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BEHIND THE SCENES.
Behind the scenes the player king
Wears but a worthlem crowiit
He casts it by with careless fling
And hobnobs with the clown.
The lover, knave and yokel low,
The princess in her teens,
Are all one station it you go
Behind the scenes.
Behind the scenes—two edged thought
To prick inflated worth!
Mouth well the hues ye have been taught,
0h, great ones of the earth.
Stride grandly in your rich array,
Lords, ladies. kings and queens;
There‘s One that watcheth you alway
Behind the scenes!
——George Hortor.
ADONIRAM’S HAIR.
When I furst married Adoniram he had red
hair. Now, I feel to admire that color fur
hair; seems to me it has its advantages——
kinder showy and kinder spirited lookin’—-but
Adoniram he detested it. He was always
sayin’ suthiu’ silly, like he’d give $50 fur to
hev it changedto black; and if any one hol-
lered “Fire!” while he wus ’round he’d take
it into his head ’twus personal, and I had to
hold him by his coattails to keep him from
flyin’ at ’em. Once he did. You see, he’d put
a cigar into his coat pocket without bein’
careful about puttin’ it out, and he was
smokin’ like a chimbly, so they told me, the
blue rings risin’_ right over his head, and
somebody says behind us:
“Hullo, young fellow! you’ll be in a blaze,
next you know !” and that time the fiery‘nater
that belongs to red haired folks got the best of
Adoniram, and he wheeled around like a flash.
“None of your insultin’ allusions!” says he,
and hit out at him.
The stranger wus a real big gentleman, and
his fists wus like hams, and he doubled ’em
tight, and the next I knew Adoniram wus
sottin’ on the pavin’ stones lookin’ surprised,
and a perlice came and investigated matters.
When Adoniram found out that he really
was afire—by this time his linen coat was
blazin’—he apologized free and open hearted
to the strange gentleman, and he took it quite
amiable and wanted Adoniram to go and
drink suth in’ or other. Adoniram had to beg
to be excused, being a Prohibitioner. But
the gentleman wouldn’t excuse him—he took
it personal he should ref use—and it went to
Adoniram’s head, and I had to pay a man to
take him home in a wheelbarrer, his legs
hangin’ over one side and his head the other.
That was in the days of your honeymoon, and
he couldn’t be blamed for it, havin’ discovered
the strange gentleman was a prize fighter by
perfession, and bein’ anxious, for my sake, to
Well, Adoniram did not pick so many quar-
rels after that, but he grew kinder mollon-
choly about it. He used to say that he couldn’t
expect me fur to be true to anybody with
scarlet hair, and if I talked to black haired
folks hp got jealous. It wus onreasonable of
him, considerin’ I had told him ’twus his hair
I fust took a notion to. But men air onrea-
sonable, seems to me, as a general thing, I
suppose they air made so.
“Ef I was to dye my hair,” says Adoniram
to me one day, “don’t you think I’d look
more kind of pleasant?"
“Since you ask me, Adoniram,” says I, “I
must say, candid and serious, that my opin-
ion is you’d look like an idiot, and an idiot
carn’t be pleasant to no well constituted
mind. Moreover, I hev heerd that the net’-
ral complexion agrees with the nat’ral hair,
which is why old gentlemen and old ladies
with mahogany colored heads looks more old-
erly and decrepid than them that lets it git
gray. ‘ Besides,” says I, “hair dyes is poisons,
and made of lead and sulpher and such
things, and why should a man with a fine
head of gold red hair want to get rid of it?” 3
“Amanda Ann,” says he, his voice a trem-
blin’, “I feel red hair to be a affliction, and of
there was a bottle of hair dye in the house at
present I should use it.”
He said this as we wus walkin’ along the
high street shoppin’ fur our Sunday victuals,
and jest then a man a-staudin’ on the corner
stuck a sirkylar into his hand and another
into mine. It’s nat’ral to read a sirkylar
when it is given to you, and as we walked
along arm in arm, the big markit basket on
his elber, the little one on mine, we perused
them. This is what mine said:
“M. Magnolia, the celebrated electrician,
has at last discovered a hair dye free from
all the obnoxious qualities all others possess.
