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LOCAL AND OTHER news.
——All 01 ders for political printing
guaranteed at the GAZETTE office.
Mrs. John L’Hommedieu, of East
Norwalk, has returned from a visit in
New Haven.
Miss Emma B. Smith, of Taylor ave-
nue, has gone to Hampton, Va., to.
teach 1n the institute there
Miss Mamie Connell, who has been
‘visiting in Danbury, returned home
this week.
Frederick I. Jones, of Taylor ave-
nue, has gone to Hartford, to spend a
few days. _
—Order your pasters at the GAZETTE
ofiice.
The State Hospital Commission were
entertained and dined by the select-
men at the Mahackemo to-day.
Frank C. Randle of Winnipauk, en-
tertained Miss Adlard of Cannon, yes-
terday.
Mrs. Daniel L. Millard, Mrs. Grace
Buggy and child are en-route from
Colorado to N orwalk. They will reside
at the Norwalk hotel.
' ——Pasters printed quickly at the
GAZETTE office. .
'Miss 01am Hill, daughter of Con-
gressman H111, has returned home
from a two months’ pleasure trip.
The Bethany Chapter of Trinity
church, w111 hold its regular monthly
business meeting this evening at the
usual time and place.
—Orde1 your pasters at the GAZETTE
office.
Crabbing parties are now all the go;
Good catches are reported. .
“Speeler” Smith and his shot gun
are down the harbor to-day.
——Pasters printed correctly at the
GAZETTE ofiice.
A regular meeting of the Camera
club will be held at the home of D. E.
: Disbrow on West avenue on Friday
evening, October 7th.
Several South Norwalk sports will
attend the athletic entertainment to
be given in Danbury next week Thurs-
day evening.
The funeral of the lat-e George S.
Bartram will be held to-morrow after-
noon, Rev. T. K. Noble officiating.
George Barnum the jeweler left this
morning for Philadelphia where he
has secured a situation.
The soldier boys who have been
home on a furlough returned to camp
last night.
—Get your pasters at the GAZETTE
office
Mrs. W. Hf Pierson and son Howard,
of Union Park, have returned to New
York for the winter.
Perseverance lodge, Daughters of St.
George, is arranging’for a dance.
Miss Louise Rawson will have charge
of the new Kindergarten department
of the East Norwalk school.
Mr. and Mrs. James H. Wilmot of
South Norwalk, are visiting in Provi-
dence.
Wfi‘y 1'11: SIyVIn Blue:
Did it ever strike you to inquire why
the cloudless deptly of sky above us
are so delicately blue? It isn’t that
the gas we call air is in itself.blue.
So far as we know, it is quite trans-
parent and absolutely colourless. No;
the blue comes from reflected light.
Air is never pure; you couldn't live
in it if it were. Countless millions of
tiny particles, chiefly of water, are al-
ways suspended in it, and these arrest
Each parti-
cle has a double reflection—one inter-
nal, the other external—rand so the re-
flected rays suffer the usual result of
what is called “interference,” and show
colour.
You will notice that the sky appears
much bluer if you look straight up
than if you look across towards the
horizon. The reason is that, in the
first instance, you are naturally look-
ing through a much thinner layer of
air than in the second.
If there were no air, and consequent-
': 1y no watery vapour, and nothing to
interfere with the free passage of light,
even at mid-day the sky above would
r ' look perfectly black, and all the stars
1 plainer than they do now at midnight.
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The statement publishs d below con-
firms the claim of Dr.
he. has now discovered an absolute
remedy for Asthma, a disease which
has heretofore baffled the skill of the
most noted physicians.
Mzs. Mary Zachery. Pleasant Hill,
La says: “I have found you1 Asthma
Cure a permanent on re for asthma, for
which I used it 7 yeah ago.
never had the slightest return of the
trOuble since. I have also found your
remedy excellent in Bronchial affec-
tions. Ishall ever have a feeling of
gratitude for the benefits derived from
your Cur’e.
Packages of Schiffmann’s Asthma
. Cure may be obtained at all Dr uggists
at 50c. and $1. 00 per p.1ckage or by
writing to Dr. R. S ‘hiifmann, Box 804,
St. Paul, Minn.
The First People’s Telex. hone-s.
