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MAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS.
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TUECDAY, JANUARY 25, 1898.
.—
The Skillful Reporter.
on, Mayor. Van Wyck! What a
measure he is, after all, to the newspa-
acts for which he refuses to be inter-
".zietced, and to the public for which he
:msirxsesto talk. In a St. Louis delega-
sionorhiiclt called upon him was a re-
Emlbellzl‘Z‘hO‘ asked him a question. “I
am. not there to be interviewed,” said
that mayor. . “This administration is
not. run by interviewing, as its prede-
cessor was. ” What a pithy point for a
reporter that was I How the mayor
seized the bait that the St. Louis
Another ques-
tion. and the mayor answered 'that
sail ye offered him!
“332:: people had “no fancy for false-faced
mygwumps," and that went down in
And all
Lilac time. protesting-he would not talk.
Mayor Van W'yck talked a stickful of
good, lively interview to that reporter
the report of the interview.
about his intentions to be fair, his con'
tempt for “toogoodedness” as exempli-
fied in nmgwumpery, and his determin-
ation to bounce Democrats also, if they
~deserve it. Mayor Van VVyck thinks
flieis clever. no doubt,‘ but he is not
urlevcr. enough. to know when he is be-
ingint‘erviewed by a skillful reporter.
—-¥—ll’titel'biii“y' American.
—-——-——<0.0>—————
A..Pe.st of Professional Beggars.
Judging from the frequency with
which people are accosted On the street
in the evening by professional beggars
”who are supposed to be serving out un-
taqfired sentences in the House of Cor-
rection; one can hardly avoid the con-
clusion that the walls of that institu-
lrion are as leaky as the bottom and
sides of the two latest reservoirs. Peo-
ple get tiredeven of treating the im_
gynrtunitiesof these brazen-faced beggars
with silence, and. it would be a relief
'o-know that they were behind stone
walls and closed gates to stay] There
is enough real want to harrow the feel-
Ema-land: exhaust the surplus cash
sci the charitable without the perpetual
iimportunity ofthe professional frauds
. who outlie Ananias in their appeal“:
to-l‘he passers-by.
Yogi-ants and professional beggars
are offender-sin the eyes- of. the law, a
sheet that is given full Judicial recogni-
tion every time one of them is commit-
;‘red to the House of Correction. Why,
men, are they turnedloose to prey up-
aan the unsuspecting and irritate those
to. whom. their faces and lies are as fa-
miliar as the Sun which shines daily?
’fi’hy, when the law has been justly en-
dorsed and these begging frauds have
:ineempl‘aced where they can be support-
adatthe public expense without cor.)
: :st‘isuving a public nuisance of endless
I duration, are they not required to serve.
out their: sentences and keep them-
selves out of the public view? One of
zdmehxief purposes of a House of Cor-
emion is to relieve the public from
fie presence of this class, and it is
game time this purpose was fully met.
There is no more ground for the hope
fiat a professional beggar will even
any “to- earn a living by honest industry
if he is released from the House of
r‘iiiarrection than for the expectation
ml. the traditional leopard will change
This spots, says the Philadelphia Times,
:34; is a professional fraud from the
soles of his feet to the crown of his
:head', and the Magistrate before whom
Se is brought should give him the
mugest sentence the law permits, and
share lodge a detainer against him to
(compel his detention until the last day
ed. his term. The authorities should
.rlear the streets of the professionaj
daggers and see to it that they are not
allowed to be back at their lying voca-
tion until their full terms have expir-
‘
V '
FEMININE CHAT.
\
Affection is more a matter of habit
was of sentiment, horrid as this may
sound. .
The only evidence of good taste some
more show is in their selection of their
arrives. »
Bats composed entirely of violets or
geranium blooms are much seen at the,
fixtures.
.‘an’t it strange how you can strongly
Emilie the persons .of whom you once
ixmi‘nordinately fond.
It is very easy to tell whether a man
or woman has the room above you by
I the fussing with the register.
Rouge is never excusable, but it is
especially to be condemned when a
young woman adopts the practice.
The sentiment, “Fine feathers make
fine birds,” should be changed to, “fine
feathers make fine hats,” nowadays.
The American girl of this generation
has two wonderfully attractive posses-
sions—lovely hair and beautiful teeth.
It always happens that where the
crowd congests on the street you run
into either your best friend or your
worst enemy. ‘
Some hats marked, “out in half,”
would be much more tempting if they
had in very truth succumbed to some
such operation.
The note of indecision in dress these
days tells very plainly of the extraor-
dinary weather we have been having
this winter. .
The horseless carriage has not be-
come such a familiar sight that people
can pass one by without amoment’s
curious pause of observation.
Is it prOper we wonder for men to
wear tan shoes all winter long. It
seems awfully inapropos, yet as some
very swell men do it it- must be all
right.
