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By True
I»- Merit Only
can any article attain suCh a ,
high standard of favor among
the people as that enjoyed by
, For years no other soap
in New England has .ever
approached it either in sales
0r quality. It has proved its
value over all substitutes: It
is soap, all soap. and nothing
but soap.
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SARATocAI
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.
-BIO OUT IN PIIIOE-
OF
: MEAT.
Round, Sirloin and Por-
terhouse Steaks, Sausge,
Pot and Rib Roasts
Reduced 20. :1» Pound
. All First Quality Meat. ‘
J. W. BOGARDUS,
6 WATER ST.. NORWALK
NEW CAFE
WITH
RESTAURANT
ATTACHED.
MIKE fiATCHFORD,
44 Wain Street,
The Rest Wines, Liquors and Cigars.
Horace E. Dann,
sxoansror.
Livery and 83.195 Stable.
wmuuuvuwum
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 .
i A- FIGHTING BEAR.
l‘tvo Hunters Found Bruin Difi'erentGamt
from l‘ossums.
Frank Layne, James Burchill and
Peter Smith, with their dogs, started
out ’possum hunting the other night.
The weather was clear and cold. Twc
,mileshad been covered when the dogs
began barking and started off at top
speed with their noses way to the
ground.
“Hurry up,” said Layne, as he broke
into a run. The young men needed no
second bidding. The dogs were off in
the woods howling like. mad. As the
men drew nearer the howling grew
louder. A vigorous rap against a soft
body, followed bya howl of pain caused
the hunters to make a fresh burst of
speed. A minute later they came upon
the scene; a. bear sat with his back
against a tree, and his paws sawing the
air. In the glare of the torches his
eyes glowed like balls of fire.
“Kill him, Pete,” Shouted Layne.
Smithers fired both barrels of his gun
at the bear, who leaped into the air
with a bowl of pain and then made
straight for Smithers, who, in less than
ten seconds was rolling over the ground
with the brute.
“Kill him,” shouted he, as he strug-
gled with the weight of the bear and
the dogs. Layne thrust his torch in the
bear’s face, and [with a snarl the bear
let go his hold and tumbled over. In
an instant the dogs were tearing at his
throat, but the hear was soon on all
fours again.
Smithers clothing hung in shreds and
his face was smeared all over with
blood.
“Did he hurt you?” said Layne.
“No, but the blood ofl his face
where the shot struck him nearly
blinded me.”
For a moment, men, dogs and bear
all stood in the open space, all panting
hard; then, as one of the dogs made a
leap at the bear, the battle was renew-
ed. Smithers reloaded his gun and for
a second time let both barrels go. The
shot did no more damage than to tear
away part of the skin of the bear’s right
shoulder.
“If we don’t kill him he will kill the
dogs, said Burchill, as one of the dogs
was knocked across the open with a
broken neck.
Layne seized a stone and hurled it
with all his might at the bear, hitting
him on the head and knocking him
ouer. Burchill sprang at the bear and
began heating it with a club.
“N ow we have him,” said Smithers,
but he made a mistake. The bear roll-
ed itself up into a. ball and then
straightened itself out with a phenom—
enal suddenness. The men and dogs
were unprepared for this and before
they could get out of the way they were
all sprawling on the ground. Before
they could rise the bear made off in the
darkness of the woods. Less than a
minute later the dogs were after him,
but the menzhad enough of bear fight-
ing and called the dogs off and started
homeward. Smithers concluded the
story of the fight with the remark:
“The next time we go ’possum hunt-
ing you can bet we will go loaded for
bear.”—-St. Louis Post Dispatch.
QUEEN MARGHERITA’S MUSIC-'
[t is Wagnerian, but King Humbert Does
Not Like It.
Queen Marguerite of Italy is of all
the royal and imperial ladies of Europe
said to be the one who is the most en-
thusiastic disciple of Wagner, and is
never so happy as when at her piano.
indeed, music, it is averred, is the sur-
est way to her good will, and that is
why several of the great powers of
Europe make a point of choosingwfor
their Ambassadors at Rome diplomats
who are more conspicuous for their
musical tendency than for their state-
craft. Thus the former German Am-
bassador, Baron von Keudell, used to
spend the greater part of his days in
playing duets with her majesty, and
his successor is that Baron von Bulow
who is known throughout Germany as
one of the cleverest of amateur per-
formers on the piano. .
