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AMERICAN MUSHROOMS.
They Are an Exceedingly Profitable Crop
' if Grown in Winter. ‘
There is a great deal of misappre-
hension about the raising of mush-
rooms. It is generally. supposed that
Ithey have to be raised in a damp, un-
wholesome cellar, but this is a mis-
take. They merely, have to be grown
under ground to prosper in winter—
and that isfthe time when prices are
high—Hand the cellar, may bemaide as
dry, and healthful as an open build-
ing. The spawn is placed in the soil,
which must. be free from poisonous
or uncongenial vegetable matter, and
is usually spread out a few inches
thick on wide shelves or/beds placed
' two feet or so above each other.
Some years ago, an enterprising
farmer undertook to grow mushrooms
for the market. He spent about one
thousand dollars fitting up a cellar
on his farm and spawning it, and rthe
total amount of his first year’s crop
was twelve pounds. 'After that they
would not grow at all. Last year he-
built a house for his coachman- and
idecided to try one more experiment,
this time in the cellar of the house, as
the coachman had no use for it. He
proceeded with Ithe greatest care, pro-
curing perfectly fresh and pure ferti-
lizers and buying carefully selected
spawns. The result was that within
a year" twelve hundred pounds of
mushrooms were picked. As fresh
mushrooms are worth from one dollar
to one dollar and a 'half a pound in
the winter, the profit may be easily
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
' OFFICE or
COMPTROLLER or THE CURRENCY.
WASHINGTON, D. 0.. Aug 21, 1393.
WHEREAS, by satisfactory evidence pre-
sented to the undersigned. it has been nude
to appear that THE CENTRAL NATlONAL
BANK in the Town of Norwalk, in the County
of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, has
complied with all the provisions of the “Act
“of Congress to enable National Banking Asso-
. ciations to extend their corporate existence
and for other purposes,” approved July 12th.
1882. ~
NOW. THEREFORE, I, George M. Cmfin,
Deputy and Acting Comptroller of the Our-
rency, do hereby certify that THE CENTRAL
NATIONAL BANK. in the Town of Norwalk
in the County of Fairfield and State of Con.
necticut. is auth irized to have succession for
the period specified in its amended articles of
association, namely until close of business on
August 21, 1916.
' IN Tnsrmoxr WHEBEOF, wit-
M.-
{L s } ness my hand and Seal of office
' ' this twenty-first day of August
M 1596‘ - ‘ ‘
GEORGE M. COFFIN.
Deputy and Acting Comp.
troller of the Currency.
No. 2342. a2es26
S. B. WILSON,
PRACTICAL CONTRACTOR
AND BUILDER.
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Estimates cheerfully given. Large buildings
a specialty. Contracts taken in
any part of the country.
mm mu. no YARD, OFFIGE,
across 31., < 92 mm or
Norwalk, Conn.
@Plans and Specifications fuauished.
WINTER
IS come
And my new line of Fall
and Winter Suitings are now
ready and awaiting your
inspection. '
Call in and examine them
though you do not purchase.
Suitings are cheaper, and
I make them up in the
latest styles at prices that
will surprise you. .
IF.KOCOUR.
MERCHANT TAILOR
l4 North Main Street. So. Norwalk.
SCHOOL - SUPPLIES.
The Schools will open again
. soon. J ost bear in mind the
LARGEST and BEST line of
Tablets, _ . . ;
Pads,
Pens, - _«
Pencils, ‘
- Slates,
Everything used in the School
can be found at.
JOHN T. HAYES.
NO.:5 MAIN STREET. NORWALK.’
» Best Goods. Lowest Prices.
Raymond. PIE Son.
Successorsto George H.Boymcnd.
. Furniture Dealers and General Funeral
Directors.
and 48 Main Street Norwalk Ct.
Bee: lance, Berkeley Place, _
Telephone No. 7 "' "
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Piano Lessons.
”‘18. GEORGE W. BBADLEX. (daughter
oftlie loteWm. B. Nash.).mves elficcnt
.~ on satisfactory instructions on the. Piano at
her home 80.193 Maia ltreat.
ABOUT OUR DUCHESS.
A London Paper “Tells How Sweet and
.Charming She Is.
The Duke and Duchess of Marlbor-
ough have given some most successful
dinner parties at the house they have
taken for the season in Audley Square.
The young Duchess. is rapidly gaining
the affections of her English relatives
and connections. ,
She is quiet, natural, and very sweet
in disposition. She is not exactly pret-
ty, but she has a. sweet and charming
face. Aclear, rather pale complexion
and dark hair, and deep, clear, gray
blue eyes, that often look quite dark.
