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Suspense.
Heart slckness, that of old the wise man knew,
Despite his wisdom. creepeth like a pal!
Over the opulent Springtime, quenching all.
The sunshine, and the verdure, and the blue
Into one gray monotony of hue.
I hear from buddingboughs the thrushes call.
From beaded spray the tinted blossoms fall
Upon the long lush grasses wet with dew;
And all this harmony of light and song—
These swift cloud-shadows, purpling hill and
wold,
These emerald spaces betwixt leaves of gold—
Strlkes on my dull brain with a sense of wrong,
Spring to a sad heart, suddenly grown cold,
Seems a vain story, tedious told and long!
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In the Same Fix. -
Slade Sr Co.'s immense shop was quite
crowded. Charmingly attired ladies
swarmed about the counters; harassed
snleswomen pulled down innumerable
boxes and answered unlimited ques-
tions ; and thelittle baskets chased one
another along the wires to the cashier's
desk. .
At a farther counter, where pretty
toilet articles held sway, stood Annie
Rogers, gazing at her own fair image in
a plate glass hand mirror, with Russia
leather back.
“He’ll be sure to like it," she said,
looking up at the young man who stood
waiting by her side. "I will take it,"
she added, turning to the girl behind
the counter, and producing her purse;
“ It‘s his birthday, you know, ” she went
on, as the hand-glass went flying down
the wire; “we always make birthday
presents to each other. Dear, good old
Uncle Dodson!"
“ Uncle Dodson " he had always been
to her, although she was only an
orphaned relative of his dead wife,
adopted in her infancy.
He's a lucky person to have you to
care for him," said Howard Canby, tak-
ing charge of the hand-mirror, as it re-
appeared in its neat wrappiugs. " You
will let me walk home with you ?" he
went on, as they stepped out- into the
crowded street.
More than one noted them admiringly
as they walked slowly down the street
together—the graceful girl in her soft,
light dress, her cheeks grown pink and
her eyes bright in the fresh air, and the
tall young man, not far behind her in
personal advantages, bending to talk to
her.
But they were not aware of these
approving looks; they were not con-
scious, in fact, of anything beyond their
own absorbing conversation, ahiut of
which may be gathered from' their part-
ing words. For, as they mounted the
broad steps of the big Dodson house,
Annie was murmuring,—
“ What will Uncle Dodson say?"
“He'll give us his consent and bless-
ing, of course, my dear girl," said
Howard cheerfully.
He gave Mr. Dodson’s birthday pres-
ent into her possession, pressed her little
hand with a whispered word, and went
down the steps reluctantly.
A large valise stood in the hall, and
an unfamiliar hat hung on the rack.
Annie looked at them sharply. Proba-
bly it was some friend of Uncle Dodson’s
come to see him—he was something of
an invalid: But the hat—a speckled
straw, with a blue band—had an unmis-
takably youthful air. She ran up the
stairs wonderingly.
Mr. Dodson was sitting in the large
arm chair before the window, where
most of his time was spent. Ayoung
man of two-and-twenty, 0r thereabouts,
noticeable for nothing unless for the .
cheerfulness of his rather boyish face,
sat near him. _
Mr. Dodson looked up with a welcom-
ing smile as Annie entered.
“ My nephew, Dudley Hobart, my
dear girl,” he said.
The young man rose and bowed—
rather constrainedly, Annie thought.
Mr. Dodson regarded her anxiously.
"Sit down," he said.
’ Annie sat down by his side, feeling
that something unpleasant was coming ;
and the young man quietly withdrew.
“He is my nephew—my only rela-
tive," Mr. Dodson ibegan. “He will in-
herit my property, my dear girl."
“ Well!" said Annie cheerfully.
“We " Mr. Dodson repeated, strok-
ing her hand, “he will inherit my prop-
erty; but you must be provided for, too.
There seems to me but one way. I have
thought of it much ; but the best way
seems to be—that you should marry.
So I have sent for him,” said Mr. Dod-
son, going on hurriedly, “and we’ve
been talking of it, my dear. "
Poor Annie had listened silently.
Was this kind-hearted Uncle Dodson
who was saying these dreadful things?
"A little too business-fikc to suit you _
--eh?” said Mr. Dodson, noting her dis-
tressed face. “Yes; of course. I ex-
pected that. Young folks nowadays
have an idea that their elders shouldn't
have a word to say about these things—
not a word! But don’t you see, my
dear," he went on kindly, “that it's all
the same thing. Suppose I had got
Dudley here without mentioning my
little plan? Well, you’d have been
pretty sure to fall in love with each
other. "He’s as nice a follow as you’ll
find, Annie, and he knows a pretty girl
when he sees one, I imagine. Well,
then, why should you hold back, either ~
of you, merely because I give a little
push to a sure-enough affair ?"
