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NORWALK GAZETTE1 WEDNESDAY JANUARY 15. 1890.
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and highly concentrated. One ounce is worth a pound of any other kind. Strictly-a
, once daily, in small doses.
old when hens are moulting, and to keep them healthy.
eneral store or feed dealer for it.
Prevents and cures all diseases of hens.
Testimonials sent free
it you can’t get it, send at
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of the "FARMERS' POUL RY RAIS NG GUIDE” (price 23 cents; tells gow
w hens), and two small pack
Sample package of Powder.
es of Powder for 00 cents; or, one large 2 1-4
cents, five for 81.00. Six largo cans, ex rem
weld, for $5.00. Send stamps or cash. I. S. JOHNSON a: 00.. 22 Custom-House street, Boston,
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GEOGRAPHY OF THE COUNTRY. WILL OBTAIN
3 INFORMATION FROM A STUDY OF THIS MAP OF
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Hotels (furnishing meas
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LINE to and from Pike’s Peak, Manitou, Garden 0). the Gods,
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with CHOICE OF Rf TTES to and from Salt
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a Chair Car to
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the Sanitari-
;. .tle Liver Pills after eating;
T dyspepsia, nid digestion, give tone and
nuns, and Scenic Grandeurs of Colorado.
VIA THE. ALBERT LEA ROUTE,
Solid Express Trains daily between Chicago and Minneapolis and St. Paul,
with THROUGH Reclining Chair Cars (FREE) to and from those pornts and
Kansas Cit . Through Chair Car and Sleeper between Peoria, Spirit Lake,
and Sioux
ails, via Rock Island. The Favorite Line to Pipestone, Water-
town, Sioux Falls, and the Summer Resorts and Hunting and Fishing
Grounds of the Northwest.
THE SHORT LINE VIA SENECA AND KANKAKEE offers facilities St?
. travel between Cincinnati, Indianapolis,
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Lafayette, and Council B1 5,
Joseph, Atchison, Leavenworth, menses City, Minneapolis, and St. Paul. L
For Tickets, Ma 5, Folders, or desired information, apply to any Ticket.
Office in the Unite
E. ST. JOHN,
General Manager.
CHICAGO, ILL.
States or Canada, or address
JOH N SEBASTIAN,
Gen’l Ticket «in Pas. Agent-
.PETER L. GUIGUE,
FLORIST 811W 3. YMAN,
UNION AVENUE,
NORWALE’ ' " GOEN.
Healer in Green House and Hot House and
Bedding-and Vegetable Plants, Fruit. and Oxna-
mental 'l‘rces Shrubbery, Vines. Cut Flowers
always on hand and all sorts of designs in Flowers
arranged to order. 41y?
Gi-r-nii’ng and lie-filling Cemetery Plots
promptly attended to.
The “Record.”
The N orwalk Record
Is an established tact. Although it is onlya
year old its circulation already averages
3,000 COPIES PER WEEK,
a fact which attestmts rapid rise and firm hold on
the public favor. It aims to be clean and whole-
some, and presents all the legitimate news in
readable, spicy and terse shape. Its subscription
price is sufficiently low to enable anybody to have
it without discarding any other of their favorite
journals, and it prospers Without encroaching)
upon the prosperity of any of its excellent and
esteemed local contemporaries. as is shown by
the fact that it enjoys and appreciates the hearty
good will of ail—the Gnu-rs, Hour, Sentinel
Journal and Republican.
THE RECORD is sent to any address forthe
smell sum of
75 centsa Year; Single Copies, 2 out
Now is the Time to Subscribe.
SPECIAL TO FARMERS.
The Record
PUBLISHES EVERY SATURDAY
The New York Market Report
C(‘YREGTED UP TO DATE. "37
Polite Sale at Real Estate.
PURSUANT to an order of the Court of Pro-
bate for the District of Norwalk, the sub-
scriber, administrator of the estate of Wu. R.
N ASII, late of Norwalk, in said District, deceased
offers for sale all the interest which said deceas-
ed had in the following real estate, via:
The homestead situated at the head of Main
street. consisting of‘dwelling house,and out build-
ings in good repair, with about two acres of land
attached, also, the premises adjoining, on the
Wilton read, With good dwelling house nicely ar-
ranged tor two families. , Both of these laces
contain borough water and are located on the 0
horse railwa . Also about ten acres of desirable
land situate n the town of,._ltldgeneid_, a short dis.
tance from the railroedédepof; suitable for farm
or building purposesgfi -'- '
For further particulars apply to
CHAS. OLMS'I‘EAD. Administrator.S
Nor-walk, Conn. . July std, 1889.
