‘9 - 72 .V 6% \ flmW ms I; I»? -c I [I l ' //.§h\‘7 R TER __ war/4mg .17 ll \/ I l , K : “er— sin... \ \l\n Will \A \\ HILXF 1 my, V;l YL—z ///___‘_Ifl' Na South Norwalk. Branch Office of GAZETTE No. 12 North Main Street. There was an extraordinarthigh tide this morning. James Bipley,the barber,.who worked in Brummer’s barber shop, has not as yet returned to his home on Raymond street. , The Twin City Wheelmen will hold their regular monthly meeting to-mor- row night in their rooms on Washing- ton street. The Republican parade in this city will take place tomorrow night. On Monday night the Republicans of Rowayton will hold a jollification and parade. , . In the Town Court yesterday after. noon Judge Frostzfound Anthony An- derson guilty of breach of the peace and fined him 85 Anderson paid up and was discharged. Nicholas Massey came up before Judge Frost in the Town Court yester- day afternoon charged with drunken- ness and breach of the peace. He was found guilty and fined $10, which he paid, and was discharged. The South Norwalk Hardware corn- pauy advertises to give a high grade bicycle free to customers. To every cash purchase amounting to 25 cents a coupon ticket is given, and on Decem- ber 24th next, the bicycle will be awarded. —'l‘he finest line of pocket knives ever oflered in town, can be found at the South Norwalk Hardware com- pany’s store on South Main street. The Wednesday Matinee Euchre club held a session yesterday afternoon with Mrs. Edward Selleck at her home on West street. There were five tables in use. Mrs. Robert A. McDonald suc- ceeded in winning the prize. After the game refréshments were served. The next meeting will be held with Mrs. George A. Jennings at her home on West streets week from next Wednes- day. ‘ A little boy was driving a denkeyV on West avenue yesterday afternoon, when the playful animal kicked the cart over, throwing the boy into the street. The donkey took one, look at his little driver lying in the road and then dashed up Cedar street. Several ladies passing at the time ran into the street and picked the boy up. , He was uninjured but somewhat frightened. Dr. J. T. Kennedy received a call from an engineer on the Consolidated railroad yesterday. ‘The man said he was looking out of the window of his cab, when his head came in contact with a telegraph pole. Dr. Kennedy found that he had a severe cut on the side of his head and was obliged to take several stitches in the wound; After receiving surgical attention, and which he stood without a murmur, the man entered his cab and ran his en- gine to New York. George Whelpley entertained his many gentlemen friends at his pleasant home on Fairfield avenue last night. Professor St. George rendered a musi- cal program of his own compositions, with which all present were highly pleased. Charles Fenwood gave sev- eral fine recitations and the following sang solos: George Eli-st, Fred Force, Will Warren. John Wehle, and Fred Ambler. The guests then adjourned to the dining room where they partookof a delightful collation served by Mrs. George Whelpley, Mrs. George Trow- bridge and Mrs. William Stevens- All present when they left for home at about 1 o’clock expressed their thanks to the host and hostess saying they had passed a delightful evening. Among those present were the Messrs. EEaton, HowardZelufl'. Fred Benedict, W“ A. Coley. F ed Jones, Emory Stevens, William Stevens, Fred Gregory, Fred Osborn, William Randall, William Clark, George Trowbridge, William Warren, W. F. Ambler, Fred Force, John Wehle, George Hirst and Prof. .St. George. —000 “'liat Puzzled Willie. Willie—Papa, is one singular? Papa—Yes, my son. Willie—Then how can battles ever be Iwon'I—W askingtcn Times. How to Cure :1 Severe Cold. A few weeks ago the editor was taken with a very severe cold that caused him to be in a most miserable condition. It was undoubtedly a bad case of la. grippe and recognizing it as dangerous he took imme- diate steps to bring about a speedy cure. From the advertisement of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy and the many good recom- mendations included therein, we concluded to make a. first trial of the medicine. To say that it was satisfactory in its results, is utting it