1 Stick to .m ‘Weloome. _ New England housekeep- ers are too wide awake to be- fooled ,into buying inferior soap more than once, just because there is a present given with it. " , ”On washing-day they‘ve-:1 ' only the best soap; next day ' ' - they buy their own. present. son canes. We have some nets forilthem ‘ . . , Price 25 Gents. Something new in COVERED BASK—_ ETS. Good for picnics, fishing, etc. can mots, Iséa'mi 25s a Pair.’ WILLIAMS, 17 Main St. _inins’ , . _ lEBItizzczri "2:;Soap Portia, . 4”). ix; n. H.° 4:. For KitchenU sen. :tExceIIs aliothers. . Ask Yourscrocer For It. The following Grocers have it,on_ sale: E .J. Finnegan, Main street; 1’. J, O Brien. Cha .1 stret; M. Abraham. Plattsyille, avenue; rs. Harriet A. Northrop, Unionvflle' A. Stull. East Norwalk: _D.-Rosen. So_uth Norwalk; J. L. June. Wmmpauk: N. Dnscoll.,Westport Fred Scribner. A. A. Anson. H11 h Donnelly. George Pomeroy, Chapel street. . H. More- house West avenue, D. Gormley. Spring Hill,- E. Sc achat, Harbor avenue D. Schachat. Franklin avenue. F. Bailwrtz At Bros., 30 Mam street; Buttery Bros. Belden Avenue; Anna Lubrous. 20 Ward street; Anna R Qurke, hast Norwalk; William Flynn. 25 Day street; 0. K. Scofield. 170 Main street. . SPECIAL SALE -—0F——- Sailor Hats NOW READY. lInIrimmed, Ille .and Ilpwards, Trimmed, 50c and Upwards, FAWEETTS. i 3 Wafer Street, Norwalk . MEEKER ooAL co, , con, woon, BRICK, LIME, otnrnr, ITIIE PIPE. OFFICE WITH c. WARD SELLEC'K WALL STREET. NOBWA LR. ' " Horace E. Dann, EXOELSIOL LIVGI‘V and Sales Stable. uwuvvum \ Opposite Danbury and ‘ Norwaik Railroad depotI ‘ , Norwalk. Conn; Stylish - Single or Double Team with or without drivers Safe horses for women andchildre . .' SADDLE HORSESZIA SPECIALTY . . . r. ' g . -_ . ‘ . - ‘. V A fine building lot on Wilton ave; ‘ ' fine. If you intend to‘b‘uild, look‘. at this before purchasing. Water, gas and sewer on the avenue. 1 AWIII he sold at a Bargain. w. H. .vacron, Real. Estiinnsl Insurance. ‘ Ream I.'Gazette BMW.- 0 .AN ACTRESS’ DIVERSION. “The Merry Little Mountain Maid" of -‘,‘ Adonis" Wants Divorce. Everyone who saw .the “Adonis" of Henry E. Dixey years ago will remem- ber the “Merry Little Mountain Maid" and her simple song. Amelia Summer- ville was the “maid,” and she weighed ' at that time in round numbers 200 pounds. She was one of the most tak- ing stars of the cast. She has been» the delight of the dudes and the bald- . headed devotees of burlesque alike since the. days of her early triumph as the Merry Little Mountain Maid down to the time she startled everybody by her performance of Trilby in “The Merry \Vorld." AMELIA SUMMERVILLE. . To take the part of Trllby with the shapely foot, Miss Summerv-ille ,was obliged to reduce her weight to.135. pounds. This she‘did by heroic treat- ment and rigid diet. She became tall, statuesque and pretty. And now, ap- parently not satisfied with her tri- umphs, she seeks the Lillian Russell method of adding to ’her fame. She wants a divorce from Mr. Summer- ville, whose born name was Runnells.- Runnells evidently thinks his duty ceased when he married an actress. He took the stand that as his wife’s business was better than his own, she should be the bread-winner. The couple have been married for sixteen years and lived together until two years ago, when they quarrelled and separated. Two children had been born to them, and both were given into the custody of the mother. 'As she stood before a New York mag- istrate recently, dressed in_a neatly fitting suit, with a natty sailor hat, she made a prettier picture perhaps than she ever did on the stage. She was ac- companied by her attorney, and she asked that her husband be arrested for non-support. She said all she wanted was to get a divorce. The matter of advertising was not mentioned. MRS. CLEVELAND’S NEW HAT. She Leaves Its Selection Entirely to the . Good Taste of Her Milliner. An important order was executed the "other 'day by a Washington milllner, for Mrs. Cleveland had written down for a hat suitable for the changing sea- son. “Your own selection,” she ordered. MRS. CLEVELAND. The hat when it reached the mistress of the White House was of pale green straw with brown dots scattered over it.