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mental Trees Shrubbery, Vines. Cut Flowers
always on hand and all sorts of designs in Flowers
arranged to order. 41y2
Grading and Re-fllling Cemetery,Plots
promptly attended to.
The “Record.”
The Norwalk Record
is an established fact. Although ills only a
year old its circulation already averages
3,000 COPIES PER WEEK,
a fact which attest-Sits rapid rise and firm bond on
the public favor. It aims to be clean and whole-
me. and presents all the legitimate news‘ in
readable, spicy and terse shape. Its subscription
so is sufficiently low to enable anybody to have
without discarding any other of their favorite
rials, and it prospers Without encroaching,
the prosperity of any of its excellent and
esteemed local contemporaries. as IS shown by
me fact that it enjoys and appreciates the hearty
od will of all—the GAZETTE, Hour, Sentinel
ournal and Republican.
THE RECORD is sent to any address forthe
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Now is the Time to Subscribe.
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BUILDING LOTS
ION INSTALLHENT PLAN.)
FOR SALE‘
Wilton Avenue
0n
APPLY TO
CHAS. OLMSTEAD,
OR
GAZETTE OFFICE.
(ion
Geo. S. Gregory.
Livery, Boarding, Sale,
Feed and Exchange
S t a. b 1 e s .
ht 81:.
(In rear of Horse Car Depot),
NORWAIJC, 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,
\VASIIINGTON I). 0.,
Lucated at the National Capital, adjacent to all the
Executive Departments, givos me superior
advantage in the prosecution of Claims
against the United States.
INCREASE ‘u’OUR 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
disabilityincreases 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 disuhilii y not set forth in
his original declaratlou. 'l‘he pension laws are
more liberal than formerly, and bet ter rating can.
be had for many disabilities. 1 make a specialty
of Neglected and Reflected Claims, and if you will
present me witha 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 requn'es a competent attorney to make them
good cases. Soldiers sufl‘ering 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-married] are entitled to $8.00 per
month from January 29th. 1857. two
7“ For Sale Cheap.
SECOND-HAND Cast Iron Fence, with gate
all in perfect order and as good as new,
about 120 feet in length. Will be sold at a sacri-
fice if applied for soon. Enquire
at .
0ft, . GAZETTE OFFICE
All medical authorities agree that ’-
tan-h is no more nor less than an inflafi.
lion of the lining membrane of the nasal
air passages. Nasal catarrh and all ca.
uirrhal affections of the Ill'ild are not dis.
cases of the blood, and it is a serious mis-
take to treat them as such No consci-
entious physician ever attempts to do so.
It is held by eminent medical men that
sooner or later a specific will be found for
every disease from which humanity suf.
fers. The facts justifiy us in assuming
that far catarrh at least a positive cure
already exists in Ely’s Cream Balm.
Various Lunacies.
The Italians, and in factoll the inhabitants
of lands bordering on or adjacent to the Med-
iterranean sea, are firm believers in moon in-
fluences. In this country we look for changes
for better or for worse in the condition of
sick persons to take place immediately after
midnight; in Persia they look for such
changes as the moon appears above the hori-
zon. In America, during a critical period,
we say that the patient will not survive
longer than till midnight; in India they say
he will never see the moon rise again, Dur-
ing the time of the plague, 1660 to 1666, phy-
sicians noted abnormal changes for the worse
just preceding and following each full moon.
Diemerbroeck, in his treatise on that awful
epidemic, says: “Two or three days before
and after each full moon there were twice as
many deaths as there were during any other
four to six days.”—John W. Wright in St.
Louis Republic.
llow repulsive is bad breath, and yet
how many otherwise attractive, polite,
and particular peOpIe afliict 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-
pardonablc 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.
Alf—aszmout or crime-o inysiciana.
The emperor of China, on hearing for the
first time that physicians in all foreign coun-
tries were paid according to the number of
visits they made to the patient, was surprised
to find that other countries were so diamet-
rically Opposed to China in so simple a cus-
tom. After a few moments of reflection the
emperor replied: “Now I shall inform you
how I mana'ge my physicians. I have four,
to whom the care of my health is committed;
' a certain weekly salary is allowed them; but
the moment I am ill their salary stops till I
am well again. I need not inform you that
my illnesses are very short.”—New York
Ledger.
