TH E E v E 11 111v e GA an r T 151 .
SOUTH NORWALK.
The amount of individual deposits in
the City National bank on October 5th,
were, $233,677.86.
There were quite a numlier of boats
out yesterday with fishing parties.
None of them report very great luck.
Among the candidates for membership
in the Fairfield County Medical associa-
tion is Dr. W. B. Bean of this city.
Miss Alice Byxbee entertainedl a
number of friends at her home on
Union street, Friday evening. Music
and games were indulged in.
“Lessons from Nature” was the sub-
ject of R. J. Beach’s sermon in the
Methodist church, at Rowa3 ton, yes-
terday morning.‘
—Prof. M. S. Rosen, the well-known
oculist Optician, can be consulted at
his office 1n the parlor of the Mahacke-
mo Hotel, South Norwalk, Tuesdays
from 9 a. m. to 8 p. m Eyes examined
free. f5 tf
Moses B. White, who married Miss
Nellie Tufts of this city, died at his
home in Buffalo, on Friday. '
The Methodist church services were
held in Hoyt’s Theatre yesterday.
Robert Pearson will commence jury
duty in Bridgeport to-morrow.
Rev. A. J. Smith preached his annu-
al sermon in the Brookside Chapel,
yesterday. '
Theodore Smith and a friend caught
fourteen large bass in the VVestport
harbor, yesterday.
Pansy Stevens is convalescent ofa
severe illness. _
The red coat now being given the
railroad bridge is to be covered — with
one of white.
This morning, shoe-dealer Tristram
was unable to get into his store on
Washington bridge, through the front
door. There was evidence that some
one had tampered with the lock. The
proprietor thinks that an attempt was
made to burglarize the store.
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“Col. Hod” Saunders. reports an im-
mense sale of bicycle tires on Saturday
last.
Sydney S. Dayton caught two bass
off Westport, yesterday, one of which
weighed 10% pounds and the other6
pounds and 5 ounces.
The Blossom bicycle club, numbering
K, fifteen, tooka run through Norwalk,
Weston and Westport yesterday, head-
ed by “Col” Horace A. Saunders and
‘ wife. On thier return they were
treated to a turkey supper by Mr and
Mrs. Edward Kelly. 1
It ts reported that two well known
young men belonging here joined the
salvation army last night.
An oflicer from the quartermaster-
general’s department will inspect all
state property at the army, to-morrow.
The uniforms of the line and staff offi-
cers and privates will come in fora
general looking over.
Chief Yollmer'arrested a man named
Benjamin this morning, for drunken-
ness. The man fell through a window
of Ferd. Hayes market on the corner
of Haviland and South Main streets
and was unable to navigate. Hence
his arrest.
Richard Fitzgerald and Charles Cole-
man are to open anews office in the
Kehoe building at the east end of the
Washipgton street bridge.
A man named Lynch was arrested
here on Saturday for being intoxicated.
The barges Henry J. Devenny and
Francis H. Jackson loaded with coal
are at Ferris’ wharf.
An infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Langell was christened yesterday at
his home in Whistleville.
Mrs. Margaret Barrett wife of Ed-
ward Barrett, died yesterday. The
funeral Will be held on Wednesday.
The A. O. H. ball will take place in
the Atheneeum to-night. It Will be in
keeping with other like events in the
history of the society.
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The city assessers are in session to-
day. A A __
True to His Bringing Up:
A writer in the Independent has dis-
covered something rare—a donkey boy
in Cairo with a sense of the ideal.
Most boys of his profession are a good-
natured lot, but few are the vices they
cannot teach. Little Hassau, on the
contrary, seems to have principles,
‘ and is quietly stanch in his adherence
to them.
Once he refused a cigarette, says the
~traveler, and in my surprise I almost
. lost my balance.
7 “What! Not smoke, Hassau?” said
I. “I thought all the donkey boys
smoked.”
“I don’t, said Hassau, who looked
about eleven, was short, very brown,
very scantily dressed, quite dirty, had
only one eye and trotted behind the
donkey with rounded shoulders and
head craned forward. “I don’t. If _I
d; 11 my family would beat me, and
quite right, too.”
“But who are you, and who are your
family?" I asked.
‘Ahl” he said, proudly, “we ‘are Su-
danese. In the Sudan we are strict.
To smoke, to use wine, to drink coffee,
hot to pray-«these are shameful
things, and if a man did anything im-
p re, 1511 y hang him to a tree with his
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Branch Office a. G‘AZETTE No. 21 .
MON UMiiN T OF BRICKS.
States Government.
“Very few know it, but it is a fact,”
explained a prominent builder to a
Washington Star reporter, “that the
Pension Office building is the largest
brick' building in the world. It has
been subjected to much criticism, but
it can stand it, for as time passes
along- there are many“ things seen
about it that escaped notice when it
was newer. In all, there are over
10,000,000 bricks in the building.
