4:
2 past seven years, in the employof W
III. F W. Barmer,
Painless Dentist.
Artificial Teeth Without Plates.
( Crown‘and Bridge Work.)
Best Set of Teeth on Red Rubber
Guaranteed to be the Best and the Same
that other Dentists charge Twice as much for
Teeth extracted without pain - - 501:
o 1 s - - - 50c and up
2‘1th Filliii‘gs - - - $1. OOand up
All work pertaining to Dentistry guaran-
teed to be the best workmanship at prices
about one-half charged by other dentists.
omce,42 Washington Street,
Over Post Office. South Norwalk.
Uomstoek Bros
LlIIERY and BOARDING
STABLES,
BEAR er THE waewrek HOUSE,
SOUTH NORWALK, CONN.
Teams at all Hours.
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BATES & BRIDGES,
Suchssous TO
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VETERINARY -:- SURGEON
Oman at DAN): s STABLE, RIVER Srnnz’r
RESIDENCE," . Isucs STREET.
Telephone. 56- P
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BOATING,
BATHING
FISHING.
Shore°llinners a Sueeialty.
a'. ‘E. POWER.
as Nerwalk Park y
TO BE LET
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BASE BALL GAMES,
ETC.
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JOHN EFLYNN
Sanitary Plumber,
STEAM and GNSFI'I‘TER
Ieeame A seeeIAer.
rHaving taken the basement under the Lib.
108 Washington street. South Norwalk
ngfitted it for
ALL KINDS
PLUMBING,
I respectfully solicit a share of' publicp atron
age. I refer to plumbingI Ihave donei') HMetEk
r& 00. All work will have my personal sup-
ervision, and will be prom tly executed and
satisfaction guaranteed. ive me a trial. y
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plete stock of
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Which includes novelties in
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A Full line of material constantly on
hand.
MOURNING LOANED‘
For a small consideration.
.We will furéiligh you with any COR-
T you wish.
we have the agency for the .
MADAME OBISWOLD OOHSET.
Hair Goods of all Kinds!
Combings made up at the Lowest
Pric__e_s,
Misses St. John,
33 MAIN STREET.
coop
Paying Pesiiiens
Secured for graduates of
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I22 FAIRFIELD AVENUE,
BBIDGEPOBT, - - - - CONN.
THREE DEPARTMENTS :
Business,
Telegraphy,
Stenegraphy
AND Typewriting.
Best of references furnished. Call or write
for circular.
I. F. GRIFFIN, Principal. ".3
THE.
National Bank,
0F NORWALK.
$240,000.
CAPITAL. - - '-
E. HILL, President.
J.ILH L.Vice—President.
H. P. PRICE, Cashier.
SAFE DEPOSIT VAULT.
Containing two hundred and fifty-five
(255) steel safes, also an apartment for
the temporary or permanent storage of
silverware, valuables, &c., will be com-
pleted on July 18th. Safes, $5 and up-
ward per year, according to size. En-
trance to Safe Deposit department will'
rill work, thus .
be through heavy iron
adding to security. aiting room,
private compartments, and all Omodern
conveniences will be provided. The
Bank respectfully invites the public to
call and inspect the vault on and after
July 18th.
Persons desiring choice of location
should call at the bank and selectasafe
now 338 tf
AH HUYIIISON
Gentleman’s Russet Leather
Shoes, from
$2.00 to $4.00!
Ladies’ Patent Leather Ties,
$1.25 to $2.001-
per pair.
Children’ s and Misses’ Patent
Leather Cloth Top Shoes.
SPECIAL SALE!
$3.50 Sh0es for
$3.00!
‘ ‘ until June 18th.
A. H. HOYT & SONX
37 Wall Street.
Lovers of Good Coffee
TRY OUR
FANCY GOLDEN JANA,
And you will use no other. For sale by
C. L. Glover,
DEALER IN
Choice Fancy Groceries,
35 WALL STREET. . 4141W
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intercom/inns
.. ' Reasonable prices
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oreqon’s writ! Catac-
It is not generally known that' in sev-
eral localities in this State there are ani-
mals running wild which have descended
from domestic ancestors, says the Sno-
homish, Ore., Sun. In Pacific, Chehalis
and Mason counties there is a remnant
of a herd of wild cattle which have
roamed through the woods and over the
prairies of that portion o‘the State for
years. Many years ago a military post
was maintained on Gray’s Harbor, and
adjacent to this post was a large amount
of cleared land, which was cultivated by
the soldiers as a farm.
