LocAL AND 0111211 New
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A m eeting of the Twin City Wheel‘
men will be held to-morrow night.
, The new Y.' M. C. A. will give a re-.
ception at their new quarters on
Elizabeth street, to-night.
The Vestry of Trinity church will
‘meet Tuesday evening at 8 O’clock at
the rectory, in West street.
Helen Ely of Maple street is ill of
diphtheria.
Mrs. John Merritt of Henry street is
visiting friends in Bethel. .
Hoyt’s theatre was crowded again
last night to listen to the preaching of
Rev. A. S. Kavanagh of the Methodist
church who is preaching a series of
sermons on love and matrimony.
The work of tying greens for the
Christmas decorations will be com-
menced in the basement of St. Paul’s
church, to-night.
- Charles R. Helmer of Adams, Mass,
was in town yesterday.
Willis Swift and Miss Alice Judd are
to be married in the Congregational
church, at Bethel on Thursday. The
bride to be is a daughter of ex-Repre-
sentative Starr ’Judd of Bethel, and a
sister of Mrs. Charles .M. Smith of this
city.
—Ladies’ Wool Alaskas, 65c.
Men’s Wool Alaskas, . 75c.
Men’s Buchell Artics, 750.
Men’s Storm rubbers, 750.
Ladies’ Wool lined shoes, 690.
Ladies’ 1 to 2 heeled 111bbers.
$105 in gold- free at A. H. Hoyt &
Son’ 5. D4 43t
Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Church
have returned from their wedding
tOlll‘.
C01. and Mrs. F. St. John Lockwood .
have returned from Bad Axe, Mich.
where they have been visiting their
daughter, Mrs. F. W. Hubbaid.
“The best line of perfumery in town .
at Plaisted’s.
Edward Fox and J. Richa1dson of
South No1 walk conducted the services
in the B10'1d R11 er chapel last night.
The Epworth League of the Fii st M.
E. church will hold a sociable at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Foote on
South Main street, to-night.
.Miss Fannie Deery and Mrs. Decry
of New York, who have been visiting
in Winnipauk have returned home.
Mrs. G. S. Ireland of'Elmgrove place,
has returned from a visit in New York.
Henry Lockwood and James Ghiotto
have resigned their positions on the
fishing smack, “Pearsall. ”
Miss Harriet Curtis '01 Milford is
now one of the faculty in MiSS Baird’s
Institute.
——Prof. M. S. Rosen, the well-known
oculist Optician, canbe consulted at his
office in the parlors of the Mahackemo
Hotel, South Norwalk, Tuesdays from
9 a. m. to 8 p. m. Eyes examineda free.
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Frederick T. Betts will start fo1
' Pueblo, to day.
H. 0. Clark is laying 500 feet of con-
crete walk between Monroe and Clay
streets, and expects to complete his
contract-this year.
There was a rehearsal of Christmas
carols at the Chapel of‘the Congrega-
' tional church, yesterday afternoon.
The barge H. K. vanDeusen is' at'
. Ferris’ wharf with a load of stove coal,
Mrs, L. G. Browne of Mohawk, N. Y.,
is visiting her sister, Mrs. W. P. Ran-
dall of High Street, South N or1valk
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs.
GeOrge Finch of East Norwalk, yester-
day. ‘ '
William, perhaps better known as
“Ike” Raymond. for 'several years em-
ployed at Stephen Hoyt’s Sons nursery
' has presented Landlord‘ Hamilton of
the Warwick hotel with a humming
bird’s nest containing one egg. Mr.
Hamilton is in doubt as to which is the
greater prize his big hog or the bird’s
hog.
A Tramway car jumped the track
near the Bell Island junction, last even
ing, and delayed traffic at that end of
the road for sometime.
NOTICE-
Notice is hereby given, that at a reg-
ular meeting of the Council of the City .
of Norwalk, to be held in said City De-
cember 6th, 1897, at 8 o’clock evening,
a resolution W111 be offered to appro-
priate from the City Treasury the fur-
ther sum of Five Hundred ($500) Dollars
to be used in the payment of expenses
' arising in the Fire Department of said
I City
. Dated at the City of Norwalk, Decem-
her 151., 1897.
By order of the Council pf said City.
E. Lockwoon,
City Clerk
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WOMEN WHO NEVER SPEAK(
Enga. '9 In Charity \Vork.
