w EE ELY E’o‘Ew-A. LK ,G A z E Y Y E '
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GREAT EXCITEMENT 2
”300101000 HOYT’S‘!
We are selling $35 DOllar Bedroom Sets at-$31; $25
Dollar Sets at $18; Parlor Sets worth $35 for $25.
These are dull-time prices. .
We shall offer $1.50 Wrappers at $1.25, and $2.00
Wrappers at $1.59. ‘ _
Our CARPET STOCK is now complete.
some big drives at 50 cents.
New lot of RUGS to-day, cheap. . I
We have taken $2500 worth of IBUTTRICK’S' PAT-
TERNS, and can supply allsizes. , ~ - ;
‘ SCOFIELD.& HOYT,
NORWALK AN D SO, NORWALK.
We have
’ NUHWALK HflUS SEH AP!
$6000
6000
3500
- 3500
12-Room House, Maple Street,
11 “ “ Elm Street, - ~ -
19 “ ’ “I Leonard Street, " ’
11 “ ‘.‘ West Main Street, -
16 "‘ " ' "‘ Leonard Street, 3000
Chestnut Street, . - 2600
FIRE. LIFE AND ACCIDENT
: 1.2m Unaware.
Best Companies! L0Wcst Ratesll
one. Lockwoon,
No. 2' so. Main Street, 280. Norwalk,
u. “
WEET POTATOE 6.
WE are having shipments made to us every day direct from the South
of the very BEST QUALITY
Sweet Potatoes!
The trade supplied at the very lowest market price every day by the
Holmes, Keeler & Selleck Company,
wnonnsann Gnocnns.
I000 MEN’S PANTS I
I $1.00 To $6.50.
' 300 Business Suits.
$4.50 T0 $8.00; '
300 FINE SUITS, $8.00 TO $20.00. _
TAFT 3305., 23 Wall St. N orwallr.
Fatal Accident
To high prices for meats in Norwalk. The People’s Market will celebrate its
first anniversary on Saturday, Sept. 17th, 1892, with the following prices: ..
Pprterhouse Steak, 18 cents Bumps, whole, 8 cents
Salom, “ 14 “ Bumps, half, 8 to 12 “‘
Bound, “ 11 “ Sperry & Barnes’ Hams, 14 “
Shoulder, ‘ ‘ 8 “ “ ‘ ‘ Shoulders, 10 ‘ ‘
Bib Roast, 8 to 12 “ Corned Beef, 5 to 14 “
Bread and Butter, 11 “ Spare Rib, 12 “
cup, 3 “ Hind Quarters Lamb, 15 “
Plate Beef, 4 .“ Fore “ “ 10 “
Did somebodyItell you we were played out? Just come and see the liveliest
corpse Within 20 m1les. Yours Respectfully, _
E. J. 'WADHAMS,
Telephone Call 57-3. ProprietOr People’s Market, 21 Wall Street.
. Java and Mocha — justly called “ The Aristocratic Coffee of America!
3 , , ~. This is the Code served in the J apaneee Garden at the Pure Food Exhibition.
" ' Always packed whole , roasted (unground) in 2 lb. air-”tight , cans.
You can get free 24 beautiful photographs of Eastern Life. Address,
- CHASE a SANBORN. Boston.'Mae_s. _ ‘
' We‘re]: only to the undo.
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. ‘ carries wears
They Are Lesa Than Half What American
Working-Classes Hair
New Yoax, Sept. lit—After a thorough
investigation of the condition ‘of the
laboring classes in Great Britain, Na-
thaniel McKay, a well-known Republi-
can and protectionist, has returned to -
this country with a strong belief in the
wisdom of the McKinley tariff. . His of-
fice, at No. 15 Whitehall street, looks like
a museum. It is decorated with the
chains forged by English girls working
for 30 cents a day; shoes made by under-
aid workmen, and textile fabrics made
11 the mills of free trade England. They
furnish many a strikin object lesson of
the evils of an industr al system which
kee s the Working classes in poverty.
r. McKay visited every art of Eng-
land and went into mines, actories and
mills and talked with the workmen; he
ate at the same table with them and
visited them in their homes. He has re-
turned to New York with statistics
which. when made public, will effectually
show; the many benefits ofa protective
tari . . "
“There are hundreds of En lish facto-
ries and work. houses,” said ' r. McKay
today, “which are deserted but the "elec-
tion of Grover Cleveland would open
every one the next day, and they would
be sending their goods into the markets
of the United States to crush out our
home industries. The English have sup-
plied South America with their goods,
and have prevented the development of a
single important manufacturing indus-
try in mariy of the Latin-Americd’n re.
publics. hey would do the same with
the United States. You can’t talk to
many men in the British Empire who are
not down on the McKinley act. In free
trade En lend the wages are less than
half of vs at they are here.”