The troop owned a largeInumber of
cattle, which pastured on part of the
garrison ranch. The pest was suddenly
abandoned for Some reason, and the sol-
diers found it impossible to drive their
cattle with them. They were left in the
pasture adjoining the fort and were un-
cared for. There were no settlements,
or next to none, on the harbor or in Che-
halis Valley at that time, consequently
the cattle roamed undisturbed where
they pleased.
Notwithstanding the scanty fare which
they often found, and the depredations
' of the black wolves that then infested
the woods along the coast, the cattle in-
creased in numbers very rapidly and
proved a source of constant annoyance
to early settlers. Fences were broken
down, crops destroyed and tame cattle
coaxed off to the woods. Many of the
animals were killed by parties organized
to exterminate them, and the remainder
of the herd has been driven well up into
the skirts of the Olympics and into the
coast iange east and south of. Grey’s
Harbor. ., I
The Custom in Quito.
It is customary in the town of Quito
when a visitor takes off his hat upon
entering a room to beg him to put it on
again, and in the absence of permission
leave is generally requested. This, it
is said, arises from apprehension that
cold will be taken by remaining un-
covered The 53. me persons upon going
out of doors take off their hats to flashes
of lightning, no matter whether min is
falling, .and when the streets are busy
and lightning is abundant a grotesque
effect is produced by these salutaticns,
which seem to be regarded as a, duty by
well-behaved persons, and are performed
as punctilicusly as the homage which
is paid to religious piecesszcns when
they are in sight.
“ Do you know that since I 51111 inflam-
mation of the brain my :,:.c1n0ry has
suffered immensely. For instance, in
three or four days I shan’t remember
what I have been doing to day.”
“Is it possible? Apropos—could you
lend me a. hundred marks for a, week?”
-—The Blumenleso. -*—-—~-—-i
UNITED STATES HOTEL
EUROPEAN and AMEBIBAN PLAN
P1111111,WeteraIIIPearl Sts. , N. Y.
GEO. P. HEIPLING, Prop.
Befurnished, new eleV ator and all modern
improv ements.
American plan 52 per day and upwards, ac-
cording to location of rooms.
European plan, single rooms, 750 and $1.50.
Double rooms 51. 50 to $3. 00 per day.
Npecial terms by the wee
ew York elevated railroad depot in hotel
Five minutes walk to New Haven. Hartford
it: Bridgeport, Cly de A: Mallory Steamslhlip
mes. ~1 y
BUILDING LOTS
(ON INSTALLMENT PLAN.)
FOR SALE,
On -:- Wilton -:- Avenue,
APPLY TO
Charles . Olmstead.
Norwalk ~:~ Gazette
J III] P11111111 Establishment.
Wedding Cards, Posters.
Visiting Cards, Handbills,
\ Business Cards. Programmes.
Fancy Show Cards, Dodgers,
Ball Cards. Billheads.
Statements, Circulars.
Tag Cards, Receipts
Hotel Registers, Letterhead
Books and Pamphlets, Notcheads,
Town and Probate Records Milk Tickets
WI’H’ntea in the Neatest Styles and at )1
Lowest Prices
Unlike Ina-Butch Preeese
—-OR—
Other Chemicals
. are used in, the
preparation of
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* Breakfast cocoa,
which is absolutely pure
, and soluble.
It has more than three times the strength
of Coc0a mixed with Starch, Arrowroot
or Sugar, and is far more economical,
costing less than one cent a cup. It.
is delicious, nourishing, and mum:
DIGESTED.
Sold by Grocers everywhere.
W. Baker 8161., Derelrester, Mass.
N3. Hafi', ’1‘.
Be Young Agam.
Who that is gray does not wish that
the hair should resume its youthful
growth and tint, and to counteract the
ravages that dandruff and dryness of
the scalp produce in advanced life. Be
sides this, many persons in early years
lose their hair and turn prematurely gray
Use WALNUT LEAF HAIR RE-
STOREB, healthful, clear, with no
sediment whatever, which leaves no
stains, and restores absolute vitality to
the hair. Price one dollar per bottle.