There is a sisterhood in France that
1esembles the famous Trappists’ order
they enter the convent are condemned
to eternal silence. . It is the only sis-
terhood of the kind in the World and
it was founded at the beginning of the
present century. I
The fifty women within the
never leave their chosen home, never
speak to one another, never lift their
eyes except in prayer or work, and
walk with their black cowls drawn
over their faces so that they can nei-
ther see nor be seen. They are living,
yet dead—year in and year out they ex-
’ist, never raising their eyes.
till 7:30 tell their beads in the chapel.
The refectory is dark, gloomy and un-
heated. Instead of a floor the feet
sink into sand. Each sister has a lit-
drawer where her table wareis kept.
Sometimes while at meals the
Superior rings a bell and each sister
is supposed to pause instantly, with
hands upraised to the mouth, perhaps,
and Cannot move till the bell rings
again. This is to inculcate submission
and patience. These women, unlike
other sisterhoods, do no charity, never
attending the sick or suffering, teach-
ing children or rescuing wafarers.
They are engaged in mortifying the
flesh to purify their souls—New York
World.
SKUNK KILLED BY SPARROWS.
A Flock of 300 Attack It in Force and It
Succumbs After a Hard Fight. .
Mr. F. Abel of Freeport, L. I., sent
the following communication, interest-
ing to all lovers of natural history, to
the Brooklyn Eagle:
“While hunting in the northern part
of Merrick, L. I., recently, I saw one of
the most peculiar fights that I ever had
the luck to witness. I was after rab-
bits, and was walking along near a
rail fence when my attention was sud-
denly attracted by an immense swarm
of sparrows which were flying from
one side of the fence to the othei,
ltwittering with all theii might. They
I were somewhat above me, so, running
Iup nearer, I tried to find the cause of
the trouble. It showed itself in the
shape of a large skunk, which was
darting from one side of the fence to
the other, the sparrows following,
picking at him savagely when they got
the chance.
“They did not seem to mind my pres-
ence at all, and this dodging and at~
tacking was kept up for about five min‘
utes, when suddenly the skunk crossed
to my side of the fence and started
across a big lot with the evident inten-
tion of getting to a thick wood that lay
on the other side. He had made per;
haps half way when the entire flock of
sparrows,. numbering .at
well, but to no purpose, for in less
than a minute he’ was torn to shreds.”
Sliding to Safety In a Fire.
A new form of fire escape has been
tested in Louisville, Ky., which
seems particularly well adapted to
schools and institutions where there
are children or sick persons.
In appearance the fire escape resem-
bles a standpipe and may be built to
any height.
It is cylindrical in form and six feet
in diameter. The material used in its
construction is sheet steel. It stands
close to the building and short bridges
connect the tower with each floor of
the building.
Within the cylinder is a corkscrew
slide. ,This slide is of sheet steel and
built something on the order of a cir.
cular stairway.
When a person enters the chute he
immediately slides to the bottom on
this slide, which is perfectly smooth.
A peculiar feature of the escape is
said to be the fact that the construction
of the escape is such that the momen-
tum of a person entering the chute is
no. greater at the bottom than when
starting at the top. ——New York Jour-
nal.
About Some ,fi'omeh.
Miss A. S. Huntington, daughter of
Bishop F. 'D. Huntington, has been
elected school commissioner at Syra-
cuse, N. Y.—The richest woman in
the world is said to be Sendra de Cou-
sino of Chili. She is a widow, owns
coal, and copper mines and enormous
amounts of other property and is said
to have an annual income of $8,000,000.
—A 1'4'-years-old_gir.l of Stockton,
Cal., Lola M. Coulter, is a locomotive
engineer who has run her train over
.some of the worst grades and curves
of the Pacific coast, with nerve and
judgment—Thirty lighthouses on our
coast and rivers are under the charge
of women. Some of these women have
nest with a heavy leaning towards the E been at their posts more than 40 years.
~—’i‘his notice is to be posted in every.
lstreet car in Zurich, Switzerland, by
'order of the city council.
have the first right to seats in this
“Women
car.”
The Cornfed Philosopher. “
“At no time,” said the COrnfed Phil~
osopher, “is a man so willing'to take
the burden from the weak shoulders of
frail woman as when she is harrassed
with the care of a large and paying
fl property.”——Indianapolis Journal.
The Best He Could Do.
- “Deah boy, the Pwinee was fifty-six
years old lawst Chewsday.”
“Yes,'-old chappie, I celebrated it.”
“How, deah boy?”
