ESTABLISHED 1800.
Volume LXXXVIII
NORWALK, CONN, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1888.
TWO DOLLARS A YEAR
Number 9.
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SOUTH NO If WALK.
Gen. [1. Raymond. ‘
Furniture Dealer.
AT THE OLD STAND,
36 MAIN STREET.
A Large Stock of all kinds of Furniture Cheap
for Cash. Also
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i am prepared to take charge day or night an
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tiie dead. 'l‘elepiiune Connection with residence
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LOVE AND DEATH.
I cannot speak the word to her disburdened ear,
Ever stir her marble breast, nor challenge one lost
fear-
The sound would fall unheard, for my love would
not hear.
i cannot speak the word, nor would she under-
stand
The poll that overhangs and darkens all the hind,
That stays me when I grasp her dear, unfeeling
hand.
If she could know the blight that desolates my
heart, -
Could she—aye, could she, then, one burning
glance impart?
It; cannot be—nay, nay, death is n loveless art.
Love burns the glowing cheek, love speaks in
flashing word;
Love thrills and thrills again as song note thrills
the bird;
Love moans, though it shall know it never will be
heard.
So calm and pale she is, like moonlight overhead,
So silent while I weep for one whom heaven has
wcd‘
My heart—'my heart will break for my Love lying
dead!
—Stephen Henry Thayer in Home Journal.
THE PANCAKE MAKER.
Mary was a pancake maker in :i. restau-
rant. It was her duty to stand in a. show
window on Broadway and pour batter
upon the griddle. Thousands of persons
stopped before the window every day, and
Avatched Mary as she deftly greased the
griddle or with a. turn of her hand flopped
the pancakes over to be browned on the
other side. Mary had been selected for
the job because she was pretty. Her
selection proved to be a. profitable invest-
ment for her employer. Those persons
who were insensible to the charms of pan-
cakes were not insensible to the attrac-
tions of beauty, and so many came in to
eat the cakes and to wish that Mary was
a waitress as well as a cook.
One day, when the bubbles were rising
from the freshly poured batter, and Mary
stood waiting with. her spatula in her
hand, a. young man stopped before the
window. His dark eyes took in the
smoking griddle, the. rounded arm above
it, and the white brow which was wrinkled
in the effort to determine when the cakes
were properly done brown. She looked up
and their eyes met. Then he passed on.
What.- dark eyes he had! thought Mary.
What a nice looking girl that was! thought
lie. And all day long Mary looked up
from the pancakes, half expecting to see
those eyes looking into hers. Even the
bubbles in the pancakes seemed to take
on the expression of his eyes and to look
at; her from the griddle with a stare of
admiration. As for the young man—who
was a clerk in ,0. dry goods store—a
rounded arm seemed to beckon him to
come in and eat pancakes and become
saturated with maple sugar.
livery morning he stopped at the win-
dow of the restaurant and was greeted
with n. glance from a pair of bright eyes
and an evidently studied desire to be
graceful in turning the cakes. After a
week had passed he left his boarding
house earlier than usual one morning and
stopped at the restaurant to get his break-
fast. Mary saw him come in. She did
not: turn her head nor give any Sign of
recognition, but she listened with bent
head and attentive car for his order. It
came like this:
“Sonic pancakes, please!”
How carefully she poured out that batch
upon the griddle! \Vith what an anxious
cyc she watched the edges harden and the
center of the cakes become perforated
with holes like those in a. sponge! And
when the cakes were done to a most de-
lightful brown on one side, she held each
one up on her spatula and greased the
griddle anew before putting the cakes on
again, so that they should not stick to the
griddle.
In her eagerness to bake the cakes to a
turn she burned one of them, and so in
disgust she threw the whole batch away
and began once again. Meanwhile she
stole a. furtivc glance at the young man,
who was drumming on his plate with his
knife and watching admiringly the. curve
of Mary’s graceful neck and the dainty
coil of hair on the back of her head, and
which Jack wished was against his shoe]
der. At last the pancakes were done to
the. fair cook’s liking and were placed be-
fore J tick. He said to himself, as he cut
a section of the full moon of buckwheat:
“Well, I never ate pancakes like those
before. They’re so light and flaky, and
the sirup is real true maple sugar, and
not made of watered molasses.”
Jack didn‘t add that the cook was
charming, but he thought it all the same.
The next batch of cakes which Mary
cooked was not as well done as the one
Jack was eating. It was perfectly nat-
ural that they should not be, for was not
Mai-y anxious to see how he enjoyed them.
and did not she make an excuse to leave her
post and go to the other end of the restau-
rant to get a new piece of pork to grease
the griddle, so that she might steal a
glance at him as she went by? And when
Jack had eaten‘his cakes and had lingered
twice as long as usual over his coffee, so
that he could feast his eyes as well as his
palate, he arose to go and their eyes met
for just one fleeting glance. Jack flushed
and said to himself that it was caused by
the coffee. Mary’s face was tinged with
crimson, but of course it was due to the
heat of the griddle. And so the days
came and went. Each was attracted to
the other by the loadstone of love. Each
one fearful to make overtures to the other
for fear that the illusion would be dis-
pelled. But the mysterious alchemist was
busy mixing the sweet potion which each
of these young hearts drank. The potion
in Mary’s heart conjured up visions of
what a. glorious man J uck must be as she
lay awake at nightin the dark with her
eyes wide open. Then she closed her eyes
tight, and thought of him .as a mailed
knight clanking into the restaurant to re-
fresh himself with a plate of pancakes
and a cup of coffee ere he started out in
search of his heart’s desire. “But I’m
afraid he don’t care for me,” thought
Mary, opening her eyes again in fear. “I
saw him smile at Miss Bellows today.”
And so between her hopes and her fears
Marv fell asleep and dreamed of pancakes
and her favorite customer, and only
awoke when the sun was shining in the
window, and she hurried down to the res-
taurant so that she might see her knight
as soon as possible and catch aglance,
from his dark eyes.
