t, \\\. ‘_ 1. r“\\\ \\\ E \\\\\\ 1x1- , , \ffi - ‘ “11.11Inwmpnuunnuillllllllll.E 1.: "CUIINTYJUDGE The HonorableJ. F. Greer, one of the best known and most highly respected county Judges of the State of Florida, 1v rites of his horrible sufferings from \ Inf minatory Rheumatism: OFFICE a01-1,]. 11. GREER, COUNTY 11111612.:> Ureen (.ove Sp1'1ngs, Clay Co. Fla Guy I LEMl-ZN : T11 enty-three years ago I was attacked with inflammatory rheumatism. ! 11 as attended by the most eminent physician in the land. I visited the teat Saiatoga Springs, N Y., the noted Hot prings of Ar- kansas, and many other watering places.‘ alway s consultincr with the local ph 51cians for dii cations, and nally came to lorida, ten years ago. About two yea1 5 ago I had a severe attack of Iheumatism, was confined to .my room for twelve weeks, and during that time was induced to try P. P. P. Lippman’ sGreat Remedy, knowing that each ingredient was fwd for impurities of the blood. 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Y., P. 0. Box 289. ‘DAVI o RAYNI on o Funeral 1111111 11111111111111 9 8 Washington Street 'SOnth Norwalk W. Residence ..Mshack emo Hotel Horace E. ‘Dann. 4 3103118101: Liverv and Sales Stable "Mu“ wuu M\ Opposite Danbury and Norws'ik Railroad depot Norwalk. Conn. Stylish Single or Double Tenn 5 with or without drivers. Rafe horses for women sndcnildren ADDLE HORSES A @9110!» I ‘ Y Piano Lessons RS GEORGE W BRADLEY. (daughter of the late Wm. . . Nash.) gives efiinsrrt and satisfactory instructions on the Pinon 11 her home No.19”! Main street. - J. D. Jennings. , UNDE RTAKFR . ' Opposite StreetflBailwsy Depot.:. NIGHT luau 4r omuo 1r. NANSEN’S ENDURANCE. Seemingly aMan of Iron Cc nstltutlon and B0111 to be an Aictio Explorer. Dr. Nansen seems to have been born and bred 'for arctic exploration. The strength and hardihood which were his by birth were developed and con- firmed by the robust austerity‘of his early training. One reads of his habit of swimming in the evening in the coldest pools of the Frogner River , that ran by the door of his father’s house, and is no less astonished at the story of his plunge in the sea in pur- suit of his kayaks in the extreme north, and of his endurance of the va- rious cold baths he got in fights with bears and walruses. The man who put his wet and frozen foot-coverings in his bos'om to thaw Out and dry at night while he slept with his compan' ion in a bag was an extraordinarily tough person, with an astonishing phy- sique hardened by Spartan exercises. In his teens, he says, he used to go off on lonely expeditions in the great Frog- ner woods, and be gone alone for weeks at a time. “I disliked,” he says, “to have any equipment for my expe- ditions. I managed with a crust of bread, and b1oiled my fish on the em- be1s.I loved to live like Robinson Crusoe there in the wilderness.” John Reid's Office Boy. When John C. Reid was managing editor of the New York Times he had an office boy whorernerve was colos- sal. the reception room a waiting visitor whose patronizing way nettled him. All kinds of questions were fired at him, and, finally, he was asked how much .he earned a week. His reply was “$50.” At that moment the visitor was sum- moned by Reid, to whom he related his experience with an office boy who said he made $50 a week. Reid rang bell. Enter boy. “Did you tell this gentleman that you made $50 a week here?” “I did not tell him any such thing.” “What!” exclaimed the gentleman. “You mean to say you didn’t tell me a moment or two ago that you made $50 a week?” . “Never said any such tl11n<r”~ “Why, you little liar! You—" “What did you tell the gentleman?” put in Reid. “I told him I earned $50 a week, but you pay me only $3. ” When the visitor had taken leave of the oiiice, Reid raised the boy’s salary to $6.