It appears that something like the
telephone is in use among the Catu-
quinaru Indians in the valley of the
Amazon. Each habitation occupied
by the tribe is supplied with a cam-
barysu or telegraph, which enables
them to communicate with each other.
The machine consists of a hollow piece
of hard palm wood filled with sand,
rubber, pieces of wood and hide, and
fixed in a socket of sand, hide. resin,
and rubber. This is struck with a
club‘ of wood coated with rubber and
hide.
There is one of these instruments
hidden in each malocca, and the maloc-
cas are about a mile distant one from
the other, and all on a direct line north
and south. It appears that the in-
struments are en rapport with each
other, and, when struck with a club,
the neighboring ones to the north and
south, if not above a mile distant, re-
spond to or echo the blow. To this
an Indian answers by striking the in-
strument in the malocca with which
it is desired to communicate, which
blow in turn is echoed by the instru-
ment originally struck. Each maloc-
ca has its own series of signals. , So
enclosed is each instrument in the
malocca that, when standing outside
and near the building, it is difficult to
hear a blow, but, nevertheless, it is
heard distinctly in the next malocca, a
mile distant, in the manner indicated.
The Tuchau gave me an example of
signalling. With a prolonged inter-
val, he struck the instrument twice
with the club, which, as I understood,
was to, indicate attention, or that a
conference was desired. This was re-
_sponded to by the same instrument, as
a result of a single blow given by some
one on the next apparatus, nearly a
mile distant. Then commenced a long
conversation, which I could not com-
perhend.
So, long before we had our telephone
connectinghouse with house, these re-
mote Indians of South America had got
what served something of the same
purpose!
To Keep Poultry Fresh.
If poultry has to be hung for a day
or two in the summer, it is advisable
to wash it before putting into the lar-
der in borax and water, and to remove
the liver and gizzard; then dry and
flour it, and place a little powdered
charcoal inside. A fowl which has a
“gamey” flavour is most unpalatable,
and a careful cook will detect such a
defect before cooking the bird. To re,-'
move the taint use' permanganate of
potash and cold water (using sufficient
of the former to colour the water a
deep pink), pouring it through the bird
several times until all trace of un-
pleasant odour is removed; if this
should not be the case after repeated
rinsings the bird is not fit for use.
To keep poultry or any other kind of
stock from “turning” in the hot weath-
er, remove the grease as soon as it is
cold, and let the stock be boiled up
every day; vegetables should not be;
added until the soup is required.
For the Kitchen.
A porcelain sink is the ambition of
every cleanly housekeeper. But it is
the wise suggestion of an '_ expert in
such matters that until she can pro-
vide careful kitchen-girls “to work at
the sink the housekeeper had better
make a choice of a. good galvanized
iron outfit for the use of the priestess
of the dish-washing. A marble-back-
ed sink becomes before very long an
unsightly thing from much spattering
of greasy dish-water. For the same
reason, namely, the want. of care in
use, faucets of burnished brass are bet-
ter than those of nickel-plate, unless
the latter be of very heavy quality .
-—All the Successful Merchants of
this City Advertise in THE GAZETTE.
Annual Sales overt-3,000,000 Boxes '
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' Disordered Liver
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And have the
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, THE PHILIPPINE CHARACTER.
Brave. Inconstant and Chafing IUndeI
Restraint.
After years of study of‘the native
character the writer has come to the
conclusion :that the Philippine‘lslander
is very matter of fact. He is not un-
willing, but unable, conscientiously. to
accept an abstract theory. Christianity
with' its mysteries, has therefore no ef-
fect on his character, but he becomes
accustomed to do that which his fore-
fathers Were coerced to do, namely, to
,_ accept the-outward and visible signs
without being imbued by the inward
and spiritual grace. The mere discip-
line—the fact that, nolens volens, they
must at a given hour on a given day
appear dressed in their best and attend
the church and (in the case of head-
men) go to .the monk’s residence to
“kiss hands"—ahas certainly had the
effect of taming the masses into order—
ly beings.
Yet restraint of any kind is repug-
nant to him. He likes to be as free as
a bird, but he is of a pliant nature, and
easily managed with just treatment.
He, is extremely sensitive to injustice.
