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Volume LXXXVI.
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NORWALK, CONN, TUESDAY OCTOBER 19 1886.
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Such a Charm in Its Tenn. 1.
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No, not leave me not to my sorrow. ‘
With silence, the nurse of despair; ‘
Oh! come to me still; let me borrow "
From thee an oblivion of care.
Oh! come with thy light-hearted laughter.
For there’s such a charm in its tone,
Like music ’twill haunt me long after
Thy form from my dwelling has gone.
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Oh! come with thy memory’s treasures.
Thy stories and snatches of song;
Oh! tell of thy innocent pleasures.
I never can listen too long.
Oh, come! though dcsponding you’ll find me. "
I’ll smile e’er I see thee go forth; ‘
I want thy gay voice to remind me
There’s happiness still upon earth.
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Alas! there’s a time when dejection
Would breathe the wild words of despair
Were it not for the veil which affection
Throws over the records of care.
Then come with thy light-hearted laughter.
For there’s such a charm in its tone.
Like music, ’twill haunt me long after
Thy form from my dwelling has gone.
W0—
A Splendid Farce.
Popl popl popl
“Oh!” shouted the children, “ what
glorious ones they are;” and they
crowded closer about Uncle Josh.
This dignified personage sat before
the blazing wood fire in the kitchen
(we were Maine folks, reader), holding
one of these square, sieve-like boxes,
with a long handle, known—I think
only to Yankeedom proper—by the
atrocious but significant name of “ corn
peppers!”
“Give me that big one,” shouted
Maggie, the pet. “That’s the king of.
them a .”
Uncle Josh smiled and handed her the
kernel.
“’Taint so awful good, is it, sis?”
he asked a moment after.
“Why, it wasn’t sweet a bit. There
was no taste to it,” whimpered the pet.
“’Xactly, sis; ’cause it was jcs’ com-
pletely turned inside out—all ‘pop’ and
no sweet. Not half so good as this
little dried up lookin’feller. That’s the
way of the world, Maggie. There’s a
good many folks like this kernel—so
much on the outside there’s nothing
left for hum. All ‘pop’ and no sweet
~—eh, Nelly? What are you laughing
at?” as involuntarily I smiled at his
quaint philosophy. “True, ain’t it?
That Reminds me. Here’s a letter I
got at the office for you to-day.”
I seized the note eagerly, but held it
a moment before opening it; for the
airy, delicate handwriting carried me
back through the lights and shades of
two years to my boarding school days
and Judith May. We were sw0rn
friends, Judith and I, on the principle
that “extremes meet,” I suppose, for I
was grave, studious and plain; she
thoughtless, madly merry and undoubt-
. edly intended some time to be a belle;
some time, I say, because, though pos-
sessing all the elements of beauty, she
was a boarding school girl; and, as
such, wore tumbled collars, wasn’t par-
ticular about her hair and hands, and
had a very bread and butter expression.
It had been a. joyful day for her when
she finally left school, for she hated its
restraints; but our parting would have
done for a “ sensation romance,” and our
farewell was a. solemn promise to offici-
atc as bridesmaid for each other.
Her letter claimed my promise. It
was short and characteristic:
DEAR NELLY—I haven’t written to
you before because I had nothing to
say, and hated to bother you and myself
with platitudes; and, even now, I am
going to be stupid, since I have nothing
more original to say than that I am
about to be married. I will tell you all
about him now, and then you must
never mention his name to me as I hate
to be bored. He isFrederick I1ac ,son
of the wealthy P.B .Lacy, and as a
tremendous mustache, and a tailor who
does very well by him. That is all,
positiv.ely Come as soon as possible.
Yours, JUDITH.
I should as soon have dreamed of
going on a pilgrimage to Mecca, as not
complying with her invitation, or,
rather, command, but the starting of
the electric light was not attended by
more difliculties than mine, and the
“come as soon as possible” provedto
be a full two weeks. We [were plain
people, and I don’t own a Saratoga
trunk, or its contents; and the conse-
quence was, that a “ committee of ways
and means” (composed of Miss King,
the dressmaker, my mother and my-
self) sat daily in the kitchen, debating
whether the blue merino would make
over into a morning dress, and-if my
purple silk couldn’t: be turned, and
have a new waist and sleeves, etc.
Formidable consultations, at which I
yawned most drearily, and the products
of which only filled the very moderate
sized trunkthat was set down with me,
one morning, at the'door of, No.---
Twenty-third street, J udith’s very hand-
some residence.
The sleek waiter, taking an inventory
of my dusty dress, “ Didn’t think Miss
May was at home ;” but thatfyoung lady,
who had heard my voice in the hall,
settled the question, by flying down
the stairs; and with an “ Oh, you dar-
ling!” drawing me rapturously into the
parlor, where she stunned me with
questions and kisses. The excitement
over, however, she subsided into a
listless, yawning manner, which seemed
to be habitual to her, and I had time to
examine her.
She was, indeed, beautiful. Small
and plump, with shining hair, lovely
hands, and such eyes and checks. She
had, besides, an ease of manner, and a
small-talk “ power,” only attainable by
a first-rate hello, and which drew largo
drafts on my organ of veneration. till '
discovered—well, never mind just now,
only I thought of Uncle Josh on the
“com law.”
But her chief charm was gone for-
ever, he_r impulsive frankness. Her
heart was a citadel, from which I was
excluded, and she wouldn't allow any
but masks of thought to parade on the
walls. I knew that there was a secret
hidden somewhere, and I planned all
sorts of ambuscades, and always the
sparkle in her dark eyes told that she
understood, and had foiled me. So I
calmed down.
“I can wait, ” said I to myself; she is
only awoman, and if I keep still the
secret will out' in spite of her.