Queen Marguerite’s devotion to Wag-
nerian music, which is attributable to
the fact that she received her education
in Germany, is a source of sorrow to
her husband, who, like King Leopold,
of Belgium, simply abominates music,
for which he has ‘no ear whatsoever,
and which has the effect of putting his
teeth on edge.“ '
As he is extremely fond of his wife,
he submits to the infliction as long as he
can. But when the strain becomes too
' great to bear, he threatens the Queen to
sing, and even goes so far as to chant a
few bars in an excruciatingly flat and
rasplng voice. That always has the de-
sired. effect. and causes her majesty’s
piano to close with a bang—Westmin-
ster Gazette.
A Kentucky Fable.
There was once a lamb who, feeling
thirsty, went to drink at a stream. A
wolf who was slaking his thirst near by
sized the lamb up for a roast. He there-
upon approached the trembling creature
saying ferociously:
“What do you mean by mud-dying
my water?"
“Why, sir,” said the lamb, “I am
further down stream than you, and
could not possibly muddy the water
where you are drinking.” 3
“I’ll teach you to correct your bet-
tersl” said the wolf, and thereupon took
the lamb in out of the wet.
MORAL.
' If the fool lamb hadn’t displayed a
vitiated taste fob watah, he would still
be on the turf, sah.—-N. Y. Press.
Another Illusion Shattered.
A young man writes to this office to
deny the impression that there is any
pleasure in teaching a girl to ride a bi-
cycle. He says that it is true she clings
to her escort, but it is a frantic cling,
like the clutch a drowning man makes
for a board. There is nothing tender in
It, and she squeezes his hand so hard
that he has to grit his teeth t; ii‘sdp
from screaming—Atchismr Gic ..: .-.
IS
WHAT scnsucs SAYS.
Eight Notes of Interest to Knowledge
‘ Hunters.
One-quarter of all the people born die
before six years, and one-half before
they are sixteen. * »
Some of the condors shot in the Andes
Mountains have a spread of wing from
15 to 20 feet.
Copper wires are used for Mexican
telegraph lines, so that they will hold
the weight of the birds and monkeys
that crowd them at night.
The oldest book in the world is said
to be the Papyrus I-‘risse in the Na-
tional Library at Paris, which is at-
tributed to the thirty- fourth century
before Christ. . '
The annual death roll of suicides at
Monte Carlo amounts on an average to
forty. - -
The Esquimaux give the doctor his
fee as soon as he comes. If the patient
recovers he keeps it; otherwise he re-
turns it to the family. ‘
Seltzer water derives its name from
the village of Lower Seltzers, in Nassau,
where several springs, united in one
basin, yield 5‘000 cubic feet an hour of
this sparkling mineral water.
The air is clear at Arequipa, Peru.
From the observatory at that place,
3,050 feet above the sea, a black spot. -
one inch in diameter, placed on a white
disk. has been seen on Mount Charchani,
a distance of eleven miles, through a
13-inch telescope. —-Popular Science
Monthly. '
SHE WANTED A STICK IN IT.
Refined Society Shocked bya Charming
Boston Girl.
You can’t judge .by appearances any
more accurately now than you could in
Ben Franklin’s days. Early in the win—
ter a charming young demoiselle from
Boston was visiting in Cleveland, and
received many attentions. She was
young, pretty and had a shy way about
her that was ver,r attractive. She
seemed such a verdant maiden that the
young men were inclined to vote her a.
mufi’, but they quickly changed their
minds.
One day a little party to a suburban
club house was given in her honor, and
when they arrived at the place the la-
dies were asked if they wouldn’t par-
take of "liquid refreshments. They all
named lemonade until it came to the
demure girl from Boston.
“Make mine a Manhattan cocktail,”
she softly lisped, “and please cut the I
stick thick.”
There was no talk of verdancy after
that—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
. Overrun With Rabbits.
Farmers in the region about Fresno.