In the meantime Jack had not been
idle. He had cultivated the acquaintance
of the proprietor of the restaurant. By
careful questioning he had learned that
Mary was one of the many girls who had
been rescued by the Five Points mission
when she was a mere child. Mary’s
mother had died in a tenement in Baxter
street from consumption, brought on by
the neglect and unkindness of her bus-
band. Since her death the husband had
gone on from bad to worse, only saved
from killing himself by his excesses by
being sent to Blackwell’s Island at various
intervals for at; least eight months in each
"ear. During one of his sprees he had
signed a paper which committed his little
daughter to the care of the mission. And
so Mary had grown up to be an exemplary
young woman and the pride of her bene-
factors.
Jack’s curiosity was awakened to find
out what kind of a. man Mary’s father
was, and so he started out one night to
Search for him. He spent three nights
after working hours in the search, and
found him at last in a miserably squalid
room on the top floor of a tenement house
in Pearl street. He was far gone on the
road to the grave. The neighbors did
what they could for him, which was not
much, for they were very poor. So Jack
sat up with him late into the night. A
feeble kerosene lamp burned on the man-
tel and the corners of the room were filled
with shadows. Mr. Rogers fell into an
uneasy slumber toward midnight and
muttered in his dreams about the good
things he had to eat when his wife was
alive. In his incoherent remarks he men-
tioned roast beef and gravy. Then he
awoke.
“I was dr’amin’ iv th’ foine feedin’ I
had afore Mollie died. Aye, b’y, but she
could cook th’ grub. An’ th’ pancakes
she could bake was like honey in yer
month. I wisht I had some of them cakes
now, so I do. I think they’d be puttin’
life intil me.”
Next morning when Jack went to get
his breakfast, as usual, he asked the pro-
proprietor to permit him to have an inter-
view with Mary. She came, fluttering
and paling, into the back part of” the‘ r'é's—j
tarirant.‘ . , . . .. ..
“Miss Rogers,” said Jack, all of it
tremble, because his love was so near, “I
saw your father last night.”
“My father,” gasped Mary in alarm.
“Where was be?”
“In aback room on the top floor of a
tenement in Pearl street.”
"IVas he well?” whispered Mary, not
daring to look J arch in the face, but drop-
ping her eyes upon her snowy apron and
absent mindedly smoothing outa wrinkle.
-1‘cw choice friends the spectators.
' phrase,
“No, he was ill. He spoke about the
pancakes your mother used to make, and ,
said that if he gould have some equally (is, ;
good he though; he, might feel better. and :
perhaps recover ‘h‘ts n'éalthf" If 5731i fire
willing to make them for him I will see
that he gets them.”
» “How good of you,” replied Mary,
looking at him with a glance of admira-
tion. “But how can we keep them
warm?”
“I hadn’t thought of that, but, come to
think, I can borrow a little oil stove, you
furnish the batter and the frying pan, and
to—night we will go down and take him
some. But perhaps you are afraid to go
wit-lime, as I am a stranger to you?”
Mary looked shyly at him and hesitated
for a moment. Then she said:
“But I have seen you in the restaurant,
haven’t I? And I think you can be
trusted. You don’t- look like a very bad
man. You bring the oil stove around to—
night at 0 o’clock when the restaurant
closes, and I will have the batter and the
griddle ready.
All day long Mary song at her work
and smiled to herself 'in anticipation of
the meeting. Sometimes, however, she
became grave when She thought of her
father. But her recollection of him was
1: cry indistinct and associated only with
oaths and blows. At 6 o’clock the restau-
rant; was closed and Mary stepped out
upon the walk with a tin pad in her hand
containing butter, 11 small griddle wrapped
in paper under her arm, and a. nice piece
of salt pork to grease the griddle in her
pocket.
Jack was already there with a small oil
stove. He was walking up and down the
sidewalk impatiently. They went across
to Center street and from thence to Pearl.
They said very little, and were content to
know that each was near to the other.
On reaching the tenement they felt rather
than saw their way up the dark stairway.
Mary was frightened at the dismal look
of her father’s room, but J rick cheered
her. Mr. Rogers was awakened by the
opening of the door. Jack turned his
back on the meeting between Mary and
her lather, but he heard feeble and broken
acknowledgements of past weakness and
promises for the future. “’hen he turned
and came to the bedside he saw two wet
l‘uccs, one softened and repentant, the
other hopeful and shining.
‘ Do you think you could eat some pan-
cakes, father?” said Mary.
“Oh, dear, I could av I had some iv yer
mother’s makin’, Mary. I’m feelin’ bet-
ter already since ye hem,” and he raised
himself on his pillow to show his strength.
“But“ father, I can make you some,
and I’ll warrant mother never made bet-
ter,” said Mary, looking urchly at Jack.
And so the pancakes were made. J uck
lit- the wick in the stove and greased the
griddle, while Mary poured out the but?
ter, and the savory smoke arose like in-
cense in the dismal room and made Mr.
Rogers sniff checrily.
He sat up in bed, bolstered by pillows,
and ate two of the cakes. All the time
his eyes followed the trim form of his
daughter as she tidied up the room. The
lovers remained with him until late into
the night. Then Jack took Mary to her
boarding house, and the wicked young
man actually kissed her at the door. She
ran up stairs and looked in the glass to
see if his lips had left a mark on her
check. The next morning she ran down
to see her father and make him comfort-
able for the day.
Under the watchful care of Jack and
Mary the old man slowly became stronger,
and in a. few weeks was about again. He
did not return to his old habits, and for-
soak the tenement: for two rooms in a
more pretentious locality, where Mary
went with him to keep house. The other
day there was a. quiet wedding, at which
Mary and Jack were the principals and a.
The
chief dish at; the wedding feast was a. big
plate of pancakes baked by the bride.
Now the many persons who pass the
restaurant daily look in the window, but
they look in vain for the fair cook. She
is baking pancakes for only two of the
hungry persons in this big town—New
York Evening Sun.
"Inspection" In the Regular Service.
“But- I want to tell you it isn’t alone
the musket carrier who shirks. That’s a
faculty which creeps in once in awhile
over in the officers’ quarters. If this were
not true, the privates couldn’t ‘soldier’ so
successfully.