Geo. S. Gregory.
Livery. Boarding, Sale,
Fe {Ti and Exchange
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Mg. 14: Knight. 81:.
(In rear of llorse Car Depot),
NORVVALK, CONN.
Carriages furnished at all hours. Courteous at-
tention and gentlemanly drivers,
SOLDIERS, A'I‘TEN’I‘ION
WM. H. HAYWARD,
Pension Attorney,
708 East Capitol Street,
WASHINGTON D. 0.,
Located at the National Capital, adjacent to all the
Executive Departments, gIVes me superior
advantage in the prosecution of Claims
against the United States.
mcnrisr YOUR PENSION.
Many pensioners borne on the rolls are entitled
to a much higher rate of pension than they now
receive. In a great majority of cases in which
pension was granted for disease, the pensioner is
entitled to an increase of rate. and in most cases
where it was granted for wounds or injuries the
disability increases each year. As time passes the
disability of all classes naturally increases. Many
were at first rated too low, and it often occurs
thatmpensloners are unjustly or erroneously re-
duc by examining surgeons. A pensioner Is
entitled to increase on a. disability not set forth In
his original declaration. The pension laws are
more liberal than formerly, and better rating can
be had for many disabilities. I make a specialty
of Neglected and Rejected Claims, and if you will
present me with a brief statement of your case,
stating by whom it was presented. I will obtain a
rehearing of your case, and, if it has merit, will
procure a favorable settlement.. Many claims
stand rejected before the department, when it
only requires a competent attorney to make them
good cases. Soldiers Wing with disabilities
Wacted in service, who have not applied for a
pension, should do so as u is their RIGHT.
sormrns or m: MEXICAN ma,
Who were in that service sixty days, [or their
widows if not re—murried] are entitled to $8.00 per
month from January 29th. 1867. me
For Sale cheap. , ,
.. A scoonnuimn ems-st Fanciful-giggle
all in perfect order and as as In
about 120 feet in length. Will be so u at a sacri-
fice if applied for soon. Enquire.“
to . . GAZETTE OFFICE
NAKED BOUGHS.
There were troths in the hedges
And bird mates were true;
There were trysts, there were pledges,
And old loves and new;
There was sun at the tree‘s hm
And song in the boughs,
And spring in the bee‘s heart,
And whispers and vows;
There were leaves when we mated,
And now—naked boughs.
Ali, vows that were fated!
Ah, loves that would house!
Your time was belated.
Your fate—naked boughs.
—Century.
Why will you allow your health to
gruduilly fail? If you are closely con-
fined indoors WIIII' little or no exercise,
and desire good health, you must take
care of yourself. Use Sulphur Bitters,
and you will have a sound mind and a
stronghody.
At It. drill a soldier spits in the ranks.
Sergeant of manoeuvres, indignantly —Thc
fellowtliut spat, four days in the guard
house. There shall be no spitting in the
ranks. We are not in a parlor here.
In spite of all that cynics say, a good
many people do mary for love—though
very often the love that influences them
is the love of money,
The proprietor of a bone mill announces
that “parties sending their ‘own bonus to
be ground Will find their orders attended
to with punctuality and dispatch."
They make one feel as though life was
worth living. Take one of Carter’s Lit-
it. Will relieve
vigor to the system.
Blobson—Don’t you think that Demp—
soy rather plays the fool? l’opinjiiy—
No, sir; I think he works at the job.
One of the minor troubles of
H house-keeping is the breaking
of lamp-chimneys. Chimneys
cost but little apiece, and break
but one at a time. You class
“these little surprises among
“ mysterious providences,” and
bear them, mcekly resigned.
All wrong! the chimneys
are wrong; the glass was
ready to pop the minute it
cooled.
The maker saved two cents
on a chimney, and put this loss
and annoyance on you.
“ Pearl-top ” chimneys
do not break in use.
Efifi-Egc "Eli—illit—
DYES
Do Your Own Dyeing, at Home.
