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by mail. Ask your ruggist,
once to us. Take no other
elegantly illustrated copy of the
One ounce is worth a pound of any other kind. Strlctlya
Prevents and cures all diseases of hens.
Testimonials sent free
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mail as followsz—A new, enlarged,
25 cents; tells how
to make money with a few liens), and two small packages of Powder for 60 cents; or, one large 2 1-4
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Bedding and Vegetable Plants, Fruit and (how
mental Trees Shrubbery, Vines. Cut Flowers
always on hand and all sorts of designs in Flowers
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Grading and lie-filling Cemetery Plots
promptly attended to. .
The “Record.”
The Norwalk Record .
Is an establishes] fact. Although it is onlya
year old its circulation already averages
3,000 COPIES PER WEEK,
a fact which attestsus rapid rise and arm houl on
the public favor. It aims to be clean and whole-
some, and presents all the legitimate news in
readable, spicy and lerse shape. Its subscription
price is sufficiently low to enable anybody to have
it Without discarding may 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 all—the GAZETTE, Hour, Sentinel
Journal and Republican.
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BUILDING LOTS
(ON IN'srALLuEN'r PLAN.)
FOR SALE
(m Wilton Avenue
APPLY TO
Mn CHAS. Oldls’l‘EAll,
OR
GAZETTE OFFICE.
Geo. S. Gregory.
Livery. Boarding, Sale,
Feed and Exchange
St’a‘fiab1*€‘figc
dear
No. 14; Knights. e‘r t.
L (In rear of Horse Car Depot),
NOIKVVALK, CONN.
Carriages furnished at all hours. Courteous at—
tentlon and gentlemuhly d: ivers,
SOLDIER-“r, A'l"l‘E.\"!‘ION
WM, H. HAYWARD,
Pen. can
708 East (,‘apitol Street,
“'AS" ING'I‘ON I). (3.,
Located at the National Capital, adjacent to alltne
Executive Departments, gives me superior
advantage in the prosecution of Claims
against the United States.
INCREASE YOUR PENSION.
Many pensioners borne on the rolls are entitled
to a. much higher rate of pension than they now
receive. Inagreat 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
disabilityihcreases each year. As time passes the
disability of all classes naturally increases. Many
were at first rated too low, and it often occurs
that pensioners are unjustly or erroneously re-
duced by examining surgeons. A pensioner is
entitled to increase on a. disability not set forth in
A #0 ru My,
his original declaration. The pension laws are
more liberal than formerly, and boner‘rating or...
be had for many disabilities. [make a speclanv
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 sufl‘crmg with disabilities
contracted in service, who have not applied for a
pension, should do so as it is their RIGHT.
SOLDIERS OF THE MEXICAN WAR,
Who were in that service sixty days, [or their
widows if not re-umrried] are entitled to$8.00 per
month from January 29th. 1857. mm
For Sale Cheap. '
SECOND-HAND Cast Iron Fence, with state
allm perfect order and as good as new,
aboutl‘zo feet in length. Will he sold at a sacri-
fice If applied for soon. Enquire at -
80ft. wAanl‘l h‘. HFWCE
4 .A'
.t,
, Street, Geo. d. Plaisted. Druggists.
To méfiié afifilgéiz Eye. _
There is nothing to compare with the tinct-
ure or a strong infusion of capsicum annuum
mixed with an equal bulk of mucilage of
gum arable, and with the addition of a. few
drops of glycerine. This should be painted
all over the surface with a camel’s hair pen-
cil and allowed to dry on, a. second or third
coating being applied as soon as the first is
dry. If done as soon as the injury is inflict—
ed, gthis treatment will invariably prevent
the blacken big of the bruised tissue. The
same remedy has no equal in rheumatic stiff
neck—St. Louis Polycliuic.
llow repulsive is bad breath, and yet
how many otherwise attractive, polite,
and particular people afflict their friends
with the foul odor of their breath. ’If
there was no remedy for this, it might
excite our sympathy, but as there is no
need of having a foul breath, it is an un-
pardouable breach of good manners to
obtrude such an offence on good society.