SYMPATHY AT WASHINGTON.
The Condition of” Mrs. Harrison a. Cause
«for General Regret at the Capital.
Wasuxxorox, Sept. 16.—‘-Though it has
been known that the President’s. closest
friends have privately statedit, for. sev-
eral weeks past, that Mrs. Harrison was
a very sick woman, and that“; was doubt-
ful if she would ever be well again, no
one here, not even the members .of the
President’s cabinet 'nor his secretaries,
suspected, until the physician’s bulletin
was made public today, that she was suf-
fering from pulmonary disease in an ad-
vanced stage, still less that the disease
was aggravated by dropsy. Extreme nor.-
vous prostration was known and admit-
ted. But the false stories circulated
about internal cancer ' led .all‘ other ru-
mors to be regarded as Icqu'al—ly unfound-
eae ' . '
Mrs. Russell Harrison, wife of the
President’s son. who is here, says that
when she last saw Mrs. Harrison, the day
before they parted for the summer, . the
President’s wife was full 0. I buoyant
plans as to what sheawould do On her re-
turn to the White House, and she dis-
cussed in dela-l the rufurnishing of the
cottare at Cape May Point. ,Dr. Scott,
Mrs. Harrison’s aged father“ nearly 90
years'old, who on his way back from
Cape May Point has ‘stopped for a. day or
two near Philadelphia, will learn for the
first time of his daughter’s illness from
the newspapers. It has been~ thought
advenblc, on account of his advanced
age, not to inform him before that any
aprrehenszon of serious results was felt.
Sympathy with the President in his
afllictpn is universal, and is not .bound-
ed by party politics. ‘
CORBETT IN BOSTON. ' I.
The Champion Pugiiist to Appear atoms
ii ub Tomorrow Night.
BOSTON, Sept. iii—Champion James J.
Corbett has consented to appear in the
princxpal eastern cities and show how he
whipped the big fellow. Boston, of
course, will be visited, and the Califor-
nian has arranged to appear with an en—
tertalnment com; any at the Grand Opera
House tomorrow, Friday, night. One of
the features of tne show' will be a set-to
between the champion and his sparring
partner, Jim Daly. ' '
Corbett has been showered with all the
honors that could ,.be conferred upon
him, yet he has been chivalrous toe hi h
degree toward his fallen antagonist. is
engagement on the stage would have be-
gun sooner had it not been that be de-
sired to add in everiway possible to the
success of the John Sullivan benefit at
Madison Square Garden Saturday night.
Knowing that Boston, which gaveISul-
liven birth, was anxious to behold the
man who ' defeated the great pugllist.
Corbett'refused all other 03ers made him
in other cities, and consented to come to
this city. I ,
After the performance Mr. Corbett will
I ' hurry back to New York to appear at the
Sullivsn benefit, to which he has given
his service gratis, and $500 for a privavII
,-
The Disease in Paris. . .
Pants, Sept. 16.—Up to 8' o’clock Wed-
nesday night there were eight cholera
deaths in this city. This is two deaths
less than occurred Tuesday.- lib-new
oales were reported in Paris. I -
- Weather Indioiflou
Wasnmorozv, Sept. lit—For New Eng.
land, fair, cooler, “telly win“; 90;
eastern New York, fair, slightly my."
westerly winds. .
, FIRST INTRODUCED
List of Patents.
List of Patents issued from the U. S. Patent
Office, September 13th. 1892. for the State .‘of
Connecticut. furnished us from the office of
Esau: & SEYMOUR. Solicitors of Patents. 868
Chapel Street. New Haven. Conn.
J. B.IBohner. Assi .
Ansoma. extension c andelier.
It. _A. Booth. Assrgnor to Ives. Blakeslee dz
Williams Co.BrIidgeport,toy extension ladder.
C. S. Cole, Bridficport. neck-tie, or band.
T. M. Lincoln, _ artford. stove for heating
ovens forIaDpamn . enamelmg and glazing.
. . ilIdrum. erlm,Ass1 or one-half to
W. H. Honiss.Hartford penci clasp.
J. c. Perkins and L. 10. Lei h. Assignor to
Merlden curtain fixture 00.. hIeriden. spindle
t1 fa); slpnp‘gslliage rollerst. N 'D
. . ocI we . ssignor o ew e arturc
Bell Co.,Br1stol. bell. . p
FaiIlield Bounty Savings Bank.
