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J'. D. Jennings,
U n d e r 1: a is. e r .
4 KNIGHT. STREET.
(opposite-HorseRailroad Depot.)
Night Bell at Ofllce.
Fall Announcement
I HAVE JUST SECURED THE
LATEST IMPORTATIUNS
Fall and Winter Suitings
Which I will make up at the lowest cash
price. -
F . E O G O U R ,
Custom Tailor
17 North Main Street. South Nor-walk.
REMAL!
Has moved her stack of ‘
MIL‘LINERY
To the store formerly occupied
by hard .
3 Water Street,-
Leghorn Hats from 50c up.
One lot of Hats and Bonnets at
20c each. _
Hat Frames 15c, 20c. 25c each.
THE NEW
Electrical Disinfectant,
WE HAVE IT!
Wooli’s Electrozone
Used and endorsed-by
the New York Board of
Health.'. ‘
THE GREATEST DISINFECTANT
EVER DISCOVERED !
PURIFIES EVERYTHING :
. YOU CAN FIND IT AT
:EiALEfs.
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A NARROW ESCAPEI.
How it Happened.
.The following remarkable event in a lady’s
life will interestthe reader: “For a long time I
had a terrible pain at my heart, which flut-
tered almost incessantly. I had no appetite-
and could not slee would be compelled
my last. There was a feeling of oppression
about my heart, and I was afraid to draw a
full breath. ,I couldn’t sweep a room with-
o‘lzt sitting down and resting; but, thank
9 d. by the help of New Heart Cure all that
is past and I feel like another woman. Be-
different so-called remedies and been treated
by doctors Without an benefit until I was
both discouraged and isgusted. M husband
bought me a bottle of Dr. Miles' ew Heart
Cure, and am happy to say I never regretted
it, as I now have a rigemnd appetite and
sleep well. I weighed pounds when I be-
an taking the remedy, and’now Iweigh 130%».
. ts eifect in my case has been truly marvel-
ous. It far surpasses'any other medicine I
have ever taken or any benefit I‘ever re-
ceived from ph sicians."-'—Mrs. Harry Starr,
Pottsville, Pa., ctober 12, 1892.
;Dr. Miles' New Heart Cure is sold on a posi-
tive guarantee by all druggists, or by the Dr.
Miles Medical 00., Elkhart, Ind., on receipt of
5 great discovery by an eminent
specialist in heart disease, contains neither
opiates nor dangerous We. ._
Sold by H. R. Hale, Norwalk, and
THE HERMIT THRUSH.
Over the tops of the trees ‘
And over the shallow stream
p ' The shepherd of sunset frees " -
’ ' The amber phantoms of dream.
The time is the time of visionn
The hour is the hour of calm.
Hark! On 'the stillness Elysian
Breaks how divine a psalm!
Oh, clear in the sphere of the air. _
Clear, clear, tender and far.
Our aspiratiou of prayer
Unto eve's clear star!
0 singer serene. secure.
.From thy throat of silver and dew
What transport lonely and pure.
Unchanging. endlessly new—
An unremembrance of mirth
And a contemplation of tears.
As if the musing of earth
Communed with the dreams of the years!
Oh. clear in the sphere of the air.
Clear. clear, tender and far.
Our aspiration of prayer
Unto eve’s clear star!
' O cloistral ecstatic. thy call
In the cooL'green aisles of the leaves
Is the shrine of a. power by whose spell
Whoso hears aspires and believes!
0 hermit of evening. thine hour .
Is the sacrament of desire.
When love hath a heavenlier flower
And passion a. holier fire! -
Oh. clear in the sphere of the air.
Clear. clear. tender and far. -
Our aspiration of prayer
Unto eve’s clear star!
—C. G. D. Roberts in Youth’s Companion.
Not Confined to One City.
I am something of a kicker myself,
but I take off my hat to the nervous in-
dividual who halted me on the street
yesterday with:
“Say! Louisville is a healthy, hand-
some city of beautiful homes, lovely
women, brave men, fine horses and good
whisky, butiu no other city half or one-
many nuisances permitted as in this one.