Meanwhile, I did my best to find out
why that very handsome young Eugene
Apgar haunted the house as persist-
ently as dear, good, stupid Mr. Lacy
himself, though she would scarcely
vouchsafe him a civil word or glance.
So the time passed on. The ap-
pointed day drew near, and she had
been showing me all the glory of her
trousscau, descanting on it with more
than a milliner’s eloquence till ex-
hausted, and silence reigned by mutual
consent.
It was twilight, and something more,
for I could only see by the red firefight,
as I leaned back, enjoying the luxurious
stillness, the gleam of the diamond.
engagement ring on her little hand, as
it fluttered like an uneasy young dove
in her lap. The subdued hum of the
busy outside World, the scarce heard
bustle of the house below, and the
silence, the occasional dropping of a
coal, and the steady ticking of a Louis
Quatorze—that might have been the
good old “eight-day” clock at home—
formcd a chain, along which I had
glided gently back to“ my dear country,
when—-
“Shall I tell you what it is?” she
asked, suddenly.”
“It—what—tell me— ?” and I woke
up and came back to New York.
“The sccretl” she answered mischiev-
ously, “that you have been fishing for
so long. Better take me in the humor.
1 may never feel so like it again.”
“(.10 on. I’m ready for any disclos-
ill‘ 0.”
she drew. her chair up by mine, laid
1101 head on. my shoulder in the old
school-girl fashion, and commenced.
“Once upon a time—for this is :a
fairy story, understand, Nelly, and you
are to remember it as such—once upon
a time, I was guilty of high social mi‘s-
demeanor. My father was dead—you
know, of course, that the‘ present gen-
tlcman’ is my mother’s second bus-.
band—and my mother was poor. It
followed, as a consequence, that I was
poor too. At school the girls were never
done sneering at my patched cloak and
my pride, and some of the boys fol-
lowed their cxample; but Eugene
Apgar, who was (youneedn’t start) also
a schoolmate of mine, was never among
hem. The fact is, we were in all the
ag onies of a‘ first love;’ a disease wliicn
iequnes, you know, a strict course of
stocking-mendin g and lectures to eradi-
catc it; and the remedy not being vig-
orously applied in my case, I was very
much in love indeed, till one afternoon—
as fate would have it—I went to call
on Eugene’ s sister (I was very fond of
her, of course), and coming quietly
up the walk, saw Eugene sitting bya
very pretty young girl on the door-stop.
I instantly recollected that he had told
me his cousin was visiting there, and I
was stopped short by hearing her say:
“ ‘ Who—in the name of all that’s
odd—was that girl I met with you
to-day, the one in her grandmbther’s
bonnet?’
“‘I suppose you mean Judith my;
answered Eugene. She is a very good
little girl, I assure you.’
“ ‘ Ohl I am sure of that already.
The virtues we always patched, and she
has one as large as a dollar on her
frock. There, now, I’ve made you
angry! Are you really so much in
love with her? What news it will be
for the Marston girl’s, though. I shall
write them that you have surrendered
at last to the Belle of the Patch.’
“‘What nonsense you are talking?
he answered, half angrily. ‘ Why, I am
only a boy, yet; and, if you will excuse
me, I must say that I think it is quite
ridiculous to speak to me about a little
girl whom I am civil to because she is
poor and friendless.’
“ You see I remember the very words,
Nellie,” continued Judith, who had
paused a moment. “ They burned them-
selves on my memory; and from that
hour I never spoke to Eugene Apgar,
taking no notice of all his entreaties to
know thacausc of my anger. Shortly
after that we came here, where my
mother married again, and my fortunes
assumed a very different aspect; and I
had quite forgotten Eugene, when I
chanced to meet him one evening at
Victoria La Roque's I had on ,that
lovely Marguerite silk of mine, with my
hair rolled back, and I could see at
once that he was fascinated. He
started on hearing my name; and in a
few moments was back again to. our
schooldoys, where he seemed to be fond
of lingering. Of course, you can guess
the rest. He proposed—how could he
help it-andI refused, though I own
I was as much in love with him as
ever, and accepted Mr. Lacy next day.”
1 “And is it possible,” I asked in sur-
prise,“ that afew inconsistent Words—”
“ That is not all, ” she interrupted
“Ido‘ believe that I could have forgiven
him that; but his father was once a
grocer. Of course, it was’tot tobe
thought of. ”
So here was the secret. I had failed
to find it because I had fished in too
deep water. Here I was stuck fast in
the mud and slime of the shallow
nature of this flimsy, tinsel thing,
whom . I had once fancied a noble
woman. ’It was fortunate that just
then John came to tell us that Mr.
Lacy and Apgar were below, or I
might have spoken out and never had
the honor of ofiiciating as bridemaid to
Miss May. As it was, I smoothed my
rufiledtplumes and set myself to en-
ter-timing Mr. Apgar, whom I had
always found very polite. Before long,
We had wandered off to the conserva-
tory—leaving the lovers to themselves
-—where I stood looking out of the
window at nothing, forgetful of Mr.
Apg'ar. '
“What are you thinking of?” he
asked, at last. “You look very des-
pera .”
“I am meditating a'new declaration
of independence,” I answered. “ I want
to enter my protest against that class
of people who—as some one says—like
potatoes, can only boast of what is
underground. Just at present I feel
like a small edition of the ‘ Revolution.’ ”
“I think you are to act as Miss May’s
bridemaid?” he remarked, not very
pertinently, I thOught.
‘ “Yes; I promised years ago, or—”
I stopped myself.
“Do you approve of the match?” he
went on. _
“Yes, with all my heart,” I said,
warmly. “They are worthy of one
another.” _
He smiled.