“How?” '
“\Vell, take it on ‘inspection,’ for in-
stance. I’ll venture to say that knap-
sacks are not carefully inspected more.
than once out of fifty inspect-ions made at
the various posts in a year. Iliad a. knap-
sack which I packed in the spring of 1876,
and I never unpacked it until I left the
army.” ,
“Where did you keep your clothes?”
“In my box.”
“What; was in your knapsack?"
“Old togs. It’s an old gag, and works
beautifully. You take a. pair of trousers
and a pair of drawers. Fold them to-
gether with the legs alternating. Then
you take an overcoat (of course these are
old clothes which have been cast aside)
and leave out the cape and possibly the
sleeves. The idea is to use as little ma-
terial as possible, but fold it in sucha
way that the colors—blue, white, gray,
etc—will ‘show up’ regulation fashion.
Take an old pair Of shoes and cut
tltcm down until only the soles and
counters are left. Polish up the counters
and shove the things down into‘ your
knapsack and there you are. \Vhen your
knapsack lies on the ground open she
looks all right and sung and not worthy
of more careful examination.”
“But if you’re caught at it?”
“Yes; I’ve been there. It was in the
fall of ’69, during my first term of service
in the regulars. I forget now all about
the punishment, but I know I was put in
the dump—they were grading off a, por-
tion of the parade ground—as long as the
work lasted, then I had police ditty as a.
regular thing for about three months, and
during the whole time had no passes to
town.”
“And yet you tried it again?”
“Of course. It’s a sort of satisfaction
to realize that you’re getting the best of
your superiors. It’s funny when you
don’t get caught at it.”—-Detroit Free
Press.
Thrift of the Germans.
Frugality, thrift, the most thorough
and searching economy is dear and
precious to the true inwardness of the
German heart. Their daily living is shin—
ing proof of this. The food is abundant
and of excellent quality, but when once a
joint or a roast or a pudding has been set
before the family and a. portion unhappily
left over, this appears with religious regu-
larity again and again as long as one mor-
sel remains. An American housekeeper
would be embarrassed, for instance, at
the thought of serving at the tea table to
a large family the two or three spoonfuls
of apple sauce left over from the meats at
dinner, but not so the German housewife.
What though there be only “ein kleine
Bischen” (a tiny, little 'bit), which, by the
way, seems to be the favorite quantity for
one or two persons, there are “tiny little
bits” of other things, a. plenty that have
been accumulating for several days, and
no one need go away hungry from a table
supplied with good things, though in rela-
tively infinitesimal quantities—Hanover
Cor. Boston Herald.
A “latch \Vltliout Hands.
The watch without bands, which has re-
cently been brought before the public, is
simply a watch with ordinary wheelwork,
in which the intermediate teeth are want-
ing, and which gear every minute and
hour only. The coutrivance, though ad-
mitted to possess some inconveniences, is,
on the other hand, claimed to present
some genuine preferences over the ordi-
nary make. Thus, the construction not
only allows the reading to be accurate,
but also permits of estimating the time
that separates each passing minute. There
is not only an optical signal' given, but
also an acoustic one, since at every change
of figure the ear perceives a. slight sound,
and consequently it becomes useless .for
one to examine his watch in order to
measure a given interval of time—n. feat-
ure of special value to engineers, physi-
cians, officers, travelers and observers.
The experimenter knows exactly when a
minute begins and ends—New York Sun.
A “Tuna new rnl‘ase.
The residents of that famous slang pro-
ducing district known as Kensington
have a brand new phrase by which to ex-
press the degrcc of inebrict-y to which a.
lover of the ardent may have attained in
indulging his taste. Aeqtiple of iiiebri-
atcd chaps were weiiding their crooked way
up the principal thoroughfare, and one of
them in llll exuberance of spirits clapped
the other upon the shoulder and loudly
expressed his Opiiiiou of the other fellow’s
virtues. The shock of the blow was
enough to slukc the but from his head
and it rolled into the gutter. “Tliash
so!” assented he, with drunken serious-
ness, “but (liic) I’sli too drunk to staiid’sli
under my own but.” A crowd of youths
standing near :it- the tiinc appreciated the
and it is now on the list as a
popular slang tcrm.—-Pliiladclphin Call.
Postmasters say that more letters are
mailed in the month of September than
in any other month in the year.
Life Among the Tarnscans.
“One thing at a time” is the principle
of life among the Turaseans. ‘ Perhaps it
is carried to exaggeration, but it produces
wonderful results. If of a Sunday morn-
ing you saunter down the road leading up
from the lake to Patzcuaro you will meet
thousands of the Tarascans coming to
market with their wares and products to
sell. Each Tarascan, or family of Trims-
cans, will have a. stock of one thing. It
may be earthenware; it may be the flat
pancakes called tortillas; it may be fish; it
may be feather work. Whatever it: is the
quality will surprise you.
The traveler sees a. good deal of the one
idea principle in other parts Of Mexico.
Going down through the heart of the ta-
ble land from El Paso to the City of Mex-
ico he encounters it in a. striking manner.
At Leon he is beset to btiy the woven
wraps called scrapes. The numerous
peddlers have nothing but scrapes to sell.
A few hours further down the road, at. the
station of Queretaro, the stock in trade of
the platform venders is Opals, nothing but
Opals. At Celaya. fifty. men and boys
thrust boxes of “dulces” in one’s face and
will not take a refusal to buy, as long as
the train stops. The dulces are sweet,
paste like compounds, flavored with pine-
apple and other fruits. They are offered
‘in little, round wooden boxes, and are
of all sorts of colors. The round
boxes . are assorted, according to
flavors, and packed in long boxes of
varying sizes and prices. Celnyu. is
known all over the republic for its sweets.
Within two hours’ ride of Ccluya. is Ir. -
piinto, where strawberries can be bought
at the station every month in the year.
The peddlers have nothing but strawber<
ries, but they always have them put up in
quart, two, quart and three quart home-
made baskets of willow—great, luscious
berries. Probably the fruit. could be cut-
tivated with equal success elsewhere, but
it isn’t. Irapunto has the monopoly of
strawberries. Even Mexicans, passing
through and going 500 miles beyond, buy
a basket of strawberries at Irapuato, just
as they always get oil? at San Juan del
Rio, further down the road, to buy luri-
uts. There is a little rope walk in front
of nearly every house at San Juan del
Rio, and the people do scarcely anything
but manufacture lariats the year round.
