TlfiE. MEI-[o Ohm
has
BY SELLING THE
Best - Groceries
AT THE LOVVEST PRICES.
Our Teas and Coffees
ARE THE BEST AND CHEAPEST.
Nickerson
& Botts.
Misses St, John
SUMDTER
MILLINERY.
We are offering our entire stock of millinery
at a GREAT REDUCTION. Our prices are
beyond competition.
—-—A Full Line of
Mourning -:- Goods
Constantly on hand.
HAIR Goons, A SPECIALTY.
COMBINGS Mans UP.
0 O R S E 'I' S .
Agency for M ethadame Griswold Corset
We also keep the W arner Corset—C. B. A., a
Sprite, Maseshc and others.
COME EARLY TO SECURE THE
BEST BARGAINS.
NO TROUBLE TO SHOW GOODS.
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Announcement,
Extraordinary.
THE
Nurwa Par
' Amphitheatre,
.Norwalk, - Connecticut.
Connected by rail via Danbury &
NorwalkRailroad from South Norwalk
Depot and New York and New Haven
Railroad and
In the Heart [if N lll‘llillll,
Oanbe Leased for ..
BASE BALL GUNTESTS,
PIGNIG PARTIES,
GAMP MEETINGS, -
Military Exercises,
Shooting Clubs,
Clam Bakes,
Sunday School Festivals,
Agricultural Fairs,
Horse Shows,
Athletic Games or Any
Form of Out-Door
Pleasure.
The ‘N 037311; Park
Amphitheatre .
Is so well known to the citizens of
Norwalk that a description of it is
unnecessary. It is sufficient to an-
nounce that MR. GEORGE CLARKE
has BOUGHT THE PROPERTY'and
has planned
A RACE TRACK
In combination with all the Beautiful
Attractions and other pleasures to be
derived from Visiting these MOST
CHARMING GROUNDS.
For terms apply to ,
WEEKLY - NORWALK - GAZETTE.
HEAVENLY WONDERS.
FACTS ABOUT THE SCINTILLATION OF
THE STARS. '
Some Discoveries of Science—The 0min:-
cal Construction of Astronomical
Bodies — Planetary Secrets that are
Still Hidden Front. Mun.
All the world knows, but it may bear
repetition, that the scintillation or twink-
ling of the stars arises from a terrestrial
atmospheric modification of the luminous
vibrations that traverse interstellar
space; also that the twinkling is more
noticea‘ »1c in winter than in summer, and,
owing to a similar cause, more lively be-
fore than after a rain, no matter in What
season. Everybody has likewise remarked
how different is the color, as well as the
splendor. existing between this and that
remote luminary—variations from white
to bluish white, greenish white, yellow,
orange and reddish being without difficulty
discovered. .
But, although remarked by scientists as
well as common folks, not until 1870 was
the scintillation of the stars examined in a
thoroughly scientific manner, at which
emy of Sciences, began making the thou-
sands of observations that have rendered
his name famous with regard to the in-
tensity and vivacity of the luminous
vibrations. AS a result, we are aware that
the greatest twinklers show themselves
among the white members of the starry
hosts—such as Sirius, Vega, Procyon,
Altair. Regulus, Castor, the, &c., the aver—
age of whose scintillations, when observed
at a uniform altitude of thirty degrees
above the horizon, is eighty-six per
second.
Next in order are the stars ofa yellowish
tint, among which we find Capella, Rigel,
Pollux, Deneb, gamma of Orion, gamma
of Andromeda, alpha of Aries, beta of Bull,
beta of the Lion, and alpha of Ursa Major,
Whose respective averages are sixty-nine
twinkles to the second. Finally come the
orange and reddish stars—such as An-
tares, alpha of Hercules, Aldebaran, Arc-
turus, Betelgeuse, alpha of the Hydra,
epsilon of Pegasus, omicron of Cetus and
beta of Andromeda, the mean whereof
does not exceed fifty-six scintillations dur-
ing a second.
There is, besides, a marked correspond-
ence between the number of the star’s
scintillations and the physical composi-
tion of the luminary, since, thanks to the
German Optician, Fraunhofer, who first
analyzed the sun’s spectrum in 1814
or 1815, spectral analysis, by mak-
ing known the constituent elements
of various stellar bodies, shows us,
in the first instance, the seven primary
colors divided into but few lines and
crossed by four principal bands indicative
of the presence of hydrogen; in the
second, dim, cloudy bands forming a
species of colonnade; and in the third, a
collection of fine, closely set dark lines
similar to those already observed in the
solar spectrum.
After discovering the identity of spectra
in the face of the sun and his children
Venus and Jupiter and his grandchild, the
moon,Fraunhofer began the spectral study
of the stars Sirius, Castor, Pollux and
Capella, but on account of the feeble light
emitted by the prisms then in use he la.-
bored under great difficulties.
