K’s" I' u . '_ The _Sun, First of American Newspapers. CHARLES. A. DANA, Editor». The American Constitution, the American Idea, the American Spirit. These first, last, and all the time. forever. DAILY, by mail,.........- $6 ayear Daily and Sunday, by mail,.. $8 a year THE. SUNDAY SUN is the Greatest Sunday Newspaper in the world. Prioe 5o a Copy. By Mail $2 a Year Address THE SUN, .*ew York. Telephone Service. The Southern W New EHEIaIIII OFFERS Telephone Go- TELEPHONE SERVICE in this City with an equipment of Metallic a year Circuit, and Long Dis- tance Transmitter at and upwards. according to the amount and character of the service. For details, address the Local Ofiice of the Company, Sonlinel B’ld’g., ti sailing; lonSl., SOUTH N OR'WALK. HEATING STOVES, At Reduced Prices! ELECTRIC 01L HEATERS With Pure Combustion. New Patterns in Lam 5. Din- ner q. Torlet Ware, _ancy China_& Housefurmsh- mg Goods. F. J. CURTIS & CO. 23 , MAIN STREET, NORWALK. Raymond (2 Son. Successorsto George H.Raymond . Furniture Dealers and General Funeral Directors. _ l6 and 48 Main Street Norwalk Ct Residence, Berkeley Place. elepha eNn. 7 7.4 HALE’S - BALSAM 25C. Ask Your Druggist Mrs. MEAD’S... “SCHOOL WILL REOPEN SEPTEMEEUa 1896. ALL , APPLICATIONS For admission should be made at Hillside at an early day. - AT’ 4 P. W... BATES’ 42 WATER smear, you can find as fine ‘an assortment of Monumentalicuetariiinrl As can be found in any Yard in the State. Look it over and get prices before going elsewhere. J. D. Jennings. UNDERTAKFR 4 Kniiht street opposite Street Railway spot. NIGHT BELL AT OFFICE. m—v . specter}. ye. » » w”. ~~~~9w~u -oqmmrnrvwwg vv—nv‘t-MH‘M 'THE? ooe coUL‘nN'T LICK-”THE Fox. ’ HERE IS A New AND DIREAIID DISEASE H . [t is Spread by Sickrarrotu and Closely Resembles Tuberculosis.- ' Psittacosis is the name of a newly discovered disease which the physi- cians of New York will be upked to in- vestigate. In consequence of this in- vestigation, pets of the wealthy and the comforters of the declining year: of elderly maidens will sufler, for psit- tacosis has been traced directly to the parrot. From parrots this disease has been communicated to men, and among men it is rapidly spreading. Psitta- cosis has heretofore been mistaken for consumption, but French scientists have shown that it is ‘more to bc dreaded than tuberculosis. For this reason the attention of pathologists and all progressive men of medicine is be ing directed to the newly discovered disease. - To Dr. Novard, the French scientist belongs the credit for finding the difK ference between psittacosis and tuber- culosis. Dr. Novard has been pursu- ing his investigations in Andral Hos pital, which is in the Rue des Toun nelle, in Paris. .This famous old insti- tution, which was originally 8. mon- archy, and was taken by the populace during“ the revolution and converted into a hospital, is in a locality which is given over largelyto stores for the sale of domestic pets of every descrip- tion. For the past five years Dr. No- .vard noticed that number-less owners and employes of these stores were brought to Andral Hospital, seemingly suffering from consumption. In every case the patient seemed to have been afllicted suddenly. Great robust men and women were stricken withoui warning, and while after the disease was once fairly started it run its course exactly like tuberculosis, Dr. Novard finally came to believe that it was n01 consumption. It was in symptoms which were regarded as being of minor significance that Dr. Novard thought he detected a difference in the cases of the majority of Andral Hospital pa- tients and other people sufiering from consumption. . The disease was originally contracted by people, it was found, by the handl- ing of unhealthy parrots. Sometimes the- food the sick parrots had picked over got under the finger nails. The germs could thus be carried about for days if the parrot keeper was not par ticular about his toilet. Psittacosis, it was found, could be communicated Only to human beings from parrots. 11 would not spread among other ani- mals. ' There have been numerous cases in New York in recent Years where per- sons who have been bitten or scratched by parrots have died within a few days, supposedly from blood poisoning It has been psittacosis and not blood poisoning that has caused death. There are dozens of cases of this kind on re cord. Among the most notable cases which have come under my own personal ob servation was that of Mrs. Charles Osgood, who died at the Stuyvesant House, after she had been bitten on the lip by her parrot. Her face soon puffed out to frightful proportions. She died in fearful agony within thirty hours after she had been bitten—New York Journal. Knew His Business. . Early in the World’s Fair year a well known Chicago Board of Trade ~ man got caught in a crowd at the ter- minal station and never afterward