If he knows in his own mind that he
has done wrong he will submit to n
thrashing without any thought of tak-
ing revenge. If he were punished out
of mere caprice, or with palpable in—
justice, he would always have _a lurk-
ing desire to give quid pro quo. He
has an innate contempt for cowards,
hence his disdain .pfor Chinese, but Will
follOw a .br‘ave leader anywhere, and
will never be the first to yield to hun-
ger, fatigue or possible chances of
death. He tafies every trouble with
profound resignation; he promises ev-
erything and performs little; his ‘word
is not worth a straw, and he does not
feel that lying is a sin. He is incon-
stan't in the extreme and loyal so 10m:
as it suits him, but as a subject he can
be easily moulded. into any fashion
which a just, honest and merciful gov-.
ernment would wish.——Contemporary
Review. ./ '
SWEARING IN. THE ARMY.
the Battle of Shiloh. .
It is not generally known, but it is
none the less a fact, that profanity is
forbidden by both the army and navy
regulations. Any doldier or sailor who
does not like to be sworn at has a right
to make a complaint, and the com-
manding officer is subject to trial by
court martial. As a. matter of fact,
however, swearing in time of excite-
ment is not uncommon, and it is not
infrequently the only kind of talk that
has any influence. It is, therefore, no-
table that some of the greatest com—
manders in our army and navy have
been distinguished for the moderation
of their language. The 'story of Admi-
ral Farragut’s one oath at Mobile bay,
when he said “Damn the torpedoes! Go
ahead full speed,” is familiar, and now
comes a story about General Grant.
It was told by General John P. HaW-
kins in answer to an inquiry as to
whether General Horace Porter's state-
ment that General Grant never swore
was true. General Hawkins replied: “I
never heard Grant swear but once, and
that was at Shiloh. Coming across a
body of soldiers in retreat, he swung
his horse across the road, and, with
indignation shown in every feature, he
flourished his sword and cried: “:10
back, you damned cowards! Go back!”
It seems possible that this story is true.
It took something in the way of an ex-
hibition of fear to make such men as
Farragut and Grant swear.-P=hiladel-
phia Inquirer.
limv Armour Earned‘fiis Victoria.
A near neighbor of Phil Armour, the
multi—milliopaire, tells the following
story:
:sArmour, as his friends know, goes to
his office every morning at 6.30, long
before any of his office men are at
work. A little boy who knew of this
habit of the rich man, looking one day
from his mother’s Window, saw Mrs
Armour’s Victoria standing before the
door, and turned to his mother to ask:
“Mamma, why haven’t you 2. Victoria
like Mrs. Armour?” '
“I already have four carriages, my
dear, ” she answered, “and I think you!
fathei gives me everything he can af~
ford. ”
“Wouldn’t you like to have a Victo-
ria, too?" he persisted.
“0 yes, certainly,” was the reply. _
“And do you really mean my fathe:
cannot afford to buy you one?”
“I think not, dear.”
“Well, then, ” the boy' flashed out, “I
tell you what to do. You make papu
get up and go to work at half past six,
as1 Mr. Armour does, and you can have
:1 Victoria like Mrs. Armour’s, too."—
Success.
Penny for a Priceless Book.
A workingman purchased for a. penny
an aged looking volume, bearing date
of 1540. The man tried to read it, but
threw up the attempt apparently in
‘ disgust, and 'the volume was relegated
to the cupboard. A friend of his hap-
pened to see the book and took it to
the British Museum authorities, who
promptly made an offer of ninety
pounds—the highest sum the librarian
is allowed to expend without a, special
vote 'of'the trustees. Had the man
known what he was about he would
have stood out for more, as the au-
thorities would have paid almost any
price rather than allow the volume to
slip through their fingers. It was, in
fact, the first book printed by Guten.
berg, and was therefore almost price-
less—London Tit-Bits. ,
’ “Is football .a game?" asked thefor-
eigner.
‘_,‘Dunno” was the reply, “but foot.
,ballexs are. When a man breaks both
his legs and dislocates hisspine and
then won’t go off The nel‘d'unt’il' the
play is over, you bet he’s game. Yes,
slr."—-Pick Me Up.
Grant Was Said to Have Done It Once at. '
'ton.
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”in/AR SECRETARY RETURNS. ,.
Back in Washington from Ills Tour of
Southern Camps.
