5; .ua ran :EVENINNGWG A'zETrEg FREE UTTQNST ELEGANT BUTTON FREE WITH EACH PACKAGE Sweet general Cigarettes , c AH OPPORTUNITY TO itidilE A WLIEiiTIdtio IF IIITTo’liiS ‘ WITHOUT COST. i 'ix "o 1-1}; L“ .."..'—...» ... «”30, h!"'1“_" ‘ ‘5 __ ;. .. “13232in a:’ fifiwgfizfim;.5§ '- «.~ .4».sz I I LIGHT PARCEL and LUIIKWIIBB S PACKAGE DELIVERY Cheap rates. Will also take orders for mes manger service in New York: Goods called .orand delivered to all parts of the town. orders received at E. P. Weed’s Drug Store Wall Street, with telephone connection im- 3,, e E. Leekwoon. ATM P. W. BATE? 42 WATER STREET, "you can find as fine an assortment of IiIIlIIIlIIlIillIflIXIGBIIIBItIYWUIK As can be found in any Yard in the State. Look it over and get prices before going elsewhere. :3; a *W. H. HAYWARD 8: CO. Prnoron Attorneys and Solicitors, 109 East capitol Street, WASH INGTON, D. C?’ All classes of claims prosecuted before the Interior Department. Rejected pension claims a specialty. Correspondence solicited. Binonsonooronn hllnlIllE A PIIIIE MALT EXTRAGT. V A SUBSTITUTE FOR SOLID FO‘OD. Highest percentage Extract. . Lowest percentage Alcohol. An eiIectiveTonic. An agreeable Beverage. A mild.Stimu- lant. Just what phySiCians wrll pre- scribe for Nursing Mothers. Convales- cents and victims of Insomnia or Nerv- ous Disorders resulting from Impaired ' Digestion and Overwork.‘_ For Sale and Delivered Anywhere Lone“ Island Bottling to... 280-284- Bergen St.. Brooklyn, FOR SALE BY EDWARD P. WEED. PRIVATE Instructions given in BOXING at the pupil’s home. 3 CLASS Now foiming, and ap- plicants desiring to join should apply at once to Prof. Geo. Yoerger, South? Norwaik. or at this office. no You Know That you can save money. by buying your Meats and Fish at F. W. SMITH’S, 55 Main.8treet glorything First Class. OPEN EVENINGS --n A TRAITOR AN EXPENSIVE LUXURY. Capt. Dreyfus Costs France $12,000:; Year and is Making His Keepers Crazy. ~ Captain DrenyS was found guilty of divulging army secrets by the gov- ernmentfif France two years ago. There are not many nations in Eu-V rope rich enough to treat themselves to a traitor like Captain Dreyfus, who is assuredly the dearest object in that line that ever existed. The Figaro says that France might, perhaps, have four heroes for the same price. The government ma- chine, with its usual genius, has so skilfully arranged matters that it costs $12,000 a year to maintain in a distant islet a. man who has been de- graded publicly for treason. If he lives only twenty years, which would not be extraordinary, he will have cost his countrymen, reckoning in the in- terest, a little more than $400,000. Never did any man who saved his country cost as much as that. It is also the first time on record that any human being inspires a great enough interest for people to spend 14,000 francs a year merely to learn the condition of his health. Ifa Minr ister happens to dream some night that Dreyfus has escaped, that costs 1,500 francs in telegrams the next morning. If Dreyfus catches cold it takes 10,000 francs to announce the event to the proper authorities, while if a German or English vessel is sighted sailing past the Ile au Diable we have to pay 2,000 francs. Besides this the keepers and watch- men on the island are subjected to the most cruel discipline. ,One has gone mad on account of the weight of responsibility, two men have been de- voured by sharks in going from the island where the Governor lives to the Ileaau Diable to find out how Captain Dreyfus had slept at night, and pale, nervous, restless beings are seen walking about anxiously with a frightened look, startled and driven out of their wits at the slightest sound, having hardly time to eat and sleep; they never take their eyes off a very tranquil person, who walks his hundred paces after breakfast, smok< ing his pipe with his hands behind his back. They are people with a clear conscience-who watch a man who has committed a crime. HUMOR OF THE WEEK. Teacher—“Yes, I’ve noticed it about his classes.”