They will dye everything. They are sold every»-
where. Price 10c. a package. Theyhave noequal
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
.l. G. -4iegory 56 Co. ; J. A. Riggs, No. it Main
Street, (loo. .4. l’luisled. Druggists. lyll'l
GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 187..
W. BAKER & cors
Is absolutely pure and
it is soluble.
No Chemicals
are used in its preparation. It has more
than three times the strength of Cocoa
mixed with Starch, Ahrowroot or Sugar,
and is therefore for more economical,
costing less than one can: a cup. It Is
delicious, nourishing, strengthening, EA-
sIm Diezsrnn, and admirably adapted
for invalids as well as persons in health.
Sold by Grocers everywhere.
”V. BAKER &. 00., Dorchester, Mass.
Instant relief. Final cure in 10
days and never returns. No
a, no salve, no suppository.
erers will learn 0 a simple
'remedy nub add '
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Terms & 00.. 78 N Street, New York city
ALL DR U GGISTS. ly44
CHAS. H. VALDEN
—-DEALER I'll—-
GROCERIE&
' FRESH AND MW.
.1 shall keep constantly on hand a.
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usually found in a
Fll‘Sl- UlflSS-i-[il‘flflfll'l'i-Sllllfl
which I will sell at prices _
DEFYING HONEST OOHPETITION
to heat. A share of the public patronage is solicit-
ed and every effort w ll be made to faithfully
serve our customers. Give us a call and
let us assure you of our ability to
gIVe satisfaction.
CHASE II. VALDEN,
5Wall St, Norwalk, Ct.
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’ stands at 96 degrees in the shade.
CLOTHING ' AND HEALTH.
SOMETHING ABOUT THE MATERIALS
FOR OUR GARMENTS.
Health. Comfort and Half Clad Fashion.
Excellent Hints About Keeping Warm
and Cool—Our Clothes Serve to Gauge
or Control Our Mental States.
Of all God’s created brings, the only one
whom he has neglected to clothe is man,
said Lucy M. Hall, M. D., in an address on
“The Promotion of Health.” This omission
upon the part of his Creator at once sepa-
rates and distinguishes man from other liv-
ing creatures. At the same time it is neces-
sary for him to provide himself with some
artificial covering in place of the hair, fur,
feathers, or resisting epidermis which the
inferior animals possess as a natural ap-
pendage. '
The importance which attaches to this
hyper-external portion of our bodies is not
of recent date.
Beginning with the story of our first par-
ents, we find all through the Scriptures men-
tion made of the various garments and adorn-
ments of the men and women who figure
there. The rainbow hued coat of Joseph,
even the far from frivolous garb of John the
Baptist, have all been deemed worthy of
record in secret history.
The fact is that our clothes, through asso-
ciation, become a part of us, help to identify
us—even in some peculiar reactionary way
serve to gauge or control our mental states.
DRESSING APPROPRIATELY.
The felon feels a degradation in his prison
stripes which he could never understand in
his ordinary dress.
The action of a young lady who repudiated
a perfectly courteous assumption of acquaint—
anccship upon the part of a. gentleman, be-
cause she had “only met him in her bathing
suit,” was grounded in a. true psychological
principle. She was not the some person in a.
brine soaked apology for a. society garment
which she was in her conventional attire.
' Let the most brilliant gentleman ina draw-
ing room suddenly perceive that his boots are
muddy, or that his cravat is awry, and the
chances are that be will become awkward
and tongue tied. '
In one of Lord Beaconsficld’s novels a fash-
ionable tailor is made to say: “You must
dress according to your age, your pursuits,
your object in life. I am dressing two
brothers now, men of considerable position.
One is a man of pleasure, the other will
probably bc 0. minister of state. They are
as like as two peas, but; were I to dress the
dandy and the minister the some it would be
bad taste; it would be ridiculous. No one
gives the trouble that Lord lightiitinc does;
he has not decided \i'iict‘ucr he will be a great
poet or prime minister. ‘You must choose,
my lord,’ I tell him. ‘I cannot send you out
looking; like Lord Byron if you are to be a 1
Lastly, he adds: “All I
Ciinniiin; or a Pitt.’ "
men should avoid the shabby genteel.
man (“ft-.‘l‘ gets over it.
in rags.”