Green Mountain Grape.
The Hoyt’s, at their New Canaan nur-
sery, will, in the course of a week or ten
days, be able to make one of the finest
exhibits ever seen of their justly famed
Green Mountain Grapes. The product
of bunches of fruit on their vines was
so enormous that some little time since
they went over their vineyard and
picked off two barrels of bunches and
threw them away in order to the better
perfect the remaining bunches. The
longer this new seedling is tried, and
the better it becomes known, the more
truthfully assured is the Pomclogist’ s
statement that this grape is “the won-
der of the horticultural world.”
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The Grand List.
The Comptroller’s report on the
grand lists of the towns of the state
shows the total grand list for 1891 on
which the taxes of the current year are
levied 18 $372, 876, 453. The gain for the
year is $4,725, 651. The grand list by
counties is: Hartford, $92, 133, 946;
New Haven, $100, 486. 991; New Lon-
don, 337, 357, 897; Fairfield, 1570, 608, 018;
Windham, $18, 005, 013; Litchfield, $27-
137, 069, Middlesex, 318, 609,877, and
Tolladd, $8, 537, 642.
New Haven has the largest grand
list of all the cities, being $51, 995, 329,
Hartford is second with a list of $47, -
912, 501, and Bridrreport third, the list
being 324, 881, 587 '.>
The action of Carter’s Little Liver
Pills is pleasant, mild and natural.
They gently stimulate the liver, and
regulate the bowels, but do not purge.
They are sure to please. Try them.
Sudden Death.
Mi. Henry Schaub d1ed very sudden-
]y at his home in South Norwalk Tues-
day. He was first taken sick on Sun-
day with inflammation of the bowels,
but it was not thought that his condi-
tion was dangerous, until about 8 o ’clk.
Tuesday eve ’g, when he commenced to
grow worse, and from that time to his
death at 9 o’clock, suffered great ago-
ny Deceased was born in New York
about thirty.three years ago, and with
his parents removed to South Norwalk
abouttwenty- -four cars since. During
the past few years e has been engaged
in the shoe business on Washingtonc st.
with his father. He was a member of
the Arion Singing Society, Butler
Lodge,I . O. Colfax Encamp-
ment and Heine’s Band. He was well
known, and had a large circle of friends
in town. He leaves a wife. The fune-
ral was held at 2 o’clock this after-
noon.
... <
Constipation is positively cured by
Carter’s Little Liver Pills. Not by
purging and weakening the bowels, but
by regulating and strengthening them.
This 13 done I’by improving the diges-
tion and stimulating the liver to the
proper secretion of bile, when the
bowels will perform their customary
functions in an easy and natural man-
ner. Purgative pills must be avoided.
Ask for Carter’s Little Liver Pills.
Price 25 cents.
A $400 Monument for a Pillow.
Tuesday eve’ 0 James Landrigan, be-
coming weary, awent into the marble
yard on Main street, sat down and
pulled off his shoes He then selected
a $400 monument for a pillow and
plac 11g his feet against the outer walls
of an undertaking establishment lay
down, his eyes turned toward the star-
spangled heavens. Tiring of gazing
at the big dipper which he no doubt
wished was full and within his reach,
he fell asleep, and soon was snoring like
a steam backed fog horn. The noise
attracted the attention of Officer Mar-
tin, and going to the \ :wd he awoke
“Jimmy” from his perceful slumbers,
and bidding him to get up and dress
himself. escorted him to the station-
house where he was placed out of
harm’s way. Wednesday he was pro-
vided with a carte blanche for a some-
what extended visit in the Count hotel
at Bridgeport, where he will fee quite
at home as he has been there before
many a time.
Why don’t you trv Carter’ s Little
Liver yPills. 9 They are a positive cure
for sick headache, and all the ills pro-
duced by disordered liver. Only one
pill a dose.
Y-HMCA
A meeting of the Young Men’s Chris-
tian Association was held last evening.
. After transacting routine business and-
voting to renew the subscriptions to
the publications on file at theY. M. C.