“How excitable you are! You are
not much' in the mood of a father con-
fessor, and yet I shall obey the impulse
that brought me here to-night in spite
of it. I want to confess—
“No, no,” I interrupted hurriedly.
“I know all. You fancied the gay
tints of a soap bubble for awhile and
found that, after all, it was only a
bubble.”
“ That may be,” he answered, gravely;
“but did the one who told you so much
a pure, pale violet that I long—and yet
do not dare—to pluck, and wear in my
breast?” ’
I sat thunderstruck into silence.
There was no mistaking his meaning;
and Ibegan, too, to understand J udith’s
sudden fit of candor.
What I answered, when I did at
length find voice, is of no manner of
consequence, as I did not confide it
even to Judith, who strove in vain to
penetrate my secret.
At the appointed time I figured' 111
the splendid farce that took place in
one of the uptown churches, thinking
all the time of Uncle Josh’s “ all pop
and no sweet;” but, at my wedding,
which followed. not long after, I am
sorry to state that we were not graced
by Mrs. Lacy’ s presence.
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1.3,: There is art in pride; a man might
"as soon learn a trade. Those who were
whisper also that of late I have found ‘
not brought up to it seldom proved
their craftmaster.
When men are not favorites with
women, it is either from vulgar debau-
aliery, or foam constitutional indifier-
nice, or}. from an overstralned and
pedantic idea of the sex, taken from
books and answering to nothing in
real life.
The Honey Ants.
The honey ant is a small, red insect
extremely demonstrative and active,
and found particularly in Texas and .
Mexico, and in considerable number:
in Colorado. Their nests are promi-
nent mounds in some cases, and again
are low heaps, spread over an area of
twenty or thirty square feet, forming a
community. As a rule they are 1100-
turnal, working at night, though I have
seen them work in the bright sunlight
at three o’clock in the afternoon, march-
ing in a line, perhaps seven feet wide
and forty feet in length, to acotton-
wood tree, up which they passed—and
long and slender—coming down larger
and full of a pure white liquid. It
would strike even a casual observer as
curious that these ants were carrying
home a liquid that could hardly be
stored away, ants not having, as a rule,
storehouses for liquid provisions; but
the honey ant overcomes this difficulty
in a decidedly novel manner. Certain
of the ants, either by agreement or
selection, are utilized as receptacles for
the honey food supply and become lit-
erally honey bottles. They are kept by
the others in a separate apartment,-
about six inches long by four in height,
that is a storcroom. Here, if the nest
is carefully opened, the ants or honey
bottles will be seen hanging on the
wall,'looking like ripe currants. ,
The modus operandi that results in
this is as follows: The ants, at least
the small ones, forage for food, and find
it in some cases in what are known as
galls, curious enlargements or growths,
often seen on trees and formed by the
egg of an insect having been deposited
in the wood, the latter, growing about
it and allowing in some cases an escape
of a liquid-that is greatly esteemed by
ants, and certainly tastes like honey.
Filling their bodies with this material,
the workers proceedto the storeroom
where the bottle ants are kept and de-
liver it up to them, the receptacles re-
ceivlng so much that they become dis-
tended to an enormous extent, aswe
have seen, and are incapable of move-
ment to-any great degree. Their bodies
upon examination seem particularly
adapted for the purpose,beingcovered in
their normal condition by several plates
that spread apart when the abdomen is
distended. How long those living bot-
ties hold their store is not known—un-
doubtedly indefinitely. When the other
ants wish to draw their rations they
proceed to the dark chamber, and a
supply is forthwith given up. Such an
arrangement seems to show that ants
have much more intelligence than they
are given credit for,as all their move«
ments cannot be considered instinctive.
In Colorado their nests are quite com-
mon about the Garden of the Gods,
and the tunnels that they form often
penetrate considerable distances into
the rock, and the work in arriving at
the chamber where the honey bottles
are hung is one of no little labor.
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The Ubiquitous Thistle.
There is no weed-weedier or more
ubiquitous than the common thistle.
In paradise, it is true, if we may trust
John Milton and the Sunday-school
books—wise, as usual, beyond what is
written—there were no thorns or this-
tles; the creation and introduction of
the noxous tribe upon this once inno-
cent and thornless earth being a direct
consequence of the fall of man, and a
stern retribution for Adam’s delin-
quency. But since then the thistle has
managed so to diffuse itself over the
habitable globe that there hardly now
remains a spot on earth without its
own local representative of that ever-
intrusive and conquering 3011118. What-
ever civilized man goes, there the this-
t1e__ accompanies him as a matter 'of
course in his various wanderings. It
adapts itself to all earthly environ-
: ments.
Close up totlie arctic circle you
will find it defying the indigenous rein-
deer with its prickly wings; under an
equatorial sky you may observe it so
commodating itself most complacently
with a. sardonic smile to tropical ex-
istence, and battling with the prickly
cactuses and the thorny acucias, to the
manner born, for its fair share of the
dry and arid uplands. Even nettles
are nowhere in competition with it; in
spite of its valuable lid irritating
sting, the nettle has not the plasticity
and adaptability of constitution that
mark the stout and sturdy thistle tribe.
Gamered and harvested yearly with the
farmer’ 3 cam, its seeds have been gra-
tuitously distributed by its enemy, man,
in all climates; and when once it gains
the slightest foothold, its winged down
enables it to diffuse itself ad infinituin
through the virgin soil of yet uncon—‘
quered and unthistly continents.
Blessed with Patience.
About four miles out of Birmingham,
Ala, we came across a stretch of road
about four miles long which was a foot
deep with red clay mud. We had to
ride our horses along the edge of it,
and then it was a job to pull through.