The girl at his side turned her
troubled face away hastily.
It was a very simple thing, surely,
to put an end to all this. The mere
mention of Howard Canby would do it.
she was sure, for Uncle Dodson was not
mcgre. And yet, how could she meet
his possible displeasure and his certain
disappointment ? The words died away
on herlips. I ~-
. “A bashful pair of youngsters you
are, I vow!” said Mr. Dodson, witha
laugh. “If Dudly didn’t behave the
same way! 011, well, you'll get all over
that in time."
Annie opened her lips, hesitated.
closed them again, with a weakness and
cowardice of which she was painfully
conscious, and rose with helpless tears
dropping. Her recent purchase was
stillin her hand; 4"" I
“I have bought a little present for
your birthday, Uncle Dodson," she said
chokingly, and laid it on his knees.°
. g e e e e I
It was not until a rather late hour
that afternoon that Annie found courage
to visit Mr. Dodson’s room again.
he had carefully avoided Mr. Hobart.
Mr. Hobart! It was certainly the
ugliest name she had ever board! She
had taken lunch in her room, and had
not been out since.
At four o'clock a messenger-boy had
brought a very small parcel, addressed
to herself in Howard's well-known
writing, which, when she had opened
it eagerly, had been found to contain a
little band of gold, set with a glittering
stone.
It is a most unnatural proceeding for
’ 1. young lady to burst into talus at the
first sight of her engagement ring ;"‘but
that is what Annie did. For the pretty,
shining thing seemed only the symbol
if her trouble and perplexity.
She know perfectly that her right
:ourse was to put the ring on the proper
' finger, go boldly to Mr. Dodson, and
explain its position there. She did 110.
Indeed, as far as‘gaitting ’it on, and
i'~"ng:1t it fondlyztml ndiuiringly and
tom-sully, from every conceivable point
of View; but there her courage failed
her.
Dear old Uncle Dodson! How could
she (lash his well-meaning hopes to the
ground with a cruel word or two? He
was very far from strong; beside, sud-
:ion disappointments always did him
harm. She had dried her eyes and these
:I- spairing thoughts came over her, and
started mechanically for Mr. Dodson's
l'OOllJ.
Mr. Dodson sat facing the window,
as usual. His head was thrown back
and his eyes were closed. Annie drew
a. sigh of relief ; he was asleep. Dudley
Hobart was sitting in a corner of the
room. with a newspaper in his hand,
and his feet disposed comfortably, if
not gracefully, on asecond chair. He
rose hastily as Annie entered.
“He is asleep,” the young man rc-
marked, after a timid pause.
“I had observed it," said Annie,
shortly, not deigning to look at the
speaker.
Hobart looked confused. He had laid
down his paper, and passed his hand
over his closely cropped head in a
troubled way, and finally offered her a
chair. '
There seemed to be nothing else to
do, so Annie sat down stifliy. Mr. Ho-
bart took the other chair. If Annie
had glanced at him, she might have
seen that a pleading look filled his
boyish face; but she looked coldly over
his head, and studied the pattern of the
wall paper.
There was silence for several minutes.
Then the young man, with a nervous
clutch of his chair back, and with a
visible efi‘ort, began desperately:
“Mr. Dodson" said he, "had told
you his—his little plan." '
Annie was cruelly unresponsive.
“May I inquire what you think of
it!" she said, flashing an indignant
glance toward the young man. "It is
absurd and abominable! He is dread-
fully mistaken," she went on more
mildly, indicating Mr. Dodson. “It
can’t possibly be—indeed it cannot i"
The occupant of the arm-chair moved
restlessly ; he was waking up.
Annie lowered her voice as she went
on in a serious tone,—
“ I am already engaged. 1—"
She paused in bewilderment. The
face of her listener had been suddenly
transformed with unmistakable relief
and joy. He seized her hands impul-
sively.
“ Engaged! Well, if we aren’t in the
same boat ! So am I l"
Annie's severity vanished; her cold
gaze gave way to a quick smile of sym-
pathy.
“Are you, Mr. Hobart 1’" she cried.
“ Oh, I am so glad 1"
"Don't call me Mr. Hobart, " said the
young man, impetuously. “Call me
Dad. Everybody calls me Dud."
Annie laughed, and they sat down in
a friendly way.
"I have only been engaged since
this morning," said Annie confidentially.
See,—-he has just sent me a ring! He's
the nicest fellow in the world! You’ll
think so when you see him." .
“He ought to be the happiest." said
Dad, gallantly, taking her hand to ex-
amine the ring. .
