POI ‘T,
South Norwalk, Conn
The most charming summer resort on Long Island Sound.
Fine~ Ectcl.
F1116 Bathing Houses.
Every facility for providing for large excursions!
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General Attractions.
Dancing Daily in the Pavilion.
J. Finkenste‘in, General Manager.
Commencing Monday, June 4th... . . .
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DAILY SERVICE BETWEEN ‘ \
South Norwalk... .
New York.
FARE—Single, 40 Cents; Excursion, 70 Cents.
LEAVES SOUTH NORWALK DAILY AT 7:30 A. M. A
Leave Beekman street, 2.15 p. m; Saturdays, 2 p. m. Leave East 31st street 2.40 p. 111.; Satur-
days. 2:20 p. m.
HE PBOPELLERS “CITY OF NORWALK”A.ND “EAGLE ” leave Pier 23‘E. B-
BeIdkman street. New York. at 5 p.111. Leave Norwalk 5 p. m.: South Norwalk 6. 30 p. m'lk
Freight received from” . a. m to 5 p. m. Upon application to agen.s the City or Norwa and
Esgle will be sent for special lots at freight anywhere in New York or its vicinity.
ll. M. HAD BUMPANY.
BRIDGEPORT. CONN.
Make a Note of This.
We a1e selling best all wool extra super
Ingrains. .
At 55c a yard.
Floor Oil Cloth.
At 20c, 250 and 38c.
TWo Hundred Hassocks,
Brussels,
Axminster and Tapestry
All wool
!
These are reduced prices.
At 451: each.
Art Squares,
Just the thing for summer floor coverings all sizes at low
prices.
HOT WEATHER DRESS FABRICS.
Never have shown such an array of summer wash dressgoods.
Dotted Swiss muslins at 61c, 10c and 1213-0.
Organdies and linen lawns at 17c.
French, India Pongee, only 17c.
J aconets, 36 inches wide for 12%c.
Scotch ginghams, reduced to 12.}...
French satteens, new designs at 19c.
French cambrics, now selling for 15c.
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‘ ANOUNCEMENTS.
PLAY BILLS.
BASE BALL, ' ’-
HANGERS.
TENNIS.
ETC-1A
In Black or Colored Inks, and at
Prices that are Moderate.
CHURCH,
SOCIETIHmd
MERCdW‘TILE
Estimates Cheer-fully, Given.
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Rooms" LITTLE MINCH. "
The Trick by Which the Famous Rm
. Horn Got His Name.
Many stories are told of Little Minch.
the race horse, which indicate that he
is a remarkably sagacious animal. Some
would assert that he is capable of rea-
distort instinct and pure roguiehness
into reason and sagacity. It is said that
while this son of Glenelg was being
transported east after his sale as a year-
ling he was given a nickname by a raii‘
road engineer that was subsequently ap-
plied to the horse. and under it he won
his laurels. Little Minch’s car was at-
tached to the front end of a passenger
train, and the bellrope passed through
it, the same as it would through a pas-
Sanger car. The horse was playful, and
after several unsuccessful . attempts to
seize the rope in his teeth the spiteful
little youngster finally got the cord and
gave it a lusty jerk. The bell in the en-
gine cab sounded, and the engineer, fear-
ing something was wrong back in the
train, made haste to shut off-steam and
apply his airbrake. After coming to a
stop he Waited for the, astonished train-
men to come up to his cab. They de-
nied that any one had pulled the cord,
and the engineer passed the occurrence
with the‘ remark, “Maybe the rope
caught and tightened while we were
going around a curve.” .
But the mischief loving Little Minch
was having a lot of fun in the car. No
sooner had the train got under headway
again than be again seized the bellcord
and gave it another jerk. Once more
the engineer came to a stop, declaring
that the bell ringing was the work of
tramps, but a search for the ride steals
ers failed to reveal any, and the train
proceeded. With almost human rogu-
ery ~ Little Minch again seized the
rope, but he was not content with one
jerk, and the way he pulled that rope
was a caution. The enraged engineer
slipped back in time to see the horse
tugging at the rope, which he had bit-
ten in.two byhis efforts, as if his life
depended upon his ability to tear it out
of the train. “Oh, you little minchi So,
it was you, was it?” cried the'engineer,
And the horse stopped and hung his
head much as a guilty boy would have
done. The story was retold many times,
and the animal was named Little
Minch.——-Chicago Tribune.
TELESCOPES.
Points of Difference Between the Reflecting
and tho Ben-acting Instruments.
A very pretty little experiment, which
atrates the two methods of form-
ing an optical 1mage and by way of cor-
ollary illustrates the essential differ-
ence between refracting and reflecting
telescopes, may be performed by any
one who possesses a reading glass and a
magnifying hand mirror. In a room
that is not too brightly illuminated pin
a sheet of white paper on the wall oppo-
site to a window that by preference
should face the north or away from the
position of the sun. Taking first the!
reading glass, hold it between the with
dew and the wall parallel to the, sheet
of paper and a foot or mom distant from
the latter. y moving it to and 'fro a
little you will be able to find a distance
corresponding to the focal length of the
lens, at which a picture of the window
is formed on the paper. This picture,
or image, will be upside down because
e rays of light cross at the focus. By
moving . a glass a little closer to the
Wall you will cause the picture of the
window to become indistinct, while a
beautiful image cf the houses, trees or
other objects of the outdoor world be-
yond will be formed upon the paper.
