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THE HAIR CUTTER
N o. 1 Gazette Building, Norwalk.
' HOT AND COLD BATES.
HENRY HUSS,
«Rootaurant, Gale and Smoking lioom,
GRAND CENTRAL DEPOT,
42d Street and 4th Avenue, New ”York
York.
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Entrance from waiting room of New
ew Haven & Hartford Railroad. _ ,
Wm. .- Lockwood," " ;
Real Estate,.1nsuranceland Investmen
' Securities.
. , ___M0Nr.'ir T0 LOAN.—
lusnrance Placed in First-Class Companies.
Office—Corner Main and Wall Sts.. Norwalk
. J. Belden‘ Hurlloutt,
inner and . Counselor at Law
ROOM 4, UP STAIRS,
Gazette Building, Norwalk. Co
Alex. 8. Gibson,
Organist of the First Congregationql Church
Waterbury, and Teacher 0
Pianoforte, Organ and
Musical Composition.
P. 0. Lock Box. NORWALK. CONN.
TNA INSRUANCE 00., of Hartford.
1E Incorporated 1812. Charter Perpetual.
Capital and’Assets, $8,902,272.64.
Insures against loss and damage by FIRE on
terms adapted to the hazard and consistent
' h l f om ensation.
“In” 6 “W50 (COWLES a MERRILL,
Sole agents for Norwalk and vicmity.
The dorsal Fire Insurance Co.
Has now Completed its
32d SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS YEAR,
And has not outstanding a dollar of unpaid
losses or claims for losses. No sound com
‘ any insm'esfor' less.
J. anvsx. Pres.; G. BEST. Jon‘s.
GEO. R. Cowmzs, Sec’y.
announced.
Geo. l-l. Raymond,
Furniture Dealer,
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Has removed to the new and commodious
tore four doors above his old stand and
tocked it with NEW GOODS of the LATES
TYLE and FINEST FINISH.
GEO. H. RAYMOND, Agent.
- urnisliing Undertaker and Embalmer.
Tress,
I give my personal attention to laying out
nd furnishing everything necessary for the
iterment of the dead.
sidence, No. 3 Berkeley Place. Norwalk.
Telephone communication with residence-
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A Full Stock of Furniture of all kinds.
'aror ad Bedroom Sets,
A Specialty.
DAVID STOW,
'ain Streetoeeseifie South Norwalk.
“HENRY TILLY.
ARRIAGE MAKER,
S O UTH N OR TVALIC, CONN.
—Manufacrnrer of—
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ALL KINDS OF REPAIRING.
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‘ DAMS EXPRESSCoMPANY,
ow Bates. Prompt Delivery
Branch Office, Norwalk, at Morris Benedict
. lain Office t Depot. South Norwalk.
‘ L. HUNT, Agent.
o. E. wr LSO N.
cncral Insurance and Reallstate hut
. MQNEY TO LOAN.
tocks. Bonds, etc., Bou ht and Sold
Loans Negotiated at 'lgowest Rates bf“
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may Plumbing and Ventilation and Low
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ENDORSED BY LEADING ARTISTS.
Catalogue Hailed on Application.
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NEW YORK CITY.
S. W. Gregory,
LIVERY, BOARD, FEED, SALE
AND EXCHANGE
STABLES,
14 Knight Street, - - Norwalk.
Alarge stock of new] purchased and care
fully selected Teams. 'arria es, c.
.Coaches, Carriages and Sa dle Horses fur-
nished at all hours. Careful drivers when
lesrred.
Omnibusses.
aways, thetons an
Telephone Call. ‘
Wagonettes. Coaches. Rock-
Light Road,Carriagtelsg.n
ETER L. GUIGUE, Florist and Nursery
man, Uuion Avenue, north of Union
Cemetery Norwalk. Conn. Dealer In Green
House and Hotfflouse and Bedding and Vege-
table Plants, Fruit and Ornamental Trees.
Shrubbery, Vines, Cut Flowers, always on
hand, and. all sorts of designs in flowers ar-
ranged orde
Grading
attended to.
