Norwalk weekly gazette, Friday, March 17, 1893 · page 4

 

 

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FRIDAY. MARCH 17. 1893.

 

‘ Entered in the Post-Office as a Newspaper

 

A Call to Duty.

Annie Farrell Howard, about thirty
years old, mysteriously disappeared
from her home on River street Sunday
evening at seven o’clock. The indica-
tions are . that either she wandered
away in distress of mind as Julia Hall
did, and is now, to be found in the
Woods or barns within a. short radius
from her home, or. more probably,
that she threw herself into the swift
current of the river, and that her body
is now between here and the draw-
bridge. Thisconcernseverybody. Your
friend may disappear next. The fami-
ly is benumbed with terror, and know
not how to start or conduct the search.
Let volunteers be enrolled. Let the
woods and hills be scoured. Let the
river be dragged and the salt-mead-
ows searched. Annie Howard must be
found dead or alive, and every able-
bodied man owes it to humanity to
start out at once.

 

 

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DEATH MASKS.

Antiquity of the Custom of Making
Casts of the Faces of the Dead.
Although there is no mention of death-
masks in the works of Homer, or in any
of the later classics, recent explorers have
satisfied themselves that in the early
burials of all nations it was the custom

to cover the heads and bodies of the dead

with sheets of gold so pliable that they
took the impress of the form; and not in-
frequently, when in the course of cen-
turies the embalmed flesh had shriveled
or fallen away, the gold retained the ex-
act cast of the features. Schliemann
found a number of bodies “ covered with
large masks of goldplate in repousse
work,” several of which have been re-
produced by means of engraving in his

-. “ Mycenaef’ and he asserts that there

can be no doubt whatever that each one
of these represents the. likeness of the de-
ceased person whose face it covered.
When Hamlet said that Alexander
died, Alexander was buried, Alexander
returned to dust, he overlooked the fact
that Alexander’s dust, instead of being
converted into loam to stop a beer bar-
rel, was preserved from corruption by
the process of embalming and from ex
ternal injury by being cased in the most
precious of metals. Pettigrew, in his

“History of Egyptian Mummies,” says '

of the death mask of Alexander that “it
was a sort of chase work, and of such a
nature that it could be applied so closely
to the skin as to‘ preserve not only the
form of the body, but also to give the ex-
pression of the features to the coun-
tenance.”

He does not quote his authority for
this statement, but it is unquestionably

derived from the account of the death,

and burial of Alexander written by
Diodorus Siculus, who said: “ And first
a coffin of beaten gold was provided, so
wrought by the hammer as, to answer to
the proportions of the body; it was half
filled with aromatic spices, which served
as well to delight the sense as to prevent
the body from putrefaction.” Then fol-
lows a description of the funeral chariot,
and of the ; long line of march from
Babylon to Alexandria, where Augustus
Caesar saw the tomb 300 years later; but
there is no reference to a mask of Alex-
ander’s face in gold.

The value of a plaster cast as a. por-
trait of the dead or living face cannot
for a moment be questioned. It must of
It cannot
flatter; it cannot caricature. .It shows
the subject as he was, or is, not only as
others saw him, in the actual flesh. but
as he saw himself. And in the case of
the death mask particularly it shows the
subject often as he permitted no one but
himself to see himself. He does not
pose; he does not “ try to look pleas-
ant.” In his mask he is seen, as it were,
with his mask off l—«Harper’s Magazine.

. A Pretty lrish Girl.

“ D33} you know how very pretty :1
prettyfgirish girl is?" asked a well-known
and enthusiastic writer. “ She is tall
andsieuder. Crisp little black curls lie
against her neck. Her skin is clear red
and white and her fine black brows and
curved lashes accentuate it. And then
her eyes! (Why should the poets sing of
the languorous orbs of Oriental‘houris or
the violet eyes of the fair women of the
north when the Irish girl has them all at
one and the same time? Starry eyes
rave, sparkle and glow. You think they
are darkly brown until some day ‘she
turns them'upon you as she stands in
the sunlight. and a sapphire is not more
blue, and as you watch her in surprise
they are gray and they are black, and
you despair at telling what color they
are, but are content to watch them as-
sume whatever shade they will; and
then, if the brogue is not too , pro-
nounced, what a. charm it constitutes to
unaccustomed cars l

The Son's-co of Three Rivers.

J. H. Binder,.of Pottstown, who re-
turned a few days ago from a visit to
Springfield, Chester county, remarks
upon the fact that three well known
streams have their source in the springs
and among the mountains close by that
place, then run-in different directions
and empty into three famous rivers in
Pennsylvania. The Brandywine, rises
there, flows south through Wilmington,
Del., into the Delaware river; Conestoga
creek rises near by, flows west through
Lancaster'county, and empties into the
susquehanna River, and Hay creek is

' also formed there, flows north through

Birdsboro, and empties into the Schuyl.
kill River. Springfield is the highest

' point between Lancaster and Philadel-

phia.-—Pottstown Ledger.