0n the far side, about fifty feet from
the solid road-bed, we came upon a
colored man. with his mule and cart,
the latter loaded with wood and stuck
fast in the mud. The man was seated
at the road side,while the old mule
was chewing away at a heap of brush
and grass which had been cast before
him.
“Stuck P" asked One of the party as
we drew rein.
“ Reckon so," was the reply.
“ How long have you been here '1'”
“ Since yesterday."
" Why don’t you unload and get out 1""
“ Too much trouble, boss. Izestarted
fur town, an’ ’twon’t pay to go back
home again.”
“ But what will you do?”
“Wait fur do mud to dry up, sak.
She’s bakln’ mighty fast under dis hot
mm, 1111’ film days more will let me
frew.”
Just at evening of the mound day we
saw him came into town with the loud,
the mule being plastered clear to the
tips of his ears. The man recognized
us, and, bowing very low, he said:
“You’s got to hev a leetlc patience
down in dis here country, boss, spesbu-
aliy when the mule um obs: twenty
y’ars ole.” .
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Medical Practice in Russia.
The practice of medicine in Russia is
exceedingly onerous and unremunera-
tive. A physician who falls to respond
tothc summons of apatient,ls punished
by a fine of from five to 100 roubles. If
the case was a. dangerous one, and the
physician knew it, he may be impris-
oned in the jail for three months. The
legal fee for an ordinary visit is from
7% to fifteen cents; for an accouche-
ment, seventy-five cents. These laws
are strictly enforced. An elderly Ger-2,,
man physician, an invalid, was called,
on a stormy winter night, to attend a
case seven miles distant. He objected
to go unless he was reasonably remun-
erated, naming his fee. The messen-
ger left to ascertain whether this
amount would be paid butdid not re-
turn. The physician was subsequently
arrested, tried, and condemned to
eight days imprisonment. Besides, he
had to pay his lawyer 8250 in advance.
’ now to Detect Counterfeit.
The United States Treasury Depart-
ment has, of late years, adopted for
' bonds and currency, a peculiar paper
described below, and which is deemed
a stronger protection against the coun-
terfeiters than that used by the Bank
of England, which has recently been
dangerously counterfeited in £50, £100
and £500 - ,~ _ _
As the first issue of greenbacks,
which were not printed on fibre paper
were most dangerously counterfeited,
but have almost'wholly disappeared
from circulation, therefore, receive
them with great caution, or refuse
them if in doubt about their genuine-
ness.
All other genuine greenbacks, gold
and silver certificates and later issues
of national bank 'notes are printed on
the government fibre paper; the first
kind with the fibre distributed in short
pieces, localized with a blue tint, do-
other with the fibre in two parallel
threads, red and blue silk, running
lengthwise through, the note, seen by
holding the note up to the light. The
public are cautioned not to draw these
threads out of the paper.
If in doubt about the genuineness of
any bank note in the report, refuse it
unless printed on government fibre
paper. All national bank notes not in
this report are genuine, whether printed
on government paper or not.
The counterfeit 810 and 820 silver
certificates are not on government
paper. Some of the counterfeit 85,
810 and 820 greenback: (series of 1875)
and 850 and 8500 (series of 1869) are an
imitation distributed fibre paper. Very
dangerous. These are all the counter-
felts on the greenbacks worth noticing.
Better refuse all twenties, fifties and
one hundreds on the banks in this
report unless printed on government
paper.
All genuine bank notes having brown
back and seal, have both kinds of the
fibre paper combined; while the coun-
terfeit 810, on the Third Natlonalbank
of Cincinnati, 0., and the photographic
counterfeit 85, on the First National
bank of Milwaukee, Wis. have no '
fibre. These two are the only counter-
feits on the brownbacks.
Better refuse all pieced notes. All
United States currency having a brown
soul has the parallel threads or cables.
All United States currency printed
since 1869 is on government fibre
paper.
There are in circulation a great many
very dangerous counterfeit 810 green-
backs, dated 1875. All the genuine Of
that date are on distributed fibre
paper. W
Journalism All Over the World.
The Berlin Archlv far Post and
Telegraphic has published in its last
report a conspectus of the present
extent of journalism all over the globe.
The total number of newspapers is
attracted, in round numbers, at 85,000.
One newspaper is reckoned to be
[1an for every 28,000 heads. Europe
naturally stands in the forefront of
journalistic productivencss. Germany
is patriotically placed first—whether
éccurately so is doubtful—with 5,500
newspapers, 800 of which appear daily.
England follows with 4,000 newspapers,
800also appearing daily. France comes
naxhwith 1,568 Parisian journals and
2,506 provincial. Italy issues 1,400
newspapers—400 in Rome, 140 in Milan,
and 120 in Naples. Austria has 1,200;
Spain, 850; Russia, 800—200 of which
are published in St. Petersburg and 75
at Moscow. In Greece the number of
journals is enormous in proportion to
the population, on account of the lively
interest taken in politics, but the com.
pile: cannot give approximately exact
statistics. Switzerland 111111430; Belgium
and Holland, about 300 each. In Asia
there are some 3,000 journals; 2,000 of
them are Japanese; China has fewer,
but its great ofiicial paper, Shen Poo,
appearsthree times everyday. Afghan-
istan has not as yet any journal. Ameri-
ca has still to make some progress
Defers it will equal Europe in the
number of its journals, as we only pub-
llshes 12,500 to their 20,000. But lnthe
category of daily newspapers it is
already ahead both of Germany and
England, as 1,000 are issued every
day. Negroes edit and print about 120
pope‘s. When the journalism of the
World is arranged according to tan-
‘gusgaourownspcechcanboastof
being by far the most widely rem for
no fewer than 16,500 newspapers, are
printed in the English language. There
are 7,8001n German, 6,850 in French,
and 1,000 in Spanish.
