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Gon'l Ticket a ran. Agent.
Oflice in the Unite States or anada, or address
E. ST. JOHN.
0mm Imogen CHICAGO, ILL.
PETER L. GUIGUE,
FLfllllST 000 S YMAN.
UNION AVENUE,
North of Norwalk Cemetery,
NORWAEE, - CORN.
Dealer in Green House and Hot House and
Bedding and Vegetable Plants, Fruit and Orna-
mental Trees Shrubbery, Vines. Cut Flowers
«always on hand and all sorts of designs in Flowers
arranged to order. 41y2
Grading and Re-filling Cemetery Plots
promptly attended to.
The “Record.”
11 No rwallk Record
an established foot. Although it is only a
gear old its circulation already averages
3,000 COPIES PER WEEK,
a fact which altestults rapid rise and firm hold on
the public favor. It aims to be clean and whole-
some, and presents all the legitimate news In
readable, spicy and terse shape. Its subscription
'ce is sufficiently low to enable anybody to have
.without discarding any other of their favorite
urnals, and it prospers WlthOllI; encroaching
nthe prosperity of any of its excellent and
esteemed local contemporaries. as is shown by
the fact that it enjoys and appreciates the hearty
good will of all—the GAZETTE, Hour, Sentinel
Journal and Republican. . .
THE RECOBDls tent to any address forthe
mil cum of -
16 cenlsa Year; Single Copies, 2 out
Now is tho Time to Subscribe:
SPECIAL TO FARMERS.
'The Record
PU BLlSHES EVERY SATURDAY
The New York Iarket Report
(.‘U'fil’fECTED UP TO DATE. “3'!
BUILDING LOTS
. ON INSTALLMENT PLAN.)
FOR SALE
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(m Walton Accnue
‘AfiPPLY T0
,h‘m CHAS. OLMSTEAD,
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GAZETTE OFFICE.
Geo. S. Gregory.
Livery. Boarding Sale,
‘830’ and Exchange
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...suhll.‘_'!'.‘i."._“"' 3“.
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No. 14. Knight 81:.
(In rear of Horse Car Depot),
NORWA LK , CONN.
Carriages furnished at all hours. Courteous at-
tention and gentlemanly drivers,
SOLDIERS, A'I‘TENTION
wm. l-l. HAYWARD.
Pension A flow: oz],
708 East Capitol Street,
_ WASHINGTON o. (2.,
Located at the National Capital, adjacent to alltne
Executive Departments, gives me superior
advantage in the prosecution of Claims
against the United States.
INCREASE ‘IOUR PENSION.
Many pensioners borne on therolls are entitled
to a much higher rate of pension than they now
receive. In a great majority of cases in which
pension was granted for disease. the pensioner is
entitled to an increase of rate. and in most cases
where it was granted for wounds or injuries the
dleabilltyincreases 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 dlsabllil y not set forth in
his original declaratlou. The pension laws are
more liberal than formerly, and better rutingcau
be had for many disabilities. I make a speciallv
of Neglected and Rejected Claims, and if you Will
present me with a brief statement. of your case,
stating by whom it was presented. I will obtain a
rehearing of your case, and, if it has merit. will
procure a. favorable settlement Many claims
stand rejected before the department, when it
only requires a competent attorney to make them
good cases. Soldiers simmering with disabilities
contracted in service, who have not appliedfin‘ a
pension, should do so as '1' t is their RIGHT.
SOLDIERS OF THE MEXICAN WAR,
Who were in that service sixty days, [or their
widows if not re-marrled] are entitled to $8.00 per
month from J auuary 29th . 186?. H20
.__. For Sate Cheap.
SECOND-HAND Cast Iron Fence, with gate
allm perfect order and as good as new,
about 120 feet in length. Will be sold at a sacri-'
Enquire at.
lice if applied for soon.
GAZEI‘TE OFFICE
30“.
- of thém.——St. Louis Republic.