Foul breath arises from disordered di-
gestion which can be corrected by using
Sulphur Bitters, and the result will be a
pure, sweet breath.
A New 31:11 do ‘Mer.
Jacl'-~Did you escape sea sickness on the
voyage home, Miss Jennie?
J clinic—Yes. It was only in Paris, at the
exposition, that I was really see-sick—Pitts-
- burg Bulletin.
Knew Its Characteristics. ‘
Coum'ai J onus (showing the novelties)——Tl1i8
, is the pie plant.
Miss Citybred—Deligh tful! and how soon
does it begin to bear piesf—Time.
The devil would persist in bothering
Martin Luther until the baldllead monk
dispatched him with a bottle of ink ; so
we learn that a bolilc of ink might rid
you of any devil. but a bottle of Dr. Bull’s
Cough Syrup will always rid you of any
cold.
Mr. Brmvn—Cougmtulalions, old fol!
Boy or girl? Gray, (lejcctedlyS—Bolh.
Two of ’cm.
The great trouble thh the pun as a
professional beauty is that his skin is made
to fit a shorter dog.
Strange to say, the color that runs is
not a fast color.
The downward path—The one with a
plea: of orange peel on it.
Just bring a couple of little quarrels
into your family and they’ll breed like
sparrows.
CureYourself.—Don’t paylm‘ge doctor's
bills. The best medical book published,
one hundred pages, eleguutcolorcd plates,
will be sent you on receipt of lhrw' [we-
(-cut slumps to pay postage. AfllllcSS A.
P. Ordway &. (30.. Boston, Mass.
V credit-table affair—The dinner that is
not paid for.
A signal failure—A fuiilc attempt to
stop a street car.
“Hut 3 world it is 3 Almost
all of us bent on our own
affairs. It pays, though, to look
beyond self.
A maker of lamp chimneys
his chimney". What Will do
that P Low price. Very well;
no nukes tho-2n 2:3 mczm as he
01:1, 3.11:1 put: 11:3 price down.
Ls no concern of his il‘ they
brook at first Home’s touch.
Another maker makes his
chimneys as {fCOd as he can,
warm». Al.‘
6' -. - .t- .77 .,
zinc ”pool-ions - “moi...
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F1 .
llzcy Will not . brcz‘...
m use, lac says.
There is .no rztrii sicker:
n .. ~ 1 (w
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Erma?
LADIES?
Do Your Own Dyeing, at Home.
They will dye everything. They are sold everys
where. Price 100. a package. They have noequal
for Strength, Brightness, Amount in Packages
or for Fastness of Color. or non-fading Qualifies.
They do not crock or smut; 40 colors. For-sale by
J. G. Gregory & U0. ; J. A. Riggs, No. 11 Main
1y27
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GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 187..
W. BAKER & 0038
I: absolutely wre and
it is solu to.
No Chemicals
are used in its preparation. It has more
than three times the strength of Cocoa
mixed with Starch, Arrowroot or Sugar,
and is therefore for ."V‘re economical,
coating lest than one cent a map. It is
.= delicious, nourishing, strengthening, EA-
.' BILY Dream, and admirably adapted
for invalid: as well as persons in health.
Sold by Grocers everywhere.
“7. BAKER &. 00., Dorchester, Mass.
CHAS. H. VALDEN
J
—- DE ALEB FN—
GROCERIES,
FRESH AND NEW.
i shall keep constantly on hand a
FUll lINE 0F All. GOODS
usually found in a
First-01ass-:-Grucell-=—Slurl
which 1 will sell at prices
DEFYING HONEST COMPETITION
to beat. A share of the public patronage is solicit.
ed and every effort will be made to faithfully
serve our customers. Give us a call and
let us assure you of our ability to
give satisfaction.