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"AND THE' PROOF lSlg'JUST 'WHAT

the property was purchased, owned the

'stripe or check. Not a thing

OUR REA-DEBSEWAN r.

or How it Began She Hasn’tth'e'
Slightest Idea.

 

But Concernlnz its Ending She is
Explicit and Exact.

We never know just how a thing be-
gins. ‘

But we are always certain of the re-
sults which are left.

These reflections were called out. by
the fact that it is so easy to drift into
anything. In this world we must keep
our eyes about us or we shall constant-
ly find ourselves drifting into trouble.

We call to mind an instance in which
a most estimal-ile lady: unconsciously
and without knowing when or how, al-
lowed herselfto drift into what became
a most serious matter and caused many
years of anxiety and suffering.

This lady is widely . known—Mrs.
Mary Jane Foster of 327 West Slat
Street, New York City, and what she
says are true and exact facts, as can be
easily and readily ascertained by any-
one. If experience is of any use, here
is certainly a. revelation to be heeded
by all. , _ _

Without knowing their meaning she
had a dull feeling head, headaches,
dizziness, bad taste in the mouth, es-
pecially mornings. Her sleep was bro-
ken and she would wake mornings feel-
ing tired and exhausted. After a time
the appetite became irregular, there
was a fullness or bloated feeling after
meals, fisings of gas, sour. stomach,
biliousness and _ constipation,—such
symptoms, in fact as people frequently
experience during the spring of the
year. ‘

 

MRS. MARY JANE FOSTER.

“Why,” she said, “for years after I
suffered from the worst form of dys-
pepsia. with gas and fermentation of
food, and terrible spasms that seemed
to start at the stomach and rise to the
head. .

“Even the lightest ”food caused great
pain and distress after eating, and I
also suffered with great exhaustion,
dizziness of the head. and weakness of
the limbs so thst I could scarcelyktand
on my feet. . ,

“But I am now completely cured by
the use of Dr. -ireene’s Nervura blood
and nerve remedy, and I take pleasure
in giving my experience to the public
in order that other sufferers may be
cured as I have been."

L"ok out for such troubles in the be-
ginning. Now. in the spring, when
everybody is certain to be more or less
out of order and needs a spring medm'
cine, take Dr. Greene’s Nervura blood
and nerve remedy immediately, for it
is the best and surest of all spring
medicines. It will invigorate the blood,
strengthen the nerves and give you
perfect digestion and regular action of
liver, kidneys and bowels. All drug-
gists keep it for $1.00, and' it is purely
vegetable and harmless.

It is the great remedv recommended
by doctors for Spring debility and dis-
eases because it is. the discovery and
prescription of the well-known phy-
sician. Dr. Greenelof 35 W. 14th Street,
New York, the successful specialist in
curing nervous and chronic diseases.
The doctor can be consulted without
charge by anyone,‘either at his office
or by writing to him.

During the past'week the Consolida-
ted Railroad Company has purchased
property on Meadow street Stamford,
on the south side cf the tracks near the
crossing. Dr. F. J. Rogers. from whom

land buta short time. and is said to
have made considerable money upon
his investment by the sale. The sale
of this property removes all doubts, as
to which side of the tracks the com-
pany will include in the intended four-
tracking in that locality.

 

V‘New York,
M arch 12th, 1893.

Just thin-k7 of the combina-
tion l A rough diagonal chev-
iot coat and vest (black,) with
handsome trousers of a quiet

better for most every use.

Talk about bargains! It’s
worth more to know Where the
right things are kept, at right
prices, and sold: with proper
politeness, than "to find the
biggest bargain» in New York.

Is there, another store in
New York. Where money is
given back as freely asrec’ciev-
ed ? f .'

You may. buy by mail with
the same freedom, and safety.

ROGERS, PEET & co.

Free deliveries to all points within one hun.
dred miles of Neonrk city.

 

 

 

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“Perhaps them ordinary danger-of I

e seashore-«ifmm becallovl _ 33.2.3:

ordinary-”is what are‘hiown’ asvathe. '
threa Waves. The breakers as. ax. rule

come in series of three! Sometimesthe
three are ‘srnall and sometimes are very
heavy, but as 'a rule the sequences run
aboutthe same size. Imagine a bather

' insidethe surf line, with the surf break-

ing over a bar about fifty or one hundred
feet from, shore. Those big green Waves
that rise higher and higher as they come
toward him do not seem very formid-
able. . - "

. The first one rears its head before it
reaches him yvith an angry swish; a curl
of foam, like a feather edge, crops .out
along the top and fills the air with spray.
Then the wave takes a more decided

shoreward curl, the line of foam becomes.

deeper, there is a crash as it drops to a
level, a the bather finds himself
thrown own in a ‘caldron of seething
surf. Say he is in three feet of water on
the level—after the wave has passed, he
struggles to his feet choking, gasping,
and half blind with the salt water.

