mfRoulBael'l
do you?
nears YOUR-OIIIIIIGE.
A fine building lotion Wilton ave-
nue. If you intend to build, look at
this before purchasing.
Water, gas and sewer on the avenue.
Will be sold at a Bargain.
—.
W. H. BYINGTON,
Real Estate and Insurance
Room I. Gazette B’l’d.
I . ' ' 1 i I
Plano Lessons.
MRS. GEORGE W BRADLEY. (daughter
of the late Wm. . . Nash.) gives efiicept
and satisfactory instructions on the Piano 1 t
her home No.193 Main “rest
DAVID W. RAYMOND
[Funeral Director and tmhalmer
39 Washington Street South Norwalli
Residence .Manackemn Hotel
You Know ,
“A Good Thing” when you
see it——almost every onedoes.
The line of Suitings I am of‘-
fering for
SIB. 00
and upwards are each and
every one a good thing. Just
a matter of choice for the dif-
ferent tastes. The assort-
ment includes all kinds, light
and dark—a fine collection.
Pants, $3.50.
FRANK COCO. ,_
36 Main St., Norwalk.
Cleaning, Repairing and Dyeing.
DORLON,HOUSE
GREGORY’S 101111.
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SHORE IIIIIIIEIIS,
IIIIODE ISLAIIII ISLAM CAKE,
BATHIIIE, BOATING, FISIIIIIG.
Electric cars to Hotel, every twenty
minutes. .. .
l E J ’ 3 J L- LIVAN,
Manager.
.BALSAM
2512.11
Ask Your Druggist
11 11111:.
Don’t go out of town to
have your Awnings
made when you can get
them right here - at
‘home just as cheap.
If you want a canopy
for a party "’or 'a wed-
‘ ding, I, will supply it at
two hours’ notice.
A letter or postal card
fwill receive prompt at;
tention.
P. E. CALLAHAN',
Awning Maker,
0 ‘53 cross St., Norwalk.i
THE EVENIN
CATCHING THE TARPON.
Its a Battle Royal with this Gamelyand
‘ Bad Tempered Fish.
She tarpon is a “to—p feeder”—that is
he seeks his food near the surface.
Those who know him best fish for
him with live mullet, which is not al.
lowed to sink more than two feet be-
low the waves, being sustained by a
large “float” or cork. The inner portion
of his mouth is bone and no” hook
will take secure hold upon it. This
being so, it is necessary to allow him
partially to swallow the bait, which
he will do by the time that he has
carried the float along the water for a
space of thirty feet. The tarpon reel
holds 600 feet of line. Not infrequently
when he feels the hook the fish will
strike the trail for blue water with a
seemingly irresistible rush, and keep
going. What happens when his 150
pounds of express speed are pitted
against the strength of a line that is
run out needs not to be told. He
- simply sails on out to sea, whipping
behind him 200 yards of silk, and
whether he lives or whether he dies its
former owner knows not. He can only
go back to port and surround many
juleps and tell vain tales of the size of
the wonder that got away.
But if that splendid rush is deflected,
if the fish dives, if the thumb of an old
hand be upon the reel, if the man to
whom the hand is attached is cool of
head and knows enough to give his ad-
versary the butt, a battle royal is on.
For verily the combat between a 150-
pound man, sound of wind and science,
and a 150-pound tarpon, possessed of
the temper of the devil, is a grapple
of the gods. The crazed fish time and
again leaps three, four, five feet from
the water and shakes his head like a
dog in his effort to dislodge the book.
A momentary slack of the line is fatal,
as with the rapidity of lightning the
sharp teeth close upon the strands
above the snell and they are severed
as if with a knife.
But when the terrific struggles have
grown fainter, when the steady, dead‘
ly strain of the springing rod ‘has
sapped the strength of the gallant foe‘
man, when his lithe, powerful body is
brought near to the boat’s edge, when
th cruel gafl has smitten the life from
it and its beautiful length lies along
the deck, the conqueror feels half jubi-
lant, half remorseful, wholly respect-
ful of the giant whom his prowess has
laid low, and confoundly weary and
dry. He looks at the sun, which seems
surprisingly low in the heavens; he
looks at his watch and refuses to be-
lieve that two hours have passed in
that desperate wrestle. But, unless he
be in thorough training and past mas-
ter of his art, a swollen, aching wrist
will tell him for days afterwards that
in the silver king of the Southern seas
he was near to meeting his match.—
Chicago Times-Herald.