CHAS. H. VALDEN,
5Wall Sf. Non-walk, Ct.
tell
thinks of nothing,r but selling.
The Efiuica’n' bist.
The worn cist was a common term em~
ployed by the Greeks and Romans to desig-_
hate every species of basket or box; origin-
ally a Greek word, it passed without trans-
formation into the Latin. At first the cist
would seem to have been a basket or box
made of willow and intended for country use
for holding vegetables or fruits; like our own
affairs of this sort, it was sometimes round
and sometimes square. From this limited use
the word came to apply to boxes and caskets
of all sorts. “’0 find them represented very
commonly on medals and coins and in pic-
tures; they hold the money of a. private per-
son or of a society;-they were used for carry-
ing manuscripts or pupyri; votes were
deposited in them; they were the precursors
in the sacred mysteries of the pyx or box
which guards the wafer on the altar of the
{0111qu church, but their most usual employ-
ment was a domes-Lil- one: they held the
toys of children and small articles of the
toilet.
There have been found in them all those
objects which made up what the ancients call
the \‘Oillilll‘r- m)rlll~-—2::uu:lus mulicbrls: mir-
rors, hairpins. hurls, perfume bottles,
spongex ponmr‘io inn-z: ~ and the rest. It is by
no nun-ms uncommon to find ivory (lice in
iliesc il)I{L‘S,- med lizalccd liie miscellaneous
coul'cnis of Lie .zunlni'u feminine workbox,
which is llzc confirms of the boy’s pocket,
ure: ufiun your! llL‘SlCd. as it were, in these an-
('ll‘lll‘ emf-clifw ion. ~
Tilt‘ visas Hut have con-w in) us are found in
101:.ii-2__ mrl by 'ar ilu~ {router number of
them émn: come from iii." uccropolis 0f Prai-
ueste li’ziiistrium or its neighborhood, where
they are found ilu-Insmi lll the sarcophegi, or
in the small born-s ”lode of mm which served
to hold the bones and ashes gathered from
the funeral pyrc. Sillll’el llllCS the cists them-
selves contaiu bones: this was not; their pur-
pose; it was merely an occasional employment
dictated by convenience. V e owe the pres-
ervation of many of these objects to the fact
that they vex-e of bronze, but it is possible
that many more may be lost to us from hav-
ing been made of the osicr twigs that were
the material of the original baskets.—--The
Studio.
A True Cat Story.
When I was a little girl I used to fish from
a deep brook that ran at the foot of the hills
near father’s house. I would tie a bent pin
to a length of apple twine, and lying face
down on the planks that bridged the brook
in the cart road, would watch the little fishes
nibble my bait till I had booked one or more
of thorn.
One day our old tortoise shell out came and
sat- down on the planks close beside me. She
cruued her head over the end of the bridge,
and with glistening eyes watched the shining
little fellows that swam around my book in
the water. At last a fat chub took hold of
my belt, and pulling him out, I gave the
wriggling fish to the eager watching old cat.
who seized it with a. growl of approvzi l.
The next do y old pussy came into the
kitchen as wet as a drenched rat—not a dry
hair on her sleek coat.
“Where has that cat been?” we all cried,
and we had occasion to repeat the exclama-
tion the next day, and the next, and the next,
for each noontime pussy made a like appear-
ance, creeping in under the kitchen stove to
dry her dripping fur.
“Maybe she falls into the cistern when
watching for mice,” mother said; “if she gets
into the cellar through that scuttle hole win-
dow it must be boarded. One of you children
keep close watch of her to—morrow.”
But it was not in the cistern where pussy
had taken her daily bath, but in the brook.
I saw her the next foreuoou, sitting at one
end of the plank bridge, and crept near to
watch her.
She was eagerly peering down into the
water, lashing her tail and poised for a
spring. Then came a. flying leap, a quick
splash and shower of glittering drops, then a
big commotion under the water, and up out
of the brook pussy darted, puffing and sneez-
ing, dripping from cars to tail, but with a
slippery, fioppin g chub fiercely held in her
teeth.
