I 1100111110 omen tusws.
Corporal W. E. James of Co. F, C.
N. G\, was the recipient of a ten years’
service medal at the Armory, last night.
The vestry of TLinity church held. a
meeting at the rectory, last night.
—Elegant cut glass at Plaisted’s:
George W. Gerrish fell down an ele-
vator shaft at the South N orwalk Hat
factory, yesterday, but luckily escaped
seveze injuries.
William W. Burritt who died a few
weeks sinceat his heme in Waterbury,
a number: of yearsago carried on the
tinsmith. business at the east end of the
Wall Street bridge and will be remem-
bered by our older residents.
—Oh I I must have my lace curtains
cleaned for Christmas, at Tocque’ s.
Send postal." D7 4t.
——-Prof. M. S. Rosen, the well-known
oculist Optician, canbe consulted at his
oflice' 1n the parlors of the Mahackemo
Hotel, South Norwalk, Tuesdays from
9 a. m. to 8 p. m. Eyes examined free.
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Miss Mary Troy of Plattsville avenue
has returned from a visit in New York.
A Requiem service will be held in
St. Mary’s church to-morrow morning
for Mrs. James D. Shea. '
Mrs. Frank Wilson and son Kenneth,
of Bridgeport, are guests 0f Mrs. Wil-
son’s parents, M11. and Mrs. John Bou-
» ton, of Main street.
Mrs. Herbert Rose and son, of Brook-
lyn, spent Sunday with Mrs. Rose’s
panents, M11. and Mrs. Charles A. Burr,
of Centerxavenue.
Miss Nina Lewis of West Main street
has returned from a wait with South-
port friends.
A literary program followed by a tea
w as enjoyed at the Cent1 al club house
1 ester day after noon under the patr on-
age of the Friday AfternOOn club.
Little Tessie Ratchford was the
pleased recipient of a handsome silver
handled comb and brush from a New
Haven admirer of pretty children, yes-
terday. '
Joseph Dairz sailed to-day on the
Red Star line steamer, “Southwork”
for Insbruck, Tyrol, Antwerp.
A new window is being cut in the
west end of the Wilson building facing
on Water street.
Miss Davis, of Port Jefferson, is the
guest of East Norwalk friends. .
Mrs. Hecker has bought the restau-
rant on the Washington street bridge,
Charles E. Lockwood, Who has been
ill of the grip at his home in VVestport
avenue for'the past two weeks has re-
covered. '
The Junior Auxiliary of St. Paul’s
church will meet Friday afternoon and
the Industrial school Saturday after-
noon. V I I
The Central club held thelr regu-
lar monthly meeting last evening at
8 o’clock in the club house on West
avenue.
The fifth anniversary of the conse-
cration of St. Mary’s church will be
observed at the 10:30 o’clock mass negrt
Sunday. ..
The Brotherhood Of St. Andrew of
St. Paul’s church held a meeting in
the chapel of Our Holy Saviour last
night.
Thomas H. Robbins, who fell from
General Frost’s new residence three
"weeks ago, is again able to be out.
A delegation from the Norwalk Meth-
odist Episcopal church will attend a
special 'meetingin Cranbury to-day.~
Frank Sherman of South Norwalk
who has been quite seriously ill is re-
covering.
Christmas greenswill be tied in the
basement of St. Paul’s ,church every
night until the work is completed.
Miss Amy Wood of South. Norwalk,
will play at the Federation of Women’s
club’s meeting at Bridgeport to-day.
“Uncle” Walter Fitch is still' on the
sick list at his home on Westport ave-
nue.
Charley Teemy will celebrate his
fourteenth birthday anniversary to-
night, at his home on Roton Hill.
—The Boston store, Norwalk, will
have a great half price sale to-morrow.
You know what that means. See Cir,
culars. ____J_ .
Warren K eeler has gone into the 11e-
tail oyster business on Water street,
South Norwalk. When he is not sell-
ing oysters he is engaged in repairing
shoes. _______.__
Mrs. George Burr of New York and
Mrs. Robert Drake of Mount Vernon,
whb have been visiting friends in town
returned home to-day. The former
will be accompanied home,by Kittie ,,
daughter of Conductor Charles ‘Wil-
liams, and who proposes spending the
winter in New York. I
The TWin City Mandolin club will
hold a rehearsal to-morrow evening.
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CURRENT com/15m.
Secretary of the Navy John D; Long
was recently made a member of the
famous Harvard Custard Pie associa
tion.
largest pie, which was twenty inches in
diameter.