They had lowered their voices care.
fully; further than that, Mr. Dodson's
presence was fully ignored
“The ring I gave Genevieve was
something like i " Dad continued
briskly. "Pretty name—Genevieve—
isn’t it 1’" v
" Very pretty," said Annie.
“She's a pretty girl, too, said Dud,
warmly. “I just wish you could see
her! She's only seventeen, but you
would not think it. Here, I’ll show you
her picture."
He took it carefully from an inner
pocket, and held it out triumphantly.
“She is very pretty." said Annie,
looking down approvingly at the fair
young face in the picture.
“I know you'd think so,” said Dad.
looking highly gratified. "
“I have Howard's .‘pioture Lin the
album down stairs," said Annie. “I'll
run down and get it. I’d like to have
you pass your opinion on it."
_ She tripped away softly, and came
hurrying back, breathless, .with the
plush-covered book in her hand.
“He looks as though hchadsome-
thing in him." was Dad’s masculine
comment.
“ Well, he has," said Annie, with a
proud smile. “Of course," she went
on hesitatingly, “we must tell Uncle
Dodsbn l"
“ Of course," said Dud.
Their eyes met ; they smiled gniltily.
“ “To tell the truth," said the young
man, candidly, “I’d rather be shot i"
" My case exactly," Annie responded.
“ You see,”said Dad, looking anxious,
“he intends it all as a favor, a benefit
to us ; and to go and knock all his plans
endways in that style—I'd just aslief
be let out of it, for my part i"
“Precisely as I fee " murmured
Annie. “ What shall we do ?”
“Don’t ask me i" said Dud, enter.
tainingly. '
An uneasy pause, filled by a helpless
contemplation of each other with
wrinkled brows.
“ Of course we must tell him," Annie
repeated resolutely. '
“ Of course," said Dad, again.
But that was as far as it went A
rustling sound from Mr. Dodson’s arm
chair roused them, to a sudden sense of
his presence.
“Are you awake, Uncle Dodson ?"
said Annie, getting up slowly to go to
him, Dad following.
“Wide awake, my dear girl," said
Mr. quson, promptly.
“Dbes your head ache 1’" said Annie.
bending over his chair, and feeling
hypocritical. .
Mr. Dodson'sreply was a strange one.
It was a short, rather sarcastic laugh.
His young companions exchanged
startled glances. Could he have over-
heard them? No; that was impossible.
But he turned on them abruptly.
“ So you've gone and encouraged that
good-for-nothing young Cauby, have
you, miss ?" he began, fixing poor Annie
with ahumorously stern gaze. “Thrown
yourself away on that young upstart-
eh f” V
The trembling girl could only stare
in a bewildered manner.
"And you, sir." Mr. Dodson went on,
turning to his nephew; “you've tied
yourself to some little chit of a school-
girl not out of bibs yet, I suppose .9 A
nice pair you are 1"
His listeners stood speechless.
“Did you—overhear us 2" murmured
Dad, at last finding his voice with an
effort. .
“Not a word, sip—note word i" said
Mr. Dodson, coolly.
“You’re a clairvoyant, then i" ejacu-
lated.the young man, half behaving it.
Mr. Dodson laughed again, in evident
enjoyment of their confusion.
"And you were afraid to tell me, ch 1’"
said be. “You were going to deceive a
poor, helpless old man 1"
“No, no i" said Dad, in weak pro-
testatiou. ’ ' ,
But Annie's face expressed only a’grow.
ins: wonder-dis she said beseechingly:
5y.
" How did you know, Uncle Dodson '1"
For answer, Mr. Dodson took up the
hand-mirror—Annic‘s birthday present
——fi-om its satin-lined case, held it be-
fore his eyes, and motioned the two to
look into it. It reflected, with wonder-
» ful distinctness, the entire rear of the
room, including the chairs in which
they had sat.
"When I saw you, my dear," said
Mr. Dodson, looking up with twinkling
eyes into Annie's astonished face—"
" when I- saw you exhibiting a diamond
ring, which appeared to be a recent
acquisition, and bringing up the album
to show—well, let us say old Mrs.
Presley's picture—and when I saw you,
sir, whippingout an absurd little tin-
type and actually talking about it as if
it were something worth looking at—
I drew my conclusion."
“You are not angry, Dear Uncle
Dodson ?" said Annie. timidly, a queer
mixture of relief and apprehension in
her face. ' e
“ But I am," said Mr. Dodson, with a
smile which refuted words, “and I
think I shall leave my money to—well,
say to a Home for Destitute Dogs.
Neither of you deserve it i" ,
“But neither of us want it," said
Annie, tenderly. "You'll enjoy it your-
self for a long time yet, I trust." '
Dud echoed her words.
