‘4 , Hett-y Green. the Ron! is‘tlue highest grade bailing-powder known. Actual tests show it goes one- third further than any other brand. Absolutely Pure ROYAL BAKING POWDER 00., NEW YORK. HUMAN HAIR HARVEST. Regular Crop is Grown To Supply Switch" _ . and Wigs. " . If the tresses you wear did not grow on your head they probably are im- ported. The United States buys more than $2,000,000 worth of hair carol] year, much of which is used in the manufacture of wigs and switches 111 supplement the cranial hirsute adorn- ment of those whose locks are scanty. The popular idea is that the materi- al for switches is supplied by poor girls who, to raise a mortgage or pay the rent or something of the sent, do ail the girls in, story books, and go to a hairdresser and sacrifice their magnifi- cent “crowning glories” for their fam- ily. It is true that some hair, is ob- tained in this way, but the supply ,3! too inconstant to be depended upon. There is a regular «hair harvest, just as regular as the wheat crop. In fact, it is more to be depended upon, as drought does not affect it. Most of this hair comes from Switzerland, Ge“, many and the French provinces, There is a human hair market in the lower Pyrenees held every 'Friday. Scores of hair traders walk up and dowu the village streets, their shears dangling from their belts, and ex- amine the braids which the peasant girl‘s let down for their inspection. If a bargain is struck the hair is cut and the money paid on the spot. ~ ‘These girls have fine hair and can raise more than one crop. A woman’s than may grow to the length of six ,. et. A single hair will hear up a Weight of four ounces without break- in , but the hair thus heavily tried ‘ ust be dark brown, for blonde hair .' , ll break under a strain of. two and a half ounces. 3— The (hair that is cut is the “ best. Dealers can. easily tell ‘whether the locks offered them have been cut off or combed out. wThey‘do this by rub- bing the hairs through their fingers. If the hair has been cut from the head and has not been misplaced it remains in the original position. If it has (been pulled or combed out and put together regardless of the direction in which it grew, one portion will slip to the right and another. to the left. It does this because the jagged edges catch upon each either. and .pull in opposite direc- tiona—Chicago Times-Herald. ENCHANTED GROVE OF BEES. Peculiar-Hy of Two Trees, the Cause Of Which Cannot Be Explained. On the site of an old Shawnee vil- lage is a spot which seems to have been the thickest settled pant of the town, is a- grove of black oak trees. In this grove are two very large post oak trees, one in the south and one in the north end of the grove. In the grove can be heard most any day the buzzing ‘of a swarm of bees so plainly that the noise has fooled many old bee hunters, but all their search has never revealed a single bee. Now comes the most peculiar part of this' most peculiar tale. The large postoak tree standing at the north end of the grove is’ the curiosity of the bunch, for not long ago a young man hearing of the bees went to the spot and proceeded to look caiefully up each tree in the grovei’tontil he came to the north tree. He was with- in .two feet of this tree, loking up, when, he heard a noisejust like a carpenter at work nailing on boards, and the noise seemed to come from the tree. He went around it several times, trying to locate the hammering; but it still seemed to come from the tree. The hammering continued until he happened to touch the tree wit-h his hand, when it suddenly stopped. The man thén went away amazed. A day or so afterward this man had occasion again to pass that way. He slipped up to the tree and listened for the hammering, and sure enough, it was as plain as ever. He touched the free with the end of his finger, and as before the noise stopped at once. This man and several others: have tried touching the tree several times since, with the same result. They- say that the humming of bee: and the curious hammering can be he'ard any day, but no one has been able to explain the mystéries of this . enchanted grove—Galveston News. Richer Than Hétty V Green. Richard King of Tex-as is prohably the richest woman in the United States, not excepting Mrs. Her wealth is partly inherited from her father, a pioneer Presbyterian clergyman, the first who ever went, staff and Bible in hand, to preach the gospel to the. Indians and mixed races that peopled the vast do- main over which his own little daugh- ter was destined to hold sway as a landed proprietor.‘ Mrs. King is a led'UW. and her landed estates in /' Mrs. southern Texas amount to 1,250,000 acres, or about two thousand square. milesngxchange. , , ing whole-sale leather dealer. II American. . . impulse, (RAFFIC IN KANGAROO HIoEs. Half'a Minion Australian Pelts Used In ‘ Anlerlca Last Year. , "Not many people have-any idea how extensively kangaroo hides are utilized in this country,” said a lead- “Last year there were over' 400,000 such skins reseived in New York and about 80 per cent of these were tanned in one larrre esta lishmcnt in Newark. , , .