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and refilling cemetery plots
rue FAIBFIELIJ couurr
Natio nal Bank.
CAPITAL, - $200,000.00
James. W. Hyatt, President.
Edwin 0. Keeler, Lewis. 0. Green.
Vice-Presrdent. Cashier.
DlRECTORS:
JAMES W.HYAT.T F.ST.JOHN LOCKWOOD.
EDWIN O. KEELER. DAVID H. MILLER.
IRA 00 E. MOSES H. GLOVER.
W. B. E. LOCKWOOD. LEVI WARNER.
Accounts of Manufacturers, Mer-
chants and Individuals Solicited.
THE Bank has recently placed in its
fire-proof vault, a burglar-proof
safe containing safe deposit boxes fo
the. convenicnce or their depositors
which they offer free oi charge.
ccialBargains
Banquet Lamps, _
Central Draft
Table Lamps,
FancyVaceLamps,
Library and
"Hall ames,
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FLASHES 9F HUMOR.
A bulky horse is not worth its wait in
anything—Troy Press.
tendon—Washington Star.
Jig-dancing music is the kind that
reaches the sole—Yonkers Statesman.
Manya man has been betrayed byakiss
after taking a drink of whiskey—Bing-
hamton Republican. ’\
A girl gives her lover a mitten, we sup-
Upose, because a pair is out of the ques‘
tion.—-Binghamton Leader.
' The best idea of aSabbath day’s jour:
hey i obtained when one tries to run
through a Sunday newspaper.——Loweil
Courier. .
“Well,” said the impatient street-car
conductor to the corpulent party trying
to catch the car, “ come ahead or else go
aioot.”-—-Lampoon.
Nevergo—I’m willing to wait a hundred
years to gain your love. Miss Tiredto-
death—it seems to me the time .must be
almost up.—-Detroit Tribune. .
“ I proposed to Miss Dingbatts last
evening.” “Ab! and how did she take
it?” “She didn't take it at all; she re-
fused it.”—Philadeiphia Record.
“ \Vhat do you mean by thrashing your
boy without provocation?” “ V‘Jell, you
.598, a busy man like me must discipline
his children when he happens to have
time.”-—Fliegendc Blatter.
'srus ENDS or THOUGHT.
No bird knows what it sings.
Truth should be tempered by expedi-
ency.
Hope seems to sit down to rest some-
times.
Contentment is the pleasant word for
decay.
Some hearts are useless until they are
broken.
The prettier a woman is the more she
needs something else.
One man cannot make a heaven that
will fit any other man.
The horses can’t be successfully hitched
tandem to the matrimonial car.
Cupid seldom shoots his arrow plumb
through the centers of two hearts.
Love is the intangible unrest, the
quintessence of what should be but is not,
the pleasure of pain, the happiness of
heartache, the alleged attainment of the
unattainable, the folly of feeling, the
definition of the undefinable, and about
ten thousand million other things we
are always seeking and never finding
with any degree of certainty.—Detroit
Free Press.
EDITORS ALL KNOW HIM.
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He doesn’t subscribe for your paper
because:
He has more papers now than he can
read.
He has no time to read, except nights
and his eyes are so poor that he can’t see
then.
He can’t afford to take all of them so
takes none.
He doesn’t think much of your paper
any how. “ It never has no news, not
nuthin’ else much.”
He can get a city weekly four times as
big as yours for the same price, and “ it’s
got lots of readin’ in it too.”
He doesn’t like the politics of the pa«
per.
His neighbor takes it, and he takes the
other one, and they “ kinder change off,
you know.” '
He got mad at the editor seven or eight
years ago, and wouldn’t take his paper if
it was the last one on earth.
He likes to see a paper that has sand
enough to be on one side or the other,
and not on the fence all the time. “ El
I wuz runnin’ a paper, By Hokey, l’d,
I’d——-”-—Dansville Breeze. '
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—Puck.
SIFTERS.
A Michigan girl goes about smashing
window glasses. There seems to be no
record of any girl who has smashed 3
looking- glass. .