WHEN TAPE WAS HAND MADE.
Women 0!" Colonnial Times Had to Spin
Thread and Weave Fabrics.
Among the many household indus-
tries of colonial housewives, which in-
cluded spinning, dyeing, weaving and
candle, soap, pen, ink, wine, glove,
shoe and lace manufacture, was the
making of tape, though this was con.
sidered of minor importance. The pre-
paration for weaving -tape on the small
hand loom was the same as for mak-
ingyards of linen clorth on the great
' looms that stood in the weaving—room
attached to the kitchens of colonial
farmhouses.
The flax when harvested was rip-
pled on the field, the rippler being a
large comb fastened on a plank. The
flax was beaten on the comb to remove
the capsules containing the seeds.
Then it was rotted to make the fibre
soft and flexible. This was generally
accomplished by laying it beneath the
waters of the meadow brook or pond.
The next and last process before it
was ready for the spinning-wheel was
hackling, to straighten the flax, free it
from tangles and bring it to the requis-
ite fineness. ‘This was done by a very
primitive machine called a hatchel, an
immense comb, whose long iron teeth
were set perpendicularly in a board.
The operation of hackling required.
much skill, and this part of the long
preparation was particularly women’s
work, as it needed delicacy of touch
After the flax was liackled it was care
fully sorted, according to degrees oi
fineness. This process was called
spreading and drawing. Then it- was
ready to be wrapped, in its soft, flufly
fineness, about the spindle. 9
The spinner seated herself at tht
machine, and soon the “music of the
wheel” and the deft fingers of the
colonial housewife brought the fibre
into long, even thread, ready for the
small loom and shuttle, to be converted-
into tape—New York Tribune.
One on Governor Atkinson.
One of the best stories yet heard
on Governor Atkinson was told by
himself to a party of admirers whr.
Were chatting withhim in the parlor
of the hotel at Cochran on his returr'
"from his recent visit to the Chautau-
The story is'
qua at Hawkinsville.
such a good one that it is wo1th 1e
peating.
,“It was during my recent inspectiot
of the convict camps,” said the Gov
ernor. “Among other places I visited
were the coal mines, and in order t1
make a thorough inspection it was nec-
essary to go down into the mines and.
, see the convicts at work. Two guards
accompanied me down into the mines
They showed me everything of inter-
est, and finally took me to where the
convict-s were at work. As we ap
proached them one of the convicts
rushed over'to me crying: ‘Good Lord
Bill Atkinson as sm'e as I live!‘ l
never expected to See you here. Whal
on earth, Bill, did they convict you 01
doing?’ I readily recognized the mar
as. one whom, I ‘had: known since 1113
boylmod.~”——Jackson, Ga., Argus.
AN; 'ELEPHANT’S LIFE.
Attains His Full Growth at the Age of
_ Thirty-Five.
‘.‘I was practically reared in the cir~
cus business,” said one of the best
known circus owners in the country to
a St. LouisRepubhc reporter, “but I
never tire of watching the: elephants.
You notice that I hang around the el-
ephant ring out here whi1e1the per-
formance is going on, just as though I
had never before seen a pachyderm.
There is an indescribable fascination
abodt th-g big brutes to me which I am
unable either to rid myself of or ex;
plain. And I am just as much afraid
of them/as any country yap who sees
them for the first time. They arr. the
most treacherous animals I know any-
thing about, and I would as soon trust
‘ my safety to a lion as to anelephant,
no matter how well I may be acquaint-
ed with him or on what good terms
we may appear to be.