Revel-ice of bachelors used to contain
an alloy of painful auticipation,on account
of sleepless nights with the pr».~pcclive
baby, but Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup has
made all that port a joy forever.
“Get another dozen lamp
chimneys.”
“What! are they all gone?”
“Yes.”
“I’m going to try a sort I’ve,
been reading about, if I have
to send to Pittsburgh for ’em.
Macbeth & Co.’s ‘pearl-top.’
They say their chimneys
don’t break.”
ably.”
“ Don’t Muggins keep ’em P ”
“I’m going to see. Give
me a postal card. I’ll have
that chimney, anyhow.”
Muggins got ’em for him,
and did a thriving chimney
business for several weeks,till
everybody got ’em; and some-
how his trade has increased
all round ever since.
EEHIESS
LADIESi Dvss
Do Your Own Dyeing, at Home.
They will dye everything. They are sold every»
where. Price 10o. a package. They have no equal
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 it 00.; J. A. Riggs, No. 11 Main
Street, Geo. is. Plaisled, Drugglsts. 1y27
GOLD MEDAL, PARIS. 187..
W. BAKER 85 (JOBS
BIIIIIIIIISI 00000
Is absolutel re and
u is no 16.
No Chemicals
are used in its preparation. It has more
than nus-ea times the strength of Cocos
mixed with Starch, Asrowroot or Sugar,
and is therefore far more economical.
costing tun than m cm a cup. It is
delicious, nourishing. strengthening, EA-
] snx Dress-rim, and admirably adapted
for invalids us well as persons in health.
Sold by Grocers everywhere.
”V. BAKER
CHAS. H. VALDEN
—-DEALER FN—
GROCERIES,
FRESH AND NEW.
1 shall keep constantly on hand a
FULL lINE OF All 60008
usually found in a
First-Glass-z-lmceli-z-liu
which I will sell at prices
DEPYING HONEST COMPETITION
to best. 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 St, Norwaik, Ct.
7.25:1
“Another humbug, prob--,
; afflictions than mankind.
THE FUTURE.
What may we take into that vast Forever!
. That marble door
Admits no fruit of all our long endeavor,
No fame wreathed crown we wore,
No garnered lore.
What can we bear beyond the unknown portal!
No gold, no gains
or all our toiling: in the life immortal
No boarded wealth remains,
Nor gilds, nor stains.
Naked from out that for abyss behind us
We entered here;
No word came with our coming to remind us
What wondrous world was near.
N0 hope, no fear.
Into the silent. starless night before us
N akcd we glide.
No hand has mapped the constellations o‘er us,
No comrade at our side,
No chart, no guide.
Yet fearless toward that midnight black and hol-
low,
Our footsteps fare:
The beckoning of .21 Father‘s hand we follow—-
His love alone is there,
No curso, no care.
—Augusto C. Winthrop in Atlanta Constitution.
A First Principle of Bridge Building.
If one plank would liOld up 100 pounds on
the center, then the two planks placed
side by side would hold up 200 pounds, while,
placingr the planks one on top of the other,
and nailing Lbcm firmly together, they would
hold up 430 pounds. In this way we see that,
in order to increase the strength of the bridge
or beam faster than we increase the amount
of material. the increased amount of material
should go into the depth of the beam and not
into the width of it. This is one of the first
principles in the resistance of material, that
the strength of a beam varies directly as the
width—that is, if we make the beam twice as
wide, it will hold twice as much; and that
the strength varies as the square of the depth
—that is, if we make it twice as deep, it will
hold up four times as much. If we make it
three times as deep, it will hold up nine times
as much of a. load. So that you can readily
understand that, in order to increase the
strength of the bridge or beam without in-
creasing the material in the same proportion,
the increased amount of material should be
put into the depth and not into the width.—
Professor 0. D. Jameson in Popular Science
Monthly.
Ask Your Friends About It.
Your distressing cough can be cured.
