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secured in New York. Fred is an im-
" porter, and-bought when there wasa
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Branch Office of GAZETTE No. 12
North Maln Street
The city council will meet this even-
ing.
Henry Froeb and family are plan-
ning a trip to Florida.
The telephone call‘at the Water Com-
missioners office is 49-4.
A special "meeting of the Twin City
VVheelme'n will be held to-night.
’ The Y. W. C. T. U. will hold a
basket picnic at Hickory Bluff to-night.
Miss Reynolds of New Canaan, has
set “ Hod ” Saunders Orient poem to
music. ’
Mrs. C. H. Guider of Rowayton, has
purchased an Orient at the Saunder’s
agency. '
A barn and shed has been placed at
the rear of the laundry on Haviland
street.
Landlord Walz will entertain the
pencil pushers of the press to-morrow
evening, at the Mahackemo.
Lars Johnson, the juggler at the Ma-
hackemo cafe, is in Stamford to-day
getting acquainted with the elephants.
Secretary Horace S. Hatch of the
Norwalk Yacht club is in attendance
to-day at the Atlantic Yacht club re—
gatta.
Eugene Tolles is in the woods to-day
hunting for a 75 foot tree. He has taken
James Olmstead with him as an expert
measurer.
Commodore Wheeler is down the
harbor again to-day on his yacht “ Pie-
crust,” and his store is as tightly closed
as the bottom crust on his yacht.
The Arions will hold a Clambake at
Burchard’s grove on July 5th. In the
evening they will further enjoy them-
selves at the club’s headquarters.
Foreman Jesse M. Ferris gave a re-
port of the State Firemen’s convention
at Middletown at a meeting of the Old
Well Hook and Ladder company last
night.
The skim milk peddler met with an
a zcident on Taylor avenue this morning
which resulted in his losing a large can
of lacteal fluid which was spilled on the
avenue.
Thomas Kippie formerly of this city,
who is under sentence to be hung on
July l-‘lth for the murder of his wife has
been refused a stay of an execution of
Sentence.
The memorial to the" memory of the
late Charles H. TVaterbury was pre-
sented and approved of at a meeting of
the Old Well Hook & Ladder company
last evening. ‘ .
Oscar Hasselstrom and gliss Augusta
Johnson, sailed on the steamer Teu-
tonic, yesterday, for Gottenberg,
Sweden; They secured their tickets at
J. M. Layton’s office.
Horsefeet parties are now “all the
go.” The young ladies While pronoun-
cing the creatures as horrid, grabbed
them by their spikey appendage and
laugh as they drop them into a basket.
The committee appointed for the
next concert at the First Methodist
Episcopal church is James A. Brown,
Mrs. F. N. Smith, Mrs. Farron Betts,
Mrs. Adams, and Wesley Slauson.
A horse belonging to C. S. Trow-
bridge & Son ran away on South Main
street yesterday. A telegraph pole
stopped the progress of the runaway
and assisted in wrecking the vehicle.
Samuel Ireland and “Nate” went
down the harbor on the'yacht “Three
Brothers” after weak fish, yesterday.
It is not learned that they caught any |
fish, at least not of the kind they set 7
sail for.
'A meeting of the Masonic Mutual i
Benefit association of which J. R. Ray- i
mond and R. M. Wilcoxaof this city, . .
' in
are directors and who were 'in attend-
ance, was held in New Haven' last
night. The old board of officers was
re-elected. ‘
Fred Coleman placed an order for
$100 worth of firecrackers yesterday,
at prices that the buyers could not have
chance to buy cheap.
Mrs. Henry McKeever who while
under arrest on the charge of drunken-
ness attempted to hang herself was
yesterday sentenced to ten days in jail.
The time will probably “hang heavily
on her hands.” And it was so to speak =
“a Frost” for her.
Captain Gladstone, Officers Penning-
ton and Hall, D. Cassassa, Mrs. Paga-
netti, Charles L. Smith, H. W. Gor-
ham, Elton Baker, Clarence Reardon,
Dr. W. C. Burke, John Leslie, Howard
Wilmot and others are in Bridgeport
to-day as witnesses in the Imapassino-
Fuda murder trial. ,
The children at the Methodist church
Sunday evening gave a good pro-
gramme of exercises. The church was
beautifully embellished with Nature’s
plants and flowers, and the combination .
of the sweet voices and pretty faces of
the children was one that will long .
dwell in the remembrance of those I
present.
John Herring and his friend the
photographer went down the harbor
fishing yesterday afternoon, and man- '
aged to reach home with the half peek
of round clams they took with them,be-
fore the storm came up and drenched l
the fishermen who were not as wise as '
. horseback before breakfast.
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THE WOMEN OF CUBA.
NOTED FOR THEIR BEAUTY OF mos
AND GRACEFUL FlGURES.
They are “'arm Hearted and Affection
ate, Displaying Much Devotion to
Their Families—Vol: So Many Marrleges
of Convenience in-Cuba us in France. .
Cuban women are noted for their
beauty, somewhat resembling the Ori-
ental type, with dark, languishing
eyes, colorless complexions, small
mouths. graceful, rounded forms, and
exquisitely shaped hands and feet.
