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Branch Offlce of GAZETTE No. 12
North Maln Street
The Corset factory started up this
morning.
The public schools reopened this
morning. .
Captain 009 will install the officers
of Douglas Fowler Post to-night.
The funeral of Michael Carew was
held from St. Mary’slchurch this morn-
ing. »
General Hubbard, of Bridgeport,and
other state officials will install the offi-
,cers of the Union Veteran Union this
evening. .
C. V. Allen of Taylor avenue who
was injured at Wilson Point last’ Tues-
day was able to sit up for a short time
yesterday.
The case of C. H. Harvey vs. John
Weisett, will come up before Justice
George D. Keeler on January 7, at 10
o’clock a. m.
The mnual meeting of the .stockhol
ders of the City National Bank, for the
election of directors, will be held on
January 12. _
The annual meeting of the Connecti-
cut Oyster Growers’ association will be
held in the Atlantic {Hotel in Bridge-
port Jan. 12, one week from to-morrow.
The chief business will be the election
of ofiicersm‘
The funeral of Mrs. Jennie Crofut,
was‘held yesterday afternoon from the
home of her mother, Mrs. E. L. Mitch-
ell, on South'Main street. The inter;
ment was at Riverside cemetery.
At noonvto~day, in the council rooms,
City Clerk Taylor swore in Mayor Bo-
hannan and the members of the city
council. Treasurer Corbett, Collector
Mitchell and Marshall Pane also took
the oath of office.
Theodore Olsen left on a business
trip to Boston, Haverhill and Salem,
this morning. Before going he held a
reception at F. .A. Lane’s, where a
large number of his1 friends assembled
to bid him good bye.
George H. Johnsonlwas arreszed Sit-
urday afternoon on the complaint of
the Rev. J. W. Hill for breach of the
peace, abusrve language and assault.
This arrest is the outgrowth of the
troubles in the Calvary Baptist church
Johnson being the church treasurer.
Johnson gave bonds to appear this
morning, when the case was adjourned
for one week.
The following named persons united
with the Congregational church, at the
service yesterday morning: William
F. Beers, George H. Bell, Mrs. Jennie
E. Bradbury, Frank A. Ferris, Mrs.
Mary A. Ferris, Miss Helen Ferris,
Miss Jeannette Ferris, Miss Ethel Fer-
ris, Frank’A. Ferris, Jr., Miss Eva L.
Ferris, G. R. Hastings, Frank F. Sher-
man. Mrs Ellen Sherwood, Charles-C.
Swartz, Mrs. Sarah M. Upson, Hubert
A Welch.
“My Friend from India”, to be pro-
duced by Donnelly and Guard at Hoyt’s
Theatre on Saturday, January 16, is an
example of the “possibility of the un-
expected” in theatricals. It is most ex-
ceptional that a play without the pres-
tige of a welloknown author or actor
becomes a success. But this one did.
It is the most extraordinary laughing
success of several seasons. ,
The first of the five parts of a grand
musical festival to be given at the
Methodist church was held last even-
ing at 7 o’clock, A. B. Freeman, assist-
ing. The programme was as follows:
Prelude—Organ and Violin. '
Anthem—“Callest Thou Thus, 0, Mas-
ier?”
A New Christmas Hymn by Dr. D. M.
Seward entitled
“O,Bethlehem! Glory Crowned.”
Anthem—“Art Thou Weary ‘9”
‘ P. A. Schnecker.
Solo-‘fHosana, ” Grainer
Mrs. Imogene Ross.
=.Do;ology.
Prayem . ,
OEertory—Organ and Violin. ,
Sermon—Subject,
“Crossing the Bar.”
Anthem—“Crossing the Bar,” music by
J. C. Macy
Hymn and Benediction. -
J. C. Macy'
Lord Tennyson’s
.‘
Justice George D. Keeler has paid
over to Mrs. Charles Smith, a substan-
tial check from'the U. V. U. Funeral
Aid Society, on the death of her hus-
band.