saw a. gold watch for which he had paid $250 a few months before. Three weeks later another time piece which cost $200 disappeared in precisely the same way. Since then the broker has carried a watch which from outward appearances would be dear at $1.50. The cases are of nickel, thinly plated with gold, Which has worn off in spots. The works, how- ever, are as costly as can be bought in the Chicago market. . Tuesday night he came down town to hear the election returns. In front of a newspaper bulletin he was rude- ly jostled by a crowd of shouting par- tisans. When he reached home his watch was missing, from its accus- tomed vest pocket. He mourned a good deal and swore much more volu- bly and with far greater emphasis than his wife ever had known him to em- ploy before. While preparing to retire, however, he found the missing watch. It was in a hip pocket and the chain guard was fastened to a suspender buckle behind The enterprising thief who had stolen the watch had taken time to glance at it, and believing it worthless had slipped the watch back into another pocket and fastened the chain. Who says that Chicago pickpockets are not expert? And who ever heard of one being beaten at his own game before?—New York Herald. Terrorized b'y’Germs. The germ fad is the latest. Its vic- tim thinks that bacilli lie in wait for him on every object he touches. One millionaire in this city is made miserable by germs that exist mainly in his brain. Whenever he wants to go ir'~~ or .ut of a room he first wraps a pil 1: f. clean tissue paper around- the haunts of the door before turning it. If he desires to read a book which some other member of his family has been using he first covers it with a sheet of this paper, and he never re- ceives money from any one if he can possibly help it without its having- previously been washed. Should ne- cessity, hoWever, compel him to handle coin which has not passed .thrOugh this process, he receives ittwith a piece of tissue paper between the metal and the hand. This man affects a certain restau- rant where his particular ideas are re- He wipes every dish before using. ' ”a" 50 the Two “lent Bear Hunting Together and Become Fast Friends. as handsome brown eyes \as animal ever had, came on the run swinging down the old Pardy clearing up in Herkimer county, N. Y. At " first glance it seemed to resemble none of the Adirondack animals known to woodsmen. It was doglike, but lacked a tail. It was lanky like a young deer, but was dirty brown instead of white, spotted red. Its head, however, was of a shape and form, with ears, such as foxes have. After the resemblance to a fox was noted other features were seen to be caricatures of the fox, but the lack of a tail was explainable only by the suspicion that it had been shot or bitten off. Every six or eight rods the tramp fox stopped and looked back over his shoulder with his ears. cocked up. Be- fore he get across the clearing the yip- yip of Phil Perry’s fighting dog was heard over the ridge, and that showed why the fox was running and stop- ping to look back at that time of the day. Suddenly the fox turned and ran like a. streak on its back trail half a dozen rods, then it turned sharply to the right and leaped just as far as it could every jump for a score of times, then it lay down behind a'little clump of briars with its nose on its paws. Phil’s .dog came whooping along, look- ing squat when compared with the fox. Occasionally the dog would lick his chops as if he wanted to bite some- thing. thcu he got opposite the place where the fox had left the back trail, the dog did something that surprised the fox mightily. Instead of following the trail straight ahead, the dog turned square to the left and headed for the fox’s hiding place with ears laid back and teeth showing. The fox had made a fool of itself by running up wind so that the dog caught its scent. The fox must have been flab- bergasted somewhat, for it jumped to its feet and ran up the clearing a con- ple of rods, then turned and started for the woods, but the dog was too ,close. The fox budget to fight, and i that right away, if the dog could make it. The fox faced about and started at the dog full speed, and running low down, as if, it were keeping its knees ' bended. It looked just like a head-on collision, but it wasn’t. Just as the two were about to clzaw noses the fox Ijumpcd sideways, and turned in time to nip the dog in the flank as he went past in a way that drew blood. The dog turned after it had gone ten feet, and saw the fox headed for him with its ears laid back. whereupon the dog laid his cars back and made for the fox as before. The fox got close to the dog again, hopped sideways, and nipped the dog’s other flank. If ever a dog was fighting mad it was Phil’s fighting dog at that moment. He turned with a growl of rage, and, as before, the'fox was headed for