The study remained almost stationary
unfi11860, when the Florentine Astrono-
mer Donati, of cometary fame, revived, so
to speak, the question of stellar spectro-
scope, and, with a lens of forty-one centi-
metres, he fixed in a precise manner the
main lines in the Spectra of not less than
thirteen stars—namely, Sirius. Vega, Pro-
cyon, Regulus, Fomalhaut, Castor, Altair,
Capella, Arcturus, Polux, Aldebaran, Bet-
‘elgeuse and Antares.
From his and others’ researches we are
made familiar with the fact of the pres-
ence of sodium,‘ magnesium, hydrogen
and probably iron in the great star Sirius;
of sodium, magnesium, an l hydrogen In
Vega; of sodium. magnesi um, calcium, iron
and bismuth in Betelgeuse, the grandest of
Orion’s stars, and of. ’sodium, magnesium,
and (probably) barium in the second mem-
ber of Pegasus. while the bull’s-eye, Alde-
baran, darts forth sodium, magnesium,
calcium, hydrogen. iron, bismuth, tellu-
rium, antimony and mercury, which, one
feels urged to remark, is doing pretty
well for a bull, not to mention his eye.
Interested by the foregoing results,
Padre Secchi began to make a complete
review of the heavens, with the object of
classifying the stars relative to their
chemical constitution, just as other as-
tronomers had classified them with regard
to their magnitude and brilliancy, and his
labors led him to divide the stellar bodies
examined by him into the three classes
whereof we have given a brief description.
Sirius and Vega stand forth most prom-
inently as types of the first class. Arc-
turusand our own cosmical progenitor,
the sun, are notable examples of the
second class, While the third class, sub-
divided into orange and reddish stars, is
most strikingly represented by the red-
dish yellow Betelgeuse of Orion, and alpha
of Hercules, and the reddish alpha of
Cetus, and mu of Cepheus.
Hydrogen, at a high temperature, seems
to be the fundamental constituent of the
first class; hydrogen, the very same hy-
drogen gas that burns in our own labora-
tories. There is greater variety in the
second class, yet it shows the same ele-
ments as sun—iron, titanium, calcium,
manganese, sodium, magnesium. potas-
sium and hydrogen. The third class,
though the least numerous. is not the
least important, being distinguished from
the other two by large openings feebly
illuminated and nebulous, which divide
the Spectra into zones. They present a
special character, indicating the presence
of gaseous bodies at a low temperature,
and seeming, apparently, what the first
and second classes would be after their
light had traversed some such medium of
absorption as the atmosphere of planets.
No hydrogen is found in them, and it Is
exceedingly probable that spec-cm of the
third class are emitted by the oldust, least
incandescent suns that are now giving
forth their lost beams amid the awful im-
mensities of cosmic space.
At this point one is struck with the
strange yet incontestable reality of the
fact that those distant words can never be
known as they are; that. the
"Twinkle, twinkle, llttle star.
How I wonder what you are”
of childhood rcnmubrance, would be
nearer the truth, despite the loss of rhyme
and rhythm, were it to rend:—~"liow I
wonder what you were when your light
set out to greet us.” For, per-adventure.
such an event occurred 50,000 or 100,000
years ago; since. at its terrific speed of
186,000 miles pm- scoop-L lig.t is now
reaching us that. in some imt mccs, de-
arted to pay usu vis‘t 1'3 i. no ars before
this actual. one o: < or I oo: liitle, man
created calendar. Smiling as it is in its
apparent our 1' :vz‘ctzuv, t out-sermon that
"t: 4) - wmc a d l e; ur "cxni't-sscsa most
rc i {am of c: rozx w: c l : entity—u mag-
i.ili«-eut illusl) atom of 1 c. vlnl‘lllty of the
universe ingulfii.:r and hlIE‘I'H‘l‘SSIDg the
Ii! fences of its puts—w. 1.». applied to
sue, ! :1 topic “Slim? whc 0 ill we have
just been dealing—Detroit r'ree Press.
o. E. WILSON. 3 Gazelle Bldg.
lime M. Montigny. of the Belgian Acad-‘
'no Fallacy arm annual-urn. '1
As a result of personal experience, I may
state that some years since I lived for a.
period of forty days, so far as what is
called solid food is concerned, solely on
fish, with, of course, the addition of bread
(no potatoes were eaten during the pe-
riod); but I cannot recommend that mode
of living. I discovered, before the forty
days had expired, that fish was not the
staff of life. '
In the course of my experiment Inot
only lost flesh but also energy, nor did I
feel my head clearer or my thoughts and
feelings more alert than when subsisting
on more varied food. Whilst living upon
fish only, one feels “a want.” a craving for
“something you don’t know what”-—that
is to say, you cannot give a name to your
desires; nor does the feeling Wear 011' as
you continue the dietary; at all events, in
my case, “custom came not to the rescue ;”
so, after forty days had expired, I returned
to the flesh-pots, not all at once though,
being convinced that caution was neces-
sary.