MissEthel Keep and her brother,
. Mr. A. Dwight Keep, entertained a
number of their friends at their home
on Fanfiald avenue Saturday evening,
.Whist and a good time was the order of
the awning. l‘he playing was kept up
untilaboutl-023lo'clock when a most
delightful collation was served. Miss
Ethel Was a most- gracious hostess dur-
ing the evening and presented Mr.
Rutherfood Keeler and Miss Antoinette
Barclay, of New York city, with. the
prizes for having secured the highest
scores at whist. The prizes were a sil-
ver match safe and a dainty bonnet
brush. Those present were the Misses
Amy Ferris, Alice Cole, Eva Ferris,
Emilie Jennings, Jeannette Gregory,
Clara Bette, Vera Wood, Alyse Greg-
ory, Grace Adams, Ethel Ferris, Ethel
Slater, Helen Swartz, Miss Antoinette
Barclay, of New York city and the
hostess. The Messrs. Frank Ferris,
Ward Gregory, Robert Van Buren,
Frank Layton, Frank Shem an, Frank
Van Buren, Clarence Cram, Louis Leo-
nard, Rutherford Keeler, Charles C.
Swartz, and Homer M. Byington. The
rooms were prettily decorated with cut
flowers and the players were presented
with flowers as souvenirs. Taken all
together it was a most delightful card
party.
Expressed in a Few Words.
A. lawyer, residing in the North of
England and noted for his laconic style
of expression, sent the following terse
, and witty note to a refractory client
who would not succumb to his reiter-
ated demands for the payment of his
bill—“Sir-—If you pay the enclosed,
you will oblige me. If you do not, I
shall oblige you.”
Rothschild’s Reply.
It is recorded of a young fop who
visited one of the Rothchilds that he
was so proud of his malachite sleeve-
buttons that he insisted upon exhibit~
ing them to his host. The latter
looked at them and said:
“Yes, it is a pretty stone. I have a
mantelpiece made of it in the next
room.”
Always Prepared.
Mr. Citily—Aren’t you always worry-
ing lest you should get snowed in, or
your ferryboat stuck in the ice?
Mr. Isolate (of Lonesomehurst)—-
Hardly! Why, I always have a basket-
ful of groceries with me, and generally
a new cook who could prepare some of
theml—Puck.
The City Man Was Fresh.
Mr. Newboarder to farmer’s daugh-
ter, familiarly: And how is our milk
maid this evening?
Farmer’s Daughter, returning from
her milking: As usual, Mr. Newboard-
er, same old cow, same old grass.—
Up-to-Date.
Quite Insulted.
“I went to Sunday-school yesterday,”
a little girl said to her aunt, “and the
teacher asked me ‘who made me.’ So'
I just told her nobody made me. I won-
der if she thought I 'was a paper dell!”
Even the people who sneer at the
State of Kansas cannot deny that she
has produced some brainy people. The
trouble seems, to be that shedoes not
know what to do with them. Properly
edited, Kansas might be one of the
most brilliant states in the Union.
There is an increasing'demand from
the West for one-cent pieces, and the
Government is turning out enormous
quantities of those coins. It looks as
though the Western people were learn-
ing the useful lesson of taking care of
the pennies and trusting the dollars to
take care of themselves.
Retaliation is simply reciprocity in-
verted. If the former is a sound meas-
ure of commercial policy, then the lat-
ter is equally desirable. One is the
negation of the other, and under Gov-
enment direction they form a mighty
engine for the protection and extension
of our international trade.
. The Hon. Amateur Austin, the Eng-
lish bard in waiting, has devoted him-
self recently i‘" to making patriotic
speeches. He has demonstrated one
thing, at leash—that his prose is as bad
as his poetry. But there is this difier-
en-ce.’ Those who have the misfortune
’to find themselves in a public hall
with him are forced to hear some of
the things he says; while, on the oth-
er hand, nobody is compelled,.to.read
his books.
Since Dr. Jameson has been released
from prison on account Milli—health,
the British Government seems to see
no reason for retaining his fellow-raid-
ers, whose health appears, to be unimn
paired, and it is reported that they will
all be released before Christmas. Their
sentences were very light, to start
with, and now they are to be consider-
ably reduced. The proceeding shows
what the British Government really
thinks of the Jameson raid, and will
not strengthen the friendly relations
between it and the Government of the
Transvaal.