She is very tall and slight, and carries
herself erect and gracefully. Her voice
iSpretty, and altogether her grace is.
really a. great social acquisition, Says
the London Lady Pictorial. .--——
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Abnnt the Hausa.
Don't hang your walls with cheap
prints or glaring oil paintings.
choice pictures will be more ornamental
than a. dozen gaudy ones.
Don’t overload the mantel shelves
with a. confused mass of bric- a-brac. A
well chosen bit of china, 3. large vase
and an artisticpiece of drapery are all
that the ordinary mantel requires.
Don’t tie bows on the back of the par-
lor chairs or drape your picture frames-
with scarfs. ,
Don’t leave your halls bare and unin-
viting. Make them as cosy and attrac-
tive as possible. Sincefirst impressions
are everything, one cannot devote too
much attention to the entrance of the
house.
Don't use paper shades on your lamps.
Yellow porcelain gives a good light, but
blue and green shades produce an un-
canny effect.
Don’t forget that green linen shades
for the windows in summer are a great
improvement to all the rooms.
Don’t use figured silk curtains at your
book cases. Solid colorsthat harmonize
with the rest of the room are much
more attractive.
Don’t crowd your parlor with so many
handsome things that it is too fine for
comfort.
Don’t use elaborate patterns in pressed
glass. If you cannot afford the genuine
cut glass it is niuch better taste to use
something simpler.
Don’t buy light colored, rugs for
floor coverings, for as a usual thing they
donot furnishvwelL , . :
Don’t drape the windows 1500‘ Inbo-
rately with curtains. They keep out
the sunlight and make a room unhealth-
ful.
Don't overdecorate, and don’t furnish
a. room in all colors. Harmony is al-
ways desirable. ' ,
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
To save the fingers when cleaning fish
out ofi the fins with a. pair of scissors.
Figs that have grown dry may be
freshened by putting them up on a plate
and keeping them in a steamer until
moist and plump. A dessert can be
made by dredging figs with powdered
sugar and serving salted peanuts with
them.
If you are obliged to have your hands
in strong soapy water in washing dishes
or doing other household duties, a. little
vinegar rubbed upon them when taken
from the water will improve them as
well as help to keep the skin white.
A whisk broom, made with the edge
slanting so that one end is longer than
the other, is much better than one with
a straight edge for brushing the dust out
of the corners of the room and from the
edge of the carpets. This broom is par-
ticularly adapted to brushing down
stair carpeting.
To make a. good fly paper, boil to-
gether equal parts by weight of glue
and molasses. With an old knife spread
the mixture while hot over- heavy brown
paper. Place a piece of this paper in
every room in the house. It will cap-
ture every fly in the room within the
day.
For removing grease stains on mat-
ting try wetting the spot with alcohol,
and then rubbing with white Castile
soap. Let the soap dry and then wash
it off with warm salt water.
Twigs and small branches may be
made to look like coral and to, be very
ornamental. The process will help to
amuse the young people on a rainy af-
ternoon. Melt together four parts of
yellow rosin and one part of vermilion;
dip the twigs into .it, covering ‘every
part, and then let them dry without
touching each other.
fastened to the corner of a. picture
frame; another branch coming from be-
hind a picture, and a. bunch tied with a
ribbon bow upon a scrap basket are
decOrativo. . j _ 7 . _
One having a fancy for preserving not.
ural flowersmay do, so by dipping them
into melted .. paraflin.
should be only Warm enough to remain
fluid. Hold the flowers by the stems.
which should be free from all except the
natural moisture, dip them in the fluid,
give them a quick turn to remove the
air cells, and place them in a gliss uno
til the the coating becomes firm.
Incapacitated.
“Heavens!” shrieked be, “what in
my anger have I done?”
He reeled.
“I have been tearing my hair,” he
gasped. _ . . .
One glance into the mirror was
enough to tell him that'he could no
longer be considered a piano virtuoso of
I the first class—Pick Me-Up. .
Riches are rather an uncertain ‘thing
to, lean on, but bless me how w 0 like
to lean on that kind of uncerta tyl
In the old days we used-t: have men
with “influence,” but in these times we
have man With a “pull" instead.
A few-
A bunch of coral .
