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TWILIGHT.

115w like some deft magician. thou, that o’er
The weary day dost pom thy wondrous spell,
Till, charmed, her bright eyes close. and sea and
shore,
Beneath thy potency, rest sweet and well.

Now, dimly seen, a silver scimitar,

To guard our eve-hung tent. some angel holds
In yonder occident, while star by star _

The royal night from out her cloak unfolds.

Feel I thy witchery; and, o’er me sweeps
The calm of closed lids and far prayer bell;
'While memory‘s mantle. whose dear starlight
keeps
My heart enchanted, folds me sweet and well.
—Ricarc Lane in New Orleans Times-Democrat.

A PERFECT PLOT.

"You’re rather late, Stephen,” said Mrs.
Mostyn as her husband came into the dining
room one day just as she had finished break—
fast, “and I cannot stay with you, as I have
to go out.”

“Go out! Why, you said last night you
were going to finish that china. painting this
morning, though I really don’t know why
you should work so hard. We are not in ab-
solute penury." .

“No; but it is pleasant making money in a
way one likes. Besides, there will be some
to give away when we find we have too
much ourselves. And how is your trade go-
ing on ?” '

“To tell the truth. not brilliantly. In fact,
I am rather hung up for want of a plot.”

“A plot?”

"Yes; it. is ridiculous. I havea short story
to write this week, and, though I have rather
a neat set of characters and small incidents
ready, if you understand, a main idea is
wanting.”

“Dear me, that is unfortunate. Why don’t
you go out for a walk, or for half an hour in
the underground, or to the city on a ’bus, and
find one?”

“My dear Millicent, what nonsense you
talk. As if I were the least likely to find my
ideal plot that wayl No; I must try and
worry it out myself somehow.”

“Well, I must be off. Good-by, Stephen;
take my advice-go and look for your ideal
in the real of life. I am sure you can find it
there.”

After his wife had gone Stephen Mostyn
ate his breakfast and then sat musing a little,
after which, springing out of his chair, he
said :.

“I never felt less inclined to write in my
life! Really, I have a good mind to follow
Millicent’s advice and go out.”

In a few minutes he was standing on the
doorstep, deciding upon his next move.

“What a beastly fog! I certainly shan’t
lose much under ground, so here goes for the
Metropolitan railway.”

“Where for?” said the clerk sharply, as
Stephen stood vaguely in front of the ticket
office.

“Oh, W hitechapel. I should think that
leaves room for discovery.” he thought to
himself.

“What class?”

“Third—better do it thoroughly. Now,
then, for a trial trip between Kensington
and the Mile End road, to test Millicent’s
theory.”

A small boy with a large, heavy parcel got
into the carriage with him, and spent some
moments in vainly tr ying to secure his bur-
den more firmly, by mLLlLiS of a knotty bit of
string that crossed it here and there in pur-
poseless festoons. Mr. Mostyn lending his
help, between them they made rather a neat
thing of it.

“Adventure the first; ended, I fear,” said
Stephen to himself. “I really can‘t ask him
how old he is and where he lives, and if he
thinks it healthy.”

“Temple!”

Out tumbled the parcel and the boy, and
in walked an elderly young woman with a
fringe and an American cloth handbag. She
sat down opposite to Mr. Mostyn, put both
her hands to her head as if to make certain
it was still in its place, opened her bag and
realizing that she had not lost her ticket,
looked at the window and sighed.

“Not exactly ideal, but scarcely real,”
thought Stephen. “Do you feel the draught
from the window?” he asked.

“No, I don’t, thank you," with a well or-

 

ranged look of spiteful timidity, and chang- '

ing her seat to one at the other end of the
carriage. '

“Is this a beginning?” thought Stephen.
“Now I should like to ask her if she thinks
my life for thirty-five years has been work-
ing up to the climax of meeting her, veiled
in golden fog, in a third class Metropolitan
railway carriage? I wonder if it’s any good
going on with this incident? Madam”—

“Sir, I think this is Blackfriars Station!"
she said, whisking her head round as she
spoke, the end of her nose depriving the glass
of a very fine smut at the same time.

"It is not my business to tell her that she
is now still more attractive than when she
got in,” thought Stephen; “she would proba-
bly give me into custody if I did—Black-
friarsl yes, it is. Do you get out here?”

“Yes,”.plunging at the door as she spoke.

“Ah,” he said, turning the handle for her,
“I don’t.”

