. ’ I ‘ Inna Royal is the highest grade baking powder blown. Actual tests show it goes one- tllird further thanany other brand. - ROYAL BAIONO POWDER 00., NEW YORK. v, "w. . LOCAL AND OTHER NEWS. —Pasters printed quickly at the GAZETTE office. Business is booming at the Wheeler straw hat manufactory. A regular meeting of the city council will be held Monday evening. Our Brothers Lodge, I.0.0.F., will meet Monday night. A number 'of parties are down the harbor after escallops to-day. The funeral of the late Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Persons will be attended at 3 o’clock this afternoon. ' —Order your pasters at the GAZETTE office. The Norwalk Christian Endeavor Union held a meeting at Broad River last night. The front of the Lounsbury, Mathew- son & Co. shoe manufactory is being . repainted. ——-Get your pasters at the GAZETTE ofl‘ice . - Mrs. S. L. Weed is Mrs. Annie Thornton. entertaining The Mayflower H. 8; L.. company of East Norwalk. will hold a fair, which will open Monday evening, October 24. Mrs. J. H, Slocum, of New Haven, is a guest of Miss Ella McLean. Miss Susan Morehouse, of West Main street, has been ill and unable to attend to her studies at the New Haven Normal school. '- ——Pasters printed correctly at the GAZETTE ofiice. Mrs. H. B. Wright and son George who have been visiting their aunt, Mrs. Sylvester B. Lockwood, of Fort Point street, have returned to their home in Morristown. Mrs. Fred Arnold, of Newark, ac- companied by her daughter, Lottie is visiting her sister, Mrs. David Rear- don, of Pine street. Mrs. J. H. Hamilton and son have returned to their home in New Haven, after visiting with Mrs. Sylvester B. Lockwood, of Fort Point street. —Order your pasters at the GAZETTE office The Misses Gregory of Wilton, are guests of Lawrence Cavanagh in South - Norwalk. Mzrs; Barnum Meeker of Westport avenue, will entertain the Willing Workers circle, K. D., of the Method- ist church on Wednesday afternoOn, Oct. 5th. The town tax Collector is very busy to-day receiving the taxes due and collectable. The funeral of the late Henry E. Curtis was held this afternoon. Ebenezer Husted owing to continued ill health, will retire from the firm of Bennett (56 Husted to-day.' Mrs.Daniel L. Millard, and daughter, Mrs. Ramsey C. Bogy and child, arriv- ed at the N orwalk hotel to-day from Colorado, for a sojourn in town. W.'H. Van Sciver, of Newburg, N. Y., father of H. W. Van Sciver, who met with a frightful accident by being run down by the Old Well truck at South Norwalk yesterday, arrived in town last night. ‘ 7 Two Accidents. A Street Railway car ran into a New York grocery store wagon on West avenue yesterday. The driver was Wallace Sherwood who is unable to explain just how the accident hap- pened. The damage done was nominal. The hind wheel of a two horse .hay wagon belonging to a man who was delivering hay at the Miss Baird barn, “dished” on Orchard street last even- ing, and the owner experienced con- siderable trouble in getting the wagon ‘in condition todrag home. : A _ E ‘ 7 Divorced. Fannie Martin has been granted a divorce frdm Peter Martin on the grounds of intemperance. The parties belong‘in'South Norwalk. , ...Advertise 1n the GAZETTE.‘ CAPTAIN ALLYN CAPRON, FIRST ARTILLERY, U. S A. FROM HARPER’S WEEKLY. AFTER A DRAWING BY FREDERIC REMINGTON. Reproduced from Harper‘s Weekly. By_Permissiou. Copyright, 1898, by Harper 6.; Brothers. . ,1 \ REPORTS ACCEPTED. [CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1.] August lst, all appear in this report. Merrill: “If all of the bills were figured that are outstanding there might be 81,500 more, but they are impossible to get at the present time.” J. A. Gray: “What is that $1,500, is it on some particular work ‘9” Mr. Merrill explained this question by stating that the amount included a miscellaneous lot of bills. The question on acceptance of the report was called far and it was voted to accept the same. Before a motion to adjourn could be put Mr; Merrill was asked what the selectmen had done in the matter of securing the proposed new hospital for insane for Norwalk. Mr. Merrill stated that the com- missioners had promised to be in town and examine proposed