very mildly, indeed. It acted ike magic and the result. was a speedy and permanent cure—The Banner of Liberty, Libertytown, Maryland. The 25 and 50 cent sizes for sale by E. P. Weed, Druggist. RUSSIAN sol-toss HARD HIT. Literary Censors Follow Their “minis in Allowing Papers to Appear. In Russia permission must be first obtained before one can publish a pa- per and this is not granted to all who care to apply. The candidate for this privilege must first curry favor with the Government—that is to say, with the Minister of the Interior and other officials, and, in country places espe- cially, with the Governor of the prov- ince or with the Governor-General, where such an official holds sway. Then he must possess his soul in pa- » tience. Sometimes three, four, or more years may pass away before the right to start any new periodical is recognized, and even then the pub- lisher cannot transfer his rights to another without official permission. Thus the publication becomes a spe cial privilege, and the monopoly is of some value in St. Petersburg and Mos- cow, for in those cities the publisher has to deposit a guarantee of 5,000 roubles (about £500). This deposit is required for a “superior” privilege. which the press in the capital enjoys over and above that of the provincial press. This privilege does not, how- ever, amount to much. It may, indeed, be likened to the right of a Turkish Pasha to be banged by a silken cord instead of a hempen rope. In the pro- vinces the editor is obliged to sub- mit the manuscripts to the censor be- fore they can be printed. In the capi- tals the newspaper must be submitted in printed form not later than 11 p. m. on the day‘ before its appearance. Thus Russian dailies are unable to publish telegrams and news which arrive too late to be set up by the hour named. But obtaining permission to estab- lish a newspaper is only the first step which the proprietor has to take.‘ The periodical must have an editor, and in respect of this functionary a further permission is required. It has oc~ curred over and over again that a whole list of candidates for an editor- ship has failed to receive ofiicial sanc- tion, and this refusal need not neces- sarily be accompanied by any explana- tion. One need not, therefore, be sur- prised that many editor's serve no other function than to lend their name with the object of satisfying the of- ficials. Even after the permission to publish is granted, and the editor of- ficially sanctioned, the real troubles” only then begin. By everybody and on all hands the provincial paper is .bullied and harassed. Certainly, it dare not offend any official, from the highest to the lowest. A few months ago, for instance, there was published in the official “Turkestnuskyn Vcdo- mesti” a document which, had it ap- peared in any English paper, would pass for a huge joke. It was a copy of a complaint made by an oflicial to his chief to the clfect that an editor had dared to print an article “On the possibility of exterminating black beetles in the city." The complaint read as follows: “As there appeared in the local paper an article about the extermination of black beetles in the city, which thus implies the possibility of improvements in the district in- trusted to me, and is thereby prejudi- cial to my authority in the eyes of the inhabitants, I regard it as advisable to order that any article concerning my district shall first be sent to me for examination and correction.” In so humiliating a position as that ex- emplified by this complaint there is surely no other press in the world, not excepting even Turkey. ' The metropolitan press, however, is less subject to official tyranny. It can quite freely discuss beetles, not be- cause thcrc is- nobody to prohibit the offence, but because the authority of the officials in the capitals does not largely depend upon the number of black beetles in St. Petersburg or Mos- cow. thn, however, any city official considers his authority really menaced by the metropolitan press, the latter is in no less deplorable a state than the provincal. When a. Minister con- siders it desirable to exclude a particul- lar question from public discussion, he unceremoniously sends round to the editors a circular