There entered, before be shut the door, a
small woman, holding in one arm a tiny bun-
dle of a baby, and pushing before her a little
boy. She sat down, the baby keeping its po-
sition in the sling formed by its mother’s arm,
the boy holding close to her, pulling at her
shawl, and continually asking her in an un-
intelligible mutter for something that she
either had not got or didn’t mean to part
with. Her bonnet was slipping off her dull,
untidy hair; her face was white, with tired,
lusterless eyes, pink, pinched little nose and
discontented mouth. The poor little apology
for a baby might have hung round her neck
by a ribbon, and the other child was small
and sickly. A shrunken, depressing little

oup. .

Just as Stephen Mostyn was beginning to
weave round in his mind a pathetic, ten-
der fancy, the small boy becoming more
than usually importunate, his mother said,
with no flicker of change in the expression of
her face, but with a voice whose rough grat-
ing easily overpowered the noise of the train:

“Jest you stop a worritin’. Tommy, else I’ll
tell yer bloomin’ dad when we git- ’ome—see
if I don’t.”

Stephen shut his eyes, and only opened
them as the little family bundled out two
stations further on.

“The Monument!” “Mark lane!”
ther passengers invaded his carriage.

“I can’t stand this any longer, and the con-
densed fog chokes one. I shall get out at the
next station and go back.”

“Aldgate!”

Out he jumped and crossed to the return
platform, literally feeling. his way. The un-
derground station at Aldgate is often quite
dark in the middle of summer, and on this
day'the fog was dense. He found his way to
aseat and (so thick was the darkness) did not
discover, till he had' taken his place at the
endof it, that there were two other people
nearhim. One of them, a man, was speak-
ing in a disagreeable, querulous voice.

“I’m sure it’s not my fault if I get nothing
to do. I am always trying to find some-
thing.”

“Yes; in other people’spocket’s,” answered
a woman’s voice. “You want the wage, not
the work.”

. “Good heavens! that is Millicent’s voice

No fur-

 

 

 

 

 

NORWALK GAZETTE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5. 1890.

exactly,” thought Stephen; “what an extra-
ordinary resemblance!”

“What becomes of money. in’ your hands I
can’t conceive,” she went on. , -

,“It is _Millicent’s .voieel‘ What in; God’s
name is she doing?” and Stephen tried
to catch a glimpse of the figure that was
screened from him by the man between them,
and, still more so by the darkness.

“What have you done with the money I
sent you last?”

“Done with it? Spent it, of course. A
family cannot live on nothing. It was not
much for you to give—you, who live in lux-
ury; you, whose husband is rich; you”—

“My husband is very far from rich; and if
he were so it would benefit you in no way.
Every farthing I have given you for your
wife was my own, made by my own work.
I, a woman, worked to help a woman, as I
would a man, but not such as you.”

“Whatever you may have given‘ you owed
to my wife.”

“I owed her?”

“Yes; for taking from her what was hers
by right.”

“Shall I let this brute go on speaking to
her ?” said Stephen to himself, holding the
edge of the seat tightly in each hand.

“And now that she is ill and in want you
in your prosperity grudge a little help to her
and her hungry children.”

“I have lowered myself by listening to you
thus far,” said Millicent, “in order to see if
you would not in time say what I expected of
you—what I waited for. Now that you have
done so I will answer you fully this once and
never speak with you again. I feel that you
cannot have lived your life without some one’s
having called you ‘liar’ and ‘coward,’ or
without your knowing that many had a. right
to do so. Therefore I will not pause to add
my testimony to theirs. When your first let-
ter came last year, addressed to my husband,
‘to wait an answer,’ he was happily away
from home. To save time I, contrary to my
inclination, opened your ‘appeal.’ It con-
tained a manly reference to your Wife, and
my husband’s regard for her in past years
and a cringing demand for money for her
and your children, if not for you, and it
ended with a suggestion as to the possible un-
pleasant consequences to his domestic happi-
ness if the subject of your letter became
known to me. Every detail of the story, as
far as it concerned himself, my "husband had
long since told me, and no mud thrown by
you could shake my trust.