Headache in School Children.
Prefessor N. J. Bystrofi‘ has examined
7478 beys and girls in the St. Petersburg
schools during the last five years, and
found headache' in 868; that is, in 11.6
per cent. He states that the percentage
of headache increases almost in a
direct progression with the age of the
children, as well as with the number of
hours occupied by them for mental.
labor; thus, while headache occurred
in only 5 per cent. of the children aged
8, it attacked from 28 to 40 per cent. of
the pupils aged 14 to 18. The author
argues that an essential obstinate head-
ache in school children is the excessive
mental strain enforced by the present
educational programme, which leaves
out of consideration the peculiarities
of the child’s nature and the elemen-
tary principles of hygiene. The over-
strain brings about an increased irrita-
bility of the brain and consecutive dis-
turbances in the cerebral circulation.
Professor Bystroif emphatically insists
on the imperative necessity for perma-
nently admitting medical men to con-
ferences of School Boards. 0! pallia-
tive measures he mentions methodical
gymnastics, mild apes-tents in well-
- nourished children. steel lnthc anionic,
bromides, inhalation of oxygen, and in
severe case. utemporary discontinuance
of all studies.
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The Force of Imagination.
Dr. Beddoea an English physician of
great enthusiasm, had imbibed the
notion that palsy could be cured by
inhaling nitrous oxide gas. He ro-
qucimd the celebrated Sir Humphrey
Davy to administer the gas to one of
his patients, and sent the man to him
for that purpose. Sir Humphrey put
the bulb of the thermometer under the
temperature of the body, so that he
might see whether it would beatall
cflected by the inhalation of the gas
The sick man, filled with faith from
the assurances of the ardent Dr. Bed-
docs. and supposing that the ther-
momotor was 11. remedy, declared at
once list he felt better. Davy, desir-
aunt seeing how much imagination
would do in such a case, then told him
that enough had been done for that
time, and directed him to come next
day. The application of the ther-
mometer was made from dayto day in
the suns way, and in 11' fortnight the
manwasoured. , 7.1 ,.
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The tongue slow and the eye quick.
K603 your mouth shut and your eyes
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tected by picking it with a pin; the-
tongue of the paralytic, to ascertain the"
people. Beware, my fellow country-
men, of a certain tall, shabblly dressed
fellow, with Scotch accent, when
bright, restless eyes look out from
beneath a protruding forehead. 80
sure as he finds out that you arson
American, be will come to your seat
and commence in a loud whispers flood
of talk about the superiority of the
American to the English, how be him-
ln the states, watched over Preddont
Garfield’s deathbed, was his guardian
angel. Then, in lower tones, he will
confide to you that he has thrown him-
self. with the some noble enthusiasm,
into public life in England, but he has
been coldly received; my, leflous
enemies have dogged his steps night
and day, glvlng‘mo rest from their per-
secutions. The story grows monotono
ousafterthotlfirdrcpotltton. Another
poor fellow has a ments for drawing
”books. It‘ts notthc reodlngof them
that he cares for, but it is his delight
to be continually making out tickets
fore. This fellow, who shuttles along
with stooplng shoulders and a vacant
face, was maddeued by_ too much learn-
ing, they collars; and was once adia-
ttngulshcd physician. A man near my
seat on putting on his overcoat the
other day dropped) two coins from the
pocket. As he stooped toplck up one
of them a dirty old man hurried from
thereupon bogged him for a penny.
“What do you want a penny for?”
shaved since Sunday." Another seedy-
looking individual goes about offering
”friends and changers a pinch of mud.
and those who swept it are begged for
a. loan of a penny. Very different from
the average of womanklnd such as
Muenttbe Maud shop is the
appearance of our lady readers. Some
of these women of letters, it must be
owned, seem somewhat demoralizcd in
toilet by literary pursuits. But the
majority remain true to,’ the instincts
of their sex, and. make no slight con-
tribution to the attractions of the place
in the shape of,,brlgbt costumes and
earnest, inter-catty faces.
We”
BrutallG-ln England.
It is not the hdmble fellow, with the
short, black pipe in his mouth, loitering
with slovenly gait at the street corner
with whom the friends of chlldlifo and
happiness have to contend. Too often
it is with well-spoken, well-dressed men,
who would call him but an animal (and
disgrace the name), and who will dis-
cuss with you “superstitions" and
high questions of state. Twice in six
months one father hadto be sent to
prison whom it seemed a shame to
send at all. When he had gone his
second tlm0 there was found on his
table “ The Floating Matter of the Air, "
by Tyndall, with his book-mark at page:
240, to which he had read. Had you
passed him and his wife on the street
you would have unconsciously felt a
certain pride in the British workman,
a desire to be rid of the tasks and lim-
itations his children set to his life, and
twice in one night he gave an infant
fifteen months old, a caning for crying
of teething. His clinched fist could
have broken open a door at a blow,
and with it, in anger he felled a child
three years old, making the little one
giddy for days, and, while he was thus
giddy, felled him again, and because
the pain be indicted made the child
cry, he pushed three of his huge fingers
down the little weeper’s throat—“ plug
ping the little devil’s windplpe," as he
laughingly described it. He denied
none of the charges, and loudly pro-
claimed his right; the children were
his own, he said. And one of the
papers, quoting his remark, took
occasion to warn the readers that we
might have another of those societies
whose business it was to interfere with
parental rights.
W
Canton’s Floating Population.
