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CUSTOMS MAY CH ANGE.
'l‘ho Typewriter HasaClumco of Becom.
in: tho Style for Social Notes.
Until very recently the typewriter
has been put solely Ito business and
professional uses and has never inv-e d-
ed the social field. To write a personal
letter on a typewriter has been con-
sidered an evidence of ignorance of
good manners. But, all this may be
changed. At an rate some English
notables have been amusing them-.
selves with typewriters, and the result
may be that social notes, invitations.I
etc., will hereafter be printed by means
of the time- -saving w‘iting machine:
The young Duchess of Marlborough is
among those ladies who are using the
typewriter. Former Empress Eugenie.‘
on account of falling eyesight, adopted
it some time ago, and Queen Victoria1
can and does write very neatly on aI
typewriter occasionally; consequently,
the writing machine has earned a disk:
tinct social value in England. The one:
the Duchess of Marlborough uses is an:
American make, mounted on a charm-,
ing little inlaid desk and very sumptu-L
ously 'trimmed with gold and red en-It'
amel wherever such decoration is pas-,2
slble. The paper her little grace uses
in the machine is. sent her from the
quality used for single copy work, bu
in the centre at the top of every sheeliI
is stamped a black ducal coronet, with;
the letters “C. M.” in gilt beneath,
Troy Times. I .1113
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CRUELEST KINGIOF MODERN TIMES.
He Caused Every White Man Who Enter-
ed His City to be Killed.
The most bloodthirsty villian unhung
is the king of Benin, in Africa. He'
used to slaughter his subjects daily,
for'amusement, but when he massacred
a party of unarmed British negotiators,
his reign ended.
His palace was partly built of hu-
man bones, and surrounded with count-
less numbers of them. The British
sent an expedition to Benim and an‘
nexed the country and the palace.
This .king has been responsible for
more. needless bloodshed and sheer
cruelty than any other savage living.
Benin, hisI capital city, deserves well
the title bestowed on it (if “The City
of Blood.” Happily, this ghoulis no
longer'at large. He is in the hands
of the British officials on the Gold
Coast. ' I
The British take a great deal of cred-
it to themselves for putting an end to
the brutal'reign of the king of Benin.
Probably they had more'moi'al justifi-
cation in this case of an attack on a
native state than is usual.
Benin 1116' city, is an extremely in-
tens-ting place in a gruesome way. No
white manhad ever been there and left
it alive, before the British-'1 expedition
went. The king's palace was ap-
proached by an aVenu‘e' of poles, on the
. The door-
way was made of human leg bones.
Files are very numerous in Benin.
The king had a rooted IaverSion to
them. Unlike most of his subjects, he
wore a. garment that covered the whole
of his body, except his face and hands.
Two slaves were always on guard with
fans to keep flies away from his ma-
jesty. If a fly succeeded in alighting
on an exposed part 'of his majesty’s
person, the two slaves were executed
on the spot.
When You \Vrite to the Queen.
The paper on which letters to Queen
Victoria are written must not be fold-
ed. No communication which bears
evidence of having been creased will
ever fall into Her Majesty’s'own handsa.
The proper method is to write on
thick, glossy white paper, and to de-
spatch the missive‘ in an envelope
which fits it. Any fold-ed communi-
cation never reaches. the Queen, for
the simple reason that she never looks
at it. All such letters are opened by
the Mistress of the Robes, and as a
rule, their contents never get beyond
her, or, if the letter is or importance,
it is returned to the. writer with the
directions how to forward it.—New
York Herald. I
When you buy
a package of
Washmq Powder.
.you not only get
the best washingr pow-
der 1n the market but
in'addition, a cake of
the sweetest, purest, 1
whitest and nicest I
GchcrincToilét Soap !
you ever used. ,
You pay only for
the washing powder...
the soap is free.
111: .118. WILLIAMS co..
GLISTONOUHV. CONN
gun. or mun-s- noous non-o On.
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NEW. YORK LETTER.
Special correspondence.