—New York Press. Mr. Toole’s Joke. Mr. Toole, the English comedian. whose love of a joke is-known to every- body, went recently into a' barber’s shop to get shaved, and, finding the barberout, he determined to have a little fun before his return. So he took Off his coat, put on a thinner one and quietly waited for a customer. An old gentleman came in soon. “Shave, six. "” said our pretended bar- her. The old gentleman took a chair, and Toole beganto lather, expecting every moment the barber would appear. Five minutes passed, and no barber. Five more, still no barber. The joker began to get desperate, and conceived a bright idea. Putting up his brush, he quickly changed his coat again, took his hat, and was about to quietly slip out behind the gentleman’ s back, when that worthy turned his head and ex- ' ' claimed,— “Here, sir, aien’t you going to shave me?” “No, sir,” promptly replied Toolc. “The fact is, 'we only lather here, sir. They shave four doors below." Taking Him Down. Mr. Irving tells a good story of his early d'ay-s‘f‘allieit at his own expense. 'He was playing “Hamlet” one even— ing, when he observed in the front row of the pit, an old lady dissolved in tears. Highly flattergi, he sent an attendant to say that he would like to see her after the performance. When they met, Mr. Irving was gracious- ness itself. “Mord ..me ” he said, “I perceive that my acting moved you?” “It did that, sir,” said the old wo- man. ‘You sec, sir, I’ve got a young 1 son myself play—acting somewhere up in the NOrth,‘ an’ it broke me all up to think that maybe he wasn’t no better at it than you, sir.” Two \Vomen Ph. D. ’11. "-TWO American women, Miss Alice Luce, of Maine, and Miss Ida J. Hyde, of Chicago, have conferred a benefit upon their sisters by opening another foreign university to them. They have recently received the degree of Pli. D.. each magnum cum . laude, from the University of Heidelberg.—4Ame1‘ican Woman’s Home Journal. A Palatnble liledicine. A lady has been lecturing in Boston in favor of a larger consumption of onions, taking as a. motto the saying: “Eat onions in May, and all the year after physicians may play.” It is a simple remedy, and the lecturer ad- vised its use, through all the other months, regardless of odoriferous com- plications—New Haven Union. Doubtless. o Jumpuppe—Dear me! That medicine makes me feel horrible. Mrs. Jumpuppe—Don’t think of i-., dear. Get it off your mind Jumpuppe—l think it would make me feel more comfortable to get it off my stomach—Truth. Ink and Vinegar from Banana Peel. ‘ A really indelible ink, and a kind of vinegar can be produced from the juices centained in the banana peel. The fibre of' the peel, it. is said, can also be utilized in making cloth of great "strength and remarkable beauty." ‘ ' One day the boy entertained in' A FREAK AMONG FLOWERS. Vonus' Fly Tlapuud nu Almost. Human Action. ' Now and again, in exploring Ameri- can woods and swamps, botanists have come across floral curiosities that al- most bridge over the great gulf that divides the animal and vegetable king- doms, says the Designer. One of these, to be met' with nowhere in the world save in North Carolina, is scientifically classified as dionoea muscipula, but is colloquially known as “Venus’ trap.” . In appearance the extraordinary plant is prettily but unassumingly the leafless flower stem, running from six to eight inches in height and sur- mounted by a cluster of five petalled blossoms, rising erect like a rosette- like bed of leaves. It is in the edge of the leaves that the death dealing appa- ratus is set—for this modest little 'plant, which is so delicate that it dies of the slightest injury to root or stem, sus. tains its life by feeding upon the un- wary insects that chance to alight upon its leaves, enticing them to their destiuction by exuding from the edges of its fatal traps a viscous fluid, some- what resembling honey. The traps consist of two soft, velvety leaves, fringed with» delicate bristles and hinged together on one side, The, unsuspecting fly, lured by the honey, alights on these bristles in anticipation of a feast, but at the first touch of its feet the hinges close, the two leaves come together, the bristles interlock, and the hapless insect is imprisoned in a cell from which escape is impossible. - Under the stimulus of the victim’s struggles the tiny glands with which the inner walls of the trap are furn- ished pour forth a secretion which Darwin analyzed as a vegetable