A, the directors appointed the follow-
lowing committees:
Executive—N. Dicker-man, T. S.
Morison and H. B. Wigham.
Finance—Ira Cole, W. A. Curtis,E ~.
.L. Boyer, J. F. Hall andR. G. Han-
ford.
Membership—E. Chasmar, H. W.
Doty, H. A. Smith, F. J. Curtis andC.
H. Downs.
Rooms and Library—C. A. Tucker,
G. R. Merritt, R. G. Mitchel, F. Vail,
and H. B. Wigham.
Entertainment—J. A. Pinneo, L. G.
Rayménd, F. . Vail, R. G. Hanford,
C. E. Curtis, V. S. Selleck, W. N. Si-
mons,andJ. Hopson.
Reception—W. N. Simons De W. L.
Weed, W. E. Smith, F. S. Ambler, E.
Chasmar, H. W. Doty, W. H. Selleck,
W. J. Leland, Robt. J. Mitchell, W.
N. Half, C. Slauson, H. A. Smith, W,
Hubbell, F. VanHoosear, E. L. Brush.
F. Doty, C. S. Selleck, W. Oldfield,
W. I. Comstock, A. I). Ferris, E.
Hyatt, D. C. Allen, E Demmon, W.
' Richardson, H. Chittani.
' Educational—H. B. Wigham, C. A-
Tucker, J. E. Johnson, W. C. Foote, J.
A. Pinneo, P. N. Knapp, and G. E.
Thompson.
vanasium—Dr. W. L. Weed J.F
Hall, G. R. Merritt, W. Oldfield, W.
Richardson, and N. Hun-
teVisitinv Sick—H. W. Doty, J. Hun-
ter, and Do owns.
Literary—W. E. Smith, C. A. Tucker
and E. H. Gumbart. ,
ABOUT PRECIOUS STONES.
INTERESTING OLD LEGENDS
CONCERNING THEM.
SOME
The Fir-at Ring and Stone—lactic- of
Diamonds and fighters—The Wonder-
fol Cabanas—Virtue! of “10.15111:—
Amethylts and Opals—like Rare Judo.
The father of jewelry was Prome-
theus. When he was cut loose by Her.
cules from the chains that fastened him
to Mount Caucasus he made a ring out
of one of the links of his fetters, and in
the bezel of it be fixed a portion of the
rock. According to Pliny, that was the
first ring and the first stone. Hebrew
tradition says that the tablets of Moses
were of sapphire. In Hebrew the word
sappir means the most beautiful. It
symbolizes loyalty, justice, beauty, and
nobility. The emerald is mentioned by
St. John in his Apocalypse. An emerald
of inestimable value ornamented the
bezel of the ring of Polycrates, King of
Smos. The monarch, having been all
his life favored by fortune, determined
toput'his luck to a severe test. He
threw the r'mginto the sea. The next
day he went fishing. The record of that
day's sport still remains unbroken. His
majesty caught a fine fish and in the in-.
side of the fish he found his ring. That
happenedintheyeor2300f the founda-
tion of Rome, and the ring, considered
as a talisman, was placed among the
royal treasures of‘tho Temple of Concord.
The diamond has always been regarded
as the most precious stone. It resist:
the hardest bodies. The Pontifl Aaron
worea diamond of astounding virtues.
It became obscure, almost Back, when
the Hebrews. were in a state of mortal
sin. If the guilty deserved death it be-
came red, but in the presence of inno-
cence it came back to its original purity
aid brilliancy. The diamond was re;
p‘uted as a preserver against epidemics
and poisons. It calms anger and foments
conjugal love. The anoients called it
“the stone, of reconciliation.” It sym-
bolizes constancy, strength, and 111110
canoe.
The name of the precious stone in-
serted in the ring of Gyges has not been
handed down to us, but it is probable
that it was the topaz whose wonders
Philostrates recounts in the life of Apol-
lonius. An attribute of the sun and of
fire, the ancients called it the gold mag-
net, as it was credited with the power of
attracting that metal, indicating its
veins, and discovering treasures. He-
liodorus, in his storyof Theagenes and
Charicles, says that the topaz saves from
fire all those who wear it, and that Cha-
ricles was preserved by a. topaz from the
fiery vengeance of Arsaces, Queen of
Ethiopia.
