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NORWALK, CONN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 18.88.
TWO DOLLARS A YEAR
Number 41.
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Volume LXXXVIII.
GEO. "V .5.“ T1 5 EIJLECK.
HARDENBROOK‘S BLOCK. WALL STREET.
FAMILY cnocsmcs‘.
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liliesil‘eellts, teal Estate still illslll‘ellee,
iiOOfll' 2, MASONIC BUILDlNG.
li’m. imclmromi.
Real Estate, Insurance and Investment
Securities.
MONEY '1‘0 LOAN.
i'lnri-d in l’irsi-(‘ltlss Companies
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insurance
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ti\/.i§’i"l‘lt BUILDING, NORWALK, CONN.
IMAIIEX. S. Gl BSON.
organist of lst Congregational Church, \\':lterbur_y,
Teacher of
i’isnoforte, Organ and Musical
Composition,
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insures against loss and d:
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(ii-1o. it. (townie: Secretary.
sisxpress.
i'atrouizc the old reliable
ADAMS EXPRESS COMPANY.
Low lines is" l’no‘III-r DELIVERY.
ilraneil Utiiec, .‘lorwalk. at S. if. Stanley‘s
- r l ' :- at i) - lot South Norwalk. tfl‘).
M m L vn“ L Ll ‘ h. HUNT, Agent.
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THE HAIBGUTTER,
No. l Gazette Building.
HOT AND COLD BATE-IS.
PENSIONS
And HOVERNLHENT CLAIM-5" mv soicbusi-
ness. iiejecIed and increase claims a. speciality.
.Uon‘t delay. Address or vtstt
Gilli. WM. NOBLE,
No.01 S'rnA'rFOIm Ava , BillDG mnr,_C'r
‘ ViiEllRi’ Hess,
iiestalllallt, Bate aliSlllehllI Elem,
Grand Central Station,
4 Sensor AND 4TH AVENUE: NEW YORK
Entrance from waiting room, New York, New
lluvcn and Hartford railroad. list
0. E. WILSON,
i} inert insurance is ileei Estate Agent
Money to Loan.
locks, Bonds, &c., 30llglib and Sold
and Loans Negotiated at Lowest
Rates of Interest.
“00“ NO. 3 GAZETTE BUILDING
NORWALK. CONN.
lt‘. [(00011 if,
Merchant Tailor,
slice received a Full Line of Fine Woolens for
SPRING iii] SUMMER TRAD,
Which he will make up in
stints at the Veil Lowest Prices.
Satisfaction Guaranteed!
3 and 15 Main Street, Norwaik, Conn.
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illlllliille, Steam all Get Fitting,
SOUT ii NOR WALK, CONN.
unitary Plumbing, and Ventilation, and
:m' Pressure Steam iieating, a Specialty.
PLUM BERS’ SUPPLIES.
Pipe and Fitting for Steam and (ins.
A gent {oriiw Florida Low Pressure Boiler.
Facilities for Cutting and Threading all Sizes of
,i’tpc. 50ft
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Geo . i1. Hug/Inuit d,
Furniture Dealer.
AT THE OLD STAND,
36 MAIN STREET.
Large Stock of all kinds of Furniture Cheap
for Cash. Also
fURHISHliiiG UNDERTAKER.
in 1 )1‘0 ured totake charge day or night and
Ill'xii‘élilevgryilling necessary for the intelnent of
he dead. Telephone Connection with residence
No. 3 lierkle y Place. 135
it. w. JAQUI, JR,
DEA LER IN
Stilesi’eet‘l tBliei-Setiiallees
Furnaces and Steam Heaters,
"l‘iln Sheet Iron, Copper, \Voodrn, Glass
and Crockery Ware.
Refrigelntors and House Furnishing loods.
Generally. A Full line of ,
Cil [LDREN’S CARRIAGES.
li’anbing. Gas and Steam Fitting, and Hot Air
Engineering. Agent for the Richardson
‘ it Boynton Co’s.
Furnaces "and Ranges,
Also agent for the Economy
:i-AM & WARM Am COMBINATION HEATER
kinds of Ornamental and Plain Sinicing, Tin
.Shmglc Rooting.
Repairing Done by ~Expm'leileed \l'orkzlcll
.Short Notice. '
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“0'3“ ALK, CONN
~ Then suddenly ‘ '
THE CITY OF THE DEAD.
They do neither plight nor wed
In the city of the dead,
in the city where they sleep away the hours,
But they lie, while o‘er them range
Winter blight and summer change,
Andn hundred happy whisper-lugs of dowels.
No, they neither wed nor plight, .
And the day is like the night,
For their vision is of other kind than ours.
\
They do neither sing nor sigh
In the burgh of by and by,
Where the streets have grasses growing, cool
and long;
But they rest within their bed, ,
Leaving all their thoughts unsold,
Dceming silence better for than sob or song.
N 0, they neither sigh nor sing,
Though the robin be u-wing, ,
Though the leaves of autumn march a. million
strong.
There is only rest and peace
In the city of Surccase.
From the failings and the wallings ‘necth the sun,
And the wings of the swift years
Beat but gently o‘er the biers,
Making music to the sleepers, every one.
There is only peace and rest;
But to them it seemeth best,
For they lie at ease. and know that life is done.
. -Richard F. Burton.
LITTLE GAB’S JOURNEY.
The view from my window extended
across the courtyard into the interior of the
apartments occupied by the family of the
little Gabriel, who was familiarly culled
“Little Gab” byall in the house. The father
\vnsncutter inn tailor‘s shop; the mother,
osickly woman, and already white haired,
though but 45 years old, busied herself with
the housekeeping, and used up in that the
remnant of lier health. Of her fivo children
the three eldest: had swarmed out from the
home; there remained only a. girl of 18, who
wasadressmnker, and Little Gab, who was
a. hunchbnck. Born of-parents who had
passed half of their lives in unwholesome
workshops, or in dark and badly ventilated
stores, Little Gab was the victim .of‘incur-
able rickets. His twisted spine brought his
shoulders nearly up to the level of hiseurs;
his slender and feeble legs bent under his
warped and badly balanced chest; he could
walk only when his form was held up in
a. peculiar corset. From this distorted body,
which bulged out both front and back,
cross a head, too highly developed in form, ‘
but with a face of an exquisite delicacy and
of u singularly piqunut expression. Although
he was 8 years old, one would have thought
him hardly 5, judging from his poor stunted
and twisted body; one would have called
him 20 at sight of his thoughtful face, his
projecting brow and his great dark brown
eyes, so sad and so precociously thoughtful.
Father, mother and the big sister worshiped
him, because of his loving manner and his
extraordinarily lively intelligence. The doc-
tor had forbidden them to let; him do any
work, but to distract him and to change his
surroundings they took him to a school,
where be limited himself to listening gravely, ,
yet retained all that he heard. One evening,
after school hours, I noticed him under the
porch of the house, seated against the wait-
ing room of the janitor. His mother having
gone out to make some purchase,-und his sis-
ter not having yet returned from her shop,
he had found the door of their rooms closed
on his return, and, leaning against the wall,
his eyes turned eagerly towards the street, he
was waiting with a. thoughtful and pain-
fully resigned looked. While I questioned
him, his black eyes threw over me long,
observing and frightened glances. In the
meantime the big sister arrived, all out of
breath.
“Ah! my poor Gab,” she cried, “I have
kept you waiting! You were growing im-
patient, humphi”
,. “No,” replied Gab in a. calm voice, clear_us
osilvcrbell, “I was only saying to myself
that perhaps you did. not want any more of
me, and that you would not re turn. I am so
sick and so wearisome.” -
“Ah, you bad boy,” murmured the youn
girl,asshe‘covered him with kisses; then,
turning towards me with her eyes full of
tears, “he is so delicate,” she added, “and so
intelligent; he reasons out things jusblike o.
grownup person. What a. pity he has so
little strength! The doctor says that; if he
can go this summer to Ber-ck, the sea air and
the sand bliths would probably cure him.
But Berck isfnr away, and then there is the
expense Atterfill I am going to try to
make enough to carry him there.”