“You lie when you say that I took from
your wife what was hers by right. My bus.
band once loved her with all his heart and
soul, and she made him suffer bitterly. But
he had loved her, as I say, and for his sake I
consented (if the miserable story should never
reach his ears to give him further pain) to
help the woman who had repaid his love with
betrayal, his confidence with treachery, but
who had been dear to him before he gave to
me what I took from no one else. You lie
again when you speak of her present suffer-
ing and the wants of her children—silence!”
as the mzn attempted to speak. “Do you
think in dealing with one like you I should
take no steps to verify your statements? Of
the two children that lived with you and that
you call hers, one only was your wife’s, and
has been dead six months, you curl And
your wretched wife flung from her my bus-
band’s love and trust, not for the love of an-
other man, but for life with you, who
dragged her to the mire in which she died
nearly a month ago! Nearly a week since I
had proof of all I am saying, and my only
reason for consenting to see you again, as
you asked, was to tell you of this, and also to
warn you that if you ever communicate with
or molest me or my husband in any way, I
have means to make that your last public
performance for a considerable time.”

As she said the last words, Millicent rose,
walking straight up to and getting into the
train that had just run into the station. The
man she had been speaking with sat still
while she moved away, but as she opened the
carriage door he started up with an oath, as
if to follow her. Stephen Mostyn’s umbrella
becoming unfortunately mingled with the
swearer’s legs, he was precipitated painfully
on to the platform as the train left the sta-
tion, and Stephen bounded up the steps to
the surface of the earth.

Mrs. Mostyn had dressed for dinner that
evening, and was sitting by the fire when her
husband came in.

“Well, Stephen, when you do follow my
advice you do it generously, I must say.
Have you been out ever since I saw you last?”

“Very nearly.”

“And walking, or in'the underground, or
on the top of a ’bus?”

“A little of all three, and the club to finish
with.”

“Well, and have you found your plot?”

“Yes, but I can’t write it now, so I amZnot
much better off than before.”

“Good gracious! why?”

“Because,” said Stephen, bending and kim-
ing her eyes, “the story 'is so pretty that I
have no words in which to tell it; no charac-
ter that I have hitherto conceived is good
enough to pl ay 3. part in it; no incident that
I have known or imagined but seems poor
and tedious beside it.”

“Then it is very good?"

“Perfect.”

“And is it real or ideal?”

“Both.”

“Won’t you tell it to me?”

“Some day. ”-—London World.

Delicacy of Mint Scales.

The fine gold weighing scales made in Phil-
adelphia and intended for the mint at New
Orleans a few years ago are marvels of me-
chanical invention and expert workmanship.
The larger of the two pair has a capacity of
10,000 ounces, troy, or about 686 pounds
avoirdupois, and when loaded to its full
weighing capacity will indicate the varia-
tion of the onethousandth of an ounce. The
other and smaller pair are intended for
lighter work. All its bearings are of the finest
agate, which have been ground with remark-
able precision. This instrument is believed'
to be the most delicate in the world. It will
give the precise weight of a human hair, and
is susceptible to the slightest atmospheric
changes—St. Louis Republic.

One Oyster in 3 Stew.

The biggest edible oysters in the world are
found at Port Lincoln, in South Australia.
They are as large as a. dinner plate, and the
same shape. They are sometimes more than
a foot across the shell, and the oyster fits the
shell so well he does not leave much margin.
It is a new sensation, when a friend asks you
to lunch at Adelaide, to have one oyster set
before you fried in butter or egg and bread
crumbs. But it is a very pleasant sensation,
for the flavor and delicacy of the Port Lin-
coln mammoths are proverbial in the-land of
luxuries. —New York Telegram.

 

Thousands of Mice in a Tree.

While out hunting Col. Standifer and Billy
Muller came across a dead tree, the stump of
which Was full to overflowing, so to speak,
with mice. The colonel and his companion
pulled of! strips of the decayed outer growth
of the tree, and every time a strip was pulled
myriads of mice ran for their lives. COL
Standifer killed 386 of the mice and Muller
418. The next day the tree was visited with
two black and tan terriers, the bark was re-
moved and the number of mice killed is eti-
mated at over 1,000. —Deunison (Tex) 001'.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

 

A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE.

THE SAD STORY OF A YOUNG GIRL’S
STRUGGLE FOR LIFE.

 

Trying to Manage a Timber Claim in Da.
Rota—Her Young Brother's Death in the
Dugout—Tramping and Boating Her Way
Back to Her Eastern Friends.