Just think that the citizens are aroused
from their beds in the early hours of the
morning when sleep is sweetest, victims
of sickness and disease are disturbed al-
most in, the very arms of death, and all
day long people in the streets arein dan-
ger feeling the drums of their ears burst,‘
and not an effort made to put a stop to
the pandemonium of unearthly noises in
our streets. The charcoal man’s Co-
manche yells, the stale vegetable, fever
producing peddler’s howls, the parrot
tongued peddler of no—account bananas.
the er-rags 01’ i’on collector, secondhand
fruit distributers, big bells in advertising
wagons, milk bells, scissors grinders'
bells—all adding to one common bedlam
of unending noises upon our principal
business and residence streets. The sick
are disturbed, the healthy annoyed, and
yet day after day we never make an at-
tempt to protect our right to live in
peace.”—Louisville Courier-Journal.
The Woman and the Rose.
the Georgia woods. Hewore a white
rose on his coat—one that a little girl
had plucked and pinned there as he was
leaving home. ‘
A woman entered the cabin. She stood
and gazed at the rose a moment. Then,
darting forward, she tore it from the
stranger’s coat at!“ stamped it on the
rude floor.
“Why did you do that?" asked the
stranger leaping to his feet.
“Hush!” said a man who was sitting
near. “That’s my wife, an—an—she
ain’t right here”—tapping his forehead. ,
“We had a little girl once, with blue
eyes an hair like a sunset. She wan-
dered ofi among the roses one day—lost,
losti—an when we found her she was
where the roses grow, an they was creeps
in over her. An the wife there went
mad, an now she says the roses stole the
child an hid her away from us forever.
an she goes about an tramples them—'
just like she did the rose there on the,
floorlf’—New York Recorder.
Nebuchadnezzar’s Doorstep.
In the Egyptian and Assyrian gallery
of the British museum and in close con-
tinguity to the Hittite monuments and
the bronze gates of Shalmauezar may be
seen an object of more than ordinary in-
terest—a very common looking bro
doorstep from the great temple of E-Lag.
gil at Borsippa, a suburb of Babylon.
This doorstep, ordinary as it appears, is
of great historical value, as it not only
has the name of King N ebuchadnezzar
inscribed upon it, but also mentions his
restoration to health and power. It is
no doubt a. native offering and an ob-
ject of great antiquity—Philadelphia.
Press.
Expressive Nicknames. .
They have a rage for nicknames down
at Marblehead. There are so many of
them that now a directory‘ is seriously.
under consideration. A Veteran boat-5
man whose nether limbs describealmost
a circle is given the 'euphonious appella-
tive of “Ice Tongs,” and answers to it
now among his friends congenialas read-
ily as to his own family patronymic.
Another townsman walking stifiiy along
the winding streets with both arms
hanging straight down before him is
hailed as “Half Past Six,” both hands
down, you know.—Boston Journal.
In Dr. N ansen’s five years‘ drift across
the arctic regions he takes with him a:
stove which” at a cost, of 4 cents will]
cook as large a dinner as any party of-iZOl
could eat. A supply of paraifin costing;
this amount will produce an excellently}
cooked salmon, leg of mutton, vegeta-'
bles and tarts.
.. An electric alarm bell for use on trains. ,
to supersede the unsatisfactory cord com- .
munication,lhas been successfullytried
in Scotland. In addition to serving as
an alarm, it can be used for starting
trains. ,
Over the arable areas of Wyoming the
rainfall averages 12inches. It is heav—
iest in spring and summer, though a
month has never been known to pass
without any precipitationszwhatever.
.AcblOny of bank swallows some years
ago taught a yOung but observing engi-
neer how to build a tunnel which his
more learned superiors had refused to
undertake.
Scientific cooking is no longer a name.
it is a recognized necessity, and its dys-
peptic substitute is not to be much long-
tr put up with. , ’ ‘
Ger 0 Siillscr, South-‘Narwalk.
Rea’dihe Gl‘zsrrn. - ‘ ‘. -' ,
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. = Headache all gone, and I can say
fourth its size in the universe are so '
A traVeler stopped at a little cabin in ’
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Springfield, Mass.
“ It’s The Kind That Cures”
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WILLIAM BURKE.
iDANA SARSAPARILLA 00., .
