I Wél'l'ington’s Joke, The great Duke of Wellington was . remarkable for the coolness with which . he gave his directions. Even in the heat of an engagement he has been known to give vent to a humorous ob- servation, especially when it seemed to raise the spirits of his men. Thus, when the British were storm- ing Badajoz, the General rode up while the balls were falling around, and, ob- serving an artilleryman particularly ac- tive, inquired the man's name. He answered “Taylor." _ “A very good name too,” remarked Wellington. “Cheer up, my men! Our Taylor will soon make a pair of breeeches in the walls!” At this sally the men forgot the dan- ger. A great burst of laughter broke from them and the next charge carried the fortress.-—l«‘rom Answers. Intelligent Translations The [translation of a French novel contains these ludicrous sentences— "Her hand was cold, like that of a ser- pent.” “Tbe countess was about to re- ply, when a door opened and closed her mouth.” “ ‘Ha, hal’ he exclaimed in Portugrese." “The colonel paced backward and forward, with his hands behind his back, reading the newspa- per.” “At this sight the negro‘s face grew dreadfully pale.” “The man was dressed In a. velvet jacket, and in pants of the same color.” Her Relatives M0§Lly Grandparents. Living near “’aterford, in Marshall County, is a little girl who has a mul— tiplicity of grandparents, but a scarc- ity of relatives in the younger gen- erations. She has three grandfathers, four grandmothers, no uncles, aunts of first cousins, and never will have. Her father is the baby, her mother is the baby, and she is the youngest of the family—New Albany Gazette. ‘Obeying Order's. There was a new Irish porter at the hotel, and one of the guests told him he wanted to be called at six. Prompt- ly at that hour there was a loud rap at the door, and a shout, “I have a message for you.” The guest jumped out of bed, and opening the door, re- ceived a large envelope. This he hastily tore open and read on a slip of paper inside, “Please get up at once.” ’ An Ancient Doll. In the Egyptian department of the British Museum is a. wooden dol‘ which was found in the sarcophagus of a little Royal princess who died three centuries before Christ. He: baby fingers still clasped it when the. mummy wrappings were unfolded. This is probably the oldest doll in ex- istence. “I can’t see why it is,” said Bobby, “that when little boys are cross folks say they are naughty, and when papas and mammas are cross folks say they ,THE‘EVENINGfiGAZETTE ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS. Two New Methods of IIInlozing Them— Flowers of Bread. Two very effective methods have re- cently been discovered for making ar- tificial flowers. One is the use of ba- ker's bread, the other is by using the inner pith of the fan palm of Japan. “Bread” flowers are made in Eng- land only. The process is still a secret; and, as the flowers are so natural in appearance as to deceive the eyes of an expert, It is considered very valu- able. For not only do these flowers look exactly like the real article when freshly made, but as the bread grows stale the flowers assume a slightly withered appearance which is almost identical with that of a flower begin- ning to fade. It is believed that for evening and fancy gowns as well as for house decorations these bread flow- ers will become very popular. They are at present excessively expensive. The only factory for the making of artificial flowers from the pith of the Japanese fan palm is quite a small af- fair on East Bleecker street, New York. The material from which they man- ufacture the fabric for the making of the flowers comes frim Japan. It is the pith of, the ordinary fan palm. Tlibse flowers of palm pith possess to a great degree the characteristics of the bread flowers, the outer petals showing the marks of being handled just exactly like a natural flower, though. of course, to a limited degree, since they can be worn numbers of times without ever becoming really faded in appearance—New York Sun. “'iiie iii Paper. The biggest item of incidental loss in ocean trailic during the stormy sca- sons of the year is that of breakages in wine, liquor and beer rooms. No matter how securely the bottles are fixed in the bins, a particularly heavy sea striking the ship in a certain spot or continued rolling and pitching, will cause great losses to costly fluids that were never intended to wash the floor or the walls. A French firm is going to do away with this old-time source of annoyance and complaint. After years of experimenting it has suc- ceeded in manufacturing a paper bot- tle which will not" break, and which has all the advantages of the ordinary glass bottle.