gas- tric juice, resembling that which in« sures digestion in animal life. Under the influence of this curious fluid the fly is actually digested alive, and its juices being extracted the trap doors are reopened and the skeleton is flung out. ' The set of muscles controlling its leaves are said to resemble those of the human eyelid—New York Herald. He ‘Von the Wager. Frank Ruggles, a son of Brigadier- General Ruggles. of the Army, who recently passed his entrance examina- tion for a cadetship at \Vest Point, has shown his contempt of supersti- tion in a striking manner. fellows” at the Military Academy, in View of} the stringent regulatipns against hazing, decided on 'another way of having a little fun with the “youngster,” and made a wager with him that he did not have the nerve to go to the cemetery at midnight, .de- scend into an open grave, and bring back some evidence that he had done so. The challengers went to the com- etery in the afternoon and dropped a white handkerchief in the grave, and promptly at midnight Ruggle? started on his mission. he returned, waving the handkerchief over his head, and after voting him the pluckiest fellow at the Academy, his companions presented to him an order for a silk hat and a. blanket.— New York Tribune. A Conscientious Bootblack. An Oakland bootbla'ck, an honest man, who would not deceive his pa~ trons, when he first went into busi~_ ness, six years ago, put up a sign Which read: “Joe Garibaldi, bootbladi. Has tw0 small children.” Each suc- ceeding year found him deserving .of more sympathy, for he kept amending ' the sign until it readeight small chil- dren. A few days ago Joe’s stand was looked for a whole day, and when he returned the next morning, be con- fided to the butcher’s boy that his baby had died. His amend the sign, so that it might not mislead the public, and then it read: “Joe Garibaldi, bootblack. Has seven small children.” Then, to avoid be- ing placed in a false position before» the public, be added with his finger and shoe-blacking: “One he die.”——Ar— gonaut. ' Shoes In Japan. . One of the most striking sights that takes the attention of the traveller in: Japan is that of the wooden sandal worn by the 35,000,000 of people. These sandals have a. separate com-' partment for the great toe,‘ and make a clanking noise on the streets. Straw slippers are also worn, and a traveller starting out on a journey will strap a supply of them on his back, that he may put’ on a new pair when the old is worn out. a half a pair. They are rights and lefts and leave the foot free to the air. We never see those deformities of the foot in Japan which are so frequent- in this country. They are never worn in the house, but left outside the door. Passing down a street you may see long rows of them at the doors, old and new, large and small.—Boston Journal. To Prove lnsanltv. A physician declares that there is indicating Let a one infallible symptom whether a man is sane or not. person speak ever so rationally, and not ever so sedately, if his or her thumbs remain inactive there is no doubt of make'use of the thumbs when writ- ing, drawing or salutinc'. American Tin Plate. American tin plate monopolizes the. domestic market, except on the Pa- ' cific coast. and is selling from 25 to 40 per cent below the foreign product. Only one American mill failed in 1890' while during the same year the total number of mills increased from 155 to 184, with an annual capacity of 5,500,- 000 boxes, against 4.200.000 boxes at the end of 1805 ——Globe-Dem0‘crat. fly' The “older ‘ A few minutes later. first work was -to. They cost but a. cent and insanity. Lunatics seldom. _ period in that court .