—Life. ~ Mary (to departing young man)— “Adieu, adieu.” Mary’s little brother ——“That fellow’s adieu’d, ain’t he?” “Spring chicken, sir,” said the wait- er, as he put the half of a diminutive fowl before a patron of a table d’hote. Jack Witherspoon—“Why do you sing all the time?” Jim Westhall— “To kill time.” Jack Witherspoon— “You have a good weapon.”-—Prince- ton Tiger. Enthusiastic Father—“Don’t you think I ought to make a scientist of. that boy of mine? I suppose you’ve noticed his way of going to the bot- tom of things?” Harry—“Bo-hoo! Bo—hoo! Freddy Jones keeps hitting me.” Nurse—“An’ why don’t you hit him back?” Harry ——“I did hit him first, and it didn’t do any good.”—Life. "It certainly can’t be a summer one,” remarked the diner, as he dis- posed of the portion in a single mouth- ful. “One swallow does not make a summer.”——New York Sun. At the Club—“W’hy, Chollie, you have on an afternoon dwess, and it’s only hawf—pawst eleven!” “Deah me! deah me! That fool of a valet of mine must have been dwunk again.”— Judge. Couldn’t Look Like It—Brown.—— “Whose umbrella is this? It looks like the one I lost.” Smith—“I don’t see how it can for I scraped the han- dle and altered it generally.”——The Bostonian. Two little girls were playing jack- stones on a Fifteenth street front step. “I can do four-ems,” said one, as she swept up the four jacks- “what’s the most-ems you can do?”— Philadelphia Record. A Bad Break—Bags (to fellow tramp).—“Gosh! Why did they set the dog on ye?” Taggs._—“I axed that woman up there if she couldn’t fix me out wid some cast-off clothes, an’, by thunder, she’s an old maid.”—Judge. The Chicago Eye—Goodun.—“A Yale professor argues that the mil- lenium will begin within eight years.” Chicagoan—“‘1 wonder if we can ar- range to have it begin with the open- ing of the World’s Falr?”—New York Herald. Young man, if it is a little crowded where you now find yourself, climb up, and you’ll 'find that the higher you get the less dense will be the pop- ulation and the less close the compe- tition. There’s any quantity of room higher up.—-Dansville Breeze. Professional Spitefulness—Mollie.— . “I felt I played that scene remarkably well tonight. My enthusiasm com- pletely carried me away. I became so absorbed that the audience disap- peared”——— Bertelle (interrupting).— “Yes, I noticed them, dear.”—-Judge. Her Strong Point—She.—“I see that the Wayout Central railroad has of- fered a prize to the fireman who can fire up the quickest.” He.—“You would win that prize, if they would let you compete.~ You can fire up quicker than any one I ever saw.”— The Bostonian. “Quite a charming gin-1,. that Miss Tillson,” remarked the young man who has written a book, in a patron- izing tone. “She asked me if I wouldn’t put her in my next novel.” “Yes,” replied his hated rival, “that is just like her.” “How do you mean?” “She never did care much for society. always seemed to prefer complete se- clusion to anything else.”-~'fi';rslling‘ ton Post. . ‘ _ eyes were sightless. . Jones ?” _ ‘ ..___._ _.__.__.——__..__...—._— HAS EYE8 LIKE AN OWL. A 3119.3 “'lm Can See Only When Dn‘kness Casts Her DIan‘tle Over the Ligbt. This is a strange case of Jenny C. Lanner, whose eyesight was . . ined for daylight, but of perfect vis a at night. Ten years ago he was workin. in a foundry when a shower of moltc: iron struck his face and both his eyes. He was carried to a hospital, stone blind, and when the wounds had healed and the bandages 'could be removed both He tried to rec- oncile himself to this awful affliction through the first day after the wrap- pings had been taken from his eyes. That night, however, happening to awake after the light had been put out in his room, he found to his amazement that he could see every object about him distinctly—chairs, books, the figures on the wall paper and carpet were seen as plainly as he had formerly beheld them in the day- time. He lay awake until morning, overjoyed as a man brought out of a living grave. But- as the light of dawn flooded through his windows the world became dark to him, and he could see nothing when the morning light became strong. The next night he found that he