As the Sioux City passenger train came to
a. standstill in front of the Webster street
depot, a bright, intelligent looking young
woman, with a pretty, girlish face, surround-
ed by a mass of dark clustering hair, de-
scended from the platform of the rear coach.
She was about the medium height, and rather
slight, but the natural comeliness of her form
was concealed in a sort of jacket made of un‘
tanned sheepskins, which she were over a
dress of some dark material. Her head was
covered by a jaunty little foxskin cap, while
her feet were incased in coarse leather moc-
casins.

Notwithstanding her uncouth exterior,
there was an air of culture and refinement—
a certain indescribable something about her
walk and manner—which spoke of better
days and showed she was not in harmony
with her attire. A gentleman and his wife
who live on Thirteenth street chanced to be
in the room at the time, and to them the
stranger told this pitiful story—~a tale so full
of rare dramatic incidents as to read almost
like a romance.

Her name, she said, was Margaret Conner,
and her home was at 'Rockford, 1115., where
she had lived from childhood. Her father
was dead, and she had for several years sup-
ported her mother, her little brother and her-
self by teaching in the public schools. About
a year ago her mother died, and Miss Conner
and her brother Willie, who was now a lad
of 16, finding themselves alone in the world,
soid their little homestead, and with their
worldly effects emigrated to Dakota, with a
view to taking up a timber claim and going
to farming. They settled on Turtle creek, in
Spink county, about twenty miles south of
Redfield.

DEATH IN THE DUGOUT.

Going into a new country and being igno—
rant of its ways, they found it necessary to
buy many things the need of which they had
not anticipated, and they saw with alarm
their little stock of money dwindling rapidly
away under these repeated drains. The
neighbors were kind in their rough way, and
lent willing hands to give the young people a.
start. A. warm sod house for themselves and
outhouses for the stock were built, the requi-
site number of trees were planted, the stub—
born prairie broken, and the spring sowing
done.

The story, at this point, is so full of start-
ling incidents that it is best told in Miss Con-
ner’s own words.

“The crops,” said she, “as every one knows,
on account of the prolonged droughts in the
south and west, were a total failure, and all
that we had to show for our hard summer’s
work was a few bushels of wheat and corn,
hardly enough to furnish food for the winter.

“Well, the fall dragged on into Winter, and
Christmas, the season of glad tidings and
good cheer, found us reduced to our last
bushel of grain. What we should‘ do when
that was gone was a problem beyond our
power to solve. Oh, the gloom and terror of
those long winter nights, without fuel and
without light! For hours and hours we
would lay, huddled in each other’s arms, list—
tening to the howling of the wolves and the
shrieks of the tempest as it whirled about our
cabin door.

“About this time,” she continued, her voice
choking with a sob, “poor little Willie took
sick and died, and then it seemed as -if my
cup of sorrow was full to the brim, and I
thought for a time I should go mad from the
very horror of my situation. There I was,
alone with my dead brother, in the midst of
a desolate Dakota prairie, without the barest
necessities of life and not a friend or neigh-
bor within ten miles. I clearly saw that I
could no longer remain where I was, for to
do so was to perish, and my only hope was to
get to Redfield, and there, by interesting the
railroad officials in my story, obtain trans-
portation to my friends in Illinois. Slowly
and sadly I dug a hole in the hard ground of
our cabin floor and laid poor Willie away,
and after kissing his sweet, pale face many
times I covered the body with the cold, frosty
earth and left him.

A JOURNEY UNDER DIFFICULTIES.

“Then, collecting a few things in a. little
hand bag, I bade a long farewell to the home
which had been the scene of so much sorrow,
and started on my journey for Redfield, in
the face of a bowling blizzard. The wind
blew against me and buffeted me so that I
could hardly walk; the snow beat with blind-
ing force into my eyes and ears, so that often
I could not see the read at all.

“Nevertheless, I headed on, now plunging
through snow drifts up to my waist, now
falling, bruised and bleeding, on the slippery
road, till about midnight I reached the house
of a neighbor of ours, known :23 the ‘Weather-
bee Place.’ I reached Redfield at last, more
dead than alive, and told my story to the
station agent, and begged him to give me a
pass to Rockford. He gave me enough to
carry me to Sioux City, which place I reached
last Friday.