“ I suppose I shall divide it equally
between - you," said Mr. Dodson,
musingly; “but you don’t deserve it,
by Jove l”
Mr. Dodson was the liveliest of the
gathering at Annie’s wedding. a few
months later. He gave away the bride:
hemadc astirringspeech, and holds
quads-ills. But his words of congratu-
lation to young Mrs. Canby were a
great puzzlé to the by-standers,——'
"You owe it all to the hand-mirror.
my dear l"
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ur mnnori wnmr. ammo.
I’ Napoleon cnunciatcdthis as amilitary
principle in his reflections at St. Helena,
giving his reasons, and attributing his
rapid conquests of Austria, Prussia, and
Spain to the defenceless state of their
capitals, and the loss of his own kingdom
in 1814 to the same defect. 1n the war
between Prussia and Austria in 1866 the
latter power made peace when the cap—
ture of Vienna became almost inevitable.
When the French and Germans fell out
in 1870 the French cry was “a Berlin;"
and the German hosts having cleared
the French field armies out of the way,
fastened their grip on Paris as the vital
point. The enormous development of
the German force, and the long-con-
tinued occupation of the country before
they could force the city to surrender to
blockade, afford a measure of the advan-
tage of foran a capital as a means of
preventing an attack upon it. The Cri-
mean war and the Italian war of 1859
might seem exceptions to the rule that
’ the capital is the vital point, but they
are not. The first was undertaken as a
‘ means of preventing Russia from taking
or threatening the capital of Turkey,
which is, besides, a most important
strategic point. The second was ina
sense a local war for an outlying province
of Austria, in which that State was not
itself invaded at all; nevertheless, the
capture of the capital of Lombardy was
followed by the evacuation of that prov-
ince by Austria, and the battle of 801-
ferinowas only necessary to prevent her
attempting to recover it. Napoleon
described his designs in these words:
“A la verite je Ifallais pas soumettre ct
occuper comma Cesar la fiere Albion,
j’allais ruincr scs chantiers, ses arsenaux,
scs manufactures ‘ ‘ ‘ i1 no me
fallait qua trois semaines pour opcrer la
descente, entrer dans Londres, ruiner
les chanticrs, ct detruire les arscnaux do
Portsmouth ct Plymouth.” London,
besides being the commercial and social
centre-and the seat of Government,
includes within its immediate neighbor-
hood -and the circuit of its defense the
only great arsenal and mannfactory of .
guns-at Woolwich, the principal powder
factory at Waltham, and some of“ the
largest private powder factories, the
great and only Government small-arm
manufactory at Euficld, and the chief
store of small arms at the t‘ower. The
capture of London would therefore
paralyze England's defense, and though
no doubt she could transfer the seat of
Government elsewhere, and find factor-
ies of arms, powder, 850., in the midldnd
counties and the north. yet they are
very accessible toaforeign army. and
equally undefcnded. It will serve to
give some ideaof her position'in case
she lost command of the sea round her
coast, (she must not limit her command
to the channel.) it is remembered that
London is only 50 miles from the south
coast and 50 from the cast; that after
many battles, and in spite of French
forces numbering 210,000 men, the Ger-
mans had got to Paris, 250 miles from
the frontier, six weeks after it was
crossed.
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THE IMITATION BUTTER SALE.
The evil feature of the trade in imita-
tion butter is that it is largely fraudu-
lent. A prominent manufacturer oi
batterine lately told the writer, in
response to an inquiry, that, in his
opinion, not more than 25 per cent. of
the butterfnc made in the United States
is sold under its true name. It may
safely be assumed that the estimateis
not too low, and that fully three-
quarters of the product is eventually
sold and eaten as butter. Reliable
statistics of the production of imitation
butter are not to be obtained, so far as
I have been able to find, but it must be
enormous. The fact. which is stated.
on good authority. that Chicago, one oi
the chief seats of the manufacture, ex~
ports more “butter" than it imports,
is suggestive in this connection. The
manufacturer, it may be assumed, sells
his product as an imitation, though
even here facilities for deception are
afforded in the use of such names as
“creamer-y" and "dairy" batterine
and in the branding of packages with
the] names of imaginary creamerics.
But as the imitation passes through the
restaurant or boardinghouso-kceper,
to the consumer, it undergoes a trans-
formation, until, at the end. it is the
exception, when it is not butter simply,
with no suffix. Since the imitation can
be produced much‘icheuper than the
genuine article, and can with diflculty
be distinguished from it, it affords a
to increase his profits. Asia natural
result, the manufacture of and trade in
genuine butter have suffered under
thisnnfair competition. and a Wide-
sprelid change in the butter trade of the
cities is taking place. Consumers,
averse to eating butterfno at all, and in
self-defence are coming more and more
to make contracts for butter directly
with reliable producers to the benefit
of both parties and the injury of the
middleman, who seem now lobe ina
fair way to reap as they have sown.