—-Cor. Globe-Democrat.
Character in Autographs.
Recent statements about the economic
and wise mother of Napoleon show that
he, while always speaking to her in Italian,
wrote to her in French. How she ever
contrived to decipher his manuscript, if
that also developed corresponding contor-
tions of his signature, We cannot divine,
unless, indeed, as often happens, there is
a way of reading with the understanding
heart as well as the affectionate eye.
Notoriously bad writers like Cheat-e,
Greeley and Balzac have always some-
body contemporaneous who can readily
interpret their liierOglyphics, and when a.
noted western editor furnished copy that;
any printer might suppose to be ancient
Egyptian, there was born into the world
a. compositor in that town who preferred
it to copper plate inscriptions and set it
up with celerity and dispatch.
Tracing a man’s character by his hand-
writing is deceptive unless we know the
man’s career by heart, and then we di-
vine what is not hidden. At the same
time it is not a. little curious to follow the
convulsions of Napoleon’s signature from
the obscure time of an artillery lieuten-
antcy to the victory of Austerlitz, the re-
treat from Waterloo and captivity on that
“lone, barren isle in the midst of the
ocean.” We may not agree with the de-
ductions made from the specimens given,
but curiosity will be provoked and grati-
fied in a. peculiar wayif nothing else.—
Baltimore American.
Strange Sights in Cuba.
In Havana bay there are certainly 1,000
lighters constantly in use, so that 3,000
men are thus employed and at least 15,000
souls thus comfortably sustained. Most
of these folk live over at Regla, just back
of the Santa Catalina wharves or the still
quainter Calle Baluartc quarter, and in the
narrow streets and through and about their
queer old abodes some of the strangest
sights you ever witnessed will be seen.
Children of all colors and caste and ages
disport naked among hairless dogs, ag-
gressive goats, demure donkeys and all
manner of fowl, with the utmost inno-
cence, content and good nature. Little is
needed to sustain life, hence happy hearted-
ness among them is universal. Night or
day, for nearly all the year, the only real
effort. is made to get outside of clothing;
and last Sunday morning, when I was
wandering in the vicinity of the little
old Regla market, I actually stepped over
fourteen naked sleeping women and chil-
dren lying in all sorts of postures on land-
ings, along galleries and at the doors of
little alcobas. Some of them opened
their handsome eyes a bit, but none
moved or seemed in this least discoucerted
by the intrusion—Edgar L. \Vakcman’s
Letter.
Curiosity Over-comes Awe.
Little Gertrude, in the course of her
four years of existence, had never seen a.
colored person. Therefore when Pro-
fessor Cicero Peters—whose specialty is
legion, and who whitewashes one day and
puts down carpets the next, thus making
extremes meet—came to her house in
spring cleaning times, her first sensation
was awe, which gave way to curiosity
when she perceived that the dark hucd
visitor, so far from being an ogre, was
disposed to be ubig playfellow. After
the professor had laughed and joked and
told stories, Gertrude ventured upon a
startling personal inquiry:
“Mr. Peters, have you any little tar
babies at home?”
To say that Professor Peters laughed
would but faintly describe the effect of
the question. Dentists’ show windows
seemed to leap up in his mouth in rapid
succession, one after another; and for
hours afterward he was heard to ejaculate
“tah babies” at; five minute intervals.—
Boston Transcript.
A Smart Man Silenced.
There are few neighborhoods that do
not have their smart man. At least they
have a man who, in his own estimation,
embodies the brains and information of
the world. No occupation pleases him
better than the asking of catch questions
-queries that he has given his whole at-
tention, to the exclusion of more useful in-
formation thnt would in general have
added largely ,to his influence if not to his
income. Nothing pleases him better than
to find some one who has earned a reputa-
tion for a depth and width of learning re-
moved from the ordinary unable to un-
swer some simple question that has been
learned and forgotten ten years before.
Such a man, in speaking of a mutual ac-
quaintance, said to a reporter: “Do you
call that man smart? Why, I asked him
something that he could not answer.” The
scribe looked at him and asked: “How
many of Mother Goose’s melodies can you
repeat?” He was silent.—Pbiladelphin
Call.
Addition and silence.
Binks was calling on the apple of his
eye. He picked up avolume of “Lucille"
and ran across an inscription on a fly leaf.
“Ah! a present?” he remarked,
“Yes, from a, dear friend, 011. ever so
long ago—seven or- eight years.”
“So long as that?”
“Oh, yes. I was quite a little gir .”
When three weeks had gone by without
the regular 0. o. d. appearances of Binks,
and it began to look as though he really
meant it, she looked up the book and
found the explanation in the inscription.
It read:
“To Miss Clara, on her 20th birthday.”
That fly leaf is torn out now.—Chicago
Mail. ‘
Future Wedded Bliss.
They Were sitting by the open fireplace
together and she said:
“Have you ever looked into the philogo-
phy of the east?”
“Somewhat. ’ ’
“And do you believe in the transmi-
gration of souls?”
“I think I do.” . .
“Well, what would you like to be in the
next life?” '
The flames cast their bright light onlher
beautiful red hair, as he replied:
“My darling, I should like to. be a. white
horse,”
‘ Long time 511.6qu and wondered why he
made so strange a choices—New York Star.
Can't: Stand Tobacco Smoke.
It would be bad enough if a. habit
which, for some is harmless, for many
beneficial, should become so general that
regardless of its effects, pernicious, every-
body fell into it. To some tobacco is a.
specific poison, to some one cigar. smoke
means a. headache, to some a long eon-
tinned boring cholicy pain, to some dys-'
pepsin, to some loss of virility, to some
cancer in the mouth, to Grant compara-
tively early death.
Why should such people smoke?-
And why. should they be compelled to
suffer from the smoking of others—Joe
. Howard in New York Graphic.
.wipes on.
An Ugly Elephant.