“I now became desperate; I was in a
strange city at night, without money and
without friends. While I was wondering
what I had better do I noticed a heavy load-
ed freight train just pulling out of the depot
for Omaha, and hungry and cold as I was, I
Sprang into an empty box ear and huddled
down into a corner. The terror of that night
I shall never forget, if I should live a. hundred
years. The dreary darkness, the monotonous
hum of the car wheels, the beilowing of the
stock, and the biting cold, all combined to
make me supremely miserable. To increase
my terror the car next to mine was occupied
by a number of tramps, who made night hid-
eous by their oaths and foul talk. and I trem-
bled to think what would have been my fate
had they found my hiding place.

“When the cars stopped at a little station

 

 

above here to wait for the passenger train I ‘

could bear it no longer, and getting out from
my place of concealment I ran into the depot,
where I met the conductor of the train, and
he brought me to Omaha.”

Such was Miss Connor’s story, which was
interrupted many times by sobs and weep-
ing. ~
Mr. Harris, a gentleman who was in the
waiting room, was deeply interested in the
girl, and succeeded, through his influence
with the railroad men, in getting her a pass
to her eastern home—Omaha Republican.

 

The Two Sexes.

When you have found a poor girl who is
said to be pretty, you have found a really
pretty girl.

Women are most sensible when among wo-
men, and men are most sensible when among
men.

Some women are never pleasant to their
husbands except when there is some other
woman around.

The man with the greatest joy, and the
man with the heaviest sorrow, are the men
who say the least. _

The man never renews his youth but once;

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LIFE IN HONDURAS.

Unpleasant Features of? the 21m Whore
Mod. E. A. 1311er Besides.

in: Alfred Raphaelpwho has been absent.

for three years, returned to San Antonio yes-
terday. A great part of his time has been

spent in Central America, and especially in ,

Honduras. Concerning the concession to
Maj. E. ,A. Burke, defaulting state treasurer
of Louisiana, he says: It is located three
miles from the town of Concordia, and I have
been over it very often. It is many miles’in
extent and is very valuable, particularly from
a mineral point of view. The lodes are both
gold and silver bearing, the latter predomi-
nating, and some of them very rich. I did
not see Burke while there. .

0f Honduras in general Mr. Raphael says.
Like all trepical countries it has its draw-
backs. First, the climate. Although we were
at an elevation of 3,000 feet and 200 miles
from the coast, the changes during the twen-
ty-four hours were at times very severe.
During our winter months it will probably
average 85 degs. from 8 a. m. to 11 p. in. As
the sun lowers a cool breeze comes from the
mountains, followed by a heavy ‘ mist, which
chills one through. The thermometer drops
before midnight to 65 dogs, and several times
dropped to 54 degs.

The houses are made of mud (not adobe).
The roofs are made of tiles so laid as to keep
out only the sun and the rain, but with doors
and windows closed the wind will sometimes
blow out a candle placed in the middle of a
room. Underrlothes taken ofl.’ at night will
be saturated 1.1 the morning. There is no
use making a fire, as the heat all goes through
the basket work roof. Besides, it must be
built on the floor in the middle of the room,
and the heat sebms to draw every insect
within forty yards into the house. There is
not 5 per cent. of the population free from
chills and fever, and it strikes one pretty
lively down there. A great portion of the
people sleep in hammocks, others on raw
hides stretched on a frame. This style of bed
canget harder and keep colder before morn-
ing than the lining of an ice box. Not even
the poorest will sleep on the ground.

The insects are various, vicious and ven-
omous. The scorpion is very plentiful, and
builds its nest in the tiles of the roof. It keeps
warm and quiet during the day, and at night
prowls around, and, getting numbed with
cold, loses its grip, and quite too often con-
trives to fall onto or into the bed. Then
there is music. They are much larger than
ours—more than twice the size—but are not
considered dangerous to adults. The chil-
dren go into convulsions from the pain of the
sting, and it is so severe sometimes as to
causp death. It depends on what portion of
the body is stung.

The cassampulga is a small black spider,
with red spots and stripes, and it is greatly
feared by every one. Its bite is invariably
fatal if not attended to at once. The negua,
or jigger, is the chap that lays its eggs under
the skin of the toes, and in three days its
nest, of which it is the center, is as big as a
buckshot.
itching; then the skin must be carefully
raised and laid back with a. needle point and
the little sac removed without breaking it.
It looks like a grain of barley, and leaves a
clean cut round hole to the flesh, which will
be healed the day following. If the sac is
broken, and any of the eggs left, as is often
the case, it is sometimes weeks before the
person is able to walk, and the sting must be
carefully attended to.