Having prepared a fluid for electric pur-
poses, he by accident dropped some of it
upon his snowy locks, bleached by study and
devotion to science rather than by time.
Looking a little while afterward into the
glass, he became aware that where the fluid
had fallen his tresses had recovered the hue
of early youth. Instantly he applied it to
his whole head and presented himself to his
wife, who burst into tears of joy, and tearing
off her cap, cried: ‘I, also, so desire to be
young again !’ Subsequently this elderly
couple were mistaken for their granddaughter
and her husband by many relatives. Friends
rushed to the studio of M. Magnolia, stran-
gers knelt to him imploring the secret, and at
last he has been persuaded to give it to the
world at the merely nominal price of $2 a
bottle. Your druggist keeps it. Take no
other. All else is a delusion and a snare.”
“I want to know if you ever did?” says
Adoniram. “You know there can’t be no
p’ison into electricity. I reckon I’ll get some
bottles.”
“Fur all I know it might go off and act
like lightning some day,” says I. “I might
come to meet you with a lovin’ kiss and get
struck dean.” says I, “or all frizzled up!”
I always wus a person that looked into
things. This here wus in the remote past of
the antiquity of these here United States,
when they hadn’t no electric lights to burn
folks up with yet, but only tallygrams and
cablegrafl‘s which they had recently cele-
brated; but my thoughts progressed into
futurity and I kinder felt impressed.
Well, Adoniram didn’t say no more, but I
noticed that he folded the sirkylar quite
keerful and put it into his pocket, and fur a
spell I expected him to come down to break«
fast some day dyed black; but he didn’t, and
I forgot the sirkylars and began to believe
that Adoniram was gettin’ contented with
his hair, and showin’ some common. sense at
last. '
It wus jest about a year from our weddin’
day that the minister’s donation party came
off. We had heard a geod deal of laughin'
and sneeriu’ as to how donation parties wus
managed, and we meant ourn should be a
very diiferent kind of thing. Our pastor
should feel to rejoice he had one give to him.
So he did. We got tea on the lawn, and we
brought all the good things, and quarts and
pounds to spare; and the gifts was lovely, and
the hull family pleased and complimented.
Adoniram, he had to so to town to get a
handsome lamp he meant to give the pastor,
and couldn’t be in to tea, but said he’d come
after and be there for the evening. It didn’t
seem right without him, and when tea was
over and he hadn’t come I felt low spirited.
There was a crowd in the house and on the
lawn, and sometimes I imagined he hadn’t,
found me and was there. When I went intol
the ,parlor and saw a splendid new lampr
burning on the table, with his name .on a
card tied toit, I began to think he was hiding!
to tease me. He did play jokes now and then,
but I wus mad at him for doing it on that
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occasion when I felt to wish I had somebody
to beau me about, and I went out on the lawn
again and began to talk to Aunt Tabby
Tasker, who always had a lot to say about
help, when up came two girls laughing as if
they’d kill themselves.
“Well, is it a secret?” says Aunt Tabby to
one of ’em.
“Why, no!” says the girl; “and we’re
ashamed of laughing. But have you seen
the spotted man?” . '
“No, I haint,” said Aunt Tabby.
“He’s so funny!” said one of the girls. “Of
course, if he felt bad, and regarded it as an
afliiction, we’d pity him, but he does think
he is so killing—and he is striped."
“More . tted,” said the other girl.
“Both 5 riped and spotted, like a bed quilt,”
said the first girl. “And to see him stand to
be looked at, and smirk and toss back his hair
—oh, dear!”
Then they went on.
Afterward up comes Miss Feeny—she gits
up fur delicate—and says she:
“Oh, dear, dear, dear! there has been such
a hideous man right opposite me—all
figured or something! I felt sick whenever I
looked at him. Such people ought not to go
into company!”