Norwalk Ct.,Sept. 15,, 139-2.
INTEREST at the rate of four (4) percent
per annum.fro_m the earnings of the current
six months. Will be credited to depositors
October 1st. and paid to them on and after
October 10th. 1892.
J. H. BAILEY. Treasurer.
ConnectiCut": .
STATE FAIR & RACES
AT MERIDEN PARK AND RINK,
SEPTEMBER 20, 21. 22', 23. 1892
IncreasingJ in interest each year. Special at-
tractions. arge additions. Races ea‘ch da
for large urses, Come and see the record
broken. ‘ xcurslons on all railroads. . -.
W. I . Axnnoss. ISec’y. East Hartfordéggs.
. - - ' ' 36' -
or to Wallace (It Sons.
HISTORY or THE HOOPSKIRI‘.
I m 1859 AND
succztoro BY THE susnt.
. The First Hoopskirta Were Very Bulky
AMI-LT!“ Changes of Fashion—The
hedecessor of the Hoopskirt in the
Seventeenth Century—Early Ideas.
The lady who invented the old steer I
hoopskirt, with tilting attachments.
died the other day at the ripe age of
seventy-two, says the Cincinnati Times-
Star. No more appropriate epithet could
be conceived for her stone than the.
words with which the messageconvey- I
ing this intelligence was closed:
“ And she wore a tilting skirt to the
very last.” . -
To the present generation hoopskirt-
dam is a terra incognita and the tilting
skirt an almost extinct species. Indeed,
the last of its kind was perhaps to be
laid away with the person of its invent-
or. But- the elders still cherish the
memory of the day when the; skirt
flourished in its full breadth and circum-
ference.
One whose memory goes back to that
bygone day says: “I think. the hoop-
‘skirt was first generally introducedabout
the year 1859. The idea was of slow
growth. It did not spring out full-
grovm by any means. At first pieces of
stifi rope of small dimensions were
sewn into the skirts, three or four suffi-
cient to answer the purpose. Then the
steel wire was used and covered with
cloth, and the hoops increased in number
'in proportion as they grew in size. It
Was a strange fashion, We say, as. we
look back upon it, but there have been
stranger, and there is no accounting for
fashion. ‘ ' _
“ For a‘ few years following the close
of the war the hoopskirt _ was the sine
qua non Of a woman’s make-up, and the
wider-"it spread its dominiOns the wider
it spread its hoops. The tide of its
popularity reached, its flood about 1868,
and it was about that time the so-called
‘ tilting skirt ’ came in vogue.
.“ This was a skirt with an outline very
much like the lower lines of the letter R.
The tilting was carried to such an ex-
treme that the skirt soon became the
mark of the vulgar, and from that day
its decline commenced. In four years its
power had so waned that its wearer was
regarded as rather eccentric, and in half
a dozen years it was rarely to be seen.
“The fashion no doubt received its
greatest impetus from the tradesmen.
It was an expensive conceit, not 'in itself,
but in what it led to. In 1864 the range
in prices from cheapest to best was from
$1.50 to $6. But in its extreme form it
contained 120 feet of wire, and the lower
hoop was four or five feet in diameter.
This necesm'tated the use of nearly twice
as much cloth for the making of a dress
as is now used. It took twelve yards to
make a'dress in those days where it re-
quires. seven now. Of course the trades-
men did all they could to make the hoop-
skirt popular, and perhaps upon them
rests the responsibility of having created
this strange work of fashion. '
“ The reaction was not sudden,I how-
ever. The period of decline lasted about
eight years, from'1868 to 1876, and even
after that it remained in a form so dis-
guised as to entirely conceal its identity.
After ceasing to exist as a hoopskirt it
became a‘ bustle. Its mountainous di-
mensions shrunk to a mousetrap. The
historian of the fashion knows that the
bustle was evolved out of the hoopskirt,
and that for a time the latter seemed to
have gained a new lease of life. in its new
form. The bustle, swelled with a sense
of its importance, after a brief career of
dazzling success fell into disfavor
through its very successes. The hoop-
skirt is no more. The bustle is on its
last legs. Sic transit gloria mundi.”
But it is a mistake. to suppose that the
hoopskirt dates back only to the ’50’s.