That the great statesman had a most vivid
No
comprehension of the effect of clothes, both ‘
upon the wearer and the observer, is mani-
fest, not only in the language of his novel,
but in the extraordinary costumes be affected
during almost his whole life.
The materials chiefly utilized for clothing
are cotton and linen of the vegetable sub—
stances; skins, hair, wool, silk, down, feath-
ers, of the animal. Minerals, as metals,
glass and various stones, are much used as
ornaments. Cotton, wool, linen and leather
are the most abundant; and useful materials,
and they form the principal part; of the
clothing of the great mass of the people. '
Air is, as we all know, a bad conductor of
heat and of electricity. So the warmth and
electricity of the body are conserved by a.
covering which contains much air in its
fibers. Water, on the contrary, is a good
conductor of heat and electricity, and just
to the degree that the air in the interstices of
any material is displaced by water it becomes
a vehicle for the rapid conduction of these
away from the body. TVoolcn holds a larger
quantity of air among its fibers, and will
transmit through them a larger quantity of,
moisture without displacement of the air
than‘ any other material. Silk stands next
in these respects. Woolen clothing is espe-
cially adapted to the needs of man.
EXCELLENT HINTS.
In a moist and changeable climate like
ours, where rheumatic affections, catnrrhs,
sensitive throats and bronchial tubes are so
prevalent, an especial effort should be made
to maintain a healthful equilibrium of the
temperature of the skin. To effect this.
woolen or silk underclothes should be em-
ployed summer and winter. Not a patch of
an undervest, covering neither chest, shoul-
ders nor limbs, but a garment which will
clothe these as well as the trunk.
A lady with one thickness of linen over her
arms and shoulders will tell you that she is
half dead from the heat. The thermometer
You place
your hand upon the perspiring skin; it is
clammy and cold. A poor sufferer, her joints
swollen with rheumatism, said to me on a
hot summer’s day: “I perspire so, and suffer
so terribly from the heat that it is as hard to
bear as my illness.” The touch of her skin
chilled me like wet ice. “You should wear
light woolen or silk garments next your skin,”
I said; “no half way business, but all over,
from neck to wrists and ankles.” I had hard
work to convince her that she would be made
more instead of less comfortable by doing as
I advised, but I finally succeeded, and with
the happiest results. '
There is great variation in the amount of
clothing which different people require.
Some seem to be,,alxnost .insensible- to cold;
others, like poor Harry Gill, their teeth they
chatter, chatter still. Special directions
must, therefore, apply to special cases, but
certain broad rules can be laid down for all.
Light woolen or silk underwear, suitable
for midsummer, is not warm enough for
spring or fall wear; and for winter a still
heavier grade is needed. Partially worn win-
ter garments can often be wisely utilized for
intermediate service; otherwise new ones of
suitable thickness should be provided. Many
persons make the mistake of wearing undere
garments in winter which are too thick.
These are likely to be all of woolen material
which, very closely woven and very heavy
to with, has shrunk- in the Washing.
They impede the healthful interchange be
tween the air ‘ and the transpiration of the
skin; the latter- reabsorbs into the circulation
the poisonous matter which ithas emayed to
throw 03; it exhales-a peculiar sickly odor;
the cutaneous nerve lme tone and action;
they convey their disturbed impressions to
-thegreatcenters,and all portionsofthenu-
tritive and eliminatlve systems suffer incon-
" sonance. . .
I have seen the most depraved physical
conditions rsult from the wearing of very
heavy. closely woven fiennels, which, after n
f w washings" had‘beeome-almostim
I; sit and moisture-7N" York News.
nut‘l’hm's on Once.
A first class Chinese barber get: only 81 per.
week, but there’san abet. _ He does nothave
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IN ‘A DIME LODGING HOUSE
THE REPORTER BECOMES A GUEST
AND MAKES OBSERVATIONS.
Character of the Patrons—They Are Not
So Bad as Is Generally Supposed—The
Bods, the Furniture and the Bill of
Faro—Private Rooms for the Affluent.
Much has been said and written about the
cheap hotels of France and England, but
Chicago can discount both those ancient
countries in respect to low priced lodgings.
The ten cent lodging house is continually
satirized in the newspapers and in the comic
songs of the day, but very little seems to be
really known about these economical hotels
after all. Accordingly a reporter set out one
dark and foggy night to ascertain the facts
for himself. He was determined to learn the
truth of the blood curdling tales so often told
of combats with predaceous fellow lodgers
and murderous insects; of lodgers packed
sixty-four to the room and arranged in tiers
like sardines, and all the other horrors of the
dime sleeping place.