.Washington, Sept. aft—Secretary Al-
ger arrived in Washington yesterday
morning' from his tour of“ military
camps in the South. He was accom- ,-
panied by Quartermaster General Lud-
ington and Colonel Frank Hecker of
the quartermaster’s department; Sur-
geon General Sternberg and Major Geo.
H. Hopkins, military aide to the secre-
tary.
Secretary Alger had his breakfast at
home and then went to the White
House for a brief visit to the president
on his way to the war department.
The secretary reached his office before
9.30. o’clock and at once became so busy
in Consultations with heads of bureaus
of the department that he'declined to
receive unofficial visitors. His first
business on, reaching the department
was to have a conference lasting more
than an hour with adjutant General
Corbin. Attorney General Griggs was
present during a part of the interview.
Secretary Alger has not announced
whether he will make a formal state-
ment for the public in regard to the
results of his trip, but it is probable
that he will do so.
The quartermaster general and the
surgeon general had nothing to say
about their visit to southern camps,
preferring to leave any public state-
ment to the head of the war depart-
ment.
The secretary .will now take up act-
Ively the preparations for the garrison-
ing of Cuba. and for the safe and com-
fortable quartering of the reserve
troops left in the United States. 'Gen-
eral arrangements were made in the
course of _his trip for the embarkation
of the garrison forces from Charleston
and Savannah.
Major General Fitzhugn Lee, who has
been summoned from Jacksonville, is
expected to arrive in Washington on
Friday next for a consultation with the
wardepartment officials in regard to
his part in thte Cuban occupation.
Surgeon General Sternberg called on
the president at ten o’clock and made
a brief informal report of his observa-
tions in southern army camps.
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Linseed Oil Affairs
St. Louis, Sept. 29.—The report of the
committee of local stockholders of the
National Linseed Oil Company appoin-
ted. to investigate the affairs of the
company, is kept from the public, but
it was freely admitted that the affairs
of the company were found to be in a
much worse condition than even the
most bitter opponents of the present
management expected. . ,
George L. Edwards, president of the
local stockholders organization and
chairman of the committee that inves-
tigated the books, said: _
"The report of the committee is of
such a. nature and the affairs of the
company are in such a condition that
the interests of the stockholders render
it absolutely necessary for me to re-
fuse to make a statement.”
G. Lacey Crawford ,and John H.
Maxson, stockhOlders, admitted that
affairs were worse than had been ex-
pected.
The Oregon Ready for Manila
New York, Sept. 29.—The battleship
Oregon, which, with the Iowa, has
been ordered to Manila, to join Rear“
AdmiralDewey’s fleet, left the Brook-
lyn navy yard early yestetrday, and at
9.12 anchored off Tompkinsville, S. _I.,
w here she will wait for her consort.
The latest orders require that the trip
be made in two instead of four months,
as at first intended, and as a result the
big battleship ’is heavily loaded with
coal and ammunition. Of the former
she has 1,460 tons, and more than 500
tons of powder, it being necessary to
construct temporary magazines for the
reception of the latter.
The Iowa, it is expected, will leave
the yard to-day, when the two war-
ships will start on their long voyage.
The delay is understood to be caused
by delay in securing sufficient ammuni—
tion for the Iowa.
Agoncillo Delays Bis Call.
WashingtOn, Sept. 29.-——The Philip-
pine delegate, Agoncillo, and hissec-
retary and interpreter, Mr. Lopez, took
no steps yesterday toward the execu-
tion of the mission on which they came
to Washington. .
Agoncillo said, through his interpre-~
ter, that he had cabled to the home
government, asking authority to solicit
an interview with the president and
requesting full instructions. He had
received no response thus far and he
said he had nothing to add as to his
personal views, expressed in numer-
ous interviews since he reached this
country.
As to Admiral Dewey’s seizure of a
ship carrying insurgent arms, Agon-
cillo said this was outside of his mis-
sion, and he had no purpose to open ne-
gotiations on it. '
Railway Wreck in Nova‘Scotia
Halifax, N. S., Sept.-29.-—A:-special ex-
cursion trainv on .the way to the Hall-
fax exhibition from Pictou yesterday,
ran into a working train near Steller—
James Sproull, engineer; Michael
O’Brien, engineer; W. G. Henderson,
fireman: John R. McKenzie, fireman,
and William Cameron, Scotch Hill,
Pictou county, 3. passenger, Were kil-
led; John McMillan of Pictou, a. pas-
senger, was injured. '
A Fistic Encounter. .
