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ROYAL BAKING POWDER 60.. NEW YORK.
LOCAL AND OTHER NEWS.
Miss Marion London has been elec-
t-ed president of the class of ’97 of the
Center High school. An alumni asso-
ciation may be formed later.
Harry Bouton is the salutorian of the
Over River graduating class.
A daughter. was born to Mr. and Mrs.
J. H. Klinefelter, Saturday evening.
St. Joseph’s Total Abstinence and
Benefit basket ball team will play the
senior team of the Stamford High
school at Music Hall, Tuesday, April
26th.
A daughter has been born to Mr.
and Mrs. Albert Kunze, of Bull Run.
Captain Solomon Peck expects to
ship to New York, this week, 10,000
feet of white oak timber, and he- has
orders for several thousand feet more.
A regular communication of St.
John’s Lodge, F. & A. M. will be held
Thursday evening at which communi-
cation the third degree will be con-
ferred.
——-Prof. M. S. hosen, the well-known
oculist Optician, can be consulted at his
office in the parlors of the Mahackemo
Hotel, South Norwalk, Tuesday from
is a. m. to 8 p. m. Eyes examined free.
f5-tf.
The Monthly meeting of the Ladies
association will be held to-morrow in
the Congregational chapel. A paper
on “Bombay Missions” will be given
by Mrs. J. W.Wilson, and at the close
of the meeting a social tea will be en-
joye d.
The Glendening—Nickerson wedding
will take place to-morrow.
“Dan” Connolly announces his in-
tention of moving back to N orwalk
from his present home in Bedding, at
an early date. __ “
A‘ special meeting of the Pioneer
Hook and Ladder Company will be held
this‘ evening, at which important busi-
ness will be considered.
A special town meeting will be held
this evening.
A freight train, upon several cars of
which was a large amount of freight
that had 'a war-like appearance passed
through South Norwalk at an early
hour this morning. ‘
There was a severe storm of rain,
sleet and. snow this morning.
Harvey Hartuess of New Haven, is
visiting friends in town.
Asa Smith of New Haven was in town
yesterday, shaking hands with his old
Masonic friends and others. He was
looking well and revived memories of
old and prosperous times in N orwalk.
Daniel J. Hogan an extra motorman
on the Norwalk Street Railway line,
has secured a situation on the Metro-
politan Street Railway, of New York.
"Dan” is well liked in town and has
many friends who while glad to hear
of his success will regret that he is to
1leave town.
Large quantities of flatfish are being
caught down the harbor.
The closing reception of Professor
Newell’s dancing class will be held in
Masonic hall, Bridgeport, Wednesday
evening, April 27th, and several Nor-
walk people have signified their inten-
tion of being present.
Jack Frost has raised thunder with
the'zljlossomslon the magnolia tree in
front of the residence of O. E. Wilson
(on I’Vest avenue, causing them to leave
the mother tree and go to grass.
Several Norwalk people attended the
funeral of the late Rev. I. Simmons at
the Hanson Place Methodist church in
Brooklyn this afternoon. The reverend
gentleman died in Hartford, aged 68
years. The interment was in Green-
wood cemetery.
The storm this morning delayed the
. work on the Wall street bridge widen-
ing to an appreciable extent, however,
the work will be resumed and pushed
to an early completion.
Buckingham post‘s. A; R. will meet
,to-morrow night.
Qui- Brothers’ Lodge, _1. O.,,O. F.
met-last evening and did degree work.
' Martha in WWII“?
Miss McElroy, secretary of the Her"-
the Central club.
George A. Jennings is having his
yacht Daphne fixed up and will soon
put her in commission. ‘
Attachment papers have been served
by Deputy Sheriff Lyon on John Evan-
sky et. ux..to cover a claim sworn out
by Roberts «St Sousman. The writ'is
made returnable the first, Monday in
May.
“Dick” Hendricks while out in his
yacht “Nonesuch” on Sunday, sufl'ered
an upset near Jennings’ wharf, but the
prompt action of those who witnessed
the accident saved him from drowning.
Douglass Fowler Post, G. A. R. held
a regular meeting last night at which
the war question was pretty freely dis-
cussed.
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PREJUDICE DISAPPEARING.