could read a newspaper in the dark- ness and write letters, while in the day he could only dimly recognize the outlines of people and buildings. A REMARKABLE TOWN. Norwich, in England, is Slowly Sinking into the Earth. Assuredly the most curious town in England, and the most upside-down looking place, is Norwich. As the stranger walks up one of its streets he wonders whether he is the victim of a disordered imagination or whether an earthquake has been vis- iting the locality. Here two houses are leaning one against the other, as if for mutual support; three more are leaning from each other as if in sul- len anger; higher up are dwellings sunken in the center or at the ends; the pavement on one side in certain places is higher than the other, while a little further on it is lower. In short, everything has a general appearance of topsy—turveydom in this town of what are described as “drun- ken houses.” The cause of it all is not far to seek. Norwich, as every- one knows, or ought to know, is the centre of the salt industry, and it is the drawing of brine and rock salt for the manufacture of this very neces— sary commodity that is the moving factor in the mischief. On nearly all sides of the town are big salt works, with their engines pumping hundreds of thousands of gallons of brine every week, while the extensive mines of rock salt are being cut in all direc- tions. WIT AND HUMOR. Dressmakers are of a necessity peo- ple of much bias—Merchant Traveller. A lynching party always travels at a breakneck pace—Merchant Trav. eller. . Fisheries treaties are. usually pro— vided with a lobster c!aws.—-Pittsburg Chronicle. IVhen a man is hopelessly in love it greatly tncreases his sighs—Boston Courier. The harmless banana skin if often the first. step in a downward career.— Norristown Herald. Li Hi is the name of the King of C-orea. He ought to make a fine cam- paign document.—I\‘ashington Critic. Marine Note—A clipper difiers from a cutter :u that it shears off more read- ily—«Torre Haute Express. The third party may be useful in polir tics, but it can be dispensed with in courtship—Boston Courier. Next to waiting for a verdict the most sod—harrowing employment is. keeping baby asleep—Milwaukee J our- nal. He Went—Jack Toosoon—“I’d like you to be my wife, Ethel.” Ethel Un- ready—“Well, it’s a half go. You go.”- —-Puck. Il'lien it is only one minute after 8 o’clock it is past 8. When it‘ is thirty minutes after 8 it is only half past 8.— Detroit Free Press. Jay Gould began his business career by sweeping out a broker’s office. sequently be cleaned out the broker.— Yonkers Statesman. - “Wheat is on the jump,” says a St. Louis commercial writer. This must be spring wheat—Louisville Courier Journal. - The Chicago ball players do not ap- pear to have been very deeply im- pressed , with the Pyramids. They don’t like cheops without tomato sauce—Chicago Herald. “The women at Anthony advertised a ‘Bloomer social.’ All the men in town attended, and got mad when they gonad that ‘bloomers’ meant flowers.”7-Ellsworth Reporter. He—“What do you think of young She—“I think if he had lived in Biblical days, Balaam’s ass would never have attained such promi- nence."-—Harlem Life. When a man tries to get even with anybody by going to a saloon and get- ting drunk, he always reminds us of a fly trying to get even with a sheet of fly paper by wipingits feet on it.— Dansville Breeze. Drink and the gang drinks With you; swear off and you go it alone; for the bar room bum who drinks your rum has a quenchless thirst of his own; feast," and your friends are many; fast, and they cut you dead; they’ll not get mad if you treat them bad, so long as" their stomachs are fed. Steal if you get a million, for then you can furnish bail; it’s the great big thief that gets out on leave, while the little ones go to jail.