In 1715 petticoats had grown to such a
degree that a writer says: " If men also
adopted the old fashion of trunk hose 3
man and his wife would £21 a whole pew
in a church." In a letter to the Spectat-
or is thefollowing account of hoops :3]
“ Since your withdrawing from the
place the fair sex are run into great ex-
travagances. Their petticoats, ‘which
began to swell and heave befOre you left
us, are now blown up into a most enor- ‘
mous concave,_.and rise everyday more
and more. As the humor of a. sick per-
son is often driven out of one limbinto
,another, their superfluity‘ of ornaments
have fallen from their heads to their
lower parts. ' ' ' I
“I What they have’lost in height they
make up in breadth, and contrary to all _
rules of architecture, widen the founda-
tions at the same time that they shorten
the superstructure. " Another writer
gives an account of the shapes and va.
rieties of this article. '
' ‘ The hoop,” he says, " has been known
to expand and contract itself from the
size of a butter-chum to the circumfer-
enCe of jthree 'hogsheads. At one time
it was sloped from the waist in a pyra-
midal form; at another it was bent up-
ward like an inverted bow, by which the
two angles, when squeezed upon both
sides, came in contact with the ears.” .
Car-go of Elephants.
." An elephant's shoulder is never still,”
is a Hindoo saying indicative of the rest-
lessness of the animal. Mr. J.‘ L. Kip-
ling, in his “ Man and Beast in India,”
tells how the animal’s passion for mov-
° g about once came near wrecking a
ship. - -
A batch of elephants were taken on
board at Calcutta, and the steamer went
down the Hooghly, and at night an-
chored oi! Sangor Point. The sea was
still asoil, but the ship rolled so much
that she was in danger of rolling over.
The elephants had found that by sway~
, ing to and fro all together, they could
s
produce a pleasant rocking motion.
As the ship had no other cargo, and
rode light, the captain was much fright-
ened. The mahouts were hurried down
into the hold, and. each one, seated on
,his own beast, made'h’im'“ break step;"
but theylrad to stay there for a long.
time' .—Youth's CompaniOn. '
Advertise in the Gamma. "
6mm. Psomlsls
Covering EntireBody with \Vhlte
Scales. Sumering Fearful.
. V Cured by Cutlcura.
My disease _(psorlasls) first broke out on my left - ~
hee , spreading across my- nose, and. out cov-’
erin my face.~' It ran into'm .‘e fand'the
physgician was afraid I would 13".. Thy. eyesight
altogether. It spread all over my head, and my
' ~ . - r all fell out, until 1 was
entirely bald-heeded; it then
broke out on my arms and,
: shoulders, until my arms were
just one sore. It .oov‘ere‘d n)
on body, my face,.he ,
and shoulders bein
The white scabs fe constantly
from in head, shoulders, and
arms; e skin would thicken
and be red and very itchy
and would crack an bleed
- if scratched. After a ndin
. . many hundreds of do lars,
l“ ’ was renounced incurable. I
heard of the Currcmu IHEDIES, and after using
two bottles CUTICUBA Rssonvam'J could see a
change; and after I had taken four bottles. I was
almost cured; and when I had used six bottlen of
Concern Rssonvrx'r, one box of Cartoons and
one cake of Cartoon Boar, I was cured of the
dreadful disease from which I had suffered for five
years. I cannot express with a pen what I sufiered
efore using the Rsnsnms. They saved nix life. and
I feel it my duty to recommend them. y hair is
estored as od as ever, and so is m eyesigln.
Mas. R SA KELLY, Rockwell it , Iowa.
Cuticura Resolvent
The new Blood Purifier. internally (to cleanse
the blood of all impurities and isonous elements),
and Cartoons, the great Skin are, and CUTICURA
SOAP, an exquisite.Skin Beautifler, externallymao
clear the skin and scalp and restore the hair), e
cured thousands of cases where the shedding of
scales measured a quart daily, the skin cracked
bleeding, burning, and itching almost beyond
endurance, hair lifeless or all gone, sufiering terri-
ble. What other remedies have made such cures?
Sold everywhere. Price, Currents, 50s.; Soap,
25c.; Rnsonvsx'r, $1. Prepared by the Forms
Dane AND Carmen. Conronsrron Boston.
rig-Send for “ How to Cure Skin Diseases,” 64
pages, 50 illustrations, and 100 testimonials.
PIMPLES, black-heads, red, rough, chapped,and
oily skin cured by CUTICURA Soar. ,
IT STOPS THE PAIN.
Back ache, kidney pains, weakness,
rheumatism, and muscular-pains rc-
» lievcd in one minute by the Cuti-
cura Anti-Pain Plaster. 25c.
MISS BIIRD’S INSTITUTE.