to this effect, and any editor who neglects to comply with the circular is liable to be pun- lshed. . His Duty. ' Lord Aberdeen tells the following story of himself: He left London at midnight in a sleeping car for the North. In the morning, when he was awakened, he saw a stranger opposite him. “Excuse me," said the stranger, “may I ask if you are rich?” Somewhat surprised, His Inrdship replied that he was tolerably well~to- do. “May I ask,” continued 'the stran~ gcr, “how rich you are?” - . “Well, if it will do you any good to know," was the reply, “I suppose I have several hundred thousand pounds.” “Well,” went on the stranger, "if I were as rich as you, and snored as loudly as you, I should take a whole car, so as not to interrupt the sleep of others."—Graphic. 3, _ Advertise inthe G 1:46 returns. . . 15 lwl :Z-l MAKING ARTIFICIAL EARS. AZDelicate Task and an Expensive Product of Vulcanized Blabber. In a certain New York workshop the other day, where niuch scientific work is .done, there was shown to ’9; Tribune representative .1 little box some seven or eight inches long, less than two inches broad, and hardly half an inch high. “There’s $500 worth of goods in that box,” said the foreman, as he lifted off the cover, displaying five rubber cars lying in cotton. “These are for four difierent men and one woman— you see that little ear there—and .all they need now is for the artist to call for them and touch ’em up according to little slips we’ll give themtelling just how the coloring should go on. We studied our customers carefully when we took the orders. “A hundred dollars seems a big price, doesn’t it, to pay for a little thing like one of those cars that’s so flexible you can crumple it up in your hands easily? But people that have never made artificial ears have no idea of the work that is on them. “When finished the new ear is past- . ed on the old stump, or simply set pre- cisely where the old car was, and not :one man in a thousand can tell the dif- ference. It is really only the first car that is expensive. What costs is to make the mould. If a man has his mould with us we will give him dupli- cate ears for about $20 each. There is one customer on our books hailing from Chicago who buys five cars a year from us, on an average. I don’t know what he does with them all, but he seems to want them. “The demand, take it altogether, is limited, and I don’t suppose we ever turn out more than twenty new cars a year. “'e have only been making them up to our present standard a couple of years, by the way.” QUEEN VICTORIA’S DRAWING. It Was of Her First Baby, Now the Mother of the German Emperor. A great deal is now being written about Queen Victoria, because she has just broken the record by the length of her reign in English history. Many pictures of her are also printed. Some- thing which has a. greater personal in- terest than any of these is a sketch of her first baby, which she made her- self. . The baby is the present Empress Frederick of Germany, mother of the German Emperor. When her mother sketched her she was six months old,. and wore long clothes. In the corner- III; .3 ., THE QUEEN’S DRAWING. of the drawing may be seen the leg- end. “V. R. del ct scit, 22, 2, 184.1, showing that Her Majesty has not only drawn but engraved this work of art. The drawing is both rare and curi- ous. The Queen has dabbled consid- erably with the brush and pencil, but has seldom permitted a work of such a. family character as this to be pub- lished. It is said by her blographcrs that she had much skill as an artist, and although this may be a courtly remark, it is pretty certain that she worked with commendable industry to acquire many accomplishments. The drawing, though rough, is not without merit. Probably she was giv- ing too much attention to domestic details at the time to finish it very carefully. The manner in which the baby is represented is a pretty and ingenious one. It is held up so that its royal person almost hides the face of the nurse. The parrot adds to the homely character of the scene. — the Plain Old Woman. New, Housemaid—Who is that ele- gant young lady, cook, that I met coming in? Cook~—That’s my sister; been to call on me. New I-Iousemaid—And that stylish