There are species of flea brought about the
doorway of the houses by hogs, who are often
rendered unfit for food from the ravages of
this little pest. I have seen them with both
toes of the hind foot almost eaten away. The
most dreaded of all the snakes is one about
twenty-four inches long and as thick as a big
sausage. It is of a. bright green and mottled
with brown. It is called tamagas. It is also
a very pugnacious chap.

The men cultivate corn and sugar cane,
and the women and children go each day into
the hills to wash gold with variable luck.
Sometimes a woman will make $1, and often
when they strike gold gravel, it is not un-
usual for them to make $5 in a few hours.
As may be supposed, poverty is practically
unknown. Besides, they have at their door,
in almost every garden, bananas, pineapple,
oranges, coffee, and a great variety of fruits
not known in this country.——San Antonio
Cor. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

 

Phenomenally Sold.

On the wharf at Kittyhunk Inlet there
stood a mite of a boy. As we rbwed ashore
from the fishing yawl he eyed us critically,
and when we came within hailing distance he
sang out, without the least embarrassment,
“Been a-fishin’, fellers?”

“Yes,” replied our good natured best; “we
fished for an hour or two this morning.”

“Grit enny?"

SCYeS' 1)

“How many ?” and a pair of eager eyes
swept the bottom of the tender for evidence.

“Can you count, sonny?” asked the smart
man of the party.

“Kinder.”

“Well, we got just as many fish as you’ve
got fingers and toes. Now, how many have
we caught?”

“Twenty-two,” came the prompt response.

“Oh, 1101"

“Then you’re lyin’.”

“Then we’re what?”

“Lyinllfl

“Oh, nol”

“Betcher ten cents you are, an’ put up th‘
money. "

“All right,” said the smart one; “here's a
dollar. N ow count your fingers and toes,
and if you haven’t just twenty the dollar’s
yours.”

Two little bare feet came down over the
stringpiece of the wharf, and as a brown,
chubby hand made a grab for the dollar (and
got it) the writer will cease to care for the
regard of his fellow men if that Kittyhunk
urchin didn’t have six toes on each foot.—
Frank Leslie’s Newspaper.

 

Incidental Expenses.

One of the annoyances to which a popular
restaurant, as well as hotels, are subjected, is
acontinual curse of petty thieving by patrons.
If soap of good quality is used in the wash
rooms, it disappears as fast as it is put out.
Hair brushes and combs are carried away
every day, and, strange as it may seem, every
day finds a restaurant doing a. big business
short on its knives. spoons, forks, cups, butter
dishes, saucers, and even plates. The cruets
in the casters and salt and pepper shakers
also disappear. In the hotels the loss in fine
glassware in which drinks are served is con.
siderable annually, and towels are carried
away by the scores. There are hundreds of
people who were never known to buy match-
es, but they always fill their boxes from the
public supply. This is all annoying and quite
expensive, but it is one of the items of wear
and tear in business—St. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat.

 

There is considerable excitement at North
Plainfield, N. J ., over the discovery of copper
and silver ores in the mountains back of the
town. The discovery was made in excavat-
ing for water works, and it is said that inves-
tigation has been made to warrant the users
tion that, underlying the outer layers of trap
rock and red sandstone in the mountain, on

a woman renews hers every time she puts on I 1111:2519 from which fortunes my 139.de-
o .

a new dress. —Republic.

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Its presence is known by a slight '

Shaker .
f Extract of

1

(Seigel’s Syrup)
0 U R E S

ys p e p s I a.
un' rnooenr rr WAS A nuance.

Nine years ago I suffered from inmgestion and
dyspepsia; had heartburn and palpitation. No
food would stay on my stomach; lried many so-
called remedies without effect. Received a Sha-
ker almanac and read it. I said, Here’s another
humbug! I was wrong for once. Bought a bottle
of Shaker Extract of Roots in Columbia, Tenn.
Then another. and another. After the third bot-
tle I was well; never been sick since. This is a
medlclne to tie to—to trust in. It is not a patent-
medicine nor a King Cure-all. It cures dyspep-
sia and indigestion and that is at the bottom of
most diseases. I would as soon be wlthout money
as without “Shaker.” W. I. l’ownns.

Henryvlile. Tenn., Feb. 7111,1890.

Nine-tenths of all diseases arise from poisons
carried by the blood to various organs and parts
of the body; and the blood is poisoned by undi-
gested food in the stomach and intestines.