The new recreatiou.‘ pier , recently
opened in New York at the foot of. East
Twenty—fourth street has cost $125, 000
In winter it is inclosed in glass for con
certs and lectures.
Judge Pfost of Kansas City, adver-
tises in the press that in order to stim:
ulate trade he will give a couple 01
theater tickets to every bride and
groom whom 'he marries. Shall .we
hear a bid now from the divorce court
judge of Kansas City?
At the same time that report says
Colorado gold miners are arranging to
send their product, in million dollzu
consignments, by special train to thé
Philadelphia. Mint, it is also announced
that the Australian gold recently re-
ceived at San Francisco is coming
across the continent by registered mail
—$500,000 in a day—the only extra ex-
pense involved being the insurance 01
its safe delivery.
The labor bureau at Washington
gives some figures as to strikes in this
country between 1881 and 1894. The
cost of the strikes in those thirteen
years is estimated at 163,807,866, and
by those strikes 3,714,406 persons were
thrown out of employment. The suf-
ferings, physical and mental, on the
part of the strikers do not, of course,
admit of arithmetical computation, but
some idea of their extent can be de-
duced, with reasonable accuracy, from
the figures that are presented. And
that extent must have been frightful.
Some admirers of Thomas Moore
among the flourishing and ancient
Order of Hibernians have made formal
complaint that the name of their fav-
orite poet was omitted from the lists
of famous men which find a place on
the walls of the new Library of Con-
gress. But the gay and tuneful Irish-
man who visited the United States in
1803 and could only . characterize its
system of government under Jefferson
as “The brute made ruler and the man
made brute,” could scarcely expect a
cordial welcome, even a century later,
to an American Pantheon.
The United States Circuit Court of
Appeals, at San Francisco, has decided
that Tapioca flour is not Tapioca and
not flour, but starch, and that; being
the latter 'and neither of the former,
it is subject, under the Dingley law,
to a duty of two cents a pound. The
consequence of this decision is that the
price of Tapioca flour, which never has
had any other name, in commerce, and
which is a favorite article of food, es-
pecially of the poor, and starch, an
article of necessity to everybody, will
be increased to the consumer in 1pro-
portion to the amount of the duty
' levied.
When the importance attached to
education and the amount spent upon
it in this country are borne in mind,
the policy of admitting from foreign
lands a great mass of hopeless/illiter-
ates presents a singular contrast. Men
from countries widely dissimilar from
the United States, and unable even to
read or write their own language, can
not be other than a perilous element.
One point to be remembered is that
prosperity will rapidly augment the
tide of immigration. ’ ’
A glance at the past is proof of that.
In the four years ending with 1879, the
year of resumption, the largest annual
arrival of immigrants Was 177,826. In
1880 the number leaped to-457,257, in
1881 to 669,431, and in 1882 to 788,992,
which is high-water mark. The better
the times the more immigrants, but
there is no rule assuring an improve.
ment in quality. At present the qual-
‘ity, in illiteracy and some other ob-
jectionable feathres, is at about the
lowest point.
mm-
Practical men who think the chief
work of a college is to fill the minds
of its graduates with valueless ideas
will, perhaps, be convinced by the suc—
cess of Cornell University in raising
potatoes that colleges can cultivate
something besides mental abstractions.
The college devoted a portion of its
farm this year to potatoes
the best kind of soil for potato culture,
being. like Hamlet’s honesty.
ferent,~" and part of it was given the
benefit of fertilizers, while another part
was not; but all was treated scientifi-
cally, the cost of the science applied
being rathér under than over $20 an
acre, The result was that in the un-
fertilized portion the yield was 30C
bushels per acre, and in that which
was fertilized 380 bushels per acre. In
contrast to these figures it is stated
that the highest average yield ever pre.
viously known in the State was 12( .
bushels per acre, that the average f01
this year is estimated at 05 bushels pe:
acre, and that, while rot and blighl
are general throughout the Atlantit
States and 'have combined to "make al-
most a potato famine this year. the
University'scrops show not a trace 0.1
either disease. So much for ,“bool'
learning" practically applied
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Secretary Long produced the
7
It was not 1
“indif- ._
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person 011 scantiness of hair.