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A Sensible Han ,
Would use Kemp’s Balsam for the throat
and lungs. It is curing more cases of
coughs, colds, asthma, bronchitis, croup
and all flu-oat and lung troubles than any
other medicine. The proprietor has 2111-,
thorized any druggist to give you a sam—
ple bottle free to convince you of the
merit of this great remedy. Large bottles
50c. and $1. ’
Old Clothes nfadé New.
Old clothing may be made to look nearly
as good as'new by pursuing the following
Ian: . - "
p Take, for instance, a shiny old coat, vest or
pair of. trousers of broadcloth, cassimere or
diagonal. The scourer makes a streng, warm
soapsud and plunges the garment into it,
souses it up and down, rubs the dirty places,
if necessary puts it through arsecOnd suds,
then rinses it through several waters and
hangs it to dry on the line.
When nearly dry he takes it in, rolls it up
for an hour or two, and then. presses it. An
old cotton cloth is laid on the outside of the
coat and the iron passed over that until the
wrinkles are out, but the iron is' removed be-
fore the steam ceases to rise from the goods,
else they would be shiny. Wrinkles that are
obstinate are removed by laying a wet cloth
over them and passing the iron over that.
If any shiny places are seen, they are treat—
.ed as the wrinkles are; the iron is lifted while -
the full cloud of steam rises and brings the
nap up with it. Good cloth will bear many
washings and look better every time because
It is dangerous to tamper with irritating
liquids and exciting snuifs. Use Ely’s
Cream Balm, which is safe and pleasant,
and is easily applied. It cures the worst
cases of catarrh. cold in the head and hay
fever, giving relief from the first applica—
tion. Price 50 ccuts.
About (“we '1 recs.
The height of an ohm,- tree is usually ‘20
feet, but it is sometimes as high as ‘50 feet,
and it reaches an llillluSl. fabulous ago. One
lately destroyed at Lie-sullen had a recorded
age of five centuries and was 36 feet-in cir»
cumference. The olive tree is exceedingly
prolific under cultivation; the fruit yields
about'70 per cent. of its weight (exclusive of
kernel) in oil. Italy is said to produce 33,-
000,000 and France 7,000,000 gallons of oil an-
nually. The tree does not vegetate readily
beyond 2,000 feet altitude or 45 dogs. of lati-
finds—Exchange.
If you had taken two of Carter’s Little
Liver Pills before retiring you would not
have had that coated tongue or bad taste
in the mouth this morning. Keep a vial
with you for occasional use.
The breaking of lamp—chim-
neys is one of the most pro-
voking of home annoyances,
and leads to a constant stream
of expense.
It can be stopped. The
breaking is due to brittle glass.
, There are two kinds of glass.
One is as tough as the other is
brittle. Tough glass costs a
little more than brittle. That
is the explanation.
Llacbcth 8; Co., Pittsburgh,
make their “ pearl-top ”
chimneys of fine tough
(plant'-
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LADIESl EEEI
Do Your Own Dyeing, at Home.
They will dye everything. They are sold every-
where. Price I 00. a package. They have noequal
for Strength, Brightness, Amount in Packages
or for Fustness of Color. or nonofading Qualities.
They do not crockor smut 3 40 colors. For sale by
.I. (i. .‘regory it 00.; J. A. Riggs, No. N Main
Street, Geo. .l. l’laisled, Druggists. ly‘zl
GOLD MEDAL, PARIS. 187.
. W. BAKER & CO.’S
Breakfast 00000
I: absolutely are and
it is not to.
No Chemicals .
are used in it! promotion. It in- more
than three time the strength of Cocoa
mixed with Starch, Anewroot or Sugar,
and is therefore fur mare economical,
costing uu than one mom. It is
delicious, nourishing, _ ' EA.
aux Drum, and admirably adapted
for invalid- as well or person in health.
Sold by Grocers everywhere.
& 00.. Dorcheltar, Haas.