He doesn’t really know what has hap-
pened, but he {has a dim idea that some-
thing has hit him. Before he has time
to collect his senses the second of the
series is upon him, and he goes down
again. He is dazed and confused, and
he flounders around hopelessly. The
third wave is always the finishing stroke,
and gives the life-saver, if there is one, a
chance to do some work. Guided by an
outstretched arm thrust above the water
involuntarily, or by a bobbing head with
which the surf is playing foot ball, he
drags the unsophisticated one out on the

sand. That is the most common danger g

of the surf—Harper’s Weekly.

Cowless and \V‘omanless.

St. Columbia left Ireland in the year
563 with a dozen companions, and on the
evening of Whit Monday, 1371 years ago
exactly, landed on the island of Iona,
one of the Hebrides, which is remarkable
for two reasons, i. e. : From the fact
that St. Columbia banished cows and
women from its sacred confines, and also
because of the different ways the name
of the island has been spelled.

During the thousand years folloWing
the close of the sixth century, says the
Detroit Sun, the name was variously
rendered as I, Ii, Ia, Io, E0, Hy, Hi, Hii,
Hie, Hi0, Hu, Heu, Huy, Hiu, Y and Yi.
It is also known as Icolmkill, I-columb-
kills and Hii-columkille, besides Iona,
which is believed to be a misnomer, it
being thought that the “ n ” should be a.
‘ 5 u. J J . .

When Columbia landed on this par-
ticular Hebride he gave orders that no
cow or woman should be admitted.
“ Because, ” he argued, “ wherever there
is a cow there will be a woman, and
where there is a woman there will be
mischief.” .

To this day the chief reasons why the
tourists visit Iona in such numbers is
because it is known to tradition as ‘_‘ The
Cowless and Womanless Isle." '

A Big Party.

A story is told of a gentleman promi-
nently connected with one of the big
foundries in Pittsburg, says the Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
question is an unusually largej"man,
very tall and far around. Finding him.
self caught in a little town about seventy-

five miles from Pittsburg one night,
with no train going to the city, and I:
being very anxious to reach there at 11 ,
o’clock, he wired to an express train .j 2
' down the track to stop for him. .. a
stop for officials only,” came the answer. '4 7 . ‘
Quick as a flash went the second tele- .

gram, “ Will you stop fora large party?”
“ Yes,” was the reply, and the long ex-
press slowed up and stopped when it
reached the little town and the gentle-
man complacently stepped aboard.
“ Whgre is the large party?” inquired the
condiictor, with wide-open astonished
eyes, as he gazed about the empty depot.
“Ain’t 1 large enough?” chuckled the
delighted new passenger. The conduc-

tor glared, then burst into a hearty'
laugh as the fitness of the application

burst upon him.

. Turning Tin Refuse to,Pront.‘
For a long time the owners of sardine
factories were at a loss to know what to

do with the mounds of tin clippings that .

accumulated at their docks. The clip-
pings are now collected and sorted ac-
cording 'to/their shape, .those made by
the dies which stamp the bottoms and
covers of the cans being pounded into
suitable shape for handling, while the

strips made by the shears in cutting the

tin for the sides are bundled and boxed.
The clippings are smelted down in a
furnace, the tin with which they are
coated being melted and drawn 01f sepa-
rately, while the molten mass of’metal
which composed the plate is run into
moulds and formed into window weights
and other useful articles. The bright

tin strips of various sizes are utilized in-

sundry ways, forming tin tags for the
ornamentation of plug tobacco, button
molds, ornamental baskets and dozens of
other articles. ' ‘

. Shaving by Machinery.
Shaving a man in twenty-five seconds

is a feat deserving of the highest praise ,

and reward by all such as value their
time. This feat has been rendered easy
of performance by the construction of a
shaving -machine of wood, reported to

have been made by one Melchoir Farkas, ‘

a convict in the penitentiary of the city
of Szegedin, in Hungary. Farkas was put
to labor in the cabinetom'aking shop of

the prison, and, taking to his work with,
a will, he soon- displayed great inventive .

ingenuity. With his machine he is said
to have shaved all the inmates .in the
prison, nearly 150_in number, Within less
than an hour’s time. -'

Two Good Rules.

Reggy Westend—COILDeeply says it’s I

his rule ‘ Never to take asdrink when you
‘feel as ifyou need one ;’ and old Baxter
isays ‘ Never .take a drink, except when

you need one.’ "Now ’what’s a fellow

going to do? " '_ . . . ‘
Jack Lever—Follow .both rules, Regs!-

and you’ll be all right—Puck. . .-

. ' Read the Gaza-m.

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The time has arrived when" ladies are beginning to ' think a

' Of what they will wear at Easter. We are wideawake
and early in the field with a. spring stock of

 

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Of the highest quality. Our new stock of Dress Goods for the Spriiig and Summer of :

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Everyilady will find in our present stock the widest range for satisfactory selections.

Prices favor the buyer in the most generous manner.

 

 

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The present season marks the ap

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New and Beautiful
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And well they may, for this depart—
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