- These were small knots of grass. One side of the hat was trimmed with stiff taffeta bows in brown and green- loops of each. The other side of the hat was a mass of snowballs nestling in green leaves. The back was a , standing mass of lace, and the pointed top carried out the brown and green motif in an abundance of these leaves. HOME MADE ICE. Here are Directions How to Make a Sim- ple'Ice DIachine. . A small ids-machine for the house- hold, which in fifteen minutes will fur- nish a small cake of pure ice, consists of a double sheet metal cylinder, cov- ered on the outside with a protective' layer of asbestos for the purpose of heating insulation, and hung in sockets by two central pivots. The receptacle is filled with distilled water up to with- In half an inch from the top, and, after the rubber washer and metal cover are adjusted, it is tightly closed down with a screw. The cylinder is then turned Around once and the other cover un- fa‘stened. This‘permits the filling of the space between the outer wall of the outer cylinder with chemicals used for generatingfihe cold temperature— .in this case an ammonium salt and water. After turning the cylinder [around rapidly for about fifteen min- -' utes the inner receptacle is withdrawn from the cylinder, held for a minute in hot water, and, upon being opened a piece of ice exactly the shape .of the inner wall will slide out without tiro‘uble. AnOther round cylinder provided for the quick cooling of any fluid. .The Salt may be crystallized cut- . \ ITALY WANTS'INDEMNITY. I'he‘ Last Government to Call the Despic- able Turks to Account. ' LONDON, Sept. 9.—A Rome dispatch to The Chronicle says: ‘ “The Italian government has demanded an indemnity from the porte for the mas- sacrepf Italian subjects in Constantino- ple.” , , The secretary ' of Sir Matthew 'White Ridley, secretary of state for the home do- partment, has written a letter with regard to the criticisms‘of‘the government for the release of the Irish dynamiters, in which he says that the home office only followed the usual practice \in liberating the dyna- miters on the'report that any further de- tention would endanger their ,heflth.” The‘Times says. in an editorial on the subject of, the release of the Irish dyna- miters that it is bound to accept Sir Mat- thew White Ridley’s explanation, but it demands the publication of: the medical testimony‘ upon which the, decision lwas based. ' "‘It" is rather ’remarkziblia," says The Times, “that such testimony only aflects dynamiters and only since the present government was in office, as Mr. Asquith, former secretary'of state for the home de~ partment, found nothing in their state of health to justify their liberation. It is not the business of the government to ' deal with dynamiters as if they Were patients at. a German health resort. We do not hesitate to say that if they are really lu- natics they might be placed under proper restraint and not loosed upon the country as an act of clemency or charity.” With regard to the charge made by Baron Colville of Culross that‘ transatlantic steamers run through the Solent at a speed which raises waves that do damage to the docks, the North German Lloyd Steamship company writes to The Times explaining that their steamer, the; Spree, has a new commander, and that they will investigate Baron Cohille’s charge. A dispatch to The Chronicle from Mar- seilles says: “M. Bonnaud, chief of police, informs me that the Armenians under de- tention here will be liberated and will go to New York. '- M.. Hanotaux, minister of foreign affairs. has also qrdered that an- other batch of Armenia“, expected to at- rive today, should be given their fulllibt erty. They arrived on board the Sidon. They refused to speak about the massacre . in Constantinople for fear. of exciting the anger of the Turks against their compa- triots, but they bitterly denounced Eng- land’s conduct in promising protection and then abandoning the Armenians to Turkish fury.” ' - ' Sultan‘s Remarkable Proposition. CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 9.