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The mixture ‘
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Summer Dairying;
To make the summer dairy successful
may look verysimple to one on the out-
side of the business. Unfortunately be
outside view is shared by many 011' be
inside, and they are conducting dum-
mer dairying solely on the manual la-
bor idea. Now it is a fact that summer
dairying requires just as much practical
knowledge, skill and care 'as winter
dairylng', and the man who ignores these
points 'never has made cows pay and
never will. .
The dairyman who draws a monthly
check - from his factory, a. portion of
which is profit, is not enabled to do so
simply because he owns cows, but be-
cause he knows how to handle them.
For instance, turning cows out to pas-
ture may be the worst thing you can
do for them. You must be sure that
there is plenty of grass for them to eat.
or they will be worse off than if tied t
a straw stack. . - --
The foundation of successful dairying-
is to keep the cows constantly furnished
with all they can digest of milk giving
food. Under this rule good cows are a
mint of money, and poor ones will show
surprising results. Either bring the
amount of pasturage up to the number
of your cows, or also reduce the num-
ber of your'cows to the amount of your
pasturage. Anticipate the need of feed
several months ahead, and have plenty
of fodder corn. Better have! too much
than too little. I never saw a. duiryman
yet who put in more fodder corn han
he could make use of; he generally has
too little.
Another important point is to take
care .of the milk after you get it. A
dairyman must possess an’ earnest de
site to preserve the milk qualities, or I
WOuld not give much for his success in
that direction. A half-hearted policy.
or indifference will almost. surely result
in spoiled milk. Nearly every dairy-
man understands now the routine work
that is necessary to follow in preserving
milk qualitity on the farm. The trou-
ble is that only a small proportion of
them as yet put itithoroughly into prac-
tice. Thoroughnessl How much that
mom in dairy management. If there
are 25 thorough dairymen in a town-
chip, that is equivalent to 25. successful
ones.
No man can expect to always have
good milk unless he goes through a.
routine practice of aerating and cooling
it every night during the summer. Even
if he has plenty of cold running water,
he must not depend entirely on it to the
neglect of aeravlon. ' By submerging bet
milk incold water, I-have known it to
deveiop the most dangerous taint.—
Geo. 3. N ewell.
A Home-Mad. Garden Roller. I
The illustration herewith shows a
handy garden contrivance that can be
made in a few moments. A section is
sawed from a. round log. and its surface
smoothed. Two round bits of iron rod
are driven into the centre of each end,
and the roller is ready to take the place
of the wheel in the wheelbarrow, . the
latter being unshipped for this purpose.
The special value of this arrangement is
that no new frame nor handles are need-
ed for the roller. and that the barrow
canfbe weighted to give just the pres-
sure desired.
Animals that Suffer Seasickneso.
Human beings are not the only ones
that suffer seasickness, by any means.
One hears a good deal about pangs that
have filled the men and women with
w'oe, but little is said of the manageries
brought to America every year, or car-
ried hither and you in wave tossed
boats.
Lions and tigers may be majestic
when they have unwavering earth or
rock against their paws, but a seasick
cat of these tribes is as forlorn as ever
any man ever was, and doesn’t. look a
bit more kineg than a. wet rabbit. Even
its roars and growls . have a. weeping
sound in them, quite in keeping with»
the general appearance of the ferocious
'ybeast.
A‘ monkey is as pitiable an object
when it is seasick as any other beast so
stricken, and its forlorn facial expres-
sion is so human like . and the way it
clasps its paws across its stomach is so
'naturallthat the man 'who is not. seasick
necessarily sees something to laugh at in
the misery of the creature. Not. so with
the seasick man. If he sees a seasick
monkey he. is sure to get very mad,
ghinking the poor thing is mocking
m.
It. takes a dog to be woeful at sea. It
bias a way of doubling all up, with its
tail between its legs and its head hang-r
ing down, that shows a deep seated
pain. To free itself. the dog goes
through all sorts of contortions. 'It will
stretch out on the deck, groan and
squeal, sometimes rising on its haunch
es and lifting its head and howling long
and-miserably, as some dogs do at the
sound of music.
if the Indiana man who found a gold
watch in a can of tomatoes has any re-
gard for the Secretary ‘of Agriculture
he will say as little about the affair as
If the story gets into, general
circulation Mr. Morton will be overrun
with applicants for tomato seed of the
lame variety. .
How everybody loves scandal we
hear something good about our , gh-
bor we will like, to keep it secret, but as
for some thing had, our tongues itch un-
tilwe tetlll. . ‘ ’
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IA specimen arson-as Logic.
Drive a nail {through a. silver dollai'
' audit: becomes worth only fifty cents.