——Ex- change. Sub-‘ it i Many a free man who is sick would willingly change pl a c 65 w it h a healthy convict. A man might as well be shut out of en- ‘0 eat one wag gisygiiother. If he is shut up in a cell, he cannot engage in active pleasures. He cannot see the ' beauties of nature .. '. . , and art, but he can . .. imagine them, and ~ ' ’ ’._ "_:" so get some benefit Q“) ’3 from them. _ A ‘ K T ’ I: " man who is Sick has these things before him, but he doesn’t see them as they exist. He cannot look on anything with appreciative eyes. His phy- sical condition warps his vismn and his men- tality. He cannot enjoy anything, no matter how enjoyable it may be in the abstract. A man with a foul taste in his mouth, With a bilious headache, and with pOisonous refuse matter circulat'ng all through his body can. not enjoy anyt ing. He honestly believes that the world is all wrong, and that it is a mighty poor place to be in. He is blue, despondent, cynical. Life isn’t_worth 11v- in to him. Such a simple thing causes this condition that it is absurd and ndicu- lous to think of a sensible man remaining in it. Symptoms like these come from con- stipation. It is the most prevalent of all causes of sickness. It makes a man worth- less for work or pleasure. It 15.8. stubborn trouble when you do not treat it «properlyg and a simple one when you do. It is cure by Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets. They were made for this purpose, and no other. They accomplish this purpose as no other prep- aration ever did. ’An unscrupulous druggisl may try to sell you something else. Look out I It is your health that is at stake. It is your health against an extra pro 1: on the thing he says is “just as good.” Doctoi Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets—don’t forget- don’t take anything else. \‘v The People’s Commciir Salas: \ . ical A viser, in am n- % gigs or Medicine Simpplified by _ R.V. Pierce, M. D.,Chief Consult- “m' " ing Physician tothejnvalids' Ho- tel and Surgical Institute, Bufl‘alo, " . N. Y., 1008 pages, illustrated. 680.000 copies sold at $.50. Now sent, paper-bound, ABSOLUTELY FREE on receipt of 2; one-cent - stamps to pay for mailing only. Address the Author. as above. SENTRAL NATIONAL“ BANK, 746 WALL ST... NORWALK. CORPORATED SEPT. i. 1876. CAPITAL. - - - - - - $100.0“: GEORGE M. HOLMES. President. E. L. Bomn. Vice-President. WILLIAM A. CURTIS, Cashier: prawns : Gnoncn lII. Homins, H. E. DANN, P. L. CUNNINGHAM, J. T. Pnowrr'r E. L. Bevan, S. H. HOLMES, J. Consms. J n. tilsoounl flay, Saturdavo DAVID . W. RAYMOND Funeral Director and Ennalrror 39 Washington Street'Souih Norwalk Residence. Mahackemn Hotel. U The onzorro: it‘ll ~ rnll‘llrllG WISE . Merchants, M anuna m m ers, Lodges and Societies will consult their own one}: ests by giving us a call. REMEMBER- -If you haw work to do, write to us. monuments. Just enemie- take and we. are hurt. A-A That is the Reason Why - DSCHLEIGHER & SON | P Iurniture. Exchange. ARE WHAT THEY ARE. HONEST WIIHKAT Ali HONESTPBICE Lei :i‘us build you a piano to match yon. Come and see our factory. Pianos Sold on Easy Terms and Old Ones Taken in factory: Pacific St... Stamford. I ‘55 MOTHER DIES OF JOY. 1119 saw: at Her Cripple Boy, After Year! of Separation, PrOvcsFat-al. ‘When Fritz Nuttman parted from ”his mother in Cassel, Germany, no one would have guessed that /he would survive her,for the boy had been a weakling from birth, whereas his mother bore her sixty odd years with all the vigor for which a coun- try-bred frau is remarkable . Fritz was a cripple. That misfortune, cot:;.led with frequent attacks of ill- ness, had made him shy and sensi- tive. it still—in his meagre face and in his plaintive blue eyes. He had one, passion; it was for music. And he be- lieved he had genius. But it seemed to him that in his own country, among the people who had been familiar for so many years with his misshapen form, he was handicapped in the race for fame. . So the young musician made. up his mind to sail for America, where he might hope to pass unnoticed until he was ready to compel the world‘s no- tice, and where he might recover in a measure from the self-consciousness that sailed, but not alone. His sister Kat~ rina, who had nursed him in sickness, and shared his dreams in health, would not be left behind. "You can- not do‘without