DEPEW AND THE fiACITOR.
Dlgby Bell Tells How He Struck a Bal
., ance with the Orator and Wit.
Digby Bell made a speech recently,
and he has been regretting the misde-
meanor ever since.
“I can’t make speeches at short no-
tice,” he said afterward, apologetically,
“and I’m too honestaman to give Pitts-
burg a warmed-over dish from Phila-
delphia‘ a night or two before. Some
actors maintain that there is no reason
in the world why a man shouldn’t have
one speech, like one play, to last a sea.
son. I don’t agree with them at all. It
seems to me that a repertoire of
speeches, with perhaps a matinee per.
formance of the best liked one, is the
least an actor can do for his audience.
He owes them something between just
asmuch as during acts. For my part,
I should choose a speech for every night
in the year, but the cost of production
is too much, and no manager would
undertake the extravagance. Now I
have given away a secret. It is really
true that the manager nowadays is
everything, and I predict that presently
every actor in the country will be man-
aged out of existence.
“But Speaking of speeches recalls
story-telling. Mr. Depew is my notion
of the best entertainer of this sort.
Once I traveled across to Europe on the .
same steamer with him. He told the '
worst yarns you ever heard, and then
always added solemnly, ‘Digby Bell
told me this,’ ‘Digby Bell is responsi-
ble {or this tale,’ and so on. But my
innings came next. I had a splendid
story, fresh, bright and shining from
some intellectual mint, and I told it in
my best manner; my eye was on De-
pew, and I knew he was waiting for
the end, but I got there first, and in a
‘tone of the utmost impressiveness I
added, no doubt with a touch of malev-
olence for I had been sorely tried, ‘and
Mr. Depew did not tell me this.’
“We struck» a balance right on the
spot.”—I-’ittsburg Post.
MATCHES AND GOAT TAIL.
Actor Crane’s Startling Experience in 3
Smoking Car.
“An amusing thing happened to me
the other day,” remarked William
Crane, addressing a Boston Globe re-
porter. “We were making a short
railroad journey, and with some of the
men in my company I went into the
smoking car. The car was pretty well
fills-d; and as I was groping around for
a sort a man in an unwarrantable hur-
rv 10 get out of the car—unwarrantable
bec ruse he had been smoking as bad a
cirtr as any one else—threw me up
against the arm of one of the seats. As
my coat scraped along the arm there
was a series of muffled reports, and l
was enveloped in a cloud of smoke.
“On the other side of the aisle sat a
colored man. smoking what was once
a white clay pipe. He leaned over.
tapped me on the shoulder, and in one ’
of those whispers that could be heard
all over the car, exclaimed, ‘They’re
oflf!’ Then, in the most solemn man-
ner, he proceeded to hide himself in
smoke. I pulled from my pocket a
burning box of matches, and as the
crowd saw the hole in my coat it roared.
“Under ordinary circumstances that
hole in my coat would have excited
sympathy, but the remark of that col-
ored man was so amusing in its serious-
ness that it simply turned the tables,
and I was forced to laugh myself at
what ‘I do not consi~.er a good joke.”
A MYSTERIOUS BELL-RINGER.
An Eagle Mystiflcs a Florida Settlement
for Many Years.
An eagle was killed in Osceola Coun-
ty, Fla., the other ,y which proves to
have been the largest known to have
been killed in the Southern States for .
But the eagle has an in- '
many years.
terest aside from its great size, since
its death clears up a mystery which
has puzzled the ignorant population of
the-northern part of Oceola County for
a long time. A couple of negroes who
went fishing in the bayous of the inte-
rior part . of the county several years
ago returned very much alarmed be-
cause they had heard a mysterious bell
tinkling, sonic-times far up in the
heavens, and sometimes close to the
earth,
The denseness of the forest and their
own fears prevented them from making
an investigation, but as there were no
inhabitants in that section of the coun-
ty the men concluded that the bell-
ringing was done by the devil.
At frequent intervals since then the
bell has been heard, the sound appar-
ently coming from the clouds and creat—
ing consternation among those who
listened.