Our smart old cat had simply learned how
to go fishing for hermit—Clarissa Potter in
Springfield Homestead.
It Is No Place for u Del-32:.
It is a. remarkable fact that the city of
Truro, in the center of the population of Com-
wall, with 11,000 inhabitants—and seven
times that number within a few miles—has for
many years had but three physicians. When
it is considered that here in America there is
one doctor to every 500 people, the contrast
seems still more wonderful.—-St. Louis Re-
public.
Those persons who do not lived Iron,
but who are troubled with nervousness
and dyspepsia, will find in Cullcr’s Little
Nerve Pills a most desirable article. They
are mostly used in combination with Car-
ter’s Little Liver Pills, and in this way
often exert a most magical effect. Take
just one pill of each kind immediately
‘ after eating and you will be free from in-
digestion uud dyspepsia. In vials at 25
cents. Sold by all druggists.
“AGE CANNOT WITHEB HEB,”
remarked an old gentleman, as he gazed
fondly upon the comely little woman by his,
side; “but frankly.” he continued, “at one
time I was afraid cosmetics would. The 8111 -
little woman, in order to appear youthfu ,
plastered her face with different varieties o
whitewash. yclept ‘ balms.’ ‘ creams,’ ‘lotions.’
etc." “Yes." interrupted the little woman,
“I did, until my skin became like archment
and so pimpl and coarse." “Wel ,” said the
listener, “W at do you use new?" “Use,"
was the reply, “ not ing but common sense
and Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery.
Common sense told me that if my blood was
pure, liver active. appetite and digestion good,
that the outward woman would take on the
hue of health. The ‘Discovery ' did all those
things and actual] rejuvenated me." If you
won d possess a c ear. beautiful complenon.
free from blotcbes. pimples. eruptions, yellow
spots and roughness, use the “Golden Med-
ical Discovery." _ It is guaranteed to do
all that it is claimed to, or moneg‘said
for it will be promptly refun e .
Copyright, 1888, by WORLD’S Drs. MED. Ass’N.
*
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050000..“
, p, for an incurable case of Ca-
‘ alt tarrh in the Head by the
proprietors of Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. By
its mild. soothing and healing propert es. it
cures the worst cases. no matter of how long
standing. By druggists, 50 cents.
ON THE COLORADO.
Some of . the Natural Sculptures Which
Surprise'One with a. Revelation.
We know so little of the scenic beauties of
our country that every year surprises us with
a. new revelation. The rock sculptures of the
Peach Spring canyon of the Colorado river
are marvels which very few Americans have
seen.
The length of the canyon is 325 miles, and
the highest cliffs rise to 7,800 feet. Some of
the principal ruins—this word seems to be
the only word to apply to them—have been
named from time to time, and for the most '
part with fitness.
One is Solomoa’s Temple. another The
Pyramid, another Sunset Peak, and still
others The Sphinx, “Vestmiuster Abbey and
The Beehive.
Solomon’s Temple is considerably over a
mile high, and the denudation and wearing
of the rock by water has been such that it
represents an enormous pile of architecture,
with sculptured bastions, harmonious in its
proportions, with great terraces at its base,
and growing smafler toward the top. 011
the very top, in the center, is e. pyramidal
peak in exact propoptions. This sculptured
pile is from two to four miles across the
facade, and to see these things standing up
and against the clear, cloudless blue of the
Arizona sky, produces an indescribable efiect.
Sunset Peak goes up like a. dome 6,000 feet.
and, when the sun sets clear and has entirely
disappeared behind the mountains, its reflect-
ed light rests on this topmost peak andvtrans-
forms it into a minaret of gold—a heavenly
light indeed. ~
Another architectural piece goes by the
name of Babel’s Tower, and is 5,000 feet
high, and this has beautiful sculptured but-
tresses. The Castle on the Rhine is the same
height.