“Of all the ugly elephants I have
known,” said the trainer, “Albert was
the worst. You could gain some idea of
his disposition by looking into his eyes.
He used to go out into the ring to carry
me in on his tiisks after the act; was over.
That was all it was possible to train him
todo. One night at Nashua, N. IL, as
one of the keepers was getting Albert
ready for the ring, the elephant sudden-
ly turned on him and felled him to the
earth with a. blow from his trunk. An
elephant in attacking a man curls up his
trunk and then throws it out, like one
striking straight from his shoulder.
When Albert had knocked the keeper
down, he coiled. his trunk about him,
raised him up in the air and then thrashed
the earth with him, breaking every bone
in his body.
“When it was learned that Albert had
killed the keeper, the ring master re-
quested members of the local militia com-
pany who were in the audience at the
time to step forward. A squad of them
were requested to appear in the morning
and shoot Albert. I could always control
him; indeed, he was perfectly docile to
me when I captured him after he had
killed the keeper and chained him up. I
led him out on the morning of the execu~
tion and gave him some hay. Inever saw
him so docile. As he ate his breakfast I
chalked a circle just back of his fore leg
in the region of the heart. Then twenty-
seven militiamen stood 08 a little dis-
tance and at the word of command fired
into that circle. Five bullets pierced the
elephant’s heart, and he dropped dead,
making the ground tremble as be felL
Success in handling e'lephants depends on
letting them know that you are boss, and
never for a. moment relaxing your stern
discipline.”—New York Evening Sun.
Brass Sign: Expensive.
It was the custom about five years ago
to have brass signs on doors, and every
merchant invested in bright sheet metal
with name and business painted in in-
dented letters. You don’t see so many of
them now, and most of those you do see
are dingy and coated with a dirty oxidized
covering. Merchants know what these
changes in the styles are, but of all I am
acquainted with this has been the most
expensive. It is not like the Sign one sets
in his door and allows to remain there
without further concern until it goes to
pieces. It has been a. cost» of $25, and
looked very attractive the first week or
so. Then the variations 'of climate
proved so great that; I had to have it
burnished very frequently in order to
keep it in good condition. There was a
man here who used to make a business. of
polishing these signs, and for $2 a month
he used to come around and burnish the
sign. This made the sign cost me. over
$100 before the style changed and met-
chants licgan to stick porcelain letters on
their windows. Styles in signs seem to
changeover-y three or four years. You
can observe that by making a. survey of
the business houses, some of which have
signs five. ten and fifteen years old.—-_
Merchant in Globe Democrat.
Paper From Tobacco Stems.
“Whatdo you think that is?” inquired
a wholesale stationer of the writer, at
the same time handing the latter a sheet
of note paper of excellent quality and the
finest finish.
“Paper,” answered the reporter. “Can’t
you give me something hard?”
“Oh, yes; of course it’s paper, but
what’s it made from?”
“Linen rags.”
“Just what I thought you’d say, but
you see you don’t know it all. No sir;
that paper which appears to be, and is
equal to paper manufactured from linen
rags, was in its natural state nothing but
the stems and waste of the tobacco plant.
A use has thus been discovered for thou-
sands of tons of material, that has hereto-
fore been pract—ically worthless. Another
new paper making' material is bamboo,
which, after being crushed to a pulp, can
be made into an excellent quality of pa-
per. I shouldn’t be very much surprised,”
added the stationer, ruminativcly, “to
hear that some genius had succeeded in
manufacturing paper from pulverized
cobble stones. Its ngreat country-and
you can’t most always tell what’s going
to happen.”-—Mail and Express.
Big African Enterprises.
Considerable .amountseof American cap-
ital are being iuVested in some big African
enterprises. The railroad from Delagoa
bay, the best harbor on the east coast of
Africa, which is now completed for a. dis-
tance of fifty-four miles inland, was built
by an American syndicate under a. con-
cession from the Portuguese government.
It will connect with the line to be built
from Pretoria, the capital of the Trans-
vaal. The largest trading company 'on
the Upper Congo, and the only one that
has yet sent two steamers to the upper
river, is the Sanford company, which was
organized and until recently was managed
by Americans. Considerable Belgian
capital, however, is invested in the com-
pany. American engineers surveyed and
are new building the railroad from Loandu
to Ambaca, which is backed by the Portu-
guese government. Some American
money also is finding its way into quartz
crushing machinery for the new gold
fields of South Africa.—Chicago News.
A Russian Merchant’s Sign.
I passed through one of the principal
thoroughfares of St. Petersburg, and ob-
served that the upper fronts of many of
the business houses were covered with cof-
fee sacks. Inquiry revealed the fact that
beneath those sacks were beautiful signs,
and the covering wasto protect them from .
the dust in summer time. I induced a
merchant to show me one of these signs—
six by eighteen feet, partially mosaic, a
portion painting. He was a chemist, and
there were pictures of bottles of ointment
and perfumery; sick people and a. doctor
to represent medicine; paint brushes and
samples of the paint; insects on animals,
to represent flea and like powders, and
pictures of fancy articles. The sign would
be a valuable acquisition to the Corcoran
“art gallery at Washington, and must have
cost several hundred roubles even to the
cheap hands of a Russian artist. —-Moscow
Cor. Cleveland Leader.
Public Towels.
The public towel is also never- safeto
use, that is, the towel that the public
It not only removes the moist-
ure that. is its purpose to do, but it rubs
off scales, pieces of dead skin, lymph from
cuts and abrasions, perspiration from the
pores, mucus from the nostrils, pus from
sores and ulcers and any liquid that is
excreted from the surface of the body.
These impurities and disease germs are
retained in the niesbes of the towel and
are ready to attach themselves upon sub-
sequent users of the towel. A hundred or
more persons use one of the towels in a
day, and those who are among the last,
especially, run unpleasant chances of
catching some ill or omen—Good House-
keeping.
Casto Among Picksninnieq.
Two negro boys were disputing yester-
day, when one of them said to the other:-
.“You ain’t got no manners, nohow.”
“Manners,” responded the other. “You
know a heap about mariners, don’t: you?