I looked about as,much as wus polite, but I
couldn’t see any such person. If Adoniram
had only come, I could have asked him—he
notices everything—but he must have left the
lamp and gone away. I hoped he didn’t feel
sigk, or hadn’t any bad news from his ma and
p , and I sort of compelled myself to think it
wus something in the way of business, for I
had to wait to go home in the Smiths’ wagon
whether or no, and they weren’t thinking of
goin’ yet, and every little while I’d hear about
the queer lookin’ man. Nobody knew his name
or who he was. One of the young men get
quite furious with the idea he wus some kind of
colored man. One real pious lady said fihat it
wus some disease like smallpox; and that afflic-
tions wus sent by God, and people nghtn’t
to act so. And at last a strange gentleman
came and sat down by me, and says he:
“I beg pardon, madam, but though I don’t
know you, you probably know everybody
here,and I want to ask you about one of them.”
“Well,” says I, “I am willin’ to tell ef I
know.”
“I am John Croker,” says he, oiferin’ me a
card, “and I am a reporter. I came in today
to get a full report of this brilliant affair for
the columns of the Tomatodale Trumpet, and
1' see you have a tattooed gentleman here.
Could you tell me where he comes from or
who he is?”
“I haven’t even seen him,” said 1. “I’ve
been heariu’ tell of him all the evening; but
if he is tattooed he is probably a savage.
There is a missionary here (Mr. Trotter), and
he may have fetched him from some barbar-
ous country.”
“Quite probable,” said Mr. Croker.
interview Mr. Trotter. Thanks.”
Suddenly an awful fear stole into my heart.
“Does he look fierce?" I asked.
“No; very animated and smiling, and
dressed in Christian fashion,” says he, and off
he goes, ,.
But I kept thinking of Adoniram and his
temper, and saying to myself:
“If that there barbarous tattooed savage
should have made some remark about red
hair, and Adoniram has flowed out, how am
I to know but what he may have got himself
scalped, and be lyiu’ bathed in his gore
somer’s or other in the garden?”
The thought wus awful. I wus glad when
the Smiths began to talk of goin’ home and
when the wagon came to the door. It was a
dark night, and real dark any way at the side
of the porch, and I felt lonesome and scary
as I sat there ready to cry with fright about
Adoniram. But all of a sudden somebody
jumped in at the back of the wagon and called
out:
“Huloo, Amanda!”
“Is it you, Adoniram?” says I, “and where
hev you been?”
“To the party,” said be.
fun with you, that’s all.”
“Well, you spoiled my day,” said I.
“I should feel real sorry to think that,” says
he.
“Well, you did,” said I. “Did you see the
tattooed man?”
“No,” says he, “no."
“Well, there wus one there,” said I, “and I
didn‘t know but he might hev mentioned the
word red, and got your temper up and
scalped you, or speared you, or suthin’. ”
“Oh,” sez he, “I ain’t touchy on that sub-
ject; I ain’t a red head no more. I went
and got a bottle of that there electric dye of
Dr. Magnolia’s, and I’m a brunette now, I
guess.”
“I don’t like ’em,” says I.
“Well," says Adoniram, and I never heerd
him speak in such conceited tones before, “I’ve
been the admiration of the hull company to-
night. Nobody knowed me. I went about
among the gals just fur fun, and they kept
whisperiu’ about me. I’ve always been a
plain and humly red head, but I enjoyed bein’
a heart breaker fur once. I wus afraid to
come to you for fear you’d kinder take on, and
say out loud, ‘how harnsome you be,’ or faint
or suthin’.”
“Oh!" says I.
“But no matter how harnsome I get," says
Adoniram, “my heart’s fust affections is my
Amanda’s.”
“Oh, you’re quite condescending,” says I;
then I talked to the Smithses.
Well, we got home and lighted down in the
darkness and said good-by and went in. I
sot right down where I wus on the porch, and
Adoniram went upstairs. I saw the light
shine out and his shadow throwed upon the
barn. , Then suddenly he seemed to be danc-
ing, then I heerd a howl. I rushed upstairs.
He wus lyin’ on the bed with a pillow over
his head, yelling.
“Adoniram!” says I, “what is the matter?”
“Matter?” says he; “look at me!"
Then up he riz, and I wouldn’t hev knowed
him ef he hadn’t told me ’twas him. His
hair was black and brown and yellow in
patches, and his face covered with brown
and black and yellow figures that had the
efi’ecks of carvings. ‘
“What has happened to me?” says he.