As we approach Canton, one of the
strangest sights of the strange land is
the vast wilderness of boats, which
serve as the only homes of a floating
population of more than one hundred
thousand human beings. As our
steamer made its way slowly; through
this city of boats to the wharf, it seemed
as if half of Canton was afloat on the
water. All around us were acres, yea,
square miles, of junks, moored in blocks
or squares, with long streets or canals
between them, while darting hither and
thither were hundreds on hundreds of
others carrying passengers or freight
These boats are of various sizes and
shapes, and are partly covered with
bamboo matting, the one or two apart-
ments furnishing space for parlor,
kitchen, dining-room, bed-room, wood-
shed, barn and idol shrine.
These multitudes on multitudes of
men and women, parents and children,
grandparents and babies find a home,
each boat often sheltering more souls
than Noah had inhlsark. There
thousands are born, grow up, grow old
and die, seldom being on land until
carried there for burial. Many of these
boats are named by women and girls,
whose large, bore, unbound foot prove
that they are not Chinese ladies, and
yet they have learned to “paddle their
own canoe." Babies are fastened to
the deck by strings, and other children
wear life preservers of sounds or bam-
boo, to keep them from sinking if they
fall overboard, though the parents do
not seem to grieve much if one does
get drowned. There are larger and
more gayly decanted junks celled
“flower-boats,” used as floating pleas-
ure houses of no good reputation. A
few years ago a. typhoon swamped
thousands of these small craft, and
- hundreds of inmates were drowned. '
nines sic-m .
The sign- boards in the streets lit-tho
towns of are We, be-
cause lndlcutlveof mow” of the
people. A traveler says: 'Itwu some
time before I understood what was
botturfwltbwblcbtoproparetbotr
houndzcofiea nobobyubomo
smallp pl'scoidofrcdsottzandwkite
lacelshunguplntbod rlfsomc
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corded on little bulletin boards affixed-
catholics-c. mm
his house such nonprofit: on than:
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8attsfactlon,“MyleuudLlfc."So-
An observant m in an ill! inter-
course with society and the world
carries a pencil constantly in bl:
every person and thing the figures ox-
pressive of its value. and instantly on
meeting that person or thing again,
knows what kind and degree of atten-
tion to give it. This is to make IOIIO'
‘ _ mfl'
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OPTICIAN ‘ and OCULIST,
WILL Bl AT- NORWALK.
November 17 and is, 1880,
At Norwalk Hotel.
Having qualified myselfby years of hard study
tntbc best institutions 111]:me and having had a
lexpertcncc of_ twent dive yours in tbt
country, I am enabled utfirs lit to adopt lance
monsppropriltc to restore the vision to its origins
rand cure on the various discuu of the eye
I vs therefore cnmo my practice of an
Ocullst with that ofmo clan, and am now en-
ubledtol‘urnlshed all of lenses and styles of
es and Eyebalaues which ure mode to
orderundcrmyewn supervision, to suit my cus-
omcn’ visionary eats.
Consultation Free.
References-Geo. G. Bishop, Charles Olmsteud
ox-Deputy Sheriff Charles Adams Mr. Clarence
Nash with J. F. Bonnet. Gen D. MN. Couch, Mrs.
W. Edam“. Dr. E. C. Clarke.
’1' a Best In the World.
Sperry & Barnes’
Hams,
Shoulders,
Breakfast
Bacon,
—-AND——
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ARE GUARANTEED
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Ill .
THE MARKET 7
Our man: LAB!) u Strictly rm
and Free from all Adultcrutlon.
Lock Carefully for the Brand.
s bearlng our brand at
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We manufacture all
our peeking house in cw
Sam & Barnes, New Haven, Ctllll.
Geo. 8. Gregory.
Boarding, Sale,
leery.
Feed and Exchange
Stables.
No. 14. naught 91.
(in rear of Harlem Depot).
uonwm. comp
can so furnished all hours.
ltontawl‘ond gentleman} drivers.
mounts midterm
E A R NE 5. 5
«men'- mac-1.1m ”.3111“
mummomrorthc cot
Mu. Saddles Halters Sur-
singles, Geller-0,860 '
Isbollolsolloko
Fine Harness to Order
”mum“ Md.
No.7 WATER STREET.
m (1331: kocgu rccullrtlno “Farms”
vellum o
J'. F. Peokwell.
J. G. Gregory & Co.
Dcslro to am that in uddltlon to a full line of
mfl'm Premium Medicines and Driiutsts’
nus-tho: are mm to receive
lilk, Cotton or Linen
ELASTIC HOSE
m values. or a! ulna. Wan-outed to
fit. and at reduced rate;
They also desire to state that they have accepted
the saucy of the New York Vaccine Ca. and will
keep n supply of
PURE Billllll VACCINE VIRUS
cmtly fl bad.
They have in stock Blooms Morton, which
will be sold at close mus. The also a full
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South Norwalk, (loam:
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petition with the multitude of low test,l short
weighty-81mm or phosphate powders.
Born. Burma Powonu CO. ,106 Wall St., N. Y.
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FRRNISHINR UNDERTAKER
OPPOSITE. HORSE R. R. DEPOT,
Residence 143 Main Street. Telephone Connection.
GI! O. WARD SELLECK,
unsusssuoows BLOCK. WALL smear,
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JAMES T. RUSSELL, 1
Attorney 1111 61111111111 L11
2 Gazette Building,
NORWALK, - ' CONN.
ALEX. S. GIBSON,
Organist of fat Congregational Church, Waterbury,
Teacher of
Pianoforte, Organ and Musical
Composition,
Lock Box 39 P. 0., NORWALK, CONN.
WHITWORTH,
Successor to B. Conn,
MERCHANT TAILOR,
WEEKS’ BUILDING, WALL STREET.
A rum. Link or
Imported and Domestic Cloths.
0f the Latest Styles, constant) on hand.