lady in blue silk? Cook—That’s our laundress New Housemand—Then who was the plain old woman in black? Cook—«That’s the Llarlnrn. A Terror to Women. The big lift bridge over the river at South Halsted street, Chicago, accord- ing to Superintendent Maurice Wall, is responsible for more nervousness 'among the women of that locality than all the ten and coffee they drink. Most of the women who are carried up with the bridge are caught while trying to hurry across, and the effect on them of the 230 feet to which the platform is raised is both pitiful and ludicrous. When the bridge begins to ascend to allow a vessel to pass under, they stand at the railing and gaze over, but by the time the bridge has been raised fifty feet most of them are as pale as death. They rush for the center of the bridge and grasp the iron support- ing rods, which they grip as though that were all there was between them and a fall into the river. Every crenk or jolt apparently throws them into spasms of fear. Some of the women become so dizzy While standing even in the middle of the bridge that they are obliged to sit upon the platform and cover their eyes. When the platform descends again there is always a great rush for the approaches, and hysterical exclama- tions of: “You’ll never catch me on that horrible thing again." Called Him. “So you want to be my son-in-law, do doy?" :‘ked the old man, with as much fiercencss as he could assume. “Well,” said the young man, stand- ing first on one foot and then on the other, “I suppose I’ll have to be if I marry Mamie.”—Cincin.nati Enquirer. A pain in the chest is nature’s warning that pneumonia. is threatened. Dampen a piece of flannel with Chamberlain’s Pain Balm and bind over the seat of pain and another on the back between the shoulders. and prompt relief will follow. Sold by E. P. Weed, Drugist. For Children’s Skin scalp, and hair, nothing in the whole world is so cleansing, purifying, and beautifying as CUTICURA SOAP purest and sweetest for toilel,batb, and nursery. For distressing facial eruptions,irritations of the scalp, dry, thin. and falling hair,.rcd, rough hands, chafings, inflammations, and simple baby rashes and blemishes, it is wonderful. Sold throughout the world. Sale greater than the com- , bleed sales of all other skin soaps. l‘orrsn DRUG Ilsa CHEM. Coma. Sole l’rops., Boston.U. S. A. . n I 03" “ new to Purify and Bcnunlr Baby 3 Skin, free. . sm—cmros' COAT. JOHN T HAYES Newsdealer and Stationer. The Celebrated BAZAR GLOVE-FITTING PATTERNS. ‘ Best and newest designs in the world. 15c N0 5 MAIN STREET. NORWAL" J. D. Jennings. UNDERTAKER 1 Knight street. opposite Street Railway Devon NIGHT bELL AI OFFICE. PLYMOUTH ROCK ICE. Stores and Families Supplied. Lowest Rates. v Piano Lessons. RS. GEORGE W. BRAD LEI. (daughter _ of the late_Wm. R. Nash.) Rives efii cc and satisfactory Instructions on the Plant) at her [home No. 193 Mam street. . The One Store for Children Only. Nothing like it in all the World! No other assortment of Children’s things begins to be as large I always getting just exact size and shape—the lateststyle—the most desirable effect, for Boy or Girl. of any age,from Hat. .0 Shoes—And at a modei':=.c price. BEST 8: f3" . No place where you are so sure of the . article yen want—the LllJi‘Ul‘lAl‘l . BAZAAR 66-62 West 23d St.. New York. THE E vex ING GAZETTE The Etna Life Ins.- 0f Harth'd, Conn... Has GIVen and Lower Cost To Policy Holders than I ANY OTHER Company HEOOHO OF POLIOY HO. "6,282. Annual Premium, - - - and 20'years insurance for $1.000. The SucCess _E. E. HALLOCK, General Agent, 5 Hubinger Bldg., New Haven. Larger Dividends In the UNITED ST Issued in 1876, at the age of»30, for $1.000. 20-year Endowment. $46. I 6. 20 Full Premiums, - - A - . Less 20 Dividends, - - - - $333 33'. Net cost, - . - - - $663 8—9:. MORGAN G. BULKELEY, President. J 011 N I. 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Bates on apt-l “flit“- yours and others had read it‘. how much at OAHHIIOES, WAOOHS, BIOYOLES, HIHHESS AHO HORSE EVEH BICYCLE .- HANDLE -. BARS, . WAGONS CARRIAGES & SLEIGHS At LUTHER M. WRIGHT’S, Carriage Factors and Repository, Franklinlr Madison Sis" So. Horwalk. a
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