The French People Do Not Object to
LBOrSBfleBh.
In Europe prejudice against horse-
flesh as food diminishes year by year,
and in France and other Continental
countries great attention is given to
the fattening of wornout horses for
the market. European societies for
the prevention of cruelty to animals
are interesting themselves in the sub-
ject. and are offering inducements to
farmers to utilize their spare horses
for food. The substance is said to be
as nourishing and palatable as beef.
and in some respects authorities of the
cuisine give it the preference. Every
year there is more or less of a panic in
regard to the short supply of beef.
and in the
have become
accustomed to its
use horseflesh comes in as a sub-
stitute. In France the price of
beef is from 25 to 40 cents a pound,
while horse meat may be had from 5
to 8 cents. The pot-au-feu, disused in
thousands of French homes on ac-
count of the high price of beef, has.
through the cheapness of the latter
meat, assumed its former importance
in the domestic economy of that peo-
ple. In this era of mechanical pro-
pulsion an increasing number of
horses are thrown out of business, and
their utilization as food, if it cannot be
said to open a new career to them.
brings their existing one to a useful
close. According to current statis-
tics it will not be many years before
the world’s supply of beef will fall
' short of its requirements, and if relief
is not found in utilizing the horse as a
substitute it is difficult to conjecture
where it is to be looked for, short of
general adoption of the practice of
vegetarianism. which has always been
the diet of the subject. and never, so
far, the ruling of progressive races.
SURVEYING BY BICYCLE. '
The U. S. Army Authorities Have Under
Contemplation Its Adoption.
One of the newest uses of the bicy-
cle is as a surveying machine, not
merely a machine to carry a surveyor
from point to point,obut a machine
which performs in itself the mechan-
ical part of the snrveyor’s work. The
device consists primarily of two
parts, a cylinder revolving mechanism
to carry the-strip of paper on which
the record is made. and a device to
make the record. As the cylinder turns
the strip of paper is unrolled from
a spool.~ The ,marker,‘ hanging by
means of a pivot- and controlled by a
complementary mechanism, adjusts it-
self to the position of the bicycle. The
United States Army authorities are
considering the adoption of this at-
tachment as an adjunct to military
tactics. By its means the exact 'Iopo-
graphical characteristics of a road
may be ascertained, with no other ex-
ertion on the part of the surveyor
than a ride along the road in question.
A general who wishes to know the
topography of a road over which his
army has to pass has only to send
out an engineer on a surveying bicy-
cle to ride ahead. When the engineer
returns he brings with him an exact
profile of the road, which has been an-
tomatically made while he was in the
saddle—St. Louis Globe-Democrat
IThPAYS redo HUNGRY IN INDIA.
Debt Collectors Starve Themselves and
Debtors Until Ono Gives In.
The most persistent creditors and
bad-debt collectors in the world are
said to be those of India. It is not un-
common for them to literally live up-
on the doorstep of a debtor for days at
a. time. It is the custom for the dun
to sit at the door of his victim’s tent
and allow no one to go out except by
his sanction. During this seige he
neither eats nor allows his debtor to
eat. This starvation is kept up until
either the debt is paid or the creditor
gives up the siege, in which case the
debt is considered cancelled.
The‘lawsby which this common
practice is regulated are well defined.
Not even the chief governors of the
country are exempt from it. When
the debt is large or the, case in some
other way important, it is the custom
for a number of collectors to surround
the tent and sometimes even the bed of
the debtor to make sure he takes no
food. The law, however, requires as
a matter of fairness that the collector
should not eat during the siege, so the
strongest stomach wins—New York
World.
300 lilies Between Drinks.
There is not a saloon between Flor-
ence, Ala, and Paducah, Ky., on the
banks of the Tennessee River. The
distance is more than 300 mllcs, and is
said to be the-longest of its kind on
any navigable river in America.
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few countries which
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' to do with it.
'm-ay be divided into three parts:
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lem branch of the Young Women’s; hE‘V YORK LETTER'
Christian association, is to speak Wed-i
nesday afternoon at. three o’clock, at,
Special Correspondence.