The Pyramid is 4,200 feet above the river,
and the river is 1,130 feet above the sea.
Some of these cliffs of even terraces and
' strata rise almost perpendicularly to ahcight
of 2,500 feet, and as high up as the eye can
detect a variety of plants, including cacti,
perch and thrive in the crevices. Some va-
rieties of— flowers bloom the year round in the
canyon, so mild is the temperature, even in
mid—winter.
Of course it is impossible for any visitor to
appreciate the magnitude of this scene of
ruin and desolation. The chimney on the
top of a perfect pyramid, that was sixty feet
square by actual measurement, looks to be
the size of an ordinary chimney.
‘The full beauty of Westminster Abbey, and-
its likeness to its venerable, ivy grown name-
sake, is very striking, only it is a far more
wonderful structure.
Just before reaching it, and on the same
side of the canyon, is the Temple of Jupiter,
and it is unquestionably one of if not the finest
parts of the canyon. It is a mighty pile of
stupendous harmony and sculpturing, the
central facade bearing a multitude of sphinxes
and classical images.
On the opposite side is “Moses Striking the
Rock,” the outline of the great statue at one
point being very lifelike.
On the top of one clifl.‘ is The Prophet at
Prayer—a kneeling figure with outstretched
hands; and there are many features not yet
named awaiting christening from the clever
and acute visitors yet tocome.——Goldeu Days.
Long Keeping of Apples.
Winter apples of the best keeping sorts
may be kept until summer apples are avail-
able. Of course, perfectly sound apples must
be selected—a small bruise or decayed spot
cannot be allowed. A temperature just
above the freezing point, and equable, is
essential. Fruits do not keep so well in a.
warm temperature, and fluctuations are even
more to be avoided.
This should be observed in keeping apples
for use during winter and early spring, and
for this reason it is best to have the fruit
room disconnected from the cellar; or at
least separated from the rest of the cellar by
a partition. If a brick partition cannot be
afforded, one of matched boards will answer.
Sliding sash will enable one to regulate the
temperature. The fruit room should always
contain a reliable thermometer.
Select the apples for long keeping in the
late fall or early winter, and wrap tissue pa-
per around each apple. Bought in quantity
this paper is cheap, and several bushels can
be wrapped in an hour. Place the apples on
shelves, stems up. Or, what is perhaps a
better plan, pack the apples down in fire dried
sawdust or bran, chafi or land plaster. The
fruit may be packed in either kegs, barrels
or boxes. First make a layer of chaff, or
whatever is used, an inch thick; then a. layer
of apples, stems up; fill all spaces with
the chafl’, and then a layer of chaff,
and so on. Apples so packed will keep
nicely in an outhouse with three or four
feet of straw thrown over them. The barrels
or boxes should rest on the ground.
The apples to be kept late should be assort-
ed out in the early spring and placed in a
room that can be kept cool—one that can be
opened up to admit the cool night air and
closed tight during the heat of the day.—
American Agriculturist. *'
The Great Silver Spring.
“I drove out to the great Silver Spring, in
.the Oclawaha, yesterday, and if I could I
would faiu have stayed for hours floating on
its surface, looking down into the iridescent
depths,” writes a correspondent of The Bos-.
ton Transcript from Florida. “One cannot
describe it. The basin is immense. There
are many springs in one, and all have a dif-
ferent beauty. The water is clear as crystal,
and one thinks the depth perhaps a few feet,
when it is nearer a hundred. The lights and
shadows are marvelous. The bottom a mo-
saic of such infinite beauty as the hand of the
most skillful artisan has never been able to
make. The colors range from the green of
malachite to tints of the sky.
“Near the steamboat landing bits of tin
thrown overboard are converted seemingly
into jewels a mermaid might have scattered
from a full casket. In some places the water
boils upward like clouds of smoke, and as the
particles separate it as though some unseen
hand was throwing toward you diamonds.