Novelties in Scotch Settings. Sotlsfacytlon guaran-
teed in every particular.
rnmsroms
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Government Claims.
My sole business. Thousands have in his
Neg: acted. Address, free of charge, or visit, 8
GIN. w. E. NOBLE,
91 Stratford Avenue. Bridgeport, Conn
W. H. RIEEKJL’R,
54 Main Street,
SOUTH NORWALK. CONN,
Practical Plumber,
Steam and Gas Fitters, Dealers in Plumbers’ and
Steam Flttcrs’ Supplies, and Gas Fixtures.
Jobbing promptly attended to.
15121
CHOICE
Building Lot's
F‘OR BALE
0n Wilton Avenue
. Apply to
n. .l. srcnau.‘ .. o. 3. winners.
emu comprise at
F.1I.PEOKWELL,
ARCHITECT
7 W ATER STREET,
Assn Ion
Gill on Look Company.
Dibble Manufactikiring Company's door
nob s.
New York Wood Turning Company.
Corner Blocks for window casings.
Round and Square Tamed Balusters.
“ Newels.
Plain and Double Moulded Stair Rails.
Also Flat Moulded Door and Window
Casings furnllied at short nolco.
GENERAL MARKET.
_ ,Meat, l-‘Ish, Vegetables.l&c.
LOCKWOOD 81 ANDREWS.
NAIR BTW.
All kinds of the best qualities of Meats, Fish,
Clams, Vegetables, etc, are kept constantly on
hand. and will be sold by us as low as can be pro-
cured st any market in Norwalk. We intend to
prove to our customers that we deserve their
patronage by fair and generous dealing.
lydo LOCKWOOD b ANDREWS.
LESSONS Ill FRENCH,
MISS BlIRll’S INSTITUTE.
Prof. LaLande,
Widely known on the director of the French Depart-
ment of the Summer School of Language-at
Chanson. will conic twice a week to m- Baird’s
Mute to give lessons In French. limited
number of optic outside of the school will be
admitted tot clc classes.
F elrc lornndotbcrtnformottou to
0' II [18817. .YnA’IBD.
JOHN H. SMITH,
FLORIST.
EAST SIDE 01" MAIN STREET. SOUTH
OF RAILROAD.
(my 0! m Now-II; Gull»
Plants tnowersat all seasons
mm mm furnished “(1mm
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"35 "NEW
O. E. WILSON,
General Insurance is Real Estate Agent
Money to Loan.
Room No. 3 Genetic Building, Norwolk. Conn.
a! mn'iivsunsiscn Co. ., of HARTFORD.
Incorporated 1812. Charter Perpetual.
CAPITAL AND ASSETS, $8,902 .272. 64.
Insure: against loss and dams e 0 Fire,
terms adopted to the hazard and gorsi’dtent wig
thelsws of com ensatlon. COWLEsikMERRILL,
Sole Agents for orwalk and vicinity.
THE
Norwalk Fire Insurance Co.
Has now completed its
1801 SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS YEAR
And has not outstanding. dollar of an aid lo sea
or claims for losses. No sound 00111131111311; tnszires
for (688.
W. 0.8111327, Pros. 8.1!. Gunman, Tress,
GEO. R. Cowman Secretary.
A. CARD.
Having purcxased the
EU RN [TUBE BUSIN ESS,
Recently carried on by RVILLIAM LOCIWOOD at
No. 36 MAIN STREET.
I am prepared to meet the wants of all prospective
purchasers of furniture, both STAPLE AN D
ORNAIENTAL. I have on hand a large
stock which I will sell
VERY CHEAP FOR CASH
lshullbeplensed to meet all old or new friends
and will guarantee satisfaction in
every case.
EFORGE H. RAYMOND.
PETER L. GUIGUE,
FLORIST 81 Ni] 8+ 1Ylilll,
UNION AVENUE,
North of Norwalk Cemetery,
NORWAEK, - CONN.
Dealer in In Green House and Hot House and
Bedding and Vegetable Plants, Fruit and Ornamen
tel Trees Shrubbery, Vines. Cut Flowers alway
on hand and all sorts of designs in Flowers arranged
to order. 41 y2
Grading and Re-filling Cemetery Plots
promptly attended to.
FOR SALE.
A STYLISH
VICTORIA,
Newly Trimmed and Painted.
A Fine Family Carriage.
Will be sold at a very low price.
HEN RY TILLY,
CARRIAGE MAKER.
SOUTH NOR WALK.
manICKA. linear, Tampons linear,
Fonnerly of New York Item. of Con. Stock and
Stock Ex. Pet. Ex.
Rosrur B. BACK.
Theo. Haight & Co.
BANKERS & BROKERS.
47 BROADWAY.
Transact a General Banking business, buy and sell
Stocks Bonds or Oil for cash or on margins.
Stock trades can be made in ten shares and up-
wards on the Consolidated Stock and Petrole-
um Exchange.
COMMISSION, 1.10 EACH \VAY.
Orders executed in Grain at New York and
Chicago. 3mm
F . K 0 C 0 U It ,
Merchant Tailor,
Ilsa received a full line of Fall and Winter
Imported Sultlngs and Pantaloonln‘gs.
Fall and Winter Overcoats;
A fine assortment of Fall and Winter Overcoat-
hill at reasonable rates. 1y36
All Work Done by First-Class Workman!
5A TISFACTION G UARANTEEDI
l3 and 15 lulu Street, Roi-walk, Conn.
Meteors and Volcanic Ontbursts.
We have actually no possible way 01
explaining the terrestrial origin of any
meteors but in volcanic outbursts.