03.1., are almost in despair because of
the plague of rabbits. Although many
thousands of the animals have been
killed lately in one way or another. by
poison, by shooting, and in rabbit
drives, they do not appear to decrease
in numbers. Thousands have been shot
in a day, but they come in from the
surrounding uncultimted regions to
feast on the grain fields in increasing
numbers. It is estimated that three
jack rabbits will eat as much grain as
one sheep. A big drive was held in
February and many thousands of rab-
bits were killed, but a month later it
was estimated those were 100,000 on
the ground. Another drive was held
the last of March. ”3:11". already the rab-
bits are swarming in again.
Chasing Crane’s Great Head.
The Hon. Chasing Crane, a distin-
guished and appa‘.ently a humorous
tribesman of the F‘cux of the Lower
Brule division, has but In a claim for a
Government peristcn. He has not'been
fighting for the United States, but he
has been eating for it, and he asserts
that his health has been damaged by
his consumption of the rations furnished
him. The Hon. Chasing Crane has
what is poeticslly described as a great
head. Whether or ~vet his petition suc-
ceeds, the coun ry will be proud of such
a mind; nor has an 3' ‘i’.or.rer Brule states
man brighter lzopen wilt-ii: he, if he doesn’t
eat too much—N. Y. bun.
Decided on His Profession.
A Scotsman who wanted to learn
what profession he would. have his son
enter, put him into a room with a theo
logical work, an apple and a six-penny
piece. If he found him when he re-
turned reading the book he intended to
make a. clergyman r.‘ him; if eating the
apple a farmer, and if interested in the
money a banker. ‘
\Vhen he did return he found the boy
sitting on the book, with the Sixpence
in his pocket and the apple almost de- 3
voured.
“That settles it,” said the keen Scots-
man, “the lads a born lawyer, I can
easily see.”——Sao ,Francisco Examiner.
She Had Brothers.
“Yes,” said the principal of the young
ladies’_seminary to the proud parent,
“you ought to be very happy, my dear
sir, to be the father of so large a family,
all the members of which appear to be
so devoted to one another.”
“Large family! Devoted!
earth do you mean, ma’am‘l”
“Why, yes, indeed.” said the princi-
pal, beaming through her glasses. “N 0
less than eleven of Gussie’s brothers
have been here this winter to take her
out sleigh riding, and she tells me
she expects the tall one with blue eyes
again to- morrow. ”—Exchange.
What on
He Achieved Distinction.
County Judge N. L. Bennett of Camp-
bell county, Ky., has achieved unique
distinction. hen sitting in the fiscal
court last Wednesday he ordered that
his own salary be reduced from $1,700
to $1,400 a year, saying that the county
could not, in its present financial con-
dition, afford to pay 'him so much for
his work. He explained that he had
given the magistrates composing the
court an opportunity to act in the‘ mat-
ter, but they would not cut his salary;
so he cut it himself. '
Lake Titicaca, in Bolivia and Peru, is
12,000 feet above the sea level. It is
the highest lake in the world, being 100
miles on: by 35 in width.
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T H E E v Earn G .. r... sierra
NOTABLE SPENIHRIFTss-3‘fi; -
Men Whose Ambition was to 1”“
Money Away. . ,3 ‘
i
We have heard a great dealsabo
misers and their thriftiness, and it may
not be uninteresting to hear something
interesting concerning the great plung-
ers and their spendthriftiness.
The late Mr. Abingdon Baird was one
of the greatest spendthrifts of modern
times, and his attempts to dissipate-his
fortune, which amounted to over £250,-
000 a year, were many, and displayed
an inventive genius which should have
made his fortune in another capacity.
He cast his money about right and left,
and it is probable that if he had lived a
few years longer he would have gained
what appeared to be his premier object
in life: legitimate right to poor rate re-
lief. He thought nothing of making a
- present worth £15,000 or £20,000, and
he paid £17,500 one day for a necklace
of jewels which he presented to a lady
of his acquaintance.
' Mr. Ernest Benson, notorious as the
“Jubilee Plunger,”.was more success-
ful than the last named gentleman,
since he managed to ruin himself com-
pletely, running through a fortune of
£250,000 in the record time of two
years.
Though quite young, he displayed re-
markable talents for extravagance.
Cards and horses were firm friends to
him; the kind of friends we wish to be
defended from. He sat down to cards
one evening and lost at the rate of £1,
000 a minute for ten consecutive min-
utes. Another game of cards, played
' with some boon companions with whom
he was down at Goodwood for the races
cost this rash young man no less than
£30,000; losses of such sums as £5,000
and £6,000 were deemed the merest bag-
atelle by him. .