There are caves and grottoes far beneath,
into which you peer. It is a. fairy land—no
other. Far in the depths, you know, sleeps
Wenonah, the beautiful Indian maiden. Her
lover, slain by her father’s band, called her
across the moonlit waters, and she followed
him into the happy land beyond. Her tresses
are the moss you see beneath the waves; hers
are the jewels at the bottom of the spring.
Happy W'enonah, to slumber amid such
beauty.”
825,000 to Make One. Pair of Shoes.
One of the chief “sights” of St. John’s is its
museum, which occupies the upper part of
the postoflice building, a staring structure of
red brick with a top heavy cupola, strongly
suggestive of a. painted tea chest surmounted
by a. second hand coffee pot. Its contents are
not particularly remarkable, consisting for
the most part of the usual stuffed birds and
beasts, walrus tusks, ore from the local mines.
sealskins, fragments of whales’ skL“s and
other native productions, among vi . -h it
seems strange enough _to meet with a tiny
grayish blue slipper, seemingly {made of
paper or pasteboard, and labeled “Shoe
Made from American Bank Bills Worth 825,-
000, Redeemed and Macerated by the United
81mm Treasury Department. ”—Bostdn Trav-
2 er.
Enforcing the Rule.
I was going along Hudson street in an
Eighth avenue car about 3 o’clock yesterday
morning and was a. witness to a new way of
enforcing the.“no smoking” rule of the com-
pany. I was? the only passenger in the car,
and Iwas admiring the stout and stalwart
proportions of the conductor, when a. couple
of toughs rushed in. They were smoking
; cheap cigars and flung themselves on the seat-
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over the stove.
The big conductor looked at them a. mo-
ment and than walked in quietly and stood
in front of them. ' ‘
“You mustn’t smoke,” he said. looking at
the heavier of the pair.
“Why so?” returned the tough, blowing a.
cloud up toward the conductor’s face.
“Because it’s against the rules.”
“Oh, I don’t care for the rules!”
“I do, and I tell you there mustn’t be any
smoking.”
“Ah! Go —”
“You mustn’t smoke, I tell you.”
“I tell you I’m going to smoke. Now what
are you going to do about it?”
The conductor reached down, took him by
the collar and lifted him of! the seat. As the
conductor held the tough by the collar with
i both hands he must have pressed his thumbs
under the fellow’s jaws, for he get red in the
face and kicked and squirined like a man
dangling from the gallows. The conductor
held him well out from him and let him kick
and squirm as if he were an enraged dog and
i trying to bite. In that way the conductor
walked out of the car, lifted the tough over
the rear dashboard and dropped him in the
street.
The companion tough in the car grew a lit-
tle pale and relaxed his efforts on the cigar.
He watched the proceedings, like myself,
with a keen and interested eye. The con-
ductor returned slowly after depositing his
load and said to the remaining member of
the gang:
“Don’t you want to go an’ see your friend?"
“Guess I do,” replied the tough, and he
rushed out of the front door. , -
“You stopped that without much trouble,”
I remarked to the conductor, as he stood
looking after the flying tough.
“Oh, the easiest way is the best,” he an-
swered, as he went back to his place on the
platform.—New York Herald. ,
A Needed Accomplishment.
The gift of one good voice, clear enuncia-
tion, correct pronunciation in every family
would raise the enjoyment of home life 50
per cent, if such valuation could be placed
on so spiritual a. family possession; the gain
that would result in the increase of general
intelligence to each family is incalculable.
It seems a. great pity that when so much
money is spent on accomplishments that
really minister to the student’s development
only, more attention is not given to the very
desirable accomplishment of elocution—not
that the student may recite in public, but
that he or she may read in private for the
elmmon development of the intelligence of
the family. ‘
The Boston Traveller queries with wisdom:
“Is reading, indeed, a lost art, that we must
all flock to a public hall, and be read to at a.
given price per hour? There seems to be a.
tendency in this direction. The gregarious
reading is the idol of the hour. It cannot be
denied that to hear a great play or poem
read by one with whom expression is an art,
whose interpretation vitalizes and vivifies
each individuality and lends color to a scene,
is one of the great artistic enjoyments; but
this is the exception and not the rule, and so
one still recurs to the question, Is reading
becoming a lost art to the dwellers in cities?”
