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Volume LXXXVI.
A11 Enterprising Republican J ournal, especially devoted to Local News and Interests.
ESTABLISHED 1800. . .
‘ CONN, TUESDAY MARCH 2, l886.
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Ebrron AND Psormz'ron.
JOHN RODEMEYER, Jr. - Associate Editor.
MODJISSKA" As MAB) sruaru‘. mwannxnn MEMORY.
Work. “SVho told you it was my parlor?" “She never would have been worth any. ~ - , . _ ' p .
— ' aske ' . ' o- . - e . thinn‘ as a farmer‘s wife -" and indeed ' _ ' . .
d Jessle, tlymn to Steel 1181 11 {VIII b I In grace and beauty Mme. Modleskfl's Two yen: 380'“ youngmm hung in
Sweet wind, fair wind, where have you been ‘P
“ I’ve been sweeping the cobwebs out of the sky;
i’ve been grinding the grist in the mill hard by;
I’ve been laughingat work while others sigh;
Let those laugh who win i”
Sweet rain, soft rain, what are you doing 7 '
“ I’m urging the corn'out of its cells;
I’m helping the lily to fashion its bells;
» I’m swelling the torrents and brimming the wells;
Is that worth pursuing 7"
Redbreast, redbrcast, what have you done ? I
I’ve been watching the nest where my fledgling!
lie; '
“I've sung them to sleep with a lullaby; ,-
By-and-by I shall teach them to fly,
Up and away, every one i"
Honey-bee. honey-bee, where are you going ?
“ To fill my basket with precious pelt;
To toiliior my neighbor as well as myself;
To find out the sweetest flower. that grows,
Be it a thistle, or be it a rose—
A secret worth the knowing l”
Each content with the work to be done,
Ever the same from sun to sun:
Shall you and 1 be taught to work
By the bee and the bird who scorn to shirk?
Wind and rain fulfilling His word 1
Tell me, was ever a legend heard,
Where the wind, commanded to blow, deferred:
Or the rain, that was hidden to fall, demurred?
MN—
Jessie’s Parlor.
An orchard, the branches heavy with
golden apples, here and there a ruddy
“windfall," . half-hidden in the long
grass, and at the foot of the most richly-
laden trees a young girl, half-asleep,
with an ill-used book flung carelessly
down, and indolent white arms thrown
above her pretty dark head.
“ Jessie l" .
She made a. sleepy little movement,
indicative of annoyance at being inter-
rupted in the middle of her siesta.
“Jessie, I say!” '
Miss Jessie rose slowly, and picked
--up her book. She was a tall, straight
girl, of about eighteen years of age,
with a rather pale face, and gray eyes,
fringed with long, black lashes. These
eyes were hergreatest charm. A little
white gate divide the orchard from the
garden, and Jessie passed through it
with exasperating slowness. /
‘ ‘ Was there ever such a girl i" thought
her sister, her elder by twenty years, at
‘ least—the daughter of her father's first
' wife. ‘
Caroline h‘nd loved her young step-
mother, and when she died had tried to
fake a mother's place to the tiny, dark:
cyc-d‘ baby she left behind; but Jessie
had proved a very troublesome charge.
“Well," said Jessie, interrogatively,
looking ‘at Caroline standing in the
doorway, with her sleeves tucked up,
and her stout arms covered with flcnu'.
“W’liat is it, Caroline ?"
“ Come and move your rubbish out of
the front room'" '
"What for '1’" asked Jessie, in undis-
guished astonishment.
“Because father‘s going to lot it to a»
young fellow from London. ""
J essio looked indignant. Her parlor
with the piano in it, to be let to some
horrid man, and all her pretty belong-
ings to be banitlail to her little bed-
room. .011, it was too badl _
"Carrie," she said, “how could you
advise father to do such a thing? I
never thought we should have to take in
lodgers; I’d rather run away."
“ Where to ?" asked the rather matter-
of-fact Caroline. ‘
Jessie bit her lips, and went indoors
to remove her books and needlework
from the little parlor that had been
regarded as her especial sanctum ever"
since she'had entered her teens. ’It.
never occurred to Miss Jessie that
money was rather scarce with her father
just now, and that the ledger would
bring grist to the mill. She regarded
.the whole thing as a conspiracy to make
her feel uncomfortable. -' ‘ ‘ ‘
They might have consulted her, she
thought, forgetting that she never
troubled herself in any way with the
affairs of the household. How she
wished she could have her piano carried
tip-stairs; but that was impossible. It
was the chief ornament of the room, and
her father, she knew, would not allow
her to take it away.
“I shall hate him; IknowI shall,"
she told herself, thinking of the lodger.
For the first two or three days she
kept carefully out. of his way, and MI. ‘ _
Leith remained unconscious of the fuel
that he was under the same roof with a '
pretty girl. ’ But he made the discovery
V one afternoon. When wandering through
the orchard, with his hands behind his
back, he came suddenly upon a slight,
girlish figure, in brown holland, a. wide
but shading her eyes from the sun.
Wonderful eyes they were—so large
and dark, and utterly bewitching. She
was gone like a flash, but her image
lingered in Mr. Leith’s memory.
He was not a very talkative man,
but he began to cultivate Caroline May-
brick's acquaintance, and soon found
that the girl in the brown holland dress
was her sister. He grew so friendly
that Caroline" ventured to ask him to
take tea with them in the kitchen one
afternoon. The farmer was quite will-
ing, but Jessie objected most strongly,
and threatened not to come in to tea at
all. ‘
“Beside," she said, “what does a
gentleman want in a farmhouse kitchen ?"
However. Mr. Leith seemed very
much- at home there, and delighted
Caroline and her father by his bright»
flashes of wit. He did his best to please
that afternoon, but was it only for the
benefit‘of the} farmer and‘ his elder
daughter, or did his eyes wander in the
direction of Jessie’s slim figure? , He
could not understand why it was that
the girl always avoided .him. If she
had wishedto arouse his interest she
could not have devised a better way.