The average life of women who work
for their living is 36 years. This is
pleasant to contemplate when -you are
struggling for bread and butter and an
occasional piece of pie and have left
the‘30-mark behind you.
v“-‘
‘vr
BUYING WIVES.
How Settlers in the Hudson Bay Region
Secured Helpineets. ‘
In the old days, when the English-
speaking race were gradually spread-
ing themselves over the world, the men
who settled in out-of—the-way places
either had to live a bachelor life or
content themselves with a wife from
the native population of the coun:z':.'
in which they had taken up their
abode.
The old Hudson bay factors were
confronted with this difficulty Wile?
they wished to become benedicts. and
often married Indian girls. These
wives they acquired by purchase, in ac-
cordance with the red Indian custom.
A gun, a colored blanket, or a twist of
tobacco would secure a most desirable
squaw in those days. The wife was
certainly Obtainable at a reasonable
price, but those early traders found the
possession of a red Indian wife an ex-
pensive luxury. In bad times. which
they often experienced in those cold
,regions, the husband was looked upon
to feed all the wife’s near relations.
The number of these relations was as-
tonishing. and the poor trader found
it rather expensive to supply food to a
small tribe of Indians who claimed
themselves to be “near" relations of
his wife.
Many of them, however, did. not care
to marry the Indian maidens to be
found near their posts. and, seeing
how expensive their companions found
them, they petitioned the company to
select wives for them and send them
by the next boat. Their wishes were
invariably complied with, and the se-
lections, as a. rule, were perfectly sat~
isfactory. Among the archives of the
Hudson Bay Company are to be found
receipts from factors running some-
thing like the following:
“Received, per Lapwing. Jane Goody,
as per invoice, in, good condition:" and
“Received. per Osprey. Matilda Tim-
bins. Returned per Lapwing, as not
being ‘in accordance with description
contained in invoice.”
MISS GOULD A BRILLIANT GAZER.
1‘. (for living Haunted in a Gold and Cryo-
lal Selling, fiald to Cost 815,000.
Miss Helen Gould is said to have
joined the latest society cult, “crystal
gazers," and to have just paid $15.000
for what is regarded as the most per-
fect mystic globe in existence. It comes
from Japan, where three illuminati
spent their lives in polishing the giant
rough crystal into the perfect sphere
it now is. '
It is as clear as the air itself, yet the
initiated claim to be able to see
within its depths the events of the past,
present and future. and even the im-
material entities who inhabit space or
the unknown spirit land.
Thr, crystal globe itself. which is
eight inches in diameter, is said to
have cost upward of $8,000, and Miss
Gould has had it mounted in a gold and
crystal setting worth $7,000 more.
In addition to this, she has had a.
special room constructed in her resi-
dence at Irvington-on—Hudson to con-
tain this mystic treasure. The room
is circular, with arched ceiling, and is
draped throughout in black velvet.
There, when the crystal is unveiled
and the electric light turned on, it
flashes with an intense iridescent
splendor only comparable to that of a
large diamond, but the difference that
its radiance is soft and pleasing, in-
stead of dazzling to the eye.——Philadel-
phia Press.
‘ * The Bobwhite,
Sportsmen, epicures, and the bird‘s
cherry whistle have made bobwhite one
of our best knoWn birds. As the most
Northern representative of ' a family
which has its center of abundance in
subtropical regions, bobwhite is more
susceptible to the rlgors'of a Northern
winter than more truly boreal birds.
Being. eminently terrestrial, heavy
snows’sometimes completely bury bev-
ies of birds, roosting. as is their wont.
on the ground. They seem, however,
none the worseqfor a living interment,
and have even been known to seek
shelter in a snowbank, divlng. into it
' cents and one dollar.
while in full flight. It is whena fall
of snow is heavily. crusted that bob-
white is in danger. Escape from be:
neath his snowy coverlid is then im-
possible, and whole flocks have been
found frozen where they had roosted.-
Snared at Last. ,1 .
An old Georgia darky, with his arm
in aysling‘, was talking to another on a
West End car the other day. '
“Yes, suh!" he said, with emphasis.
“I gone up now, fer sho’! You see dis
arm in de sling,,don’t you?”
“Yes."
“Well, suh,” the old man continued
by way of explanation, “I’ll be 80 years
old next harvest; I done see lots er
trouble in my day, but by de grace er
God I miss de ku-klux, I miss de vig-
ilance committee, I miss de whitecaps,
en I miss de rugulators, butnow, in
my old age, please God, de waxinators
kotched en cut mel”—Atlanta Consti-
tution. '
No Source of Supply.
“Poets,” said the man who writes in
verse, “are born, not made."
“Possibly, possibly,” returned the
weary critic,.“but of late _I have been
inclined to the belief that they are nei-
ther born nor made.”——-Chicago Tri-
bune.
Not Satisfactory.