And the brave young girl worked from
morning until night to lay up the needed
amount. , She wore herself out working over
her sewing machine; she cut, laid together
and sewed with hardly a. mOmcnt of rest.
Well into the nightlheard the sharp and
hurried movements of the machine, resem-
bling the abrupt rustling that, grasshoppers
makeintho fields; beyond the curtains, il-
luminnted by the lump, I distinguished the *
hard working girl in outline, and I thought
involuntarily of Hood’s terrible "Song of the
Shirt.” .
Everybody in the house knew the story ,of
Little Gab, and the wives of the tenants will-
ingly intrusbed work to the big sister. They
stopped the child in the balls, on the landing,
in the courtyard; they fondled him, they
cream him with great tenderness, they sent
him dainties. He, always ‘shy, recalled from
the caresses, and, more uneasy than diverted,
meditate). for a long time on these sudden
marks of friendship. ,
“Why dues the lady on the third floor give
me plo'ythings," asked ho thoughtfully of
his sister, “since she does not know me?”
Then, after a moment’s deliberation, he
added, with n. clearncss of perception that
was heartrending because of tho glimpses it
gave of the hard thinking to which this
child’s broil: was subjected: “It is because I
am a hunchback. no doubt."
Much work came in and the little pile of
savings in a. remote corner of, o. bdreau
drawer grew steadily. July was close at
hand, and they had already begun prepara-
tions for the departure—the purchase of a
handsome leather trunk, the ‘making of a
suit for‘ tho child—and little Gab, who was
in a state of wonderment, talked to his
schoolmates of nothing but his journey to the
sea. baths, when, at the eleventh hour, an un-
fortunate accident camo to throw everything
into disorder. The young wife of the gov-
ernment clerk on the fifth floor had ordered
the dressmaker to newly trim her wedding
gown and to make it over in the latest fash-
ion—u gown that had cost a great deal of
money, and that she wished to make serve
for the little dancing parties of the coming
winter. One evening Gab, playing with
the inkstand,1et it slip from his poor, thin
fingers, and the ink unhappily trickled down
over the satin of the skirt. They did not
scold him—alas! no; the sight of his face,
overwhelmed with dismay, gave too much
pain. The big sister uttered a. cry of terror;
silently, nervously, she sponged the stuff and
measured the extent of the disaster. The ink
had outrageously stained over eight yards of
the satin. To tell the accident to the cus-
tomer on the fifth floor and to excite her p'ity
in favor of Little Gab was not to be thought
of for a moment; in the first place, the gov-
ernment clerk’s wife w ". not rich, and her
wedding dress constit led her only supply
for her days of frivoh‘ty and of ceremony;
then the dressmaker was proud and did not
caret!) acquaint the house with the calami-
ties of her, family. The most advisable and
dignified my Was to run to the Bon Marcho
and try to match the stufl. Eight yards at
fifteen francs came to 120 francs—n formida-
ble breach in the money box and the savings
for the journeyl Well, it was done now,
and the sea baths must be given up for'this
year. The dressmaker kissed Little Gab and
again set herself to work.
In the winter that followed they strug-
gled hard in Little Gab’s household. The
autumn had been rainy and Gab’s health
had felt the effect of it. His bones ached, he
had feverish disturbances and headaches.
The doctor, sounding the boy’s lungs, shook
his head and insisted again on their sending
the child to Derek immediately on the re-
turn of the pleasant weather. This time it
was settled that he should go; cost what it
might, they would set out for the sen baths
about the last of May; and the sewing mar
chine began again in still greater hurry its
grasshopper rattle, and the evenings of
work were extended still farther‘ into the
night. They bought for Little Gab a book
in which there were pictures only of the sea
—views of harbors with their forests of
- masts set along the piers, steep crags washed
by foamy waves, fishing boats, scattered
apart, in the offing, like a flock of white
winged birds. The child talked of nothing
but the sea; he saw it: in his dreams, and
sometimes even in full daylight, through
the gray fog which filled the inside yard, he
had unhealthy delusions of shores beaten by‘
the waves, and great; watery spaces, crossed
by ships with distended sails.
Sometimes he took from the mantelplcce a
iargo‘shell; he placed it; against his ear, and
with his neck sunk into his shoulders, and
with thoughtful eyes, he listened for hours
to this roar of the sea, which seemed to come
from\fur, far away through the shell.
The winter was cxceptionally dump and
cold, and Idid not again encounter Little
Gab under thoporch. The doctor had cx-
pressly forbidden them to let him go Out.
From time to time 1 saw him at the window,
one of the curtains of which was raised.
His eyes, sad and dowucast, stared into v.1-
cancy, and on the clear window glass his
thin fingers traced vague form of ships.
__ unmet) non-u 96.11er '52::
tho'chsaneno WEE-81 was making my obse'f-
vations, and, feeling that he was watched,
withatimid gesture he would draw down
the muslin curtain. Towards the middle of
March I no longer saw him near the window
pane. His bones made him suffer more and
more, his too feeble legs could no longercurry
him, and his headaches were redoubled. He
now passed whole days lying on his‘littie bed,
turning over for the hundredth time the
leaves of the picture book where were seen
thoseaund the big ships with theirwhitc
sails. He had not given up the idea of his
journey. “When will we go?" he asked of
his sistcr; and when the latter had explained
to him that they must wait for fine weather,
he replied in his sharp, thin voice, “It is
because I am in o. hurry; I want to get well
(quickly, very quickly, so as not to see you
cry any more.” Andhe begun torepeat to
himself tho-named of the form: through
which they would pass. , He already knew
them by heart—Chantilly, then Clermont,
Amiens. Abbeville and at lasttho sea.
“Once that we are yonder,” said he, "I am
sure that my bones will not: pain me any
more.” A While waitingho wished to huvc‘
tho bigpink shell from the mantelpiecc by
him, and, his car placed Ingainst its pearly
vulva, he listened attentively to the distant
noise of this sea that’should deliver him from '
all his sufferings _ ' .
Towards Easter I heard no longer the dull
rumbling of tho sewing machine. There
was no more working in the little home, and
yet 11 light from a. lump gliding one , of the
windows well into tho night, showed that
they were always watching them near the
bed of the sick child. “He is ‘much worse,”
murmured the rter’s ,wifo, messing: fué,
otinctivcly as _ he: shrub-chubby? little ‘-
boy; “he has not long to live. The poo:- scul
—ib will be a. releusol" .
One morning I passed under the porcha
little cofIin carried by two undertaker-’8 men
and followed by the family. It was Little
Gab, who was at last setting out on his jour-
ney towards the unfathomable sec. of the un-
known—Translated from the French for The
Boston Transcript.
Admiral Semmes and All Sin.
I remember an amusing anecdote, showing
the business quickness of ”Ab Sin,” told me
by the late' Sir Whampoa, a rich Chinamau
of Singapore, who was knighted by-Queen
Victoria for his services to the British navy.
Singapore, it will be remembered, was a. fu-
vorito stopping place for Admiral Demos
and the Alabama. thmpoa’s business was
that of a. naval contractor, and be generally
supplied Semmcs with stores, and. thus the
two men got acquainted. Scmmes was very
quick at figures, and was proud of his gift in
that line. Now the Chinese in all their cal-
culations use a machine called an abacus,
which resembles an old fashioned multipli-
cation table on wires. It is a clumsy instru-
ment to look at, but is wonderfully expedi-
tions in the hands of an expert. ,
Asthe tWO lilflll were reckoning up their
accounts, Semnzes exclaimed impatiently,
“Whnmpon, why do you persist in using that
stupid abacus?" The 0an replied by
laying a. wager that Semmes could propose
any mathematical problem he chow, each to
work it out his own way, and that he
(Whampoa) would get the right answer first.
“Done i” cried Bemmcs. The problem was
given, and Semmes' began to scribble and
figure, while the old Chinaman’s fingers
rattled over his abacus. In an incredibly
short time Whampoo stopped and declared
the answer. Semmes looked up astonished,
then, tearing up his paper, he exclaimed. if:
tones of the deepest disgust, “Beaten, by —,
and by a Chinainanl” Semmes was not the
only smart “white man” that has had to ad-
mit thc same facts—Once a. Week.