Quick Relief from Rheumatism.
Mr. Elisha Berry, of this place says he
never had anything do him so much good,
'and give such .quick relief from rheumatism
as‘ Chamberlain’s Pain Balm. He was
bothered greatly with shooting pains from.
hip to knee until he used this liniment,
which afforded prompt relief—B. F. BAKER,
drug ist, St. Paris, Ohio. For sale by E; 13.
Wee , Druggist. - ‘
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‘the mouth,
MUSIC AND MICE. -
How it Attracts Then and Other Animals
Has Been Much Noticed. _
one night half a dozen.persons.were
gathered in the parlor of an Adiron-
dack home, listening to a skilled play-
er, who, as a woodsman said, “could
. make a pianner talk,” When it was ob:
served that the mice were acting innu .
unusual manner. The ordinary con-
duct of mice when they hear piano
music is to merely rattle the plaster,
but on this night' they squefiked and
squealed, and rattled the plaster as p.
they had never done before. The rush
of the rodents died away after the mu-
sic stopped, but it was hours before
theaiast squeak was heard.
One of the humanJisteners was ’a
boy who had some little skill'as a bar-
monica player, and he went frequently
to the woods. where. with the aid of
the instrument, he succeeded in call.
ing chipmunks, red squirrels, and, on
one occasion, a 'woodchuck, besides
wood mice—including the deer mouse
—and the smaller birds. The mice
chiefly run about the player, with now ,
and then a squeak, but sometimes a
low strain with slight modulations
would seem to drive them insane, and
then, without hesitation, they would
run over the player, as if he had been
a stump. The squirrels were less de-
monstrative—New York Sun.
A NEW FRENCH GLOCK.
Tlie'Decimal System to Denote the Hours,
Instead of the Old Roman Letters.
The Geographical Bureau of the
French Army his adopted and urges
for general use a clock in which the
decimal system is employed. The de-
cimal is a passion with the French. On
the face of the new watch our old
friends eleven and twelve o’clock are
no longer to be seen, the numerals
from 1 to 10 being employed. The day,
from midnight to the midnight follow
ing, is to be divided into 100 equal
parts known as “ces.” The sub-divi-
sions, according to the decimal plan,
are “decices,” or tenths, “centices,” or
hundredths, “millicesfi’ or thousandths.
One of the main divisions, the “ces,” is
equal to 14 minutes and 2.4. seconds, or
a quarter of an hour.
It is urged. that under this system
the labor of calculation will'be dimin-
ished by two-thirds, and the chances
of mathemathical error from 4 to 1. It
will be a long time, however, before ‘
the general public will agree that 25
cos, or its decimal equivalent, sounds
as well as 6 a. m.
Card i n 8.1 Newman .
Cardinal Newman, according to his
life-long friend. Mr. Froude, bore
a.‘ remarkable resemblance to Julius
Caesar. Not only in features. in
very peculiar lines about
and in the poise of
the head, was the likeness striking.
but in mental characteristics as well.
Like “the mightiest Julius,” the Eng-
lish priest had an original. force of '
character, clearn‘ess of intellect, inde-
pendence of judgment, contempt of
conventionalities, and imperious self-
reliance, united with a sweetness, ten-
dernesS, generosity,‘ and affectionate-I “ '
ness-tht seldom coexist, and in their
conjunction make the personality of
their possessor most fascinatingr—Hare,‘
ner‘s Bazar. .
General Weyler might get out of or
unpleasant predicament by claiming
his next battle on a foul.
In refusing the London Telegraph’s
proffer of a gift from the British pub-
lic, Ambassador Bayard follows the
only course becoming to him and his
position.
What would become of our great
constitutional lawyers if the lawmak-
ers should reach that stage of perfec-
tion where they could turn out laws
that are not defective.
A meteor that “from its horrid hair
shakes pestilence and war” flashes
across the sky on the 'eve of the assem-
bling of Congress. Does it mean a
Spanish war?‘ Is it a warning against _
an extra session?