-—Ans11ers. " Th E E V E N I N G. ’GjA Z E T. TE SIBERIAN PRISONERS. . The Russian Government is Often Just: fied‘in Exlling its Subjects. _ There is a popular idea that 'th wastes of ‘Siberia are peopled with me who have been undustly exiled from Russia, and that the criminal is real], as difficult to find as the traditions needle in the bundle of hay; Facts however, do not substantiate this thE ory any more than they do in the larg majority of popular impressions. A great sensation was created tw‘ or three years ago, by the finding 0 seven Russian exiles or prisoners wh had made their escape from Siberia They were, in an open boat in the Pa cific, and were taken to San Franciscc where theybecame the objects of p01: ular commiseration, as well as the tex for the denouncing of the Russial methods of dealing with political oi ‘ fenders. The Californians, ever ready wit1 sympathy, gave them clothes, an: found them work to 'do. It now ap pears that, during the interval tha has elapsed between their arrival i1 San Francisco and now, they havi every one been punished by the lav of the land. The last of the party ha- been sentenced to twenty years’ im prisonment for burglary, while one 0 his comrades was hung for two mur ders which he had committed. Investigations which have bee) made show that every one of th'esu men had been sent to Siberia for rea sons which would have earned him a corresponding period of exile from thu haunts of his fellow-men, if not abso lute deportation from the country, ii any other part of the world. TALK THAT WAS NOT CHEAP. Long-Distance Telephones Rather Expen sive Luxuries. A Rochester manufacturer droppec into a long-distance telephone OfllCl yesterday afternoon and told till young woman in charge that he wishec to talk to New York. Thereupon III was promptly connected and at onc1 proceeded to talk. He talked quite : little while. Then he had an after thoughtvand talked again. Then thc man in New York thought of some thing and the Rochester man talkec some more. Outside the booth tw< men were pacing the floor, one 01 whom wished to- have his canal boat: lying in the slips at Bufialo painted and the other was anxious to react the head of the great salt industry 01 Syracuse. They paced with more 01 less patience while the Rochester mat talked. At last the door opened and the talker emerged. “How much do I owe?” he' asked 01 the girl in charge. “Are you aware,” she said, “that yet have been time?” 1 “Oh, yes,” he said. “I suppose youI regular charge for New York is three dollars and a half ?” “Yes,” she said in a business-like way, “three dollars and fifty cents f01 five minutes. Your bill is twenty-five dollars and ninety cents.”—Rocheste1 Democrat and Chronicle. ‘Vash Your Eyeglasses. Spectacles and eyeglasses are as much benefited by a bath now and then as people are, said a well known Optician. It is strange how many peo ple there are who think that thei1 glasses only need an occasional wip ing. Now, the fact is, glass-es require actual baths as frequently as does the Ordinary person. The process is as simple as you want to make it. My plan, however, is to take the glasses to a wash bowl and give them a good soaking in warm water. ,Then apply soap freely and rub it off by the use of a soft tooth or nail brush. After thai give them a polish with any of the usu- al tooth powders, and then clean them with tissue paper, which is much» bet ter for the purpose than Chamois skin or anything else that I know of. The ordinary cleansing is all right as far as it goes, but it is not sufficient. Many persons have done great injury to’ their eyes by neglecting to properly clean their glasses. I have had a num- ber of patients come to me with com- plaints about what they called gradual diminution of their sight. An exami- nation revealed the fact that it was wonderful that they could see at all. for their glasses were gummed over and had been fearfully neglected. A little soap and water, to which a few _, drops of ammonia was added, did the business. . " . An Antiquary in Error. A famous antiquary—an enthusiast in the search for Roman antiquities—_ was traveling through England, when he heard that" on a certain hill there was a stile called Caesar’s Stile. “Just so,” thought the antiquary. “Such a road, mentioned in Antoninus, passed near here", and the traditional name of this confirms me in the opin». ion that there was a. camp on this , spo .” While he was surveying the prospect a peasant came up whom the anti- quai y addressed: —- “They call this Caesar’s Stile, do they I not?” “Ees, zur,” said the man; calls it