The Club House Wuitcr.
The man who waits on the table at club
houses and restaurants often becomes pos-
sessscd of secrets of the most sensational char-
acter. A reputable waiter, and most of them‘
claimbobo reputable, will never retail his
news. The fact; is that: little or no attention
is paid, by those he serves, to the accomodat—
ing jugglcr of plates. .But. while always
polite, the waiter keeps his ears wide open
and his eyes, too. Howmnny sensational
stories he could tell! In my early experi-
ence I used to be greatly shocked when a. gay
young fellow would came in with a. woman
that I knew to be another man’s wife—knew
her husband, you see. They would enter a
private dining room and order wine, and
while I was industriously serving them such
things would bodonc and said that would
surely bring about a shooting match. or at
least a. divorce, if they had ever become
known to the woman’s doting husband.
I once knew a fellow in our businm who
was employed in a. club house in Chicago, to
wait upon a. certain railroad clique when
they held their private conferences. What
did the fellow do but sell“tips” that he
picked up from the conversation of the rail-
road men to the brokers He made some
money for himself and a great deal more for
the brokers, and the railroad men, to this
day, have never found out why the results of
their conferences did not meet with the full-
est success that, it: appeared, they must have
had—Waiter in Globe-Democrat. '
A COCKROACH MAIL CARRIER.
Novel Means of Communication Employed
‘ by Two Indiana Convicts.
Acommon cockroach was trained to not
as a letter carrier between William Rodifer
and “Starlight J ack" Ryan, convicts in the
Southern Indiana. penitentiary. It. is prob-
ably the first instance on record, too, where
there was any use found for this little crea-
ture. A writer in Tid Bits tells the story as
follows:
Rodifer occupied a cell in the tier just
above the one where Jack was confined, and
for a. long time they had no means of com-
munication with one another. .Rodifer was
a. daring fellow, but he had not sufficient
imagination to get up a plan of ‘ escape, and
be relied on the bright mind of his friend,
“Starlight J trek," to suggest an idea.
One evening Rodifer noticed an innocent
looking cockroach running about on the
floor. After watching its gambolings for a.
time, he concluded he would use it. 80,
writing a short note to his friend, be tied it
to the cockroach’o wing, and, kneeling down
on the floor, he put it out on the well under
the iron balcony in front of his cell. He
calculated that it would run into the cell
underneath; and it did.
Jack noticed the paper, caught: the insect,
and read the note. Then he answered it, and
poked the little creature out on the wall
from the ceiling over the door, where he re-
leased it. The roach went into Rodifer’s cell
and was caught. Then they fed and cared
for it, and used it in this manner for some
months. In fact, it grew to understand its
business.
It must have been a female cockroach,
however, for one day it stopped to chat with
a friend, and was noticed by u warden. The
note, which was written in some sort of
cipher, was taken off, and the hospital stow.
' urd, Dr. Sid C. MeCnre, read it. Then the
beetle was put on the balcony floor and it
ran into Rodifer’s cell. Thus the officials
were kept posted as to the two famous jail
breakers. '
After utime Jock__ begun to suspect that
something was wrong, and be added a post-
script to his letter mmething like this:
“If everything is right, you will find a hair
from my head in this note.”
The warden read it as he did the others,
but dropped the hair and lost it. »
“Never mind it,” said Capt. Craig, whose
hair was red; “put one of mine in it.”
The answer came back: “That last whip-
ping must have been an awful one, J uck, for
it has changed the color of your hair."
The scheming of these two worthies came
to naught, however, and they served their
terms—Inter Ocean.
The Triumph of Vassar College.
Collegiate instruction for women in Amer-
ica encountered the usual reception given to
all innovations. Vassar college and its nth:
dents became the objects of many weak
jokes. The students were jibed at as women
who “wanted to be men,” as college women
have been jibed at elsewhere.: The name
,Vnssar wascarricd everywhere, It became
typical, and still is. Other colleges have
risen, but Vassar remains the woman’s col-
logo at which the small wit hurls his‘puny
darts. The “VoSsur girl" still stands for
the girl who goes to college, and about her
we hear ailsorts of stories, more or loss apoc-
ryphai. The‘ new college encounizeredoppo-
sition from even good people; many had
grave doubts; but the select few welcomed
it, and it wont steadily on ' its way. It was-
foliowed by Wellesley, Smith, ’lVells, and
Bryn Muwr, and the “Harvard Annex',”n_s
it; is called, also entered upon its successful
career. ——Arthur Gilmun in The Century.
Working at a High book.
A London physician, writing of the pecu-
liar effects of certain professions on the
health, advises clerks to discard the high
stool so commonly used‘ by bookkeepers and
accountants. Ho regards it as far more
healthful in every way to stand when Work-
ing at a. high desk. If need betho clerk may
rest a few moments by sitting down inan
ordinary chair, but to work all day in the
cramped position necessitamd by the high
stool is ruinous to the health and must,
sooner or later, result in the breaking down
of the individual who does its—Chicago
News. . . .- -
' CLOCKS ANDIWATGHES.
LONG PERIOD OFIINVENTION BEGIN-
NING WITH THE SUN DIAL.
The “Clepsydm” of the Ancients—(I'll.
Water Clock—Use of a Spring [untold
of Weights-411m Flat Watch—An Im-
portant Improvement.
‘ Between the sun dial and the little, golden
cased, ticking, pocket 'tlme piece is a. long
period of invention. Thirty-Ono years ago
the first American watch ,was made. It was
a cumbersome aficir, constructed under dif-
ficultiec,'but was awido development from
even the horological devices that followed
the sun dial Earliest among these was
clepsydm, or “water stealer,” a transparent,
graduated vase filled with the pure liquid of
nature which ‘slowly stole away through a
little aperture in the bottom. The receding
surface murked the going of the hours. The
clepsydra was used in ancient China and
Egypt under the Ptolemies. Pompey intro-
duced it into Roman courts, and the Britons
used it when Closer went among them. The
mechanical ingenuity and skill of many no-
tions were employed in the construction of
the clepsydm. It was devised in statuary,
with tears flowing from the eyes; it was
made in floating forms tlutaromand fell
with the water and pointed to the hours on.
graved upon an upright scale. ' ,
An improvement was made in this kind of
timepiece by the introduction of a. little
wheel, on which the water fell, thus com-
municating motionxto the hands upon a dial.
i Finally-tho plepbydn. grew fnto'm ingenious
and complicated water clock. A thoasond
years ngou Persian culiph sent one to the
Emperor Charlemagne which had a striking
apparatus. With the completion of each
twelve hours twelve doors in the face opened,
from which issued twelve automaton horse-
men, who walmd until the striking ceased,
and than rode back again. The timekecper
of the Puritans was but a. modification of.tho
primitive clepsydra. Fine sand was substi-
tuted for the water. ~
munch on m omen.
The invention of the clock is claimed by
many different people and attributed to many
eras. The Chinese declare they owned clocks
4,000 years ago. TheGermans insist that the
first mechanical clock was made by them
only eight centuries back. The word origin-
ally signified bell and the French “cloche”
still retains its ' meaning. Clocks were re-
- garded' as curiosities until the _- Eleventh
century. when they were placed in all the
monasteries. In this manner arose the
fashion of placing chicks in church towers.
Even the use of clocks by saintly men did
not keep the common folk from regarding
them as the devil's own handiwork.
In the earlypart ofthe Fifteenth century it-
was discovered that “clock work”couldbeset
in motion as well by the gradual uncoiling
of a. springus bythe running down of weights,
and that these motions could bemndo iso-
chronous by a. balance wheel acting upon the
escapement. But it remained for Galileo to
discover the great principle of the pendulum
and reveal it to mankind. Applied to the
clock the pendulum added greatly to its
accuracy. Until after the Revolution scarcely
a clock ticked on America’s coast. Sun dials
and hour glasses sufficed for those slow days
of religious rigor. Now the Americuu clock
tells' the hour even in for ofi Jerusalem, in
the Chinese capital, in the heart of Siberia.