A Maine man who has invented a flyin
machine has hired another man to try the
thing. This inventor may not be such a
fool after all.
The claim that the telephone business
is conducted on sound principles seems
plausible, but really it is supported merely
by hearsay evidence. .
When a man goes over Niagara Falls in
a barrel “ two heads are better than one.”
That is, the two heads of the barrel are
better than the one on the man’s shoul-
ders. -
When a young, lady begins to manifest
an interest in the arrangement of ayonng
man’s crav‘at his bachelor days are num-
bered. It is time to begin to hoard
money.
An Ohio girl sued a man for breach of
promise, and proved him such a mean
sooundrel that the jury decided that shit
ought to pay him something for not
marrying hen—Texas Sittings.
PEN POINTS.
A leading citizen—the bandmastcr.
Protection to American industry -
overalls. .
The rule for settling an account with a
burglar is to draw on him at sight.
It is invariably the rule that ' the man
who parts his name in the middle parts
his hair likewise. ,
The best recipe for a clear complexion
is the same as for colour conscience—hoop
good hours and avoid bad habits.
The only comfort a maiden derives from
chewing spruce gumis that her fooling!
an wrought up to the highest pitch.
Tho-evolution of woman's curiosity ro-
unding; Christmas pic-cuts ‘ is: from
woodcuts from whence they all» to
my what 'th‘cy“oout.-Unicn
C’Advcrtisc in. the Gamma
A fitting tribute—The check for the .
SNAP SHOTS.
A reign of crime is anarchy.
It is our pet notions that mislead us.
Spoils of ofllce arc spoils of the people.
Harmony is the very axle grease of
progress. ‘
The appetite and the luxuries rarely go
together.
Lasting friendship is never bought
with flattery. -'
The ambitious weather prophet tries to
take the world by storm.
The best way to convert a prodigal son
is to give him leave to go.
When one knows well how to follow
theories he can go anywhere.
An exchange of ideas always makes in-
telligent people conservative.
Do not sacrifice the fat family beef~
steak upon the altar of the beer man.
We break the cervical vertebra of the
criminal and call it capital punishment.
The great man -who writes so that no-
body can read it is full of vanity and
selfishness.
Unlike the brickbat, the epithet when
applied never leaves a scar, but it always
lodges in the heart.
“ I have nothing to take back,” ex-
claimed the young man who had been
swindled at the horse race.
Too much beer will make one bitter
every time. It will sour him on the
world—Dallas News.
“ SAVING TIME.”
-—Puck.
FACTS AND FIGURES.
The Pharos light house, Alexandria,
was built B. C. 285; height 550 feet, light
visible forty-two miles.
The Mont Cenis tunnel is seven and
one-half miles long; begun, 1857; Opened,
1871; total cost, £2,600,000.
Westminster Bridge, built in 1759, was
the first in which the foundations were
laid by the aid of caissons.
The surveys of the Hoosac tunnel were
so accurate that the drifts differed by
only five-sixths of an inch.
Jerusalem is still supplied with water
from Solomon’s Pools, through an aque-
duct built by the Crusaders.
The day before the battle of Wagram
Napoleon had a complete ponton bridge
built and floated into place.
The Caledonian Canal, Scotland, is six-
ty miles long, 20 feet deep, 120 wide at
the top and 50 at the bottom.
The Union Pacific has fifteen long and
a great number of short tunnels, the ag-
gregate length being 6,600 feet.
Some of the Comstock mines are so
deep that no means have yet been devised
to overcome the excessive heat.
In 1792 Van Estin invented a hollow
sphere and tube several hundred feet in
length, the motor power being air.
SENTENCES PASSED BY THE JUDGE.
Intelligence lies in'music’s finger-tips-
The needy man is mindfulof his friends.
The penalty of originality is singular-
ity.
Love’s wine is sometimes drunk from
the quassia-cup. .
Expediency is frequently another name
for compromise.
Fast days provide themselves; the feast
must be provided for.
Inclination enforced to meet opposition
becomes determination.