“Hair dye has happened,” says I. “It
hasn’t took even on your hair and it’s run
down over your face and come out bright as
it dried. If it is electric you may be struck
so, but, Adoniram,” says I, repeatin’ his
words, “however harnsome I may be, my
heart’s fust affections air yours.”
Then I tried to wash him, but he was in-
delible.
However, I reckoned it would come ofl
after a while, and it did, and I kept the secret
from everybody. Nobody knew him at the
party, and I gave out he had chills until he
wus his nat’ral color, and glad enough was
he to get his own red hair back again and be
as the Lord made him. No hair dye ever
touched his head again, I promise you.—
Mary Kyle Dallas in Fireside Companion.
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“Just had .a little
The Brooklyn bridge is, perhaps, the only
suspension bridge in the world over which
horses are allowed to trot. There is an old
theory that the trotting of a horse, or even of .
a dog, or the sound of music, or the measured
tread of soldiers marching, will cause danger-
ous oscillation and weaken, if not destroy, the
strpngest bridge.
The total wealth of the United States is
$61,459,000,000, exclusive of the public prop-
erty and 3,093,000,000 property invested and
owned abroad. ’ _' _. ,_
THE MAGNOLIA TREE.
A Fine Specimen in Philadelphia Leads to
an Investigation of the Subject.
' While this city abounds in rare and curious
trees, two specimens of the southern magno-
lia, known by botanists as Magnolia grandi-
flora, thriving outdoors in this section, are
particularly interesting to those acquainted
with the habits of the variety. One of these
trees is growing on the Broad street side of
the grounds of Mrs. Lippincott, 1333 Walnut
street, and the other in Laurel Hill cemetery,
near the group of “Old Mortality.” The lat-
ter tree is the larger and handsomer speci-
men of the two, but Mrs. Lippincott’s tree is
better known, and is, besides, a beautiful ex—
ample of the species.
These two trees are said to be the only ones
growing outdoors as far north as this city, it
being supposed not to be hardy beyond Vir-
ginia, and even gardeners, who are .used to
the curious vagaries existing in plant life,
have been heard to express surprise that these
trees should be in such a. flourishing condi-
tion when apparently all other efforts to ac-
climatize the kind here have failed. It is
said, however, that in all these eflorts the
trees have been brought from the Carolinas
or from Georgia. The change from a semi-
tropical climate to one as cold as this was in
each case too much for the plants’ constitu-
tion. The two trees, however, that were the
exception to the rule were brought from Vir-
ginia, the climate of which is nearer that of
Philadelphia, and gardeners who are ac-
quainted with the history of these two trees
say that there is no reason why efforts to
transplant other trees from Virginia should
not be equally successful, and thus make
plentiful in this locality one of the handsom‘
est of the magnolia family.
In the neighborhood of Savannah, Ga., and
near New Orleans, the southern magnolia
commonly grows to a height of from sixty to
eighty feet, and occasionally trees are found
the graceful and spreading summits of which
are a hundred feet from the ground. It is
one of the handsomest trees of the south, and
when in bloom its large white flowers form a
striking contrast to the dark green foliage,
and the delightful fragrance which the flow-
ers exhale fills the air for a long distance.
Travelers who have seen this royal species of
tree for the first time in blossom declare that
it is a sight no» er to be forgotten.
It is said that the first specimen of the mag-
nolia grandiflora was introduced into Europe
in 1732, and was transplanted from the banks
of the Mississippi river to Maillardiere, about
five miles from Nantes, where it seems to have
been speedily forgotten until twenty-eight
years later, when M. Bonami, a physician,
and also a botanist of Nantes, took notice of
it, and at a meeting of the states of Bretagne,
in September, 1760, in Nantes, he presented a
large branch of this magnolia in flower to the
Princess of Rohan-Chabet. Its loveliness,
both of foliage and flower, made it so much
talked of that Louis XV, who had a short
time before received several small trees, but
which were not thriving, sent two gardeners
to see whether the tree, which was then about
forty feet high, could not be moved to Ver-
sailles, but this they found to be impractica-
ble.