Upon one leg of the big eagle killed
the other day was fasMned a small
brass bell. From the appearance of the
bell and the bird’s legit was evident the
noisy little bit of metal had been there
some time. It was probably placed
there by some one when the eagle was
quite young. Of course every time the
bird moved the bell rang, and it was
this sound that had so long mystified
the Osceola County folk.
A 'Il'ong Job. .,
The last piece of granite for the new
postoflice building at Washington. D.
C., has been quarried and shipped by a
Vinalhaven (Me.) company, who se-
cured the contract two or three years
ago, and have had 200 men continu~
ously working on that one job.
MR. LINCOLN'S‘READWsYMFATHY.
A Police Officer Awake Him to Get a
Word of Comfort.
One night during the civil war, while
the loyal part of the city of Washing-
ton Were greatly excited by rumors,
there was a free fight near the old Na-
tional Theatre. An ofilcer, seeing what
was going on, raised his voice and com-
manded peace. The fighting stopped
for a moment; then one of the leaders, a
notorious bully, pushed back the officer
and ordered him to be gone or he would
whip him. The ofiicer advanced upon
the bully and said: _
“I arrest you.” -
At the word the man struck a fear-
ful blow at the officer’s face.
The oflicer partied the blow, and the
next instant struck the fellow under
the chin and knocked him senseless.
The neck seemed to be broken, and a
surgeon who was hastily called pro«
nounced the case a critical one. and or-
dered the man' taken to the hospital.
There the surgeon said there was con-
cussion of the brain and that the man
would die. ‘
The policeman was in great distress
of mind, and, after seeing that every-
thing possible had been done for the in-
jured -man, he betook himself to the
White Hbuse. He was on terms of in-
timacy with President Lincoln, it ap-
pears, and though it was by this time 2
o’clock in the morning, he awoke the
President and requested him to come
into his oflice.
Mr. Lincoln listened to the officer’s
story with great interest. Then he
asked a few questions and finally re-
marked:
“I am sorry you had to kill the man;
but these are times of war and a great
many men deserve killing. This man,
according to your story, is one of them;
so give yourself no uneasiness about
the matter. I will stand by you.”
“It isn’t that,” answered the ofi’icer.
“That isn’t why I came to you. I knew
1 did my duty and had no fears of your
disapproval. But I felt so sorry over
the affair; that I wanted to talk to you
about it.”
Mr. Lincoln saw how deeply the man
was affected, and answered him accord-
ingly, laying his hand on his shoulder
as he spoke.
“Well, go home and get some sleep,”
he said. “But let me give you a piece
of advice: Hereafter, when you have
occasion to strike a man, don’t hit him
with you first; strike him with a crow-
bar or something that won’t kill him.”
-Youth’s Companio. .
A Negro View of the Silver Question.
“An old negro on my place down in
Texas,” said Captain Dick Ayres of the
Lone Star State at the Metropolitan,
was explaining the silver question to a
lot of his Senegambian colleagues not
long since.
" ‘It's jes’ dis way,i said uncle Eph-
raim, ‘dlk-s 11953318 to 1 b’zness is pow’ful
simple when you understands it. It
means dat if de silver men has deir way
dat you can git sixteen silver dollars or
one gold dollar. In dat case it am true
dat de silver dollars am wnf only 50
cents, but even at dat you comes out $8
ahead every time you changes a gold
dollar for a silver one.’ 4,
“Old Uncle Ephraim’s' hearers listened
with some incredulity to this explana-
tion, and one of them appealed to me' to
know if the man was stating facts. Not
wishing to injure the patriarch's repu-
tation for financial sagacity, I refused
to offer any opinion.”—Washington
Post.
.(Pe‘rsistent Offend er.
“I have done my best,” the editor re-
marked, “to establish this paper in the
confidence of the community.”
“I think you have succeeded,” was
.he reply. ’
"Yes, to a great extent. But there "is
one regular contributor whom I can’t
break of his habit of faking.”
“Who is that?”
“The man who sends in the weather
zeports.”—Washington Star.