,H- Walter Webb, the lucky third
vice-president of the New York Cen-
tral road is the latest victim to over-
work. 'Wlhy did he, overwork? He was
greatly envied. He had a. “soft snap,”
which- a million men 'w-ould have
grasped eagerly and held on to till the
last trump. His salary was large, his
time practically his own, his pleasures
many. It is astonishing how many
men break down nowadays, and from
no assignable cause. In the old days
we in the country used towo-rk twen-
ty-eight hours out of twenty-four, so
to speak and live to be a. hundred,
but now we labor eight hours a. day
and break down at fifty, or earlier.
The luckiest men in New ,York are
the Webbs—General Alexander S.,
president of the College of the City of
New York; Dr. William Seward, ‘hus‘
band of Lila. Osgood Vanderbilt, presi-
dent of the Wagner Palace Car Com-
pany; vice-president of the Findlay,
Fort Wayne and Western Railway un-
der Jack Astor; owner of Shel-burns
Farms, Vt.; member of the Vermont
Legislature, with United States Sena.-
Itorial prospects; owner of Ne-ha-sa-ne
Park in the Adirondacks, a preserve
of 1,000,000 acres; proprietor of private
observation, engines and private cars;
and H. Walter, who started in life on
an eighth and quarter commission in
Wall Street, was banged into the vice-
presidency of the Wagner Palace Car
Company by brother Seward; 'made
the acquaintance of Cornelius V-ander-
bilt, the next natural step, and became
assistant to Chauncey M. Depew, pres-
ident of the N. Y. C. and H. R. R.
Co.; own-s magnificent estates in the
Adirondacks with brother Seward; is
vice-president of the Dunkirk, Alle-
gheny Valley and Pittsburg Railroad;
third vice-president of the Rome, Wa-
tertown and Ogdensburg Railroad;
president of the Troy Union Railroad,
and heaven knows What else.
Even the father of the present-day
Webbs, General James Watson Webb,
was 'a considerable man of affairs and
a. journalist of note. He it was Who
made the New York World possible by
handing down to posterity the Courier
and Enquirer. I doubt if we should
forgive him this offense. President
Zachary Taylor appointed lhim Min-
ister to Austria, and Lincoln sent him
as Minister to Turkey and Brazil. S'o
constant luck has attended the Webbs
from the earliest times to the present
day, that I wouldn’t mind being Webb-
footed myself.
Preachers in the Blarket.
Three New York preachers have been
known to 'take flyers in the security,
gnain and cotton markets from time'to
time. Others have been suspected.
In the Street are several est-preachers,
some members :of the Stock Exchange,
some of the Consolidated.
Henry Ward Beecher was not above
taking a chance now and then in Wall
Street. He made a good deal of mon-
ey out of his books, and invested it all;
in the market. I don’t know whose
“tip 'he took, but if is a shrewd guess
that “Deacon" White had something
George I. Seney may
have “put the old man on." At any
rate, every cent was lost, and Beecher
quit the game.
I heard Beecher tell ‘the story on
himself. .The money earned by his
books—“Eyes and Ears," “Norwood,”
“A Summer Parish” and “Earlier
Scenes”—amounted to about $10,000
net. Being a trifle hard up at the time
he attempted to increase his fortune
by a sudden stroke, instead of invest-
ing it at 7 per cent. Some went into
gold mines, the rest in margins. "If
a. man has a good business and Invests
in stocks," he said, “or is tempted to
put his money in a. gold mine, he is
greedy. I know it—I have tried it a
little. All I wanted to make was 25
per cent."
An Old Advertiser’s Advice.
In New York a few days ago the res-
ident partner in that city of the Wana—
maker firm delivered an address before
the Merchants‘ Association on “Ad-
vertising as a Busines Force." The
speaker based his remarks on a
long experience in extensive and suc-
cessful newspaper advertising. , He
began by saying 'that a. retail business
the
goods to he sold, the personsi‘employed'
to sell them and the advertising; While
the three were considered of equal. hu-
portance the advertising was called
“the dynamic. power of the business,"
setting it in motion and increasing its
volume. One point brought out is
that the relative importance of adver-
tising .is not taken‘ seriously enough,
that is, not regarded as one of the es-
sentials. The speaker would no more
think of running a. business without
advertising than of owning machin-
ery without a. motive power.