Why, yo’ daddy was a. 010 Alabama nig-
ger, an’ be picked you mummy up when
they was refugeein’ here durin’ the war.
My mummy an’ my daddy came from ole
Virginny, and never wus 501’ in deir lives.
De 01’ master wouldn’t take fo’ thousand
dollars fur. ’em one time. You talk to me
about manners! Shucks!” And he turned
and went away in disgust—Nashville
American. ' ~
\Vnrntng Against Carbonated Water.
Dr. Herzog, a German physician, calls
attention to the evil results of a continu-
ous use of carbonated waters. A daily
use of such beverages will, in conse-
quence of the distension of the digestive
organs, caused by the carbonic acid gas,
produce nervousness, numbness, irrita-
tion, and even rupture of a vessel. These,
like powerful medicines, should only be
employed under the advice of a, physician,
—Hernld of Health, ‘ '
A Flowery Essay.
A little 4-year-old Marlboro boy was
taken to a. farmers’ meeting, when a. lady
read an essay on “Flowers.” On returning
home he was asked what they did there.
“Oh,-a lady talked to herself on a piece
of paper,” he replied, which we thought
was a good description of her style of de-
livery.-Boston Globe.
A Quick Trip.
A Frenchman, Aristidc Dumont, pro-
poses to take ten days‘ from the time of
passage from Europe to Bombay by means
of it railroad down the valley of the
Euphrates from Antioch through Aleppo
and Bagdad to the Persian Gulf, and
thence by steamer, The new railway
would be‘a rival to the Suez canal for pas-
senger traiilc, but Lesseps says that by
developing Mesopotamia it would benefit
the canal rather than hurt it.-New Or-
leans Times-Democrat.
GEN. BUTLER STOOD TREAT.
Admiral Farragut Warned Him. but no
Risked the Consequences.
Somebody was talking about treating
in the office of the Brooklyn elevated the
other day, and it reminded the general
manager, Col. Frederick Martin, of a
small story. The colonel was useful dur-
ing the war on Gen. Butler’s stuff, and-
his talc was of him. "That reminds me,”
he said, “of one time when n. midshipmarr
and I were following respectfully at the
heels of Gen. Butler and Admiral Farra-
gut on the beach of Santa Rosa bay.
We’d been down to.Pensncola and were
bound for the old Hartford, which lay in
the oiling.
“Well, we walked along until we came
to the udmiral’s gig, and, climbing in,
were pulled off to the ship. Just a mo-
ment before we reached her—ii: was an
almighty hot day—tho general said to
Farragut:
“ ‘Admiral, I’d just like to give the crew
a. drop of something good. It‘s warm,
this is along pull, and it won’t do them
any harm.’
“At that the old gentleman fidgctcd a
little and said: ‘Now, general, really, I
don’t know about it. The regulations are
very strict, very strict; and, really, it
wouldn’t do for me to lend countenance
to such a thing.’
“ ‘ch, I know about the regulations,’
said Butler, persuasively, ‘but it’s warm,
and it’ll do them good.’ - . _
“The ndniirlil’s eyes twinklcd a. little,
and we were almost at the ship. Then he
said softly: ‘I shall go over the side and
below to my cabin at once, general. Of
course I cannot be responsible for what
happens tinny absence. Only remember,
I have warned you. You know the conse-
quences.’ ,
“With that be skipped up the ladder,
and when he got out of sight the general
pulled u. quart bottle of excellent brandy
from his grip, kept and carried for emer-
gencies, and with it a stemless, old fash-
ioned, V shaped champagne glass. It
didn’t hold more than a thimblcful.
“Well, he handed the glass and bottle
to the stroke, a big, hairy mouthed tar,
and it was funny to see him stare at the
little thing. He filled it up, pitched it
into his month, then paused for effect.
Apparently there wasn’t any, for, holding
up the glass and regarding it contemptu-
ously, he exclaimed: ‘Oh, to —- with
it,’ and cliucked’it overboard. Then he
poked the bottle neck among his whiskers
and looked happy. _
“The rest of the men—eight or ten of
them—did likewise. The general’s face
fell as he saw the show, and with reason.
When the bottle came back it was empty.
He had counted on a. saving of one-half
for the emergencies, and the liquor was
not stuff to be poured down that way. He
didn’t say a word, though, but I think he
repented.
“What did Farragut say? Oh, nothing.
Only winked. He rarely drank, you
know. Ireinember at New Orleans the
army gave the navy a dinner, and we put
the admiral at the head of the table.
About two glasses was all he would take
—all he needed—and he was just the iner-
riest little man you ever saw, crackling
with cheeriness, and unaffected as a.
child.”—New York Sun.
Drug Store “Doctors.”
Drug stores are almost as common as
corner groceries, and the competition
among druggists is nearly as fierce as
among the doctors. The ordinary drug-
gist is never so happy as when one of his
customers addresses him as “Doctor” and
proceeds to justify the title, as far as he
is able, by prescribing for such ills as
should be treated only unde.r the direction
of the competent physician. If he have
any scruples about prescribing outright,
he has a safe refuge in recommending
some patent medicine or secret nostrum.
In this way he is able to avoid trouble
should death follow his miiiistrutions,
while the profits of this nefarious trade
are scarcely less than if he prescribed
himself from his stock of regular and it'-
regular drugs. It is probable that not 1
per cent. of the druggists of any large
town could be found who had not pre-
scribed to quitea large extent: for diseases
of which they knew nothing.
This counter prescribing by druggists is
an evil of enormous proportions. It is
very probable that at least one-half of the
medicines dispensed daily by these un-
licensed practitioners in St. Louis are
given across the counter without the pro-
tection of a physician’s prescription. The
most dangerous and powerful of drugs
are thus dispensed—much as laudanum,
crude opium, morphine and arsenic, al-
though this is strongly prohibited by law.
The druggist, who ought to be the cheer-
ful servant; of: the physician in the dis-
pensing of medicines, becomes in this
way his most powerful rival and strongest
enemy. The only remedy for this state
of affairs is for physicians in cities to go
back to the practice of the country doctor
and dispense their own drugs—W. B.
Hazard, M. D., in Globe-Democrat.