“By wolling up my trousahs fifty-six
times, don’t you know.”—Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
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“You don’t seem to grasp the idea,"
said the bicycle instructor as, his
Chinesepupil tumbled for the’ ninth
lime.
pupil. “No can glaspee diam blicycle
.111 light. " ,
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”My sister hood of Its Kind— —They River, 1
in its austerity. These women when.
walls I
The silent sisters rise at 4 a. m. and .
least 300,.
pounced on him. :The skunk fought
“Me glaspee idea all light, ” said the '
I ‘ SIR ISAAC NEWTON AND THE DOG. ,
His Patience/When Hie Work Represent-
ing Five Years’ Labor, ”Was Ruined. .
Sir Isaac Newton, the great English
mathematician, was fully as well
known for his wonderful patience and
self-control as for his other gifts of
mind.
The following anecdote is told of
him to illustrate the point:
One day'a great mass of '_ finished
manuscript lay on his library table.
it represented the‘l-abor of five years,
and contained the treatise on gravita-
tion, the binomial theorem, and other
interesting matters which Sir ‘ Isaac
intended to submit to Punch that day.
While he was out of the room for a
moment a pug dog belonging to Lady
Blank—who was then visiting at the
house—stole in, and, jumping upon the
table, upset a pail of ink all over the
precious manuscript.
. Three minutes after Sir Isaac had
returned a neat maid—servant appeared
at the door in response to the .bell from
her master’s room. ,
“Mary,” said Sir Isaac, who always
had details at his fingers’ ends despite
the weighty affairs that cecupied him,
“tell John to come up here immedi-
ately with a dustpan, broom... and
sponge, and remove that,” pointing to
the floor.
“Lawd sakes-alive! What is it, sir ?"
cried Mary.
“It was a dog,” answered the great
philosopher, without the slightest sign
of emotion.
The maid turned to leave.
“One moment, Mary!” called Sir
isaac. ’Tf any one should speak of
this, tell them that all I said was, ‘O'h,
Diamond, Diamond, thou little know-
I’,’
est the mischief thou hast done.
“Yes, sir.”
“And add that the dog died of a
broken heart.” _
Then came the sound of a scratching
pen as the mathematician calmly en-
tered upon another five-year contract.
-—H. W. Phillips in Life.
. A Hasty Main.
Hicks—Melton is :1 pretty good sort
of a fellow.
\Vicks—Yes, in a way. But then,
he is so hasty, you know.
Hicks—Hasty ?
Wicks—Yes; he saved a boy from
drowning the other day, and he
couldn’t wait until he was just sinking
for the third time, but grabbed for the
youngster before he had a chance to
sink at all. Really, it‘s disgusting, is
such inconsiderate haste; and then it’s
so unconventional, tool~Boston Tran-
script.
The Wretched DIiddle Class.
' Doctor—You ought to take that child
nto .the country for several weeks ev—
ary summer. '
Mother—Oh, doctbr, I’m sorry to
my we are not rich enough. '
Doctor—Well, then, have he1 sent by
1 Fresh Air Fund.
Mother—But, doctor, we’ re not poor
moughl—Fliegende Blotter. ' '
Wet
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nowadays : means
a stylish, durable
Mackintosh. One
can’t be perfectly
dry and happy
without the gar-
.. - ment which the
doctor and Fashion has decreed
the proper caper.
Wet day comfort may also in-
clude style and economy, as this
.special witnesses.
. English Tan Rain Coats, double
breasted, natty and durable, made
to retail at $6. 50—the
chance of the year 'at..
Our Patent Spring Umbrella is a
revelation. You press a button and
_ the Umbrella does the rest. Taffeta
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HOW TO FIND OUT.-
Fill a brittle or —ccmmon glass with
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hours; a sediment or settling indicates
an unhealthy condition of the kidneys
When urine stains linen it is evidence
of kidney trouble. Too frequent desire
to urinate or pain in the back, is also
convincing proof that the kidneys and
bladder are out of o.rder
WHAT TO DO.
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often expressed, that Dr. Kilmer’ s
Swamp-Root, the great kidney remedy
fulfills every wish 1n relieving pain in
the back, kidneys, liver, bladder and
every part of the urinary passages. It
corrects inability to hold urine and
scalding pain in passing it, or bad ef-
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beer. and overcomes that unpleasant
necessity of being compelled to get up
many times during the night to urin-
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It stands the highest for its wonderful
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