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2 have been troubled with Dyspepsia, fearful ’=
- headaches and a tired feeling constantly
= -unable to work most of the time. I was induced
DANA'S SARSAI’ARILLA '
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SABSAPARILLA
i do all it claims—and to any suffering. I recom-
end it. Tryit and be convinced. ‘ It’s the
Kind That Cures.”
Yours ve truly, - WM. BURKE.
Springfield, 3 ass. u
SIBS:—Mr. Burke is well known in Springfield,=__‘
specially in sporting circles as owner of the run-._-——-_~
ning horse “Buggy." His testimony is.
reliable. Bay fiours _
> _ . . NOBLE, Druggist.
167 Chesnut St, Springfield, Mass.
Dana Sarsaparllla 00.. Belfast. Maine.
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ETER L. GUIGUE, Florist and Dinner
man, Union Avenue, north of Univ!
Cemetery. Norwalk, Conn. Dealer in Green
House and Hot3House and Bedding and Vege-
table Plants Fruit and Ornamental Trees,
Shrubbery, 1Vines. Cut Flowers. always on
hand, and all sorts of des1gns in flowers ar-
raéigpd order. - _
Grading and refilling cemetery plots
attended to.
Scientific American
. . c‘AVEA'I-s.
. “ TRADE MARKS.
DESIGN PATENTS.
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. For information and free Handbook write to
MUNN at 00.. 361 BROADWAY, NEW YORK.
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Every patent taken out by us is brought before
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NEW YORK.NEW HAVEN & HARTFORH
RAILROAD.
—NEW YORK Division
June 11. 1893.
Trains leave South Norwalk asfollows;
FOR NEW YORK—Accommodation trains at.
9-36 8.. m., 1.11, 2.54. 4.07, 5.25, 5.45, 6.50, 7 55 10.23
p. 111. Express trams at 5.20. 5.26. 6.15 (local).
6,55 local). 7.17 (local), 7.55 (local). 8.24 (local).
8.30. local. 9.03(local).10.11.10.45.11.37 (local) a..n_i
12.52 2.25.4.20,5.18.6.20 p.m. .For Washington Via
Harlem River 1.13 a.m. (daily.
Simone—Accommodation 9.15 a. m., 6.14
local express), 7.23. 9.28 p. m. Express 5.20 5.26
a. m.
Fen NEW_HAVEN AND run Ellen—Accommo-
dation trams at 0.10, 7.38. 8 48 and 11.44 a. m:
1.44., 3.48, 4.32. 5.30. 6.27, 7 .23 (t0_ Bridgeport)
8.41 9.41 and 11.15pm. Express trams at 9.11 10.09
11.07 a. m.12.08. 1.10, 3.06, 5.08 (Naugatuck Ex-
press)7.15 p. m. (Springfield Local), 1.01 a. m
(Boston Express), 1.22 a. m.
SUNDAYs.—Accommodation 7.38, 9.12 a. m. and
7.15 p.m. ExFress 1.01 and 1.22 a. m.
C- ' HEMPSTEAD. Gen. Pass. Ast
Wm. Lockwood,
Real Estate, Insurance and Investmen
Securities.
——MONEY TO LOAN.—
Insurance Placed in First-Class Companies.
Ofiice—Cmner Main &: Wall Sts.. Norwalk
Real Estate For Sale.
Y ORDER of the Court of Probate for_the
District of Norwalk. the subscriber
offers for sale the former homestead of R.
Lorenzo Ells, deceased. Situated at the head
of Main street. in the Borough of Norwalk.
cons1sting of dwelling house. ,small barn and
about one acre of land 5 public water on the
premises. Also an undivided one-half part of
about one acre Orland containing a:sma.11
dwelling house. Situated near Broad River
Bridge, formerly a. (portion of the estate of
Robert Ells, decease . _ . ‘
21tf CHAS. OLMSTEAD. Administrator.
WINE
dHlNVALIDi
Flue Port did—harry Wine
50cper bottle.
We have a.
G W' '
rape , me,
Genuine home made, frpm the very best of
fruit which we are selling for 50¢ per bottle.
— margin-Vine,
35c per bottle. None better. Special case
rices
All brands of fine table lagers and ale, club
1 , soda. sarsaparilla,cream soda and ginger ale.