Her reserve piqued his curiosity, and
he found her pretty face coming between
him and the rusty old pages of his
books. ,
Once he went'for along walk,» and re-
turning home in' the twilight, heard her
at the piano, and paused to listen ; but
she caught sight of his figure outside
the window, and the music ceased in an
instant. When he entered the room
he found it empty, but a little bow of
ribbon lay on the carpet. Mr. Ijeith
whistled, walked to the door, closed it
carefully, and then picked up the rib-
bon bow with a'shame-faiced look, and
actually kisSed it. Then, with fingers
that trembled in\a most unaccountable
way, he placed it in his pocket-book. '
“Your sister is shy," he observed- to
Caroline, later on. "
“It isn't that," with a laugh, “butter
she hasn’t got over being turned out of
her room. It was hers, you know be-
fore you came, and she hated the idea
of father taking a ledger."
"011.” said Mr. Leith, considerably '
enlightened! and next evening. as Jes-
sie was eating an apple in the orchard,
the enemy bore down on her before she
could beat a retreat. - ‘ '
“Miss Jessie,"he said, taking off his
ha‘, “you must not run away. I want
to speak to you.”
_"What is it P" asked Jessie, coldly,
throwing her apple over the hedge.
She had no longer any appetite for it.
“I want to apologize for havingun-
consciously taken possession of your
little parlor. It makes me feel’like an
interloper. "_
against him, but thinking all the same
blue eyes and tawny beard.
“Never mind who told me," said
Gerald Loith, with a. smile. “I know
I have unconSciously deprived you of
your piano ever since I havebeon here,
andI want you to forgive me."
“It is I who ought to ask your for-
giveness,"~returned Jessie. “I have
often stolen in to have an hour with my
piano, when you have been out."
She smiled and colored as she spoke,
unable to resist the winning sweetness
of his voice and manner. -
They stood watching the moon above
the tree tops, talking pleasantly, until
Caroline came to the door and called
her sister.
“Where on earth have you been,
J essio ?” she asked. .
~ “Talking to Mr. Leit ," returned
Jessie as she followed her into the room.
"Wonders will never cease," ex-
claimed Caroline. "I thought you
hated him; but there, I think he would
talk any one over with that sweet
voice of his."
Jessie thought so too, but she did not
give vent to her opiip‘m in words. She
was looking unusually well, a color be-
came her, but it was not the rose flush
upon her checks that 'made her look so
lovely. There was a. change in: her
to-night, and her sister was vaguely
conscious of it, as the girl stood look-
ing earnestly down into the glowing
fire in the kitchen grate.
“Our Jessie is growing a regular
beauty," observed Carolina to her
father, when her sister had gone up to
bed.
“Handsome is‘as handsome does,"
returned Mr. Maybriok, pulling away
at hispipo. “‘ ‘
Jessie’s education had cost him no
end of money, while the more homely
Caroline had put pounds in his pocket.
But Mr. Maybrick ' had no eye for
beauty. He was not like his lodger,
who could get very little sleep for think-
ing of a pair of bright eyes and a slim
girlish figure. '
Next morning, as Mr. Leith sat at
breakfast, he caught sight of Jessie
talking to a stoutly-built, curly-headed
young fellow, and his heart gave a
jealous throb.
Who was that rustic she seemed so
interested in? He could not be her
sweetheart-surely a girl like Jessie
would not throw herself away on such
an awkward cub. /_
. Mr. Leith tried to read the newspaper,
and forget the happy leaking couple in '
the garden; but it was no use. ”There
they were parading up and down in full
view of his window, and now and then
their voices were waited to him on the
breeze. '
He felt he could stand it no longer,
and slammed down the window in rage.
'What was the use of coming to the
country for quiet. if people would per-
sist in making such a'racket Y
He took his hat, and went for a walk,
and when he returned home had ‘the
pleasure of seeing that rustic, through
the kitchen window, dining with the
fainily.
Mr. Leith closed the door of his room,
but he could not shut out the sound of
the fellow's noisy laughter. '
"If he is a frequent guest, my stay
here will not be of very long duration,"
he thought.
, Presently, to his intense annoyance,
he ‘s'aw J e'Ssio and the stranger out in
the garden again, and after his own din-
ner had been served, he heard Miss Cars
oline calling them in to tea, and found
that the young =man’s name was Bob—
detestable name! Mr. Leith had never
felt more miserable than he did that
evening, and his life had not been de-'
void of trouble.
Mr. Leith was sitting in the dark. and
presently heard voices outside the dbor.’
"I am sure he iii-"out, child," said~
Caroline. The lamp is not lighted ; you
can go in and play fora little while,
and Mr. Leith will never be a, bit the
wiser." ~
He did not hear Jessie reply—her
voice was not so loud; but the door
opened, and she,_came into the room
going straight over to the piano.
Mr. Leith held his breath, lying back
in the arm-chair, while Jessie played
softly in the darkness. ,He could see
the dim outline of_ her form as she sat
at the piano, for what little light there
was fell full upon her. He was angry
with her—most unreasonably angry—
but he could not lose the chance of
speaking to her alone.
“ Miss Jessie, " he said quietly.
Jessie gave a faint scream. He had
frightened her so much that she
trembled like a. leaf. She was going to
run out of the room when his voice ar-
rested her movement.
“ I shall be very' sorry that I revealed
myself, if you are going to run away,"
he continued. “It is not often thatl
have the chance of holding you playing,
Miss J essio." ‘
Jessie sat down at‘the piano, but she
did not play. Her little brown hands
were trembling too much. Mr. Leith
rose, and stood by her. side.
“I shall be going back to London
soon," he said, .“and it will be pleasant
to-think of these few moments spent
with you at the piano."
”You are going away soon," faltered
Jessie, and something in her voice
made George Leith’o heart best more
quickly. ' “ . ' . ,
‘ “I saw you and that young fellow to-
day, ” he said abruptly. ”You seemed
very happy.”