One popular fallacy in connection with
fish may be noticed, namely, the oft-re-
peated assertion that the eating of that
particular food increases brain-power. No
one who has studied the subject can possi-
bly believe the assertion. A man might
eat a huge portion of fish every day in his
life, and on the day of his death, if the
quantity of phosphorus (the brain invigor-
ator) consumed were to become visible, it
would not amount to more than might
probably suffice to tip a couple of lucifer
mmcuvs. Communities have existed that
live} almost solely on fish, but these ich-
tuyophagists were certainly not famous
for i1.tcllectua1 attainments. Nor are our
fisher villages, in many of which much
fish is presumably consumed, the seats of
any great amount of brain-power. None
of our fisher-folks are remarkrble for
genius, or even what is called common
sense; tfcir views of life and its responsi-
bilities being shrouded in a haze of super-
stition. which they lack sufficient strength
of mind to see through.
No fishing community, so far as is
known to the writer, has given to the
world a great man. Men of mark—poets,
preachers, lawyers, warriors, philosophers
and physicians—have emanated, in Scot-
land at any rate, from all cusses except
the fishing class—Temple Bar.
A Pretty Roumaninn Custonl.
A pretty custom. similar to that observed
in England, Scotland and the United
States on St. Valentine’s Day, the 14th of
February, is in vogue in Roumania on the
1st of March. This is the day indicated in
the S: are and Church calendar as the
official date for the bcginningof spring.
The masculine portion of the population
'is not favored, as with valentines in this
country. but the (laughter, friend, sweet-
heart or bride may be quite sure of receiv-
ing her token of affectionate remembrance
on that day. 'l hcse little gifts are called
martisoires, and are made of bronze, sil-
ver. or some cheaper material. in the shape
of hearts, stars and medallions. These
little amulets bear the date, March 1, ac-
companied by hat of the year, and any
motto or inscription which may occur to
the giver as appropriate.
The recipient of the martisoire wears it,
held by a small chain,on her arms or hdng
around her neck, until in her walks
abroad she sees a rose in bloom or hears
the song of the nightingale. Then she
takes it off, and hangs it on the next green
bush to which she comes, as an offering to
Mother Nature, for whom all Roumanians
h ve a great love. '
Whether these little medals are alIOWed
tohang on the bushes and swing in the
breezes all summer, or whether after a
certain time they are stealthily gathered
by a martisoire collector, to be melted for
another season’s use, is not stated by the
recent German paper which tells of this
pretty, if 'i'nlher sentimental, custom.—
Youth’s Companion.
Extraordinary Jumping Feats.
The jumping and pole-vaulting feats of
our contemporaryathletes seem but the
work of babies and pigmics when com-
pared witii the cxxraordinary doings of
the old-time acrobats. If history is to be
believe I. Phayllus of Crotonu could stand
and make a fifty-six foot jump on the dead
level. He was one of the main athletes
of the old Olympic games, his enormous
jump forming a part of the course of the
Pentathlon. Strutt, the noted English
authority on games and amusements,
speaks of a Yorkshire jumper named Ire-
land whosc powers were something mar-
vellous. He was 6 feet high at the age of
18, at which time, without the aid of
Springs or spring—board, he leaped over
nine horses ranged side by side, and at an-
other time cleared a heavy wagon which
was covered with an awning. Colonel
Ironsides. who made a voyage from Eng-
land to India early in the present century,
relates that he met in his travels an old
white-haired man who, with a single
bound, cleared the back of an enormous
elephant, flanked on either side with six
camels of the largest breed. A book en-
titled ”History of Wonders Performed at
Fairs"mentions an Englishman who, at
the Fair of St.German, in 1724. leaped over
the heads of forty people without touch-
ing one of them—St. Louis Republic.
Extingubhing Fire by Electricity.
Fires have once in a while been caused
by electricity, and it seems strange that
the very source of danger can now be util-
ized as a cure for the ill that it may create.
The systems of automatic sprinkling gen-
erally adopted are open to many objec-
tions, and are often found uncertain in
action just at the moment when they are
required. The main difiicultiés which have
hitherto stood in the way are now over-
come by the use of an electrical sprinkler.
This modification comprises the use of a
motor and pump, and a complete system
of “Sprinkler” pipes, which can be so ar-
ranged as to cover every part of the build-
ing it is desired to protect. Push buttons
are placed in convenient positions on
every floor, and these start the motor and
pump and open any valves which may be
required for the extinction of the fire. It
is an immense advantage to thus be able
gain control of large masses of water and
to localize the flow.
