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No. 1 Main Street, Norwalk.
_made a record for itself.
NIN
WOMEN VIEW SN AKES
ALSO HANDLE THEM IN A SURPRlSING
WAY AT THE SHOW.
Their Hereditary Repugnance for the Ser-
pent Destroyed Apparently by Famil-
iarity—Entcr’tainlnent Provided by the
Visitors.
The New York snake show as a
wriggling rival of the horse show.
It was about
the weirdist thing New York has seen
in. many a day. The snakes themselves
were not so remarkable. Plenty of
New Yorkers. who have occasional lit-
tle snake shows of their own. have.1
seen funnier specimens. But the ex-
hibition at the Grand Central Palace
didn’t have to depend entirely on its
reptiles. \Vomen hate snakes and loyc1
horses. but they helped the snake
show along with the same fervor they
devoted to the Horse Show.
some men. as before said. have
grown so. used to seeing queer snakes
that plain common serpents, with no
appendages excepting rattles. bore
them Anything less spicy than a
green and violet specimen “filth a 11111-
bertigibbet head sapphire Wings and
a fantail seems tame to their 113111-11 ap-
petites. These eccentric specimens are
not uncommon in New York. But
while plenty of men know a snake
when they see it and even when they
don’t see it, not one man in a million
has ever beheld his wife amiably jug1
gli'ng with the serpents he saw or
with those he thought he saw. He 111111
to go to the snake show in order to
realize this vision. After he had seen
his wife tickle the boa under the chin
and. heard her talk baby talk to the
cannibal king, he wanted to ask some
body to introduce him to her so that
he could get acquainted all over
again.
The hall where the exhibition was
held suggested a warm summer day in
Tophet. Thermometers were not pro-
vided, but any one especially anxious
to be on the safe side would have
guessed that the mercury would hustle
11p to 90 degrees without loss of time.
The snakes liked it. The fifteen baby
rattlers stood on their tip tails and
stuck out their tongues in the friskiest
kind of way. In the middle of the af-
ternoon the' big snakes got a live rat
apiece and testified their appreciation
of the favor by acting their prettiest.
But the most interesting exhibit: was
the crowd. At first the men and we-
men peered into the boxes saying
“Ugh!” and “Oh. my!" and tapping on
the glass to reuse the snakes inside.
Pretty soon some woman says to Mr.
I'Iigby:
"What kind of a snake is that big
one?"
“A boa emistrictor.”
"011. my! How long is he?"
“Eight feet. He is getting ready to
shed his skin. That‘s the reason he’s
so dull."
“Oh. my! How can you tell when he
is going to shed?”
‘ 1y his eyes.” and Mr. Higby calmly
opens the case, which contains the boa
with four smaller snakes. slaps the
others lightly in the face to make
11.11111 keep away, and hauls out the
grcat coils of the constrictor.
The crowd stares and when Mr.
Iligby lays the big snake on the floor
the, people edge respectfully away.
T1111 other day when the boa was put
on the floor a. man was standing at an-
other case with his back to the crowd.
The 11101'111111111t of the people back of
him as they edged away in a circle
made him turn around and brought
him face 111 face with the constrictor,
which was perfectly free. The man
didn't make _a sound. but plunged
-ni;1dly through the crowd. almost 11p-
+7111.)
setting or three men who hap-
pened to 1:11 in his road. 0f (nurse.
11."1111 111111‘1y laughed and the man c 1111111
back rather sheel 1ishly.
1111,1111 ident like this generally start-
ed 11111 real show. and from that time
some 111’ the snakes were, scarc1’1ly in-
side of their cases. 111011511111 women
walked about. in the crowd with the
serpents twined about their arms and
necks. or holding one in a mass of
knots among the lingers of one hand.
it was the 1111111111111111;<t thing to see, :1
well di'csscd woman go up to 21 snake
which some 111111 was holding and
stroke it 1.iih h11rbar11 11: 11111.
"11111 you ever touch a snake before
now?" 11111 reporter asked such :1 11'0-
man.
"No."
“\Vliy do you 111111":"
“Well. if it won't hurt-
won t hurl 1111.1.”
“3111' how about. the rcpugn. nice WO
11111111 are supposed to have for snakes.”
“"111111115'131s curious to know how
it would Iieel. and I suppose my curi-
osity overcame my repugnance. Really
it isn’t unph'asant to touch them."
closing her tingersmround the snake
and passing her hand up and down.
“It‘s cold. but it is perfectly dry. I
always had an idea they were slimy."
“Doesn’t, that beat all?” :1 man said-
as the woman turned away. “What
gets into women. anyway? “Thy, I
brought my wife and my little four-
year—11111 boy here yesterday afternoon
and inside of half an hour my wife
was patting the boa on the head while
my boy was pulling its tail.”
The manager of the Show
around beaming placidly.
“This is the easiest show I ever had
in run." he said. It just runs itself. Let
some of the women play with the
snakes and the men and the rest of
1.1111 women stand around and watch.