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The profitable maxim in life is the
middle way. Don’t quite believe any-
body, for he may mislead. you : neither
disbeliove him,,foi- thinsfi" uncommi-
I moutary to your friend." " '
hands» or the jobber,- reteiler and...
tempting opportunity to the middleman ,
wisely or unwisely, are generally very.
FAST STEAMERS.
The rage for fast passages still con-
tinues, and coal. oil, and firemen's
wages are not allowed to enter into the
problem. The author of “Merchant
Shipping " vigorously declaimed ten
years ago against what he called “the
almost insane desire for increasing
speed in locomotion by land and by
sea," by persons who were not aware,
or who did not consider, that high
speed involved increased danger, and
accordingly increased cost in naviga-
tion. It is no doubt true, as he ob-
served, that higb speed can only be
maintained by high power, and that
high'speed and high power require
stronger parts in everything—in the
material of which the ship is built. as
well as additional firemen and expendi-
ture of fuel. All this is well understood
» by shipbuilders, who can strengthen the
vessels they turn out to any speed that
is required, leaving the extra expendi-
ture entirely to the owners for which
they are intended. As to the entire
danger, so far as has yet been ex-
perienced, travelling by} a fast boatis
no more risky than travelling by a fast
train, and authorities on railway mat-
ters generally agree as to the fact that
express trains are the safest. The
vessel that is the shortest time at sea is
the shortest time in danger if the sys-
tem of insurance is considered, and the
vessel that can go 20 miles an hour in‘
clear weather can lay to for hours in
thick weather or fog; while. as ad-
mitted by the Chairman of the Cunard
Company at the last meeting, the full
capital of a single fast Atlantic liner is
saved in a year by the maintenance of
special services with a boat less. When
the Collins Line was competing with
the Cunard Mr. Bayard, one of the
management, in speaking on behalf of
his proposal to “run the Cunardersofi
the Atlantic," said: "We must have
speed, extraordinary speed—a speed
with which our vessels can overtake
any vessel they pursue, and escape from
any vessels they wish to avoid." The
Cunard Company gained in the strug-
glc, partly through good fortune and
partly through superior management,
though not as regards speed. But Mr.
Buyard’s ideas are entirely rcciprocatcd
at the present time, when high-class
merchant vessels areselected to act as
armed cruisers on the more rumor of
war as the best for pursuit or avoidance
of the enemy at most remunerative
rates. In actual war such vessels could
run the Atlantic blockade, while it
would be unsafe to allow slow vessels
to put to sea, for their capture would
be certain, and they would only serve
to replenish the coal bunkers of. the
enemy’s fast cruisers. Commercial mar
are naturally in favor of comfortable
and fast Atlantic steamers, and declaim
against slow ships as vehemently as
they 'would against a railway Parlia-
mentary train. They may be found in
their usual corner of a London city
restaurant on the first day of the month,
and at the same table on the'luast day
will be able to tell you what they had
for dinner in Delmonico’s, New York,
or in the chief restaurants of the West-
ern towns, as well as on board the
vessel out and home in the interim.
“—0.”.
GEORGE WASHINGTON As A JUMPER.
When Washington was a young man,
in traveling along the upper Potomac
he stopped at an inn one day and in-
quired the news. The landlord told
him the sensation of the day was a
jumping match for a wife on the estate
of one of the richest planters near by.
On being told that it was open toall
comers, Washington started for the
place and arrived there just as the
jumping was completed. He noticed
that the young lady in question was
highly plowed with the .Jsuccessful
jumping of one of the competitors who
had out-distanced all of the others. At
the close Washington asked if he might.
try hisichanccs. He was told to go
ahead, and he made by far the best
jump Of the day. As he returned to
the crowd he noticed that the young
lady's face had fallen and he went up to
her and remarked: “You would have
preferred I had not been the one to
excel others ?" The lady candidly said
this was so. “ Then, " said Washington,
“I give my chance to him," and he
returned as unknown as he came.
Toward the close of the Revolution this
young lady, now the wife of a colonel
of militia, met Washington and on tell-
ing, her husband that she had met
him before be doubted the fact, and
the two went to Washington to decide
it. “Yes,” replied General Washifis
ton, “I saw your wife at the jumping
match- before she was married, and I
believe I won her.” '
b...“
DON'T GO TO LAW.