During the civil war of La Vendee the tree
was badly mutilated, and it lost many of its
branches. A few years later it was still fur-
ther damaged through the burning of an ad-
jacent house. It had not recovered from this
when, according to its historian, a severe
winter nearly killed it. In spite of these dis-
asters the tree made another effort, with such
success that a few years ago it was still alive,
with a height of between 30 and 40 feet, and
a trunk four feet in circumference, and
bearing nearly 400 flowers annually.
During the civil war in this country so
great were the straits to which the Confeder-
ate army were driven for medicines, that
Dr. Francis Peyre Porcher, surgeon in charge
of the city hospitals in Charleston in 1861, was
directed by the surgeon general of the Con-
federate States to study the ‘medicinal quali-
ties of the plants and trees of the southern
states, and in a voluminous report which he
published he says of the Magnolia grandiflora
that from it could be produced a stimulant
aromatic tonic, and that it also yielded a
volatile oil, resin and a crystallized substance
similar to camphor.—Philadelphia Ledger.
A Good Ofi‘er.
Alexander Dumas, the French novelist and
dramatist, was the hero of many amusing
adventures Once, when at the height of his
popularity, he was importuned to become a
commercial traveler because he was such a
jolly good fellow. The anecdote, as told by a
Paris journal, ‘5 as follows:
Some years ago a merchant of Lyons was
returning from Paris to his natal city. In
the same compartment with him sat a tall
fellow, lively, talkative and full of gasconade,
but on the whole the best and most amusing
traveling companion one could wish.
On alighting at Lyons the merchant,
charmed by the talking, manner and gayety
of his neighbor, exclaimed: “By Jove! sir, I
am glad to have made your acquaintance.
You are a good fellow! You are a charming
fellow! Can’t you talk, though! Come, let
us make a trade, will you?”
“Well, what kind of a trade?”
“Come and dine with me; at dessert we
will speak about it. I have an idea. Will
you come?”
“Very well, but I will pay my share. I in-
sist upon it."
“As you please. What an amazing fellow
you are! Ah, but I like you!”
Accordingly they took dinner, during
which the merchant offered the tall fellow a
position as commercial traveler or drummer
for his house: that was his idea.
“You have just the qualities required,”
said the merchant. “You will make your
way.”
“But, my dear sir”——'
“Come, now, how do you live?"
“Pooh! on very little. ”
“Well, how much do‘ you make in your
branch?”
“From twenty thousand to thirty thousand
francs."
“Goodness sakes alive! But what do you
do I” asked the other, disappointedly.
“Oh, I scribble on sheets of paper with a
pen. ” .
In St. Paul's Crypt.
The crypt of St. Paul’s is a chamber well
lighted by gas and not at all like a sanctuary
of death. Imagine a long, vaulted passage
constructed of a clean, yellowish stone, with
little chambers branching OR to the right
and left. To say that the workmen were
digging would be wrong, for there is no soil.
Quarrying is the correct description of the
operation I witnessed. Four men with picks
and crowbars were fighting with the rocky
foundations of the cathedral, which yielded
toiron and muscle only after a fierce struggle.
When Wren laid the foundations he deter-
mined to go deep, and I was told that in some
places he went forty feet down. The ancient
materials of which the‘ old cathedral was
built were crushed up and used for filling.
Many of the columns which support the floor
are also built of the old material. Graves in
the crypt are made, about four feet deep and
are then neatly bricked up. Lord Napier’s
resting place is in one of: the octagonal re-
cesses on the left of Nelson’s tomb, a plain
and ugly'sarcophagus. ' In a line with- it is
Wellington’s sarcophagus. —rm Mall Ga-
zette... . .. . .
A COMPACT PLAN.
A House of Small Area Which Will Be of
General Interest. '
L. H. Gibson’s book, “Fifty Convenient
Houses” (Thomas Y. Crowell & 00., New
York), contains many things of special inter-
est to intending house builders. Here isa
description with floor plans of every com-
pact, convenient house. The body of the
structure is to be 30x34% feet. There are
eight available rooms besides the bathroom
and the attic. «
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GROUND FLOOR.
On the first floor, as we enter, there is a re-
ception or sitting hall, which is so common
in the more modern arrangements of dwell-
ings. This reception hall may be separated
from the passage by curtains or portieres or
sliding doors, in which event the opening
from the room into the passage would have
to be a little narrower than that shown in
the drawings.