‘five contained 35_per cent,
I found that the flavors-
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The old time fan'y queen of the orig:
111:1 Black Crook, Pauline Mapkham is
at Teny‘ Pastor's, and so at each {of he1
performances'is a group of men in tin
front 'row of seats, every man Jack 01
’em maiked for maturity by width 01
These
men go to see what was famous in tin
early days of their theatre-going, and
are tantalized by what seems for ten
minutes a likely .chance of disappoint-
ment. Miss Markham and her com-
panion enter attired in conventional
summer suits omrash and play at be-
ing stranded burlesquers. She comes
out later, however, as leader of the
Amazons, andt-hen is displayed the
charms which in part‘ were likened in
the early days to the lost arm of the
Venus of Milo. .
The Model Cheap Hotel.
While the fashionable world is look-
ing through the Astoria part of the
Waldrof-Astoria Hotel with great in--
terest, another stratum of society is
watching the progress of a hotel in
Bleecker-st., the opening of which will
mark a new era in the housing of men”
in moderate circumstances. Many at
tempts have been made in that di
rection, but in nearly every instance
the buildings have either been so ar-
ranged that they did not attract a de
sirable class of people or the archi-
tecture, decoration—or lack of decora-
tion—011 general effect was such as it
give the house an institution-like ap.
pearance, with no semblance of refine-
ment, comfort or home.
D. 0. Mills, the build-erand owner 01
the new hotel, which will. be known as
Mills House No.1, gave the subject
long and ca1eful study before he began
building the hotel, and spared neither
time nor expense in making the struct-
ure as complete and as nearly perfect
as possible.
A clean, comfortable room, fur-
nished with a well-appointed bed, the
floor carpeted and the windows cur-
tained and shaded, for 20 cents a night
isonly one of the features of the great
building, which is arranged to accom-
modate in its ten stories fifteen hun-
dred guests. well-equipped lavatories
shower baths and luxurious reading
and smoking rooms are at the disposal
of the guests of the house without ex-
tra charge, and a good restaurant will
furnish meals at rates in keeping with
lodging charges. Although every-
thing—rooms, meals; and other accom-
modations—will be furnished at ex-
ceeding low prices, none of those who
patronize the placeneed feel that they
enjoy a charity, for Mr. Mills wishes ii
distinctly understood that in building
the house he simply desires to give to
those who will patronize it the great-
est value for their money, and he be-
lieves that even at the low prices
which will be charged the house will
not only be self-supporting, but will
' ultimately yield a revenue.
Bowery Whiskey Is Pure.
The morgue keepers of Chatham
square and the Bowery are hOlding up
their heads and scornfully sniffing at
the fancy drink mixers ‘who have a
habit of twirling their mustaches and
mashing themselves in the mirrors 0:
the big cafes.
The man 'Who is responsible for it all
sits inv-a littleroom near the top of the
Criminal Court building and picks
things apart for the benefit of science
and the health of New Yorkers. Dr.
Ernst J. 'Lederle is the man. As chem-
ist of the Health Board be was direct-
ed by the Chief. of the Division 01
Foods to analyze the various brands
of drink known to the frequenters ol
the. Bowery lodging houses as f‘Ken-
nedy's Curse,” the “Panhandler's'Joy,”
“Graveyard Booze,”- and
Lightning."
D11 Lederle spent nine days and nine
nights getting samples of the liquor
and finding out what was in it. ' He
stated that he had secured tWenty
samples of the stuff sold in tho
morgues of the Bowery at three cents
a drink. The analysis showed'that tho
stuff was only» imitation whiskey and
that it‘ was lessxharmful than genuine
new whiskey. -. Good whiskey, the
doctor stated, contains ,a certain
amount of fusel oil, while none of this
oil was found in the stuff sold at the
Bowery morgues. Fusel oil in largo
quantities was dangerous, while the
stuff sold at three cents a glass was
cologne spirits flavored and colored.
“According to the 'United State:
Pharmacopoeia,” says Dr. Lederle‘
“whiskey should contain from 50 to 55.
per cent. of alcohol by volume. Of the
samples of three-cent liquor I ex-
amined eight contained 45 per- cent. 01
alcohol, four contained 40 per .cent.
and three
30 per cent.
used ‘were peppermint, prune juice
vanilla, cinnamon, or bergamot.‘ Cara
mel was added to deepen the color-
'None of the flavors or colorings used is
deleterious to health. I found all 01
the samples used free from injurious o1,
poisonous metals.
in two cases the doctor said he act-
ually found some whiskey in the
whiskey. CYRUS T110111).