Comparatively few intelligent people
voluntarily go to law. Look over the
list of plaintifi‘s in the courts. Their
names too often suggest ignorance, and
ignorance is the parent of prejudice.
hate and revenge. Women, too, are
known to seek a lawyer or justice in
order to secure compensation for partly
real or fancied wrongs. These people
imagine the law to be a weapon of
revenge and destruction which they
can wield at their own pleasure like a
club, for the injury of any one who
excites their ire. But juries are prover-
bially hard-hearted, and seldom give the
plaintiff encouragement in such cases.
Lawyers and clergyman seldom ever
go to law; neither doctors, teachers,
scholars and other classes of intelligent,
well-informed men. They avoid strife.
seek to settle unavoidable difficulties
and misunderstandings amicably, and
to live at peace with their neighbors.
They know that the game of law is
highly flavored with trickery—that the
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and it is strange that on Spitzenbergen
it is casierto' find bones of a gigantic
lizard—'0! remote geological time. than
those of" a “ a self-dead " sen], walrus or
bird. _ _, __
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OPTICIAN and OCULIST,
WILL 1111. AT NORWALK.
June 21st and 2211, 1886,
At Nemeallc Hotel.
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practical experience of twenty-five years in thl
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I five therefore combined my practice of an
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They also desire to state that they have accepted
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keep a supply of
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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.
R B. CRAUFURJ),
Insurance, Real Estate and
Investment Securities,
31 Main Street. Norwalk.
‘ Agent for the
American Ins. 00., of Newark, N. J.,
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Northern Assurance Co., of Lomlon.... 16333402
Germaine Fire Ins. 00., of New York. . 2,700,000
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A large number of desirable dwellings and farms
for sale. 1 yzi-f
I847. 1886. _
.‘I‘ILL AT THE FRONT
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IIK LIICKWOCD 85 00.
E. K. Locxwoon. FRANK I. Jonas.
' itch, 8111631100
MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN
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Hard Wood Ceiling and Flaming.
South NOI‘WflIIi, 00ml.
Geo. S. Gregory.
Livery. Boarding, Sale,
Feed and Exchange
55 t a. b 1 e s .
No. 14: Knight 81.
(In rear of Horse Car Depot),
NOBWALK, CONN.
Carriages furnished at all hours.
Ocurteou
Mention and gentlemauly drivers. 1y
JOHN ll. SMITH,
FLORIST,
EAST SIDE 01" MAIN STREET, SOUTH
OF RAILROAD,
City of South Nemalk. Coma,
Plants anFlowers at all seasons
Flea era for Funerals furnished andtastefully
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of recognized. utility /or
throat and lung-3” fraubles,
and that if. can Minx; m;
opium or any poisonous or
injurious drugs.
ELERY C. CLARKE, M. 1)., Norwalk.
C. A. MURRAY, M. 1)., “
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Corner Main and Wall Shuts, Norwall.
62 Washington Street, 301111 Nurwalk.
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SOL! CITOR OF
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WASHINGTON. D. C.
xii-union (3mm: before Congress In Specially
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0n Wilton Avenue
Apply to
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Stoves flanges,
' Crockery, China,
AND FINE DECORATED
Tea and Toilet Sets,
TABLE GLASS WARE,
Stalin 1111 Hugh Lilllli
OF NEW PATTERNS,
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.2 Heavy Grocery Wagons.
1 Lumber Box wagon.
1 Light Trotting Wagon. .
1 Four Passenger Surrey.
Apply to
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Norwalk, Conn. .
aid for information that will lead to
the arrest and conviction of the party who is
false! representin himself to be DR. M.
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FAMILY GROCERIES,
.1. .BELDEN HURLBUTT.
11111111 111 Counsellor at Law,
Room No. 4, Up Stairs,
GAZETTE BUILDING, NORWALK, CONN
JAMES '1'. EUBBELL,
Allil‘llBY and Counselor at Law
a Gazette Building,
NORWALK, . CONN.
ALEX. s. GIBSON,
Organist of 1st Congregational Church, Waterbury,
Teacher of
Pianoforte, Organ and Musical
Composition,
Lock Box 39 P. 0., NORWALK, CONN.
E. WHITWORTH,
Successor to B. CouN,
MERCHANT TAILOR,
WEEKS’ BUILDING, WALL STREET.
A FULL LINE or
Imported and Domestic Cloths.
0f the Latest Styles, constantly on hand.
Novelties in Scotch Suitings.
teed in every particular.
PENSIONS
—-:AND:—
Gene/remnant Claims.
My sole business. Thousands have Rights
Neglected. Address, free of charge, or visit,
GEN. W. H. NOBLE,
91 Stratford Avenue, Bridgeport, Conn
W. H. MEEKER.
54 Main Street,
SOUTH NORWALK. CONN.,
Practical Plumber,
Steam and Gas Fitters, Dealers in Plumbers’ and
Steam Fitters’ Supplies, and Gas Fixtures.