-—.\'ew York Journal. How it Came to Pass. “Old Shilark says he is the man who started you on the road to fortune.” “The old villain tells the truth. All 1 had when I was a young man was a fifty-a cre farm, and he cheated me out _ of that. Then I had to come to town to get something to do, and got into business and got rich."—lndianapolis Journal. I Chlcago. What More THE N. St. Louis. New i IgoWDEii mwwm . ; mmma Can be Asked 7 York, Only this : ask your grocer for it, and insist on trying it. Largest package-greatest economy. K. FAIRBAN K COMPANY, Boston. Philadelphia. V are nervous.—Tid-Bits. Against rise. THE BEST IUIIPIIIIES IEPIIISE I‘Ell . A. Wiselwan Keeps his Home Insured w. u. Briaerou. ROOM I, GAZETTE BUILDING, ‘- -‘ - - NORWALII, OONII A SUCCESSFUL WOMAN MINER. Mrs. Itigdonfitaked Off Her Own Claim ‘ and is Getting Rich. Bloomers have brought about the fortune of at least one woman. She is Mrs. Arthur lligdon, of Pearl. Idaho. who owns the “Woman‘s Right Claim,“ a mining ledge which has proved :1 bonanza. Mrs. tigdon is the only woman in the camp. The “Woman's liights Claim” was sccpred by Mrs. ltigdon by location—that is, by “staking off." This claim is 1,500 feet long, (300 feet in width, and is the most valuable piece of property in that region. Mrs, Rigdon secured it five years ago. The. H(-‘l‘OppingS" were plainly visible and at the time there were comparatively few miners there. The fortunate woman minor is the widow of a British army officer. She is highly intellectual, and has made a thorough study of mining. She was left a widow seven years ago. and it was then that she conceived the. idea of putting her knowledge to some prac‘ tical use. Her decision to settle at Pearl was made after she had visited several other Western mining camps, and as soon as her claim was “staked" she had it recorded. Then it was that her hard work began. Day after day this strange woman may be seen descending into her mine. only to come again to' the earth's sur- face covered with dirt, but always with a face glowing with enthusiasm. When the report was spread about that Mrs. Rigdon was wearing “trons. ers” and working in the mines like a man the women folk of the surround ing country were shocked, and many were the stories that passed from lip to lip. Now all this is changed—New York Journal. Husbands to Burn. The English actors who come over . here are intensely English when they first; arrive, but they soon show'their appreciation of American colloqualisms b‘y appropriating them. A gentleman ‘ of this city relates that some time ago. in the New York Club, he met Fred \Vright, Jr., the comedian. Some one Was telling about a woman who had just married her third husband. “By the way,” the gentleman asked, “where is her first husband buried?” “He was cremated,” was the reply. “And the second?” “Also cremated.” , “By Jove,” observed little Mr. Wright, “that woman has husbands to burn.” 7 \‘v’orsc and ‘Worse. Mrs. rown—-I have been so annoyed at my hquand. He» has been at the club every night for a week. Mrs. Jones—«VVh’y, so has my husband, anl he said he hadn’t; seen anything of your husband for a week—Brooklyn Life. u THE EVENING GAZETTE CHECKER-BOARD BUSINESS DIRECTORY. ‘\ I NORWALK Fire Insurance Co. In Successful Oper- auon Since 1860, No Outstandino Claimsf GAZETTE ADS. I BRING GOOD RESULTS . Sales For Rent. Milt? L ES STORED IN Safe Deposit Vault OF THE NATIONAL BANK OF NORWALK, PIEL BRDS’. EAL GERMAN LAGEI! On draught: and in Bottles, _.A’1‘_ HATGHFOIID'Sa 4-4- Main Street. GeoJW. Raymond, - DEALER IN Staple and Fancy Groceries AND Provisions No.9 Main St. Ii. Vlard Selleck, BEST GOODS. I was and corraas S. B. Wilson, Carpenter and Builder. STEAM It'l’l'. It. YIEQ‘ OFFICE. .6 st. chas. 1'. Leonard Wholesale and Retail Dea er in llIi MATERIALS MANUFACTURER or EMENT -:- PIPE. Office and Yard. 33 to 4% Water Street. FRED A. WALTER, MAKER or AND DEALER IN HARNESS AND HQRSE GOODS. Repairing of all kinds done at. short notice. Harnessmade to or- der 2. specmlty. 