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[$1430 Warranted Solid Gold. _ Beautiful Chasecl Holder. $1.001 7 LiiiCOLnLrVOUNTAIVN PfNV " V ' " ' . F " :11, r' I Q r; 2 7 You may think it canhot possess merit or durability, the price is so o'w;bu_1 the “Lincoln” 13 a $2. 50 en reduCed to $1 00. It is durable, always ready to “go" , but never drips, the ink owing steadily and uniformly. They are in use in this office, giving the best of satisfaction, and they are in use in the he s, insuranc. and business offices and among all classes of users of pens in Norwalk and vicinity Orders are received from all parts of the country. Samples to be seen and Orders received at. the GAZETTE 010101019. V; "' """ DIAMONDS IN AMERICA.‘ _Irnwm...c_11111 _ -‘ . was placed at the rear,. which hustled *‘fl 1 They An- 01112 Better Here Than in Europe Owing to a. special Process. In no country are there more dia- monds to be found than in the United States, according to the population. It. is estimated by a. leading New York diamond dealer that there are upward of $500, 000, 000 worth of diamonds in this country. Moreover, this vast amount is increasing every'year. Until quite recently diamonds were rarely cut in this country; but Amer- ican inventors have developed a. process perior to that done abroad. The loss in weight through cutting is sometimes fully one- -half, but the value is increased probably more than two-I fold. The Dutch city of Amsterdam has been the great diamond-cutting centre of the world from time immemo- ' rial, and up to a' few years ago over 12,- , 000 people in that place were directly or indirectly dependent upon this trade. . But it was not reasonable to suppose that Amsterdam should continue to hold a _monopoly_ of diamond cutting. As one of the greatest importing cities of the world, New York gradually of- fered 1nducements__to diamond cutters and an industry has been gradually built up there'that is now very flour- ishing and prefitable. In 1859 Henry D. Morse, of Boston, Mass, invented a ma- chine for cutting and polishing dia- monds, and since then improvements have been made upon it that are very important. Theforeigners continue to polish their stones by hand, but in this country machinery is largely used. A famous gem expert places the total value of all fine diamonds in the world at over’31;ooo,ooo,ooo, of which $350,000,- 000 worth are in the hands of dealers, carried as stock. All the other diamonds are in the hands of private individuals, and the question naturally arises, Who owns them? This is not So easily an- swered except in the case or large and world- famous gem-s. —Godey' s Maga- ‘ zine. BULL-FIGHTERS NEXT TO. ROYALTY. One of the Most Furious Mails 870.000 _ Lost Your. V A nation whose great ,sport is bull- fighting, must be said to linger still in ’remote and cruel times. And Spain is such a. nation. Notwithstanding the great drain of the Ouban war, her peo- ple find plenty of means to support this amusement. Nobody in the nation commands such an income from his daily effort as the popular bull- -fighter. Mazzantinl, one of the most famous of these,’ earned 396,000 pesetas last year, it is said, “or over $79,000. He participa- ted 11106 fights and 1.111.111 163 buns: An- other popular torrero, Reverte, took part in 71 fights during the year, killed 160 bulls and earned 276, 000 pesetas, or 855, 200 These men stand next to roy- alty itself in the popular mind. No great singer, actor or orator apprdaches them. They amusa the people with spectacles of blood. That the sensibiities of such a people should be‘dulled to human as well as brute suffering can hardly be question- ed. ”The hull" fight, like-the 'gladiatorial fight, cultivates the brutal instincts, depreciates the value of human life, and makes men comparatively cruel and insenslble to the misery of others. We may thus turn to contemplate the atrocious policy of extermination by slow starvation adopted, by the Spanish Government in Cuba tirider the guise of a war measure witliVlttle wonder. It has been made tolerable to the nation. through the long subjection of the peo- pie to the hardening influences of bull fighting. such a civilization belongs far in the past and must crumble away. ~Springfield Republican. ml? ’2 “ if. j A Moravian Cemetery. “There is a cemetery in Winston-Sa- lem, North Carolina, which wins out according to my experience," saidVva prominent tobacco dealer to 8. Wash- ington Star reporter. “I spent a Sun- day there not along ago and was