We know it because Kemp’s Balsam with-
in ihc past few years has cured so many
coughs and colds in this community. Its
remarkable sale has been won entirely by
its genuine merit. Ask some friend who
has used it what he thinks of Kemp’s
Balsam. There is no medicine so pure,
so effective. Large bottles 500. and $1 at
all druggists. Sample bottle free.
-1ucsesn. 1111571.“
Two graves of the form called “ship”
shaped ones, dating from the early iron age,
have been discovered near Aalborg, in Jut-
land, similar graves having only been once
before encountered in Denmark. They are
built of stones in'the form of a-ship, the cal-
cined ashes of the body being strewn at the
bottom. Further, nine graves with skeletons
from the later iron age have been found near
Frederikshavn, the size of the bones indicat—
ing that they were persons of small stature.
Ill addition, four smooth rings of bronze,
having, no doubt, formed a necklet, have
been dug out of a pest bug in the some local-
ity. A runic stone of great interest has been
discovered at Kinneculla, in West Gothic,
Sweden, having hitherto been covered with
turf. The portion uncovered represents
some ships, the figures of two men, a great
number of saucer shaped cavities, wheels,
rings, etc., engraven on the rock, but there
appears to be a great many more signs below.
The crown has taken possession of it, and a
careful. survey is being made—London
Stalwart.
We think we can cure a bad case of
backache quicker with one of Carter’s
Smart Weed and Belladonna Baclmclie
Plasters, than by any other application,
and after the backache is cured, you can
still wear the plaster without discomfort
for two or three weeks or longer. This
combination of Smart Wart and Bella.-
(louna is a great hit, and it is hard to find
any pain or ache that will not yield to it.
Price 25 cents. Sold by (lruggists every-
where. _______
“I’d rather be a wild lurkey’and live on
the prairie,” said the small boy, “than be
a tame turkey and be killed every year.”
“If 1 were my own enr‘my,” said a
Brooklyn politician, “I Could tell some
awfullytough stories about. myself.”
One swallow doesn’t make a summer,
but it may have Occurred to you that one
grasshopper makes a great many springs.
To become happy. read about the Im-
'proved Medical Discovery in another
column.
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IF A BODY MEET A BODY
the result is a collision. whether “coming
‘ thro’ the rye,” or not. Life is full of collis-
ions. We are constantly colliding with some—
body or something. If it isn’t With our
neighbors it is with some dread diseases that
“ knocks us off the track" and perhaps dis-
, ables us for life. Women especially it seems.
have to bear the brunt of more collisions and
In all cases 0
nervousness, bearing-down sensations, ten-
derness. periodical pains. sick headache, con-
gestion, inflammation; or ulceration and all
“female irregularities" and “weaknesses,
Dr. PierceTs Favorite Prescription comesto
the rescue of women as no other medicine
does. It is the only medicine for women, sold
hv drugglstaunder a positive guarantee,
from the manufacturers, that it Will. give
satisfaction in every case, or money paid for
it will be refunded. rSee guarantee on bottle-
wmpper. ‘
Copyright. 1888, by WORLD’S Dis. Man. Ass’x.
uhrursuuns
regulate and cleanse the liver. stomach and
bowels. They are. purely vegetable and per-
t‘c-ctly harmless. (me :1 Dose. Sold by
\ii-uggists. :25 cents a vial.
Dom Pedro as a Republican.
As a number of American gentlemen were
recently discutsing the overthrow of the Bra-
zilian empire, one of them expressed an
opinion that Dom Pedro had willing with-
drawn from the throne, and another, ex-
President Hayes, replied that he believed
Dom Pedro to be at heart a. republican, fully
in favor of republican institutions. Mr.
Hayes then, according to the Nashville Times
Herald, told the following anecdote:
At the centennial celebration at Philadel-
phia, in 1876, I sat next to the emperor of
Brazil. Just before Mr. Evarts began his
great speech, Dom Pedro drew from his
pocket a well worn, well creased copy of the
Declaration of Independence, 21 fac-simile of
the original, with the written interlineatiou
and corrections.