“I am satisfied that the naturalists
are mistaken in the general belief that
elephants live to be 200 years old. - Of
course it is a difficult matter to deter-
mine the age of an elephant with any
degree of accuracy, yet it can be easily
estimated on the basis commonly used
in arriving at the expectancy of all
other animals. The human, for ex-
ample, attains full growth at the age
of 22 or 23 years. With this knowledge
we can estimate that the average
length of human life is three times the
figure at which physical maturity is
reached, or about 60 years. Dealing
with the elephant on the same basis I
cannot estimate his expectancy at
much over 100 years. The elephant
quits growing at the age of 35. On
the principle accepted, therefore, he
cannot be expected to live more than
three times 35 years, or 105 years. We
have one elephant known to be some-
thing over a hundred years old, but he
is showing his age very decidedly, and
1' look for him to die most any time.”
SLICING ROCKS;
A Machine Invented \Vhlch Will be Use-
ful in Studying Their Formation.
The paleontologist has always been
more or less hampered by his inability
to study thoroughly the grain of rocks.
It often happens that the points of
greatest value are not shown on the
rock’s surface, and the geologist breaks
it with a hammer, says the St. Louis
Globe Democrat. The paleontologist
hesitates to do this, because he real-
izes that in so doing he may destroy a
choice specimen. Therefore, a machine
that would permit him to saw 01f al-
most the thickness of a hair at a. time
would triple h'is opportunities of dis-
covery, and make possible an analysis
of rock specimen finer than any yet
dreamed of. Such a machine has been
invented. It will slice rock so thin it
Ecan be used for a. window transpar-
sency.
Th1s feat is accomplished by means
of a sales of tin discs, the edges of.
Awhich are charged with diamond dust.
The machine will cut fossils or rocks
of any kind so delicately that the sub-
stance can be seen through as easily as
the glass of a window. It can be regu-
lated with such nicety as to cut the
most brittle rock to the thickness of
one-fiftieth of an inch. It has long
been known that the beauty of many
varieties of stones increased in propor.
tion as their density was lessened. The
machine renders possible the accurate
sthdy of the grain of rocks which may
prove prismatic which otherwise
would have had to be passed over, or
imperfectly scrutinized. Rock forma-
tions 1epresent certain periods in the
earth’s existence. Each age has its va-
riation, and therefore the new method
of investigation, in showing to the
smallest degree the composition of the
rock, enables the geologist to trace its
history without the chance of error.
He W'on His Case,
Many years ago in Virginia a case
was on trial in which the defendant
~was accused of shooting into a party
that had come to "horn” him, a form
of country celebration common at that
time. Dennis Keeney appeared for the
defendant. It was shown that the gun
with which the shooting was done was
loaded with dried peas instead of lead.
Finally a very dirty looking witness
was called, who testified-that he had
been shot in the right leg. On cross-
examiuation the fellow appeared rath-
er shifty, and finally Keeney asked
him to show the jury the exact spot
where the pea took effect. The fellow
demurred, saying that the shooting had
been'done six weeks before, and the
wound had healed. At last, with great
reluctance, the witness drew up his
right trouser-leg, exposing a limb well
covered with dirt. Pointing to a spot
which, if possible, was blacker than
the rest, the witness said, “There—
that’s where they went in!” Keeney
turned to the jury, and in his most im-
pressive manner said, “Gentlemen. I
leave it to your knowledge of crops—if
peas had been. planted in that soil six
weeks ago, they would be in blossom
now” The witness retired in confu-
- sion, and Keency won his case.
NOTES OF WOMEN.
The Duchess of Fife, who is nick-
, named “Her Royal Shyness,” never at-
tendis the Queen’s drawing rooms.
The Czarina of Russia is of a practi
cal turn of mind, and she uses the
typewriter with facility. The frame of
her machine is inlaid with 111otl1er—of—
pearl, and the bars are of gold.“
J can Ingelow is a quiet, shy-looking
woman of sixty-two, Her kindness of
heart is proverbial,
wee { she gives what she calls}; “copy-
right dinner" to twelve poor persons
inst discharged from the hospitals. ,‘
’ Not In Stock.
Floor Walker—She complains that
'1 on di in t show 'hlel common civility.
Salemaan—J showed her everything
.1 my depawrtment, sin—Detroit Jam
1
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“uh
; Russia.
for three times a
GAZETTE
ALronsd's NURSE. _
Queen Christina as Sponsor for the Child
of a Peasant. . .