—The sultan has appointed a commission to deal with. the Armenian refugees. It is proposed to furnish safe conducts to those desiring to leave and to insure the safety of those who remain. The dragomansof the diflerent embassies are attending the meetings of the commission. , Killed by Falling Out of Bed. NEW YORK, Sept. 9.-—Mrs. Kate Real, 37, living at 521 West Thirty-seventh street, accidentally fell om her bed while asleep today, and stri ng on her head broke her neck. An ambulance was sum- moned from Roosevelt hospital, but the surgeon pronounced the woman dead. '_ The Nation’s Servants. WASHINGTON, _ Sept- 9,—Admirnl Walker has returned to the city from a month's vacation spent in the east. Assistant Seem . rotary Hamlin has returned from Boston. Secretary Carlisle has gone to Bar Harbor with his family to remain about three weeks. . A Big Factory Burned. CARLISLE,Pa., Sept. 9.—The Mechanics burg Fifth Wheel works, formerly known as the Ringrose Net works, one of the largest industrial establishments in the town, was destroyed by firm-loss, $30,000. Western Union Dividend. NEW YORK, Sept. 9. —The executive committee of the Western Union Telegraph company has recommended the declaration of the regular quarterly dividend of 1% per cent by the full board. Manhattan Elevated Dividend. NEW YORK, Sept. 9.——The directors 01 the Manhattan Elevated railroad have de- clared the regular quarterly dividend of 1% per cent. ' The Weather. ' Fair; slowly rising temperature; varla. ble winds. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. Closing Quotations of the New York Stock Exchange. NEW YORK, Sept. 8.—Money on call nomi- . nally 5@6 per cent. Prime mercantile papel nominally 7@9 per cent. Sterling exchange steady, with actual business in bankers’ bills a [email protected]% for demand and $4.82}§@ASZ§4 for 60 days. ,Posted rates, [email protected]}v§ and $4.85@ @4.86. Commercial bills, $4.82. Silver certifi- cates, 66mm: no sales". Mexican dollars, 51%c. firm. State bonds quiet. Government bonds Railroad bond: firm. Closing prices: Atchison ........... 12% New England.... —- . Bur. & Quincy.. . . . 67% N. J. Central.....101lq C., C., C. & St. L. . 2554 North American. 4}! Chesapeake & 0.. 14 Northern Pacific 12 Chicago Gas ....... 59% Do. pref .......... 20 i, Cordage ............ 3% N. Y. Central.... 92% Cotton Oil ......... 13%; Omaha...........,37,‘ Del. & Hudson....121 Ontario & \Vest. 18 Distillers’ Trust... — Pacific Mail ...... 1934 Erie ................ l3 ' Reading .......... 16 Rock Island ...... 60;: Silver Bullion. . . . 67 General Electric. . 28% Hocking Valley... 14%. Lsckawanna......156 St. Pan] .......... 7052 Lake Shore. ,. ...... 145 Sugar Refinery. .116 Lead ............... 22 Texas Pacific . . . . 691 Louisville &. Nash. 41% Union Pacific. . .. 6 Missouri Pacific... 19% \Vabash pref ..... 13% Northwestern ..... 99 Western Union.. 81 General Markets. New YORK, Sept. 8.-—FLOUR—-State and western ruled dull; city mills patents, [email protected] winter patents. [email protected]; city mills clears $3.85; winter straights, [email protected]. WHEAT-No. 2 red quiet and weaker owing to heavy spring wheat receipts and bearish .foreign statistics: September, 6254@62§éc.; 0c- tober, 62%@62%c. » , CORN—No. 2 ruled dull and easier in sympa- ' thy with wheat; October, 35%“ December is, and used over and over again. . 5w ‘ . 2756c. . OATS—No. 2 quiet and barely steady; 0c: tober. 190.; December, 20c. PORK—Dull; mess, [email protected]: family, $9.2i @10. - LARD—Dull; prime western steam, 33.62% nominal. - BUTTER—Steady; state dairy, '19@15c.: stat! creamery, lllé@16}§c. ’ ' ' ‘ CHEESE—Dull; state, large, 5}§@8}§c.: small. (@8540. - - EGGS-Quiet: state and Pennsylvania... 15% 17c.: western. l5@160. ‘ -26 ' '. SUGAR—Raw quiet 'and steady: fair refin ing,213-160.: centrifugal, 96 te‘st,‘3y40.: refined quiet: crushed, 5%c.; powd. red, 5c. TURPENTINE—Quiet: 9 34c. MO LASSES—Firm; New Orleans. 29®370. RICE—Firm;_dom'es_tic, 3%@6c.; Jammie ' . 4560'. '6' \ . _ , ' TALLOW-éQuiet: city. 3%04 country. axe. - HAY—'Dull; shipping, 60@65c.; 'good to choice ”MW. ..\ ' ' . . . . ' '. Bar silver. 6654c . 