won- derfully entertained and interested. It is the burial place of the Moravians, a communistic religious organization, which exists there in very large num- bers. The Moravialns are a very desir-- able kind of people. They are strict in their religious views, it is true, but they are a determined, untiring and prosperous people. They all work and they owe 1-0 one a penny. In their ceme- tery, as in their life, they have a place for everything and everything in its place. At one end of the cemetery mar- ried men are buried and the opposite side married women. At the other end unmarried women, and on the opposite side the unmarried men are buried. Each grave has a stone, but it contains nothing but the bare announcement‘of the name of the deceased, no date of death or age of the deceased being given in any case. Children are placed respectively on the male and female sides of the cemetery, but there is no family grouping." V Novel Railway Traveling. Passengers to. Bulawayo _by the new railway experience somewhat of a nov- elty in‘, crossing the Shashi River. A correspondent writes that when he wished to go over there were three or four feet of water in the river, and con- sequently the engines could not cross, as the water would have extinguished the fires. The method adepted was to make a train equal in length to the width of the river, and then an engine the- train across the river, so that it ex- tended 111511111 width. Another engine— or more literally speaking—a brace of engines—was waiting. on the far side, and these were coupled to the train and draggedit out. It was _a new way of fordlng a river by the rail. The bridge at the Shashi had been completely washed away, and at one time the wa- ter waseight feet over‘the old bridge—— for diamond 'cutting‘which is vastly su- i Sula“ ayo Chronicle. UP-TO-DATE msolptmme. ‘ How Mothers Can Train Their Children by Hyunotic Suggestion. Chicago mothers are pursuing an up- to-date way of training their children. It is by suggestion. This at first brings to mind all the terrors of hypnotism. Educators have been startled at this apparent applica- 1 tion of a species of the black art b) mothers to their babes in the cradle. IBut a. kindly matron who has tried it insists that it is nothing of the sort. She declares that in suggestion not the’faintest degree of hypnosis is nec- essary. The force employed is merely the action of one mind, alert and act- ive. upon another mind, rendered for the time being quiescent, either by will power or during ‘a sleep, which ' may be either natural or induced. For all purposes of child‘tralning the natu- ral sleep usually proves'the best, in addition to being the simplest and eas- lest _to obtain. The mother, therefore. who Wishes to influence her child for good by means of suggestion, merely talks to the little one during sleep precisely as she would were the child. awake, having first, however, pavedv'the way to the childish consciousness by' gently and lovingly mentioning Vher'pur‘pose in the day Vime. VV " ‘ , ‘ . “W'hen you are sound asleep to- night,” is the manner in which one very successful" Chicago 'mother suggester Commences operbiions,‘ holding her child in her arms, “I am coming to talk to you about the nieé‘thing’s papa and I want you to do;-mainma-'w111 help you to do them in that "way. So you must be ready to listen to me even though you are asleep, when I begin to talk to you. ” To the mind of the child, anything “mamma” does is natural and right, so she accepts the nightly'talk for what it really is, a. natural working out of her parents' affection for her, and is not only ready but anxious to listen. That she actually does listen, Vwith mental if not physical ears, is proved by her subsequent conduct. And the mother, by carefully alluding to the subject of the nightly admonitions only when an especially pleasant feeling ex- ists between h‘erSelf and the child, in- sures pleasant associations for and a ready acceptance of them on the part of the baby. “Tell me something nice when you talk to me to- night, mamma,” is a frequent remark of the delighted little dne. - 2~ .. TThe mother who w'iSheS' to make a similar experiment should, just before retiringfor the night, and When herself in a calm and peaceful frame of mind, take'up‘ her-position by the’bedslde of the” Child, and, gently taking the-”little hands into her own—at least if the child seems restless under the sound of her softly modulated voice, or until the ex- periment has become an assured one— quletly talk to the little one precisely as she would were the child awake.