31 JIIAIN ST. NORWALK, - - CONN. W. F. BYINGTON . INSURANCE. Harm I. Sazette Building. ‘ AMI-A..-~L¢.-~A :-,.-..-.-L:..<.a :- NASH' It VANSCUY —Dealers in— , Cnoommr. CHINA AND Gm“ Warm. ._ PLUMBING. STEAM AID GAS FITTING. . I Cor.Main’,& West Ste, ' I 80. NORWALK; .‘A Bottling Works, 7 Wall Street. FINE AIES AIID lAGER EXPRESSLY FOB. FAM- 112.! USE. Mail orders receive prompt attention. Willis—SIM DONE AT THIS OFFICE- Painting. P3. or Hanging. Ks. somin- mg and Hardwood Finishing. . II. I.. PIATT, 52 Wilton Avenue, Norwalk. Conn. Send for book con- taining samples. _ IS'WALL ST. 1 ‘ l Norwaln (‘ 1.! l. _ ; _ Edgar Buttery, __ I Nurseryman, A. R. MAI-III" ; Trfétnwé‘t’éhfi‘s’mand c I Plants. Strawberry arpen Or . BledtSVaISpeciiglty'd and Ballder, ran 1118, 103.11 Marsyhel. 39 other sum: AID PlAIIIIlIi one 168. m ' I 0ch, 6 Water St. :6 Franklin Ave , Nurs’ys, Broad River. NORWALR. CONN. Frank '1‘. Hyatt I PARLOR DENTIST BARBER-:-SHOP, I E. S. LEOBOLD. I 3 8 West Avenue. . '47 Main Street. , I Send Your Order to TRY .\ I I \ IIIIIIT & ZELIIFF, WEED’fi I W'hen You \Vant; . ‘ a Nice Fresh vim, SODA WATER 60 Washington St. SOUTH NORWALK. 33 Wall St. —“——-‘——" minimise: ’ ..-__.---.______ ‘ Job Printing EVERY DESGRIPTIOI EXECUTED AT THE GAZETTE OFFIIIE .— K P. P. P., Lippman’s Great Remedy, Saves a Man From Becoming a Cripple. Mr. Asa. Arrmons, a. well -known citizen of Jacksonville. Florida, was afflicted by a terrible ulcer. Medical skill seemed unavailing in stopping the ravages of the terrible disease. The leg was swollen and intensely painful, as the ulcer had eaten its‘way down to the very bone. All medicines and treatments having failed to effect. a cure, the doctors said the leg must come off. Just when it. seemed that Mr. Ammons would become a disabled and a crippled man, In" tried P. l’. 1’., Lippmnn's (treat. RelLL.iy, and the re- sult. was wonderful. P. P. P. SAVES HIS LEG. “ Jacksonville,. Fla, July 1, 1895.— Two years ago I had the worst ulcer on my leg I ever saw. It had eaten down to the bone, and my whole leg below my knee, and my foot was swollen and inflamed. The bone was swollen and painful, and discharged 8. most. offensive matter. M y physicians said I had necrosis of the bone, and my leg would have to come off. At this stage I commenced to take P. P. P. and to bathe my leg with hot. castile soap suds. It. began to improve at once and healed rapidly, and is to-day a sound and useful leg. " I think 1’. P. P., Lippman’s Great Remedy, is all a man could ask for as a. blood purifier. as I have known it to cure so meterrible cases of blood poi- soning in a remarkably short. time. “ASA AMMONS.” TERRIBLE BLOOD POISON. The body covered with sores-two bottles of l’. P. I). made a positive and permanent. cure. This is only one of many thousand similar cases. Catarrh yields at once to ‘9. P. P. That smothered feeling at night, that heavy feeling in-the day—~--c: 1 and should be removed; P. P. 1’. mid do it. if you only give it a. chance. 4- ]ndigcstion and constipation go hand in hand. Headaches and total loss of appetite are the results. Regulate yourself and tone up your stomach with l’. P. P. Sold by all druggists / LIPPMAN BROS, Apothecaries, Sole Prcp‘rs, Lippman’s Block, Savannah, Ga. T‘HE CZAR' AN EPILEPTIC. His Seizures BIoro Frequent Since Ho As- ‘ sumed theThrone. ' The peculiar ailment ' of' Czar has been no secret at . the German courts for some years. Since he was a lad emerging from boyhood it he was subject to occasional fits. They were rare, however, and were sup- licscd, after the closest medical diag- noses. to be likely to disappear as his physique~ strengthened. The seizures which in his early youth took place “DUI”: 0"01‘3' four months, became more fll’lluvnt, ' and of a / distinctively epileptic type, but they were never 1mrticularly trying to his consti- tution until after he became burdened with the work and troubles insepara— ble from the throne. During the last year he has pronounced epileptic seiz- ures about once a month. These facts are not mere matters of press reports or diplomatic gossip. The'private cor< respondence which continually pro— ceeds between the Danish, German, English and Russian royalties—their family correspondence, which is quite distinct from the diplomatic—contains much that never leaks out. But each high royal personage. male or female, generally has a confidant, and through these sources the alarm as _to the Czar’s condition has become known. His royal relatives are distressed by the possibility of body and mind being weakened if the seizures do not lessen in frequency, and are understood to concur in urging the Czar to give up most of his imperial duties to the pro- jectcd new Council of State. His medi— cal attendants h’ave prescribed a strict regimen, designed to strengthen es pecially the nervous system.