Such a Fool Question.
”Well, Johnny, did you do all of your
examples?” asked a teacher of one of her
best pupils as he handed in his last paper
of an arithmetic examination.
“Did ’em all except the fifth; didn’t do
uothin’ at all to that, though.”
“Did not do anything,” corrected the
teacher.’ “But why, John? The example
is not hard; there it is on the blackboard.
Read it.” .
John reads from the board as follows:
“If one orange costs ten cents, what will
sixteen and one-half oranges cost?”
“\Vhy, John, I am certainly much sur-
prised at you. Not to know that easy ex-
ample!”
“I didn’t say I didn’t know how to do
it; I said I did not do it. Of course I
know how to do it: but no orange ever
costs ten cents, and I ain’t goin’ to waste
my time doin’ no such fool questions.”—
Harpcr’s Bazar.
Origin of the “forth Family.
Neither facts nor figures could persuade
a Lincolnshirc dame that \thb, of Paris,
can plane. frock fit to put on. In that
English county of dark marsh and wet
fenns the Worth family originated, and
they lived in one of its smallest and dull.
est villages. None of them were noted
for intelligence. The head of the family
was a butcher, and where the man dress-
maker acquired his taste in color and eye
for form is a mystery. The funniest part
of all is that his old neighbors persist in
speak of him as a. kind of millinery
monntebunk, who juggles his customers
into believing they see what doesn’t exist.
—New York Press “Every Day Talk.”
The Jewesses of Tunis when they are
10 years old are put into dark rooms and
fed on food prepared from flour, and also
with the meat of dogs, until they are
systematically fattened. In a similar way
the women in other parts of Africa are
said to reach the same degree of fatness
,eg eating honey and fresh dates—Chicago
ewS.
“'liltc Swdllirg.
Mr M. S. Hamlin, one of the best known
immune-e men in North Carolina, writes
from Winston, as follows: “Ever since I
was seven years of age I have had what
the doctors call hip disease, and which I
call white swelling. My hip was drawn
out of place. There was a swelling at the.
knee-joint, where there is a profuse run-
ning. which has been there for years. Of
course this has greatly depleted my sys-
tem, together with surgical operation on
the leg berm. I tried every known blood
purifier to build up my system, but none
did me good until 1 took S. S. S. I use it
every Blilillg. It always builds me up,
giving me appetite and digestion, and on.-
bles me to stand the long; trying, ener-
vnting, hot summer days. To me there is
no such medicine for purifying the blood
and building up the wasted system til
S. S. S. On using it I soon became strong
of body and easy of mind, My color
changed from a pale, worn look to a
healthy, robust complexion "
Mr. G. N. Frizzel, of Farmer-wills,
Texas, writes: “About August Int, 1865,
an eruption appeared on my arms and
legs, which pained mo much and seemed
to affect my physical condition generally.
0n the advice of a physician at this place,
1 finally commenced using Swift‘s Specific.
I am glad to say that after using three
lav e bottles the acres have all healed "
Treatise on Blood and Skin Disease.
mailed free. Tun Swm'r SPncmio 00.,
Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga.
Health of woman is the hope of the
race. Lydia E Pinkhum’s Vegetable
Compound is to be had at the nearest. drug
store for a dollar.
The shingle iiiiiniifactiircrs of the South
have formed an association at Mobile.
Fact—but, its the newspapers say: "no-
body wdl believe it,” Fontiiiiic’s Cure for
Consumption is guaranteed to cure dis-
cases of the lungs. For sale by 0. Lap-
ham. 11 Main Street, Nor-walk.
Lost your 37,800 tons of leather were
imported.
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1 . . Mor'r, PhD.”
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S. ANA Hams, State Assayer, Moss.”
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r , Fould’s Wheat
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where. Price lOc.a package—10 colors. They
have no equal for strength, Brightness, Amount
in Packages, or for Fustness of Color, or non~
fading Qualities. '1‘ ey do not crock or smut. For
sale by J. G. Gregory & 00., Druggists, Wail
street. and C. Lapham, 11 Main street, Norwalk,
Conn i y13
Geo. S. Gregory.
Livery. Boarding, Sale,
Feed and Exchange
5 t a. b 1 e .
~‘lm’jyfl'm mu“ m
l/ERSTBL
NO. 14 Knight 51.
(.n rear of Horse Car Depot),
NORWAIJC. CONN.
Carriages furnished at ill hours.
attention and genilemnnly drivers. 1y
Courteous
A Full Stock of Furniture of all kinds-
PAOLOR Alli] BEDROOM SETS
a specialty.
DAVID STOW.
Main Street, opp. Depot
SOUTH NORWALK, CONN
Notice to Builders.
IRST-QUALITY BUILDING STONE for 2
chea . A i to
tin p ppy JAMES SELLECK.
P. 0. Box 23.
DEBENTURE BONDS
6 0 o Giiiiiiiei Mertnanes
Ofilie New England Loan and Trust Co.
This is one of the oldest, most conservative and
scecesstul institutions dealing in such securities.
Eleven years' experience without a dollar of loss
to investors. ,
Each $100,000 of debentured is secured by $102,-
000 of mortga es, assigned to and deposited with
the Farmers’ can and Trust. Co., New York. trus-
$5136.15 Interest payable at Bank of New Nork,
A . - [\-
Mortgages from best Corn-Producing regions of
Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri,
For full information enquire of its
0. E. WILSON.
II “III 7 1181‘ COOL Ffil‘lll MONITORS
-——or-‘ THE—-
Equitable Mortgage 60., Kansas City.
Capital, $2,000,000. $1,000,090 paid up.
Principal and Interest ,(luiiranteed.
Security from three to six titnes the amount of
loan. Coupon Bonds. Interest payable in New
York. Also, iy3-t
Six per cent. Debenture Bonds of the
Middlesex “milking Company, of
ltliddietovvn, Conn.
Organized under the banking laws of the State
01‘ Connecticut. Coupons payable in New York.
It. B. CRAU I‘URI),
Agent, 31 Main Street, Norwalk.
JOHN S ATKINSON,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
Harness, Blankets.