Down on Canal street, close to the Union
depot, is a dingy building. Above the en-
trance to a dark stairway hangs on illumi-
,- nated sign which announces that beds can be
had for ten and fifteen cents anight. Up the
dark stairway the explorer stumbled. A fair
sized room, furnished with three chairs, a.
long bench and a red, little stove, opened 011'
from the hall. Several brawny fellows in
blue gingham shirts and rusty trousers were
gathered around the fire. From the center
of the group advanced a. grizzled veteran who
seemed a. living image of the “ancient mari-
ner.” He surveyed the reporter, who had at,-
tired himself for the occasion, very critically.
Thereforefithe scrutiny proved satisfactory to
the old Roman.
A FRIENDLY WELCOME.
mWant a bed?" he asked.
The reporter did.
“Had your soup yet?"
The reporter hadn’t.
The ancient mariner led the way to a bun-
quet hall wherein was a long table and a
cool: stove. A huge tureen was on the stove.
The visitor was given a quart; of the contents
of the turcen and three slices of bread. The
table equipments were not precisely such as
the Palmer house offers its guests. The soup
bowls were heavy and yellow; the spoons
were iron clad Indies. The soup itself was
not. bad. It's composition was a. dark mys—
tery, and is yet. The soup was of a. consistency
about that of river water. But it had no
trace of dirt and did not taste unlike ordinary
restaurant bouillon.
In a. large, uncnrpcted room up stairs were
half a dozen “shake down” beds. The room
was well ventilated, and the beds were quite
comfortable in appearance. Another room
across the hull was similarly fitted up. These
were the quarters of the ten cent lodgers.
The landlord informed his latest boarder
3 that for fifteen Cent's he could have an entire
room to himself. Accordingly the reporter
selected a room so located that its occupant
I could hear everything occurring in the
house, and could, by peering through a hole
in the door, see the greater part of the adja—
cent rooms.
The room selected, like all the rest, was
uucarpctcd; dimensions, 9 feet. by 5. "“
I lie
bed was the same in appearance as those as-
signed to the ten cent lodgers, the extra five
cents merely affording greater privacy to
the afllucnt boarder.
The bedding was :Iinple in quantity—u
husk mattress, two sheets, two blankets and
a huge red quilt. The sheets were dingy and
ripped in places. A curtain hung; at the
window, from which a good view could be
obtained of the Madison street bridge.
host handed his guest at key and asked at
what time be desired to be called with the
average courtesy of a. downtown hotel
clerk.
' Hardly was the reporter locked into his
room when a number of lodgers arrived.
Seating themselves around the stove in the
adjoining: room they listened with rapt at-
tention while one of their number—a. brawny
coal beaver Whose brogue had not Ion g been
absent from the banks of Killarney—read a
romance of the plains aloud. The reading
lasted about two hours, and the reader was
not once disturbed or interrupted by his au—
dience. Finally the story was ended and the
lodgers sought their couches. Then came a
number of thumps on the floor as each man
kicked otfhis shoes. Then dead silence.
A MIDNIGHT LIINSTBEL.
Presently some one stumbled up stairs, and
in a loud voice commenced to detail the woes
of Mr. McGinty, the perfume of his breath
in the meantime penetrating the reporter’s
nostrils. A chorus of “Shut up!” rang out
vigorously. Then was heard a. bang as some-
body hurled a shoe at the singer. Silence
again.
Five minutes later the landlord discovered
a ten cent boarder smoking in bed. “Put
out do snipe!” uoth the ancient mariner.
A short e ensued, which terminated
in the expulsion of the devotee of the weed.
For the 'next hour no sound, except an oc-
casional snore and the puffing of a locomo-
tive across the street, disturbed the repose of
the guests. The reporter had begun to doze,
when something rubbed his ear and he awoke
to a conflict with a powerful “cimex lectu-
larius.” The unwelcome visitor was soon
dispatched, and, to the credit of the house be
it said, no more of its kind disturbed the
sleeper’s dreams. .