The first watch devised was called a “pocket
clock,” or “Nuremberg animated egg.” It
was made in 1477 by Peter Hole, o. clock-
mnker of Nuremberg. It took a. year’s labor
to make it. When it was finished it varied
nearly an hour a. day from true time. It re-
quired winding twice a; day, and the price
asked for it and similar ones subsequently
made was $1,500. It was the size and shape
of a. goose egg. It bud only one hand, and
no watch with more was made for many
years. Nothingwas known of hair springs
in the days of the one handed watch. Helo
invented the fusee. But for 125 years the
fusee chain was made of catgut, a. material
peculiarly susceptibletoatmospheric changes.
The library of the Waltham watch factory
qontains a watch bearing the date of 1600
which has the catgut fussechulu.
C mu comm) m SPRING.
The application of the coiled hair spring
was the most important improvement in
.watcli making. It is attributed both to Dr.
Robert Hooko and the astronomer Hughens.
Jewels were first used in the construction of
watches in 1700. Previously the pivots run
on metallic bearings, which soon wore
out, making constant repairing a ne-
cessity. The diamond, ruby, sapphire,
chrysolioe, garnet and agate are the
precious stones used for the bearings
upon which the pivots mt. Pivots of brass
orsteel will run for generations in jeweled
bearings without any perceptible wear.
‘ Very rm. watches are jeweled with din-
monds,sapphireo and 111qu For all prac-
tical purposes garnets and uqun marines an.
swer as well. Montana is beginning to sup-
ply garnets. Precious stones for watch foc-
tory. use are bought by the carat.
One popular little time keeper for ladies
has fifteen jewels, all of ruby. The stones
are cut into “planks,” and then into "joists”
by circular saws and afterwards broken into
cubes. Thou eachis turned out in a. lathe
'exactl‘yasobedpostisturned out~innfur-
niture factory. By this time it weighs less
than one-eighty-thousandth of a. pound Troy.
It is aftérward burnished into its setting-a
little circle of brass;
The English watch attainai high develop-
ment with John Harrison’s invention of the
compensation balance wheel in 1767. French
and Swiss matchmaker-s very nearly aban-
doned two of the chief dentures of the Eng-
lish watch, considering them unnecessary.
These were the fuses chain and the vertical
escopemenil. They threw out more than 600
.of the 800 parts of the ”cumbersome English
watch. For fifty years were the industrious
Swiss the chief watchmak‘ers of the earth.
The operatives of the Elgln factory are
about equally divided, male and female.
Girls are taught their trades in the factory,
but men usually are practical workers before
beingfimployed in any department—Chicago
Heral
_ » A Memory of Babyhood.
In a recent number of The Medical News
appeared a note from a. correspondent whose
profesio’nnl eminence is an unqualified in-
dorsement of the accuracy of his observation,
in which he writes, “I have recently seen in
the medical journals that Duguld Stewart
was once asked whot‘was the earliest thing
he could remember. He said it was being
left alone by his nurse in the cradle, and rc-'
solving to tell of her as soon as he could
This may have been copied as ajokc;
speak.
~ but it brings to my mind the fpllowing state-
ment that I have made from tithe to time for
many years, which has always been received
with derision, but which is a perfectly dis-
tinct remembrance in my mind: I remember
being jolted over the crossings in a baby
wagon by a. nurse, and resolving to tell of
her as soon aslcouldspeak.” founding the
above, it occurred to us that it would not be
amiss to ask the writer how he knew that
there was such I: thing'roslpeech, and that he
would ever be able to exercise that faculty.—
Science. - ‘
Girls in 3 Candy Store-
In a confectionery «goblishment when
hallo dozen pretty young womonm em-
ployed behind. the counters I noticed one of
the latter cram half udozen camels into
her mouth at once and appear to enjoy them
hugely. She stood 'in full ‘view of the pro-
prietor assho did sound onpected to see
him administer a reproof. Instead of doing
so he only looked at me and knowingly closed
his left eye. “I should think terrible inroads
must be madoin your stock if all your young
women have appetites like that," observed
I. “Not a bit of it,”he responded, “when
a young woman ‘is engaged to sell candy
for this house she receives permission to
eat just as much as she likes; with the
strict understanding, however, that she is
not to carry any out of thcstore. ‘She avails
herself of the permission readily enough, but
she dcesn’t devour half so much the second
dayns she does the. first; on the third she
gets away with even less and at the end of a.
week she wouldn‘t give you ten cents for the
contents of the whole shop, so far as her own
appetite is concerned. Tho-girl who bolted
these- carnmels just nowthinks she's the
luckiest girl alive. In It week she won't care
whether all :tho' candybbbpo iii-the country
'; keep school or not, so long” her own cm-
f'ployment is secure. Mytudvlce too youth
, with 'o candyfd‘cvourfiing girl is for him to
: feed her steadily. with it for a week. At the
fend‘of nwoek he can devote his salaryto
other uses.”—Chicngo Journal.‘
lmpudonoc.
It is sheer, bald headed impudencc on the
t of the Democracy to go on talking about
their “turifl roiorm.’
us the Irish and of British free trade.
would go back to the colonial system from
which we escaped at the cost of the revolu-
tionary war. They would secure the opera-
tionln thcturifi regulations of the Confed-
erate constitution. They put up Texasnnd
Arkansastolegislate for New England and
Pennsylvania. There is no capacity of re-
fonnofanykindlntho ranks of thaDemo-
mm. That party is as deficieutiu
businep ability as in patriotism. In matter:
ofbusineu Corlisle and Mills ore babies at
corolla Prue—u new
The
They are for giving
TAKEN Flier LIFE.
A VERY PLAIN T&K FOR OUR
, FARMER Redness
'ranE-Fortllizer film the Surplus.
Something That No Amman Citizen Can
Afford to You Damask-A Voice from
the State or Michigan. _
As a farmer, I wish to all: to my brethren
on the questions of the surplus, the tariff and
a few kindred subjectsin a manner that can
be readily understood. A! an illustration I
will cite the experience 01?me father and a
Mr. Allen, who several years ago came to
Michigan, and each pure. a. farm, the
highway only dividing _, ' places. They
only had enough means to re their land,
and as there were houses , 7 build and stock
to buy they were compel to raise money
by mortgoging their, land, Which they each
did to the amount of SLOW, glVing ten notes
of $100 at 4 per cent, onefnotc and interest
on whole, payable ”mail Things worked
along smooth until u dro t compelled them
to give a second mortgag of $500 on seven
years' time to enable “gem to hold their
places. . =.
About this time n mutuul friend started a.
mill in the city of Detroit for the production
of aloud fertilizer. Faiths? and Allen were
induwd by this friend (Smith, by name) to
invest in slow barrels of his fertilizer, which
proving an excellent Mole, caused them
both to procure enough the following your to
scatter over the .whole farm. The conse-
quence was that the; most unprecedented
crop—the like of whichkhey had‘ never
‘figured on—wu scarred. This year they had
a good round surplus as the result of the well
applied fortlllwr.
Father goes to the bank and finds six of his
one hundred dollnr notes with interest on.
paid. As they called for interest the total
would make 8684. After some porley he
bought the notes for $634, saving 850 by
doing so. His second mortgage. remained,
but he concluded that could easily be met, so
built some needed fences and made other im~
provements with the balance of his surplus.
Allen, on the other hand, was stunned at
his enormous surplus; besides he had- ot-
tended some indignation meetings held by
the farmers in the community, protesting
against Smith for charging so high prices for
his fertilizer. It was a wall known fact that
Smith went into the business with but very
little capital, and now run around in a top
buggy with fast horses and fine clothes, em-
ployed 150 men, and seemed to be rolling in
wealth. He (Allen) would not increase his
wealth if he knew himself and would have
no more of his expensive fertilizer. Time
rolled ou—fathcr had his well improved
iplnoe all clear. Allen—well he sold half of
his place to clear the other half.
