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V CHRISTIAN ANDERSEH’S KIN;
.He Went to Copenhagen at 17 . See.
His Fortune.
At atime when he- Could not be in
duced to spell or properly understand
' his native» language, he was yer filled
' with ambition to become an author.
Such an ambition might seem strange
enough in the child. of a cobbler of
Odense, whom his mother never obliged
~ to attend school regularly, who spent
his childhood and youth rather in
dreaming along the lanes and among
the flowers than in any attempt to ac-
quire what would be called useful
knowledge. We might predict that
one so constituted was predestined to
every kind of hardship. Andersen suf-
fered many kinds. :
When, at seventeen, he went up to
Copenhagen upon the wildest of wild-
goose chases after fortune, the hope of
making his way as an actor without
training, interest, or‘ any special ca-
paCity, it is no wonder that he came
now and then near starvation. ' That
he did not fare worse must be attrib—
uted to the kindly and patriarchal char-
acter of the Danes of Copenhagen in his
day. He presented himself, a boy of
Seventeen or eighteen, without intro-
duction or excuse, at thehouees of well
known men of letters, and instead of at
best'packing him off home again and
recommending him to stick to the pa-
ternal last, they tOOk him in hand,
made subscriptions for him, and set
him up with an allowance while he
should have time to learn singing or
acting, or earn something by his pen;
The No: England Consci‘ence.
. An instance of strict honesty under
trying circumstances is reported from
Connecticut. A police officer started
from Danbury for Bridgeport on a rail-
way train the other day with a prisoner
sentenced to serve thirty days in the
Bridgeport jail forndrunkenness. The
prisoner promised that if the oflicer
would spare him the indignity of the
handoufis he would-go to jail peaceably.
At South Norwalk , there was a change
of cars, and in the shuflie the oficer be-
came separated from his prisoner. The
officer startedon a hunt all over the
town for the supposed escaped prisoner.
The latter. however,- had taken the right
train and was on his way to Bridgeport.
When the prisoner reached Bridgeport
he hung round the station an hour or
two waiting for the officer to catch up
with him and wondering what had be-
come of him, and then walked over to
the jail and surrendered himself, ex~
plaining the circumstances. It is pos-
sible that his honesty will have the ef-
fect of shortening his sentence con-
siderably. ‘
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.pay 11.9. and the first thing you know
' you haven’t sum—New York Herald. ,,
A BICYCLE RAILWAY.
Trains Will R... Two-Hundred .Milen
an Hour on it the Inventor Says;
A'bicycle railway over which you .
can ride two 'hundred miles an hour!
This is what 001. George F._ Brett, “of
Washington, claims can be accomplish-
ed by his invention. He is very posi-
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 3 says, he will have his struCture
erected and cars will be running there-
on by Fall. ‘
When this road operates from ocean
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-
ly only 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
opproach 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
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,
LILLIAN RUSSELL AND THE-STAGE.
The Famous Star Talks of Retiring to
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-
blue tea gown, and then she added earn-
estly: “I have been far from well this
season. I have Worked hard and I have
suflered intensely from a fall from my
bicycle. And everything hurts the
voice; an ache or a pain anywhere ef-
fecte 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 of
glasses sounded through the portieres
from :the 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
ismost of the time; when I’m unhappy
Ising, too. It is a very excellent rem-
edy. ,,
“I think I can be perfectly contented
OR the stage,” said Miss Russell, “for I
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 shewill ,get plenty of fun
out of it. .\
More Dnngurous 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 tc
say Mrs. Meekton wears the .—er—-er the
pantaloons, you know, but it isn’t
true.” . ' ‘ - .
“I‘m glad to- hear it.”
"Do you know,” Mr. Mockton went
on, with a far- away look in his eyes, “1
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
You’ge: a quantity of it, but you fail tc
. York Sun.
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THREE TAKES OF ROMANCE.
The Duke's Vendetta; aStory of Venice
and Houston. ' ~
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over the scene hangs a deep star stud-
ded sky. ' ~
~ It is midnight in Venice. 1
0n the balcony of a magnificent ducal
palace on the waters of the Adriatic
sits the Countess Ginccioli. By her side
is Pete Skidmore, the talented young
American" painter. ' The brilliant 3 but
soft light of an Italian moon floods the
marble steps of the palace and the crys-
tal sea where shadowy gondolas wind in
and opt like the many figures in some
half-remembered dream. . p _>j . .
“Dc-you love me?” asks the countess
in low,- over-ripe tones. . - .-
“Easy,” says Pete, kissing her jew-
elled hand. '
at thefeet' of the countess. "
“Corpo di Bacchol” .she exclaims.7_
“It is avendetta I” _ _ _ :7 _- ¢ 4
The gondola glides past again,'a_nd
some one in it hisses some words in, Ital-
ian through his clenched teeth. ~
“That must be a steamboat,” says
Pete, “and the escape valve is out of
order.” ' - . '
“It is thel Duke Rivoli,” says the
countess. “He loves me to distraction.