“This,” said he, turning to me, “was given
me by an American friend over ten years
ago, and I have had it as a constant com-
panion ever since. It’s a grand, good docu-
ment. I’ve made a close study of it.”
While the Declaration of Independence
was being read from the orator’s stand the
Brazilian emperor, with bowed head and eyes
fixed intently on the well worn decument be-
fore him, followed the sentences word for
word.
The impressive reading, and the accom-
panying thought that the project of ".‘free
and independent states” had been grandly
accomplished, evidently made a deep impres-
sion on him. When the orator had conclud-
ed the emperor, with bowed head, still kept
his eyes on the last words of the page before
him. Then looking up, his eyes dimmed with
tears, he said, in a husky voice:
“A wonderful document! a wonderful
document!”
“When I recall that incident,” said Mr.
Hayes, “there is not only pathos but prophecy
in it. ”
Plum Pudding Is Not Plum Pudding.
It would be well if Mr. Mattieu Williams’
lecture on plum pudding at Birmingham
could be made familiar to everybody. It con—
tains matter which would surprise, perhaps,
most people. For example, the so called plum
pudding is not plum pudding at all; there are
no plums in it. The plums of which we
speak are really grapes—dried grapes, of
course, but grapes all the same. Again, we
speak loosely of the currents in plum pud-
ding. There are none in it whatever. What
we call currents are grapes, too—dwarf
grapes dried._ And Mr. Williams mentions
that he could not procure from any English
grower a single plant or cutting of the dwarf
grape; they all come from abroad and mainly
from Greece.
But what in Mr. Williams’ lecture will be
most surprising to most people is the asser-
tion that plum pudding, eaten by itself, not
after an otherwise heavy dinner, is by no
means indigestible. If we ate it before, in-
stead of after, the beef and turkey it would
do us no harm. Nay, it would do us good.
And why? Because the grape, of which it is
mainly composed, is the greatest supplier of
pot-ash, and because potash is the best cor-
rective of lithic acid, to which we owe gout
and rheumatism. It comes to this then—
t-hat if Mr. “’illiams’ science is good science,
we ought to cultivate plum pudding all the
year round, and to eat it, moreover, in pref-
crence’ to beef and turkey, not to say goose.
Not only this, but the children ought to have
two helpiugs of plum pudding, whether they
ask for it or not—London Globe.
An Indian Ghost Story.
A college professor who was stopping at a
house near Herrington, Kan, was awakened
by a light in his room, and, white with terror,
be looked out from the bed to see an Indian
in full war paint, but as ethereal as a wraith,
standing before him beckoning. He followed
and was led to the grand parlor on the floor
beneath, where, in a circle, with the beauti-
ful paintings, the upright piano, the book
cases and the portiercs for a background,
stood a group of ghostly warriors, each with
stern and solemn countenance. Silently they
excavated a shallow grave in the parlor floor
and brought one of their number—a ghostly
corpschaiid laid him therein. Then, while
the professor stood with hair erect and start.
ing eyes, they circled about the grave (or
what appeared to be such) and finally filed
out through the door. There was a slamming
of window blinds, a rattling of easements and
a whirl of damp air, and the professor stood
alone in the great parlor with the piano and
books about him. He returned to his room,
and the next day, taking a hint from his
night’s experience, examined carefully the
debris thrown out by the workmen in exca-
vating the cellar. He found unmistakable
evidences that the height had been used as a
burial ground by the Indian tribes in the
past. The spectral funeral which he wit-
nessed was the repetition of one of their old
burials.-—-Pittsburg Dispatch.
A Supposed Shakespeare Table.
A very interesting piece of furniture has
just been added to the museum at Shakes-
peare’s birthplace—an old oaken table said
to have belonged to Shakespeare’s family
and to have been in use in the poet’s day. It
was only discovered a few days ago, and
one’s examination of it on Saturday was
practically the first inspection to which it
has been submitted. It is a low round table.
with raised edge, standing on a stout center
leg with three toes. The top has evidently
been beeswaxed for centuries. On the under
surface of the table two letters (J. W.) appear.