At that busy corner, Grand street
and the Bowery, there may be seen cars
pr::p_ell'ed by five different methods 01
prt-pulsion—by steam, by cable, by
underground trolley, by storage bat-
tery and by horses.
Overhead, running up and down the
Bowery, are the cars of the elevated
railroad,"drawn by steam locomotives.
Running up and down the Bowery on
the surface are the cars of the Third
Avenue Railroad, drawn by cable. The
Madison avenue cars, which turn into
the Bowery at this point, coming along
Gran-d street from the West, are run
by the underground trolley system. The
cars of the Second Avenue Railroad,
which come up the Bowery and turn
into Grand street going east, returning
around Ithe same corner going down,
are still drawn by horses, as are also
nearly all the cars 01' the Grand street
Crosstown line, which crosses the Bow-
ery going east,.an-d west. But there are
four cars now running on the Cross-
town line that are run by power from
a storage battery.
High Prices for Portraits.
Carolus IDuran, the French artist,
seems to have advanced his price since
he saw such a~tendency to luxury
among the American gentry. At firs:
I it was announced that $3,000 would be
the highest fee, but now he wants $4,00C
for a mere bust, and doubll that sum
for a full length. Rat-her tall figures,
but not lofty for New York high flyers,
and he has all the commissions he can
execute. Another foreign artist of
some distinction is the Swiss Benziger,
who has met much encouragement. He
has painted President McKinley and
Vice President Hobart, with other mag-
nates, and will have a full mare oi
patronage, especially as his terms are,
much less than the exorbitant demands
of 1his French rival. As Blenziger is the
first Swiss artist to visit America, his
particular style will attract much at-
tention, and in this manner foreign
painters carry off both wealth and dis-
tinction while American genius is he.
glected. -k
‘ 11. Walter 11-91111. .
The resignation of H. Walter Webb is
a real loss to thevCentral—‘Hudson road,
which he so ably servedas, vice presi-
dent. It is also a lesson to ambitious
business men'to moderate their inten-
sity. Walter Webb is a man of ardent
temperament and great mental activ-
ity, and he devoted himself so closely
that the result is such impaired health
that the is obliged to retire. All this
has taken placereIfoIre he has reached
middle life". ' ‘ ‘ '
James Watson Webb, his father, was
bred a soldier, but became editor of the
Courier and, Enquirer, which he con-
ducted for moré‘than a quarter cen-
tury. He married into the rich Stewart
family and his oldest son, Alexander
Stewart Webb, became distinguished
for heroism while serving in the Union
army-and won the rank of general. He
is now president of the College of New
York. James Watson Wébb’s second
wife was a daughter or Jacob Cram,
the rich distiller, and their children are
Seward Webb and H. Walter. Webb.
Seward was named after Governor
William H. Seward, who pardoned
Webb for violating 1the anti- duelling
law. Webb challenged Tom Marshall
and was wounded and also indicted.
The wound healed and he pleaded guil-
ty to the indictment, but was saved
from the penitentiary by the clemency
of the governor. Later on Webb em-
ployed. Raymond as chief editorial writ-
er, which increased the power of his
paper; but eventually Raymond left
and started the New York Times, after
which the two editors often exchanged
keen personalities. When the civil war
began,Webb sold the Courier and En
qu1rerto the World and took a foreign
m1ssion. His paper is now almost for-
gotten, but in its day it was a power in
Wall street and an acknowledged lead,-
er in the old Whig party.
Aaron Burt’s Tank on View.
For the first time in more than one
generation, Aaron Burr’s old tank in
Center street was on public view the
other day. The east wall of the build-
ing at the intersection of Center and
Reade streets, in which it (has been
housed since the aqueduct was built,
was‘taken down to let the new Elm
street through, and the big tank on its
stone foundation was in full sight.
The tank was built 1a hundred years
ago by the sham water company whose
charter Aaron Burr engineered through
the legislature of 1799. Masquerading
as a proposition to introduce good
drinking water into New York, at that
time its greatest need. it was really a
scheme to establish a bank in the city.