— New York World. SPINSTERS IN BERMUDA. Their Large Number Due to Stringent Property Laws. _ Spinsters are said to be more numer- ous in the Bermuda islands in propor- tion to the population than in almost any other locality. This spinsterhood is due to the stringent property laws. The Semi-tropical climate of the islands and their isolation have made of the inhabitants of English stock a quiet, al— . most sluggish folk, of a simplicity nearly Arcadian. The _women especial— ly, many of whom live verynarrow lives, never leaving these islands,'are remarkable for their old- fashioned hos- pitallty and a natural ease of manner which seems to arise from an entire faith in those with whom they come in contact. In Bermuda, as in England, property, especially real estate, remains in the same families for long periods, and some of the descendants of the first settlers still posssess lands'which nevet have passed out of their families. N-o alien can acquire a title to land in Ber- muda, either by purchase or inheri- tance. This is chiefly a precautionary measure against the Portuguese, who flock to t-he‘coumtry and go in largely for onion growing. But the law pro— vi-des that if a woman marries a for- eigner Vshe shall not only lose her landed property, but shall also become incapa- ble of inheriting any. This law is nat- urally not popular with the ladies, who see their brothers mate with Americans and other aliens, and would fain have the same liberty. Occasionally Ber- mudian girls renounce their birthrights for love's sake, but as a rule the charms of peniless maidens are not sufficient for young men to desire them for wives, and thus many girls are doomed to single blessedness in Bermuda simply by the law 013 the land—Philadelphia Ledger. V Harvesting on ice. Farmers who live in the vicinity of Muskego Lake, in Southeastern Wis- consin, derive a profitable income from the lake each winter by harvesting hay on the ice. The shallowness of the water in the lake bed causes the grass growing on the bottom to project con- slderably above the surface, and wdhen the ice forms the hay can be cut with great ease, though it cannot be gotten at the rest of the year, on account of the boggy nature of the lake bottom. —Philadelphia Ledger. An Open Secret. Jack (tenderly to the little brother of his adored one)—Would you like to know a secret, Tommy? Tommy—Should think 1 ‘wouId. Jack—W'ell, I'm in love with your sister. Tommy—eon, that's no secret. The family had talked about it every day since Aunt Emma promised Nell she’d bring about :an introduction.-—-Tit-Bits. ‘ V. V n , ., ,9" Snoweo UNDER AT THE POLLS. ' - 0n Account of Voting for 840,000 to Build the First Telegraph Line. V 13.1 Gatling, the gun man, is a rela- tive of Gen. Lew Wallace. and tells the “David Wallace was .a. member of Congress from an Indiana district when S. E.~B. Morse asked-the government to 'give- hlm $40,000 for» the purpose of Baltimore to Washington. Wallace was a member of the committee to which the bill providing for the approprla-' tion was referred, and it happened,- eration, that he was- absent. The vote lace was sent for. “ He'V voted to give the inventor the $40, 000, and accordingly the bill went through. ‘ "This happened along toward the end of Wallace's term, and when he went home ‘to strive for re-election he found that'the news cOncerning his action on the Morse telegraph appropriation bill had preceded him. A man named Wm. Brown, who afterward became promi- nent in Congress, had been nominated by the democrats and he was conduct‘ ing a vigorous campaign. “In those days joint stumping tours were customary, and the two candi- dates went from place toplace through the district, asking. for the votes of the people. Brown's platform consisted of only one plank; ~That was the crimi- nal record of- his apponent. “He would get up before a. crowd of voters and ask them if they had heard how Wallace had voted to give $40,000 of the public’s. money to a man who proposed to transmit messages by means of a wire between Baltimore and Washington. The ridiculousness of such a. thing was so apparent that Wal< lace’s action could not be confldered as a mere mistake. It was clearly an outrage upon the people—a. deliberate swindle. “ ‘You may not believe,’ Brown was in the habit of concluding, ‘that any man with a. spark of common sense would vote away the public funds for the furtherance of such a. chimerical scheme, but the gentleman is here be- fore you. Ask him if I have told the truth or not, and let him explain his action if he can.’ “Wallace, of course, admited that he had voted away the money, and he tried to explain what Morse intended to do, butlt was all in vain. His con- 'stltuents ‘made up -their'minds that he was either a fool or something worse, and he was, therefore, snowed under at the polls. “It is gratifying to know that Wal- lace lived to see the telegraph estab- lished as an important factor in'civ- ilization, but I suppose there are poo- pe in that district who still think. he was a fool and that he deserved de- feat."———Clevela'nd - Leader. Warned 'Gonld‘or the- Cost.» . Paul Goregnow clerk at the Audi- torium Annex, was room clerk at the Grand Pacific for several years. . He tells a story in connection with ‘Jay Gould's first visit to Chicago. Mr. Gould had registered at the Grand Pa- cific, and was standing in the lobby with his hands in his coat pockets, looking like a countryman in town." The little‘millionaire approached J. P. Vidal, who was clerk at‘ the house, and mod‘estly’asked him what would be the best way for him to go to Lin- coln Park.- Vidal, not knowing who Gould was, gave him' the necessaryin- struction as to street cars, etc. Gould heard him through and then said: “But could I not go "in a carriage?" -' “Yes, you can; but it is a little ex- pensive,” said Vidal.- "Well, as this is-my first visit, I think I will try to' stand the expense. ” “All charge the carriage?" asked the clerk. swer. Vidal almost fell to the floor, Times- Herald. " . . 1 - ”an . No Sin to Kill I Tax-Gatherer. Ingthe new volume called “Social Hours With Celebrities,” by the late Mrs. W. Pitt Byrne, republished in England, is a. story' told by Cardinal Wiseman, who had a great fund of Irish anecdotes. 'A rough Irish lad en tered the Confessional of a priest am hinted at sanguineary revelations “What, murder is itVye mane?" “In dade, an' it is, father, and a. many 01 them. What, father, now, if it migh1 bea matter of six or eight?" He re counted a ‘ grewsome list. “I don': think there were any more," he said doubtfully as 'he clOsed. "‘Now, whai! were all these people?” sternly demand- ed the ronfessor. “Well, father, they were jist tax- githerers.’ “Tax-gither- ers is it, ye Vsay?" exclaimed the priest; “now why didn't ye tell that at first? There was no need taking up me time; ye don’t come here to gossip; ye’come here to confess yer sins." How Australia Regards America. The mode of sending the message of condolence to the President of the United States regarding the Maine dis- aster was discussed by theVAustralian Premiers now in Melbourne before it was despatched. One or two of the Prime Ministers held that it should be sent through one‘ of the Governors and the Secretary for the Colonies, but Mr. lReid brushed such arguments aside. The people of the United States, he contended, were not “foreigners" in the isense that those of France or Russia were, but our kith and kin; so he de- icided to send the message direct to President McKinley. —-Melb0urne Her- aid. Idiots and Idiots. “The idiot who blows down the muz- I sic of a gun to see if it is loaded," re- marked the observer of men and :things, “is not to be confounded with i the idiot who shouts first and investi- gates afterward.”—-Detrolt Journal. following story about the latter’ 5 father. ‘ when the matter came up for consid-' in committee was a tie,_and so Wal-i right, but to whom shall I: “To Jay Gould. " came the quiet an-‘ but Gould got the carriage. -‘-Chic'a'goi , the ice-cream freezer. . of black beading, HOUSE AND HOME. A new function has arisen for the l lady's maid. In addition to her list of virtues—her capacity for hairdressing and her immunity against sea-sickness —she is required in many instances to rldea bicycle. For the "young lady" skimming among the highways and hedges requires a bicycling chaperone, _ . , and thi rained bulldmg the first telegraph line from § 8 want is met. by a. maid t in the requirements of the wheel. The luxurious cyclist, furnished with a biking maid, no longer heads the col- lapse of her tyre, for to the wheel-maid be101188 the labor of the bellows and lthe blowing thereof ; At the more important house-fur- nishing shops, or at the furriers', can behad combs 'which are useful at this time of year in going over expensive furs, to be sure that all moth eggs are out of them. No amount'ofpreven— tives Will avail if thefurs carry..