.“Bob' and I are always like that,"
observed Jessie, her eyes beginning to_
sparkle, and a. little smile quivering on
her sweet lips. “
But George Leith could not see these '
signs of merriment.
"I hope you will always be,” he said.“
“ May I wish you every happiness 2” .
“You may if you like," said Jessie
with an odd break in her voice, for she
was trying hard to smother her laughter.
“When is it to be ?"‘csked Mr. Leith,
trying'to speak lightly, but not succeed-
ing very well. ' ‘ . -
“When is what to be ?" asked Jessie
with a little gasp. ' - .
“Your marriage of course, ” returned
Mr.- L'eith, rather coldly, for ,he'knew
now that she was laughing at him.
“I think you are putting the cart be- .
fore‘Ethe heme," observed Jessie, de-
murely. ,.
“What ' do youmean ?'.’ he asked im-
patiently. - ‘ . '
~“I mean,” Said Jessie suddenly grow-
ing dignified, “ that I have no lover, so
it is rather premat ,e to talk of my
marriage." 2"
f‘Then that 'young‘man l” began Mr.
Leith. ' ’
‘~‘ Is the afiianced husband of my
dearest friend. , . '
' As she uttered these words Jessie
rose from the piano to find herself
clasped in the arms of her father‘s lod-
er.
“And to think," said Miss Maybrick
afterward, “that you should make all
that. fuss about Mr. Leith coming‘here
and then marry him after all. I was
never so surprised in my life. "
“It is the best thing that could have
happened to her." observed 1101' father.
what a handsome man he was, with’his,
this is true, but Jessie never wanted to
be a farmer‘s wife, and is quite content
with the destiny that has 111 die her Mrs.
George Leith. ‘ .
ONO-Ho—
. ASCRAP OF CARPET HISTORY.
In 1735 English Axminsters were
first made. But it was not until ' 1749
that ’a loom was constructed which
would produces. Brussels carpet, and
just here is an exceedingly interesting
anecdote, which has been handed down
from father to son as an inviolable truth:
During 1730 and 1735 John Broom
traveled through Tourney and Brussels
studying the stitch which was then
known as Brussels stitch. In Brussels
particularly, weavers were at the time
making a carpet named after the town
-—'the Brussels carpet. Broom studied
with much earnestness the mystery of
the manufacture, and finally made the
acquaintancein Tom-nay of a weaver
understanding the secret. He and
this weaver immediately repaired to
England, and near Mount Skipet, Kid-
derminster, they put up, the first Brus-
sels loom, 1749. They operated in ab-
solute secrecy, but in time their modus
operahdi was exposed. Broom and his
Belgian workman labored night and
day, and it being well known where
their operations were conducted, some
enterprising fellow climbed to the
window, and night after night, from
this perilous perch outside he studied
the operation of the mechanism within,
until he ,was able to carry'away in his
mind a model of ”the Brussels loom.
Then a second firm and several others
soon came into the field. and in 1753
Kidderminster was doing considerable
in the way of Brussels. Toiday there
is hardly anything else but Brussels
made in’ Kidderminste r.
W
sumx mussonns.
Not long ago Vigo bay, in the north
of Spain, was the scene of a treasure-
seeking expedition. ' Many a naval battle
has been fought in these placid waters.
But all of them,‘Sir Francis Drake's
included, fade into insignificance beside
that in which Roche and the Dutch 05p-
tured the galleons laden with the wealth
of Mexico. ' Five of these huge treasure
ships were set on fire, and eleven borne .
ofi‘ by their captors. What became of
the latter we know not. But five, laden
with wealth untold, after burning to the
water’s edge, sank beneath the waves,
and. as no one has yet been able to
recover the pieces of eight, and the bars
of "plate," it is logically certain that
they still lie there under silt and sand,
waiting for the happy men who can find
them. Unfortunately, the sea has a
jealous trick of concealing its wealth.
N a doubt, as in Clarenc'e’s'dream, there
must be perdu at the bottom of the
ocean, “wedges of gold, great anchors,
heaps of pearls, inestimable stones,
nnvalued gems.” ' ‘
Yet, in all the wonderful tales told by
sea-going men, there is no instance of a
diamond coming up in thatallow of the .
sounding lead, and the mariner who
remembers finding a bar of gold in tho
fluke of his anchor, has not ventured to
try the faith of the world with hisremi—
niscences. The truth {seems to be that
currents soon scatter such objects, and
in time they get overlaid with great
accumulations of sand, mud and 0028.
For three long years the “Challenger "
dredged and heaved the lead and swept
the sea-bottom with cunningly contrived
tangles. All manner of objects, dead and
living, were brought to light, until it
seemed as if Father Neptune had very
little more to conceal. , Still, the most
curious fact about the expedition was,
that, in spite of the thousands of ships
which have gone down in mid-ocean, of
the tens of thousands of men whose
bones must lie there, not a trace, not a
hint did lead or dredge, or trawl or tangle
bring to the surface of man or his works.
Not a bone or a button,:a precious
stone or a bit of metal, or anything
which could, by the‘fincst process of
induction, be regarded as having
belonged to a ship, ever came within
the ken of Sir Wyville Thomson and
his companions. The “ Challenger, ” of
course, fished in deep water. Near the
the shore it might have found plenty of
remains of the ,‘kind indicated. At the
same time, considering the fate of the
trea311re~scckers,‘who have had onlya
limited area tosearch, the chances of
finding a needle in a. haystack, or' of
lighting on Captain Kidd’s buried plun-_
der, are promising compared with div- _
in; after the ingots which disappeared
only a few years ago. The timbers of
the ship have rotted, the waves have
tossed the boxes hither and thither,
time has rusted or eaten away the bands
which bound them, and the metal itself
gets so incrusted with sand as to be
undistinguishable from the 'debris
around it.