—.\'ew York Tribune. IT’S HUMAN NATURE. A Reformed Gambler’s Experience “’lien Exposing the Tricks. “' tell you,” declared the reformed gambler, “that there are people in this country who insist upon being swindled. who are caught know that they fll't.‘ the Q Nine out of ten of the men has been known that- going up against some. kind of a bun- ~ co game. They have rear all about it. but. it is the infernal egotism of the average man that leads him into the. trap. He knows that. others have been caught, but he’s too smart for anything of that kind, don‘t you see. “I was at a. county fair in Iowa ex- posing the tricks of gamblers. My graft was in selling a little book that I had on the subject. There was a. pretty lively gang there from a back township, and when I showed them how the shell trick was done, one big fellow insisted that he could locate the elusive pea. and was bound to bet 011 his proposition. I told him that I was out of the business, but that he was mistaken. Then they set 'up a. cry that I was a fraud and afraid of my own game. I went over the whole thing again and showed them how they were fooled, but I must give the fellow a chance or they would wreck my whole outfit. “At last, just to save myself, I let him put up his money and tendered it back to him after I had won._ Then it took three other men to keep him from whipping me because I took him for a squealer.”—Detroit Free Press. Saluting a. Cat. ' There is at least one place in the world where the cat was until re- cently held in high honor, and re- ceived the attention due to one of so high a station in life. That place is India, where in a fortress the ,sentrics invariably used to present arms to ev- ery cat that appeared on the scene. The custom is accounted for by this singular'anecdote, which comes from what appears to be good authority: Some fifty years ago it happened that a. very high English ofiicial died in an Indian fortress, at a place that is one of the centers of Brahminic re- ligion, and at the moment when the news of his death met the Sepoy guard at the main gate, a black cat rushed out of it. . . The superstitiousfl guard presented arms to the cat as a salute to the dy~ ing spirit of the powerful English- man, and the conscience took such a firm hold upon the locality, that up to a few years ago neither exhortation nor orders could prevent a Hindoo sen- try at that gate from presentng arms to any cat that passed out at night—- Harper's Round Table. Seasick Animals. Human beings are not the only ones who suffer from sea-sickness. Lions and tigers may be majestic when they ~‘ have unwavering earth or rock against their paws, but a sea—sick lion or tiger is as miserable as any man ever was, and does not look a bit more kingly than a wet rabbit. Even its roars and growls have a weepng sound in them. A monkey is a. pitiful object when it is Sea-sick, and its forlorn fa.- cial expression is so human, and the way it clasps its paws is so"natural, that the man who is not sea-sick necessarily sees something to laugh at In the _misery of the creature. A dog Is a weeful object when at sea. It has ‘a way of doubling all up, with its tail between its legs and head hanging down, that shows deep-seated pain. To free itself the dog goes through all sorts of. contortions. It will stretch out on the deck, groan and squeal, some- times rising on its haunches and, lift- ing its head, and howling long and miserably. as some dogs do at the sound of music. Discovery of Old Armor. , An extraordinary find of French and English armor, dating from the time oi" the Cruisades,‘ has been made at I}..izsiantiurg‘ile. The armor was dis- ;‘ovored' by” more chance in a hitherto concealed niche in the old wall of the _ '~.\ here it had lain through many TL‘EJ .Ii'ii‘h“. Ma 34’». ’..
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