. . ****—-—— _
BETTS & FARRINGTON
.LEADING 630012123.
g con. WALL, AND WATER srs.
' Ecru Shoals}.
THE undersifi‘ned has taken the shop in the
front of S. - Ruby’s on Crpss street, and
.5 prepared to do Horse 81196111: in afirsts
cl - V
1133 manner JOHN T. LYCETT
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COMPANIONABLE.
The Art of Entertaining Should? Be Studied
by Many People Who Think They Are
Trending the Higher Planes of Life.
Loving Children. I ‘ h . ‘
Bigness is not the same as size, at least
not always, and it is not to be estimated
by weight. “The people,”-says a gener-
ous woman, “whom I most dread [as
guests are those who have no capacity
for small pleasures.” I, too, have the
same trouble. John has aybulky friend
who never plays a game or romps with
children, and. I do not know what to do
with him. When we go out to play cro-
quet, he stalks up and down with his
arms crossed under his coattails and has
not the least interest in our sport. Then
John has to leave us and go off to dis-
cuss the resurrection of the body er set-
tle some ether high and mighty problem
that neither of them knows anything
about. ’
John doesn’t like it, but he feels the
obligations of a host—and, as for me, I
don’t think any guest ought to disrupt a
family and become a. distracting ele-
ment. Why can’t the man get ofi his
horse and try to see what other folks
need and like? This is all the worse be-
cause, if we propose a. walk, he sees
nothing to interest him; doesn’t notice
the trees or the flowers and strikes in
with a disputatious tirade about Dr.
Briggs or the higher criticism. 'When
theology runs dry, he goes‘ into politics,
and we must discuss tariff and silver or
. be impolite. I like hospitality. It makes
me miserable when I cannot be sure of
pleasing my guest. I simply have to
wish that, Edward Knox would stay
away.
Women as a rule are made up for
smaller-things, and it very much pleases
me that Emerson decides genius to be
capacity for small things. But I know
a few women who are terrible charac-
ters to get on with. Mrs. Jane Geary
comes in to talk over the last book by a.
woman author. A pleasant topic this.
But how unutterably silly this wise
woman is when she tries to please chil-
dren—for she really tries. Think of
asking a 7~year-old if she knows “what
the analysis” of candy is. When she
walks with me, she pokes a hollyhock
and calls it a geranium.
I do not know whether the ancients
meant the sun and its rays when they
talked about Samson and his long tress-
es of hair, and I do not much care. But
Samson was and is interesting for this
reason: He was a physical prodigy, with
a. gentle capacity for very human feel-
ings. He could be cajoled into a frolic-
some mood and was terrible only when
he must be. David is a better sample of
the great big body full of small and
pleasant ways. “I,” said a. certain great
preacher, “learned my first love for the
childlike of my brave father, who never
despi'sed'small things, and then I learned
the same lesson of Jesus. I am o Chris-
tian because real Christianity is great-
ness insmall thiiigs.” .
One of Jules de Glouvet’s novels, “The
Woodman,” saves its hero, who is a
poacher and always ready1 for killing
and eating and little else, by means of a
little child. The child kills out the
man’sfurious passions, and the sight of
the little one converts him' to a new sort
of life. That is the mission, is. it not, of
our children to keep us from growing
old and hard in our emotions? But what
can a woman do with visitors who either
frankly say they'do not like children, or
who manifestly are very indifierent to
them? It becomes a necessity at once to
create two households, to keep the chil-
dren busy somewhere while we attend
to our guests.
We are all fond of trifling discoveries
We like our rambles in the woods and
glens to find new flowers. ~ John gets as
excited as one of the boys when he finds
a rare flower. We talk it over, and it is
added to some one’s herbarium with
pride. Indeed I ’cannot see that there
joyable or livable even but by the tri-
fies.‘ The Japanese Romeos make love
by calling on the object of aflection,
carrying in one hand a flowerpot with a
pet plant. We ought, I believe, to cul-
tivate these simple ways. Those who
and excitement are on the road to being
incapable of happiness at all.
tion on my private practice and at St.