The late Marquis of Aylesbury was
quite as successful a plunger as the
“Jubilee Plunger,” for he ran through
his fortune, which brought him in some
£60,000 per annum, in seven years, and
at the end of that time found himself
living upon the charity of the gentle-
man who had been his own agent.—
Tit- Bits,
Sorrows of Saloon Keepers.
A novel trick that is worked by peo-
ple who get their beer by the can from
a saloon was explained in the Essex
Market Police Court recently. The
complainant in the case, a thirsty man
named Krauss, said that the bartender
where he bought his beer had assaulted
him because he had taken three eggs
from a bowl bearing the sign, “Hard
boiled eggs, one cent apiece,” and had
handed the bartender three cents for
them. The bartender wouldn’t accept
the money because the eggs cost him
two cents apiece, and could be pur-
chased at the reduced price only by
patrons who bought their beer by the
glass. Krauss had a pint of beer in his
pail which he had just purchased, and
he didn't see the point of the bartend-
er’s objection. There was a fight that
landed the bartender in the police
court as a prisoner, and in explanation
he said:
“Your Honor, people come into my
place to buy beer with the sides of the
can covered with butter, or any kind of
grease. This kills the foam, and they
get twice as much beer as they are on
titled to when I run it right into the
can. We can’t sell eggs for a cent to
these people.”
He further said that fly bartenders
who guessed at the measure of the can
and ran the beer into it from the keg
always made allowances for greasy
sides—New York Sun.
Husbands to Burn.
The English actors who come over
here are intensely English when they
first arrive, but they soon show their
appreciation of American colloqualisms
by appropriating them. A gentleman
of this city relates that some time ago,
in the, New York Club, he met Fred
Wright, J r., the comedian. Some one
was telling about a woman who had
just married her third husband.
“By the way,” the gentleman asked,
“where is her first husband buried?”
“He was cremated,” was the reply.
“And the second?”
“Also cremated.”
“By J ove,” ' observed little Mr.
Wright, “that woman has husbands tr
burn.”
“’hy She was Busy.
“Do you see that woman over in the
corner?” asked the receiving clerk in
the telegraph office.
“The one who has been writing,
crossing out and re-writing for the last
half hour?” inquired the man who had
just filed an eight-hundred word special
dispatch.
“Yes.”
“Well," I see her. What of it? I sup-
pose she is trying to crowd a 16 word
message into 10 words.
“Not a bit of it. She came here a
little while ago with an eight word mes
sage and wanted to know if I would
make any reduction because it wasn’t
exactly ten words. When I told her I
could not she got mad and has beer
trying ever since to write the message
so as to make it the full ten words.”
A New Swindle in Missouri.
A new swindle is being worked with
good success in many towns in this
State. A woman book agent appears ir.
town and goes from house to house,
leaving books for examination. N exI
day a man calls to see if the books are
wanted, and if they are not he take:
them away with him. Usually they are
not wanted. A few days later the wo
man agent appears again, and on being
told that the man has taken away the
book weeps copiously, says the villair
has been collecting her books all over
town, pleads poverty. and so on, and ac
cepts the proffered compensation.—
Kansas City Star.
Joy in His Work.
It may be truly Said that no man due
any work perfectly who does not chic}
his work. Joy in one’s work is In
consummate teal without
work may be done indie at :22.
its finest perfection—1‘2. .:
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. WAS A REVELATION
TorHer And Many Others in Nor-
' walk. '
. It is always a revelation to every
sufferer from kidney complaints. Sur-
prise and gratitude are the impressions
it leaves behind. Medicines have come
and gone, some with merit, others with
nor. e. 'Cures spring up in the papers like
mushrooms but are soon declared toad
stools from lack of profit. The" people
lived too far away. Facts are wanted.
Whom have you cured ? That is what
is wanted. "Tell me (if-neighbors that
have found refief and I will believe
you.” That is plain English. The dis-
ease may have a Latin name, but any-
one understands pain. Anyone would
rather have relief from backache than
to_kr_iow the Latin name for it. And
still it rs well to know the cause. Nine
times out of ten it comes from the kid-
neys. I‘hat’s why Doan’s Kidney Pills
are so successful with all kinds of bad
backs. What proof have we of this
success? The only satisfactory proof
for you—Norwalk testimony. A Nor-
walk lady has good reason to speak well
of Doan’s Kidney Pills.