me, Fritz,” she said. And Fritz was glad enough to have her with him. , Letters from their mother kept them informed that she was in good health, that their little sister Ma- thilda had grown into a big, strong girl, and that the, day when all four would be reunited was a constant theme of joy in the old home. At last it was arranged. Mrs. Neumann and Mathilda should pack up all their Lain-engings and come to New York, where Fritz would take care of them so lonj,r as there were people in the Anncxed District who wanted to learn to play the piano. At the pier Fritz and rliatrina met their aunt, their mother’s sister, who had left Cassel in her girlhood forty- iour years before. They were stand- ing together in a group as the big steamer was swung into her berth, and they all recognized Mathilda and her mother as the latter leaned over me railing of the promenade deck. Tears were in all their eyes as the mother came toward them, with her glad cry of “ir‘ritz! Fritz! How I have longed for this day!” They clustered around her, plying her with, ques- tions, and led her to the waiting room. 'She sank into the nearest seat. “Fritz! Fritz!” she murmured again, and then her lips fell apart in a changeless smile. There was some- thing beside joy in her upturned eyes. Fritz ran for restoratives, .and somebody else ran for the ship’s doc- tor. But joy had done its work, and the mother was dead. ' Her heart had been too weak to bear the agitation of neeting her loved ones. His Treaciierous Illeniory. It happened in Lewiston on the night of the McGillicuddy banquet. The man himself told me about it, as follows": My memory isn’t very good, and I had several things on my mind. When I went out Tuesday night I in— tended to come home early, but I dropped into the spread at the Hotel Atwood, and it was past 2 a. m. when I struck my doorstep. You ought to have seen me sneak up to my front door and fumble for my key. I reckon that no one ever did a slicker job than I did. I haven’t been out so late for months, but I got into the hallway without making any noise, and I sat down on the stairs and removed my shoes. I learned that when I was courting my wife. W'liy, I have done slicker jobs in getting out of her house and into mine without waking either of the families than Spike Hennessy ever did in his palmiest days of bur~ glary. I went up stairs to the cham- ber door and pushed on it. It creaked some, but it gave way, and I wasin. I expected to hear some one say: ‘Will, is that you?” but no one did, although I fancied I heard the .soft breathing of my wife. I didn’t light the gas. Not I. I slipped off my clothes; decided not to wind my watch for fear of it’s click; found my robe de nuit, slipped into it, and edged around to my side of the bed. Then I calmly and steadily and deftly slipped in. I was alone! She was gone! . And then I remembered that she had been away two days, and I had known it all the time, if I had only stopped to think. “Sober?” Certsinly I was. I hadn’t drank anything, but spring water and Wor- cestershire sauce. Fruit as Medicine. Why for ages have people eaten apple sauce with their roast goose and suckling pig? Simply because the acids and peptones in the fruit assist in digesting the fats so abundant in this kind of food. For the same rea- son, at the end of a heavy dinner, we eat our cooked fruits, and when we want their digestive action even more developed, we take them after din- ner in their natural uncooked state as desert. In the past ages instinct has taught men to do this; to-day science tells them why [they did it, and this same science tells us that fruit should be eaten as an aid to di- gestion of other foods much more than it is now. Cultivated fruits, such as apples, pears, cherries, strawberries, grapes, etc., contain on analysis very similar proportions of the same ingre- dients, which are about 1 per cent. of malic and other acids and 1 per cent. of fleshafOi'rning albuminoids, with over 80 per cent. of water. One could see it—one can see . tormented him at home. He'
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