Vincent’s, I will say that the boy who
smokes ah? will drink whisky at 14, take
to morphine at 20 or 25 and wind up with
cocaine or other narcotics at 30 or soon
after. ” Above all things have a homely
way of living, so childlike, simple, fresh,
that you will never be blase or any of
your household lose the capacity for be-
ing pleased. I have heard of dead moral
natures and of intellectual powers ar-
rested in the way of development and
have seen cases of both sorts, but there
is quite as much danger of loss of faculty
for pleasure. .
I went to church yesterday and heard
a clever discourse on the Christian ob1i«
gation of loving.- The preacher said to
us, “Just love, only don’t love yourself—
that is all there is to the law of religion. "
But-I do not believe that preacher was
doing anything more than retailing
Wares he had bought in the lump and did
not know anything about, for he went
on with illustrations of all sorts to em-
phasize and explain love, but all his
examples were of a showy sort. The
real Christian love is in trifies of the
commonest sort. The grandest exhibi-
tion of bigness is in doing.small favors
There is something wonderful ‘in a big
man’s arms. The habit-of taking a man’s
arm is the finest little exhibition of
honor a woman could have bestowed.
tion. You give it to me, and if I have .
confidence that your soul is as muscular
as your body I take the arm. Woman
. gives the hand; man giv he arm.“ But
it is not all arms that are orth takm' ‘ 3.
—Mary E. Spenber in St. Louis Globe-
‘ Democrat.
is ,
Read the Gazsm.
‘Ai .; mg,
is any other way of making life very en- ‘
cannot be happy without noise. display .
Dr. Bremer says: “Basing my asser— .
Your arm, sir, is stout and'full. of soul. .
It is the very ideal of defense and protec- ,
- IlilG‘NES‘S AND SENSE;
NOT ALL INTELLECTUAL PEOPLE ARE.
is. Perfect m... .45.... n.
We had,elways felt sure that some-
.. perfect place which was to combine the
charm of themiddle ages with the com—
fort of the hineteenth century-#the A1-
bert Durer town which could be reached
in a railway train, with medieval streets
through which the dinner hell would
make a. pleasant sound, where there
would be plenty of picturesque dirt in
other people’s houses, plenty of fresh
water and clean rooms in our own hoteL
Perhaps this is a bourgeois idea. But
then that is our'aifair.
Eight years of wandering had brought
us no closer to our undiscovered coun-
try, when, last, summer, as we were
traveling in the mountains ofébut no!
why- should we tell the name? Why
break the serenity of its hilly streets
with the rush of personally conducted
parties or of easel laden artists? Why
turn it into another Barbizon or, La-
,guerre’s, another Chester or Nurem-
berg? Besides', we have exploited so
many places in our day; we have, in our
recklessness, presented the painter, the
illustrator, the magazine writer with
more motives than they can exhaust in
a' generation; we have, by our enter-
prise, developed the cycling trade to an
incalculable extent, and by our praise
made the fortune of half the hotel keep-
ers in Provence. And the result for us?
Not a cycle manufacturer would give us
a machine if we asked for it, not a land-
lord would throw us a crust were we
starving, not an art student would find
a spare moment to thank us. No; the
name of the most picturesque place in
the world we shall keep to ourselves. It
is foolish, deliberately to court the fate
.of Columbuse_-or"Stanley:——Mr. and Mrs.
Pennell‘ in Century. ‘
The Limits of Arbitration. ,
With international ' arbitration we
confess to having comparatively little
sympathy. If nations mean to fight,
nothing will prevent their so doing, and
agreements to arbitrate will be of very
little service. The suggestion of an
agreement between England and the
United States to establish a permanent
machinery for regulating their disputes
is, however, quite different. Nations in
whom the same. 'racial eharacteriStics
are to be feund, who are influenced by
thesame ideas, who ., talk the same lan-
guage, read the same» books and possess
the samepolitical traditions, are capable
of making an agreement to settle dis-
putes by arbitration a reality.
Again, an agreement not to fight till
the question in dispute has been referred
to a body exercising the functions of a
court of law is a step in the direction of
that alliance between the United States
and England which, we trust and be-
lieve, is the destiny of the two countries.