Now, if the reader will simplify the United
States finances, make the bonded debt the
farmer’s mortgage, the turifl the fertilizer,
he will readily comprehend the whole ques-
tion as between a. protective tariff and free
trade. The tariff increases the government’s
wealth, builds up factories who employ thou-
sands of men, and no one the loser but the
‘ foreigner. Now we will leave itto the reader,
be his politics what they my, if this illus-
tration is not a fair one, and by a little
thought make the issue plain and unmistaka—
ble. '
The last campaign was won by the Demo
crat free traders by the hue and cry of over
ninety million surplus heaped in the treasury.
Cleveland admits,-in his letter of acceptance,
that there is» now over one hundred and
thirty millions, and all this time the law has
permitted his secretary to pay out of this
surplus is premium for outstanding bonds.
The Republicans want this surplus paid out
just this way. They want to continue the
tariff (the fertilizer), get the debt paid off,
keep the factories and men employed and
continue the general prosperity. The Demo-
crats want to reduce the surplus by stopping
:the tariff, doing away with the fertilizer and
let Smith and his men shiftas bestthey can.
,Farmers, you certainly have distinguishing
,business faculty enough to decide on which
lsido of this isue you will vote.
i Detroit, Oct., 1883. JOHN T. GBOAT.
Free Potatoes, Too.
While the British tin trust and salt trust
sure preparing for free tin plate and free salt
" the thrifty Scotch former is anxiously hop-
ing that free trade will give him a splendid
fmarket for his potatoes. Here is an item
:which we ‘clip from The British Baker, Con-
fectionernnd Purveyor of Aug. 1, 1888:
L “As much as 1,166,000 sacks of 168 pounds
.ench of potatoes were shipped from this coun-
-.try to New York during the last nine months.
:These were mostly sent' from Scotland; only
:1: comparatively few additional were sent to
1New York from the continent, some, 80,000
"bags. Besides those sent to New York pota-
toes were also sent to Philadelphia. and one
.or two other ports. If the trade were cho-
{lutcly free there is no doubt that very large
jshibments would continue to be made in
ffuturc years, thus benefiting not only our
f industrious growers, but also securing an
:nbundnnt supply of excellent tubers, well
suited for rich and poor alike, at very mod-
,erate prices, to the principal cities on the
American seaboar .”
Of course it will benefit the “industrious
growers” of Scotland, but will the farmers
of New York state and of New Jersey look
upon the prospect with equal joy? We think
nos—New York Press.
Better 8 Little Than None at All.
After writing a message in favor of free
trade generally, and having‘ attempted to
establish a. special system of free trade in
fish with Canada, against the advice and
counsel of The Sun, Mr. Cleveland has now
adopted The Sun's policy of protection in .N-
gard to railroads. He tells thesenutethat
something should be done to stop the compo-
tition by the Canadian raiirmds with those
of the United States. ‘
As it is now, they undersell us. They carry
goods" cheaper than we can, and, in conse-
quence, they are doing a great .deal of work
which otherwise would be done by our roads.
Mr. Cleveland wants this to be. forbidden, so
that shippers shall hand overtheir goods to
the native corporations and the profits in car-
tinge shall remnln in native coffers. This is
protection. »
We have always regretted that Mr. Cleve-
land did not agree with us upon the fishery
question; but now he has come over to our
side in that matter, and it is also better to
be u. protectionist in the matter of railroads
only than not to be a. protectionist at all.—
New York Sun. ’ '
Chief Arthur, who is at the bend of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, has
again expressed his approval of Gen. Harri-
son‘s course in the labor riots and on labor
questions. Soon after Gen. Harrison was
nominated Mr. Arthur said that he saw
nothing in his record whigh should prevent
any workingmnn‘ from voting for him. 'He
has recently reiterated that opinion, and in
referring to~ the labor disturbances at Indian-
apolis in 1877, he says, as to ' Gen. Harrison‘s
utterances there, that in his opinion Gen.
Harrison said nothing which any honmt man
might not have laid—Iowa; State Register
(Rep-l
Urgln‘ n. Buds! Reform.
Therohoslctolybeen ogood dcslof com.
plnlnt about the mode of burial in a. Jewish
cemetery on Long Island. The complaint is
that in many cases no coffins aroused. The
body is brought” the grave inc box. which
is opened beside the grave and the body taken
out. The box isthen taken apart andsomo
of the boardsput into the grave. ‘ The body
is then placed on these, the other boards laid
over it, and the grave filled up. This kind
of burial in said to be ‘bcdudulousfl’ and also
highly objectionable in a sanitary sense, and
quite o. fuss is made about it in the neighbor‘
hood of the cemetery in question.
Very well. But at the very time the fuss
is going on and getting into the papers, a
meeting of churchmen is held in New York
to urge a “burial reform”every closely rot
sombling the condemned custom in the J ew-
ish cemetery. Dr. Huntington, pastor of
Grace church, prodded at the meeting, and
several other Episcopal clergyman were
present. The practice of inclosing the dead
in tight coifins'or caskets, and then inclosing
those in strong’boxes was declared to be bad
in every way, as it arrests the quick decay
which the goat chemist, Nature, intend:
shall take place. One of the speakers, do-
acribing funeral customs, said that until the
. timoof Charles II coffinswgro unknown.
Bodies werelaid' on planks, with a turf at
l the head end foot, and the grove then closed
over them. So there does not seem to be
anything voryshockin: in the custom of: that
Jewish cemetcry, after all. It is an old
English custom, rather than n barbarous one
peculiar to the poorer Polish Jews. And. in-
stead of being bad inc sanitary way, the
clergyman appear to think it much better
than ours—New York Car. Detroit Free
is“ on.
Mr. De Masher (to pretty barmaid at ro-
freshment wanton—Aw, would you—
nw—givo mca-oW-one of ose—uw—dog
biscuits!
Pretty Barmaid (giving him oatmeal bis-
cuit)—-Herc‘s the dog biscuit. Take it on the ‘
mat and eat it. [Collapse of Do MasherJ‘
London Full.
l
' for: were Republicans.
ENDICOTT’S INFAMOUS CIRCULAR.‘
Women and Children Must Be Sacrificed
on the Altar of Cleveland's Reform.
(Confidential)
Onmxaucn Omen, WAR DEPT.
“’ASHINGTOII’, D. 0., Jan. 4, 18kt). i
To the commanding officers of the national
unnorios at Springfield, Mum, and Rock
Ishnd, Ills. and of the United States or-
senals at Niw York, West Troy, N. Y.,
and Philadelphia, Pa., Boston, Mass, Beni-
cin. Cal, etc. .
SIR—Willie arsenals and the urmony are
not intended to be converted into political
machine; two political parties in this country
are recognized. It is therefore ordered that
hereafter in employing and discharging cm-
ploycs of any and all grades, other things
being equal and qualifications satisfactory,
Democrats'will be favored, the object being
todlvide the force in the different grades
gradually between Democrats and Republi-
cans. This rule will apply to women and
children as, well as to men, and will be
strictly enforced. Respectfully, your obedi-
ent servant, ' S. V. Buss-r,
Brigadier General, Chief of Ordnance,
Unted States Army. '
Gen. Benet's Own Statement.
A few days before the date of this circular
I was called to the, office of the secretary of
war. Mr. Endioott stated ‘to me that he had
received many urgent requests from very
prominent Dempcrnts'to have Republicans
employed in the arsenals throughout the
country dismissed and Democrats appointed
in their places. The secretary said he
did not want' to turn the "sorvl‘coiinto
apolitical machine, but that. something
would have to be done to bring about
a different condition of affairs iii the
. , ordnancedepnrtment. He said: that he would
like to have Democrats appointed wherever
Republicans were dismissed, and that the
filling of pesitions’ occupied ,by women and
children should be recognized in thesame
political degree as those filled by men. I
replied to‘ Mr. Endicott that I would
fix the matter, audimmediately I wrote
this circular and sent it toSecretury Endifi
colt for inspection. The secretary 'approved
of it, and I had manifold copies made'and
sent to all of the commanders of the
arsenals. In three or four instances the com-
.mnnding officers wrote ofiiclal or privito
letters to me—I forget which—stating'that
they had made careful canvasscs of their em-
plovcs and they found that the majority of
them were Democrats, and that if the object
of my circular wasto equalize between the
two parties the positions there could be no. .
equalization in favor of the Democratic
party."—Wasbington Dispatch Indianapolis
Journal. ' ' .