Money, it was admitted. can be
wasted in advertising; The advertiser
may underra‘te iits value and, indeed,
give but slight study to its principles,
and be soon discouraged. ”The most
successful advertising I :have ever
known," said this expert, “is that
which has been exploited on a very
large scale. The man who has had the
courage to advertise to a. certain ex-
tent and spend $20,000, should have had
the courage to spend another $5,000 and
vitaIIZe all the rest.” In these cases
there is a lack of the needful faith and
persistence. Advertising was present-
ed as a necessity of the retail business.
its pulse, movement and circulation.
The newspaper column is the mer-
chants’ rostrum. In using It to addre‘
the public his statements must be've: .
table. Advertisements must be w.“
expressed, and the illustrations of
good grade. It has been the \Vanama
ker policy to advertise in a terse, direct
style, though freely as to space, and to
use a typography which newspaper
readers soon recognize as distinctive.
CYRUS Tnokr.
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- the French horn is tolerated. At oth-
A STORY OF PRINCE BISMARCK.
, the Cool Manner Displayed After an At-
, tempt Had Been Made on His Life.
, Rudolph Lindau, in the Deutsche
Revue, tells some stories about Prince
Bismarck that have not been told-in
detail before. In May, 1866, Bismarck,
then only Count, was passing through
Unter den Linden, when he heard he-
hind him the report of a revolver. He
turned quickly around and saw a
young man—Ferdinand Blind it was——
aiming at him with the still "smoking
pistol. Bismarck ran toward the man,
and seized the hand in which he held
the revolver, and, with the other hand
he grasped the assassin’s throat. The
latter, however, had' time to slip his
pistol into the other hand, and shot
lthree times in quick succession. Bis-
marck felt himself wounded in the
shoulder and injured in one of his ribs,
but he held his assailant fast until sev—
eral soldiers ran up and secured him.
IThen Bismarck walked quickly to his
ihouse, which he reached long before
lany report of the affair got there. The
iCountess, it appeared, had several call-
ers when her husband came in. He
greeted them all pleasantly, and asked
to be excused for a few minutes on ac-
count of a pressing engagement. There-
upon heretired to the next room and
rapidly wrote out an account of the
attempt on his life, which he sent to
the King, Then, returning to the
drawing-room, he joked in his usual
way about his unpunctuality at lun-
sheen, and ate with a good appetite.
When the meal was finished he went
to the Countess, kissed her, wished
her “mahlzeit” in the old German way,
and added: ’ “You see that I am quite
well, don’t you?” She stared at him,
whereupon he added: “Yes, you must-
.u’t be anxious, my child. Somebody
has shot at me, but it is nothing, as
you see.”
SILENCE LAWS IN BERLIN.
Legislation in Force on All Sorts of Every-
day Noises.
No other large city is as quiet as
Berlin. Railway engines are not al-
lowed» to blow their whistles within
the’ city limits. There is no loud hawl-
Ing by hucksters, and the man whose
wagon gearing is loose and rattling is
subject to a. fine. The courts have a.
large discretion as to fines for noise
making. The negro whistlers who
make the night shrill and musical in
Washington would have a hard time
of it in a German community.
Strangest of all, piano playing is
regulated in Berlin. Before a certain
hour in the day and after a certain
hour in the night the piano must be‘
silent in that musical city. Even dur-
lng playing hours a fine is imposed for
mere 'banging on the piano.
In Paris, it is only during the carni-
val and on fete days that the sound of
er seasons it is rigorously prohibited
by the police.
German intolerance of noise is not
a" recent thing; wallenstein, who de-
manded absolute quiet, had 130 houses
torn down in Prague and sentries post-
ed all“’round in the distance, to secure
silence. , There is a tradition that still
further back in time a Bohemian shep-
herd, seeing the monk Adelbert asleep,
blew on his' pipe in mischief. The
monk called down the curse of deaf-
ness On him—Washington Post.
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A Coming Mon.
“Yes, sub,” said the colored citizen,
“Brer Williams is a comin’ man, I tell
you! He at his business early on late.”
“And what is his business?”