The old Stratford families whose surnames
begin with W are legion. Shakespeare had
cousins named Webb, but the records do not
allow any of them a Christian name needing
I or J. The information on which the table
was purchased is to be found in a statement
made on oath before Mr. Lloyd Chadwick,
Warwick. This gentleman, who is 80 years
of age, states that when a boy he remembers
the table being in the possession of his grand-
mother, and he often heard it spoken of by
her and others. She bought it from a wom-
an who purchased it at the sale of Shakes-
peare’s house in Henley street, Stratford-on-
Avon,‘ and it was always known in the fam-
ily as Shakespeare‘s tabla—Birmingham Ga-
zette.
How to Preserve Meats.
Commissioner of Agriculture Henderson
has found another excellent recipe for pre-
serving meat, which he is anxious to have the
farmers of Georgia make use of, as be con-
siders it an excellent onefi For 1,000 pounds
of meat, mix: with 100 pounds of salt, 2
pounds sultpetre, 1% pounds cloves, 1 pound
cayenne pepper, 6 pounds brown sugar, and
dissolve in water. Then boil slowly and skim
well, until the brine is strong enough to float
an egg. If necessary add more salt. Trim
meat well and pack in watertight barrels,
and when the compound is cold pour in until
the meat is covered, and weight it down so
as to keep it submerged. Keep on hand
enough of the compound to add as it evapor-
ates. In four or five weeks the meat will be
ready to hang up, then take it out, wash well
and hang up. This should be done in dry
weather, and it would be well to dry out
with slow fires. When thoroughly dry, take
down and sew up ,neatly in a. covering of
skirting or ducking, which cover well with a
paste made of two parts lime and one part of
wheat shorts or flour. See that the paste is
put on thick enough to exclude the air. Hang
up in cool, dry place and the meat will keep
for years. —Atlanta Constitution. '
SIXTY AND SIX.
Light of the morning, i
Darling of dawning, .
Blithe little-lithe little daughter of mine!
While with thee ranging
Sure I‘m exchanging
Sixty of my years for six yous like thine.
Wings cannot vie with thee, ..
Lightly I fly with thee, ;‘
Gay as the thistledown over the lea;
Life is all magic, yo
Comic or tragic,
Played as thou playest it daily with me. ,,
floating and ringing :
Thy merry singing ii
Comes when the light comes, like that of the
birds.
List to the play of it! g
That is the way of it;
All‘s in the music and naught in the words-
Glad or grief laden, '
Schubertor Haydn,
Ballad of Erin or merry Scotch lay,
Like an evangel ‘ '
Some baby angel
Brought from sky nursery stealing away.
its: as...“ .-
Surely I know it,
Artist nor poet
Guesses my treasure of jubilant hours. -
Sorrows, what are they? I
. Nearer or far, they
Vanish in sunshine, like dew from the flair
ers;
Years, Iain glad of them!
Would that I had of them
More and yet more, while thus mingled with
thine.
Age, I make light of it! '
y Fear not the sight of it,
Time‘s but our playmate, whose toysare di-
vme.
—T. W. Higginson in Century.
New Mexican Adobes.
Most of the native dwellings around the
city and throughout New. Mexicpdare built
of mud bricks, called “adobes.” Mixing a.
little broken straw with the soil, rough
blocks, about twice the size of ordinary
bricks, are molded, dried in the sun, and
piled up in the form of a wall, with spaces
high up for a door and windows. After the
wall is dry, it is smeared over, inside and
out, witha thin paste of earth and water,
smoothed with the pahns of the hands.
The roof is formed of rough timbers cov-
ered with boards, on which is spread dry
earth, to the depth” of twelve inches or more.
The intense heat of the sun speedily consoli-
dates the mass, and rude gutters are made to
carry off tropical rains. Access is gained by
a ladder, as the flat roof is used for drying
fruit and grain, and for a lounging place
for the family.
The rooms are gloomy, because the aper-
ttures serviug'fonyindows' are very small.
The eartheii rooms; covered with skins,
which, with blankets, furnish the beds. The
cookingute’usils are primitive,;and the culi-
nary art, such as it is, is .pra'ctiwd out of.
doors; ' .