0-000—0-
BEARDI OR STOBIACHS.
_.
The edict of the French Ministenoi
War, tothe efi‘ect that the officers and
men of the army may wear their-beards
as long as they like, or no boards at all
if they so prefer, has occasioned a tre-
mendous amount of discussion in
France. Some ‘conservative critics Say
that the glory of France will depart
with the trimmed beard, and that it is
the first of ~a series of steps all of which
will cost. But General Camperon takes
. the ground that if a. soldidr‘s healthis
better for a long beard he ought to be
allowed to wear it; and that it- is econ-
omy to dispense ’with regimental bar-~
bers, who costthe Government over
$100,000 every year. To this it is re-
tortcd that the beard is of less impor-
tance to the soldier’s health than his.
food. This being cheerfully admitted
the critics then in chorus declare that
the food served "to the French army is
insufiicient in quantity, inferior in
quality and badly cooked. The cooks
. are declared bad enough to ,spoil any
broth, even if the materials are good.
It seems strange to hear of bad cooking
in, France, but the complaint of the
lack of‘skill’ in bat-rack kitchens seems
to be well founded. Private letters
from France written by men who have
"observed many armies represent a. steady
tion in the French service“ Peasants,
we are told, hate the military service
because the _ soldiers are so__badly fed,
and "no family with any means at all
over thinks of allowing onepf its mem-
bers who is in the ranks to depend on
the regular army‘ ration. ,Nap'oleOn,
who knew a thing or two about armies,
and in the midst of its toils of war and
diplomacy would stoop to tell a colonel
that too many cartridge boxes were lost
in his regimenuand that the thing was
important and he must attend to, it was
wont to pay' attention to the soldier‘s
stomach. There is, therefore, prece-
dent for 'the critics who tell General
Campenon that he ought to put the
money saved _by the long beards into
better cooking for the soldiers.
W‘—
M. Paul Charpcntier has found a
specimen of pine embedded“ in. the
upper Tschin/gel glacier at an altitude
of 2,475 metres, far above the present
zone of the pine in this region. _ '
/
deterioration of physique as in opera- .
embodiment of Mary Stuart surpasses
that of any actress who has been seen
in Schiller’s noble drama of late years.
The character has had several repre-
sentatives whose dramatic powers have
elevated them among their contempor-
aries._ The Mary Stuart of Janauschek
is today a performance of wonderful
force and symmetry. Bistori, only a
year ago, exhibited the fragments of
her once commanding art in this char~
actor to better advantage than in any
other role. In her prime her portrayal
of the Scottish Queen was a noble and
memorable piece of acting. But: while
Mme. Modjeska's performance of Mary
Stuart lacks some of the best-remem-
bered qualities of these, and some of
the tragic force of Seebach, it possesses
characteristics of. its own which will
commend it to play-goers who admire
the finished methods, thedelicacy and
womanly refinement that distinguish
all Modjeska’s work. The Version of
.Schiller’s play used was made by Mr.
Lewis Wingfield for Mme. Modjeska.
Mr. Wingfield ,is on English writer on
the drama and an authority, we believe,
upon archaeological subjects. Ho has
performed the task of adaptation in. a
reverent spirit, and preserved much of
the dignity and strength of the German
text. Mme. Modjeska' is, of course,’ an
ideal Mary Stuart to the eye. None of
her predecessors have excelled her in
beauty of face or form, or equalled her
in gracefulness. Tho-part fit! her so
closely, indeed, that it is strange she
hzis not given the play a prominent
place in her repertory before now. It
is likely that she will make it mbre con-
spicuous hereafter. There have been
before Mary Stuarts who could com-
to compel, adoration, to make the hem-
age of Mortimer and Lancaster seem
perfectly natural, and the faithful do
votion of her retainers easily explain-
able. She brought the element of
picturesqueness to the character also;
her attitudes, movements, and gestures.
all seemingly unstudied yet carefully
adjusted to the harmony of thewholo
performance, were delightfully grace-
ful. 'Strength was not lacking either,
and ,the meeting of the two Queens in
Fotheringay Park never aroused an
audience more thoroughly. The per-
formance as a. whole, bewever, was
pitched in a low key. The Queen was
subdued during all of the first act, both
in the presence of bluff Paulet and in
the interview with crafty Burleigh.
Even the declaration of young Morti-
mer excited her only a moment; she
allowed herself to hope but with the
knowledge that it was, at the best, a
forlorn hope. The scene of parting
with Melville and the rest, was as tinf-
compclling as ever, although Modjeska
handles it very daintily, her keen
artistic sense restraining her from piling
agony upon agony. The recognition of
Liecester was an admirable touch, and
the exit of the Queen with her eyes fixed
upon the crucifix while her lips repeat a
prayer was both original. and touch-
ing. ‘
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PUTTING A CASE.
A teacher, putting a question in men-
tal arithmetic said, by way of illustra-
tionz— ' .
“If there were three peaches on the .
table, J ohnny, 'and your little piste!
should eat one of them, how many would
be left ?"
“We ain’t had a peach in the house
this year, let alone three." »
“ We are only supposing the peaches
to be on the table, Johnny. "
9‘ Then they wouldn’tbereal peaches t"
“No." “
“ Would they be preserved peaches 1"
“Certainly not. " '
“ Pickled peaches ?"
‘ ,“No. no. There wouldn't be any
peaches at all, as I told you, J ohnny;
we only suppose the three peaches, to be
there. " - o
“ Then there wouldn't be any peaches
left, of course." ,
“Now, Johnny, put that knife in
your pocket, or I will take it away from
you, and pay attention to what I am
saying. We imagine three peaches to
be onthe table. " '
"Yes." ‘
"And your little sister eats one of
them, and then goes away. "
"Yes, but she wouldn’t go until she
had finished three. You don’t know my
little sister i" said Johnny.
:‘ But suppose that your mother was!
there, and wouldn’t let her out but one."