’Imere were only, two here and there
was a strong political prejudice against
chartering more. The trick was suc-
cessful. The Bank of the Manhattan
Company grew great and powerful, and
to keep up the pretence of being a wa-
ter company, upon which its charter
a big well at
Reade and Center stree: s" and built the
tank to hold the water pumped out of
it. The well is still there under the
sidewalk and the tank is always kept
pumped full. The charter of the big
bank rests yet upon it, though even the
pretence of carrying water was given
1 up when the acqueduct was bum in the
‘ forties.
Opposite the well is 11IRrade stv net
the last of the old houses of a day when
r fashionable New York liveddown town.,'
' Tradition has it that Aaron Burr had
his law office in it. It even points out
the spike holes in the wall by the door
where his shingie swung-1n sight of his
legislative triumph, but as to that there
may be some doubts. Of the genuine-
ness 0f1tl'.e tank there is nOne. .
CYRUS T l-lOi-LP.
, The- cultivation of suntiowe. s in
swampy places after-many checks ma
larial fever in those parts.
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TROOPS WELL EQUIPPE D.
AdJ.-Gen. Tillinghast States New. ‘lIo- l:
VolunteersAro Well Plovided Fe . '01
Albany, June 15. —Adj_utant :General
Tlilinghast says that he is surprised to
see the attacks made by Chaplain Mad
15011 C. Peters of the Ninth regiment,
New York city, on the condition of the
state troops, and especially his own
regiment, as have been reported in the
press. .
On thefirst day of June General Til-
linghast received an unsolicited letter
from Colonel G. James Gr‘een,'con1-
mandant of the Ninth regiment, which
spoke of the condition of his men in
camp at Chickamaug-a. This letter was
received some days before Chaplain
Peters made his first arraignment of
the state militarv authorities for not
properly taking care of the state's sol-
diers.
After reading the criticism the adju-
tant general wrote to Colonel Greene
and asked his permission to make pub—
lic pant of his letter of June 1 He
has received the necessary permission ,
and made public this portion of the
letter:
“We have already got lour camp in
excellent shape and in a couple more
days will be quite settled. The men are
cheerful and happy, and the officers
united and enthusiastic. We have
much to be thankful for as the two
regiments (First Arkansas and Second
Kentucky) in our brigade had prac-
tically nothing when they arrived, and
it wasawful to me to see the condition
in which their respective states sent
them here.
“They had neither uniforms nor
arms, tentage nor cocking outfits. and
it was pitiful to see the guards march-
ing past, armed with sticks. I think it
is criminal, and New York is deserving
of all our praise for the complete man.
her in whllch she sent us out. Our
greatest discomfort has been the lack
of water, but-to-day men are laying .1
water main in front of our camp and
by nightfall we will have all the wa-
ter we need. We have had no sickness,
except such trivial ailments incident tp
change of water, etc." I
General Tilllnghast said further that
he had taken special pains to see that 1
the Ninth went away from Camp
Townsend properly equipped. When
they got orders at 3 o'clock one after-
noon to get away at 5 o'clock the next
morning, they were not cempietely
equipped with cooking utensils. It was
too late to express them from New
York, so they were packed in trunks,
checked and sent in charge of a man
from New York city. They arrived at .
camp four hours before the regiment
left. \
BLANCO FAILS AGAIN.
Futile Attempts to Entlco Our Ship:
Under Havana' s Guns. '
Key West, June I15. —-Cap_tain General
Blanco has apparently not yet abanI-
oned the hope of luring the American
warships within range of the Havana
battenies. He tried it again on Friday
morning last, but with no better suc«
cess than in his previous attempts.
Advices received here yesterday are
to the effect that five Spanish ships
ran out to the mouth of Havana har—
bor on the day mentioned and headed
in an easterly direction.
well off shore. Upon sighting the
Spaniards they ran in a short distance
and opened fire on them.