“Well, suh, he got so rich dat he
des lays back en len’s his money out! "
‘FAt:"in'terest, I suppose?”
“I reckon so, sub; you borrers 35
one 'week, en you pays $6 per it do nex’
Week.”
“That‘s big interest!”
“Dat what I say, sub; he a business
man, he is, en he takes a big interest
in his business!”—St. Louis Globe-
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A Chance to Get a Wheel Free
0781‘ seven years.
guarantee has ever
For nearly two
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lORACE A. SAUNDERS has been selling bicycles for
In that time he has sold thousands of wheels, and his
been found as good as a bond.
Every wheel sold by him is of first-class workmanship
and of the highest grade.
years he has been in business at his
fpresent store, No. 12 North Main street, South NorWalk,
and n3. been most successful, his large sales increasing each season.
One reason for his success is that he is firm believer in printers’ ink and
uses it freely and to the best advantage, believing that keeping everlasting-
y at if. is bound to bring the desired result.
His business thus far this season has surpassed his most sanguine ex
pectations, his sales being something enormous in the bicycle line.
He is not yet satisfied, however, and proposes to stir up the riders of the
silent steed by giving away one of his
bicycles to the most popular wheel—
manor wheelwoman in Fairfield county.
HORACE A.
SAUNDERS.
To this fendhe iwill select a new wheel from among those in his stock and
put it up to be voted for, and the lady or gentleman receviing .the highest ~
number of votes will be given the wheel. ' ,. , . , , , _. _ ,
In orderto compete for the wheel it is not necessary that you shOuld be ,
a. aider at the present time, but that you. receive the largest'number 'of
votes by 8 o’clock on the evening of July lst, when the balloting closes. .
To accommodate contestants in the Twin Cities two boxes have‘been
preparedr‘for the reception of the ballots; one in the shoe store of Clean
Brothers, in the GAZETTE building, and the other in Mr. Saunders’ store at
12 North Main street
Norwalk contestants can «’eposit their ballots in the box at Olsen Broth;
ers shoe store, and South Norwalk contestants in the box in Mr. Saunders ~' '
store. - .
The ballots will be counted dail
announced each day in the GAZETTE.
y and the standing of the contestants. -
The balloting will close promptly at 8 O'clock on the evening of July 1st
and a committee will be selected to count the votes, and the winner will be
aimounced in the GAZETTE of July 2.
NOTICE To CONTESTANTs—W' rite your name and address on
lines, cut out the coupon and deposit
ferred to and it will be counted.
. I. the blank
it in either of the boxes abOve re-
All coupons sent by mail should be addressed to H. A; Saunders, 12 '
Nc rth Main stree ," South Norwalk.
12 North Main Street, South
Store, Gazette Building
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Ballots can be left at Saunders’ Bicycle Headquarters,
Norwalk,.and Olsen Bros.
, Norwalk.
, . The Vote.
John Murphy, Norwalk,
Fred Smith, Daricn.
Miss Olive Gray, N orwalk.
Lester Comstock, Broad River.
Miss Vivian Soderstrom,
Mary Duffy, South Norwalk
Fred E. Conley, South Norwalk
Miss Bessie M. Stanley, N orwalk.
Joseph Methias, Norwalk.
Miss Lucy Wicks, . N orwalk.
R. M. Rose, Norwalk.
Annie Dauchy, South N orwalk.
Willie English, Norwalk.
Miss Edith Foster, Norwalk.
Arthur Evans, W’innipauk.
May Smith, South Norwalk.
Miss Annie Clune, Noewalk.
May Williams, South Norwalk.
Miss S. Louise Sutton, Norwalk.
Charles Mott, N orwalk.
Thomas Hunt, Norwalk.
George H. Hewitt, Nor-walk.
Hugh Marron, N orwalk.
Frank Fitzgerald, Norwalk.
Miss Mena Ambler, South N orwalk.
Eugene Davis, Nor-walk.
J. HerbertCarpenter, Norwalk.
Harold McAllister', N Orwalk. ' '
Thomas McInerney,‘ Winnipauk.
Joseph‘McNerney, Norwalk.
Clarence F. "Osborn, Norwalk.
Miss TilliegrSpicer, :waalk,
South N orwal k.
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