1‘ Mother’s out of town. and won’t be
back till next wee "
“Now, J ohnny," said the teacher,"
sternly, “I will put the question once
more, and if you do not answer it cor-
rectly I shall keep you after school. If
three peaches were on the table, and
your little sister were to eat one of them,
how many would be left 2" i
“There would not be any peaches
left, ” said Johnny, straightening up.
“I would grab the othertwo."
“The scholars are now dismissed,"
saidI the teacher, touching the bell.
“Johnny White will remain where he .
is." -
BILL ARP 0N WOMEN.
There is no record anywhere, in any
history, of a happy married state where
a man had more than one wife. Lamech
had two, but the scriptures say nothing
more about him. Adam didn’t have
but one, and Noah one, and. they start-
ed the business of peopling the world.
he took another on the sly. old Aunt
Sarah got after him, and she frailed
out the second one with a thrash pole
and run her 011’. Jacob. had- two, and if
ever a man deserved two he did; but
they didn’t get along well, even though
they were sisters, Moses didn’t have
but one. King David had several, but
he was cursed with them and actually
committedmurder to get one of them and
“ My sin is ever before me. " Old Solomon
must have had- an awful time of it, for
he had a thousand, and they kept him
so harassed and bedeviledthat he flew
to his inkstand and wrote that-he had
' found one good man. but agood woman
in a thousand he h‘ad not found. Of
course not. How could a woman be
good when she was'only a“ thousandth
part of a wife? But Solomon repented
of his folly, andsaiditwas all, vanity,
and advised all men to ~,“live joyfully
with the 'wife whom'thou lovest,” andto
“beware of strange womenflf '
I never think of these surplus wives
who are sealed to the Mormons without
a feeling of sadness. and pity, for every
new one causes the others a, pang ,of
shame. They areal} in prison, and
their dependence is like that of a caged
food. ~ There is no escape, for woman is
a proud creature and will suffer m
woman will sufi‘er and be strong, especi-
ally if she has .a childor children to
keep her company ? ,
-—-<-—-—--O-OO‘v------ ‘
Woman is like an accordeon; you can
draw her out.,but she makes musm
when you attempt to shut liar up.
mend, rebuke, and suffer ; here was one ’
01d Father Abraham had one, and when _
lived in anguish ever after, for he said, '
bird that tamely looksto its keeps; for .
silence rather than pal-ado her folly to__
the world. Did you ever notice how a-
thc floor.
a Vermont village, having finished his
academical education, was ready to
enter college. Butjust before the day
appointed for his examination he was
taken” ill. After several weeks of sufi'er-
ing he slowly recovered his health, but
discovered that his mind had lost the
knowledge acquired by six years of
hardvstudy. Latin, Greek and mathe-
matics, all were gone, and his mind was.
a blank in respect to' his preparatory
studies. His dector prescribed that he
should rest his mind, and familiarize
himself with the few simple details of
light work. ,
He obeyed, and found, in his old
habit of doing things carefully, the
schoolmaster that brought back his old
knowledge.
Before his illness the young man, in
order to earn a little money, had taken
care of the village church, sweeping it
out, cleaning the lamps and doing the
work of a sexton. He now resumed
this work, and by the physician's advice
fried to keep his mind from puzzling
itself about its memory. Several weeks
went by without bringing any change
in his mental condition.
One Sunday evening . a stranger
entered the church, and, as the sermon
was a dull one, gazed carelessly around
until his attention was attracted by the
lamps on the wall. He noticed that all
the wicks were so carefully trimmed
that there was not nn_irregular flame to
be seen. life wondered as to" who could,
be the cu’refiiL,_sgxgpp,_und, happening
to be in the place the following Sunday,
he again noticed the some uniform trim«
thing of the-wicks. '
. Passing the church next day, and see-
ing the door open, he walked quietly in,
and saw the young sexton sweeping out
the central isle. Looking closely at the
young man, the stranger asked: “Do
you do all the work about the church 1"
"Yes, sir. "
“ Do you trim the lamps ?"
"Yes, sir.”
“Why do yo}: trim them in such I
peculiar way ?"
“ I don't know what you mean 1‘"
“Why, the flames are all alike. " _
”Oh, but they ought to be. You
would not have them uneven, would
you 1’" a ’ ' ' .
“No," answered the stranger, with a
smile. "But it speaks well for your
carefulness. Why, I should think one
of the flames would fit all the other:
exactly if it. were superimposed on
them." ’
“ Superimposed l
used in geometry 2"
“Certainly. If polygons,
equal sides and angles—"
Before the stranger could finish his
Isn't that word
having
sentence the student threw down his
broom, rushed frantically out of the
church, ran across the street and into
his house, where he astonished his
mother by exclaiining. in tones of tri-
umph, “Mother. I knowthat the square
of the hypotlienuse of a right angle tri-
angle is equnl to the sum of the squares
of the other two sides !"7
In a. moment his school knowledge
had come back to him, flashed into his
mind by the mention of superimposed ‘
figures. '
. A NORWEGIAN runs-run».
The first impression made by an or-
dinary house in Norway is not very
favorable. A cluster of houses, small
and aged, crowd around a large dwell-
ing house, which» generally looks dila-
pidated. -. But this. appearance is de-
ceptive; for the walls being of wood,
they look . old in a few years and become
blotched and scarred by the weather.
The roof is of the same material, or, in
the case of the principal building, either
red tile or slab. Sometimes the dwell-
ing house ‘is'painted white, when the
efiect is to relieve the sombre aspect of .
, the group. The walls are usually stout .
and thoroughly‘waterproof, plank about
four inches thick being used in their con- *
struction. These planks are placed
edgewise on one another, crossed and
countersunk at the angles and calked in
the seams with dry moss. A skin of
thin wood is placed over the outside,
while the interior is lined smoothly
with boards. Inside there is an air of .
comfort and cleanliness. A table stands
in the centre of the chief room, and.
along the wall a bench mm. which
serves as chairs, of which there is usu-
ally a deficiency. From pots on the
floor ivy is sometimes trained upward
to- the roof, giving the room a festive
and refreshing look. Not uufrequently
the worthy farmer is proud to have the
dresses of his daughters hung in con-
spicuous positions, in order that swains
who call may see that the damsels are
well provided with garments in case of
matrimonial alliance. The cow-houses
are generally an improvement on those
usually seen in England and Scotland.