'V. Burn
CHAS. H. VALDEN
—DEALER FN—
GROCERIEh
. FRESH on NEW.
I shall keep constantly on hand a
Hill. llNE OE All. 80008
usually found-in 3
FREI- 01000-3-01‘00010'50101‘0
which I will sell at prices
DEPYING HONEST GOHPETITION
to heat. A share of the public patronagels solicit-
ed aud every effort will be made to faithfully
serve our customers. Give u:- a call and
let us assure you of our ability to
give satisfaction.
CHAS. H. VALDEN,
5mm St. Norwalk, Ct.
585!
SALESNEN to sell Nur-
. sery stock. All Geode
, Warranted first-class.
Permanent, Pleasant profitable‘positions for the
right men. Good smar‘rs an expenses paid
weekly. Liberal 1nduceme:' ‘o beginners. No
previous experience necessary. u’llis free.
erte for terms, giving age. ~
CIIAS. ll. CHASE, Nurserylneu. Rochester, NJ.
Mention this paper.
I
GAZETTEI WEDNESDAY MARCH 12 .1890.
._.—.. .- ——_.. -5,
some TIME.
Last night, mydarling, as you slept,
I thought I heard you sigh,
And to your little crib I crept
And watched a space thereby; .
Then, bending down, I kissed yourbrow-
For, oh! I love you so— '
You are too young to know it now, .
But some time you shall know.
Some time, when in a darkened place,
Where others come to weep,
Your eyes shall see a weary face
Calm in eternal sleep.
The speechless lip, the wrinkled brow,
The patient smile may show—
You are too young to know it now,
But some time you shall know. .
Look backward, then, into the years,
And see me here to-night—
See, 0 my darlingl how my tears
Are falling as I write;
And feel once more upon your brow
The kiss of long ago- '
You are too young to know it now,
But some time you shall know.
—Eugene Field in Chicago News.
Doing the IE—ightf'Thing.
The train was just pulling out of Weston,
110., for St. Joe, when one of the passengers
in the smoker put his head so far out of the
window that aman near him felt it his 'duty
to utter a note of warning.
as he pulled in his head and sat down, “but I
was looking for a grave in that field. Reckon
it has been plowed under and forgotten.”
“How did they happen the bury him there it”
“It’s a sad story, gentlemen—very sad. It
was just ten years this month, and I was liv-
ing here then. A stranger came in from the
west with three horses to sell, and boasted so
denied that he stole ’em, and one night the
boys turned out and hung him to a tree back
there. That used to be our way of discourag-
ing the business, and I believe it is still prac-
ticed further west. W'e buried him near the
tree, and it was his grave I was looking for.”
“Never denied it, eh?” queried one of the
listeners.
“Never did, although we gave him every
chance. Just a week from the time he was
hung we found out that he was an honest,
honorable farmer, living about forty miles
below us. thile he hadn’t stolen the horses,
he had killed a man, and he no doubt be-
lieved we were hanging him for that. We
felt mean enough when we discovered that
ho was no horse thief, and that all he had
done was to pop a man over, and he must
have been sadly puzzled over our conduct.
We made such reparation as we could,‘how-
ever.”
“In what way 1”
“Oh, we rounded up the grave,.passed res-
olutions of sympathy for the wife, sent the
horses on home, and a few months later I
went up and married his widow. She’s ' in
the next car behind.”—New York Sun.
How to Shake Hands.
A man and a woman meet and both burst
into asmile of weléome. Then the woman
swings her right arm, which is perfect-1y
- rigid, straight out from the shoulder and di-
rectly in front of her. 'When the hand has
reached the height of her chin she holds it
there, with the thumb toward the face and
the palm turned slightly outward. The man
who has been approaching her gently takes
hold of the hand a good deal as one might
grasp the rung of a ladder. He bows slight-
ly, as though intending to press his lips to the
lady’s hand, and then lets go abruptly and
drops his hand to his side. Then the woman
drops her stiffened arm and the ceremony is
over. This is English—Brooklyn Eagle.