The volley of shot and shell brought «
to Bangor and' Banger’s interests in
no response from the enemy, but t‘he
quintette of ships speedily turned tail
and, hugging the shore, under the bat-
teries, ran back into the harbor. The
American ships, however, did not ac-
cept the bait, «and made no further at-
tempt to molest them. The character
of the Spanish boats could not be posi-
tively fixed on account of the distance. a
but the American officers say one or
two were small gunboats of the class j famous deadlock fight, on the Civil .
which has been manoeuvring all along
the north coast in futile efforts to draw
,.-the American ships within the fire of
the Spanish batteries. 1
Monday afternoon three of Ithe II-Ia-I-
'vana- batteries, the San-ta Clara bat-'
tery and Sand Batteries No.1 and 2,
opened fire upon one of the auxiliaiy
gunboa‘ts which Was cruising closely
along the shore. About half a dozen .
shots were fired, none finding any oth-
or mark than the sea; although sev-
eral dropped too close for comfort.
The gunboat made" no reply, but hur-
ried out of range and reported the
attack to the flagship of the blockading 5
squadron. No attempt at retaliation,
however, was made.
MANILA’S GOVERNOR READY TO QUIT
158 Would Have Surrender-ed to Dewey
Ere This but for the Army‘s Opposition.
Hong Kong. June 15.—The Spanish
governor of ”Manila wants to surrender
to~Admitral Dewey, but his army will
not allow him to give up. Several pro-
posals ‘byvhim to yield have been met
with indignant. opposition by the army.
The army is holding out on the ex-
pectation of reinforcements from Spain.
\Voundetl in a. French Duel.
Paris, June 15. —Count Boniface dc
Castellane, who maimed. Miss Anna
.Gould of New York, fought a duel yes-
terday with M. Henri Turot of the Pe-
tite Republique Francaise. Thre)
rounds were fought with swords, and
M. Turot was wounded in each round,
twice slightly, and the third time- se-
verely, in the right forearm, thus end-
ing the duel. The dispute which led
to the meeting grew out of M. Turot' =
comments upon an act of infanticide
committed by '11 servant in the count‘ ..
household.
Mrs. Port. 11' Gone to the i-ron‘.
ll’ashfngton, June 15.—Mrs. J. Addi-
son Porter, the wife of the secretary
to the piesident, has joined the Red
Cross Society and has left ‘Vashing ton
f01 Tampa. Mrs. Porter goes to 'lam—
pa as chief of the staff of Miss Clara
Barton, and She will go to Cuba if nec-
essary. The Red Cross party “"hich
left’ here was composed of M’issBar-
ton, Mrs. Porter, George Kennan and
several trained nurses.
Senator Aldrich “relented.
Newport, R. 1., June 15.—jUni-ted
States Senator Nelson W. Aldrich, Re-
publican, was re-elected by the legis-
lature yesterday-
The vote was as h
Senate—N elson
Benjamin Andrew —-. 1.
House—Aldrich Cl, Andrews 2, L. F
Garvin 1.
The...-vessels ~
- of the blockading squadron were lying
on the first ballot.
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“I!“ BEI‘I'EII.
The Enemy’s Forces are
,1,- Routedln ,Norwalk.
*IAs flee the enemy’s ships before the
armored squadrons of Uncle Sam, so
are retreating useless remedies for-
catarrh before the steady success of
California. Catarrh Cure. The best
arguments are facts, and facts accom-
plished cannot be doubted. Facts ac-
cOmplished have convinced Norwalk
people. I
ant. but as a well-known h s1 ian
lately said: “To waste time 03 {151511255
1 emedies' IS dangerous, for' in the treat-
ment- of all diseases time is everything. ”
And that California Catarrh Cure
works surely and swiftly; that its suc-
cess is not approached by any other
:1 .emedy ever compounded, is proved by
51111:? caseskas this;
rs. o n Lycett, 21 Hi h street.
Nor-walk, says: “My daughgter Violet.
has been troubled since childhood with
catar1h,unt-11 her whole head seemed
more or less diseased. She had begun
to be a little deaf, and sufiered much
with severe headaches, so that. we had
to keep her out of school a good deal.