Shaker Extract of Roots purines the blood by
caring indigestion and dyspepsia. Price 60 cents
per bottle. Sold by all druggists and bx

A. .1. WHITE,

168 Duane Street, New York City.

 

1 y40

KASKINE

(me new QUININE.)
, ' Good Cheer

.. Instead of
Bostonian ;

Elem by Day
Sleep at Night.

g _____ a ' 110011111111.

A POWERFUL TONIC.
A SPECIFIC FOR MALABIA. RHEUMATISM,
NERVOUS PllOS'l‘llA'l‘lON.

THE MOST SCIENTIFIC AND SUCCESSFUL
BLOOD PURIFIER. Superior to quinine

Mrs. Caroline Austin, Astoria, N. Y., says: Last.
winter I ran dOWn so rapidly from malaria that I
would famt oway sitting in my‘cnair. I heard of
Knskine.lhe new quinine. Using it three weeks
l was well.‘

W. F. Holcombe, M. D.. late Prof. in New York
Opih. Hospital and New York Medical College,
writes: After five months’ use of Kaskine I cheer-
fully state that l have found it superior to quinine
in its specific power, and entirely free from caus-
ing any disturbance to the hearing.

Kas' me can be taken without any special med-
ical advice. $1.00 per bottle, or six bottles for 36.
Sold by drugglsls or sent by mail on receipt of
price.

 

 

Science emerging from Darkness.

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KASKINE 00., 168 Duane St. , New York

AS DIXEY SINGS

In His New Piece, “Seven Ages."

“ Don’t You See?
Understand I Don’t
You Know '1”

813811803 Eye

Cigar maintains Its
supremacy by reason
of its high and uni-
form quallty. Try it
and see. 10c. every-
where.

 

 
 
 

Trade-Mark.
S. S. SLEEPER do (10..

Factory, Boston

 

Instant relief. Final cure in 10
days and siilcver returns. mNo
no vs no In posl .
I ed, ”will- l’eurnad 0? 911111130
rem y 4, (“3“qu
W&CO.. I):

em
"Nana Shoe ,New Yer CW
111.1. nxueeis'rs. 1y“

MIDDLESEX BANKING 80..

OF MIDDLETOWN, CONN.
Chartered in 1872, Under the Banking lows of
Connecticut.

CASH CAPITAL, $600,000. SURPLUS, $25,000.

6 per cent. Investment Bonds at par and accrued
interest. At the last Session of the Legislature
these Bonds were made a. legal investment for

 

- funds held by "Executors, administrators and

Trustees.

R.B.ORAUFURD,Agh.
noon 2, MASONIG BUILDING, nonwnx.

To Inventors.
6E0. R. BYINGTON

OFFICE :

 

Cor. louisiana Ave. and Mb 81.,
Washington, D. 0.,

Gives his PersonalAttentlon to Procvrlng

Patents for Inventions

In the U. s. Patent Ofice and all Foreign
Countries.

An experience or nearly ten years in the Patent
once has given him a perfect familiarity with
every classification of invention and the pan tlcu;a1
EXAMINERS AND BUREAUS, to-whlch each
and every invention is referred. He has a com-
plete familiarity with the Rules of Practice
the Records Models, be... Joe“ Joe, and
every detail of the office, and GIVES HIS PER-
SONAL ATTENTION to the interests or his
Clients. Belng on the ground, and visiting the
Patent omce daily, he can serve Inventors
securing their Letters Patent for more advants
geously than Solicitors who do not reside in
Washington.

Searches and Rejected
Applications

A Specialty. To all those whose applications
have been rejected. he will make an examination
and report on the same gratuitously. Prelimln.
ary examlnatlon ot the Patent Office Records,
prior to an application torn patent, will be made
forevery small charge.and advice or Informa.
tion in regard to patents will be given in full
detalllnacircular which will be mailed free of
charge to every applicant.

facilities also for Dec

Proouring Patents in Foreign
Countries

He refers to any officer of the Patent omce,~and
to the many Connecticut Inventors for whom he

 

Lilac done business and taken out Lmlns Pulm-

Reefs, .

 

'WANu-nn.

100
Tons of.‘ Hay and
, Straw. ,.
Highest Ball Price Paid.

FOR ' is? ALE !
Grain. '
Flour,

Feed.
Small Stove Coal.
Peat Moss Stable
Bedding.
Drain Pipe,
Fire Brick,
8L0. &c.
Ila
South Norwalk.