This room would present an attractive feac
ture, The windows in this part of the room
could be placed about four feet from the
floor, in which event book shelves could be
arranged below them. The window in front
goes to within seventeen inches of the floor.
Under the stairway, and leading from this
room, may be placed a very liberal closet, in
which there should be a small window.
Leading from the passage is the stairway
and two closets. The little passage in which
one closet is placed is separated from the ball
by a door. There is another door opening
from this passage into the kitchen. Thus
there are two doors between the kitchen and
the front part of the house. This arrange-
ment has in mind the isolation of the kitchen
from the other rooms in a way to prevent
the passage of the usual kitchen odors.
The stairways in this house are of the class
known as combination stairways; while they
are convenient and easy of construction,
there is a certain amount of complication in
their arrangement which makes them diffi-
cult of description so as to be understood by
those not accustomed to examining floor
plans. There is the stairway from the front
hall to the floor above, and one from the
kitchen to the landing of the front stairway.
The landing of the front stairway and that
from the kitchen stairway is in common—
that is, it is the same.
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SECOND STORY.
For the purpose of making this under-
stood, it may be well to say that one may go
up the stairway from the front hall to the
landing, some eight steps, and from thence
down into the kitchen, or he can turn right
face and go to the landing on the second
floor. This part of the stairs is used coming
up from the kitchen as well as from the
front hall. However, the kitchen stairway
is separated from the landing by a door.
There is another door at the foot of this
kitchen stairway. .
In coming down stairs, one may turn to the
right, open a door and go down into the
kitchen; or, he may turn to the left and go
down the front stairway into the hall. By
this plan everything is concentrated, and
without the serious drawbacks which extra
cost or a smaller number of rooms would
imply to those who have only a little over
$2,000 to spend for a house without appur-
tenances. The head room for the stairway
coming up from the kitchen is secured under
the .bath tub in the bathroom immediately
above. - -
The cellar stairway is clearly indicated as
going down parallel to the kitchen stairs and
under the front stairs. The cellar in this
house should be under the kitchen, stairways
and the reception hall—that is, it would oc-
cupy all of one side of the house.
The parlor is 14x17% feet in size. It is
connected with a hall by wide sliding doors,
so that about one-half of this side of the room
may be open. The grate opposite the sliding
doors in the parlor would present a very
beautiful view from the hall and stairway. .
Our dining room has an independent con-
nection with the front ball, so that we do not
have to go through the parlor or the sitting
room to reach it.
The doors leading from the passage into
the dining room and kitchen should be hung
on double swinging hinges.
The windows in this kitchen should be
placed about three feet from the floor, so
that tables . may be placed under them.
There is a place for a gas stove between the
two windows, Or even under them if desirable.
The porch at the rear of the kitchen may be
inclosed with lattice work, or, what is bet-
ter, codrse 'louvered slats, like those of a
shutter.
The door which leads from the porch into
the pantry is a small one, placed above the
ice chest, and is for the use of the iceman.
The arrangement. of rooms up stairs will be
readily understood. Leading out of the hall
is a store closet for bedding, etc. It is located
so as tobe acce'sible from all rooms. From
the front end of the hall a door leads into the
stair passage to the attic. .
The longest reach of railway without a
curve is that of the New Argentine Pacific
-railway, from Buenos Ayres to the foot of
the Andes; for 211 miles it is without a single
curve, and has no cutting or embankment
deeper than two feet or three-feet.
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n. 13‘. CRAIIFURD,
Investments, Real Ellalo and Insurance,
ROOM 2, MASON IC BUILDING.
Wm. Lockwood,
Real Estate, Insurance and. Investment
Securities.
MONEY 'I‘O LOAN.
Insurance Placed in I-‘l'rst-Class Companies
Ofllce—Cor. MAIN d6 \VALL 81‘s.. NORWALK
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DENTISTRY!
Everything in Dentistry, and Everything
Fully Warnnted.;
w. 11. BALDWIN, no. a,
68 Wall 'St., Norwalk, Ct.
J. BELDEN u on BUTT.
Allorool am! Counselor at Law,
Room No. 4. Up Stairs,
GAZETTE BUILDING, NORWALK, CONN.