Their Cinderella-like feet are probably
due to the fact that Cuban women are
not fond of exercise, although in the
country they saunter around the
grounds or. take a brisk cantor on
In town
they arise early, as people usually do
in the tropics, before the dew is off
the grass, and take a turn in the gar-
den or walk through the park.
When they go "shopping they drive
to the stores, but seldom alight from
their carriages. Obsequious clerks
hasten to bring out goods for their in‘
snection, while they make their selec-
tion. glancing indifferently with their
big black eyes at the passers—by, mean-
while, who pass close to their equip-
-ages, owing to the narrow sidewalks
and thoroughfares. Sometimes ladies
prefer to have samples sent to their
residences, and do their shopping at
home with still greater case. In the
tropics labor is simplified as much as
possible, and time is not of much ac-
count. All social as well as domestic
duties are carried out leisurely, and
the rush and hurry of the metropolis
are unknown.
The popular idea is that Cuban
women are indolent, but such is not the
case, although the torrid zone does
impart a languid grace to every mo-
tion, while the bustling activity of
Northern women is lacking. They
find plenty to do at home in superin-
tending their servants, attending to
household duties, and embroidering or
doing fine needle work, for Cuban wo-
men are skilled in the use of the
needle, and of late years in the brush
also, Cuba having produced many cel-
ebrated artists.
Flores de Mayo, Flowers of May,
as the May festival to the Virgin
is called, brings out many pretty maid-
ens. Clad in white, wearing
long white veils over their
dark tresses, they repair to the
evening service to carry flowers, going
up to the altar two by two, and ex-
tending their floral ofierings, which are
received and placed on the altar by
the acolytes. ‘ .
Cuban girls are carefully shielded
from the world, the prevailing cus-
in regard to chaperonage
being similar to those of the
French, as well as other cuStoms. But
a closer intercourse with the United
States through education and travel
has modified many of their customs,
especially since so many Cubans have
made our country their home by adop«
tion.
Few-er marriages of convenience are
made in Cuba. than in France. Cuban
women’s hearts sway their heads.
They are warm—hearted, passionate,
and afiectionate, while , their
affections , center in their homes.
As a rule they are true and
faithful in family relations, and are
devoted to their husbands and chil-
dren. The only flaw, perhaps, is some
times an overweening fondness for
their offspring, which tends to harm-
‘ful indulgence—harmful because exf
cessive—for self-control should be
taught a child, and wholesome discis‘
pline maintained. :
The distinctive charms of Cuban
maidens are their soft, gentle, and cap:
tivatinlg ways, and languid grace. They
are not as lively and independent as
American girls, while their training"
and conventional life tend to render
them more timid and dependent—Han
per’s Bazar. l
Quick Retort. i
A young aide—de-camp who at a party,
Dublin Castle once approached
Archbishop Whately and asked: “Does
your grace know what is the differJ,
ence between an ass and an ArchbishJ,
op?” “No,” was the grave answerl
Then the youth went on, “An ass has
a cross on his back, but an Archbishop
has a cross on his breast.” “Veryl
good,” said the Archbishop; “now, will
you tell me what is the difierence be-f
tween yourself and an ass?” “I don’t,l
know,” said the youth. “Neither dd
1,” said the Archbishop, and walked
away. 1
An Unconquerable Prejudice. i
“Dis is a fine piece,” remarked
I Plodding Pete, who had been regaling
himself with some literature which he
had picked up on the way. 1
“What’s it about?” asked Meander,
ing Mike. j
“About de beauties of nature. Come‘
to t’ink of it, some 0’ dem is fine?
Don’t ye kind of enjoy lookin’ over all
evening and seein’ de mountain bathed
in light?” .
“No,” replied Meandering Mike. “Mel
nature’s too sympathetic. I feel sorry,
for ’em.”——Washingtcn Star. '
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Mrs. Benham—I am going to write
to mother tonight, and I am just go;
4 ing to tell her all I know. g
Benham—That will be too bad; she
will be expec..ing a good long letter.——‘
New York Journal.
He Kept His Word.
“Her husband said when she mar-
ried him, his love would be unremit-
ting.” 3
“Did he keep his word?” ‘L
“Yes, he has never given her if
cent." '
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They’ve always stood the peer,
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Made the Following Gains in lhe Year I896:
Increase in Income,
$ T ,057.8 I 6.28.
Increase in Assets,
$ I .9972 34,42.
Increase in Surplus,
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Increase in New Life Business,
3 l 598,668.00.
Increase in Life Insurance in Force,
$5,608,680.00.
Increase in Accident Insurance in Force,
$2 I ,73650000
Increase in Accident Premiums,
$ | 75,085.72—0r 62 per c exit.-
Increase in New Lile Insurance Written in Connecticut,
$3 I 0,642.00.
Increase inltotal Life Insurance in Connecticut.
$472,569.00. _ .
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in the history of lilo insurance. . «
Notwithstanding the material increase of new business' on which
the expense in Life Insurance is chiefly incurred, the ratio of expense to
income on tho Lilo business of this company, excluding the Accidem
business, is somewhat lover than last year, and is 23 per cent. loss
than the average expense of the ion leading “purely mutual” companies
for the Year l895.
Their figures for l896 have not been published.
' harm a. DOLKELEY, President.
J. L. ENG .183, Sec. H. W 31‘. JOHN. Actuary.
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