The Poster Craze.
0h. poster artists, tell us when
This horrid school of art you’ve set up
Will be called down and made passe!
Or do you never mean to let up
till we who constitute the herd
i‘ Shall see the true artistic beauty
Of maidens green, with cri-mSOn hair,
And snakes for fingers doing duty?
And we see man‘s soul'symbolized
By a fish worm with appendicitis;
3r till the decorative tone '
0f purple cows shall much delight us?
—Cincinnati Enquirer.
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BATTLING WITH A GRIZZLY.
Ira Dodge’s Hand to Paw Conflict With a
Big Bear.
Ira Dodge of Cora, Wy0., told at the
Sportsman’s Exposition how he met a
bear with results only less disastrous to
the man than to the big grizzly. Dodge
is a typical Westerner, quiet, and the
kind of man who is peaceable till he
gets going, and then is a wounded bull
elk, a herd of mad buffaloes, a bucking
bronco, a grizzily, and some other ani-
mals that are fighters, all in one.
He was out hunting one day a couple
of years ago with a 45 calibre single
shot rifle, which had never failed, when
he got- on ‘to the trail of a big grizzly
bear. Pretty soon he saw the bear dim.
ly through the brush, and fired at the
spot of hair, which resulted in the bear’s
getting bored through and through at
the short ribs. The grizzly bawled like
a calf, as grizzlies always do. He got
in another shot as the bear turned, and
that went into the breast, making a
wound that would have knocked an or-
dinary bear over, but this bear kept
coming. Putting in another shell, he
fired again, aiming at the bear’s eye,
seeing that the skull was pretty thick,
and hit it, too—which shows the kind
of nerves he has. The bear kept com-
ing, and just then the shell jammed,
and the gun was no better than a club.
Dodge started to run for a near-by
tree, but looking over his shoulder he
saw that he Could not make it. Then
he stOpped and face-'1 the animal with a
hunting knife, which at best could
scarcely cut the hide. The bear hit
him, knocked him down, and began to
bite at his hips. To save himself the
man put his right arm clear to the elbow
between the bear’s teeth and let him
chew on that, calculating that the
grizzly wouldn’t last long with the
wounds he had received. Loss of blood
killed the bear and nearly killed Dodge,
and in consequence he was in bed a
good many more weeks than was com-
fortable for a plainsman. However, he
is all right now except for a thumbless
hand.
The Biggest Bug in the World.
Venezuela is a little Republic, but
she has one thing that is the biggest of
its kind on earth. It is a bug—the
largest insect in all the world. The
creature is known as the “elephant
beetle,” and when full grown it weighs
nearly half a pound. To be struck in
the face by such a bug, flying at full
speed, would make a man feel as if a
mule had kicked him.
The beetle, like others of its kind,
both small and large, is clad in a com-
plete suit of proof armor. This armor
is made of a material far more indes-
tructible than steel—namely, chitine.
Chitine cannot be destroyed except by
certain mineral acids; in other words.
only the artifices of chemistry avail
against it. Thus the shells of beetles
that died 1’),000,000 years ago have been
preserve .. perfectly in the rocks, so that
we know zo~ day just what these insects
of antiquty looked like—New York
Journal. '
Rosa Bonheur’s Artistic Family.
The family of Rosa Bonheur possess
artistic taste to an unusual degree. Her
father, her sister, her brothers and sev-
eral of their relatives and descendants
have displayed remarkable ability in
painting or sculpture or both. Mlle.
Bonheur’s only piece of sculpture is a
little marble figure of a ram, of which
the design and workmanship are quite
good enough to provoke the wish that
she had been able to pursue two arts
instead of having confined her energies
to;one. Although Mlle. Bonheur is 74
years old, she has just completedalarge
painting of a fight between two stal.
lions—a work upon which she bestowed
an enthusiasm and activity as vigorous
as though she were just beginning her
artistic career.—Harper’s Bazaar.
A. Pitiful Case.
Willie Washington was gazing into
space with a look of intense anguish.