About 4:30 the lodgers began to arise and
descend to the sitting room. On a bench,
just where none could pass in or out without
The
nobody does any prowling 'while I sleep
here,” he remarked, proudly. _
As the lodgers crowded around the red hot
little stove they appeared to be quite a dc;
cent set. Ragged and poorly dressed, no
tramps among them. They were, by trade,
teamstem, coal beavers, expresémen, railroad
hands, farmers and sailors. Certainly they
were early risers. ,
A broad shouldered, powerful fellow came
out of a side room and walked down stairs
without a word. '
“That’s a queer duck," said the host. “He’s
boardedwithme six years. He basalittle
oil stove in his room and cooks his own soup
and coffee. He never says a single word to
me nor to any one else. I don’t know his
name, nor his nationality, nor his trade. I
don’t even know if he can spefl' English.
When he pays up he just hands me the
money and says nothing. "
At 5:30 a new character appeared on the
scene. This was a stout old woman—doubt-
lea the landlord’s wife—who announced that
coffee was ready. The lodgers flocked into
the side room, and each received a quart of
red. hot brown liquid, gulltleme of milk or.
sugar. What throats these men must have,
fortheydrank theboiling stufl from their
bowls without a moment‘s hesitation!
' At 6 o’clock The Morning News man pre-
to depart. The ancient mariner cour-
tebusly bid him good-by and hoped l to see
him again. . ' ~ ~ , ‘
There were about thirty-five lod
fifty. Certainly there are not citi‘es
-.where, for ten cents, the” wanderer; 'can ob-
tain two meals (supper and ~ , ) and a
fairly comfortable bed—Chicago we,
arousing him, lay the landlord. “You bet,
doubt, but only two who appeared to be,
‘ Lin the ,
house, and the host stated that he 0: tea had .
LOST TREASURES.
Hitch on the limb of an old cherry tree
Sang a ground robin, at mom‘s early peep,
While just beneath her. as snug as could be.
Nestled fourdeur little birdliugs asleep.
Tall o’er their heads the red timothy rose—
Just like a forest the long grasses stood.
Safe from all danger the nest to int-lose.
While the fond mother went searching for food
011, how each clamored and stretched up its beak,
Soon as she flew panting homeward once more,
Down ‘mid the grasses her darlings to seek.
Laden with tidbits—a plentiful store!
Sometimes on tiptoe I ventured to look
Down at my pets in their snug, mossy nest,
Praising the gold of each sweet open throat,
Stroking the down of each fair glossy breast.
But, as one morning the meadow I crossed,
Lo. mother bird rent the air with her cries;
What could it mean? Had her darlings been lost
Trying to plume their young wings for the skies?
Searching, I read her wild notes of distress-
Just o‘er the heads of her innocent brood,
Sonic cruel rad-inst a reed trap hail placed,
_ Frightening Lic old bird away with her food.
Quickly I caught up the treacherous snare,
Ah. my heart bleeds as I tell you the rest.—
Mother bird iJIllllé‘. but she found only there
Four little such tons starved In the nest!
The ls‘ox and the Peasant.
One day rcyiiurd approached a peasant
who was \i'ill'ilillg‘ in his field and said:
“Forsomi- reason or‘othei' there appears
to be a nun; is." perfect. confidence between
the peasants and the foxes.”
“Yes,” replied the peasant as he rested for
a moment.
“This makes it unpleasant: for both of us,
and I have been delegated to see if we could
not come to some mutual understanding.”
“I am willing.”
“Very well,” continued the for as he
looked at the sky to hide the twinkle of satis-
faction in his eye. “To prove your full con-
fidence in us leave the door of your hen
house open tonight. That will be a proof
that you no longer regard us as thieves and
ninrauders. “
The peasant agreed to this, but while he
left the door open he set a. trap just inside,
and when he arose next morning, 10! the del-
egate was fast in the jaws.
“Is this keeping your agreement with me?”
blustcrcd Reynui-d asthe peasant approached.
“Was not the door open?"
“Yes, but you set this trap inside! Release
me at once, and in future my dealings shall
be with more honest men!”
“Gently, Sir Rcyiiard,” said the peasant as
be tapped him on tlic-licad With a club; “had
“you kept to the outside you would never have
known of my trap. The fact that you were
inside proves that you wanted my poultry at
the expense of my confidence.”
MORAL:
Give a thief opportunity to reform, but
carry your wallet in your boot leg when in
his cmnpanyn—lfitroit Free Press.