ALEX. s. GIBSON,
Organist of 1st Congregational Church, Waterbury,
Teacher of
Pianoferte, Organ and Musical
Composition,
Lock Box39 P O..NORWALK.CONN.
MR. C. F. DANIELS,
INSTRUCTOR UPON THE
PIANO-FORTE AND ORGAN.
Especial attention given to Harmony and Rhyth-
micai Studies.
Lock Box 114, N orwalk, Conn.
3m47
‘TNA INSURA NC D.
Incorporated 1812. Charter Perpetu
CAPITAL AND ASSETS, $8,902,272.64.
insures against loss and damage by Fire, on
terms adopted to the hazard and consistent with
he laws of compensation. COWLES do MERRILL,
Sole Agents for N orwalk and Vicinity.
MINER D. RANDALL, Architect and Super
intendent.
Plans and Specifications for all kinds of Build-
ings. -
Artistic designs for stairways, mantels, side-
boards, etc.
Framing or working plans for all kinds of build-
lugs accurately made.
Ofl‘ice. (‘or Main and Wall sts.,Norwalk. Open
Wednesday and Saturday evenings. V
Residence, Riverside ave., East Norwalk. lyl
Building-”Materials, 3c.
BUILDING STONE, all qualities or sand, ccl
lars dug, gardens and grounds renovated
horses and carts for hire. I have some thoroughly
rotted and very fine manure for flower beds.
J. W. EDMUNDS,
No.6 South Union Avenue.
P. 0. Box 654,Norwaltk
PLYMOUTH ROCK ICE.
I HAVE a large quantity of Ice on hand. It was
. frozen on pure water. It is clear. clean and
solid me. All orders promptly attended to.
Thanking my customers for past favorsJ solicit
a continuance of their patronage.
lstf R. l... IlLLS.
THE
Norwalk Fire Insurance 00.
Has now completed its
18th SUGGESSFUL BUSINESS YEAR
And has not outstanding a dollar of unpaid losses
orclalms for losses. No same! company insane
for less.
W. C. Small-r, Prea. Gso. B. 8r. JouN,Treas.,
G30. R. Gowns. Secretary.
Express.
Patronlze the old reliable
ADAMS EXPRESSCOMPANY.
1.0 W RATES AND PROMPT DELIVERY.
Branch Office, Norwalk. at 8. K. Stanley’s
Main Ohice at Depot, South Norwalk. till!
L. llusr. Agent.
u. A. FRANKE,
THE HAIR CUTTER,
No. l Gazette Building.
HOT AND COLD BATHS.
PENSIONS
And GOVERNMENT CLAIMS mv sole busi-
ness. Rejected and increase claims a speciality.
Don’t delay. Address or visit
GEN. WM. H. NOBLE,
No. 91 Smrrosn Ava, meonronr, Or.
I! E N R Y I! I! s s ,
Restaurant, Colo and Smoking Room,
Grand Central Station,
420 STREET AND 4m Avms, New Yenx
Entrance from waiting room, New York, New
Haven and Hartford railroad. rm
FOR KEEPING
CIDER SWEET
USE
ANTIFERMENTINE.
ONLY 30 CENTS A PACKAGE.
A’l‘ HALE’S DRUG STORE.
Sewing Machines.
OF every kind and make, repaired. cleaned
and guaranteed. All orders left at
Spencer’s Jewelry Store,
Will receive prompt attention.
4tp36 C. J. GRUMAN.
HENRY TILLY
CARRIAGE MAKER,
SOUTH NORWALK - CONN
Manufacturer of
Family Carriages, Vlolorms, Buggies is.
All Kinds-anepairing.
ATENTS i
G- B. summon,
w n, I). C.
.. mm m u- s- 5ng to Inventor: Mailed. Im
PATENT OFFICE.
'MARVELOUS
o. E. WILSON,
General Insurance I Roll Estate Agent
Money to Loan.
Stocks, Bonds. &c., Bought and Sold,
and Loans Negotiated at Lowest
Rates of Interest.