I sent her to Plaisted’s drug store,
South Norwalk, after a bottle of Cali—
fornia Catarrh Cure and she com-
menced usmg it. Its beneficial effects
have been simply Wonderful. It has
helped her from the first in every
way. I have not heard her complain
of a headache for a. long time, and by
the time She has finished her first
bottle I feel confident that she will be
cured.”
To avoid Hay Fever. begin using
California Catarrh care now, and
keep it up till the season of the Iattack
has apassed. It absolutely prevents
cases of hay fever and its kindred dis-
eases, influenza, "grip” and stufied
and emarting nasal passages. For the
latter nothing affords such grateful'
relief as California Catarrh Cure. All
dealers. 50 cents; three times as much,
one dollar.
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FINE FUEERACOF A coo. I
A Blue Blooded English Pug Buried in a
Casket With Silver Trimmings.
Charley, a 13-year-old pug dog be-‘I
longing to W. Harry Harlow, of Ban-J
gor, Me” has been buried on a sunny
slope of Mr. Harlow’ s lawn. The casket,‘
which cost $40, Was covered with broad-
I cloth, trimmed with silver ornaments,
and was lined with white satin. The
floral offerings were many, nearly every
fancier. in the city sending something;
The ancestors of Charley were among
the bluest of England’s blue blooded
pugs. His father and mother were
bought in England by Alderman, after-I
'_ ward Mayor, O‘Brien, of Boston, who
paid $500 for them. Charley was born
, on the Cunard steamer which brought
his parents to Boston, and when he was
" two years old he was presented by
Mayor O’Brien to Alfred Harlow. Upon
the death of his master in 1889 Charley
- wIent to Bangor. He attended all the
baseball games and was in the habit of
barking furiously whenever the rmpiro
gave a decision against the Bangor
nine. He also showed a marked antipa-
thy to the Fall River Club, which was
’, . the near rival of the, Bangor team for
two seasons. He displayed his loyalty
many ways, making numerous friends,
who grieved over his baths—New York
Sun.
cnossmo st‘nos IN THE HOUSE.
Congressmen Butler and Randall Have a
Tilt ()er a Sunday Session.
Away 1back in the 70s, during the
Rightsibill the question of the ad.
gjou'rnmoiit of congress Was under dis-
‘cuisiqn one Saturday afternoon. Ben.
:Butler, that born wit, had stopped over
consultation. Butler favored a Sun-I
day session, while Randall opposed it
vigorously.
“Bad as I am, I have some respect
for God's day, " said the famohs high
tariff champion, “and I don't think it
right to hold a session on the Sab-
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'I'“Oh, pshaw!” responded- Butler:
“doesn’t the Bible say that it is law-
ful to pull your ox or ass out of the
pit on the Sabbath day? You have
seventy-three asses on your side of this
House that I want to get 'out of this
ditch to-mOrrow, and I think I am en-
gaged in a. holy work."
“Don’t do it, Butler,” pleaded Ran-
dall. “I have some respect for you
that I don’t, want to lose. I expect
some day to meet you in a better
world.” I
“But you’ll be there, as you are
here,” retorted the sly Benjamin, quick
as a flash, “a member of the lower
house.”—Lou_isville Courier-Journal.
.“Now that your son is a partner in-
stead of a clerk, Mr. Hardly, does he
help you in your business as much as
formerly?”
“A good deal more.”
“That’ 11 fine. ”
“Yes; he never shows up at the office
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In Warm Weather-
many suffc1ers from wasting diseases,
we lime noticed fnil zapidly. This we
believe to be due to the fact that the
patient finds greater difficulty in taking
such remedies as have been prescribed.
Especially is this true, if cod liver oil
has been administered.
we are pleased to say changes all this,
asit contains no fat to upset the stomach.
It tastes delicious, and we know it con-
tains a sufficient amount of the curative
principles of the cod‘s liver to make it
a wondc1f11l builder up.
Special Vinol representative
EDWARD P. WEED.
Other iemedies may be pleas— _
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Norwalk Chronicler