‘with them to their cedar chests or tar~pdporr lined‘boxes the embryo of coming ’ moths. It is a simple matter tozkeep the furs free if they start free, 111th any insect-proof box or bag: outlining for the pur'pcse. V s. A new use has been found for the sunflower. The sticky substance which exudes from it has been made into-a covering for bicycle,tires. .The homely sunflower is rapidly coming .to,tho front “as ‘a useful article. cults-seed! make excellent food for cattleyits oil is equal to the best linseed oilyan’d its stalks are a better heat-producing product than coal. _— The best way to clean pain-ted walls is to use a large soft sponge. Those known as “coachmen’s sponges” can be had at a very low price. The]! should be wrung out of warm water in. which a little soda has been dissolved, and the walls wiped downward, going over a small space at a time, before it is wiped dry again with clean house- cloths. Care should be taken to change the water often; as wiping swell: with dirty water leaves streaks. The popular apple salad has changed. now that the apple season is over, to pine apple salad used, like is precurs’br, with Chopped celery. :The mayonnaise for either of these salads is preferably made with-cream- rather than oil, al- though a very little oilmay be used to start the egg in its'creaml-ngv process. A few salted nuts—almonds,.pesnuts, or walnuts—sprinkled over the top add an excellent flavor to the ;saiad.-- . _— A woman who has taken an old-V fashioned farm-house for the summer finds-some ofeits wall decorations in~ tolerable. To relieve their hideous- ness through her occupancy of the place, and yet save thevexpense of ,per- manent redecoration, she has provided herself with large-- rolls;.- of veheme- cloth,- and has filled the first flaws of her stay in her summer home by coy” ering the walls from ceiling to base- board with this material laid on: in pleats. ,-,v,,...,..1 1 .1 'uml'o " There are seen again at the 5'11. tionery counters various vagaries of the paper-makers' art, which shop- keepers at least are trying: to make fashionable. A brilliant red of the conspicuous shade known as cerise and the popular burnt orange are two cola ors", a deep shade of brown being another manifestation in writing-pa- per. While there ls a certain sale for these bizarre "novelties, ’it is still 2‘ the smooth, "heavy, cream: White or deli- cately tinted shades'that women of re. finemeut use. ”...; 2, 48$ .W. .1 Apropos of cyclists, a well-known Chinese gentleman in Shanghai has given his eleyen-year~old daughter a Bleycle,a11d she has the distinction of being the first real Chinese girl to ride the wheel. This little girl, :whose feet were originally bound, is to receive a medal from the Taotai of Shanghai for her bravery in breaking the ice for her fellow-country women. What 'a revo- lution has been brought in this girl’s life—from tottering on painful and de‘ formed ‘fe’et‘to flying about on a‘ cycle! She was born in the nick-of-time. ‘4‘ In using lemons, tomatoes, or oranges as shells for the serving of jellies, salads, or fish mayonnaise, they should be thoroughly chilled. This is best accomplished by putting them in Pack ice and salt around the can and leave it there for an hour before using. Taffeta waists, covered with heavy cream and black net, either put on as applique or in accordion pleats, are much worn this section. Silk' waists this season are keeping the designers busy, and the result of their labor is seen on all sides. Among the pretty conceits are those with many tucks and finished irlth a short‘skirt. which shoves a. little below the'belt. Orris root, which is used in so", many tooth powders, is the root of a certain species of iris which grows in 'south- ern Europe. The yellow iris is used in medicine also, and it was this flower which is supposed to have suggested the heraldic device of the fleur—de-lys. Caps for aged women are more elab- orate than ever. A dainty one is of black Chantilly lace, accordion-pleated. with a lavender bow on top; From the back are two streamers formed of rows having a lavendar ribbon run through them. and edged with’ a narrow lace. - , A thite chip flare, with three long ostrich plumes of the same color, one standing in the centre and the other. two falling gracefully on the brim, forms a. pretty hat for young women. —h A jelly sauce that is used for meat: or some requires , that the. Jelly. should be melted to the liquid state. ands tablespooqu of wine added just as it is sent eround.
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