The building is larger and more space
is allowed to each animal. while a clean
wood floor _ is ordinarily beneath the
cattle. Little or no beddingis given.
The level of. the cow-house is in most
cases raised high enough to allow of a
space beneath, into which the refuse is
regularly swept through an opening "in
LIUGHTER.
Do we, as a rule, laugh enough? In
there not too much beefsteak and too
little gravy for salutary digestion in the
every day consumption of brain food?
Is there spice enough to season the
standing dish of drudgery? There is a
, service to a chaste laugh, and its relation
to physical comfortianoteworthy. Our
emotions are the plaything of our sur-
roundings, and the graces we would
cultivate can never be perfected in an
atmosphere that is not cordial. The
nightmare of disasteg is ever disturbing
new endeavors and cherished ventures.
and if it is to be dispelled the handicst
helper is the sunshine ofmirth. .To one
who is in the maelstrom of cores. or
who is a galley slave in the struggle to
exist, ,or on whose cast of dice is staked
the gain or loss by living, there is no
force that‘can sustain as broad humor.
Music has a power to lighten loads, to
relax bows, but a side shaker seems to
be quite as salutary to the weary ones
in the market-place; A ditty travels to
the springs of the feelingsflmt a neatly
perpetrated pun makes . the man of care
take cheer as he toils. The mind that is
. lost to every appeal save the requisitions
of his vocation needs to be switched off,
and a handy way to do it is to tickle
him. It is said of Lincoln that his
indulgence in laughing and dry satiriz-
ing was a physical necessity—that the
rosponsibiliiiesof his policy during the
waif would have chafed him to despair
had he not repeatedly laughed away his
fears or stilled his foreboding with
funny exuberanccs. -
___.—o o—‘J.
The Rev. Sam Jones remembers a
steamer with a very small boiler and an
‘enormous whistle. As a result; every
time the boat whistled it stopped. It
will occur to dispassionate observers that
the body of "incorrigible spoilsmen”
of his party who are trying to fight the
Jones’s boat—there is agreat amount of
tooting, but no prong".
President is organized much like Brother .
GONSUMPTION 5 _
, toNQUERBlll
no more. .
cuss. A. cisterns, ‘32 Kawiey Street,
Boston. Mass" writes:~
“One year ago I was apparently so far.
gone with Consumption that my life
seemed only a question of (lays rather
than months. Willi my faith in the ability
of physicians to help me all gone, I tried
almost every known remedy, with no
apparent benefit Finally,‘as a last rc-
sort, I was induced to try Du. R C.
FLownn‘s LUNG CORDIAL. The very» first
dose gave me relief, and with the first
bottle I took a. new lease of life, and I can
honestly say to-duyihat one spoonful of
this remedy is worth more to the sufferer
from Lung troubles than a gallon of any
other known remedy. A bottle of it is
now one of my choicest possessions, and
at the first sympion of a cough or cold
I fly to it for the relief it. never fails to
give."
' DR. FLownn’sLu'NG COR-
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the most Wonderful Lung
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ll; cradicalcs the germ
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It stands without a rival for
Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis,
Asthma and Consumption.
Price, $1.00 per bottle.
7A copy of Dr. Flower-’8 Rules
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- ASTYLlSll «v
a,“ .
V l C T O o: l A ,
Newly Trimmed and Painted. -
A Fine Family Carriage.
_Will be sold at a very low price;
HENRY TILLY, ,
CARRIAGE MAKER.
The Ios . “1,, World.
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Shoulders, .
Breakfast ‘
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AND
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When the Doctors could do.
his seer been known. to do:-
For Sale Cheap.
WILLbelold lunar-gain," applied for soon
a small, neat Cottage, of six: coma, in
neighborhood and three minutes' walk of the
mags. Apply alt-GAZETTE ormcn. .
5 "For Sale.
A Chestnut Standing Desk. Appiymlt 0
I
mm.
For Sale.
DOUBLE BABRELLED RIFLE madcby John
Blissett, London. Will be sold cheap for
cash. Enquire at this omce.
“ ——'Tmfo— ——
Wheelers. Wilson Sewiu Machines
For Sale at a Great Sacrifice!
One old style Wheeler a Wilson SewingtMachiue
in fair running order, which cost $65, will be sold
It applied for promptly, for 810. "
One ditto, cost new $70, will be sold for .25. I
i‘smi'pg 5:th orgerfiuld no rliliachinehis capable 0
er wor . s rea wort 0.
at the Gaza-ms Orricn. ‘ y $4 Appl
I". II. PECK WELL,
ARCHITECT.
N0. 7 WATER STREET,
' I AGENT son
Gill crt. Lock Company.
Dibble Manufacturing Company's door
knobs.
~New York Wood Turning Companyéfj
Corner Blocks for window casings.
Round and Square Turned Balusters.
“ “ “ . “ Newels.
Plain a'ii'd"Double Moulded Stair Rails.
Also Flat Moulded Door and Window
Casings furnished at. short notice.
_ Real this Testimonial.
.Mr. Geo; B. I’laisted:
Dear Sir:
Knowing the formula. from
which. Ptaisied’s Cough
Remedy is prepared we can
certify that the medicines
0/" which it is composed are
of recognized utility for
6/1. mat and lung fro-u. b163,
and that it contains no
npimn or any poisonous or
injurious drugs.
ELERY c. CLARKE, M. 13., Norwaiv.
c. A. MURRAY, M. D..
DEXTER iilTOllCOCK,M. D.. u
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WM. C. BURKE, M. D.. SO. Nofwalk.