Onle the rarest and most precious
stones is the carbuncle, which is some
times confounded with the ruby, from
which it differs by the intensity of its
fires, produced by an internal lustreof
gold, while under the purple of the ruby
there only appear (‘10th of azure or
lacquer, Ethiopia produced the most
precious ancient carbunclss. The Chal-
deans regarded this stone as a powerful
talisman. Legend makes the eyes of
dragons out of carbuncles. Garcias ab
Horto,'physician of one of the Vicéroys
of India, speaks of Carbuncles which he
saw in the palace of that prince which
were so extraordinary in their brilliancy
that they seemed “ like red hot coals in
the midst of darkness.”
The ruby is valued highest when it
contains the least azure. The largest.
ruby that history speaks of belonged to
Elizabeth of Austria, the wife of Charles
IX 'It was almost as big as: hen’s egg.
The-virtues attributed in rubles are to
banish sadness, to repress luxury, and to
drivea'way annoying thoughts. At the
sometime it symbolizes cruelty, anger,
and carnage, as “well as boldness and
bravery. A change in its color announces
calamity, but whenthe trouble is over
it regains its primitive lustre. The
amethyst, so called from the Greek Ame-
thustos, meaning "not drunk,” was a
favorite stone among the Roman ladies.
Its principle virtue was to draw away the
vapors of inebriety from the brain. It
also drove away evil thoughts and at-
traaedtotts possessor the favors of
princes.
The oped, fallen mom its ancient
splendor, is today called an unlucky
stone, even by those who laugh at old
superstitions, but it once held a high
rank among precious stones. The belief
that it attracted misfortune was founded
on a Russian legend which found its
way into France. The Empress Eugenie
had a horror pf an opal. At sight of one
inthe Tuileries she manifested terror.
t'had the effect of lowering the price
of; he stone
The turquoise is considered as a talis-
mzninPersia,its native soil..It pre.'
serves its possessor from accidents and
insure constancy in afiections. The
value of the turquoise depends on its
shade and its size, especially its thick-
ness. Those classed as belonging to the
old rock are valued very highly. Em-
blem of youth, of sentiment, and tender
recollections, the turquoise may be called
the forget-me not of stones. It breaks
on the death of its proprietor, and it
changes color when he is ill.
The most precious of all stones, ac-
cording to Dr. dc Lignieres, is thejade,
on account of its rarity, its extraordinary
qualities, and the mystery of its cutting.
It was regarded as a sacred stone, and
nobody had a right to possess it except a
prince of the imperial blood. Argerius
Clutius, a. famous physician in‘Amster-
dam at the time of the Renaissance, pub-
lished a work on the jade, or nephritic
stone, as it'was. then called, on account
of its action on the renal system. At
the some period Italian authors spoke ‘of
the jade as osiada, and discussed its
wonderful powers for healing sciatica.
The legends surrounding this stone
abound in history. Good specimens of
jade are extremely rare, and the world
isataloss to know how the Chinese
manag to out it, becauseitissoex-
bemel that nothing can make an
impression uponit—Figaro. _ ‘ .
Advertise in the Gamma.
11111 1111111111 ELEPHANT.
HOW IT WAS TRAINED AND USED IN
WAR IN ANCIENT TIMES.
Elephants in “Early Egyptian Conflicts.
Hannibal Used .Them In all Ills Great
Battlco— Some “’ondenul Per-form-
‘ Incas by Elephants In Other ”III--
The idea is very generally held that
the African elephant is not susceptible of
beingtamed and used as a working-ani-
mal like his cousin of India. This idea.
however, is erroneous.
elephant is fully as intelligent and as
docile as the Indian elephant. Most of
the elephants which are exhibited in
menagerios and circuses, many of them
in a high state of training, come from
Africa. The ancient historians tell'us
also that for more than 500 years the
African elephant was captured and
trained for service in the armies and for
useasabeast of burdenaudincircuses.
The period when the elephant of north
Africa was most utilized for these various
purposes was between about 285 B. C.,
and 250 A. D.