It is always in the purchase of some-
thing else that one economizes.
Thpse who most loudly proclaim their
doubts are those most ready to believe.
It seems to be a peculiar trait of debt-
ors to be indifferent, dishonest, or poor.
Absurdities which please our self-love
are as readily accepted as truths that
offend our vanity are doubted or denied.
One would extend his follies to others'
in order to convince__hi if that there is
nothing extraordinary in his practice of
them.-—Kathrine Grosjean, in Judge.
APHDRISMS.
All censure of othersisobliquo praise
of salt. It is uttered in order to show
the superiority of the speaker. It has
all the invldiousness of sell-praise, and
.all the ill-desert of falsehood.-—Edwards.
Never forget what a man has said to
you when he was angry. If he has charged
you with anything, you had better look
it up. Anger is a bow that will shoot
sometimes where another feeling will
not.—H. W. Beecher. .
The talent of turning men into ridicule
and exposing to laughter those one con-
venes with is the qualification of little
minds and ungencrous tempers. Ayoung
man with this cast ofamind cuts himself
of! from all "manner of improvement.-
Addison. .
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opinion of mankind, that universally-an-
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The CIA. R. Encampment.
The annual encampment of the Con-
necticut department G. A. R. conven-
ed at the opera house, Willimantic, at
2 o’clock yesterday afternoon. There
was an unusually large attendance.
Promment among those present were,
Commander-in-Chief A. G. \Weissert‘i
and stafi‘ ; General L. Dickinson, past
department commander; Captain
Thomas L. Bartholmew of Bridgeport;
J 1 M. Coe, superintendent of the sol-
diers’ home at Noroton ; Assistant
Quartermaster, General Morgan -; B.
S. Osborn, commander-in-chief of the
Naval Veteran association and Judge
A. B. “Beers of Bridgeport. There was
an appomtment of committees. the
hearing of reports and the annual ad-
dress of Department Commander B. E.
Smith.
Department Commander Smith made
an interesting speech. Referring to
the Soldiers’ home at N oroton he asked
thataplan be adopted by which the
aged veteran and his wife may be al-
lowed to go to the home together to
spend the remaining days of life in
each others society, especially if the
comrade-1s the recipient of a pension.
The additional cost to the state would
be nominal and if the contemplated
plans for cottages at the home are car-
ried out, the recommendation can be
easfly adopted.
Concerning membership and finan-
ces he said: “The official reports of
this department for the year ending
December 31, ’91, shows 69 posts with
a member-ship in good standing of 6,-
785. For the year ending December
31, ’92 there were 70 posts with a mem-
bership of 6,843, a gain of 58 members.
The balance in the hands of the treas-
urer was $2,589; cash surplus $405; to-
tal assets $2,995 ; relief funds, $55,510;
post property in addition to the pre-
cording $32,599 ; making a total in the
rv-m-rsuries of our posts of $154,581 and
lull estate valued at $39,928. The
amount expended for relief during the
past year was $8,184.
Commander Smith gave a synopsis
of the work of the Connecticut depart-
ment of Women’s Relief corps furnish-
ed by Department President Mrs. Har-
riet J. Bodge. The cash expended by
the corps amounted to $1,303; estimat-
ed value of other than money, $1,174;
cash turned over to posts, $904; ex-
pended from department relief fund
(specIal), $168; total amount expended
for relief, $3,550. Number of corps,
44; number of members in good stand-
ing 2,574. The number of deaths the
past year, was 149 as against 152 in the
year 1891.
John H. Thacher, A. A. G., report
gains in membership during the year
by muster, transfer and reinstatement,
668 and loss by death,, discharges,
Eggnsfemfiuspcnsions arid delinquents,
The asnstant qurartermaster general,
Willifin 1‘). Morgan, reports: Received
from, 1,801 account, $2,589; received
during the year from all sources,
33,114; total, $5,703; disbiirsed, $21959;
cash in banks, $5,744; assets, $3,209.