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E. S. MINER, M. D..
o. w. BENEDICT, M. 1).,
H. nuuonnronn, in. 1)., Stamford.
w. 5. 'rom), M. n , Ridgeneld.
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DRUGGIST,
Carin-Main and Wall Streets, loan.
62 Washington Street, Sillllll Norwalk.
GRAIN,
FLOUR,
I FEED,
COAL,
WOOD, l'
AND
HAY,
Must. be Sold Regardless of
Cost, at
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, South Norwalk. '
OLD FACTS
WITH
NEW Faces!
iLL Tunisia nus.
This is a careful selection of
household receipts for Cooking,
. Curing, Cleansing and in short
giving the most approved modes
- of doing everything connected
with our daily family living, It
isabook of 155 pages and every
receipt given has been practically
tested and approved. The book
is issued by the compiler and sold
for the purpose of liquidating the
debt upon the Episcopal Parson-
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, “ Paper, 50
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FAMILY GROCERIES. '
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. Organist ot the First Congregathaial Church,
- Teacher of
Pianoforte, Organ and Musical
- Composition,
Look Box 3 P. 0., NORWALK. CONN.
’ J. BELDEN HURLBUTT._.
Atlanta and Counsellor at Law,
Room No. 4. Up Stairs.
onzn'r'rn BUILDING, NORWALK, cons
F. .53.. Gunther,
. FURRIER,
PURSEREDYED, REGLEANED 84 ALTERED
Furs Made to Order.
. Samples on hand.
'Mahackemo Hotel, South Nor-walk,
Under Banks & Snyder. Gui?
SPECIAL BARGAIN S.
o o o .
Gho1ce Building Lots
Situated on Spring Hill, Wilton Avenue,
Fair Street, and Riverside Avenue. En-
quire at ann'r'rn OFFICE, or of
ms B. J. STUROES.
PENSIONS
—-—:AND:-—
Government Claims.
My sole business. Thousands have Rights
Neglected. Address, free of charge, or visit,
GEN. W. E. NOBLE,
91 Stratford Avenue, Bridgeport, Conn
W. II. MEEK an]
54 Main Street.
SOUTH 'NORWALK. CONN .,
Practical Plumber,
Steam and Gas Fitters, Dealers in Piumbers’ and
Steam Fitters' Supplies, and Gas Fixtures.
1321
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O. E. WILSON,
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Money to Loan.
' Room No. 3 Gazette Building, Norwalk, Conn.
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Insures against loss and damage by Fire, on
terms adopted to the hazard and consistent with
the laws of compensation. COWLES at MERRILL,
Sole Agents for Norwaik and vicinity.
THE
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Has now completed its
18th SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS YEAR
And has not outstanding a. dollar of unpaid losses
or claims for losses. No sound company insures
for less.
W. C. Smnn'r, Pres. S. E. Owsrnw, Tread,
Geo. R. Cowman Secretary.
A CARD-
Iiaving parakeet] the
FURNITURE BUSIN ESS,
Recently carried on by WILLIAM Locxwoon at
No. 35 MA!!! STREET.
I am prepared to meet the wants of all prospective
purchasers of furniture, both STAPLE AND
OitNAllEh'TAL. I have on hand a large
» stock which I will sell
V E RY
CHEAP FOR CASH
i shall be pleased to meet uh. old or new friends
and will guarantee satisfaction in
every case.
QEORGE H. RAYMOND.
riirnu L. colour,
FLORIST lllll 3+ illllN,
UNION AVENUE,
, North of Norwalk Cemetery,
NORWALE, - - CONN.
Dealerinln Green House and Hot House and
Bedding and Vegetable Plants, Fruit and Ornamen
tal Trees Shrubbery, Vines. Cut Flowers alway
on hand and all sorts of designs in Flowers arranged
to order. 41y2
Grading and Refilling Cemetery Plots
promptly attended to.
Jon-N H. surIH,
FLORIST,
EAST SIDE 01“ MAIN STREET, SOUTH
OF RAILROAD,
- City of South Nor-walk. Conn» '
Plants &Flowers at all seasons
Flowers for Funerals furnished and tastefully
arranged to order at short notice.
J .G. Gregory 8:; 00.,
'Desire to state that in addition to a full line of
Drugs, Proprietary Medicines and Druggists’
undries they are prepared to receive
orders for
Silk, Cotton or Linen
ELASTIC HOSE
For varicose or enlarged veins. Warruutedto
tit, and at reduced rates.
They also desire to state that they have accepted
the agency of the New York Vaccine 00., and will
keep a supply of
PURE BilVINE'VACClNE VlRllS
Constantly on hand.
They have in stock Electric Batteries, which
will be sold at close figures. They carry also a full
assortment of Keystone Writing Paper Packets. ~
Building lists
On WiltonAvenue
. Apply to
B. J. ITUBGES. or 0. E. WILSON,
omr'rn BUILDING m
~ Money to Loan.
En also of o. n. WILSON, No. a Gazette Build-
ng, orwalk. Conn. ttl3
“lunar mane than at anything else by siting
an agency or the best selling book out. Be-
gan succeed grandly. None ful.. Terms free
'1‘ BOOK U0. , Portland, Maine.
Sewing Machines Repaired
By. F. D. U'i‘TER, the Practical Sewiugliiacbinist.
Attachments and rts for all machines. Orders
bypostal' will recc v'e prompt attention. Residence
. corner Westport road, near Episcopal church,
Norwalk. Orders left at post odioe newstand. 1y30
$25 REWARD.—The above reward will be
paid for information that will lead to
the arrest and conviction of the party who is
false! representinga himself to be . M.
803 AB, theo tic naud ocuiist. Dr. Schwab
- is to be found on y at the Nor-walk and Mabackemo
Hotels. no employs no peddlors or Igouts. ms
.because he can do it.
ORIGIN or trim BANG.