sites this week, but had failed to appear. They would probably be here next week. He said the town had the Option of three eligible sites, either of which might meet the approbation of the commission and that all that then remained for the town to do wrs to purchase. the same. The meeting them adjourned. —-————<o.o>————- Lost or Stolen. A lad named Willie Harris employed by the Postal Telegraph Messenger service was placed under arrest yes- terday. on the charge of having appro- priated a registered letter containing $10 and addressed to Mrs. John Wehle of South N orwalk. - The boy claimed that he had lost the letter, after having visited the home of Mrs. Whele and found no one at home. The fact, however, that he signed the name of Mrs. Wehle to the delivery book, caused his story of the loss to be doubted. As the mother of the boy remunerated Mrs. Wehle, the latter kindly refused to prosecute, and the lad was discharged from custody as well as from his position with the Telegraph company. V Noisily Hungry. The loud shouts of a man caused a ripple of excitement near the Water street police station yesterday after- noon. They were found to emanate from the mouth of Charles Gregory who was under arrest on the charge of intoxication. Special officer Hunt ap- peased the noise by furnishing the pris- oner with ahearty meal of victuals. This morning the eater was fined $10 in the Town Court and paroled until Tuesdayto collect the line and turn the same over to the proper authori- ties. Mrs. Tierney’s Funeral. _ The funeral of Mrs. Sarah Tierney . wife of Patrick Tierney, was attended at the Cathedral in Providence this morning. A pontifical high mass was ‘celebrated by Bishop Tierney and several priests. The deceased was a sister-in-law of the celebrant of the mass and quite well known in N orwalk. Her husband and four children survive 'her. -—Advertise in THE GAZETTE. .3 y ' BROKE HIS ARM. Fell From 'a Barrel in one of Noah Wood’s Wagons. Chief Bradley was notified this morn- ing that there was a man on Cannon street in a dying condition. He repaired to the scene and found that Peter McNerney an employee of Noah Wood had fallen from a barrel on which he had been seated, and had sus- tained severe injuries, if not also a fractured arm. The man was taken to his home on Ward street, and Dr. S. H. Huntington summoned. ' ‘vr AMUSEMENTS. The Octoroons. The coming of John W. Isham’s Octoroons in the new musical farce, “A Tenderloin Coon,” to Hoyt’s The- atre, this afternoon and evening, will reveal an entirely new entertainment prepared upOn original lines and filled to the brim with attractive features and novel ideas. The music of the piece is of the catchy quality suited to the popular taste. The songs and special features are up-to-date and the comedy is brightly written. Matinee prices, 10 and 25 cents; evening, 25, 35, 50. -————-——<e.e>—-——- New Temporary lluarters. ' The Hope hose carriage was taken to Dann’s stables last evening to make room for the placing of the booths for lthe city election on Monday next. in equal readiness as in the past to answer an alarm of fire. ————<o.-o>———— —-Live Merchants keep their names before the Public. An Advertisement in THE GAZETTE will be read. ‘ Funeral of Edgar Bloomer. The funeral of Edgar Bloomer, Sr., of Wilton, who died on Thursday of heart failure, aged 84 years, will be held from the Congregational church ..at Wilton Sunday at 3 o’clock p.m., Rev. W. D. Hart officiating. The de- ceased was the father of Edgar Bloom- er of this city. New York Announcement. "Our Amer-loin Homes and How to Furnish Them." Homer’s Furniture The Best in the Market. All who desire to buy reliable Fur- niture, whether in medium or finest grades, will find our stdck the most ad- vantageous to select from for these reasons: It re resents the produc- tions of the bes makers onl , and is the largest and most varied In Amer- 1ca,_ while our prices are the lowest at which goods of similar quality can possibly be sold for. ' The completeness of our assortments can , best be understood from the fact that we exhibit more than five hundred difi‘erenl Bed- ' room Sets in every variety of wood, over 70 patterns of Brass Bedsteads. as well as end- less lines of Parlor. Drawing Room, Library , and Dining Room Furniture of the most , artistic styles, and ranging from the modest and mexpensnve to the most elaborately I carved and inlaid. Entire floors devoted to Venetian Carved The boys who man it will, however, be ' Furniture and other’Forelgn' Productions from Paris. London and Vienna. Sand for our Illustrated Book. Helpful to all who con'elnplnts furnishing in whole or in part. .. RJ. Homer &.Co.