Drive a'nail through a gold dollar and it
is still worth 100 cents. Why? Because
the Bankoof England is compelled by
law to buy all gold offered at this rate.
while no such provision is made for sil-
ver anywhere. Once let the law be es
bablished that 374 1-4 grains of pure sil-
ver can be taken to the United States
mint and coined into a dollar without
charge, and the parity of the metals is
established, and neither will possess am
advantage over the other. If a. law
were passed prohibiting the milling of
Fall wheat, how long would it be before
Spring wheat would be worth more in
themarket than Fall wheat is now 0]
ever has been?—Topeka Gazette.
Pleasant to the Visitar.
“Is Mrs. Harkins at home?” asked the
caller.
“Physically, Madame,” returned the
educated butler, “she is; As an abstract
question the fact. cannot be denied; but
in your relation to your desire to see
her, I cannot say definitely until I have
ascertained Mrs. Harkin’s wishes in the
matter. Pray be seated, until I have
received advices from above.”—-Har-
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Mother, Have You a Baby 1?
If so, get from your druggist today for
25c a bottle of Dr. Hand’s Colic Cure.
' Every baby often has distressing colic.
Dr. Hand's Colic Cure gives immediate
relief by removing wind from the
stomach and quieting the nerves, giving
restful sleep. Mother, think of the
worry and anxiety this saves you. If
your baby is teething Dr. Hand’s Teeth-
ing Lotion for 25¢ soothes and relicVes
all pain. Sold by all druggists.
Miss Nellie Hogan of Main street is
attending a business college in Bridge-
port. ~
Mothrr’a Find Nothing to Equal Dr.Han§l’o
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. ‘
Mrs. Edward Fisher of New York is
visiting Mrs. Robert McKeon on Sum-
mer street.
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 strengthand giving tone to the
organs, thereby aiding Nature in the
performance of the functions. Electric
Bitters is an excellent appetizer and aids
digestion. Old People find it just. exact-
ly what they need. Price fifty cents and
81.00 per bottle at E. P. Weed’s Drug
Store Norwalk and Monroe’s New Ca-
naan.
The mud-digger has scooped out a
channel near the landing at Jennings’
yacht headquarters.
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Two Lives Saved.
Mrs. Phoebe Thomas, of Junction City,
III. 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 itjsaved her life. Mr. Thomas
Eggers, 139 Florida St., San Francisco,
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 efficacy
of this medicine in coughs and colds.
Free trial bottles at E. P. Weed’s Drug
Store,vNorwalk and Monroe; New (‘9.-
naan. Regular size 50c. an $1.00.
Mr. and Mrs. George Q. Whitney of
“19 holed Hartford Pratt & Whitney
company, spent Sundry with friends on
Beldeu avenue.
Relief in Sign Hours.
Distressing Kidney and Bladder dis-
eases relieved in siz hours by the ”New
GREAT SOUTH AMERICAN KIDNEY
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 everypart 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.
Sold by E. P. Weed, Druggist. Norwalk.
Conn.
Contractor Sheldon expects to finish
the retaining wall at the Miss Julia.
Lockwood place on Mill Hill, this week.
He is apparently putting up a good
substantial wall.
Bucklln’s Arnlca Salvo.
TheBest Snlvein the world for Cute
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers Salt Rheum
Fever Sores, Tetter, Chopped Hands
Ohilblaiuo, Corns and all Skin Erup
tions, and positivelycures Piles. or no
Payrcquired. It is guaranteed to give
perfectsatisfaotlonmr money refunded
Price 25 cents per box. For Sale by
E.P. Weed, Norwalk and Monroe, New
Canaan.
Manager Mitchell. has in‘ contempla-
tion getting the celebrated George
Francis Train to give his famous lec-
ture—"lied Hot Issues” at the Opera
House, in the near future.-
The' Best. Remedy—Tor Bowel Conic
' plaints.
recommend Chamberlain’s Medicines. _
advertised them for a. long time before Thad
occasion to use them in my own family. At
- the‘ time referred to, the patient was suffer-
ing ' terribly from cramps, yoimting and
purgeing. I was delighted with the prompt
relief afforded by Chamberlain’s €011 Choly
era‘and Diarrhoea 'Remed ‘-‘A. M. VER-
LAND, Editor and Proprie _,_r of the Weekly
Globe, Mendonv Mich. . For sale by E. P.
F Weed. Drugg'at , .
suffered from a dreadful cold, approach-.
It gives me pleasure to most heartily
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