Y. M. C- A. Contests.
Over two hundred persons assembled
at the Y. M. C. A. rooms last evening
to Witness the athletic contests be-
tween N orwalk and Bridgeport teams.
The events and scores were as follows :
Running High J ump—T. Richardson,
4 ft. 81n.; L. Hebbard, 5 ft. 1 in.; W.
N. Hafi', 5 ft. 2 in.; M. O’Brien, 4 ft. 10
in. ; E Robertson, 5 ft. 3 in. ; S. Lyon,
4 ft. 11 in.; G. E. Cram, 4 ft. 11 in.; P.
Clarkson, 4 ft. 10 in.; D. W. Raymond,
5 ft. 1 1n.. L. Parrott, 4 ft. 7 in. Total
~Norwalk 364 ; Bridfieport 324.
_ Putting- Shot—T. icharson, 27 ft. 9
in.; L. nebbard, 28 ft. 10 in.; W. N.
Hafi‘, 29 ft. 6 in.; M. O’Brien, 30 ft.; E.
Robertson, 29 ft. 1 in.; S. Lyon, 27 ft.
6 111.; G. E. Cram, 25 ft. 10 in.; P.
Clarkson, 23 ft. 5 in. ; D. W. Raymond,
29 ft. 1 in.; L. Parrot, 25 ft. 11 in. To-
tal— N orwalk, 375 ; Bridgeport, 308.
- Pole Vault.——T. Richardson, 6 ft; 4
in ; L. Hubbard, 7 ft. 4 in.; W. N.
Haif, 7 ft. 1 in.; M. O’Brien, 6 ft. 7 in.;
E, Robertson, 8 ft. 9 in.; S. Lyon, 6 ft.
7 in.; G. E..Oram, 8 ft. 5 in.; P. Clark-
son, 8 ft. 9 111.; D. W. Raymond, 7 ft.
10 in.; L. Parrot, 6 ft. 7 in. Total—
Norwalk, 222 ; Bridgeport, 160.
Standing Broad Jump—T. Richard-
son, 8 ft. 3 in.; L. Hebbard, 8 ft..10 in.;
W. N ._ Hafl', 8 ft. 3% in.; M. O’ Brien, 8
ft. 5% in.; E. Robertson, 8. ft. 10 in.; S.
Lyon, 8 ft. 3% 111.; G. E. Cram, 8 ft. 3%
in.; P. Clarkson, 8 it. , 2 in.; D. W.
Raymond, 8 ft. 4% in.; L. Parrott, 8 ft. 8
“3'8 Total—Norwalk 229; Bridgeport,
One-half mile Run—T.Richardsonson
67 4-5' sec.; L. Hebbard, 73 1—5 sec.;
W. N. Half, 70 sec.; M. O’Brien, ,70
sec.; E. Robertson, 69 3.5 sec.; S.
sLyon, 73 3.5 sec.; G. E. Crame 69 4-5
ec.; P. Clarkson, 75 sec; D. W; Ray-
mond, 69 4-5 sec.; L. Parrott, 71 4-5
:33. Total—Norwalk, 265; IBridgeport,
_ The total score of the above contests
is: Norwalk, 1455; Bridgeport, 1212.
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Advertising to Profit;
A neat illustration of the value of .ad-
vertising money wisely expended was
given at the Portland Young Men’s
Christian Association meetin Sunda ,
when General .‘Secretary , cDona d
stated that he
know what method of advertising
reached .the most pie. He had cirr
culated thousands f little dedglcrs,
givindg notice of the meeting, an he
aske those who had. seen'thcm and had
been moved to' come through. that
means to rise. The was packed as
”full unit could hold, and of . tilejntire’
:numbcr lubout, fifteen arose. “Then Mr.
floDonalduhed all who had read the
poker: in the no, per- andhadbeen
influenced by them to rise, and the.
had some curiosity to '
The Latest Styles of
Menu - Cards,
Dance Orders
Ball Tickets,
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race-Price cons,
WINE - Lisrs.
Shun Hangers,
W edding
Invitations,
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BuSiness Cards,
Visitiulrr Bards
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Society work
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