“What is the matter, Willie?” said
one of his friends. “Have you been
having trouble?”
“Y—a-a-as, I’m afwaid that I’ve gone
and made myself vewy unpopular with
Van Diggles and his wife, don’t you
know.”
“In what way?”
“Why. you know they both wide a
bicycle.”
“In costume.”
“Certainly.”
“And I met them this afternoon.
they passed me one aftah the
othah.”
“And didn t you speak to them?”
“Y-a-a-s. I wish I hadn’t, foh, dc
you know, evewy time I think the mat
tah ovah I’m half convinced that ]
lifted my hat and bowed to Van Diggles
and said, ‘Hello, old man,’ to his wife.”
—-Washington Star.
Mme...
“Some years ago.” said Paderewski
the other day, in the Chicago Post, ”I
dined with an official of the Russian
army. This official had in his com-
mand an officer of great ability who
was addicted to. strong drink. It was
arranged that the man should take din-
ner along with us that day. Instead of
soup the first course served to him was
brandy, which he must swallow a
spoonful at a time, just .as he would
have swallowed soup.
After the first spoonful he was so
sick that he implored to be spared. Un
ier cover of a drawn revolver the
)flicial commanded him to swallow
every spoonful in the plate. The officer
.iever drank a drop of liquor after
. that."
Snake River Alive with Trout.
Three men from St. Anthony, Idaho,
went fishing "a few days ago on the
North Fork of the Snake River. They
fished during the afternoon, and the re-
: sult was that they had 126 trout that
weighed sixty pounds. Snake River is
alive with trout, and they come at flies,
bait, or a bit of red rag in a. way do-
.ightful to the‘man who wants a. lot oi
ish and‘ has not the skill to get them 1:
Eastern waters.
Your Boy Wont Live a Month.
So Mr. Gilman Brown, of 34 Mill St.,
South Gardnrr, Mass., was told by the
doctors. His son had Lung trouble, fol-
lowing Typhoid Malaria, and he spent
three hundred and seventy-five dollars
with doctors, who finally gave him up,
saying: ,“Yonr boy wont live a month.”
He tried Dr. King’s New Discovery and
a few bottles restored him to health and
enabled him to go to work a perfectly
well man. He says he owes his present
good health to the use of Dr. King’s New
Discovery, and kn0ws it to be the best
in the world for Lung trouble. Trial
bottles free at E. P. WEED’S drug store,
Norwalk, and MONROE’S, New Canaan.
Chief Engineer Prowitt and Smith
Northrop, all around firemen, leave for
the fire convention at Willimantic to-
morrow.
Freel’ius.
Send your address to H. E. ‘Bncklen &
Co.. Chicago, and get a free sample box
of Dr. King’s New Life Pills. A trial
will convince you of their merits. These
pills are easy‘in action and are particu-
larly effective in the cure of Constipation
and Sick Headache. For Malaria and
Liver troubles they have been proved in-
valuable. They are guaranteed to be
perfectly free from every deleterious
substance and to be purely vegetoble.
They do not weaken by their action, but
by giving tone to stomach and bowels
greatly invigorate the system. Regular
size 250. per box. Sold by E. P. WEED’S
drug store, Norwalk, and MONROE’S, New
Canaan.
The Spring School, heretofore no-
ticed i4. wese columns last week,.is to
open 1-- -morrow morning at 9:30, at the
Center £61001.
Relief in Six Hours.
Distressing Kidney and Bladder dis-
eases relieved in siz hours by the “New
GREAT SOUTH AMERICAN Kinsey
CURE.” This new remedy is a great sur-
prise on account of its exceeding prompt,
ness in relieving pain in the bladder
kidneys, back and every part of the urin-
ary passages in male or female. It re-
lieves retention of water and pain in pass-
ing it almost immediately. If you want
quick relief and Cure this is your remedy.
gold by E. P. Weed, Druggist. Norwalk,
onn.
Mrs. Charles F. ’l‘inckler and two
children, Arthur and EIeauor of New-
ark, N. J,, are visiting relatives on
Orchard street.