-.. b tions of idiots. And, in the face of all N. J.- The hides all come from Aus- tralia and New Zealand, where the kangaroos are killed, some 350 miles. back from the coast, and shipped from Melbourne, Sydney and Australia, and‘ from New Zealand. “Prior to 1859 kangaroos were killed and eaten in Australia, and their hides were cut up and made mostly into shoe-strings and belts. But an Eng- made some experiments, which re: sulted in his discovering the remark- ably ‘Ttough character of the leather, and he brought several hundred hides to America as a speculation. He tried hard 'to sell the skins ,to various tan- n-ers, but they were shy of the nov- elty,,and he at last had to sell them at a sacrifice to a New York book- biuder.' The latter merchant made triangular corner pieces for ledgers and commercial books out of the skins, and thus ascertained the good qualities of the leather. One of these books got into the hands of the pro- prietor of a large Newark tannery, and his, attention was at. once at- tracted by the peculiar appearance of the leather binding. He made some experiments with the skin and found that it possessed a remarkable tena- ciousness and compactness of grain, which prevented it from absorbing water, while the acids in blocking met with an almost impervious substance. Several hundred skins were soon after tanned and put upon the market, and so large was the demand for the new leather that it was hard work for I 'and has it bad. \ W'ATER THAT SUITS Ashes. ' It Must Be‘Stagna'nt and Should Have , Many Vile Odors. ,“VVater, water everywhere. 'and every drop to drink,” is the way your philanthropical Arab reads the quo- tation. Arabia has the water hobby, A blue—grass critic would call it a disease, .and a Weary ;Walker would refer to the Continual erection of feuntains as tlre emana- criticisms, the Arab would go on about ! the business of life, which he inter‘ Newcastle, , Masterson, in . prets as being the placing in operation of as many drinking booths as it lies within his power to set up. Any one who takes a trip through the country where these peculiar gen- tlemen live and have their being will note the extent] to which the Arabs learry their ideas on the water ques- vlishman named Brown in that year tion. In traveling through 'the size of Westchester county, one a section will run across as many fountains as 'he would find saloons in the district 2north of this city. When Allah calls from the field of activity one of the rich men of the tribe, the men of the ' law find that the deceased, instead of . with the leaving his Young Men’s Arabian society, or to a fund for the endowment of a college for the-teaching of the classics, directs that the wealth be employed in erect- ing a fountain where the thirst of man and beast may be assuaged. A peculiarity of these" fountains is that very few of them contain the pure, clear water which is associated popular idea of a spring. The Arab has no use for the kind of water we drink. Such water he con- siders injurious, as he reasons it con- tains chemical properties which pro- duce illefiects upon its consumers. The Arab wants his water stagnant, and hence more or less dirt. The dirtier and more stagnant the greater its value in his eyes. He would prob- ably go wild with joy could he impress a portion of the Chicago river into years to get a'suflicient quantity of ! service.—-New York Preséffiu». hides to supply the trade. In 1880 the N. ark tanner sent agents to Australia and made arrangements to ship such numbers of skins as would satisfy the demand for the article liel‘e."-M-=srassm~ we _. . ""Thc characteristic climate of Aus. trails. and the pugnacity. of the kan- garoo have, however, always made the hunting of the hides dangerous, and these difficulties continue to limit the supply and keep up the price of the animals’ skins. Winter starts in May and ends in DeCemberin that country. The rest of the year the heat is intense, the thermometer frequently reachng 140 degrees. Eight men hunt together for kangaroos. They are. called a ‘set.’ When brought to boy the kangaroo jumps like a flash for a hunter’s chest and tries to crush it in with his fore feet. To fireveut this each man wears across his chest :1 piece of matting two or three inches thick. Armed with 'a spear, with, a club- attachment at the other end, ,they ride upon swift horses into ,a herd. With the agility and equipoise of circus riders they stand erect upon their horses and use their spears and clubs. The kangaroo is able to jump clear over a horse. “As soon as the animal is killed it is skinned and the hide is stretched on the ground and pegged down secure ly to prevent shrinkage. The flesh furnishes meat for the camp. Each man places his’private mark upon his beety, and when they have 100 skins they return to civilization. There are twenty varieties of kangaroos, among them the blue, red, w'allaby, black, gray and forester, the latter furnish- ing the best leather, as it lives mainly in wooded sections. W-henthe ship- ping ports are reached the hunters dis- pose of the skins by auction to the highest bidder and rec‘eive about 80 cents a pound for them. Kangaroo hunters make large profits. One man is known to have cleared $6,000, free of living expenses, last year.”