You must fly.” .,
_ “Why?” '
“He‘has declared a vendetta.”
“What’s that? . Anything like a divi- .
dend?” ' - v
“Do' not jest. Fly, oh, fly, ere it is
too late. One kiss, and then farewell.”
As Pete Skidmore kisses the countess
another prolonged hissing sound comes
from the gondola. Pete looks ' up at
the summit of Mount Vesuvius in the
distance. '
“Sounds like we were going to have
another eruption,” he muttei’s to him:
self. .
Pete then puts on his shoes and goes
back to the palace where he boards.‘
. n— . .
It was twenty minutes to 6 o’clock in
Texas.
Pete Skidmore has finished his art
studiesin Venice and has.‘returned to
Houston. He has arisen early, and, to
oblige an old friend, is painting a barn
a dark-red color for $4, one-half in ad- .
vanes. -
He often sighs when he thinks of
Venice and the dark, languishing eyes
of the Countess Ginccioli, and through
his head runs the refrain of a song she
used to sing: -'
“Barcipa setta muppa ganon me.”
Suddenly the ladder is jerked from
underhim, and he falls into a bucket of
paint- \ » .
He colors quickly and rises to his feet.
The Duke di "Rivoli stands before him.
"Zis ees ze - vendetta to so death!"
hissed the duke between his clenched
teeth. “I have come to keel you.”
.“Txv'hat for?” asked Pets.
“1;. r-r-r-r‘evengel!” says the duke.
“For what?” asks Pete.
“I married as countess!”
. In;
Moonlight on the Adriatic.
The Duchess Rivoli, nee Ginccioli,
waits upon the balcony. A gondola
glides to the steps and the Duke di Bi-
voli springs out.
The duchess hastens to meet him.
"Did you kill him?” she whispers.
“I did not.” ,
“What! Did you fail in your mission?
Is it possible that a Rivoli could declare
a vendetta and then let it go to pro-
test?” ‘ ‘
“Peace,.- Flametta.” says the duke. .
“I do not deserve your reproaches.
“What did you do to him?"
“1 left him running a weekly news-
paper in Texas.” '
The duchess sinks down, covers her
face with her hands and shudders vio-
lently. .
“Oh, Luigi!” she sobs. “Revenge is
all right, but was there any need to be
:0; inhuman? You should have killed
Etna”
THE CATAMARAN ALL RIGHT.
lfIt Crosses the Atlantic in Three Days,
Give It Credit. '
We would not make light of the pro-
ject of the man who thinks he can in-
vent a catamaran that will cross the
ocean inthree days. We do not make
light of the projects or the fancies; of
all the flying-machine men. We are
very careful about making light of any
of the novelties in science or mechanics
which geniuses promiseto bring before
usfrm time to time. The discoveries
and the inventions which have already
been made, and the usefulness of which
has been demonstrated: have far sur-
3 passed our preconceptions, and have
prepared our mind for the news of all
kindsof others not less striking or val-
What we object to is the volubility at
those man who promise great things
which they. never perform, invent ma
:hines jwhich won‘t work, and make
discoveriesijwhich are worthless when
put to the teat;
First getyour valuable novelty for
sure: then put it in shipshape and
working order; and afterward tell us,
all about it.
When the catamaran"man has made
ois first. vOyage. across the ocean in
three days, when the man with wings
nas shown'us how he can fly, then wa'
willsayallright; go" ahead; sure as
saltwater and fresh air, you can raise
plenty of capital in Wall street—New
. Might Have Been Better Said.
I' “I expect that before very long the“: _
congregation will be in a plaCe whereit
will not require so much effort to kéep
warm,”announced_' a clergyman from
the pulpit of a Church- at Woddbury,
Vt, last Sunday week, when the te m-
perature was near zero, whereat there
was a fitter through the congregation.
Whatithegoodiman meant was , that. he
trusted the newrtchurch, now building,
would soon he ' ready fer occupancy-”by
in emanation. '
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As he speaks a black-gondola glides
past... and something isthrown and .f.. 1.1-:
‘WeedDmggist. 6... ~ g,
' A‘ CASE 'OF, ELECTRICITY.
A Lover's Kiss Almost Leads to a Lover’s
‘ '-'- - Quarrel. '~
' ItIWas during the recent spell of cold
weather. " ,
He had been away. She was expect-
inghim. ,
There Was a sharp ring at the bell,
and a» few minutes later, as he appeared
at the drawing-room door and paused to
locate her, she moved rapidly toward
him, her small slippers rubbing‘lightly
over the velvet carpet. He rushed to
meet her. Tenderly he bent his head to
touch her upturned lips, and then—
well, the air was full of tiny, snapping .
blue stars, she gave a scared little
shriek, he let slip a cry of consternation
and blinked his eyes, while she stared
at him suspiciously and tearfully.