If'we begin by an acknowledgment that
we are not in the position of -. foreign
powers—i. e., liable to war at anymo-
ment—we may soon rise to a definite
race alliance, and lastly to that declara-
tionof acommon citizenship which wfiiild
prevent any Englishman from being a
alien in America or any American ' '
an alien in England and would heal , :,
breach in the unity of the race caused'by
the folly of George III and his ministers.
—London Spectator.
. Hideous Advertisements.
It is said that a salmon, when quite
devoid of appetite, may be worried into
taking a fly, if only flies be presented to
'him with irritatmg' pertinacity. “Hang
it!" he exclaims,‘ “I cannot be troubled
with this Jock Scott any longer’k—he
makes an irritable snap at it and is lost.
Possibly in the same way persons are
driven nearly wild by seeing this or that
commodity thrust on their notice in
railway stations, in trains, in the streets.
in the fields, on the top of Ben Macdhui.
Then they may purchase a. sample in
despair, may'like it and go on using it.
This maybe the theory of frantic and
hidwus advertisements, ‘but on the
whole it might seem more likely to
wbrk its own destruction. “Whatever
I buy I will not buy that,” one can con-
ceive the citizen remarking and looking
out fur a less obstrusive article. But if
advertising did not pay people would
not advertise—London Saturday Re-
view.
Very Fine Handiwork.
Dr. Heylin, in his “Life of King
Charles,” records that during the reign
of Queen Elizabeth “there was one who
wrote the Ten Commandments, the creed,
the pater noster, the queen’s name, and
the prayer of our Lord within the com-
pass of a penny and gave her majesty
a. pair of spectacles offsuch an artificial
making that by the‘help thereof she did
plainly and distinctly discern every let-
ter.” ' .
'A somewhat similar feat was that
“rare piece of work brought to pass by
Peter Bales, an Englishman, who also
exhibited before her majesty the entire
Bible' written in a book, containing as
many leaves as a full sized edition, but
fitting into a walnut.”+Boston Com-
monwealth. '
Danger In Odd Nomenclature.
Anything out of the common in nom-
enclature runs the risk of being bur-
lesqued by unskilled tongues. The nurse
who called her charges Miss “Burial”
and Miss “Jones” must have made their
mother wish she‘ had never. christened
them Beryl and Joan. As Betsy and
J anothe‘y would have come off all right.
Horse's, too, with fine names get strange,
ly miscelled in the stable. 'One pair
known by their master as Rustebiand.
Sohrab, degenerated first into “Rusty
and Sorebac ,” and fell ultimately into
the commonplace as “the littlehorse and
the Docthcr.”’—-London Globe.
Booth’s Fondu'ess For Wafiles.
Edwin. Booth had a curious passion
for waflies. During his last engage-
ment'in Boston he ate one evening '25’
wafies at a sitting, and hideous indigesé
’tion ensued—so bad, in fact, that 17th
evening, and-a big house that had as-
sembled to witness his “Shylock” was;
forced to go home unsafisfied.eStaged'
land. . .
Acvrtise in_"the Gazs'rru.’
We’had always been hunting for it. .
where, some day, we should find the-
great 'tragedian could not play that .
L_-.-‘Detr_oit Free Press.
STRANGE SOUNDS. ,
cuss oi: - suisaisAun- Anpldmnf
MYSTIFYING PHENOMENA.‘ ‘
Noises Made by'vNatural Causes For Which
No Explanation - Has Ever Been Found.
Famous Sounds In Various Parts of. the -
Earth Have Scared Many.
Of strange sounds which probably de-
pend on meteorological or other natural 1
causes, one of the most~ remarkable has
long been known as “the guns of' Bur-
risaul,” but though itscauses have long ‘
'I been debated no accurate explanation
has been given, so far as we are aware,
that. is thoroughly satisfactory. The
Sunderbunds—as the delta of the Ganges
in native dialect is called—is covered
with a vast and luxuriant jungle of
marshy vegetation. One of the statitiis
is named Burrisaul. From here, in the
rainy season, have long been heard mys-
terious sounds resembling the discharge
of artillery, and therefore popularly
named “the guns of Burrisaul.”
Only heard in the rainy season and
from the southward, they have been
heard 100 miles off, yet 'on the coast it-
self they appear still farther south. The
sounds resemble the booming of cannon.