Constipation is positively cured by Car-
ter’s Little Liver Pills. Not by purging
and weakening the bowels, but by regu-
lating and strengthening them. This is
done by improving the digestion and
stimulating the liver to the proper secre-
tion of bile, When the bowels will perform
their customary functions in an easy and
natural manner. Purgative pills must be
avoided. Ask for Carter’s Little Liver
Pills. Price 25 cents.
An Island ‘0! urnltnologlsts.
The island of Heligoland, in the North sea,
is nothing but a triangular rock, of perhaps
a. hundred acres; but there is probably no
spot of equal size on the earth’s surface that
is of more interest to the student of birds.
The fact is that thls‘ little island is the only
, part of the world of which the ornithology
i has been properly worked. Every little boy
I on the island is a born'and bred ornithologist'.
Every unfortunate bird which visits the
island has to run the gauntlet of about forty
guns, to say nothing of scores of blowpipes
and catapults—Once a Week.
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Au eminenttemperance lecturer in New
England, Mrs. John Burton, says:——I was
subject to those deathly sick headaches
and also dyspepsia. Sulphur Bitters cured
me when all other remedies failed. Mrs.
, Barton is the wife of John Barton. Super.
inlendent of Repairs, Pacific Mills, Law.
reucc. Mass.
“The Old Ouken Bucket. ,
The Iron-bound Bucket.
The Moss-covered Bucket."
is very likely the one that has convrwnl noi-
Ions to your a stem from some ( I well.
whose waters - ave become contmm) nted
from sewers, vaults, or percolations from. the
sorl. To eradicate these poisons from. the
system and save yourself a spell of malarial,
typhord or hilious fever, and to keep the
liver. kidneys and lungs in a healthy and
vigorous condition. use Dr. Pierce's I; olden
Medical Discovery. It arouses all fill: ex-
cretory organs into activity. therchjr cleans-
ing and purif ing the system, freciu ;.:' it from
all maunero blood-poisons, no mu 1m; from
what cause they have arisen. All diseases
originating from a torpid or deranged liver,
or from impure bloo yield to its wonderful
curative properties. t regulates the stom-
ach and bowels, promotes the appetite and
digestion, and cures D spepsia. “ Liver Com-
laint." and'Chronic. iarrhea. Salt-rhcum,
otter. Eczema, Erysapelas. Scrofulous Sores
and Swellings, Enlarged Glands and Tumors
disa pear under its use.
“ olden Medical Discover ” is the only
blood and liver medicine, so d lby druggists,
under a positive guarantee of its no-
fitiug or curing 1n every case, or? money pm
for it will be promptly returned. . .
Copyright, 1888, by Woman DIS.‘IMRD. ASS‘N'.
I
' “Yes, it is a little risky.” replied the man, '
queer] y that we clapped him in jail. He never
MARRIED BY PROXY.
The Wedding Celebrated While the Bride-
groom Was Thousands of Miles Away.
Senor Ulpiano Obando was, until recently,
consul of the United States of Colombia at
San Francisco.
We, the senor and myself, lived at the same
hotel, and by mutual agreement we each in-
structed the other in the language, Customs
and manners of our respective countries.
I grew to be quite fond of the senor, he
was so generous and simple and eager to
learn our ways. His consular duties consisted
mainly in drawing his salary, which he did
with clocklike regularity.
The senor was married, I learned, and the
picture of his wife. which -hc always carried
about him. was that of a. charming semen of
the regulation Spanish type of beauty.
Bogota was the home 0:" this loving pair,
Mme. Obando being; the niece of the jresi-
dent of the republic.
One day the senor said to me. in his broken
English: “I must :0 home to my wife. I
can no‘louggcr hour this separation. Besides,
my father hm- INJI‘II married to her about
longr enough."
Iis father, I thought.
“What on earth «lo you mean?” I asked.
"W'hen were you married, senor?"
“About sir: months ago.” he replied.