Gen. Meigs took liberties with bricks
that'no other architect had ever at-
tempted. He not only used bricks .ex-
clusively for the building, but he used
them in constructing the stairs
throughout the building. In the mat-
ter of stair building bricks have often
~been used for the riser, but the step
has always been of iron, wood, slate
or stone. ' In the Pension Office bot-h
riser and step are of brick. As a brick
building, therefore, pure and simple,
it is unique in construction, outside of
the fact that it is the largest exclu-
sively brick building in the world. "
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THE SPARROW’S REVENGE.
ThewPoor Pigeon Had to Suffer for a Crime
of Which He Was Not Guilty.
This story deals with the sagaclty
and pugnacity of the English sparrow,
and also shows how curiosity may get
an innocent creature into trouble. The
Riddle mansion that stands in Glen
Riddle, Delaware County, has for some
time been the nesting place of several
families or sparrows, and the birds had
become a regular pest. One day last
week Miss Riddle decided to get rid of
the birds, and mounting a ladder ‘she
tore out at least a dozen. nests from
the eaves of the porch. The old birds,
returning later and finding their
homes wrecked, held a noisy meeting
on the roof, and then dispersed.
A stray pigeon that had been roost-
ing around the place for several days
came back late in the afternoon and
flew under the porch eaves as usual.
The pigeon evidently noticed some-
thing wrong, for several times he flew
from the porch to Where the dis-
mantled nests lay. This cause-d the
trouble, for the angry sparrows noticed
it, and suspected the pigeon of being
the cause of their despair. The first
thing the unlucky pigeon knew he was
attacked by at least twenty screaming
sparrows, who began pecking at him,
and despite a brave resistance the
parrows came off victorious and left
mangled corpse on the field.
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Cash Register in Garfield’s Tomb.
In the tomb of James A. Garfield
is a cash register, which rings up a
ticket for every visitor,_shoviring that
a dime has been paid to the associa-
tion for the privilege of viewing the
monument erected to the martyr
President.‘ '
Cleveland, Ohio, has two great
monuments, and an unenviable noto-
riety hangs around each. When Gen.
Garfield was buried in Lake View
cemetery the people of the nation set
out to raise $200,000 to build a monu-
ment worthy of his memory. At the
time of the dedication of the monu-
ment $50,000 of the fund was lacking.
The deficit was raised by the nation
and the monument was left clear of
debt. _
From the cash register $6,000 a year
is extracted. But the'thrifty associa-
tion has another source of profit. In~
side the tomb is a counter where
relics of the dead Presidentere sold.
Here can be bought at a bargain'bits
of the marble of which the tomb is
built and pictures of the‘monument
and the'man. _ From the sale
$500 a year is cleared.
Love and Magnolia.
South American lovers have a pretty
custom. ,It is well known that when
the petals of the great laurel magnolia
are touched, however lightly, the re~
suit is a brown spot, which deveIOps in
a few hours. The fact is taken ad-
vantage of by the lover, who pulls a.
white petals writes a motto or mes-
sage with a hard, sharp pointed pen-
cil. Then he sends the flower, the
young lady puts it in a vase of water.
and in three or four hours the message
written on the leaf becomes visible.
He—Tell me, Carrie, were you ever
in love before?
She—T0 be frank with you, Harry,
my heart never went out from me but
once, and that was to my bicycle; but,
Harry, I like you as well as it is pos-
sible for me to like a man. ——Boston
Transcript.
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Fill a bottle or common glass with
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When urine stains linen it is evidence
of kidney trouble. Too frequent desire
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convincing proof that the kidneys and
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WHAT To no.
There is comfort" 1n the knowledge so
often expressed, that Dr. Kilmer’ s
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It stands the highest for its wonderful
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sample bottle and pamphlet both sent
free by mail. Mention THE GAZETTE,
and send your address to Dr. Kilmer &
Co. ., Binghamton, N. Y. The pro-
prietors of this paper guarantee the
genuineness of this affair. ,
Unique Building Owned by the United
table
magnolia flour, and on one of its ‘pure,
You may have a,
THE GIANT SQUID.
A Marine l‘Ionstrosity- “Fhich Lives In
the Deepel Sens.
There is a monster in the North At-
lantic .wa ters which would well nigh
depopulate of summer residents any
seaside resort if it should ttn up off
short. It is not semi-mythical, like
the sea serpent, buta marine creature
well known1to science. At the same
time, it has been known at all only
recently, which seems strange in view
of the fact that it is the largest animal
in existence, having 5a lcngth, when
full grown, of not less than 150 feet.
—a monster so enormous and so in-
credibly ferocious that the scientific
date respecting it might well furnish-
ing material for a child-haunting nur-
sery tale, without any addition from
the imagination. It has remained, un-
til recently, almost unknown, by rea«
son of its habit of dwelling in the deep-
er seas. Thus the stories told about
ity. But now and then a specimen- of
this strange and fearful genus does ap-
proach the land. An instance occur-
red on October 26, 1873, when two fish-
ermen were out in a small boat near
the east of Belle Isle,‘in Conception
Bay, Newfoundland.