-A careful historical chase of the bang
through many countries finally locates
the frizzly bang as being a native of
Africa, the ladies of that continent hav-
ing advantages for producing this style
of hirsute ornament which their sisters
further north never possessed. Es-
tablished as a fashion in Africa. itlost
no time in passing over into Asia, and
African slaves assisting in-its transit.
But the capillary , attractions of Asiatim.
ladies were by no means suited to the
African style, and all efi'orts at frizzling
their hair proving failures the curly
bang was evolved as thonearest ap-
proach to the African style. Thus did
the bang traverse thousands of miles
and so adapt itself to circumstances that
soon ethnologists have studiously main-
tained its Asiatic origin. .
Exactly when the bang came into
Europe is a matter of doubt, some
placing its advent in the latter days of
the Roman Empire, 'while others insist
that it was brought back from the East
by the Crusaders, but ~whenever it
came, it found that the front hair of
European ladies was intractable as
their temper, and so the hair-dressers
being unable either to curl or to frizzle,
the saucer bang, stiff, straight, soaped
and plastered down, as hideous as a
nightmare, was-finally evolved. This
being settled there remains Only the
concluding inquiry, whence came the
first bang ? The most formidable of the
animal kingdom is the much-dreaded
female gorilla, who inudefense of her
young is even worse than the male.
Certain African dialects have an expres-
sion “A female gorilla with her front
hair down,” to indicate the extremity
of ferocious bearing.
In time it came to pass that when
African ladies were abused by their
husbands they adopted the same gest-
ure, and, so far as the hair was con-
cerned, with the same result. Then
certain wives, to indicate their readi-
nose for battle at all seasons, took to
wearing their hair down over their
foreheads, and the fashion rapidly
spread to young ladies, who wore their
hair in this style of insinuating their
resolve never to submit to matrimonial
tyranny. Theddea spread, and the
bang flourished alike in African deserts,
on the banks of the Ganges, of the
Thames and of the Mississippi. Thus
the scientific research shed light on
social topics, and even the monstrosi-
tir-s of female costume are shown to
have their origin in intelligent action
for nothing is more reasonable than
that, as one animal taught man how to’
build his house and another how to
catch his dinner, his wife from a third
should learn how to dress his hair.
——HQ.._.._.
,BllAIN WORKER AND NOISES.
Bad noises, bad smells, bad light and -
inconvenient attitude, ugly surround-
ings, little misfortunes that have lately
been endured, little misfortunes that
are soon to come, hunger and thirst;
overeating and over-drinking, want of
’ . sleep or too much of it, a tight boot, a
starched collar, are all 1mm1' ' 'cal to think-
ing. I do not name bodily ailments.
The feeling of heroism which is created
by the mngnanimity of overcoming
great evils will sometimes make think-
ing easy. It is not the sorrows but the
annoyance of life which impede. Were
I told that the bank had broken in
which my little all was kept for me, I
' could sit down and write my love story
with almost a. sublimated vision of love;
but to discover that I had given half a
sovereign instead of sixpence to a cab-
man would render a great effort neces-
sary befqreIcould find fitting words
for a lover. These little lacerations of
the spirit, not the deep wounds, make
the difficulty. Of all the nuisances
named noises are the worst. Iknowa
hero who can, without any incon-
venience whatever, write his leading
article for a newspaper in a club smok-
ing-room, while all the chafi‘ of all the
Joneses, Smiths and Blakes is sound-
ingin his ears; but, heisa great hero
To think with a
barrel- organ within hearing is heroic.
As far as I myself am concernedI
own that a brass band altogether incapa-
citates me for anything. No sooner
does the commencing burst of the very
first note reach my car than I start up
in rather an agitated manner perhaps,
fling down my pen quite hastily. and
cast my thoughts disregarded into the
bottomless abyss of sane chaos which
is always there ready to receive them
into its depths.
——0‘—.-O.-"0—
BURIED ALIVE.
The exiles who live in the mines of
Russian Siberia are convict-s of the
worst type and political offenders of the
best, to quote the words of Stepniakk,
the distinguished Russian revolutionist.
The murderer for his villany, the intel-
ligent and honest Polish rebel for his
patriotism, are deemed equally worthy
of the punishment of slow death. They
never see the light of day, but work and
sleep all the year round in'the depths
of the earth, extracting silver or quick-
silver under the eyes of task-masters
who have orders not to spare them.
Iron gates, guarded by sentries, close
the lodes or streets at the bottom of the
shaft, and the miners are railed from
one another in gangs of twenty. They
sleep within rock hewn recesses—very
kennels—into which they must creep
on all fours. Prince Lumbormiroski,
who was authorized to visit one of the
mines of the Ural at a time when it was
not suspected that he would publish an
account of his explorations in France,
has given an appalling account of what
he saw.
Convicts racked with the joint pains
which quicksilver produces, men whose
hair and eyebrows had dropped off, and
who were gaunt as skeletons, were kept
to hard labor under the lush. They
have only two holidays at year—Christ-
mas and Easter—and all other days.
Sundays included, they must toil until
exhausted nature robs them of their
limbs, when they are hauled up to die
in the infirmary. Five years in the
quicksilver pits are enough'to turn a
man of thirty into an apparent sexu-
~genarinn, but some have been known to
struggle on for ten years. No man who
has ever served in the mines is ever
allowed to return home. The most he '
can obtain in the way of grace is leave
to come up and work in the roadways,
and it is the promise of this favor as a
reward of industry which operates even
more than the lush to maintain ~
discipline. ' .
Women are employed in the mines as
sifters, and get no better treatment than
the men. Polish ladies by the dozen
have been sent down to rot and die,
while the St. Petersburg journals were
declaring that they were living as free
colonists; and, more recently, ladies
connected ’with ' Nihilist conspiracies
have been consigned to the mines in
pursuance of a sentence of hard labor.
It must always be understood that a
sentence of Siberian hard labor means
death. .
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