In nearly every house will be found a.
board afew inches square, on which is de-
picted a saint, or a group of saints, usually
in red or yellow ;' for intense colors are much
admired, as in all lands of the sun. This is.
seen also in the dress-and in general orna~
nientation.—New York Journal.
Deforestation of Servia.
An English paper says: One, of the effects
of Servian independence appears to be an
almosttotaldisafi‘orestation of the country.
The vice consul at Nish says that during the
Turkish occupation Servia was covered with
magnificent forests of ‘Oak, beech, chestnut
and walnut trees, by, means of which the
country was assured of a regular and plenti-
ful'supply of water, and in the recesses of
which'the natives found shelter and refuge
from their foreign conquerors. From the
date of her independence :1 destruction of
these invaluable treasures commenced, which
has been carried on with remorseless and un-
reflecting perseverance, and it appears as
though there were at the present day a. race
against time to complete the havoc.
From time to time the consciences of min-
isters and governments have been roused to
interfere, but beyond the passing of laws
which remain a dead letter hardly anything
has been done to arrest the evil. Neither do
the authorities to whom. the work of super-
vision lias been confided appear to have at-
tained to aproper apprehension of the im-
portance of the duties devolving upon them;
it has even been remarked that such action
as the highest authorities have taken has
been rather prompted by considerations rela-
tive to the supply of acorns and beecbnuts
for feeding swine than by a proper regard
to the preservation and plantation of timber
as a national need—Exchange.
Sir Raleigh’s “’ecd.
“Over 20,000,000 cigars are manufactured
every day in the United States alone,” said a
prominent dealer the other day, “and this
enormous number requires intlie neighbor-
hood of 400,000 boxes for their. keeping. Con-
sequently there are over 200 factories in the
country turning out boxes as fast, or faster,
than cigars are made to fill them. And it is
surprising what an extensive and expensive
plant is required for the making of cigar
boxes. A complete box making plant is a.
planing mill, a silk spinning mill and a print-
ing establishment combined. Besides putting
the pieces of wood together, a fully equipped
factory weaves and fixes up its own silk rib-
bon wrappers, and-does its own printing.
“The wood of which these boxes are made
comes from Mexico, Central America and the
West Indies. The manufacturers use very
little besides red cedar, and that kind of tim-
ber is rather scarce in this country. They
buy the wood for these boxes in large, heavy
logs, and cut them up to suit themselves.
Only the cheaper grades of boxes are made
from poplar out in the west, which is after-
wards stained to imitate the red cedar. But
the only real good wood for packing cigars
is the cedar which comes from Mexico, Cen-
tral America and the West Indies. The
cedar wood has a peculiar pungent odor,
which adds very much to the taste and flavor
of a good cigar. ”—Philadclpbia Review.
Acknowledge the Corn.
The phrase "acknowledge the corn" is va-
riously accounted for, but the following is a
true history of its origin: In 1828 Alexander
Stewart, member of congress,.said in a speech
that Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana sent their
liaystacks, cornfields and fodder to New
York and Philadelphia for sale. lVickliffe,
another member, called him to order, de-
claring that those states did not send their
haystacks and corn fields to the eastern cities
for sale. “Well, what «lo-you send?” asked
Stewart. “Why, horses, mules, cattle and
hogs.” “Well, what makes your horses,
mules, cattle and hogs?” queried Stewart.
“You feed $100 worth of bay to a horse.
In doing that you just animate your hay—
stack and get on top of it and ride off to mar-
ket. How is it with your cattle? You make
one of them carry $50 worth of bay to the
eastern market. How much corn does it take
to fatten a hog, Mr.- W'lckliife?”_ “Thirty-
three bushels,” replied the man from Ken-
tucky. “Then you just put thirty-three
bushels of corn into the shape of a. hog and
walkhimofl tomarket,” said Stewart. At this
pointinthe debate Wickliife sprang;- to his
feet and exclaimed, very hurriedly, “Mr.
Speaker! Mr. Speaker! I acknowledge the
corn.” The incident caused quite a laugh
Norwalk Chronicler