1. ‘H-_ l ts L... GOOSE FOUR-IN-HAND. new ItWent Over the Falls of the Ohio in a Tub. Jack Harper was an odd man. He came to the Ohio Falls from Newcastle, England, and was employed by the J. M. & I. Railroad Company in its shops, . which were at that time located in this city; a good mechanic and fond of ‘ fun. ' . It was in the summer of 1870, and there was to be a grand Fourth of July celebration at old Camp J o Holt, in which not only the shop men but hun- dreds of others were to take part. The managers cf the affair were very aux-1 ious to make it a grand success. and for that purpose racked their brains for novelties, but when Jack Harper pro- posed to tame a team 'of geese and at tach them to a washtub in which he proposed to sail down over the rapids of the Ohio, and land just below the picnic grounds they were paralyzed, especially when he insisted that it could‘ easily be done, and to prove his assertion began forthwith to train his proposed team of four geese. , - _ Many of the persons who took inter- est one way or another in the celebra- tion are still alive, and some of them to side in Indianapolis. These will remem. her that Harper began to train his odd team on the quiet waters of the Ohio above the falls. He put queer, three cornered yoke: upon the necks of the bird, and by these means attached them to his frail craft. He guided them by means of reins at- tached to their bills and a long straight switch. It took him nearly three months and much patience befdre he had his birds in: trim, but the geese showed themselves much more intelligent and teachable than credit for, and the people of J efierson: ville had the satisfaction of knowing that in their city was the only four- goose team in. the world. Long before the Fourth of July the queer outfit was the talk of the three falls cities, and when the great day ar— rivedthere was a concourse of thou-. sands at the picnic grounds waiting to see the novel Lohengrin descend the ri- ver. It was near noon when he launch- ed his little bark from the Indiana. shore at the Government dam, and began his - descent, the geese swimming proudly . ahead and drawing the teetbery vessel in which Harper was seen balancing himself. The falls of the Ohio are not safe for a A good well-manned boat unless the crew understand the currents and know the rocks, so it can be better imagined than told whatarisk Harper ran in his wash3 tub. But he bravely went ,ahead, keep- . ing his geese who swerved occasionally from the channel, in the’ way they should go by means of the switch. He managed his team admirably in spite of his uncomfortable and delicate position in' the tub, and the crowds ‘cheered him as he safely passrd one danger point af- ter the other, but as he came aroundthe bend to the deep and swift waters of the big eddy the wind rose almost to a. gale and water began to splash over'him and into his tub, and to make matters’vmrse the geese became unruly andwOuld not obey hisguidance. He must have been a cool- headed man not to have lost his head, but he didn’t, and with a. great effort and much coax- ing and whipping he managed to turn his refractory team in shore and reach- ed land safely amid the hurrahs of the crowd. He was completely drenched and worn out. Since then no one has attempted ,to descend the falls of the Ohio in a tub drawn by a. team of geese.—-Indianapolis Sentinel. THE LOVER’S PREPARATIONS. When He Expected to lVIeet his Proposed Father-in-Law. It was eight o’clock in the magnificent capital of the greatest Republic on earth, and the gleaming, oh, my darl- ing, had gone glimmering among the the things that were two hours pre- viously, says the Washington Star. A gas light burned golden yellow on ' the corner of one of the beautiful streets leading into Dupont circle and an elec- . trio light burned silvery white two, blocks down the str et, when an ambu- lance from the emergency hospital stopped in front of a. palatial residence - in that aristocratic neigthrhood and backed up to the curb. ' One minute, or perhaps less, after the ambulance had stopped a. handsomely dressed young man jumped over the tailboard and started towards the steps of the house. As he did so, a policeman strolling leisurely around the‘corner beyond, ob served the ambulance and immediately sprinted for