time, not so long ago,
when the ambition of every young man
was .to own a gold watch, and he
wanted a chain a. yard long to go with
it. NOW he carries a Waterbury and
ties it to his buttonhole with a shoe-
string. His surplus earnings go into a
.vheel. '

 

 

“'ortli Trying, However.:

Wazzey—Yon gave me your word
met you would pay me the money you
o are me and now you refuse to keep it.

Wurrey—~Well, I’m not to blame. I
.tztz‘x’t give my word and keep it too, can
:7 Rex bury-Gazette

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LIKE AN ocrorus.

 

And Just as Bad—You Can Find
Them in Norwalk as Well
as Florlda. "

 

Ever see an octopus? All arms, you
know.

Has eight of them—and allbad.

_ 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.

J ust 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 knowwhat will kill this octopus.

Doan’s Kidney Pills do it every time.

Norwalk people know it too, new.

You read about it every day-and it’s

Here is_ Nor-walk 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. Gota box of Dean’s Kid-
ney Pills. The Pills cured her.”

What better proof than this of merit,
home testimony, the statement of a
Norwalk citizen. ’I‘is easy to endOrse
1t,_and there are many more, just like
this, which render doubt out of 'the
question. Ask your neighbors if they
have used Dean’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
Eifalfi‘slbpncecm spam; Mailed by Fos-

r- 1 urn 0., u alo . .
aggfitshfor the U. S. ’ N Y Sole

t ose terrible, itching diseases of
the skin that help to make life miserable
for us, are. caused :by external parasites.
Dean s Ointment kills the parasite and
cures the disease. Perfectly harmless
never fails. ’

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P. W. BATES’
. 42 mm STREET,

you can find as fine an assortment of

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As can be found in. any Yard in the
dies. Look it over and get prices
before going elsewhere.

 

 

I I LIGHT PARCEL an
LUIIKWOOBS PACKAGE DELIVERY!
Cheap rates, Will also take orders for mes
wager service in New York. Goods called
.01 and deliyernd to all arts of the town,
Orders received at E.P. eed’s Drug Store
Wall Street, With telephone connection un-

.30.
_ (l E. LOCKWOOD.

, lDORLOll HOUSE

l GREGORY'S POINT.

 

New OPEN FOR redeemed or 1896.

Shore Dinners,-

Rhode Island clam Bake.
Bathing. Boating. Fishing.

 

Electric ears to Hotel, every twenty
minutes.
JOHN E. O’SULLIVAN,

Manager,

 

MEEKER COAL CO, .
can, ween, BRICK,

LIME, cEMEdI, TILE PIPE.

OFFICE WITH Gr. WARD SELLECK

WALL STREET. NOBWI LK.

IIOIIMS’

B la 2 o n
Soap Powder,

For Kitchen Use

Excells all others.
Ask Your Grocer For It.

The following Grocers have it on. sale: E. J.
Finnegan. Main street; P. J _. O’Brien, Cha 9!
stret; M. Abraham. Plattsyille avenue; rs.
Harriet A. Northrop. Umonvrlle' A. Stull
East Norwalk; .D. Rosen, South Norwalk; J.

‘. June._W1nnipauk: N. Driscoll. Westport.
Bred Scribner. A. A. Av1son, Hugh Donnelly.
George Pomeroy, Chapel street. E. H. More.

ouse West avenue, D. Gormley. Spring Hill.
E., Schachat. Harbor avenue, D. Schachat,
Franklin avenue,

 

 

J. D. Jennings.

UNDERTAKER

1 Knight street. opposite
Street Railway Depot

N1 GHT BELL AI OFFICE.

 

 

 

YOUR FRIENDS ARE USING

PLAISTED’S COUGH REMEDY

AND RECOMMEND I’I‘S USE ’
Get a Battle at once, 25 and 50 Cents.

ALL DRUGGISTS.

 

 

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Heron some:

SOUTH NORWALK, CONN.

A Charming Summer Resort on Long Island Sound,

FIIIE HOTEL!

FIIIE BATIIIIIO HOUSES!

.OEIIEIIIIL ATTRACTIONS!

Every facility for providing for large excursions.

Roton Point Improvement 00-.

OWNERS AND paorma’rons,

J. FINKENSTEIN, Manager.

Tovyle Vault Light Company,

. MANUFACTURERS.

VAULT LlGHlS. SKYleHlS

IND PATENT LIGHT DESIGNS.

.fl Factory:

43!: names AVEIIIIE.

.. BROOKLYN.

‘ Office:
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