.istoiiislicd at Ice.
The native; of ti'bpical countries are sel-
dom :31) min-ii Iistoiiisliol as when they are
first. introduced to snow and ice. The con-
gozilliig of water is a phenomenon they are
slow to comprehend. A few months ago Sir
l‘v'iliium Zlucgrcgor enticed several of the
New Guinea. natives to the hitherto unsealed
summit of Mount Owen Stanley, the loftiest
peak in British A’uStralasia. On its barren
summit, nearly a thousand feet above the
zone of vegetation, big icicles were found,
greatly to the amazement of the natives,
who were much startled when they touched
hem and insisted that their fingers had been
burned.
A year ago, when Mr. Ehlers ascended
Mount Killma-Njaro, in Africa, his native
porters, who had lived all their lives near the
base of the great mountain, pulled off the
boots with which they had been provided as
they approached the snow line and plunged
merrily into the snow with their bare feet.
They lost; no time in plunging out again and
lay writhing on the ground, insisting that
their feet. had been severely burned. Some
of the Central African natives who have been
introduced into Germany mistook the first
snow storm they saw for a flight of white
butterflies. Licut. Von Francois says the
mistake was a very natural one. One day
when he was ascending a. tributary of the
Congo he saw for the first time the air filled
with a great swarm of white butterflies, and
he says the spectacle closely resembled a gen-
tle fall of suew.——Montrenl Star.
Sugar and Hemp from Palms.
Sonic palm trees furnish a. sweetening jcice.
The most famous of these is probably the
Arcng, or sugar palm of Amboyna (Arenga
sacchariicra), which grows in India. and the
archipelago. It is a superb tree, with pin-
nate leaves twenty—five feet long, and is as
handsome as it is useful. A number of species
belonging to different genera. furnish a kind
of hair of finer or coarser texture. It is
found in the fibrous sheaths of the leaf stalks
and in the jagged edges of the leaves. Cables
made of the black, tough fibers of the Areng
are preferred by the coasting sailors of the
Spanish colonies on account of their elasticity
and durability; and they are, moreover, very
fine. The hemp palm of Japan and China
(Chainrcrops excels'a) is availableimthe hands
of the industrious 'people of those countries
for making the finer. brooms, light strings
and a thousand articles of daily use. ,Palms
of coarser fiber, like the Piacab'a of Brazil
(Leopoldi‘xa piacaba), furnish material for
blinds, brushes, brooms and the rollers of
mechanical sweepers, which are much more
durable than rollers fitted with steel teeth.—
Popnlar Science Monthly.
Pronunciation at .tho Hub.
Yesterday the Listener stmd for a while in
front of the window of a. brin-a-brac store,
where was displayed, amOng other things, a
figure of a lovely child seated in a chair. It
was one of these sort of figures which pm
everybody, and in the eight or ten min
that the Listener remained on the spot he
heard the following exclamations from ladies
of the passing throng:
“Ain’tilt poorty!"
"Misfit My 2‘”
“Isn’t it pr’tyt"
“Isn’t it prittyl’” _
“Ain’t it purity!”
“Ain’t it’prurrty I”
.“Ain't it prooty l”
“Ain’t it pruttyt"
“Ain’t it pitt‘yl”
“Isn’t it prototyl” ' - ' '. ‘
How ma'ny 1- more ways he would have
heard them: pronoun‘eed,‘ifhe hadhad
the fortitude 'to remain. longer, the Listener
doesn’t dare to think—Boston Wm.
.A Patriotism 1.2-. I
., Waiter-econwathovmyofebf ' It».
In the south of Scotland who disappeared
from the Wages-ward vision“ the grant, novelist
andwasfou‘nd 2 , yawning _. f; '
in an En'glisbcity.‘ The mime!!!“
asked the blacksmith if 1:.me
about the szndhfiih . 1-:
that: . ‘1' WORM" Mb
to “twoilimplee—li‘lldm" .. i ,
“Simples withL-ail‘vengeenw, 'f "said Scott; ‘
“don’t you kill moreMyou euro!" “Pd?
up. I do," returnedhtbe patriofio black-L
.ith, “but it will bee long time before!
make up for the Scots flint fid‘En‘gIhkaflII-d
at Flodden.” , ,. .
Norwalk Chronicler