~, l Furniture bunkers and Importers, l 61-65 VV. 23d St.. New YOI'l: a = ican party. , view at Camp Rojas, prbvince of'Santa vv 'ROSARIESNOTFOR CAT HOLICS ONLY Without the Cross They Are Used by the Followers of Buddha. The prevailing idea in regard to a rosary is that it belongs solely to the followers ofihe Catholic religion. But take away the cross that is hanging to the beads and we find that one must turn to the dim, mysterious East for the origin of the rosary, for it is among the temples of India, China and Japan that the first sign of the prac- tice is to be found. Ancient pictures of the Hindoo gods depict them with Chaplets of beads in their hands, and it is believed that this method of keep- ing count of their many prayers was in use among the Hindoos before the era of Buddha, or .at least B. C. 500. . The uSe of the rosary seems espe: cially suited to an Eastern clime and to the reposeof an Oriental mind. The Buddhists are fond of using very smooth beads of glass, polished jade or coral, and it has been thought that the smooth, cool beads gliding through their fingers as they murmur the holy name for thousands of times help them to arrive at that state of holy abstrac- tion from earthly things which is so much prized among the followers of Buddha. , .The favorite Japanese .rosaries- are made of polished wood, crystal, onyx and chased silver, and the Japanese Buddhists. repeat in endless devotion “Numa Amida Butzu” (Save us, Bud- dha), while their Chinese brothers have the blessed name “O-Mi-to-fu” forever on their lips. A rosary of very great size was recently brought from a temple in Kloto, Japan. The largest head is about six inches in diameter. and the rosary entire is about twenty-four feet long. The huge beads are of dark brown polished wood. They are hollow and have each a fig- ure of a god inside the little shrine, which can be seen through a lattice of brass work..—Cincinnati Enquirer. .— Tne Hindu Child Wire, A Hindu child-wife divides her year In two intervals, one of which she spends with her parents, this being :1 Sort of vacation time, and the other the spends at the house of her hus- band’s parents, this being the time of daily downright drudgery. Vil- lage girls in Bengal blacken their teeth with mishi, a coloring powder. The lips are black also, and this is supposed to make them .cxcedingly charming. Writing letters, especially to her husband, is thought to be a fearful] lmmodesty in a Hindu girl; and she has no chance of improving her mind; by intelligent conversation with any; one. She must write to her husband: though she has to do lit by stealth in the night, The moon is her lampta stick out of the domestic broom her pen, the juice of the puin berry her ink, and probably the dried leaf of the banana her paper. A Hindu girl must always keep the inner apart- ment of the house. She is only let out when she goes to draw water for the household either from the pond or the well or the river. Hence the wa- terside is a great feminine resort, :1 sort of women’s club, where there is much gossiping and plenty of stolen leisure.——Christlan Register. . lilé‘urgeulsto Disband. Havana, Oct. 1.