Mother’s Delight With Hand’s Colic Cure
HAVERHILL, Mass, 11.30-’95.—Hand
Medicine Co.—“I Wish to say that I pro-
cured a sample bottle of Dr. Hand’s Colic
Cure and am delighted with it. My baby
is new four months old, and has suffered
every day of her short life with col-
ic. I have tried almost everthing ever
heard of, but can truthfully say that any-
thing I have tried cannot compare with
Dr. Hand‘s Colic Cure. Yours respect-
Sold by all druggists, 25c.
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Lyons and dough
ter Carrie of Yonkers, N. Y. are the
guests of Mr, and Mrs. John '1‘. Hayes
on Wilton avenue.
Try Allen’s Foot-Ease.
A powder to be shaken into the shoes.
At this season of the year your feet feel
swollen and 0t, and get tired easily. If
you have aching feet, new shoes or tight
shoes, try Allen’s Foot-Ease. It cools
the feet and makes walking easy. Cures
and prevents swollen and sweating feet,
blisters and callous spots. Relieves come
and bunions of all pain and gives rest and
comfort. Try it to—day. Sold by all
druggists and shoe stores for 25¢. Sent
by mail for 25c in stamps. Address,
Allen S. Olmstead, Le Roy, N. Y.
Mrs. Sarah L. Bessey and, her neice
Miss Amanda Smith have returned
from a four weeks’ visit in thchfield
c0unty.
Snakelnzo Iour Shoes
Allen’s Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet.
It cures painful swellings of the joints
and instantly takes the sting out of come
and bunions. It’s the greatest comfort
discovery of the age. Allen’s Root-Ease
makes tight—fitting or new shees feel
easy,“ It is a certain cure for sweating,
callous and hot, tired, achiugfeet. Try
it to-day. Sold by all drnggists and shoe
stores, 25c. Trial package free. Ad-
dress, Allen S. Olnistead Le Roy, N. Y.
Miss Katie Kan, of New York, is
visiting Mrs. William Billeustein of
Harbor avenue.
M’other’s Find Nothing to Equal Dr. Hand 8
Colic Cure.
VVATERBURY Conn, 4-2-’96—Hand
Medicine Coz—Dear Sirsz—“I am using
Dr. Hand‘s Cough and Croup Medicine
and Colic Cure for my children and find
nothing to equal them. They work
like magic. I would not be without
them in my house. The little ones love
Dr. Hand’s Colic Cure and cry for it ; it
relieves them almost instantly. Mrs.
Frank Smith, 22 Wood St. At all drug-
gists, 25.
Miss Annie Mokeley will leave for a
few weeks visit with friends in Far
RockaWay, some day this week. Miss
Mokeley has disposed of Icer interest in
the Star laundry.
.Bucklln’s Arnlcn Salve.
The Best Salvein the world for Cute
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum
Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands
Chilblaiue, Corns and all Skin Erup
tions, and positivelyoures Piles. or no
Payroquired. It is guaranteed to give
perfectsatisfautionmr money refunded
Price25 cents per hex. For Sale by
E. P. Weed, Norwalk and Monroe, New
Canaan. ' .
The fire companies will hold their
regular monthly meetings and runs to-
night.
The Best Remedy for Bowel Com-
plaints.
It gives me pleasure to most heartily
recommend Chamberlain’s Medicrnes.
advertised them for a long time before I had
occasion to use them in my own famfly. At
the time referred to, the patient was suffer-
ing terribly from cram s, yomitmg and
purgeing. I was delighte with the prompt
relief afforded by Chamberlain’s Coho, Chol-
era and Diarrhoea Remedy—A. M. EVER-
LAND, Editor and Proprietor of the Weekly
Globe, Mendon, Mich. For sale by E. P.
Weed, Druggist.
The Merwin street shirtm‘anu'factory
did not start up this morning as was ex-
remain closed for two weeks longer,
,making in 3H duration of six weeks.
fully, Mrs. G. G. Miller, 38 Arch Sty?“
expected. It is understood that it will.
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