I knew he hurl been in San Francisco a
year, so I said: ._
“Oh, I ace; your wife (licl not like San
Francisco, so she has returned home.”
“She has never been here." '
“And yet you say you were married to her
six mouths since?”
“Certainly; I gave a power of attorney to
my father, who married Inez in‘ my stead.”
“Now, see here, Obando,” I remarked, “I
am afraid you’re making fun of me. This
idea of your wife being your stepmother at
the same time, and your father’s wife being
his daughter-in-law—oh, no, it won’t do.”
The Senor, however, was in earnest. and
then I learned one of the peculiar customs in
vogue in the South American republic.
As a matter of policy or convenience it had
been necessary that Senor Obando should
marry his afllanced, and therefore the neces-
sary instructions were wired to Panama, cou-
veyed thence down the Magdalena river to
the port, and thence by muleback to the
capital. In the same manner the news of
the ceremony was conveyed back to San
Francisco, and Senor Obando was a duly mar-
ried man.
Marriages of this sort are by no means in-
frequent among the Spanish-American peo-
ple. The “proxies” are generally male rela-
tives of either prospective bride or groom.
An intimate friend, in fact, may perform the
office, though in the latter case it sometimes
happens that the friend betrays his trust, and
the fond, absent husband returns home to
find himself divorced.
I These marriages are perfectly legal, and
are recognized by the church. They are
somewhat like “binding slips” in insurance,
the “policies” being delivered afterward.
Upon the return of the husband, though,
he must be. married publicly. In case. he dies
before seeing his “proxy” wife, then his “vi-
carious” widow inherits his property the same
as if she had been married in the regular
fashion.
Senor Obando returned to Bogota, and the
last time I heard from him he was occupying
a. high official position and living happily with
his wife, to whom he had been “regularly”
married—New York Herald.
A Camlymaker’s Good \Vord for Candy.
“Candy is not unwholesome if it is made of
pure sugar and harmless coloring and flavor-
ing,” said a Fulton street sugar baker.
"Sugar, you know, is very nourishing, and if
people with sweet teeth would only eat candy
as it should be eaten the dentists in New
York would have less work to do. Candy
should be absorbed, not masticated, and you
can always detect impurities in candy by
sucking it. If it is pure sugar it will all melt
slowly in your mouth, but if any sediment
remains you may be satisfied that you have
eaten impure candy. However, as a rule,
even adulterated candy is not injurious, be-
cause flower or corn starch are usually the
ingredients used to increase the quantity,
and, beyond destroying the flavor, they do
not materially injure the quality.
“Always choose brown candy if you can.
It ismuch more likely to be pure than the
green, or the pink or red, or even the white.
Never crunch it between your teeth. Allow
the natural heat of the mouth to dissolve it
and don’t attempt to chew it as though it
were a tough beefsteak.
“The life of a working candy maker is de-
cidedly unhealthy. He never eats any of the
sweetmeats that he manufactures, but the
hot saccharine particles that impregnate the
air in which he works are almost certain to
affect his lungs. Sugar bakers are not a long
lived race. I make many tons of candy in
the course of a year, but I can’t say that I
ever eat any of it.”—New York Sun. ‘
limiting for Mud Turtles.
“1 want a small shot gun that don’t use up
I much ammunition,” said a middle aged man
to a Kearney street dealer in firearms.
“Jaybirds bothering your orchard?” in~
quired the dealer as he was displaying his
wares.
“No. I am a turtle hunter.
and terrapins for the market, you know.”
. “Shoot turtles with a shotgun!” exclaimed
the astonished dealer, dropping a fowling
piece on his pet corn, which brought forth a
bowl of pain.