——W-ash- ington Star. How Spurgeon Converted Him. Spurgeon once passed a stone mason who, after each stroke of his hammer, cursed and swore. He laid his hand on the man’s shoulder and, looking kind-1y at him, said: “You are an adept at swearing. Can you also pray?” lVit'h another oath he re- plied: “Not very likely.” Holding up five shillings Mr. Spurgeon said if 'he would prdmise never to pray he would give him that. “That is easily earned,” said the man with a fresh oath, and put it in his pocket. When Spurgeon left the man began to feel a little queer. When he went home his wife asked him what ailed him, and he told her. “It is Judas’s mon- ey!” said the man, and, on a sudden he threw it into the fire. The wife found it, and took it out, and discovered who had given it to him. The man took it back to Spurgeon, who conversed long with him, warning him, and at length was the means of saving him. He became an attached member of his flock—New York Tri- bune. Too Quick for the Stock Brokers. Down the postoflice steps Rev. Dr. Fyfthly care-fully picked his way, and then his feet suddenly shot out, and he went down right in the midst of a group of stock brokers. “Ah, good morning, doctor!” «laugh- ed the stock brokers, recognizing the minister. “You rem-ind us of the wick- ed man whose foot slippeth.” “Nay,” retorted the good minister, “but rather do I seem like the man; who went down to Jericho.” “How is that?” chorused the brok- ers. “Because he fell among/thieves," Doons WITH VENEER FINISH- Not Even the More Costly Are Made of Solid Wood. The very finest of doors are made nowadays of veneer on a body of pine. Even when made of mahogany or some other costly wood, doors have to be veneered. The body of the door is made of a plain, straight-grained ma- hogany, while the surfaces are veneers of fine wood. In the finest doors the body is made of selected white pine, free from sap and perfectly seasoned, which is cut into narrow strips and then glued to- gether. The outer edges of this door are faced with what iscalled a. veneer, but which is ‘really a strip of the fine:- Tvood half an inch or more, in_thick~' ness. The inner edges of the‘frame, by ' the panels, are ”covered in‘ the same manner with thick strips, in which the ornamental mouldings or carvings, area made, and 'which are grooved to re-’, ceive the panels. . This built-up, frame of white pine, with edges ofthe fine wood, is then veneered with the finewood. In some , lighter 5doOrs the panels may be of sol- id mahogany, but in the finer, larger and heavier doors the panels also are made of white pine with a veneering of the fine wood, so that the entire door is veneered. It would be difficult, if not impossi- ble, to procure at any cost mahogany lumber in fine and beautiful woods of sufficient size for the larger doors. The built-up and veneered door, of pine wood, however, has every appear- ance of a solid door, and, made of se- lected veneers, it may be more beau- tiful than a solid door would be. more serviceable and remains longer perfect. Its cost is about half what a» solid door would cost—New York Sun. German Military Honor. - “An officer who permits himself to be insulted by a civilian, without im- mediately killing him, will be dis- miss-cc.” This is one of the unwrit- ten clauses in the code of honor ob- taining in the corps of German offi- cers. If the insulter is not satisfac- tionsfahig (capable of giving satisfac~ tion), that is to say, if Ihe belong to the classes who are not wont to fight duels, then the, officer must immedi- ately draw his sword and. cut him down or kill him on the spot with any other weapon. These laws are no- where to be found written, yet they are strictly obeyed. At Augsburg an officer in private clothes recently re— ceived a blow on the face without having given any cause of offence from an impudent business clerk. It chanced that the oilicer had a revolv- er with him. He, however, made no use of it, nor did he challenge the clerk, whom be regarded as unworthy of meeting in a duel. Instead of tak- ing either of these steps, he had re- course to the courts of justice, with the result that his assailant was sen- tenced to twelve days’ imprisonment. Thereupon the regimental. oflicers’ court of honor assembled and com- pellcd the ofiicer to hand in his resig- nation because he had, not adequate- ly upheld the dignity of an officer's rank—Pall Mall Gazette. ' Wholly - Unamiable. “Excuse me,” exclaimed the -timor-. ous man, “but may I disturb you for a few minutes on a matter of consid- erable importance to myself and p05- 1 sibly of some concern to you?” “No, sir,” replied the disagreeable citizen; “not unless you promise not to waste as much time talking busi-‘ ness 'as you do apologizing.”