it. "Say,” exclaimed the officer in the usual chaste and elegant, not to say, Chesterfieldian, manner of an excited guardian "of the peace, “what’s the row?” 1 . “There;‘isn’t any—yet,” replied the young fellow. with a word of suggested possibility in the way he closed his arm ' answer with the word “yet.” "What’s the ambulance for?” insisted the policeman. ~ . "For future reference,” said the young man, evasively. . "That’s not what they are' usually ' for,” argued the officer, trying to get at the true inwardness' of the situation. ’ "No,” and the young] man drew closer and spoke very confidentially; “no, but it’s different in this case. You see, I’m going to ask a. young lady’s father for her hand, and as the, old man isn’t stuci. on me I thought it might come hand. for me to be prepared for emergencies. ' The policeman gave vent ‘to his a.“ miration- in a low whistle and waiter: until a servant came out and told the ambulance driver to go back to the stable. ' ’ i . ’ they generally get' A on an incongruity, i AFRAIDN FRANKLIN WOULD JOKI. Ben. Had a Reputation for Fun, 80 Joker- son Wrote the Declaration. When the time came for the people of the thirteen united colonies toprbclaim to the world that they were , firefight} that they . held themselves: absOlvcd from all allegiance to the British :cmWn. and that, all political connections be. tween them and Great Britian was to- tally dissolved, a committee of the Gen. tinental~ Congress was appointed 1 ‘0' draw up a declaration of independence. The members of this cemmlttee were Benjamin Franklin, of Pennsylvania: John Adams, of Massachusetts; Roger Sherman, of Connecticut; Robert; Liv- ingston, of New York; and Thomas Jefferson. of Virginia. Why was it that their colleagues committed the writing of the Declaration of Independ-_ once to Thomas Jefferson and not to Benjamin, Franklin? of his own section. and, although his reputatiOn cou1d not be fairly termed local; it Was but little more, while the name of the Pennsylvanian was well. known throughout the civilized world. Franklin was not only the ’foremoSt citizen of Philadelphia, where the Con- gress Was sitting; he was the most ex-' perienced publicist and. the most ac-, complished man of letters in all the thirteen colonies, and he was especially equipped for the drawing up of‘an ap-, . peal to Europe, as he had but just re- turned from London where he had been pleading the cause of his countrymen with indomitable courage and indis~ putable skill. Yet Franklin was not asked to write the Declaration of In dependence, and, although he and Adams made' a few verbal amend- ments. the credit of that great state- ment belongs to Jefferson. And why was it that this responsibility was placed on J efierson and not on Frank- lin? The explanation lies in the fact that Franklin was a humorist. Not only was Franklin’s sturdy common sense felt to be too plain a homespun for wear in the courts of Europe, when the thought needed to be attired in all the lofty rhetoric that the mostfervid enthusiasm could produce, and his col- leagues were afraid that Franklin would have his joke. It would be a good joke, no doubt—probably a very good joke; but the Very best of jokes would not be in keeping with the state- ly occasion. They were acute, those leaders, of the Continental Congress, and they knew that every man has the defects of his qualities, and that a humorist is likely to be lacking in reverence, and that the writer of the Declaration of Independence had a theme which demanded the most rever- ential treatment. . So it was that Benjamin Franklin had to pay the penalty of humor in the last century, just as Abraham Lin- coln had to pay it in this century. Because Lincoln was swift to seize up- and because he sought. relief for his abiding melan- choly in playfulness, there were not a few who refused to take him seriously. What lilachihery Has Done. The following statements, compiled by a person who has given the subject a great deal of thought,show how great has been the effect of labor-saving machinery: ‘ One man and two boys do the work - which it required eleven hundred spin- ners to .do but a small number of years ago. One man does the work