111111 it's all they ask. I hadn’t any
11:111'e idea that this was going to turn
izsio a sort of. free-for-all affair than I
121111 that the snakes would grow feet
and walk around the hall. The only
this man it
stood
"trouble isto keep enough-of the snakes
in the boxes to have a few for people
to look at that way. I've had to label
ca use of
(111.117. are
the rattlers and flipperneads 'Danger,’
If I didn’t,'people would be inviting a
Coroner’s inquest by trying to pick the
rattles off the tails for souvenirs.
"Well, I. have one other trouble:
that’s so. You see. we have to give
the snakes live rats to eat. and some
people raised a howl about it. It is
kind of pitiful to see one of the little
fellows crouched down in a corner. his
hair just standing on 111111. waiting to
be madea meal of. hit. you see. I’m
between two tires. 1‘1'11. got to let the
rats be killed and eaten by the snakes
01' I’ve got to let the snakes starve to
death for luck 01 the rats. And there
11711 are1 '
THE DEPARTMENT STORE OCTOPUS.
Buck Dealcls the First. to B11 Driven 011’.
111"! radc. in the Metropolis.
The great revolution which the de-
partment store has made in 11111 111';~.'
goods trade is indi 1:1tcd by 11111 publi-
cation by one of the largest dry goods:
houses in New York of a bulky (11:111-
logue of books which it offers to 121-:
customers. This company, asis w.-"~
known,
has long been foremost 111111121;
the great wholesale dry goods 11111::z1.-'
of the country.
A frontispiecc in the
pamphlet is a photo]ithograph of
company‘s "publishing or .book
Lion,” and it depicts a wareroom whit-11
in the size and the magnitude 2111121
multiplicitv of its contents is 11Xc1111d1-i
by those few of the "1911111 t 11111211.:‘1-
ing houses of the country. The pic
face to the catalogue announces that
fat octavc
111-1
31‘1“
this company. only lately confined to
the dry goods businrss. will suppiy
“every book issued by any publisher."
This is a revolution which 111111115
not merely the dry goods trade.
alsoand seriously the trade of 11111 1'11-
tail bookseller in all parts of 1121.1
Union. It is practically driving him
out of business, for the. deparinn-nt
store, with many varieties of goods
from which to make a profit. has ad-
vantages over him with which he 11:111-
but
not (11111111et1'1. Ile complains that 11111
department stores. as 11111111131111. of
great quantities of books. get .21111:i:11
discounts from publishers. but that is
inevitable. Such large buyers obtain
them in every trade. T1111 111:11111t‘act-
urer. always eager to sell his wares.
is ready to make concessions 1111 pur—
cliascs 111' so great magnitude.
especially when. as it is so often 1111.1
case with the department stores. they
are for cash. Moreover. the 1111111211?
of profit :1 small and special 11111-11111
must charge in order to keep his 1111;11’
above write-11' is not required by 1111
grgat and 111is1111llancous dealer. 'l‘hi:
gives the department store peculiai
advantage-s in the matter of book:-
l'or in their wholesale prices the 111::-
count, from the nominal retail price
unusually large. 11" the-.11 1111- 1:171:11
buyer obtains :1 further 1114-1111111 ‘111-
the 11111:..1'1111'111111 of his 111'11 1':-.
he can get his full average 111' pi'oLi:
even after cutting prices consi11111'ah'1}:
below 11111 list prices advertised by the
publisher.
That. a great dry goods house of
’wholcsale supply should have made
the distribution of books one 111‘ its.
most important features. suggests that
the retail bookseller is likely to 1111 11‘;-
teily driven to the wall by this revo-
lution and evolution of trade. It so
gests also 11111 fact that, because of th 1
small protit1 now obt unable 1’1111111 111'}:
goods alone. the large 1 ariety ol' 1v .111'1'111
offered by the department store has
been made necessary for a. dealer seek
ing anything ' approaching a large ag-
crcgate of profits.
_A Blnclabimi’s Strategy.
Most, birds are 1'11'y courageous. and
when the young links are threatened
with danger. 11111 111d birds will (111 all
in their power 111.:1111 and protect them. '
A lady who takes a great; interest in
birds illlil their doings. relates a touch-
112g story. which well
1'11211'111111-1'istic. .
"Early one morning." she says. “i
was 1121111111 to the window by a great,
noise. 1111111112; the bird folk of the gar—
den, and Saw the following scene: 1'11
young blackbird was standing. fascin—
ated by a cat. who was crouched un-
der :1 bush ready to spring on him.'An
Old blackbird. on a. maple tree close
by. was uttering loud and agitated
cries. and
111;:
bird s all
1111115 the
around. After :1 few sec-
cat. sprang on the young bird.