AN EMPHATIG “ YES.”
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That is the Answer Norwalk Gives.
_ Not long ago we inquired the condi-
tion of Norwalk’s citizens. We asked
if they were troubled with bad breath,
hawkingthemming, gagging, nausea,
husky voice, dropping into the .throat,
bad taste in the mouth, loss of the sen-
ses of taste, smell or hearing, slime in
the throat, weak eyes, matter cellect-
mg in the eyes, sounds in the ears, ex-
cessive sneezing, scabs in the nose. or
pain across the eves; we asked if they
were subject to frequent colds, head!
aches, backaches, side aches, neuralgia,
itching and burning of the nose, visions
of spots floating before the eyes, and
slaeplessness caused by stuffed head, or '
by throat filling on lying down; if they
'were troubled with’ catarrh in any or
all of its forms. And from hundreds of
throats came the answer, "Yes. In
Norwalk mere than any other city in
the country, do people suffer from this
humilating disease.” , -
And it can be cured. Five hundred
people in Norwalk are today rejoicing
1n the discoveryof the fact that Cali-
fornia Catarrh Ours is the .kind that
cures catarrh. And not onlv from Nor-
walk, but from all New England 'come
words of praise. Hear what Charles
Genereaux, manager of the City lum-
ber company of Woonsocket, R I., re-
cently said:—
, “I had catarrh for 25 years and spent
probably $1,000 for treatment. with no
,relief.. I suffered much from constantly
recurring severe frontal headaches. A
few months ago I began to use Califor-
nia Catarrh Cure, and have not had a
headache since; and as a reliever and
cure of chronic nasal Catarrh I believe
California Catarrh Cure has no equal.”
‘ California Catarrh‘cureis sold at R
H. Plaisted’s, South Norw‘alk. . A great
"big bottle for 40 cents. and one three
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The La“ W931i Bafore Inventory,
All our surplus stocks and odds and en
week,*regafdless of cost. '
DOLLSE- ‘
As our custom is, not to carry stock from season to season,
we have cut the price on dolls and tOys in half, that is $3.00
dolls $1.50; dolls that were $2.00,$1.00, and 500; if you come
quickly you can buy at $1.00, 50c, and 250. None sold to dealers.
GLOAKS AND WRAPS.
The thrifty woman will appreciate the great values in our big
cloak room during this week, as our assortment of styles and
sizes are yet very large. .A visit to this department is time profit-
ably spent Rare bargains in Ladies’ House Gowns Heavy Per-
cales and Flannelettes at very low prices. ’ "
Navy, Grey, Green and- Black, $ l .25
Ladies’ Wool Shirt Waists,
Children’s. Knit Wool Jackets Routes in Great Vareiias ’
At Special Prices.
omits-Hes. '
3000 Yards White and Fancy Domet Flannel, a Great Bargain, per'yerd, 5c.
must be sold this
with White Detachable Collars, in
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500 White Crochet Quilts, $1.50 quality, for this week, each, s I .oo.
, One Bale, 36 inch Brown Sheeting, extra value, per yard, 5c.
Handkerchiefs.
' 1500 Swiss Embroidered Handerkchiefs, slightly mussed
while displayed in our Xmas window, 12%0, 19 and! 250, qualities,
to clear out quick, 100. ' ‘
RIBBONS.
500 Pieces Satin and Gro Grain, all Pure Silk, value I8c, for this week cply, per
yard, IOc. ~ , _ ._ s
Gloves: .
L Ladies’ 4 button Foster hook Glove, $1.00 quality, balance of
holiday stock, about 10 doz. in all, to clean out, 500. ~
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Ladies’ Silk Mittens, plain and fancy back, $1.00 quality, for
Saturday and Monday, per pair, 500. '
THEBUSTUN STUBE Em. Main an Wall Sis. »
. ' Re-openecl!
The . Old Popular shoe StOre.
New Stock, New Styles, New Prices,
@6151 m rulers errors Puncntsma ELSEWHERE. IT WILL m truce
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