They saw a strange object floating
on the water, and struck it with a.
gaff. Instantly the animal—for such
it was—shot out two immense arms
over the boat, trying to seize its as—
sailants. One of the men, Theophilus
Picot, cut off both arms with an axe,
whereupon the creature moved off rap-
idfi, darkening the water as it went,
with an inky fluid. A piece of tentacle
severed by the axe was obtained from
the fishermen and presented to Yale
College, where it is now preserved. It
is seventeen feet long and one foot in
diameter. From careful estimates it is
judged that the calamary to which it
belonged must have a body ten feet
long, with tentacles thirty—two feet in
length.
A giant squid of almost equal size
was stranded on the north shore of
Trinity Bay, Newfoundland. The
United States ~National Museum se-
cured a cast of it in papier mache,
which now hangs from the roof of that
institution, in Washington. Carefully
painted it looks just as the animal
did in life. Of' course it was but a
baby, lts total length being only sixty
feet, including the tentacles“; The
huge greenish eyes, each a foot in
diameter had to be made expressly for
the paper pulp monster. The giant
calamary has eyes larger by far than
any other existing animal. They are
bigger, than the largest dinner plates,
and are doubtless intended for seeing
in the depths where light is séanty.
Figure to yourself a pulpy animal
weighing about 5 tons,_with a body
length of 50 feet. Provide it with
eight tentacles, 30 feet long, which are
used for carrying prey to the mouth.
‘Furnish it with two additional tenta-
cles 100 feet in length for purposes of
attack. Don’t forget the greenish eyes
bigger than dinner plates. Give the
creature a gigantic siphon, with which
it prOpels itself backward by expelling
water from its body. Furnish it with
a bag full of inky fluid, by means of
which it is enabled to darken the wa"-'
ter when frightened. Add a diabolical
disposition and an inclination to at-
tack human beings on sight, and you
have a fair description of the dreaded
giant squid. —R. Bache in Boston Tran-
script.
LAFAYETTE, TH E COUREIER.
The Simple Manner with .Whieh the Geo.
- \Vashlngton’s Mother Received Him.
Many chaming stories have been told
by old ladies who were in their prime
when Lafayette made his second visit
to America, of the gallant French-
man’s courtesy.
On the day of his public reception
in Virginia he rode in an open car-
riage without his hat, exposed to the
rays of a brilliant sun, bowing to the
There was s‘bme apprehension that
sunstroke might be the penalty of his
politeness; but the marquis was an
old soldier. Before leaving home he
had put a damp towell into his capa-
cious wig, and protected by his helmet,
he could indulge his French politeness
with impunity. French and Ameri-
ican revolutions and Austrian dung-
eons had taught him the art of self—
preservation.
The most charming story is of ear-
lier date—his visit to the mother of
Washington. He found her in the
garden, raking together dried weeds
and sticks, preparatory to a bonfire,
arrayed in -a linsey skirt, sack and
broad-brimmed hat tied 'over the plait-
ed border of her cap.
The hostess met the situation with
the composure 'of a duchess. Dropping
her rake, she took between her bare
palms the hand the nobleman extended
ashe bowed before her, and said:
“Ah, marquis! You have come to
see an old woman! I can make you
welcome without changing my dress.
I am glad .to. see you. I haVe often
heard my son George, speak of you.
But come in.” - .
Preceding him into her living-room,
as a girl of eighteen, never touching
the tall, straight back of her chair,
whilst she listened to the praises of“
her son poured forth by the equuent
Frenchman.
Then she mixed with her own hands
a cooling drink and offered it to the
ginger—cakes. The- man of the- world
acespted the beverage as simply and
gracefully as it was tendered, pro-
nouncing it delicious and arose to go.
Would she give him her blessing?
She looked up to heaven, folded her
hands and prayed‘ that God . would
grant him “safety, happiness-“prosper;
ity. ,and .,peace.”——,-Youth’s Campinion,
Such is the calamary, or giant squid-
it have been received with incredul-V
crowds always ready to greet him. .
she placed herself opposite him, erect
general with a plate“- of home-made
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October 3, 1897.
T1 gins leave South Norwalk as follows.
FOR NEW YORK— Accommodation
trainsat9, 36a. m., 1.11, 3.04, 4.,07 5.33,
'6. 41 8. 11, 10. 20 p. 111. Express trains
at 4. 55, 5. 45, 6.15,, (local), 6.55, (local),
7.15, (local), 7. 56 (local), 8.17. 9.03 (local
.9. 58, .10. 35, 11. 37, (local) a. m. 12. 47'
2.25, 5.05 5.55, 7.35 p. m. For Washing
ton v Harlem River 12. 53 a. 1n. (daily)
SU DAYS—Accommodation 9.15 a. m.
5. 43, (Ideal), 7.23, (local) 9.28 p. 111. EX
press E4 55, 5. 45 a. 111.
FOR NEW HAVEN AND THE EAST—
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and 11.15 p. m. Express trains at 1.11,
1.,20 9.11,10.12,11.08 a. m., 12.02, 3.,05
5.04 (NaugatuCk Express) 7.10 pm
SUNDAYS—Accommodation 7.42, 9.12
a. m. and 7 15 p.111. Express 1.11 and
1.20 a. m. '
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