so arter pore old BOb Caesni, the carpenter, I helped him to make it when I was a boy.” » ' Dickfirmfiuldn’t be Found. Duiing the petty sessidns at D—- ——- V the other day, a great amount of laugh for was gains by. one of the cases. One of the Justices of- the Peace rath- er pompously exclaimed ‘ Let us have ‘decorut‘n’ 1:; the court." An officer a real native of the Emer- ald Isle, rushed at Ones to the d001, calling out?” “Richard Orum! Richard .Oruml”, It goes without saying that “de- eorum” was "still wanting for a brief in the booth for some- “they saves every day. L'. CAKE OF FINE TOILET SOAP IN EVERY PACKAGE. - , Try lvorine for washing dishes. «See how quickly it dissolves ' in the water—how it removes every particle of greasy 'matter—; how bright it makes the plates and glass—how much time it. THE .1. B. WILLIAMS co.. GLAsronaunv'. Conn) Makers of Williams Famous Shaving Soaps. Write for catalogue of choice premiums. l BABY INCUBATORS. How Science In Paris .Bnlses the Ll'ttla Ones in Glass Cases. The incubator baby is a distinguishec fad in medical circles now. The Ma ternity Hospital in Paris has a wholl ward of incubators, and there’s a babj in every incubator. :3 Of course, the duration of the treat ment, if so it may be called, entirely depends on the condition of the new born child. Often a stay of one or twr weeks in the incubator will transform a moribund mite into a healthy, kick ing child, and cecasionally a baby ‘re mains the temporary, tenant of his glass mother from forty to fifty days Fortunately it is comparatively easy to see when the baby has had enougl of the incubator, for when that'is the case, instead of placidly sleeping away the long hours, it turns fretful, cries and makes vigorous stretch its limbs. Before the introduction of the baby incubator 66 per cent of the childret born at the Maternite weighing less than four pounds. died within a few hours or days of their birth; now thanks to the ’incubator, more that half that number are saved to becomc active French citizens. The principle of the baby incubate] differs very little from that so long and so successfully practised in the incu bators used for hatching chickens Both consist of a case divided into twc compartments, of which the lower one contains the boiling water, which kept at an even temperature, warms the “little stranger” lying above. When the baby begins to kick and throw its tiny arms the doctor takes it out of its glass case and puts it it a medic, and in a few days it goes home with its mother. Ame1ican doctms are getting so thai they think no more of a glass case baby than they do of a case of every- day measles. Philip Armour, the mil lion-dollar baby of Chicago, lived it his incubator for a long time, and he‘s just about as healthy and lively a lit tle fellow as if he had been born with out a penny to his names—Americar Woman’s Home Journal. A Bicycle blade for Two Thousand. The bicycle built for two created 11 sensation "not long ago. The bicycle - built for two thousand is the latest novelty. It is to be the great attrac- tion of the Paris exhibition of 1900, and will be the largest bicycle eveI built. This monster wheel ‘will be twc thousand times as large as an ordi. nary bike, and constructed after the manner of the Eiffel Tower. There are to be two large entrances—one at the bottom of each of its wheels—cut right throc. gh the tiies. Winding stair ways lead from the dod‘s up the front and back of each wheel throilgh the ' forward and rear standards. to the: Thence backbone of the machine. spiral steps ascend to the‘ handle-hm and saddle. The stairs are lighted throughoui‘ by numerous windows of quaint de sign, through which a great variety of views can be obtained as the sight- seer mounts to the top of the struc- tu-re. The backbone of the big bicycle will. contain a large apartment to be used as a banqueting-hall. One long table will run down the centre through its en- tire. length, at which six hundred per. sons may be seated comfortably. A Menagerie Farm. The thousand—acre menagerie farm in Merced county is putting the “glor- ious climate of California” to a new