—The secretary of the Spanish military commission has de- livered several documents to the Am— erican commission at the Trocha hotel, the present headquarters of the Amer- General Maximo Gomez, in an inter- Clara,,is quoted as saying that the in- surgentforces will disband and apply themselves to farm labor as soon as the Spanish troops have evacuated the island; in.» —..ar o BOILING WATER WITHOUT FIRE. It Can Be Done by Stirring With a Paddle For Five flours. It is possible to make a pail of water boil without putting it on'the fire and without applying external heat to it in any way. In fact, you can make a pail of water "boil by. simply stirring it with a wooden paddle. The feat was recently performed in the physical laboratory of Johns Hopkins Univer- sity in Baltimore, Md., and any one may do it with a little trouble and per- severance. All you have to do is to place your water in a pail—it may be Ice water if necessary—and stir it with a wooden paddle. If you keep at it long enough it will certainly boil. Five hours of constant and rapid stirring are sufficient to perform the feat suc~ cessfully. The water will, after a time, grow warm, and then it will grow hot—so hot, in fact, that you can» not hold your hand in it, and finally it will boil. Professor Ames . of Johns Hopkins annually illustrates some of the phenomena of heat by having one of his students perform the trick in front of his class. It is a tiresome job, but it is perfectly feasible. The .point which Professor Ames wishes to illustrate is what is known as the mechanical equivalent of heat. It requires just so many pounds of work to develop a given quantity of heat. By turning the paddle in the water at a regular speed it is possible to find out just how much work is re- quired to raise the temperature of the water one degree. The best measure ment so far made, and, in fact, the one which is accepted as the standard of the world, is that which was measured in Johns Hopkins College. Heat is developed in almost any substance which is subjected to~con- tinuous or very violent action. It is an old trick for a blacksmith to forge vithout a fire. Long continued and violent hammering on two pieces of wire will beat them to such an extent that they can be welded together. A lead bullet, if shot directly at a stone wall, will develop heat enough by the contact to melt and fall to the ground a molten mass. There are many other occasions wherein this mechanical de- velopment of heat becomes manifest. -—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. Cits l7) Get a New Name. New York, Oct. 1.—So many proteots against the use of the name and em- » blem of the Cits’ Union have poured in on the men who are trying to put an independent state ticket in the field this fall that they have decided to adopt a. new name and emblem. In a letter sent yesterday afternoon to the executive committee of the un- ion, the Cits announce that they will proceed ,soon to call themselves the Citizens’ State party, and will employ ’ a beehive for their emblem. "W'— Etamine' waists in 'p‘ale co'lbrs have the yoke finished with a. ruching of etamine, edged on both sides by. a nar- row ribbon ruflle of the same color. This ruche is finished on either side of the waist by a. large rosette composed of narrow ribbon set on in clover pat- tern. The centre of the rosette is a circle of the same ribbon ruching fill- ed in with lattice checking. Included in an extensive estate at Muswell—hill, England, to be let for building purposes is a. cottage known as _“Lalla Rookh,” where Thomas Moore, the poet, lived, and erte at least part of the poem of that name, which was published in 1817. ' ' "Clerk: “I believe you said, sir, that after the first of the month you would raise my salary.” ;Employer: “You are mistaken. 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Notice is hereby given that the an? nual meeting of the City ofjnNorwalk will be held in thel building occupied. by the Hope HoseECo., on’gWater street in said City, on Monday, October 3rd,. 1898, at which time Sand place there shall be chosen by thefiqualified voters. of said City, from among their number, by a plurality of ballots, af-mayor, a- City Treasurer, a Collector, an Audi- tor, a City Sheriff, sixlCouncilmen, two» members of the Board ofiRegistration, two Inspectors of Elections, one Water Commissioner, and a Treasurer eithe- Water Fund; and that for} such pur' pose the polls will remain open at said: time and place, from16 O’clock in the forenoon until 5 o’clOck,inthe afternoon. Dated at Norwalk, September 16th,... 1898. H. W. GREGORY, City Clerk“. W. H. HAYWARD & CO. Putin Attorneys lllllI Solicitor. 109 East capllol Street... WASHINGTON. D. c. 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