BOARDING AND BAY SGHIIIIL.
Thorough course of study in the English
M US I C, ranches.
A RT arm run I
LANGUAGES
This School for young ladies and children re-
opens on
Thursday, Sepz. 22
ENGLISH LITERATURE
AND .
NATURAL HISTORY
Will {31% made‘especially attractive and p rofi
a . '
Application for the admission of pupils should
be made before the opening of the School.
Circulars upon application.
mss I mm GODFREY,
D R ESS M A K ER,
194 MAIN STREET. - NORWALK.
s e onlv at the Boston Store. Norw
leading house for dressed and undressed kid
gloves in all lengths and s
DIES—Clean your own. loves with ' .-
Mosquetaire Kid Glove C eaner.
alk' the
. es. Sole agents
or Foster’s kid gloves. 1 347 1 yr
PROFESSIONAL.
MR1}. K. HERBICK. Iof Danbury. Teach-
-be in town next
-er of-the Banjo Will
440 1w
ursdsy. Inquire atHendee’s.
WANTEDI .
S
People’s Market. 21 Wall street.
. cheap. Apply at 86 Frank 11 avenue. Norggsilk
AFTER—Firehouse butcher. Wages.
15. per week. Apply-EH. Warrant?
”TEE—Plain Sewing at reasonable
rates. Inqmre of Mns.F. 8. Emma.
o. 1 Academy Street. 419 if
FOR SALE. .
OR. SALE—A Grand Shuare Piano, With
stool and cover com lets: will be sold
W
0R. SALE—The O’BrienIplace for sale or.
. toIrent. Inquire up stairs. 0. 0’ IEN.
the. Tailor. 31 Belden avenue. Norwalk. (533D?!-
OR SALE—A neat little cotta e of seven
. rooms on Union Place, and t rec mm-
ntes walk to Borough Bostofiice and Depot.
Price $2.500. $1.000 0 which can remain ermi-
nently and only $500 required to be per dowr .
Apply to Campus Ours'rmp. Agt. 276tf
T0 RENT:
0 BEN'IQ—House No. 6 Mott avenue. All
. modern improvements. Inquire on the
premises. - I440 lw
T0 RENT.‘—-Booms over DeKlyn’s Bakery
to rent. Inquire at the store. 439 tf
To RENE—5 pleasant Irooms. $8.50 per’
month: ossession Immediately. "Ap-
D1); to S. B. ILSON. Builder; 92 Wall streettt,
. .
0 BENT.—The store No. .10 Water stree..
lately occupied by Anton Stommel. PLATT
Pnron,Nerwalk. 22tf’
0R. BEN T.—The large Hall in Guam]:
liuerlxe. formerly occupied by- Our
broth ors ’ Lodge. I. 0. O. F.. and now fitted up
and used as a Commercial College.
Apply to CHARLES Omssrnsn. Agt
LOOK; I
At the LAMPS we are selling
for $1.33! They can’t be beat
for the money. Lightning Qt.
Jars, $1.35; Pts. $1.25.
Just received, an assortment of
the best ENGLISH PORCE-
LAIN. which we are SELLING
CHEAPER than the poorest
American \Vare. '.
H. H. WILLIAMS,
15 went. srsnnr.
PROFESSOR JOHN WHITTAKER
Associate of the College of Or amsts. ILon-
dOn.Ofianist and Director of t e Chou of
St. Pa ’5 Church. Norwalk; pup: of Dr.
Bridge (Organist and Director of the chair
Westminster Abbey, London Professor m the
Royal College of Music. liondon. Gresham
Professor oflllusic. and Examiner in Musw
University of Oxford)also of_other eminent
mastgrs. inspructs pupils 1n Pifinofimrtgufilay:
mg, rganp aymg. sm . an t IV
tion of the voice outhefiltnalian method of the
renowned Lampertl. Harmony, Counterpart.
and Composmon. and on the system of the
col egos of muslc. Distinguished references.
At ome Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays.
from 3 to 5 p. m. Besrdence, 86 Erankhn Ave-
nue. Norwalk. '75
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W. B. HALL & 00..
w. B. HALL aco.
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WE started tbe Fall season with a gratijjimg two-weeks Red .
Ticket Sale of ‘Dress- Goods.
WE bone a few broken lots remamz'ng over from Ibis sale ; very
desirable goods and suitable for any season of the 'yeam
We 5124!] close them out 41 least OWE THIRD Jess, tbcm
tbe market pride. .
Wan)» desirable styles for Cbz‘ldren’s School ‘Dressbs. '
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