Bl

 

 

88.

Opera Toes, Opera Tees and Common Sense
Heels. Also, the Common Sense Style

Made of very nice French Dongola, and one
of the Finest Fitting Shoes we ever handled
at any price. From over 20.000 pair sold by
the manufacturer, only one pair has been re-
turned from any cause. LOOK AT THEM.

A. H. HOYT & SON,

311145 37 WALL ST., NORWALK.

 

New York, New Haven &

Hartford Railroad.

DECEMBER 22d, 1889.

NEW YORIK DIVISION.
Trains leave Soutr- Norwalk as follows:—

For New York—Accommodation trains at
6.55, 8.30, 9.36, a. m., 1.20 (2.54, 5.08,
to Stamford only)6.46, 8.11, 10.23, p. in. Ex-
press trains at 6.16 (except Mondays), 6.46,
6.12,(lo<=al), 7.23 (local), 7.56 (local) p.26 (local)
9.03 (Springfield local), 10.11, 11.37 a. m.; 12.69
(Springfield iocal),4.20, 5.20, 6.90.7.61, (daily .ex-
cept Sunday)p. In.

For New Haven and the East—Accommo-
dation trains at 6.31.7.38. 8.60. 10.40 a. m., 1.42,
4.22 5.13,6.23 and 7.23, to Bridgeport, 8.41, 9.41,
11.021 p. m. Express trains at 9.16, a. m.;
12.09, 1.07 (local) 3.08, 4.11 (Housatonic Express)
5.09 (Naugatuck Express) 7.15, (Springfield local),
1.13 a. In. (Boston express).

Sundays.—Accommodatlon 7.38, 9.12 a. 111.,
and 6.48 p. 111. Express, 1.13 a. m. '

O. M. SHEPARD, Gen. Supt |
c. T. HEMPSTEAD. Gen. Pass. Agt.

HOUSATONIC RAILROAD.

Danburo/ and Norwalk Division.

CORRECTED T0 JAN. 1m. 1890.
PASSENGER TRAINS

 

SOU'rI-x.

lv. Nomalk. Lv .80. Norwalk,Ar. Wilson Poin
602a.m. 610nm.
732nm 756 “ 803 ‘-

8 17 u 7 fl 8 35 u
10 03 “ 10 13 “ 10 20 “
l250p.1n 100p.m. 107p.m.
4 02 2 60 4 2° (6
5 59 “ Mixed s 20 N 1nd. 6 so “ Mixed
7 54 7 59 “ 8 10 “
947 “ 10 30 “ 10 40 “
non-r11.

Lv. WLson Point LL80. Norwalk. Ar. Norwalk

a m. . a. 1n.
6 25 ‘5 6 35 II 6 41 l‘
8 45 “ 9 18 “ 9 23 “

12 01 “ 1213 “ 12 18 “
250pm 310p.m 316p.m.
4 30 “ 5 12 “ 5 17 “

6 45 “ 6 56 “ .
6 05 “ 6 $6 “ 6 33 “

10 10 “ 10 25 “ 10 32 “

W. H. Srnvnnson, Vice~Pres. and Gen’l Manager
11‘. C. PAYNE. Superintendent.
A. W. P11211121, General Passenger Agent.

THE OLD AERELIABLE

DAILY onion LINE. ‘
Norwalllllew Ylll‘l.

0n and after Monday, Sept. 83d, (until furthe
notice) THE PROPELLERS

 

‘ .
City of Norwalk- and Eagle
Will make daily trips. Sundays exce tea, for
freight between New York, Nor-walk an South
Norwalk. Will leave Pier 23, foot of Beekman St.
New York, every evening, except Saturdays, at 5
o’clock, and on Saturdays at 2 p. m. '

Returning boat leaves Norwalk at [5 lp. 111., and
So. Norwalk at 0:30 p. m.

Frelght received from 7 a. m. to 5 p. m.

Freight taken from and received for all points
on the Ila-buy and Non-1k and Shop“; Ball-
mds at Grout], Reduced Bates. 1k

Upon application to A ms the City of Name
and Eagle will be sent or s 1 lots of might
anywhere in New York or its vicinity.

WA“ persons are forbid trusting any of the
employees of the boats of this line on account or
the owners thereof.

 

 

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