Imfol'mat-inn. _
’l‘uffold Knutt threw away the 10111
scrap of a newspaper with which he
had been amusing himself and languid
Iy asked: —
“Wot does it mean W‘ en it says ‘thl‘ B
a ,11isir'
lesolution wuz adopted by
vote?’ ”
“It means,” replied Mosely Wraggs
blinking at the sun and rolling a littlg
further over into the shade of the tree
“it means that the vote wuz small a1
figst, but it kept a risin’ an’ risin' til
it wuz a" majority. If you wouldn't
ask questions folks wouldn’t find on!
what a blame fool you are!"—Chicag1
Tribune
1.
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YORK LETTER "
“Bowery .
H°W1TO Elflfl‘ OUT
Fill a brittle 011 common glass with '
urine and let it stand twenty-four
hours; a sediment or settling indicates '
an unhealthy condition of the kidneys
When urine s'tains 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 order.
_ WHAT 1110 Do. -
The1 e is comfort 1n the knowledge so
often expressed, that Dr. Kilmer’ s
Swamp-Root, the great kidney remedy
fulfills ever y w ish' 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—
fects following use of liquor, wine or
beer. and overcomes that unpleasant
necessity of being cOmpelled to get up
many times duiing the night to win-
ate. The mild and the extraordinary
. effect of Swamp-Root is soon realized.
It stands the highest for its wonderful
cures of the most distressing cases. If
you need a medicine you should have
the best. Sold by druggists, price fifty
cents and one dollar. You may have a
sample bottle and pamphlet both sent
free by mail. Mention THE GAZETTE,
and send your address to Dr. Kilmer &
00., Binghamton, N. Y. The pro-
uprietors of this paper guarantee the
genulneness of this affair.
A l a s k a l
KLONDIK 1 Whyno.
get your share of the great fortunes
to be realized from the wonderful dis-
coveries already made and to be made
in this New Klondike— Alaska— Eldo-
rado ? THE WASHINGTON GOLD
FIELDS EXPLORATION COMPANY
under its charter is authorized to
prospect for and acquire Mining Claims
and Proper ties in the wonderful gold
fields of Klondike and Alaska. Im-
mense fortunes have already been real-
ized and millions more will be made.
there. Will you allow this golden op-
portunity to pass you by? A few dol-
lars invested in this undertaking may
be the foundation to your fortune.
The rush to this wonderland necessi
tates immediate action. The first in
the field the first in fortune. N 0 such
opportunity has ever been presented to
the people at the present generation as
is offer ed in the Klondike—Alaska
Gold Fields. All shareholders get
their full proportion of all profits. No
dividends are made on stock remaining
unsold. Send your orders enclosing
One Dolla1 for each share of fully paid-
up and non- -assessable stock desired di-
rect to the WASHINGTON GOLD
FIELDS EXPLORATION COMPANY '
Tacoma, Washington.
The followingb Tacoma dealers in
supplies for the Klondike and Alaska
trade are Stockholders 1n the company
and will infoun you regarding the re-
liability of its officer: Montyb & Gunn,
Groceries; A. F. Hoska, Harness Co. ,
Morris G1 oss 00., D11 y Goods and Cloth-
ing: W. G. Rowland, Outfitter; Hugo
Felitz, Tents; Tacoma Hardware Co.
O. E Wilson,
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Real Estate and Invest-
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Can be found Heating Stoves
- from small Cyclinder to large
Heaters.
The Stamford Ranges in va-
riety of patterns.
The, EleCtric Oil Heaters
with fine combustion. '
Also Cooking Utensils and
House Furnishing Goods.
DAVID W RAYMOND
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in Washington Streets'ouih Nemalt
1dence.M «homo Hotel
Oscar H. Banks
SuccesSOr toH. E. Dann.
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Sales Stables!
NORWALK, '- - - CONN.
The finest equipages for livery in the town,
for pleasu 0 driving and alarge stock of up-
0 date coaches fo1 11 eddings and special oc-
casions.
Newt an i careful drivers in livery when do-
sire
Prices re wonable!
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MONDAY EVE. JANUARY 3 ’98.
$105 in Gold or Silver!
IN FIVE PARIS, $50, 25, IS, IO, AND 5. ~1
A TICKET WITH EVERY 50c PURCHASE.
. Ou1 new lines of School Shoes have arrived, consisting of all the
new toe shapes and made from the best grades of weaisresisting
leather with good stout soles. P11 lces fr om 750 to $1. 50. The most
complete and up to date stock of gOOds at The Lowest Piices in
Town. REMEMBER, we offer you larger values in shoes, and
more p1 izes than any othe1 store _————t '
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