Moreover, we are obliged to set the
time when such outbursts took place
very far back in the past, seeing that at
present the volcanic forces of the earth,
even as manifested at Krakotoa re-
cently, possess nothing like the power
necessary for the election of matter
beyond the range of the earth’s back.
drawing power. Looking, however, at
the immense extrusive power of the
tertiary era, when basaltic lava cover.
ing hundreds of thousands of square
miles to a depth of 1,000 to 14,000 feet
were poured forth, we can conceive the
still mightier energies of volcanoes sec
ondary era, their still more tremendous
power in the primary era, and so, pass-
ing backwardto millions of years be-
yond the first beginnings of life on the
earth, we can even picture to ourselves
volcanoes ejecting matter with veloci-
ties of 10 to 12 miles per second. With
such velocities flights of ejected parti-
cles would pass beyond the earth’s
attraction, and if she were the only
body in the universe, such ejected mat-
ter would travel away from her never
to return. But, although such'expelled
bodies would never return to the earth,
they would not escape from the solar
system. To drive them forever away
from her the earth would have to im-
part amuch larger. velocity—sari average
of about 26 miles per second. The
greater number of the expelled bodies
would travel thenceforth in an orbit
round the sun, crossing the earth’s
track at or near the place where they
were first sent forth from their parent
planet. One may almost say that this
origin of many meteorites and meteor
systems is forced upon us by the evi-
dence. Still it would be negativcd if.
we found that volcanoes do not eject
matter at all resembling meteoites in
structure. The reverse, however, is the
case. Ranging the products of volcanic
ejection in order according to the
amount of iron they contain, and ran g-
ing meteorites in like manner,we find the
two series coinciding over the greater
portion of the longer—the volcanic
series. We might not indeed have
known how closely the most ferrugin-
ous volcanic products resemble the iron
meteoritesin structure but for the acci-
dent that Nordenskjold discovered a
mass which he mistook for an iron
meteorite, but which is found, now to
be really a volcanic ejection, akin in
structure to the field of basaltic lava (at
Ovifak on the shores of Greenland), in
the midst of which it had fallen whilr
the lava was still plastic to retain this
missile as it fell after its flight through
many miles of air.
n—m—oW-
The Petroleum Industry.
Mr. Charles Marvin, one of the “13:5
to direct attention to the Russian
petroleum fields at Baku, in speaking
lately of the transference of petroleum
in'bulk, said that America. was at pres-
ent the principal petrOleum power. By
the development of the petroleum fields
at Baku Russia had recently sprung
into the position of the second petioi cum
power, and Mr. Marvin thought that
England should come to the front and
occupy the third position as soon as
possible. By the annexation of King
'l‘heebaw’ s dominions she had come in
possession of the Burmese petroleum
fields, and he thought steps ought to be
taken at once by the Indian govcr: i-
ment to survey these fields and so throw
them open to British capital and enter-
prise. Within the last few years, since
the extension of the railway, consid-
erable petroleum deposits had been
discovered in Beluchistan, but he re-
grctted that the Indian government
had decided to make them a crown
monopoly. Still more recently petroleum
in abundance had been discovered in
Egypt. Since he wrotein 1882 of the
Caspian petroleum fields eighty steam-
ers had been placed on that inland sea
to carry oil in tanks from Baku to
the mouth of the Volga, and on the
Volga there were upward of a hundred
vessels running. At present nearly all
the petroleum arriving in Europe from
America was broughtinbarrels; sev-
eral steamers Were, however, being con-
structed on the Tyne for the purpose of
carrying petroleum in bulk.
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Curiosity of Our Forefathers.
The following was related by Dr.
Barnaby in 1764. The character of the
inhabitants of Massachusetts Bay is
much improved in comparison with
what it was; but puritanism and a
spirit of persecution are not yet totally
extinguished. The gentry of both
sexes are hospitable and good-natured.
There is an air of civility in their
behavior, but it is constrained by for-
mality and preciseness. Even the
women, though easiness of carriage is
peculiarly characteristic of then nature,
appear here with more stiffness and
reserve than in the other colonies
The lower classes are more in the
extreme of this character, and are llll-
pertinently curious and inquisitive. I
was told by a gentleman of Philadel-
phia, who, in traveling through the
the provinces of New England, having
met many impertinences from this
extraordinary turn of character, at
length fell upon an expedient, almost
as extraordinary, to get rid of them.
He had observed, when he went into an
ordinary, that every individual in the
family had a question or two to pro-
pose to him relative to his history; and
that, till each was satisfied, and they
had conferred and compared their in-
formation, there was no possibility of
procuring any refreshment. He; there-
fore, the moment he went into any of
these places, inquired for the master,
the mistress, the sons, the daughters,
the men servants and the maid servants:
and, having assembled them together,
he began in this manner: “Worthy
people, I am B. F—, of Philadelphia,
by trade a —-—(menti0ning his busi-
ness) and a bachelor. I have some
relations at Boston, to whom I am
going to make a visit. My stay will be
short, and I shall then return and
manage my business as a prudent man
ought to do. This is all I know of my-
self, and all I can possibly inform you
of. I beg, therefore, that you will have
pity on me and my horse and give us
both some refreshments."
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Rain as a Stimulant.
The health-giving properties of rain
are not appreciated by the general pub-
lic. Rain is essential to physical vigor
in localities that have an extensive popu—
lation. Man and his occupations laden
the air with countless and unclassified
impurities. The generous, kindly rain
absorbs them, even as a washerwoman
extracts the dirt from soiled clothes.
The ammoniacal exhalations, the gases
resultant from combustion and are all
quietly absorbed by brisk showers.
People talk about a “ dry climate,” but
it is a snare and a delusion. There is
nething in it. A very dry climate
will never support a huge population, .
for it would soon become so poisoned
that it would be fatal to the human
race.
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