and interesting use, says the San Fran- cisco Argonaut. On it will be tried an experiment in the breeding of ele- phants, hippopotam‘i, lions, tigers, Ila-*1 ~ mas, nilgaus, kangaroos and other trop- ical and exotic animals such as are in common demand for purposes of exhi bition. The design is to obtain the conditions suited to every sortofnni mal used for exhibition, and the pro- prietor thinks that he can come nearer. to realizing these conditions in Cali. fornia than anywhere else. Natives of the various countries from which the-' animals com-e, who are accustomed to their ways, will be employed to~look after them. attempts tc , A Novel Invention. A .Rusisan philanthropist has just completed an invention which should . bring eomf01t to the minds of those who have the fea1 of p1ematu1e huiial always before them. It is a coflin de- vised with a tube, the, lower end of which is placed a little above the chest of the presumed corpse, while the‘up- per end rises above the surface'of the ground. The slightest respiration leads to the loud peal of an electric bell ar- raged at the top of the tube, while at the same moment a small flag is shot out for the purpose of indicating to any one who may be on the watch the precise grave at which the phenome- non has occurred. Simultaneously air ‘ and light penetrate into the coffin, the tenant of which can converse Without the least effort 01f difficulty with the personswho have hastened to his res~ cue. . U 4 " Mited‘As To Dates. A gentlemanwas'riding on the out- side of a coach in the West, when the driver said to him: , “I’ve had a coin guv’ me today 200 years old. Did you ever see a . coin 200 years old ‘1’” ' “Oh, yes; I have one myself 2,000 ‘ years old.” “Ali!” said the driver, “have ye?” and spoke no more during the rest of - the journey. When the coach arrived at its des- tination the driver turned to the other with an intensely self-satisfied air and said: “I told you as we druv’ along I had . a coin 200 years old.” “Yes.” “And you said to me you had one 2,000 years old.” “Yes, so I have.” “That’s not true” 1 ' “What do you mean by that?” "What do I mean? Why, it’s only 1897 now!” - ‘a-fl‘o‘- Paternal Shortslghtedness. Old Gotrox (indignan_tly)—“I am sur- prised, sir, that you should be so desti‘ tute of all reason as to ask for my daughter’s hand in marriage!” Young Hardupp—“Well, you needn’t be; that girl has some really fine points about her; you don’t know her as well as I . do, or you would think the world of her.”-——Puck. Cause for Complaint. Weller—What’s the matter, old man? Seller—Matter enough! I ordered a plaster cast of some famous sculpture to be used as a Sign for my glove store, and they sent me the Venus ‘of Milo—New York Journal. To Train the Voice. Trainer—’SSst. Jim! I hev me eye on wun 0v de greates’ trainin’ group’s fer yer on de map. , Jim Tawk—Wh'are? Trainer—’S-hl it’s cave. Jim Tawk— W’ot good is a cave fer trainin’? Tia1ner-I1ool. at de great practice ' de mammoth hyer’ ll get Wid yer echo. —Judge. ' Extent of ms Privileges. , “Who is that slovenly looking man over there by the piano. '3” “ ’Sh! That is Mr. Vlimmet’down, the famous musician.” “Well. I’ve no objection to his tan- gled hair, if he’s a musician, but he has no right to wear those dirty cuffs, by George! He’s not a literary man." -—Cliic:1go Tribune. Cyclist.- “I always get nervous when I see a woman crossing the meet ahead of me.” Second ‘Cyclist: “So do '1. 1111's so many pins Eat if, :1 fellow collides with them he 3' almost sure to puncture a tyre.”— ill-P its. , “FA Reprchensible Oversight. . " Abdul Hamid has ordered the arrest .r- the ‘otficials of Tokat, wherethe last They . tgzassncre of Christians was pulled off. " f.';1f1111' Christians were killEd, and 1111; Sultan feels that somebody should .i.- .Lilisciulined for gross neglect of 1.12,: -Cnicago Times Herald. iii An Amateur. "Do s this amateur you have en~ raged 1:1 10w how to act?” "At-1318 couldn’t even act upon a "-"rosiinll. "-—Detroit Free Press. THE ORIGINAL “BOSS” 1- ' Always the same i in their clothes, ‘- ’l I
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