1y21
O. E. .WILSON,
General Insurance It Real Estate. Agent
Money to Loan.
llocm No. 3 Gazette BuildingNorwalk, Conn.
Satisfaction guaran-
Jobbing promptly attended to.
‘TNA INSURANCE 00., of HARTFORD.
Incorporated 1812. Charter Perpetual.
CAPITAL AND ASSETS, $8,902,272.64.
insures against loss and damage by Fire. on
terms adopted to the hazard and consistent with
. the laws of compensation. COWLES .15 MERRILL,
Sole Agents for N orwaik and vicinity.
THE
Norwalk Fire Insurance Co.
Has now completed its
lSih SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS YEAR
And has not outstanding a dollar of unpaid losses
or claims for losses. No scum! company insures
for less. '
W. C. STREET, Pros, S. E. OLMSTEAD. Tress,
GEO. it. (Iowans. Secretary. .
A. CAILRD.
Having purcaased the
FURNITURE BUSlN ESS,
Recently carried on by WILLIAM Locxwoon at
No. 36 MAIN STREET. '
I am presumed to meet the wants of all prospective
purchasers of furniture, both STAPLE AND
ORNAMENT”. I have on hand a large
stock which I will sell
1
V LRY
CHEAP FOR CASH
lshallbc pleased to meet ah old or new frienis
and will guarantee satisfaction in
every case.
gTEORGE H. RAYMOND.
PETER L. GUIGUE,
FLORIST 81M] SERIIIIN,
UNION AVENUE,
North of Norwalk Cemetery,
NORWALE, - - CORN.
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 designsin Flowers arranged
to order. 41y2
Grading and Rc-filling Cemetery Plots
promptly attended to.
F. H. .PECKWELL,
ARCHITECT
Pl
No. 1 WATER STREET,
AGENT r01:
° Gill crt Lock Company.
Dibble Manufacturing Company’s door
knobs.
New York Wood Turning Company.
Corner Blocks for window casings.
[found an Square Turned Balusters.
f‘ “ “ “ Newcls.
Plain and Double Moulded Stair Rails.
Also Flat Moulded Door and Window
Casings furnished at short notice.
BEING UNABLE TO MANUFACTURE
HARNESS
Tu compete with large concerns, I have taken th
agency of one of the oldest and largest estab-
lishments in the state for the sale of
Harness. Saddles, Halters, Sur-
cingles , Collars, 860.
I shall also Make
The Harness to Order
as usual, at the old stand,
filo. 7 WATER STREET,
where I will keep a regular line of Whips, Sponges
Chamois, Blankets, Robes, Feed Bugs,
Traveling Bags, (kc.
J- F. Pec'lzawe‘ll.
Notice to Builders.
FIRST-QUALITY BUILDING S’I‘ORI‘} for sale
ti
cheap. Apply to
2 J AYES K. SELLECK, _
1’. 0, Box 2?). Norwalk.
For Sale.
ADOUBLE BARRELLED RIFLE madeby John
Blissett London. Whine 8‘]! ~11
ash. Enqulieatthlsomce. M L cup for
BUCHANAN’S BACHELORHOOD.
President Buchanan’s love story is
historic, and reads more like the con-
ventional novel of fifty years ago than
plain fact. But it happened just as
tragedies happen every day that are
many times stranger than fiction. When
he was a poor young lawyer he became
engaged to Miss Coleman, who belonged
to one of the richest, staidest and, it
may be assumed, narrowest-minded and
most pnrblind families in Philadelphia.
The Colemans by no means approved of
the match, but nevertheless the young
couple became engaged. Mr. Buchanan
was then practising law in a remote
part of Pennsylvania, and in those days
of stage coaches and saddle-bags corres-
pondence was liable to interruptions.
Miss Coleman‘s letters became irregular
and then stopped altogether. He wrote
repeatedly, but got no reply. At last
be determined to go to Philadelphia,
but at Lancaster the stage met with an
accident and Mr. Buchanan suffered a
broken leg. He wrote again as soon as
he was able, but still heard nothing.