At an interesting chiisteniug' 1111115-
village or ‘Heras, near Santa.11'.’.1=r. :11-
though the parents of‘the babe 1181.01]:
to the lower orders, the priests 1101211111
their most magnificent robes and the
altar of the village church was one
blaze ofli'g‘hltf The alcalde and the
other local authorities were present,
for the infant was the queen's giixuson,
child of Maximina Pedraja, the nurse
of Alphonso. XIII. .
Queen Christina dressed the peasant
nurse of her son with great splendor.
fashioning the gay, rich materials into
Maximina’s native costume—a short
round skirt of scarlet velvet, black or
a dark blue bodice with fine lawn
chemisette, tiny silk apron with flow-
ing sash, her hair inplaits with a large
silk bow on her head something like
those worn by the Alsatian peasants.
As a finishing touch the queen decked
her with a coral necklace andearrings.
Sometimes on state occasions Maxim
ina appeared with triple strands of
beads of solid gold around her neck.
.Maximina is not a pretty woman.
Her features are sharp and hard. She
has occupieda most prominent place
in great palatial ceremonies. She has
stood by the tlnone, the first person
next to the queen; she has diivcn to
the cathedral, sitting in the glass car~
riage. She carried the pope's godson
to be christened. She stood with him
‘in her arms under the dais in the house
of parliament. . She has held him
when great foreign princes have kissed
his baby hand. She taught him his
first word, and how to call his mother.
He learned from her hdw to make the
sign of the cross, to lisp his first
prayer, and from her arms Alphonso ‘
XIII took his first steps.
King Alphonso was not weaned
readily, and it. was no little trouble to
persuade him to use a spoon. In fact,
that was quite out of the question un-
til Maximina was by degrees taken
from him and sent to other apartments
in the palace. At, first the king cried
terribly for his nurse and often re-
fused to be comforted even by his
mother, whom he adores. “Amal Ami-
ta'.” he would sob and call until the
soft hearted Spaniards around him
would have sent for her immediately
but in that the queen was firm. "The
king is 4 year old, and must learn to
live without his nurse.” By degrees
he d1ied his tears, but he often speaks
of his ama, a-nd sends her presents and
no end of messages.
Maximina returned to her home in
Hera-s. She is a rich woman for one
of her class. She has built a pretty
cottage, where her fortunate husband
sits and smokes his pipe and pretends
to be looking after “his own property.”
Maximina receives £10 a. month from
the queen, besides other bounties, and
her chi1d1en will never lack patronage
so long as Maria Christina lives. Her
old fashioned chests of drawers are
full of fine linens. Her necklaces and
earrings will be heirlooms for her lit-
tle daughter, the foster sister of King
Alphonso. ’
Queen Christina was much pleased
When \Iaximina’s son was born. She
wrote that she would be the child’s
godmother, and that it should be All
phonso, after the king.
That is why ’the village of Heras :
witnessed such a grand christening.—
Brooklyn Eagle.
DOCTORS IN RUSSIA.
A Fever- Patlent Cured by Live Frogs or
by Flight. - .
Slovo of Kiev reports some curious
instances of popular doctoring in South
The rural dentist places his
patient upon a little stool and exam-
ines him. If anupper tooth is to be
pulled he performs the operation with
. a simple pair of tongs like that used
by cobblers. But if a lower tooth is
to be extracted the operation is more
complicated. The tooth is tied very
skillfully with a violin string. The
other end of the string is fastened to
a hook in the ceiling. Then the stool
is removed with a_jerk from beneath
the patient, who falls, his tooth re
maining on the string, sometimes with
the flesh around it. Intermittent fever
is cured either by live frogs or, by
fright. When the sickness breaks out
the patient is made to carry about him
as many live frogs as can be put in _
his cloth-es. If that treatment does
n01 help the patient his fellow vil-
lagers try 'to frighten him. The most
popular method of doing that is known
by the name of Likaniye._, A crowd of
men and women come into the house
and. raise a quarrel with the patient.
They treat him to the loudest-and most
ofi‘ensive terms of reproach. That nat-
urally irritates him, and he answers
in similar terms. The crowd takes
offense at his rude expressions and
resolves to lynch him. A rope is put
around his neck and he is dragged
about until he is insensible on account
of the fright—Brooklyn Eagle. .