Come, Out withYour Excuses.
The president shocked the sensibilities of
some of his civil service reform friends by
his generous contribution ‘to the Democratic
campfign fund, but what shall he say now
in apology forthe Benet circular? That,
having advanced the reform of the civil
service by every means in his power, it bo-
came necessnryto conciliate' the spoilsmeu.
a littlci 0r 'shull no excuse be offered,
but Gen. Benet and his, chief be
royally abused for sending such a. circular
out, marked “confidential” or otherwise!
And shall this condemnation be visited on
them because of the order contained in the
circulur,or~becausc they resorted'tc paper
andinktopromulgatc the order instead of
issuing it by word of mouth alone, according
to the policy enunciated by the late lamented
Mr. Higgins: “Oh‘, no; we never put nothin’
down in writin’.”—Wa.shington Star (Indi)
One Illustration of Its Effect.
My sister, the widow of a wounded officer
of volunteers, who served faithfully during
the war of the rebellion, had employment for
herself and two daughters at one of the large
houses until about six months ago, when they
were called before the commanding officer
and told that they could not have any more
work from the ordnance department. When
my sister asked the reason he informed her
that he had learned that she and her (laugh
“Are we discharged
for that reason only 1” she asked. He~ rc-
plied: “It is perhaps improper for me to re- »
ply to that question; I can only say that I
am complying with confidential instructions
received from the chief of ordnance.”—Letter
from J. Q. Ellery, of Rock Island, to the In-
dianapolis Journal. ,
Unparalleled Partlsamhfp.
In partisan meanness and malignity the
circular has no parallel. This is the first
time in the history of this government, and
doubtless of any civilized government, that
a prescriptive order has, by cruel emphasis,
been made to bear-with crushing force on
mops and orphans—Indianapolis Journal
( P-
Even the Scrub Women Must Go.
This circular was sent to urmorfes and
arsenic and Republican scrub women were
displaced for Democratic scrub women, Re-
publican errand boys by Democratic errand
boys. The high and mighty Endicott ap-
proved it all—New York Press (Rep).
Gains in the Northwest.
T. C. Lund, secretary of the T. G. Mandi:
Manufacturing company, Stoughton, un-
nounces that he will vote for. * Harrison and
Morton. He cannot swallow Cleveland's
free trade doctrines. Mr. Luud has several
times been mayor of the city and has held
various other local omces. He was state su-
perintendent of public property under Gov-
ernor Taylor, which position he resigned to
take the secretaryship of the Mandi; com-
pany. He has frequently been mentioned in
connection with a Democratic nomination on
the state ticket, but would never consent to
be a candidate. The defection is a. great
blow to the Democracy inthis port of the
county. Mr. Lund is one of the best known
Scandinavians in the stain—Wisconsin State
Journal.
The Milk in the Cocoanut.
“All," said the tariff reformer,,“if you will
only consider this, my friend. You save
seventeen cents a day in the cost of living un-
der my system"
“True,” replied the for seeing workiugmun,
“but I lose 81 in wages. What do you callthe
eighty-three cents that I don’t get?” '
“Why, my dear sir, that is, your surplus,
and the object of my reform is to remove the
’ surplus.” .
“Oh, I see,” said the for seeing working-
mnn, as he Walked to the polls and voted the
straight Republican ticket—his gunrantec‘of
home, health and comfort.—New York Press.
Cool Baron Scott will get his full share of
the 50 cents a ton advance on coal. He is in
the ring, or is the ring; and a part of every
dollar paid by the poor under this extortion
goes to swell his millions. Coal is n free
trade article. Scott, the coal baron, is Cleve
land's right hand man and the boodie mann-
ger of the Democratic campaign. Fifty
centsn. ton raise on coal! “'l‘arifi Reform."
“Choopen uectssnries of life. " ' Vote for
Clevrland. ‘ '
, Not Fit forltho Business.
Few people have an idea howfew there
are who could become bur-hers by any amount
of application I have had nineteen appren-
tices at various times, only seven of whom
.- a'ro tensor-int artists. Some boys are too ner-
vous to acquire the ability, and particularly
of smokers. Others are too lazy. Still
others have not the suaveuess necessary, for
a successful barber must be a politb mun.
Others have not the essential mechanism or
cannot attain to the requisite lightness of
touch. But morbid peculiarities are great
factors in unfitting a. candidate. For in-
stance, I have just dismissed an apprentice
because of his inordinate antipathy to warts.
When a. customer who lathe possessor of o~
wart is down in a. chair at the boy's mercy
he shoves all around it with the utmost care;
then u. devilish grin diatoms his features, the
expression being‘the funniest [ever saw, and
he cuts off the wart. The customer rises and
discovers his face bleeding terribly, and the
result is a row and a lost customer.—John
Ilock in Globe-Democrat. ,, I, -
Making Bogus Ancient Relics.
The manufncture of ,cpuntorfcit implements
of the $9119 age seems to' boliccomlng quite
on influstry. A recent deception detected at
the Smithsonian institution, consisted in chip-
ping away parts of genuine spear or arrow
heads, and selling the mutilated flints at a
greatly increased price as rare and curious.—
Arkimsaw 'n-aveler.
Torment for tho" Cyclist...
Tho street handles of Chelsea have invented
a new torment for the cyclists who avail
themselves of Bottom park.‘ They are not
content with flicking them with switches and
inserting bits of stick in the delicate wires of
their wheels, but they'set on little boys to
run across a cyclist with a view of getting
knocked over. Boy fallslprostrate, howling,
park keeper hurries up, takes cyclist’s ad.
dress, a crowd s'oon gathers, compensation is,
of course, forthcoming, especially if tho
cyclistisn lady. The wounded child skips
merrily of! with a half crown, divides the
' booty and tries for another spill in another
part of the park. -Pull Moll Gazette. .
A Suggestive Exhb'iblt. ,
The list of criminals appointed to ofilce
by Cleveland embraces 137, 'not mama! '
ing twenty-two persons guilty of politi-
cal crimes, or fifty—nine otherpersons directly
connected with the criminal classes.. This ‘
savery list includes two murderers and the
tools of two others, five notorious duelists ‘
and' three riofcrs—one to be judge of the very
court by which he, had- been imprisoned six.
weeks. It includes five persons who had been
indicted or convicted for frauds against, the j,
revenue appointed to be ofiichrs’of the'r’eve’nue
service. It includes a jury fixer,‘o'deadb“eht, : - "
a lawyer guilty of defroudihgcllents ‘dnd
an attorney who had cleared notoriousban-
dits by contrivlng a defeat of justice, all ap-
pointed to be judges. ‘Pérsons were 'ap-'
pointed pension:- agents who had been in-
dicted for violating pension-laws.» Persons '
guilty of robbing the mails were appointed.
postmasters ,or mail agents—one when pp-
pointed was in jail for robbing the very 'ofilce .’ 1
to which he was appointed. Liquor sellers. ‘
their sons or attorneys, werohppointedrlnv
ternal revenue officials. An impeached state . _ I
treasurer, defrauding county’or town trons,
urers,’ seven forgers—one of whom served
twotcrms for that offense, but “knew Cleve.
laud personally”—aud men guilty. of robbery, : '
embezzlement, theft, malfeasance, tapping a
church till, grand larceny, bribery, obtliining
money under false pretenses; Of ‘a printing
steal, a mileagestenl and a patent fraud,'of
keeping gambling houses and houses ofi'e-
sort for the vile ofboth sexes, of assault
and battery,- list fighting” and insulting
, women, of assaulting a. lady temperance lect-
urer with a. club, of- wife beating, of block'-
mniling and selling offices and of selling oili-
cial information, with an editor of ,a. rogues’
l’papor and a Brooklyn police offiCzr who was
dismissed for arresting in her bed at 2 a. ’m.
a. sick woman against whom there was no
charge and compelling her to walk a mile to
a station—all these are chosen instruments of
reform; ' V
A full alphabetical list of these appoint-
ments has been'before the public for more
than two months. with quotations from
papers that support Mr. Cleveland for re-
election anthenticatlng more than three-
fourths of the charges, and accompanied by
The Tribune’s promise to correct any and all
errors. Just one correction has been asked
for and made—From The Tribune’s record
of the President’s appointments in 'the Civil
Service, July 23, 1888. '
Dr. Brooks an Unrepentant Rebel.