“No, not exactly,” answered the turtle
I hunter. .“It’s jest this way: I’ve hunted the
' shellbacks for many years, and have got a
little wrinkle of my own that everybody
don’t know of. I used to go for ’em with a
scoop not, like city folks catch butterflies
with, but now I uses a set net. Of course, I
have to bait it. My net is shaped like a wing-
dam, on the fly trap principle. I bait it with
jaybirds, robins, sparrows and such small
birds. The turtles crawl up the wings of the
net to feed, and when they starts to crawl
out they’re catched, see? The Frenchmen in
the restaurants in Sacramento, Stockton and
this city pay me good prices for the critters.
I ship ’em, the turtles I mean, in crates. I’ve
caught turtles in all the rivers in the coun-
try, and traveled some, too. I’ve fished for
turtles in the Yuba all the way. from its
mouth to Siskiyou country. I’ll take this
. gun. So long.”-—San Francisco Examiner.
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2' ' To Aid Duck Hunters.
‘ Aboat has been invented for the useof
'duck hunters which, it is claimed, is a perfect
device as regards ease of management and
the high rate of speed attainable. Those who
have sculled a boat in pursuit of crippled
birds in the ordinary way are aware of the
great strain upon the wrist which this method
of propulsion entails. In the craft above
mentioned the car is thrust through the mid-
dle and bottom of the boat in acontrivance
not unlike acenterbo'ard. The leverage ob—
tained is enormous, and the inventor claims
that a small boy, through the use of his de.
vice, can beat a' professional oarsman in a
shel].—New York Telegram.
I have used Salvation Oil in our stables
and heartily recommend it. It does
wonderful work with horses with cuts,
bruises, sprains, stains. sores, &c.——B.
I CRAIG, Manager Bradley’s Keystone Stu-
! bles, Wilson street, Baltimore, Md.
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Get turtles
WHEN I GO HOME.
When I go home, when I go home to himl
I like to picture to myself his way
0f greeting me, and what his lips shall say
And mine reply; and will his eyes be dim
With mist of joy tears? Will my coming be-
As dear a boon to him as he has dreamed?
Will all the glad bewilderment that seemed
So sweet in fancy find its verity
When I come home? Or will some fancied change
Of speech or look or mien the one transform
Who used to'wear for 11"“ a nameless charm.
Tampering his joy with shadows new and strange
With shadows darkling for a little space,
And then, 0, sweet beyond imagining,
The cadences, half sob, half song, will ring
With the old music, hallowing the place.
My glad heart has no room in it for doubt.
The morning glc‘ories clambcring at the door,
With leaves and blooms and tendrils leaning o‘er.
. Flocking the sunshine,.cannot keep it out.
I love to fancy the feiicitles
That shall be mine upon that day of days.
The old endearing names, and tricks of phrase,
And smiles that haunted all my revel-lea.
If rain or sunshine be, or gloom or gleam,
The day of my return, sweet opulence
Cf gladnoss, flooding mood and circumstance,
Shall smile across’the mists with roseate beam.
When I go home again! When I go home!
My feet have strayed upon these journeyings.
But my heart never; all my longing clings
To the old haunts; always my fancies come
Back to the old abiding place to rest,
Howe‘er I wander under alien skies,
And find forever there their paradise,
Love’s very self answering my heart‘s behest.
—Rosalind E. Jones in New York Sun.
, Good Luck.
Missionaries and others, who live year after
year in foreign countries, are liable to lose
something of their familiarity with their nu-
tive tongue, and sometimes to be troubled
about the spelling of very common words.
An English clergyman, who was also a
voluminous author, was in Paris, where he.
made the acquaintance of a kind hearted
Scottish nobleman. This man had lived for
many years at the French capital, and know
every one. The Englishman quite enjoyed?
walking with him in the Champs Elysees. As
the carriages and coursers raced along the
Scotchman was kept continually busy taking
off his hat.
“You ought to know the‘ ambassador,” he
said one day to his new friend. “I will give
you a letter of introduction.”
So the two men sat down, and the Scotch-
man went to his writing desk.
“Do you happen to know,” he said, with a
look of mild inquiry, “how many d’s there
are in the word introduce?” ’
The Oxford graduate, curiously enough,
did “happen to know,” and so the note of in-
troduction was written—Youths Compan-
:01].