now of fifty weavers,who were required at the time of his grandfather. Cotton printing machines have re. placed fifteen hundred per cent. of hand labor. ' . One machine with one man as attend- ant manufactures as many horseshoes' in one day as it would take five hun- dred men ‘to make in the same time. One nail machine ‘ has taken the place of one thousand men. In the manufacture of paper ninety- five per cent. of hand labor hasbeen replaced. '- ' 'One man now makes as much'pottery ware in the same time as one thousand could do before machinery was ap- plied. ' By the use of machinery in loading and unloading ships, one man can per- form the labor of'two thousand, men working without its aid. Steel ties machinery produces a sav- ing of five-hundred per cent. Type-setting machines effect an econ- omy of one. hundred and fifty per cent. An expert watchmaker can turn out frOm two hundred and fifty to three' hundred watches each year with the, aid of machinery, eighty five percent. of former hand work being thus re- placed. WITH THE HUMORISTS. “What nonsense," said she, “all this talk is about girls being allowed to en- courage bashful young men one year out of every four.” . “Yes,” replied Willie Wishington,‘ “just as if they didn't whenever. they felt like it, leap year or no leap year.”— Washington Star. ' She stood before the glass gazing ear. nestly. ' “Really,” she _' said, “I do believe I have a mustache coming.” ’ , And yet she seemed rather pleased than otherwise. In another moment the young man whom she had seen through the, window .had entered the room, bringing his moustache with him. —1ndianapolis Journal. . «v a. 5‘. \ .r‘« The .Virginian ,. ,was not the most prominent man even urinary trouble for years, - ” ment” inner. Covers the Same TerrItOry IrrNor- wall: as Elsewhere. ‘Yc’m don’t have to/fiud it. ' It 8 right there—and stays there. And you don’t forget it. It aches and then aches some more. Ever have that backache ?' a ' Found it wasn’t your back didn’t .yo'ii? - ’ ‘he kidne s are ' ‘ ‘ ‘ when sick. y great grumblers Feelthem clear through the back. _, Feel them clear through the body. It is kidney disease. ' And many tortures follow. rinary troubles curse the life. And it’s not worth the living. Cure 1t and you’ll have peace.‘. You can do it easily. ‘ {BythltiiigiDoan’s Kidney. Pills. ‘ . They sure every Wrong condition of the kidneys. _ ‘ j . Norwalk people are learning this fact. Our cases. are not confined to any class, condition, or- sex. . For example, Wire; C.. Malone, who resides at N 'o. 31 h rankhn avenue has reached the allot- ted span of life, being seventy, years ‘o‘f'age and is the mother of eight chil- dren- She says: . “i had kidney and . '. evere headaches and scant-mess of urine. I got a; box of Dean’s Kidney Pills at Hole 3 drug store. I did not take them all” for I did not need them. They cured me and I am glad to rec0mmend them to‘ anyone who-sufl'eredias I did." Doan’s Kidney Pills do thisi'if taken as directed. They tone up the kidneys and force them to perform their func- tions properly. They actually cure the most stubborn Cases of kidney disease. Doan’s Kidney Pills act at once. You can feel their effects in an hour or so. Trv them for weak or lame back. ..‘For sale by all dealers or sent by mail on receipt of price, by Foster—Milburn 81°; ,UBgffalo, N. Y. Sole Agents for . L . ' The only remedy in the world that Will at once stop itchiness of the skin in any part of the body, that is absolutely safe and never failing, is Doau's Oint- ment. Get it from your dealer. [Chill 1 1.“. C 3,? ...... SA‘RATOGA!" " ' 'I " Genuine Saratoga Water in block-tin lined barrels direct from the celebrated Spring, is for sale on draught at Had- den’s,.c0rner 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. .0an I HATHBHN SPRING WATER FOR THE Stomach, Bo wels, Liver and Kidneys. ' son SALE BY The Holmes. Keeler tiniest Cn- DORLON HOUSE new OPEN FOR THI-i insole? 1896. Shore Dinners, Rhode Island claim Bake. . , , _‘ Bathing, Boating. Fishing. . Electric cars to Hotel, every twenty. minutes. ‘ I 1 , ’ . JOHN E. O’SULLIVAN, . ~‘ , . » . manager?
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