Dr. Brooks, the Prohibition candidate for ‘
vice president, seems to be rather a remarka-
ble person. The following are the exact
words which he used at the recent meeting
of; Decatur, 1115.: '
"I lived in the south and owned slaves. I
sympathized with the south and prayed for
the success of the Confederate cause, but my
prayers were not answered I have been a.
Democrct, but, thank God,-I have never been
in Republican. I will never have that sin to
answer for. ”
Dr. Brooks also said, as réported by an
: organ of his own party: ~
‘53 * * And I wont to say further, that,
under the present regime of that party. (Re-
publican), and the waving of the bloody
shirt, and the perpetuity of the and memories
of the war, the. time will never come until
, Gabriel blows his trumpet that the negro
vote in the south will be counted”
The prohibitory party seeks to recruit its
ranks chiefly from the Republican'party,
and a large part of its membership is com-
posed of men who were once Republicans,‘
and who have still, it may be presumed, some
regard for the record of that party and for
the grand work it accomplished in the cause
of human freedom. To present to them as a.
candidate a man who publicly thanks God
that he never was a Republican, and who
boasts an publicly that the negro vote will
notbe counted, is an act of extraordinary
audacity—Boston Journal.
The Farmer and the Parrot—it Fabio.
A parrot, perched on an American made
steel wire in a Bowery bird store, kept say-
ing over and over again, “The tariff is a. tax!
The tariff is a. tax!”
A St. Lawrence county farmer, who had
gone down to “York” to see the sights,
heard him and stopped. . '
“Hello, birdl”,suid he, “don’t; you know
that the farmers up in Canady buy all their
implements from us instead of from Eng-
land, olthopgh their tariff is the some on
goods from both countries?”
The parrot only said again: “The tax-id is
a‘tax.” ' ' 7
“Say,” said the farmer, “if them things
are cheaper in Canada than the, English
things be, with the some duty on both, ain’t
they a great deal cheaper to us, who buy
them where they are made as n. malt of our
higher tarifl, and don’t have that Canadian
duty to pay on them it" ’
But the parrot only kept on saying: “The
tariff is a taxi"
Dickinson, tho Blasphemer.
In the midst; of the confusion the strong,
common sense of the people cameto the place
of expounder and interpreter. “It' is a. very
simple case, gentlemen,” said common sense.
“You were looking beyond, below,,_arouud——
anywhere, but at the simple nature of things.
This curiosity at Washington, this president
who seems to you to be inscrutable in his
ways and struhge in his methods—so rare in
this life of yours—is simply an honest man,”
and an honest man, with a great brain, in-
trepid heart, and tireless vigor; an honest
man of indomitable perseverance, absolute
fearlessness, and conscious power; an honest
man who stands for theright with the firm-
ness and serenity of the Rock of Ages itself.—
From the postmaster general’s speech at De—
troit, Sept. 26, asreported in the New York
Times (Dem) '
His Explanation.
A Democrat, ’says The . San Francisco
Chronicle, sends 'us a brief explanation qf
why he will not vote for Cleveland this year.
He says four years ago his party went into
the fight with a mtoto like this:
. REFORM
and
Cleveland.
This year he says the motto runs entirely
different, the cart being put before tho'horse
in this style: .
CLEVELAND
and
/ Reform.
In other words, there is too much Cleve~
land and too little reform for him in 1888.
Will Be Miles Away.
An administration organ, says The Norris-
town Herald, christcns the new 'comet
“Cleveland," “because it will be sixty times
brighter on Nov. 7 than it is now.” The
name is’quitc appropriate. The new comet
will be millions of miles from the White
House unNov. 'i', and on that date cannot;
be seen with the naked eye. And it is com-
posed of gas and vapor, too: “ ‘ ' ' '
Not a Ghost of One.
It is rumored that Adam Forepangh will
take the stump-for Cleveland and Thurman.
The Democratic circus needs 0. manager
pretty badly, but we don’t think Forepuugb
will engage in a canvas for men who have
. no show.-Nonistown Herald.
Tarn Srnmcs, Tenn, July 4, 18258. '
' The Swift Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga.:
During the springpf 1871, while working
in the field at ‘in'y'home invMorgan county,
Go. I pulled off my shoe: to give my feet a
rest. Unfortunately, I walked into a clump
of poison oak, and in a few (in 5 my feet
were in a terrible condition, and could not
put on a shoe because 'of' the; soreness and
swelling. 1 was treated as posson oak cases,
usually are, and everything was healed up.
About the same time‘ the following spring,
1872, my feet beparncsoren'gain, aS/at first,
and every succeeding spring for five years .
brought back the same condition of the dis-
ease, only each time it became more dis-
tressing, because I began to think it was a
lifetime trouble. Finally, I was induced to
try Swift's Specific. I took six bottles, and
to-day am entirely well. My improvement
was gradual from thee-first, and no evidence
of the disease remains. I shall take pleas:
ure in testifying as to its curative proper-g
ties. it is the greatest blood purifier in ex-
istence. Yours truly, J. .L. MORGAN.
The foregoing certificate is taken at
random from thousands of— letters in posses-
sion ofthe SwiftSpceificCo., and presented
simply as a sample. It is.a voluntary.
statement, giving facts and results of the
case. ' Its “accuracy noduv-genuinenoss are
beyond question. . '
A valuable Treatise on Blood and Skin -
Diseases mailedfree. Address -
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.,
Drawer 'l Atlanta. G!-
The microsc0pe demonstrates that con- -
sumption, asthma and bronchilis are pro- ‘
dnced by disease germs. Fohinine’s cure
Is‘thc only remedy. For sale by C. Lup-
hnm,11 Main Street, Not-walk
There arc‘ubotit 2,500 'femnié' physicig I'
ans.
If yotrhnvc a cold, cough, (dry, hack.
lug.) croup, cankcred throat, c'atarrh
dropping, utilising cough,~ Dr. Klilner’s
Indian Congh’Cure—(Consumption Oil)—
wilirciievc instantly; heals and cures;
Price 25 cents, 50 cents and 1:3. For sale
/,,u.w/’ 219,9 ._
3% eliminates
El
MAS
weight, alinm or phosphuiepowdcrs.
, {i‘rentell in a clean manly way.
‘ A healthy people make a prosperous nation.
» . l‘copio made and kept healthy by .
Rheumatism with its Vise-like grip tortures its
victim until he loses control of his temper, and
then comes grave mistakes. Another turn of the
vise and Neurnlgiu torments all patience out of a.
man. Relief from these terrible diseases makes a
heaven of happiness for the sufferer, and Baker’s
Great American Specific gives that relief.
There is no mistake about this, and at this season,
in this climate, you cannot aliord making the IlliS-
take of beingwithonta bottle of this wonderful
remedy. Dump, chill winter winds, sleet, snow,
slop and ice are as certain to bring on the tor-
ments of ltnEun'ArIsn and tortures of NEURALGIA
as is BAKEn’s GREAT AMERICAN Srncirlc to cure
them. Price 50 cents a bottle. Prepared only by
Maurice, Baker tin Co., Portland, hie. Doolittle .ia
Smith, 24 and 26 'l‘rcmont Street, Boston, Mass,
' EEIllESS
MINES?e was
Do Your Own Dyeing, at Home.
They will dye everything. They are said every.
where. Price 100. a package. Theyhuve no equal
for . Strength, Brightness, Amount; in Packages
or for Fastness of Color. or non-fading Qualities.