1’ "tracks, Bags,
Sole Leather and Shoe Findings, and Boot
and Shoe Uppcrs.
Corner of Fairfield Ave. and Middle Street
Bridgeport, Conn. - iylS
THE CELEBRATED
Prof. Ashborn’s
NOMINOI'S EMBOSSINO OIL
—ou—
Transparent Paint,
—-‘IS ON SALE AT—
J. T. PROWITT’S,
47 Main Street, Nerwalli, Conn.
The Only Paint Renewer in
Existence;
It Restores the. Lustre of
Old Paint and gives it
an Elastic Body.
writ you contemplate painting or re-painting
your house or other property it will pay you to
examine the merits of
Numindi’s Embossing Oil or
Transparent Paint
Before trying any other.
J. T. Prowitt,
Solo Agent for N orwalk and
Vicinity,
47 MAIN STREET. 1m
Tilt Olltilfl llllll N. Y. Tllllllllfl
—FOR——
$2.30 A YEAR.
A GRAND COMBINATION OFFER.
New York Weekly Tribune, regular
price, - - - - - $1.00
The NORWALK GAZETTE, - - 2.00
Total, - - $3.00
$2.30 Will Buy Both Papers
for a Year.
The New York Tribune has entered into a con-
tract for purchasing a portion of the issue of the
hortwaLK GAZETTE, and is now enabled to otter
annual subscriptions to the two papers at the re-
ninrkahiy low price named above, ticlieviiig that u
combination of the LEADING REPUBLIC-AN
JOURNAL IN THE UNITED Sl‘A'l‘i-IS with
YOUR OWN FAVORITE LOCAL PAPER. will
be recognized as the most liberal offer ever made
in intelligent readers in your locality. Looking at
it. in one way, the arrangement really amounts to
the same as your getting The Tribune for 30 cents,
as a premium for a cash subscription to your
favorite local paper.
This otter is good only until March 1, 1889, and
it is open only to those subscribers of THE
Nouwntx GAZETTE, who have paid up all arrears.
Allsubscribtions under this combination should
I either be given WITH THE MONEY to Olllt
l LOCAL CLUB AGENTS in the several towns. or
' sent direct With the money to [NO
THE TRIBUNE, New York.
GENERAL MARKET. .
Meat, Fish, Vegetables. &c.
LOOKWOOD tr ANDREWS.
MAIN STREET.
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 at any market in Norwalk. We intend to
prove to our customers that we deserve their
patronage by fair and generous dealing.
1y40 LOCKWOOD dc ANDREWS.
I WANT EVERYBODY
——To come in and look over my stock of—
Mon.uments
-—~-AND—
HEADSTONES ,
Before they buy anything of the kind. A selection
can be made from them much better than from a.
photograph or pencil sketch. Respectfully,
P. W. Bates.
“'5
J. P. NIGKERSON,
""iiiia
For the time being all: I"
No. 7 East Side of Water St.,
FOUR DOORS FROM WALL STREET,
NOR WALK, - - - CONN .
STAPLE AND CHOICE
G R O C E R I E S .
Family Supplies,
0! the_ freshest and best quality that the New
rork market affords in groceries, also
VEGETABLES & FRUITS
In their seasons at
MODERATE PRICES.
. The patronage of my friends and former
tomei‘s is respectiully solicited. t
J. P. NICKERSON.
Gild-
{31
Telephone Call.
RIVERSIDE
CEMETERY ASSOCIATION.
The grounds of this Association are
situated in the Borough of Norwalk, jtist
north of the Union Mills, between Spring
Hill Road and Riverside Avenue, and
may be reached by good and well-kept
roads from all directions. The cemetery
is divided into twenty-two sections, with
Broad Avenues
and suitable streets, and the contour of
the land is such that every taste may be
gratified iii the selection of plots. The
avenues are 30- arranged as to afford
an almost
Continuous Drive
to all the different sections, and are
crossed in every direction by the streets
so that carriages may reach every plot in
the entire cemetery. Au Elegant
Receiving Vault
Of large capacity, and fitted with all
modern improvements, is near the
entrance gate.
Capacity.
The entire space is not plotted, but
52 Vault Lots, reservations tor 517 single
interments, and 2,102 Burial P.0ts are
now offered for sale at prices very favor-
able to purchasers.
MAPS.
Maps of the Cemetery may be seen at
the office of Mn. Exos KBLLOGG, the
Superintendent, on the premises; at the
office of Hos. JAMES W. Hrs'rr, at the
Horse Railroad Depot; and at the office
of Mn. JOHN H. Lionr, at. South Nor-
walk. “5
o. E. WILSON,
General Insurance In Real Estate Agent
Money to Loan.
Stocks, Bonds, &c., Bought and Sold
and Loans Negotiated at Lowest
Rates of Interest.
ROOM NO. 3 GAZETTE BUILDING
NOBWALK, Conn.
PETER L. GUIGUE,
FLORIST MO 8* YMIN,
UNION AVENUE,
North of Norwalk Cemetery,
NORWALE, .. - 99mm,
Dealer iii in Green House and Hot House and
Bedding and Vegetable Plants, Fruit- und Ornamen
tal Trees Shriibbery, Vines. Cut Flowers always
on hand and all sorts of designs in Flowers arranged
to order. 41y2
Grading and lie-filling Cemetery Plots
promptly attended to.
Choice
BUILDING LOTS
(0N msraumnur rum.)
" FOR SALE
0n. lVilton
—.-\ND———
Acme-no
Sues Sonnet Plot.
APPLY TO '
it. BYINGTOE,
GAZE’P’I‘E citric")?
A .
Removal.
V Its. BEACH, Carpet Maker and Layer, has
i removed from the Shepherd Building, on
Lewis street. to No. ‘1 Main street, where she will
I): glad to receive and promptly attend to all
orders in her line of business. she would also
return thanks for the liberal patronage bestowed
upon tier for the past twelve years. m9
Norwalk. July 19, iSS'l'.
For Sale Cheap.
Ten Horse Power Boiler and Six Horse Power
Engine for sale very cheap. Enquire at the
Gamma OFFICE. 43:!
Norwalk Chronicler