The African elephant is easily dil-
tinguishable from the Asiatic species by
the convexity. of his face, the great
length of his tusks, and particularly by ,
theenormous size of his ears. Today he
is not found north of the desert of Sahara.
When he was largely utilized by man,
however, he was found in great, troops
not only in upper Egypt, but also in the
forests of Morocco and Algeria. It was
somewhere between the third and seventh
century of the Christian era that the
elephant finally disappeared from north
Africa.
All the early him-isms have some-
thing to tell us about the use of the
African elephant in warfare. It was 270
years B. 0., when one of the Ptolemaic
rulers of Egypt used elephants in war
against the Indian elephants of his
enemy, and at the battle of Raphia the
Indian animal showed his superiority as
afighter to his African relative. All the
elephants in the army (f Egypt’s ruler
were killed in combat with the elephants
of Antiochus.
The Carthagmiaus, seeing that Egy pt
was constantly extending her territory
toward the west, desired to place her
.army on a footing equal to that of
Egypt’s military establishment. They
thereupon made elephants of war a prom-
inent feature of their force. Hundreds
of men were sent into the forests along
the foot of the Atlas Mountains, where
great huts were organized for the cap—
ture of elephants, who were destined to
play an important part in the two first
Punic wars. Much has been written
about the role that 1African elephants
played during the wars between the
Carthaginians and the Romans. We
know that Hannibal crossed the Pyre-
nees with forty elephants, and he had
thirtyseven when he arrived on the
banks of the Rhone after his terrible
journey: In the Alps his heavy laden
elephants had the greatest dif-
ficulty in crossing the snowy
passes along the narrow paths. On
one part of the route the army halted
for three or four days while the
soldiers were making a road for the ele-
phants, and when the animals finally
arrived in Italy they were so weakened
by their hardships and privations that
they could hardly stand. Hannibal,
however, made conspicuous use of ele-
phants in all the big batth he fought in
Italy, in Spain and in Africa. In the
year202 B. 0., when the power or Car-
thage finally crumbled,the Carthaginians I
agreed in the treaty they made with
Rome that they would never again use
elephants in warfare.
After the Roman conquest of Africa
the elephant assumed a more pacific role,
though he still figured' in battles against
gladiators and animals such as bulls and
tigers. He played his part in festival
games and on occasions of spectacles and
great ceremonies. The stories that some
of the later historians tell of the feats
performed in the circus by trained ele-
phants are almost incredible. Pliny tells
of seeing one day four elephants bearing
another upon a litter. On another occa-
sion at number of elephants were turned
loose in a hall filled with people who
were lying upon couches, and the ele-
phants stepped over all the couches
without touching the occupants. A
dozen elephants owned by-Germanicus
executed a charade in dramatic costume.
The males were clad in togas and the
femalosin tunics. After the parade a
collation was served to the elephants in
the presence“ of a great crowd, and the
spectators were very much amused and
astonished by the courtesy with which
the animals passed plates from one to
another, and in other ways showed their
good breeding.
In the games which Nero instituted in
honor of Agrippina we are told that'
the elephants “danced upon tight ropes,
and a very remarkable story is told of
an elephant in the reign of Galba, which,
in charge of- a trainer, mounted upon a
rope extending from the ground to the
top of the circus and descended again
into the arena along the same narrow
pathway. Suetonius vouchos for the
truth of this story. The Emperor
Adfian'used elephants for a more useful
purpose in the famous enterprise when
he showed the ability of the ancients to
carry out works of great mechanical and
engineering difficulty. He employed
eighty elephants to move the famous
Colossus of Nero and transport it to the
new site he had selected for it. Upon
the backs of African elephants, also,
were borne in handsome palanquins the
images of the gods and of the emperors
upon_‘great ceremonial occasions. The
grand fetes by which the thousandth'
anniversary of the foundation of Rome
was celebrated are believed to have been
the last occasion on which“ the African
elephant took part in great numbers. in-
these public displays. , It was about 248
A. D... that the Roman Government
ceased to support the large-depots of ele- ‘
phants it had maintained. From this
time these animm'appeared no longer in
the amphitheatre of Romel—p-N. Y. Sup.
’ Adversisein th ’
The African.
Gamma, , e
Norwalk Chronicler