him full tilt, apparently just as anxious as before for the rough-and-tumble grap- ple for which the dog was aching. That made the dog. forget his past ex- perience, and once more he made for the fox. This time the fox leaped over the dog, and bit him in the small of the back. It doubled the dog up in a heap, and he sat up to look over his shoulder at the fox, which was sitting on its haunches licking its chops, as if spitting out hair. Phil Perry’s fighting dog is uncom- monly smart, besides‘ being a fighter, and he knew when he was on the los- ing side of the trouble. Although the dog was about as strong as ever, and not at all winded, he knew that in the end he was bound to be whipped. He looked the fox in the eye, and licked his chops. The fox licked its chops. The dog showed his teeth. The fox The fox couldn’t, because it didn’t have any, but it looked as though it would like to wag. The (log then got up and began to trot off toward the woods, looking over his shoulder at the fox. The fox followed An hour later Albert Jones saw a deer crossing the Dix swamp chopping on the run. He waited, and in a few minutes heard the dog’s yip. When the dog came in sight on the trail the fox was along—side. The two had made up' and routed a deer. Phil’s dog has been in the woods more than ever. and it is believed he runs with the fox he couldn't lick. » ' Asparagus for the Czar. The asparagus served at the Elysee banquet cost the respectable sum of 3 francs per piece, or 90 francs the bun- dle. and any one fond of reckoning may form a guess as to the probable total cost of this course alone, and the amount consumed among 200 guests. Still the price was not unreasonable, all things considered, as asparagus during the. month of October has hitherto been an unrealized dream of cultivators. who so far have only man. aged with the greatest difficulty to raise a poor apology for the real vege- table in December by means of hot- houses and unccasing care and pains. Every one knows the difference be- tween the latter and fresh spring as- paragus, but that placed before the Czar was freshly cut, and in no whit inferior to the very best grown in Ap~ ril and May. The expensive dainty come from the far-famed gardens oi Carpentras, whence all the finest produce of the kind in Paris comes, and the growers of tha 1 district are justly proud of their lat- est success, which has excited much in- terest in horticultural cirCles, and will no doubt do lasting good— to the growers. . ' Thel‘l tness of Things. “Do you know,” said the man who was going to have a tooth pulled,“ “I don’t think ‘dcntal parlor’ is a good phrase.” “No?” “Drawing—room woulc I be much better.” \ 'A tall, ungainly sort of beast, with , grinned, too. The dog wagged his tail, T HE EV E N l N ha if A. Alli; l i .3: Lafi~.~n.u_.,....-.—ws'.. .._. .. .. .,. _ Croat Triumph, ‘ Instant relief and a permanent cule by the great remedy, Otto’s Cure for Lung and .Throat diseases. with a free sample bottle of this guaran teed remedy ? Its success is simply won- Sample free. Large bottles 50c and 25c Mrs. Ellen M. Pettit matron of 'he Danbury beepital, was badly injured by being thrown out of a wagon in that city yesterday. Mother, Have You 1) Baby :9 If so, get from your druggist today for 25cabottle 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 relieves all pain. Sold by all druggists. Another immense fiat stone, was con- veyed to-dav from Bates’ monumental yard to the Cowlcs’ tomb in Riverside avenue. Mother’s Find Nothing Equal to Dr. Hand’s Colic Cure. WATERBURY Conn, 4-°-’96-—Hand Medicine Caz—Dear Sirs:-—“I am using Dr. lland‘-~ Cough and Croup Medicine and Colic Cure for my'children and find no-lnng 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. Norwnlk is to have two more superior entertainments in the near future. One the Hospital benefit and the other the Lockwwd Hall entertainment. SAVE YOUR LIFE By using "The New Great South Ameri- can Kidney Cure.” This new remedy is a great surprise on account of its ex- ceeding promptness in relieving pain in the Kidneys, Bladder and Back in male or female. It relieves retention of water, and pain in passing it almost immediate- ly, Save yourselves by using this mar velous cure. Its use will prevent fatal consequences in almost all cases by its great alterative and healing powers. Sold by E. P. WEED, Druggist, Norwa‘lk, Conn. ‘ According to the R. C. calendar the 16th 18th and 19th of this month will be Winter Ember days. How to Cure :1 Severe Cold. A few weeks ago the editor was taken with a very sgvere 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 putting it very mildly, indeed. It acted like 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. Kabaosa Encampment, I. O. O. F. will confer the third degree on Thurs. day eveLing. _ .The annual meeting of St. John’s Lodge, F. & A. M. will be held on Thursday evening. John Hadden one of, the proprietors of the Preston House is in New York to-day on business. » A (21131531: iLX])el'l(:llcc.