—Wa.sh. ington Star. ‘ . asked ' seven-year-old l“‘.-\Iamma,” I Will-lb, “what is the difference between high church and low church?" “I murmured, the doctor as he got , up know.” exclaimed his five-year-old sis- aud moved decorously‘ away—Anglo- ‘ ter. “One says ‘awm‘en’ and, the other ”it. r l I I I .i ‘smen.’." , , , I , . superfluous coin to the" It is. I l i 3 formerly Miss Jennie Jerome of :MARc’H'ANp MUST GO. ~.- ~, No Thought of Giving the French | Foothold. . London, Oct. 26.—An interesting feat? ' tire of the situation was the appearance yesterday evening on the stump of . Lieutenant Winston Churchill, the son of Lady Randolph Churchill, who was New York. , 4 The lieutenant, who has just return- ed from the Soudan, made an eloquen‘. speech before a crowded'house, which included his mother. After referring to the successful for- eign policy of the government, which, he said, had “resulted in cordial rev lations with the great American repub- lic, which speaks our language and uses our laws”, Lieutenant Churchill proceeded to discuss the Fashoda ques— tidn, and his resolute advice to the government not to yield was received with ringing cheers. In the course of his, lieutenant said: L remarks the “A great military power with which we have lived in friendship has delib- erately crossed our path and has put an affront upon us, and it may be only a. matter of a few days, or a. few hours when we shall be called upon to make a great effort to hold what belongs to us." . The principal interest is centered in the Marquis of Salisbury’s addition'to the Fashoda correspondence, contained in the publication of the British Blue Book on that subject. ‘ The Conservative newspapers ex- press themselves as being highly pleas- ed with his rejoinder to the French Yellow Book on the same subject. They declare that it dispels the idea. spread TH E E via-Is: 1N e = G AZ Er‘rE TRICKS! Tmcxs’os THE RAVEN. A: Strategic“, These Blrds are Something Remarkable. Many stories are told of the clever- ness of the raven, a bird which really seems to have reasoning powers. One of these stories tells how a. raven, by ' a skillful stratagem, got a young hare by the despatch of the French'ambas- ‘ sador here, Baron de Courcel, that the British premier was willing to negoti- ate on the whole question. But the Liberal and Radical organs still consider that the Marquis of Sal- isbury’s attitude admits of negotiations promising a friendly arrangement. 'The entire press, however, scouts the idea of the possession of Fashoda. coms ing within the sphere of the discus- . sion. I I‘m. ' .v' .'*"’""m~., .2 . The St. James Gazette yesterday af- ternoon said: ‘ “We are ‘prepared to negotiate the question of the western frontier of the Bahr-el-Ghazal district. But we must control the Nile, both banks and the water sheds, from its source to the sea.” , The Globe thinks the Marquis of Salisbury has made it. clear that Major Marchand must quit Fashoda without conditions, adding: “Until that is done there can be no discussion of the French claims in Africa." A DEAD MAN AT THE HELN- Strange ‘Discovery of n. Fireiuan on an Erie Express Train. Port Jervis, N. Y., Oct. 26.—Henry Kinsley, 50 years old, an Erie engineer. :living at Susquehanna, Pa., was killed in a peculiar manner while running passenger train No. 12 between Bing- hampton and Susquehanna early yes- terday ,morning. 3The diStance between the two cities ié .but twenty-three miles, but the train, with the hand of the dead eu- gineer still grasping the throttle, made it in- twenty-six minutes. The fireman, Walter Cowsgill, who was busy at the furnace, did not know of the engineer’s death until near Sus- q‘he'h‘a‘nna, as the locomotive was of th@“Mother Hubbard" class, with the fi'reman’s cab in the rear. , When the'speed of the traindid not slacken on approaching the station, Cowsgill became alarmed, and running .over to the engineer’s cab, shouted over the boiler to Kinsley. Receiving no re- ply, he climbed out on the running board, .went around the head .of the engine and reached the engineer’s side, kickedopen the-window and entered the cab. He loosened the stiff fingers of the engineer from the throttle, re— versed the machinery and applied the air'brakes, stopping the train before it had gone many yards past the Susque- hanna depot. Kinsley’s body was removed, and it was found that the entire upper part of . his skull had been carried away. - It‘is thought that Kinsley had his head out of the window and‘was struck by a mail crane at some county sta- tion. Foreign Officials Here. New York, Oct. 28.