Talking not long since to a teacher of elo—
cutiou, the writer was struck with this sea-
tence: “The art of elocution has its true
value in conversation.” How often badin~
fiection, wrong emphasis, completely hides, if
it does not pervert, the speaker’s meaning!
Elocution is not a superficial training, a. more
effort at effect; it is a training of the percep-
tions of intelligence, it is the effort to bring
always the true meaning by a clear under-
standing of what was meant by the declare:
tiou, the sentiment. N 0 longer is elocution a.
training of one sense—that of speech; it rec-
ognizes that gesture must bear its relation to
the thing said; it recognizes that perfect har-
mony depends on perfect health, and applies
methods of training necessary to physical de-
velopment—Christian Union.
Dangerous Sweets.
The British Medical Journal says: Mr.
William Davies, of Peckham, has called our
attention to a. sweet which seems to us only
too likely, if it comes into favor with bache-
lor uncles and other dispensers of “lollipops,”
to cause a. large increase in infantile mortal-
ity. It consists of a hollow truncated cone
inade'of iced sugar; so for it is presumably
neither better nor worse than the thousands
of similar indigestible preparations which
work such havoc in nurseries. Lutet anguis
in herbs, in the shape of a tin whistle inside
the sweet, which appears to be ingeniously
contrived to choke the confiding infant who
may be tempted to keep the delicious morsel
in his mouth. ‘
Our correspondent was called to a. child,
aged 1 year and 9 months, in whose throat
such a. whistle was said to have stuck. For-
tunately it passed into the little patient’s
stomach and found its way out of the body
by the natural passages on the third day with-
out doinggnuch damage. Such a. happy de-
liverance cannot, however, be looked for in
every case, and we deem it our duty, espe-
cially now that oonfectiouers and toymakerr
are racking their invention in the productim
of “novelties,” to raise a note of warning a
to the criminal recklessness of making sweets
and playthings for young children of ma-
terials noxious in themselves or made attract-
ive by poisonous colors, or, as in the present
case, with parts which may easily become
detached and fall into the Windpipe or stick
in the aesophagus.
Famous Royal Pearls.
The pearls of the Empress Augusta were
famous, but are inferior to those now pos-
seSsed by the Duke of Cumberland, which are
the finest in Europe. These pearls and other
jewels, the whole being worth about £160,000,
were awarded to the late King George of
Hanover in 1857, after a dispute of twenty
years, as they had been claimed by the queen
on the death of William IV. Part of them
were brought originally from Hanover, and
the remainder had been the private property
of Queen Charlotte, who left them to her son
Ernest. Duke of Cumberland and afterward
King of Hanover. ,
A commission, consisting of Lord Wens-
leydale, Vice Cbancelor Wood, afterward
lord chancellor, and Mr. Lawrence Peel, was
appointed by Lord Palmerston to investigate ,
the matter, and they unanimously awarded
nearly all the jewels to the king of Hanover,
a decision which greatly annoyed the queen
and Prince Albert. George III, by will, left
Queen Charlotte all the jewels which had
been given to beg, and they were valued at
£20,000. But many of them were seized by
George IV, and disappeared during- his reign,
as did a number of crown jewels, including
the celebrated Stuart sapphire, which was
given by Cardinal York to George III, and
by George IV presented to Princess Charlotte
on his marriage; but after his death Prince
Leopold was obliged to return it, and a few
years afterward it appeared in the head dress
of Lady Conyngham.-'Cincinnati Commer'
ch11 Gazette.
Norwalk Chronicler