He Didn't Lose His Psnsinn.
An old Revolutionary soldier in'Porl-
land, Me., had a Small pension, of
which he was proud, and by doing
such work as he could he secured a
sufficient income to provide for his
modest wants. One day he. slipped at
the top of a flight of stairs and fell
almost to- the bottom. The mistress
‘of the house l1u1ricd to him in great
1119,1111 and asked if he thought he was
seriously injuied. "I guess not,
nia’am." he said, rising stifljly to his
feet and gasping with fright; “I don’t
think I’m killed. But When I was half-
way down the stairs, ma’am, thinks
I, I’m going to lose my pension, sure!”
—-New York T1" rhune.
A Scotch minister announced from
the pulpit: “West, friends, the kirk is
urgently in need of sitter, and as I
have failed to get moat-v honestlyfl
will have to see what a “1
urn-‘33.}: L‘fii. (3‘0
' ., [or me.” .1 _
a
cAKE OF TOILET SOAP IN EVERY PACKAGE.
INVENTIONS _OF THE ANCIENTS.
Water Supnly of -Pompeii Distributed by
Lead Pipes Under the Streets.
It is a singular feature of many in-'
ventions that they are subsequently
found to‘be repetitions of old ideas.
The inventors are honest enough, but
the ancients anticipated them by hun-
dreds of years.
Professor Goodman says the thing
that most impressed him, when visit-
ing Pompeii, was the resemblance be-
tween many of the implements of eigh-
teen hundred years ago and those of
to—day. On looking at the iron tools
grouped together in an old factory
there, he could almost imagine he was
gazing into a modern tool shop, except
for the fact that there was a heavy
coating of rust on the iron.
Sickles, bill-hooks, rakes, forks, axes,
spades, blacksmiths’ tongs, hammers,
soldering irons, planes and shovels are
much like those used today; but the
most marvelous instruments found are
those for surgery, beautifully executed,
and of design exactly similar to some
recently patented and re-invented.
Unlikely as it may appear, Pompei-
ians had Wire ropes of perfect con-
struction. Their bronzes reveal great
skill and artistic talent.
brazier and kitchener had boilers at
the side, and taps for running off the
hot water.
Ewers and urns have been discov-
ered with interior tubes, and furnaces
precisely like the arrangements now in
vogue in steam boilers. Metal safes
had substantial locks.- Many of the
locks and keys are most ingenious, and
some very complex. The water supply
of Pompeii was distributed by means
of lead pipes under the streets. There
were many public drinking fountains,
and most of the large houses were pro-
vided with fountains, many of them
being of very beautiful design.
BACTERIA HAVE USES.
The Minute Organisms Serve a Purpose
and Add to Man’s Pleasure.
So much has been said about bacte-
ria as causing and propagating disease
that it is difficult to make the public
regard these minute organisms as any-
thing but mischief makers. Neverthe-
less, an American scientist, Professor
Conn, of Wesleyan University, and Si-
mon C. Keith. of Boston, are demon-
strating by experiments that they serve
a useful purpose in nature, and con
tribute quite as much to one’ s pleasure
as to one’s discomfort. The outcome
of their investigation is that it is to the
development of bacteria. in milk that
r
the delicate flavor of butter and cheese f
is due, and that the reason some kinds
of butte1 and cheese have bette1 fla
vors than others is that different spe- :
cies of bacteria have been developed.
They have succeeded in isolating these
different species.
In 1891 Professor Vilhelm Storch, of
Copenhagen, succeeded in isolating cer-
tain acid bacteria from ripened cream, 1
and was able to cultivate and utilize .
them in the creameries for accomplish-
ing an artificial ripening in the cream
and con-sequent fermentation, in order
that a more uniform and better fia-
.vored butter mightbe produced. But
it was not until about two years ago,
when Professor Conn discovered a
germ for the ripening of cream which ‘
was radical-1y difierent from any here-
tofore used, that the subject began to
be studied in this country with the -
view of developing its commercial pos‘
sibilities.—New York Herald.