New York, Sept. 29.—-Jim Corbett and .
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Kid McCoy, the heavyweight pugilists,
came to blows th- the Gilsey house yes-
terday afternoon. Neither man scored
a knockout, but the blows were handed
out at a. lively ratewhile the fight las-
ted. The set-to _was witnessed by a
good sized crowd, and a minute after
it was over the corridors of the hotel
vere jammed.
Majol- Gen. Merritt at Port Said.-
Port Said, Egypt, Sept. 29. —Major
General Wesley Merritt," United States
army, his aides- de-camps, Majors Stro-
ther and Hale and Captain Mott How-
ell, the general’ 5 secretary, passed here
t0- day on board the steamer Arcadia,
on their way to Marseilles and Paris.
Gen. llIerritt’s I{apart in -Washington
, \Vashingto‘n, Sépt. 29.—-General Mer-
mitt’sI report of the battle of. aManila.
has been received at the war depart-
ment and will be made public in a few
days , ,
I g CITY NOTICE
; MEETING
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BOARD [1F REGISTRATION.
NOTICE is h_ereby:given that the
Board of Registration of the City Of
Norwalk will hold a public session at
the City Council Room in the Fair-
field County National Bank Building,
in the City of Norwalk from2 o’clock,
p. m., until 6 o clock p. m. of Wednes-
day, the 28thjday oflSeptember, 1898,
for the purpose of correCting the vot-
ing list of the City of Norwalk, pre-
paratory to the annual city election, to
be held on' the first Monday of October,
1898, by adding thereto” or erasing
therefrom, the names ‘of all persons
whose applications shall have: been fil-
ed with the City Clerk before 6 o’cldck
of the Monday next preceding, of
.. whose legalqualifications ordisqualifica-
tions as voters of the city, any two
members of the board maybe satisfied,
by reasou of personal knowledge, or by
testimony under oath of two registered
voters. ‘ .
Dated, City of N orwalk September
13th,1898.
ALFRED E. AUSTIN, Members of
BERNARD TULLY, the Board of
WINFIELD SCOTT, Registration.
H. W. GREGORY,
Clerk of said Board.
w. - _I-I. HAYWARD a. co
91111111 Attorneys and Solicitors
109 Easl Ilaleol Sinai,
WASHINGTON. D. C
All classes Of claims prosecute:
the Interior Department
Rejected pension claims a specwlty
before
Correspondence solicited.
PLIMII'UTH nocx ICE
STBIGTLI PURE!
Stores and families supplied. Lowest
rates.
,ELLs-a co., I I Nerth Ave.
Norwalk.
lNNEIL GITT MEETING.
NotiCe is hereby given that the. ana-
nual meeting of the City of Norwalk?
will be held in the building occupied-.2
by the .Hope Hose 00., on Water street"
in said City, on Monday, October 3rd, I
1898, at rwh1ch time and place there,
shall be_ chosen by the qualified voters
of said City, from among their number, .
by a plurality} of ballots, a mayor, 11;.)
City Treasurer, a Collector, an Audit-2'-
tor, a City Sherifl", six§Councilmen’,- two“
members of the Board of Registration,
two Inspectors of Elections, one Water
Cummisgidne—rj. and a Treasurer of the.
Water Fund; and that for such pur-..
pose the polls will remain open at said
Md place, from 6 olclock in the
forenoon until 5 o’clock, inthe afternobn .-
Dated at Nerwalk, September 16th,
1898.
H- W. GREGORY,
City Clerk.
CITY- EN‘OTICE
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_ NOTICE is her——eby given that Henry
W. Gregory, City Clerk, ”will receive,
we
up to 6 o’clock, in the afternoon of
Monday, September 26th, all names
which anyxperson shall propose to be
added to or erased f1 om the voting list
of the City'of Norwalk, to be prepared
bythe Board? of Registration of the
City of Norwalk, for the use at the
City Election to beheld on the first
Monday of October, 1898, a Copy of,
which list will, be posted in the post-
office in said City, during the two
weeks preceding such election.
City of Norwalk, Sept. 13th, 1898.
V H. W. GREGORY,
City Clerk, and Clerk of the Board 0
. Registpation._
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