- Three years ago I was living in a can tIlCl travelling from town to town in the Stan of VVa‘shingion. In Cheney ] and a call from a real estate man Some way or other the talk drifted :o queer experiences. My friend told he he had one such experience in life, , and one only. Ten years before he was running a train out of Chicago as a conductor on one of the Burlington zines. One morning after heavy rains. when there was freshets in the streams, he stood upon the platform )f a way station about three miles from the crossing of a small river. He was about to signal his engineer to go iliead, when a voice spoke plainly in llS ear, “Look out for the bridge!” No one was standing near at the :ime. He walked forward and said to the engineer, “Jim, I\think you had )etter slow down at the curve just this aide of the bridge.” “There is nothing engineer, “or we would have had a wire from it.” “Perhaps there isn’t,” replied the conductor, “but you slow lown all the same.” There was a sharp :urve a short distance from the ap- proach to the bridge, so near, in fact,. :hnt it would have been impossible to stop the train after coming in sight of :he bridgehad it’been running at the renal rate of speed. The engineer slowed down. The bridge was gone. it had been carried away between the June the train left the last station and .ts arrival at the curve. Had it not seen for the mysterious warning the whole train would "have gone into the Even—«Chicago Times-Herald. Doggio Gets a Ride; It was a difficult matter to draw a well-defined line between instinct and intelligence. During the war I had with me my large Newfoundland dog, Felix. On the march this faithful ani- mal was always at the heels of my horse. On one occasion, I noticed that he was suffering from fatigue. Turn- ing to my servant near by, .1 said, ' ‘Stop hue Felix until my wagon comes up.” This was done. and ever after that when I said, “Felix,‘stop here and get into the wagonzwhen it- comes up,” he would leave the column, lie down in the shade, and await the coming up of my team to ride into camp—Animal _ , Friends. ’_)’ g 3'1‘ :. Why will you irri- , tate your throat and lungs with a terrible ; hacking cough when Edward P: Weed, Norwalk, or George C Stillson. South ‘ Norwalk, sole agents will furnish" you? derful, as your druggist will tell' you. | .7 Water sroel, and filled lbo same as u first-clam Plumbing, :he matter with the bridge,” said the , a ’1' 0. THE PEOPLE. OF NORWALK The ulzdorszgned buomg purobused the Plumbinguud Tin- m’ug business formerly concluded by Wm. P. Holmes at W0. Steam-filling. Gas and linumg Establishment, respectfully solz'czl a sbure of public patronage ‘ ' ‘ All work will have our personalsuperoz'szbn and inspect? z'ou, and be executed wile prompluess and thoroughness. «filly rue woullugfirsl—cluss work done at the lowest prices, will do well lo glw us a call. W o will cheerfully estimate on. all Plumbing, Gus-fillzug, Steam—filling, 7m and Sheet Iron work of every dew/bums. c/l ll jabbing will be alien/led to promptly. Hot air and steam haulers cleaned audpul z'u lliorouglz repair. Call or ad- dress, PHILLIPSON 5. BROWN, Practical Plumbers, Steam & Gas mm, rm and Sheet Iron Workers. 1 Water Street, llorwalk. NewYor and Norwal‘k ireigh line . DAI LY. PROPE LLERS 8in of Norwalk. Earle Land thoan . Will Leave Pier 23, E. R., N. Y. (Beedman St.). or, . NURWALK AND SUUEH NORWALK ; ATE; P. M. Leave South Norwalk Daisy are r. M. a Leave Norwalk Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 5 P. M. A BlilYGLE rare. We shall give away a High Grade Bicycle on the evening of December 24th,just in time for Christmas. Every cash purchaser of 25 cents’ worth will receive a c0upon. SO. NORWALK HARDWARE 00., South Main Street, South Norwalk. 0U read this advertisement. If it had been yours and others had read it, how much good it might have done. and we will do the rest. Send in your adv Rates on application. “ Boss Biscuit” famous. Grocers everywhere. ac. D. Boss a soar, LIFE WORTH LIVING with meals on time, Biscuits, Pics and Cake uniformly light, healthful and more economical, and so easy to obtain if you’ll only use always BOSS , BAKING POWDER not anuntricd article, but the one thing above all that has made our Over 3,000,000 pounds sold‘last year. see for yourself, a single trial will tell the whole story. MANUFACTURED SOLELY BY NEW .rwmnnnnmm just LONDON, CONN._- . , i PLYMOUTH ROCK lCE. Stores and Families Supplied. Lowest Rates. Feather Baas Renovated. Feather Boas. Becurled to Lock as Good as When New, ~ at Moderate Coat. ' NO. 26 BE LDEN AVENUE. 311m BELL TWICE. .. III-D TIN Rom: FOR ‘SALE . AT A BARGAIN. our." GAZETTE .orrlor'.
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