A Nevada. Gold Mine.
The best paying prOperty in Nevada is
a mine whose history is thus told by the
Central Nevadan: “Simeon Wenban had
run the Garrison tunnel at great expense,
and was left a. poor man, owing his credi-
tors 5150,000. There was not a pound of
ore in sight whereby the debt might be
paid. As a last resort, with a forlorn hope,
after the mine had been closed, Simeon
Wenban drilled a hole in the hanging wall
and blasted out a huge piece of rock,
which he found to be almost a solid
block of metal and part of an immense
vein which’ had been paralleled hundreds
of feet. This fortunate last effort marked
a sudden change that seldom falls to the
lot of man. It was Wenban, the poor man,
the laborer, before that blast was fired; it
was Simeon Wenban, the millionaire, but
a second thereafter. The first month’s
run of his little mill gave him $30,000 and
ever since he has grown more wealthy."
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No Chemicals
are used in its preparation. It has
more than three times the strength of
Cocoa mixed with Starch, Arrowroot
or Sugar, and is therefore far more
economical, costing less than one cent
a cup. It is delicious, nourishing,
strengthening, EASILY DIGESTED,
and admirably adapted for invalids
as well as for persons in health.
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'worst cases of skin disease, from
a common pimple on the face
to that awful disease Scrofula.
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not ever take
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W. H. MEEKER,
Plumbing, Steam and Gas lilting,
SOUTH NORWALK, CONN.
Sanitary Plumbing and Ventilation and Low
Pressure and Steam Heating, a Specialty.
PLUMBERS’ SUPPLIES.
Pipe and Fitting for Steam and Ga
AGENT for the FLORIDA LOW PRESSURE BOILER.
Facilities for cutting andthreading all kinds
0 Pine. 50tf
BUILDING LOTS
(ON INSTALLMENT PLAN.)
FOR SALE.
On -:- Wilton -:- Avenue,
APPLYTO
Charles Olmslead or 0. E. Wilson.
a. Gusowszr,
MERCHANT TAILOR,
Is ready to show the Finest Stock of
GLOTHS,GASSIMEBES AND OVEBGOATING
And a great variety of Fancy Pants Patterns
' E. GUSOWSKI,
Corner Wall and Water Steerts.
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The Fall Style of Derby,
Masonic Building,
NORWALK.
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IF you keep your eye on our Fall
Styles you will find them marvels
of quality and price. 'Cold weather
wear has come in with a rush and with
aa'ush it is ready to go out. All that
skill and brains could do to make it
captivating to the eye and irresistable
to the pocket-book has been done. You
can depend upon getting a maximum of
value for a minimum of cost. Dexter-
ous fingers have finished our
FALL - OVERGIIATS
to such perfection that they provoke
the admiration of all who see them.
You can get more satisfaction from
them to the square inch than any other material ever before gave you to the
Now Really.
YOUMAN BLOCKS:
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14 So. Main Street,
80. NORWALK.
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Edward Street
OFFERS SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS IN ALL STYLESOIl
SUMMER -:- FABRICS
' AT GREATLY nunucnnurmcns. -
mYOU \VILL MAKE A MISTAKE IF YOU DO NOT CALL
AND EXAMTNE THIS STOCK '
_ -—Don’t forget that we can show you the Best Line of—
LADIES’ -:- SHIRT -:- WAISTS
1N NORVVALK
Edward. Street,
No. 5 Gazette Building, Norwalk',
, AT
THE D. M.
IH I]. Mil AI] COMPANY.
Bridgeport.
———IN THE—~—
THE DESIGNS FOR FALL.
Main street entrance No. 448, or from the Dry Goods Department
directly in front of the Fairfield avenue entrance.
READ COMPANY.
Connor, the EurOpean buyer.
September 14th.
after September 14th.
~OUR GREAT ADVANCE
Of Fur Trimmed Jackets, Shoulder Capes, Seal Jackets, Cloaks trimmed with
Mink, Sable, Krimmer, Astrakan, Canada and Wool Seal. will commence
The Great Dry Goods Establishment
————OF-——
W.B.Hall&Co.,
BRIDGERC
Has again been enlarged and improved. Two hundred feet of counter room has
been added; light and air shafts put in; more salesmen and sales ladies engaged;
ceiling has been raised ;rapid cable cash system extended to the new part, and
the general appearance of the stores combined is' that of a metropolitan store.
The second and third floors are being prepared for the reception of Cloaks,
Furs, Seal Garments and handsome Dresses now being sent forward by Mr.
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paras Goons:
The Dress Goods Stock is entirely new and upwards of $100,000 WORTH
OF BLACK AND COLORED DRESS GOODS will be on exhibition on and
W. B. HALL' do 00..
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