R00“ NO. 3 GAZETTE BUILDING
NORWALK. cans. .
w. H. MEEKER.
Plumbing, Steam and Gas Filling,
SOUTH NORWALK, CONN.
Sanitary Plumbing, and Ventilation, and
Low Pressure Steam Heating, a Specialty.
PLUMBERS’ SUPPLIES.
Pipe and Fitting for Stone and Gas.
Agent for the Florida Low Pressure Boiler.
Facllltles for Cutting and Threading all Sizes or
Pipe. tot!
T0 HORSE OWNERS I
We keep constantly on hand a good assortment of
Kentucky and Ohio Horses,
selected with great care in the western markets.
We have horses suitable for all pur s and no!
one who wants a thoroughly reliable animal should
purchase before seeing what we have to offer.
We also keep constantly on hand at our Carriage
Repository a complete llne of CARRIAGES from
the best makers, which are manufactured for us
to special order; every carriage warranted.
WAGUNS and CARTS of every description.
HARNESSES, WHIPS, ROBES, BLANKETS
DANN’S LIVERY STABLE,
OFFICE 48 WALL ST., NORWALX
" on. b. a n. k. a. error
FUR NEURE !
Geo. H. Raymond,
FURNITURE DEALER,
Has removed to the new and commodious store
(our doors above Ins old stand and stocked it
with VEWGOODsof the LATEST
STYLE and FINEST FINISH.
one. u. RAYMOND, Agent.
Furnishing Undertaker and Embalmer.
I give my personal attention to laying out and -
furnishing everything necessary for the
internment on the dead.
Residence—No 3 Berkeley Place, Norwalk.
Telephone Comnnicatlon with Residence
FURNITURE
" A FullStock ot Furnitureot all kinds'
PARLUR AND BEDRDUNSETS
a spechlty. . ‘
DAVID STOW,
Main Street opp. Depot
SOUTH NORWALK, CONN
GENERAL norm
Meat, Fish, Vegetables. to.
LOCKWOOD & LOCKWOOD.
IAIN STREET.
Allkinds or the best qualities of Meals, Fish,
Clams, Vegetables, etc., are kept constantly on-
hand. and will beselo by us as low as can be pro-
cured at any market in Norwalk. We intend t
prove to our customers that we deserve their
patronage by monogamous dealing.
lv40 WCKWOOD a LOCKWQOD.
J. (3. NE WKIRK,
Q DENTIST
Dentistry performed in all branches. Sold and;
Porcelain Crowns inserted. Gas administered;
for the painless extracting oi-teeth.
Game at residence. Lewis Street near Con-
gregational church, Norwalk lya'lp.
P O B. T R A I '1' 8
_ln_
01L. PASTEI. ‘oa CRAYON
Elegant work, at lowest Prices, by
E. T. Wl-I ITNEY,
Formerly of Norwalk. Leave orders at Art De-.
partment of BOSTON STORE,.2d Floor, Ner-
walk, Conn. 36
GENERAL BLACKSMITHING.
Carriage and Warm Bolllioo all
Repairing, Pointing. Trimming,
&C.. £0" ac.
THE subscriber having purchased the entire
establishment known as Rockwell’s Shop, in
the rear of George S. Gregory’s Livery Stable,
will continue the business there of
General Blacksmith Work, Wagon, Car-
riage, Sleigh, &c., building. repairing,
painting, trimming, &c.,
in addition to his established
HORSE snonme
business at the old stand.
39,6001) WORK. FAIR Porous. Paourr.
uses Aim Fan: Dunno GUARANTEED and
a share of the public patronage respectfully
solicited.
311144. CHARLES E. MILI ER
Norwalk ~:~ Gazette
JoB PRINTING ESTABLISHMENT.
Wedding Cards, ' Posters,
Visiting Cards, Handbllls, .
Business Cards, Programmes,
Fancy Show Cards, Dodgers,
Ball Cards. Billheads.
Statements. Circulars,
T88 Cards, Recelpl’s,
Town and Probate Records, Letter Headings
Books and Pamphlets, Note Headings,
Hotel Registers. Mllk Tickets.
Printed in one Neateatutvm and at the men
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