“You may think it a good joke to put
needles in‘your mustache,” she said
saSPinsly- .
“I don’t see the beauty of concealing
pyrotechnics myself,” he rejoined soft-
ly, searching the atmosphere for more
blue stars. .
And it took those two benighted per-
sons a whole half hour to discover that
' their chagrin was caused by the simple
fact that the cold atmosphere tingled
with electricity, and they had hurriedly
rubbed the soles of their footgear over
the carpet, and instead cf trying to light
the gas with their fingers, they had
kissed each other, with the inevitable
flash of light and sharp sting. Then
they held a mutual forgiveness party,
but seated, themselves carefully and
cautiously on opposite sides of the room,
. at a safe distance. _
Maine’s Wealth in Forests.
The extent of the woods of Maine is
a matter on which few people have any
very clear idea. There are at the pres-
ent time some 13,568,000 acres of forest
in the State. These figures may not...
convey much to the ordinary mind, but
the fact that one could take the States
of Rhode Island, Connecticut. and
Delaware and hide them away in the
forests of Maine ought to give some
idea of the immense size of the Maine
woods. The assessed valuation of this
forest is $85,250,000, but there is no
doubt that much of the magnificent
water power of the State is due to the
affect of the Vast forests around the
headwaters and sources 'of her mighty
livers. The value of Maine’s forests
is a. thing that cannot be estimated;
and the above value is based simply on
the lumber and land-Eastern Argus.
Old People,
Old people who require medicine to
regulate the bowels and kidneys will
find the true remedy in Electric Bitters.
This medicine does not stimulate and
contains no whiskey nor other intoxi-
.cant, but acts as a tonic and alterative.‘ It
acts mildly on the stomach and bowels,
adding strength and giving tone to the
organs, thereby 'aidin‘g Nature in the
performance of the functions." Electric
Bitters is an excellent appetizer and aids
digest-ion. Old People find it just exact-
ly what they need. Price fifty cents and
31.00 per bottle at E. P. ~SVeed’s Drug;
Store Norwalk and Monroe's New Ca-
118.811.
Carpenters have commenced work on
Councilman A. B. Hill’s new house on
Morgan avenue.
' Two Lives Saved.
Mrs. Phoebe Thomas, of Junction City,
Ill. was told by her doctors she had Con-
sumption, and that there was no hope
for her,- but two bottles of Dr. King’s
New Discovery completelycured her and
she says it saved her life. Mr. Thomas
Eggers, 139 Florida St., San Francxsco,
suffered from a dreadful cold, approach-
ing Consumption; tried without result
everything else, then bought one .bottle
of Dr. King’s New Discovery and in two
weeks was cured. He is naturally thank-
ful. It is such results, of which these are
samples, tnat prove the wonderful eflicacy
of- this medicine in coughs and colds.
Free trial bottles at E. P. Weed’s Drug
Store, Norwalk and Monroe’s New (‘8.-
naan. Regular size 50c. and $1.00.
Dr. R. L. Higgins states that he has
just picked the second crop of straw-
berries from his garden.
Relief tit-5m: Hours.
Distressing Kidney and Bladder dis.
eases relieved in siz hours by the “New
GREAT SOUTH AMERICAN KIDNEY
CURE. ” This newflremedy 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. ~ .
The Keene building on Water street
is to be “rev amped” , with new water
pipes, 'etc. It was greatly to be desired.
Mrs. ,Kate Belden' who has been visit-
iting her parents Mr. aners. Charles
F. Loomis returned to 'her home in
Newark ,1» N. .J'” {to-day . ' '
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perfects‘atisfaotion,or moneyirefu-nded
Price-25;gentsz- per box. . For, Sale by
351’. Weed, Natural}: and, Monroe, New
anaan. . ‘ ~
Mrs. W. A. Pryer - of Riverside ave-
nue 18 Visiting friends in Meriden. ~
, The marriage of Frederady and Miss
Millie Houahton is announced to take
place on October '14. ' _ ' . '
The ‘Best Remedy for Bowel Com-
» plaints. , . »
It gives me pleasure "to- most heartil
recommend Chamberlain’s Medicines. ‘
advertised them for a long time before I had
occasion to use them in my own family. :At
the time referred to, the patient was s'ufl'eri
purgeing. I wasdelighted with the prompt
relief afforded by Chamberlain’s Colic, Chol-
era and'Diarrhoea Remedy.—‘A. M. Evan.-
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