—Mr. S. Oi, engin~ eer to the Ministry of Communications of Japan; Mr. T. S. oriye, general man- ager of the Tolfio Carriage and Wagon Works, and also representing the Km- shiu Railway of Japan, and Mr. Wil- liam Thow, engineer in chief of the New South Wales government" rail- ways, who are in this country looking into American methods of building and operating street and steam railroads, yesterday made a trip over the lines of the Brooklyn Heights Railroad, ac— companied by the officials of the road and some invited guests. One of the parlor cars of the Brook- lyn Heights Railroad left the Man- hattan end of the Bridge at 10.30 o’clock in the morning for the eastern district power station. A long run was then made through Jamaica to the power station, shops and car barn of the road in South Brooklyn luncheon being served on this trip. ' Col. Waring Arrives from Cuba, New York._0ct. 26.—Among the pas- sengers who arrived yesterday on the steamship Yucatan from Cardenas and Havana. were Colonel Waring and G. R. Fowler, British vice consul at Glen- fuegos. Colonel Waring, when seen at Quar- antine, was suffering from an attack of malaria. He expects ,to be well enough to start for Washington to-’ day. ' The Yucatan brought as cargo six thousand bags of sugar and a large quantity. of tobacco, besides cigars and 34 cases of specie. Became a Yankee Vessel. Tacoma, Wash, Oct. 26.-—The steam~ .vhip Tacoma of the Northern Pacific Steamship Company was transferred from British to American, registry on Monday,‘with her- home port at Ta- ‘oma.‘- ‘ Five thousand peOple on the ocean flock listened to the speeches. 'All the other vessels of the line are to fol- 105V. ‘ ‘I' for his dinner. It had pounced upon the little animalpbut the mother hare drove it away. , Then the raven slole retreated, encouraging the mother to follow him, and even pretending that .ho was afraid of her. In this fashion he led her to a considerable distance from her young one, and’then, suddenly, be- fore the bare had time to realize the meaning of the trick, he rose in the air, flew. swiftly back, caught the young hare in his beak and bore,“ away; ‘A similar plan was adopted by some ravens that wished to steal food from a dog. They teased him till he grew so angry that he chased them from' the spot, but the artful birds tui'ned sharply round, easily reached the dish before him, and. carried ofl the choicer bits in triumph. ' As to the raven’s power of speech, the following story—which is given on the authority of Capt. Brown, who vouches for its truth—will show how aptly it can talk. A gentleman, while traveling through a wood in the south of England, was startled by hearing a shout of "‘Fair play, gentlemen; fair play!” uttered in loud tones. The cry being presently repeated, the traveler thought it must proceed from some one indistress, and at - once began'to search for him. He soon discovered two ravens fierce-1y attacking a third. He was so struck with the appeal of MILLINiII the oppressed bird thatwhe promptly . rescued him. ' It turned out that the victim was a tame raven belonging to a house in the neighborhood, and the cry that it had used so opportuncly was one of many that it had been taught to utter. —Philadelphia Timrs. . ! '5 NAT NeWSERE Main Streetr . I Opposite the N. Y.‘ Grocery Store.- . Elegant assortment of trimmed Hats, Bonnets, Walking Hats, Turbans,Sa1}r ors, etc. , mm . . All are cordially invited to call.“ Ladiesown Material made and trim- ‘med by first class New York milliners. MRS. W. FAWCETT, AGT. n NS There are diiferent kinds of” panes, but the paneswe mean-4 are window panes and we have-3 that him]. \Then we have-v putty to hold'th'em in. Hope! you don’t feel pained after we" have taken the pains to tell you about our panes. ' We have also prepared paints, lead and oil. i, "HY‘HIWIAMS. l1 "All STREET. NORWALK, 00“.. J. n. .IEIIIIIIIIIs. UNDERTAKER ! N0. 7 MAIN STREET. NIGHT BELL AT OFFICE. —I~—~ W3 I have been taking Piso’s Cure for Cofsfiinptiori since 1883, for Coughs and Colds. I had an attack of Laanpe in 1800, and have had others since. In the Winter of 1896-7, I had a, spell of Bronchitis, lasting all wintertand leaving a troublesome ecugh, until I again tried Piso’s Cure, which relieved me.—Mrs. M. B. SMALLEY, Colorado Springs, 0010., August 19, 1898. The rise Company, Warren, . Pa. m' PISO‘S CURE FOR P ' . [E III. U Ewelld‘ugh Sign?» Ldisaster; Good: Use In in time. Sold by druggists. N CONSUMPTION DAILY 9 'IGHT LIN ' BETWEEN N null, 30th larval and Net York. Propellers Vulcan, City of Norwalk and Eagle Leave Norwalk 5 p. m. Leaves South Norwalk at 6.00 p. m. Leave New York at’5 p.111. JOB PRINTING , é 313T YOUR.” « ‘ , AT THE AZETTE , OFFICE. 5! (3.001) WORK, LP RICES RIGHT , "
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