A freak of Nature.
A curious freak of nature was recently dis-
covered. It is a slab of *M'e'xican marble
about two feet long and a fob'tf‘yyi'de, bearing
upon its face a beautifulmountainlandscape,
which has in some strange Way been pictured
there by nature. It is now in the possession
of Col. A. C. Hawley, formerly adjutant gen-
eral of Minnesota, and» was given him by
Maj, Knappen, who owns the quarry in New
Mexico where this was found. The "major is
authority for the statement that the picture
in the marble is the exact reproduction of
the scenery on the side of the valley opposite
where the quarry is located. Col. Howley
explains the curiosity in this way: He says
the river and cliffs must have been photo-
graphed on the marble, when it was in a
plastic condition, by the rays 'of the sun.-
Exchange. ~
A Dying Man’s Lesson.
Wasn’t it funny, by the way, about Pro-
fessor Youmans, of The Popular Science
Monthly, who sent for his dentist the month
before his death and insisted on having his
teeth all attended to and new ones put inl
Everybody knew he couldn’t live, and the
dentist told him he was. having a good deal
of pain and trouble for nothing. But the
professor intimated pretty strongly it was his
own business, and if he was willing to pay
$100 for having good teeth to be laid out in,
the dentist needn’t complain. Do you know
how many people are poisoned by decaying
teeth? They suffer from dyspepsia and bad
complexions from nothingr else than t con-
stant drainage of bad matter from a! super»
feet tooth or two—Shirley Dare in ' .ilauleh
phia Press. .'
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A New Use for the Ni: cl.
Somebody of an ingenious turn of mind
gives us the metric system, “not in a nut-
shell,” but in anickel. It is claimed that our
nickel five cent piece holds the key to the
linear measures and weights. The diameter
of this coin is two centimeters, and its weight
is five grains.
Five of them placed in a row will, of
course, give the length of the decimeter, and
two of— them will weigh a decagramme. As
the kioliter is a cubic meter, the key to the
measures of length,‘itis_also the key to the
measures of capacity. Any: person,- there-
fore, who is fortunate enough to own a five
cent nickel may carry in his pocket the en-
tire metric system Of weights and measures.
—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Head and the Brain.
Dr. Starr, of London, says that it is im-
possible to draw any conclusion from the size
or shape of the head as to the extent or sur-
face of the brain, and so as to the mental
capacity. It is absurd to judge of the brain
surface by either the size of the head or the
extent of the superficial irregular surface
which is covered by the'skull, without takin
into consideration the number of folds or the
depth of creases. “For a; little brain with
many deep folds may really, when spread
out, have a larger surface than a large brain
with ‘ew shallow folds. ”—New York Tele-
gram.
The Cat’s Favorite Palace.
The castle of Gatchina, which has become
the favorite residence of the emperor and
empress of Russia, is within a short distance
of the summer palaces of Tzarkoe—Selo and
Krosnoe-Selo. It was built by Peter the
Great; but the present house is practically a
creation of Orloif, the favorite of the Em-
press Catherine, who added thetowers and
wings, and who caused the interior to be
sumptuously decorum by workmen from
Italy, under the superintendence of Rinaldi,
a celebrated architect of that period—Mos
cow Letter.
The Patient Public.
Just how patient that portion of the public
which travels is may be realized from what
follows. A hotel at which an average of
forty people stopped nightly was sued by a
guest for harboring bugs in the beds. Out of
fifty-two beds overhauled forty-eight, had
bugs, and yet this was the first and only com-
plaint for five years—Detroit Free Press.
The absurd superstition held by so many
that the opal brings ill luck to its owner, as if
there were a compelling power or genius re-
siding in stones, would not seem to be shared
by those who rate the two Opals belonging to
the French crown jewels at $15,000, or the
famous one sent from. Hungary to the first
World’s exhibition at 3:3),000.
Norwalk Chronicler