We_refer to Mrs. Alex. C. McLean
who livesat N o. 18 Maple street. Mrs.
McLean is well known to N orwalk peo-
plevberng the wife of the popular. man-
ager of a big New York jobber’s Drug
House. She has been a sufferer for
two years and a half, was under treat-
ment wrth a Brooklynspecialist who
claimed she had chronic Bright’s Dis-
ease, She got Doan’s Kidney Pills at
Hale s drug store and began taking
them. Mrs. McLean says: “I do not
care to go into the details of my case.
Doan s Kidney Pills are helping me
and I feel very much better. I have
great confidence in their merit.”
Dean’s Kidney Pills are for sale by
all dealers. Price 50 cents per box, six
boxes for $2.50. By mail on receipt of
price by Foster—Milburn Co., Buflalo,
N. Y., sole agents for the U. S.
Why continue to pass your nights in
scratching and your days in misery?
Doan’s Ointment brings instant relief,
and permanently cures even the worst
cases of Itching Piles. It never fails.
AT"
P. W. BATES’
42 WATER STREET,
you can find as fine an assortment of
IIIOIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUOIIIIIIOI‘Y WOI'K
As can be found in any Yard in the
State. Look it over and get prices
before going elsewhere.
I l LIGHT PARCEL and
LIIIJKWIIIIII _ PACKAGE DELIVERY
Cheap rates.- Will also take orders for mes
wager service in New York. Goods called
.OI. and delivered to all arts of the town,
Orders received at E. P. eed’s Drug Store
Wall Street, wrth telephone connection un-
'°' 0 E. LOCKWOOD.
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DORLON HOUSE ‘,
sarcomas POINI: , '
NOW, OPEN FOR THE SEASON 0'1? 1896.
Shore Dinners, {.5‘
llhode Island clam Bake. 'f
Ialhing. Boating. Fishing. .. 3
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Electric cars to Hotel, every twenty
minutes. _
. JOHN E. O’SULLIVAN, '
Manager.
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MEEKER COAL co,
COAL, WOOD, BRICK,
. LIME, CEMENT, TILE PIPE.
OFFICE WITH G. WARD SELLECK
WALL STREET. N ORW/ LK.
. ADAMS!
= I a Z. o n
Soap Powder,
ForrKitchen Use
Excells all others.
Ask Your Grocer For It.
The following Grocers have it on sale: E. J.
Finnegan. Main Street; 1’. J. O’Brien, Gha el
stret; M. Abraham. l’lattsville avenue; rs.
Harriet A. Northrop. Unionville: A. Stun.
East Norwalk; _D.Rosen, South Norwalk; J.
‘. June._W1nn1pauk: N. Drrscoll. Westport.
Jared Scribner. A. A. Avrsorr. Hu h Donnelly.
George Pomeroy, Chapel street. ‘. H. More-
house Wesn avenue, D. Gormley, Spring Hill,
E. Schachat, Harbor avenue, D. Schachat.
Franklin avenue.
J. D. Jennings.
UNDERTAKER
1 Knight street. opposite
Street Railway Depot
NIGHT BELL AI OFFICE.
YOUR FRIENDS ARE USING
PLAISTED’S COUGH REMEDY
AND RECOMMEND I’I‘S USE
Get a Bottle at once, 25 and 50 Cents.
ALL DRUGGISTS.
ROTON Pom};
SOUTH NORWALK, CONN.
A Charming Summer Resort on Long Island Sound.
FINE BATllllIIi Houérsz
FIIIE HOTEL!
GENERAL ATTRACTIONS!
Every facility for providing for large excursions.
Roton Peint Improvement Co-.
OWNERS AND PROPRIETORS,
J. FINKENSTEIN, Manager.
Towle Vault Light Company,
MANUFACTURERS.
vIIIILI LIGHTS. SKYLIGH 2
END PATENT LIGHT DESIGNS.
Factory:
4m: unless AVEIIIIE,
mun.
Office; I , '
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m You.
Norwalk Chronicler