Mussulmau and'Hindoo superstitions.
have each associated the sounds with
their religious traditions. Others have
thought the sounds were produced by the
breaking of the sea on an island in the
bay of Bengal. But where? That some
atmospheric or meteorological cause is
the explanation is all that can be said
after hearing all arguments. ' ’
A much humbler yet ancient instance
of great local interest used .to exist, we
believe, at Baddeley, in the New forest,
in the shape‘of a groaning tree. Whether
it still lives and groans we are uncer-
tain, but it is said to have uttered mys-
terious and lugubrious sounds at certain
times, probably dependent on wind or
weather, but full of omen and import to
past generations. Indeed in the various
mysteries which, despite fin de siecle
acuteness, still surround us, eerie noises
have always played a. most conspicuous
part, whether out of deors or within
ancient houses. Instances of the latter,
indeed, abound. Some of the most thrill-
ing of inexplicable ghost stories turn
not on anything which has appalled the
eyes, but has “distilled horror” through
the cars. It is, we believe, in East An-
glia that the shrieks heard from time to
time round certain pits have long been
a tradition in which a female phantom
has part.
The “drummer of Tedworth’s” phan-
tom sounds are so well known from. ‘
Aubrey and more modern describers as
only to need allusion, but we may here
say that, according to a. communication
in a popular periodical some few years
back, similar sounds had recently, com~
paratively speaking, been heard in the
locality, and by people of most practical
disposition. These may be called phan-r
tom sounds. Returning again to those‘
which hover on the border line between
the natural and inexplicable, thereis the
wild strain as of weird music which has
been heard aboard ships when getting
within the circle of '12. Mozambique cy-
clone. ’
One of the same kind, formerly mys-
terious and thrilling enough, has been
resolved into a natural one. Early trav-
elers through the primeval forests of
Brazil—still among the few unexplored
places of the globe—were astonished and
awed to hear the distant resonant sound
of a bell peeling from the depths of the
woods, which certainly had no building
and for ageshad known no human foot-
step. Many a. legend was Woven round
the strange sound. Ultimately it was
discovered to be the note of the bell bird.
There are, however, few mysterious
sounds which have been as satisfactorily
explained asthis. For instance, there is
the legend of the sounds heard at times
on the plains of Marathon, the clash of
' weapons, the snorting of horses, the
“shooting of the slayers and screeching
of the slain,” which recall to memory
the famous battle that lives so much
more vividly than many modern ones in
the history of the world. Of course
there are many instances of sounds
which, at first mysterious, become so re-
ally from the distance over which they
traveled. but these must be distinguished
from those which are our theme.
One of the most interesting examples
rests on the authority of the late Sir Ed-
mund Head, who remembered when a
boy going to church on the famous
“Waterloo Sunday,” June 18, 1815, at
,Hythehin Kent. His father and he, on .
arriving at the church at 11 a. m., found
to their surprise the congregation out-
side listening intently to the faint sound
as of distant cannon coming from the
east. Afterward it was ascertained that
Napoleon having, on the (for him),un-
fortunate adviceof his artillery ofiicers,
who pleaded the state of the ground,
waited till 11 to commence his fire, the
first French gun was fired as the Nivelles
churdh clock struck 11. Nor was Hythe
the only place where the French cannon
were heard in England.
Here, however, is fact dependent on
the by no means remarkable axiom that
sound under certain conditions travels
enormous distances. But the sounds of
which we speak for the most part have
puzzled all who have attempted to ex-
plain them and lie indeed in that vague
region which is inexplicable. Such is the
sound of the “Airli'e drum,” such are the .
wailing of the banshee in some parts of
Ireland—New York Post. ~ - ,
‘ Narrow. but Useful.
The good lady was going around
among a. lot of poor people distributing.
all manner of old clothes which were
gratefully received, when she met. a '
newspaper man looking for a clew to a '
killing case. , j
. .“Charity coverethamultitude of sins." ; ,
he said sarcastically._ . '
' g“Well, that isn’t what
for,” she responded." .
» “No!” and he looked surprised,’ . _
“No,” she said, “my mission is a little
narrower than that. We cut it down to-
c, tycoverethainultitude of sinus.”-
I’m looking
V fiélid the Gig-firm, .
Norwalk Chronicler