Laid up in a country tavern, in the
midst of a. phenomenal snowstorm, for
six weeks, embittered him, and'he wrote
Miss Coleman 3 letter of fierce re-
preaches, and then wrote no more. Now
for Miss Coleman’s part. Her eminently
respectable family from the beginning
intercepted all of her letters and all 'of
Mr. Buchanan's. She made all the
appeals to him awoman could make,
but she never had a line from him after
he left Philadelphia, except that last
cutting letter—and as, unfortunately, it
contained nothing but his renunciation
of her, she could know nothing of what
had proceeded it. The eminently re-
spectable family were satisfied—the -
match was broken off by means that
would have landed them all in the peni-
tentiary in these days. A year or two
afterward Mr. Buchanan was in Phila-
delphia, and at a ball came face to face
with Miss Coleman. Neither spoke, and
Mr. Buchanan paid marked attention
'to another girl present. That nighta
young friend who was staying with Miss
Coleman said to her, while the two
girls were alonein their room: “Did
you see Mr. Buchanan's attentions to
Miss —— ? Now they might have been
yours had you recognized him.” Miss
Coleman began to sob violently. She
would not be soothed, and her friend
becoming alarmed, called the family.
Of what next happened two accounts
have been given: one was that she had
taken poison, and her sufferings after-
ward came from that—but those who
were near her said that she was simply
suffering from uncontrollable mental
anguish. Towards morning, when her
pulse had got so low that it was scarcely
perceptible, and her nervous excitement
had changed intoaprofound stupor, the
doctors were sent for. But she was
past help. They never roused her, and
she died the next day of what the doc-
tors called nervous exhaustion, but
which goes by the name of a broken
heart. Then the truth came to Mr.
Buchanan’s ears, and from that day his
bachelor-hood was assured, and his
“dream of love was o’er."
W—
BIRD-CATCHING—FAROE Isnaxns.
A party of twelve men working in
combination and rotationwill not be-
tween three and four thousand of birds
in a day, valued at a penny apiece ; and
n little later in the season you may see
these birds hanging by hundreds at a
time in Farce outhouses, there to dry
after a fashion for future consumption.
A native Faroesc would consider he
was dining luxuriously on half a dozen
of these shrivelcd anatomies stewed or
baked in whale fat. But, even apart
from the “whale liqueur,” toastranger
the birds do not especially recommend
themselves. The manner in which a
Farce fowler goes to work is rather
interesting. He has primarily to con-
sider the wind, inasmuch as this is the
chief assistant force which he presses
into his service. If the wind be favor-
able he takes his long net, mounted on
a stout wooden handle and frame, and
goes to that particular cleft or crevice
in the sea rocks which he knows to ofi'er
a chance of sport. Down here he care-
fully clambers, until he finds good
standing and working room where the
birds are bustling past him before the
wind. It is then a matter of muscles
and routine. By barring the passage
with his net he inevitably catches all the
birds that continue their flight through
the rift, and his attributes then must be
mainly those of strength and endurance.
Of course, not everywhere can a fowler
attain to his perch by the exclusive use
of hislegs. - Infinite pluck and nerve
are both necessary. And so honorable
acalling in youth is that of afowler
considered that you may hear grave and
gray men of means and position recount-
ing with sparkling eyes the adventures
of their younger days. on such and such
a rock, with an understood, if not
uttered, regret that such days are over
and past for them. Amember of the
Lagthing. or Farce Parliament, was
delighted, for instance, to tell me the
tale of some of his early tricks on the
rocks by Sandoe. A curious custom
used to prevail here with regard to the
fowlers. If one of them, in the exer-
cise of his vocation, happened to slip,
fall. and killed himself thereby the body
was not recovered by his comrades.
They probably looked upon the acci-
. dent as a visitation of God. Nowadays
they are‘more enlightened. and there-
fore more humane. '
AN EARTHQUAKE A WEEK.
According to an official statement
issued by the Japanese Government,
there occurred 553 earthquakes during
the nine years and sixmonths preced-
ing December, 1884, averaging one
earthquake for every six days and six
hours. This must. however, refer to
the capital and the surrounding district
only, and earthquakes of great violence
can alone be counted, for Professor
Milne was able to trace an average of
an earthquake per day in Nagasaki, in
the extreme south of the Japanese
Archipelago. The official statisticson
the other hand, may possibly be com-
piled from the returns of local officials
all over the country, in which case only
those shocks which caused loss of life
or damage to property would be in.
cluded. If this hypothesis is correct
we should have an average of more than
unearthquakc per week which was so
violent that it caused injuries tolife or
property sufficiently serious to. attract
the attention of the local authorities,
and, in their judgment. to require a
report to the central Government.
TEA POISONING.
' Chronic tea poisoning, according to
D. W. N. Ballard, is a frequent affec-
tion, the most common symptoms of
which are less of appetite, dyspepsia,
palpitation, headache. vomiting and
nausea combined with nervousness,
Ind hysterical and neuralgic affections,
Irequentlmcompunied by constipation
md pain about the heart. Among adult
women the average amount‘necded to
muse poisonous symptoms is alittl'e less
than five cups daily, but the youngfa‘nd
weak are more easilv‘ afi'ected. __
Norwalk Chronicler