Commercial Use of Gar-nets.
“The average man, I presume, imag
ines that garnets the used in our line
of business exclusively,” remarked :1 '
State street jeweler the other day.
“whereas in fact the jewelry trade cuts
1. small figure in the garnet industry.
“About 3,000 tons of garnets are used
every year in this country for making
sandpaper. A very small proportion ‘of i
the garnets have any value to the lapi-
dary, and the best are only semi-pre-
3iou-s stones. The costliest come from the
Adirondack regions and from Dela~
ware county, Penn. Up in Alaska, near
the town of Wrangel,
garnet mountain, and a corporation
has recently been organized to develop
it. The Alaska garnets are said to be
usually fine.”--Chicago Times-Herald.
. The bronze
is a veritable i
WlT AND Humm_
\ Aunt Marla (at thetheatrei—Why do
all those men rush out. in breathless
haste the moment the curtain falls?
. Uncle Henry—Just wait till they
come in again, and you’ll understand
it. ‘
When they returned there was not a
breathless one among them. —Boston
Transcript.
‘ “I should like to see the excitement
that would take my breath away,”rre
marked the large, calm man. ‘
“Yes,” said his better half, “so should
I. But unless you stop eating onions
I don’t think .it could be‘ done.”
“I wish,” said the bothered proof.
reader, as he adjusted his green shade
at a different angle ,of crooked’mess,
“that I knew whether this was a new
Greek war name or a pied line.”—New
York Herald.
Miss Highup—It’s perfectly Scanda-
lousl
Pink?
Miss Tiptop—No.
done?
“Oh, the most immodest thing imag-
inable' She’s let all the world know
What has she
and joining the cooking schoo .”—New
York Weekly.
The (1.1.5.1 Man's Illustrations.
‘ Representative McCleary, of Minne
sofa, besides being one of the best ex-
ponents of a sound financial system, is
, an extremely good story teller. H11
l was entertaining a group of his col-
leagues tihe other day with anecdotes
of peculiar people he had met, and told
the follow-ing on one of his preacher
constituents:
’l‘ he minister was illustrating the
cum: potence of God by showing that
the least as well as the greatest of
“-1111: s had been created by him. “Just
1.1111" said the minister, “when God
xii-ads the mountains Hemade the lit
llie ri-lis; when God made the mighty
inks-moth He made the sparrow, and
w hen God made me He made a daisy."
— Philadelphia Press.
\ Curious Post-once.
i the smallest simplest ,and best-pro-
..ected post- office in the world is in the
I straits of Magellan,- and has been there
‘ ’or many years. It consists of a small
l pninied keg or cask, and is chained to
:the rocks or the extreme cape, In 1
i111 annei so that it floats free, opposite
.‘l‘eria de-l F_uego Each passing shllp
sends a boat to take letters out am!
‘put otheis in. This curious post-of-
~fice is unprovided with a postmaster,
and is, there-fore, under the protection
of all the navies of the world. Never
’ in the history of this unique omce has
its privilege been abused.
A—Well, and how dlld you sleep last
1ig11t?_ Did you follow my advice and
. begin counting?
B—Yes. I counted in to 18,000.
A—And then you fell asleep?
B—No, then it was time to get up n
Followihg IEstrEctions.
“Um—ah,” said the Rev. Mr.-W-ilgus,
1 as he looked over the scanty 'mission‘
ary collection: “I asked this congrega—
tion to aid in the illumination of the
, benighted heathen mind. And I must
say that such a lot of light givers it
has never before been my experience
to meet.”——lndianapolis Journal.
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Somebody Else Was.
Young bride—I didn’t accept Tom the
first time he proposed. '
Miss Ryval (slightly
know you d’idn’t.
, Young Biide—How do you know?
I Miss Ryval—You we1en’t there. -
' New Y01k World“
envious)-I
- “You are wasting your time, old
man,” said Fred to George. “You are
courting the wrong girl.” “Norshe’s
the right girl; I’m afraid the trouble
' is I’m the wrong man.”
vous people, Simpkins?”
“No. What I want to find is a good
male for people who have to live with
chem”—-Ch1cago Record.
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