"Our sexton doesn’t like the new wo-
man preacher."
“What are his objections?" , '
“He says that she isn’t strong enough
to keep the dust pounded out of the
pulpit cover.”——Chicago Record.
.HOW TO FIND OUT.
Fill a bottle or common glass with
urine and let it stand twenty-four
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 order.
WHAT To Do.
There is comfort in the knowledge so
often expressed, that Dr. Kilmer’s
Swamp-Root, the great kidney remedy
fulfills every wish in 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 during the night to urin-
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
Sold by druggists, price fifty
You may have a
sample bottle and pamphlet both sent
free by mail. Mention THE GAZETTE,
and send your address to Dr. Kilmer &.
Co., Binghamnon, N. Y. The pro-
prietors of this paper guarantee the
genuineness of this affair. ' '
the best.
"Tb" RENT.
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ZETTE Building. Apply to Charles
Olmstead, Masonic Building. N30 tf
FOR SALE.
FOR SALE—On Newtown avenue, a
line house of 10 rooms, hot and cold
water, furnace, etc. Lot 95x400. Will
be sold cheap if taken at once. W. H.
Byington, Insurance, GAZETTE Build-
ing. D29 tf
R SALE—Three fine building lots
on Wilton avenue. 0. E. Wilson.
Insurance, GAZETTE Building. N30 tf
FOR SALE—JI'wo building lots on
Newtown avenue, 60x200. W. H. By-
ington, Insurance, GAZETTE Building.
D29 tf
FOR SALE—A good Portland cutter.
Will be sold cheap for cash. W. H
Byington, Insurance, GAZETTE . Build-
ing. D29 tf
OR SALE—One of the best building
lots in the city; five minutes walk
from Bridge. Water and gas on street.
W. H. Byington, Insurance, GAZETTE
Building. ' N30 tf
OR SA LE——A house on Wilton ave-
nue, 6 rooms. Will be sold cheap.
W. H. Byington, Insurance, GAZETTE
Building. N30 tf
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ANTED—Houses and Real Estate
to sell. W. H. Byington, Insur-
ance, GAZETTE Building. N30 tf
AN TED—~Contractors to know
~ that the Fidelity and Deposit
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H. Byington, agent, GAZETTE Build-
ing. N 30 tf
Ravmond &-Son.
Successors tolGeorge H Raymond
Furniture Dealers and
General Funeral Directors
46 audio Main St,- Iomlk, "cont.
Residence, Berkeley Place.
Telephone No. 77-4.
Do You- WANT
A POSITION.
We want, to engage an
earnest ambitious man in
the town of Norwalk. ~
We have a good Straight
business proposition to
make. -. '
Address at once. GEO.- F.
TRACEY, State Manager,
Drawer 285. , . ‘
you need a medicine you should have“
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Notice is‘hereby given that at a reg-
ular meeting of the Council of the City
of Norwalk to be held in the Council
Rooms in said City, February 7th, 1898,
at 8 o’clock in the evening, it is pro-
pOsed by said Council to make a fur-
ther appropriation of Five-Hundred
($500.00) Dollars from the Treasury of
said City of Norwalk for the Highway
' ‘D'epartment of said City to be used in
paying the necesSary expenses of said
department.
And at the same time and place it is
proposed by said council to make a
further appropriation of Five Hundred
($500.00) Dollars from the treasury of
the City of N orwalk for the Police De-
partment of said city to be used in the
payment of the necessary expenses of
said department.
And at the same time and place it is
proposed by said Council to make a
further appropriation of One Hundred
and Fifty ($150.00) Dollars from the
treasury of said City of Norwalk for
the Fire Department of said City to be
used in paying the necessary expenses
of said department.
Dated at Norwalk, this 19th day of
January, 1898.
.By order of the Council of said City.
, Attest,
H. W. GREGORY,
City Clerk.
Ellyn waal
Board erel ief.
Notice is hereby given that the Board
of Relief of the City of N orwalk will
meet in the Council Rooms, in said city,
at thetimes following:
Tuesday, J anuary 25th, 1898, from 7. 30
to 9 p. m. 5 .
Monday, January 315t, from 2 30 to 5
p. m. _ ~
Monday, February 7th, from 7.30 to 9
p. m. .
Wednesday,February 9th,from7.30 to9
. . m.
p Saturday, February 12th, from 7.30 to
9 . m. ‘ ‘
IFor the purpose of hearing. and deter-
mining all appeals from the doings of the
assessors of said city in the assessment
of taxes for the year 1897, and to trans-
act any other business by law provided;
. Dated'a-t the City of N orwalk,“J anuary
19th, 1898. '
Waterbury, Conn,,. P. O...
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Imported Jardinieres. The
prices on them will be re-
duced each day until sold.
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A fine building lot on ‘d’. .3; ave?
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Water, gas and sewer on the avenue.
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