At that instant. the old bird cam-3
11111111011 the cat. There was a 1110-
1111111t‘s struggle. the bird beating her
wings violently in the cat’s face and
pecking at her eyes. ‘Thcn the cat
jumped back to her bush, 11111 young
with long hops and 1111.1
old one flew up to them maple. 11111111 .1
jubilant chorus of commendation.
which lasted. some minutes. I never
saw this before. though I have seen
a robin come. quite close to :1 cat stall-t
ing anot111'11 bird. and scold and {lap
his '11ing:: in her i'ace."—-Gol1111n 11115111..
bird made off
1_ Bieh'vly 11. Matter of Yestei d :y.
Mr. Gladstone had such a good mem-
ory himself that he was inclined to 11:1
impatient with those who had not. At
a. dinner. in London a few years ago
he was sketching. to the delight of the
company, a stirring scene in the House
of Commons in the early forties. Lord
Granville was a. guest at the dinner,
and was in the Commons at the time
of the events to which Gladstone re—
ferred. “Did you take part. in the di-
vision?" a-sked Mr. Gladstone of Lord
Granville. “I’m sure I don’t know,"
replied Lord Granville. "I can’t re-
member whether I did 01' not.” “Not
remember." fairlv shouted Gladstone.
“why, it was onlv f11111-11ight years
a"o"’—-Sy racuse Standai d.
Learning How to Pluck.
“Pluck is the secret of success in
Wall street.” “Well, I’ll give you $10,-
000 if you ’ll Mach me your method a!
plucking ”—Broeklyn Life. 1
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illustrates this ‘
there was a general chirp- .
' of anger'and sympathy from other 1
SATIN oNE OF THE COMBINATIONS.
W'hite Lace Arranged “'ith Scarf Efi‘ect on
the Bodfce.
(By special arrangement; with the N.
Certainly if variety
charms of dress, then fashion has
more than it usually has to recom-
mend it this season. There are hardly
two gowns alike in every detail, and
fancy seems to range anywhere be-
tween :1 long redingote and a short
jacket 01' a quite round waist. Bodices
with plain backs are coming into
favor again, and some of the models
have the old-fashioned number of
seams; but these are the rare excel)-
tion 'as vet.
Satin matching the cloth in color is
one of the season’s combinations, the
lower part of the skirt being entirely
of the satin. One thing which is very
evident in the detail of trimming and
Y. Sun.)
finish generally is that nothing ex-
cept cream lace is so universally used
as the black and white. effects. This
is especially true of red gowns, which
almost invariably have some touch of
this popular combination. A piping 111
black satin with one of white set
close to it and a row of black braid
sewn close to one of white are both
effective ways of producing the desir-
ed result. A wide collar of whitr1
satin covered with lace. 01' of white
cloth is very striking on red gowns
and quite as stunning on black cos-
tumes. lows of stitching are the
.usual finish for the cloth collar. and
the satin ones as well when no lace is
used. In fact, stitching is the latest
and most chic of all the modes of
trimming without regard for the ele-
.g‘ance of the material.
is one of the fig?
It ABSOLUTELY prevents slipping,
and insures perfect safety and comfort to
horse and driver
811011 with the “Neversllp ” your horse’s
feet are always in good condition—kept so
b not; having to constantly remove the
5 cos for sharpening.
The CALKS are REMOVABLE,
Steel-Centered and SELF-SHARPENING
and ROUND OR SQUARE BASE
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Catalogue on Application.
L. L. ENSWORTl-l & SON,_,
Blacksmiths’ Supplies;
HARTFORD, - CONNECTICUT.
[ill SAL
A STEAM RADI-
ATOR in good condi-
tion.
for a hall or large
room. Will be said
cheap. Apply at this
office
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The homestead of the late Dr.
acres ot‘ 1:11:11, large dwelling house, barn. car-
etc., will be sold cheap if applied for at once.
health resort. Address,
MRS. 1s. BRADY, or R.
1 H. FITCH,
ll.
NEWSTCRE
i Main Street.
Y. Grocery Store.
l Elegant. assortment, of trimmed Hats
Bonnets, 'Wa king lats, ’l‘m'bans, Sui
01's, etc.
All are cordially invited to call.
Ladies own Material made and t1 im-
, med by first class he 1 Ymk milliners
Opposite the N.
A dark heliotrope with a touch ofl
' pale blue in the trimming on the bed-
: ice is another fashionable combination.
‘The use of pale blue, especially in
mif oir velvet. seems to be very gen-
eral. Persian eifects in embroidery
are used 011 cloth gowns and satin
waists alike, with charming effect in
both cases. A very efiective sulbst‘
tote is produced by rows of feather.
Ititching outlining narrow white saith:
bands and done in crewels of dilTerent
colors. The feather stitching is spread
out in a sprawling fashion, each vine
being outlined with a strong contrast-
ing color.
[white silk wadstds charming.
The Persian embroidery in -
MRS. W. I‘A’h C‘ETT, A1; T.
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Brady on
Belden Hill. Wilton, consisting of about 30
riage house. grainery, smoke house, hennery,
Is excellently located and would make a. fine
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