They do not crock or smut; 40 colors. For sale by
J. G. Gregoryd: 00.; C. Lapilam, ii Main Street;
Geo. B. Plaisieq, Druggists. 1512?
w- u;
.1 r'Ui-ri‘iACES
KY?! LATEST PATENT IMPROVEMENTS
, kiiUPACTURED GEL"! It?
1 oy‘n’ton Furnace Co
207 a 209 WATER 37., its
r—w ,
. $.55“:
bl. A Dunn-ox, Frost.
'FOR SA LE BY ‘
r. w. JAQUI, Jr
, ’ NORWALK. CONN.
20136
Soar.
avmg a.
Heals Without Le
disense'to tho Internal Organs.
eradicates tlle disease from the system.
Scroiiula Sores, Salt Rheum. Sore Breasts
Sores, Fresh Cuts, Snake Bites, lirutses, Burns,
boxes three times larger than any other Salve, and
everywhere.
results than any Other medicine.
Kidneys, Colds and Fever and Arruc.
PAO
Possesses many Important Advantages over all
other prepared Foods.
BIB/ES 037 FOR IT.
’ ”It’ll/08 BEL/SH IT.
Makes Plump, Laughing, Healthy Babies.
Regulates the Stomach and Bowels.
Sold by Druggists. 25c, 50c., $1.00.
WELLS, RICHARDSON 8.60., ountmnramr.
Baby; Portraits.
A Portfolio of thitiful baby portraits, printed
on fine plate paper by patent photo roccss, sent
free to hit: "any lluby horn wit till a year.
Every .\ tilts these pictures ;‘ send at once.
1‘ l‘
‘ Give its o s name nnd age.
WtLtS, lithARDWN a CO., Flops... Buriingfon, VI.
:l'l‘ ._ E. It.
by U. Laphnm, Main Street.
, This Powder never varies. A marvel of pure ,
fitren'gth and wholesomen'css. More economic;
, than the ordinary kinds, anllcunnoi be soidinconl- f
petition-with the multitude of low test, short E
ltoul. BAKlNG i-‘ownEn CO.,llIti Wall St., N. 1'. ‘
TTRUE: comic INTERESTS?
Ballet’s ' Great American Speeiie.‘
Page’s limax Salve,
A Milli)! BLESSING FOR 25 CENTS. i
‘MDFHTE l.
THE GREAT STOMACH AND LIVER REMEDY.
Established by one of our most eminent: physicians and recommended by the medical
profession and drnggis'fs who know them real merit, and ar: used With more pleasmg
Moffat's Life Pills are purely vegetable.
and kidneys, purify and regulate the whole _ . ‘ .
for all Malarions Diseases, Torpitl Liver, impure Blood, jaundice, illilons Complaints,
Dyspepsia, Loss of Appetite, Indigestion, . ’ . ..
Ncuralgia and Nervous Diseases, Female obstructions and General Iz'calcness, .Scnrvy.
Inflammatory Rheumatism, Piles of every kind, Gravel and Diseases of the illudderalzll
just what we have said or money will be refunded.
will try them once, their use will convince the most skeptical.
5'5 GL'MAX SALVE.25C- 3 “ex. MUFFAT's LIFE PELLS, 255.51 rm. morn/.793
JESSE .Horson,
GARRIAGE MAKER,
Has removed to the building
. NBXl l0 GI‘BQUI‘Y’S Slflillfli. Klilflill Sil‘flfll
Where he does first-class
Carriage Repairing and Painting
m At Reasbnable Prices.
A Full Stock of Furniture of all kinds-
Pllii. OR AND BEDROOMSETS
a specialty.
DAVID STOW,
Main Street opp. Depot
SOUTH NORWALK, CONN
P. H. - DWYER.
The largest Staci of Harness
--Eili3ii DISPLAYEB Iii TOWN. ~
All First-Class, Hand Stitched, 0n]: Tanned
Pennsylvania Leather
THIRD CLASS PRICES.
(“all early as i intend to sell at Spun. PROFIT,
s r: YEN? Y-FI 719
Set Single Bill Dollie Harness.
Eldfillfiiiiilflli HALL,
Over Mitchell's Market, next door to 1’. Ii. Dwy-
er’s Old stand. tall
EQU l'l‘A ilLE *MOBT GAGE CO.,
OF KANSAS CITY. CAPITAL $2,000,000
(i and 7 per cent. llebeninrc Bonds and \loriv'l 0
Loans at i’ar and Accrued interest. ‘ V a g.
R. ii. CRAUFURD, Agent,
Room 2 Museum Buildh 7
HENRY 'rsLLY’
CARRiAGE MAKER,
SOUTH NOR WALK, -
CONN.
Manufacturer of
Family Utilities, Victories, Buggies, tie.
All Kinds of Repairing.
Jens s ATKINSON,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in _
Harness, Blankets.
’f‘rsenks, Bags,
Sole Leather and Shoe Findings, and Boot
and Shoe Uppers.
Corner of Fairfield Ave. and. Middle Street
Bridgeport, Conn. iy48
For Sate.
DOUBLE BARRELLED RIFLE madeby Jolt
A Blissett, London. Will be Sold cheap to
cash. Enunireatthsoflicc.
'li inertial es PIW'IS isms on
I
Its action upon the system is unlike any otllcrextcraai remedy, as it never drives the
Its properties go to the diseased past, and separate
all the poisonous and corrupt humors, through the pcrspiring vessels to the surface, and
Ve warrant it to cure Cid Sores, Ulcers,
or Nipples, Inflamed Eyes, Swollen Glands,
Erysipclas, Boils, Scolds. Burns, Cuts. Bruises. Fistula, Piles, Corns. Bunions, Chil-
bluins, Frosted Feet. and all cutaneous dim
PAGE’S CLIMAX SALVE acts like magic on horse
Saddle and Harness Calls, C'nafcs, etc.
‘es Oil man and beast.
flesh in curing Scratches, Mango, Did
I: is put up ill
sold at the low price oftwenty-i'zvc cents {er lmx.
it Is warranted to cure in evcry case or money refunded. For Sale by Uruggists 11nd Dealers In medicine
if dillfi.
They act on the stalliach, iifi\\'(‘1.r:, llrrr
system, and are \I'arrantell :l. cerium cure
Costivencss, Nervous and sit-i; Headache,
MOFFAT’S LlFE PILLS are gegantly Sugar rnatc'l :‘nd easy to take and are :1 perfcrt oft“:
dinner Pill, one taken after dinner each day Will and digestion
Headache and Sick Headache cannotcxlst If these l’iiis are used.
MOFFAT’S successes
Are not a. drink used for intoxication, but: :'-. pure medicine and only used by people
who are sick. They correct the secretions of the stomach and are usure cure for
uni cure all disorders of the Stow-och.
l’or costivcncss take one Pill at bedtime.
vurrsss
Dyspepsia, Sleeplessness, Nervonsne s, chiiity, \"eokness, Loss of Appeti e, I-‘emal ‘
_ Complaints, etc. Thousands of ccrtxilcatcs are In possession or the proprietor, giving,
perfect cures effected by these Invaluable medicines and we warrant that they \vlil do
It is simply asked that the utilictetl
PHOENIX BITTERS, $1.00 :1 Bottle. For Sale by Drugglsts anti Deniers m nietllciz .' everywhere,
or sent by mail or Express, prepaid, on receipt: of price.
3'. P. MILLS, Sole Proprietor.
85 “BERT"? STREET. HEW YORK.
it’s Easy to Dye
\V [TH
Superior
IN
" Strength,
Pastimes,
Society,
AND
. . l I I
, so Simplicfiy.
Warranted to color Inc-re goods than any other
dyes ever made, and to give more brilliant and
durable colors. Ask for the Diantond,und take
no other. 36colors; 10 cents each. .
WELLS, RICHARDSON & 00., Burlington, Vt.
For Gliding or Bronzing Fancy Articles, USE
DIAMOND PAINTS.
Gold, Silver, Bronze, Copper. Only :0 Cents.
H l
1 it
A. HE feTER
’l‘lIA'l‘ W ILL
Heelioul House
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