We thus learn that the distance of the
image frgm the lens ries with the dis
1:3an of the object w ose image is form-
J In precisely a similar manner an
image is formed at the focus of the ob-‘
ject glass of a'refracting telescope.
Take next your‘ magnifying or con-
cave mirror, and detaching the sheet of
paper from the wall hold it nearly in
front of the mirror between the latter
and the window. When you have ad-
justed the distance to the focal length
of the mirror, you will see an image of
the window projected on the paper. By
varying the distance as before you will
be able to produce at will pictures of
nearer or more remote objects. It is in
this way thatimages are formed at the
focus of the mirror of a. reflecting tele-
scope. —-Garrett P. Serviss in Popular
Science Monthly.
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Mules Delirious With Pleasure.
“I saw an odd sight in Luzernd
county," said Eckley B. Coxe. ’ "Six
mules that.had for four years hauled
cars in the lower workings of a coal
shaft to and from the foot of the shaft
had to be brought up, owing to the
flooding of the mine on account of tire.
The mules in all that time had seen no
light stronger than the flicker of the lit-
tle Davy lamps the miners carried. The
sun was in its zenith when they reached ,
the surface, and the atmosphere was’as
clear as crystal. .
“The astonished creatures closed their
eyes. to shut out the flood of‘str'ong
, light and kept them closed while they
Were being driven to a pasture lot a
mile distant and turned loose. There
they stood trembling, as if they were
afraid something evil was about to be-
fall them. Presently they half opened
their eyes and peered around in open
mouthed amazement. It was clear they
‘ couldn’t understand it.
“When they had become accustomed
to the sunlight, they elevated their
heads and slowly swept their gaze over
culm piles, sky mountains and horizon
again and again. Toward sundown
they broke into a chorus of joyous brays,
the like of whichwas never heard from
m before.
"After a quarter of an hour of that
music they took to kicking, jumping,
whirling around like teetotums “and
rolling on the sod as if they had gone
mad. For four days they spent their
time gazing at the new sights of field
and sky, refusing food and'water, not
even nibbling at the grass and not as
much as blinking an eye in sleep. ”-.-
Philadelphia Times
soning, but horse fancicrs are liable to ,
READS TO WORKMEN.
THE NOVEL OCCUPATION FOLLOWED
BY A NEW vol-1K MAN.
> Cuban Cigar Makers Pay Him Wollll’or
Translating» and Bonding Aloud Now-pa-
pers and Books While They Work—Hie
Audience Sometimes Critical. ‘
The Spanish speaking cigar makers in
this town employ a man to read to them
while they are at work. In no other in-
dustry is this thing done, though it
would seem that other workers “by the
piece” could imitate the Cubans to ad-
vantage. Not only do they keep in touch
with all' the news, but it keeps them
from talking, and there isn’t a minute
of their time wasted.
The Cubans are great talkers, and
this is what probably started the cus-
tom in the cigar factories Havana.
When the men were broug t to this
country to make their cigars in Key
West and the lower part of New York
city, they wanted a reader more than
ever. They are very bright, intelligent
fellows, these Cubans,‘and they take a
deep interest in the news of the world
as well as the latest intelligence from
their own little island. They all sub-
seribe to a fund to pay their reader, and“
they work all the harder for keeping
their mouths closed and their minds
employed as they roll the tobacco.
Julian Barreda is probably the most
popular of the young men who earn a
good living by amusing and instructing
the cigar makers. He is a native of
Porto Rico, where he learned the Eng-
lish language as well as a gr reat many
other things. He has had a college ed—
ucation and can translate the English
and American newspapers into Latin
and Greek as easily as in Spanish.
He is employed just now in two fac-
tories, that of Lozano, Pendas & 00.,
at 209 Pearl street, and another one
at William and Platt streets. When
Barreda ' first came to this country,
he could not speak the language very
well, though he knew it theoretically
and could read and write it. He is a
skilled electrician, but could get noth--
ing to do in his line and so went to ad-
dressing envelopes at $3. 50 a week.
There was a vacancy in one of the Cu-
ban cigar factories after awhile, and by
that time Barreda had, mastered the
1 speech of this country.
He walked into the factory one day,
and mounting the table which served as
a rostrum for the reader he made a lit-
tle speech to the men, the purport of
which was that he,thought he would
make a good reader for them.
They told him to go ahead and show
what he could do. He pulled a paper
out of his pocket and began reading a
tariff editorial to them. They demand-
ed more when he had finished the edi-
torial and he read to them for an hour,
translating the cable news, the sensa-
tions of the day and the Wa in ton
dispatches into their native panish.
The trial was satisfactory, and he was
engaged at once for four hours a day.
There were 80 Cubans in the factory at
that time, and each agreed to give him
25 cents a week. Then Barreda made
an arrangement on the same terms with
another factory, which employed 40_ 7
men, and he was in receipt of a good 111-
come at opce. ' '1
He reads for 1 ,14 hours at each factory
in the morning and for 2% hours in the
afternoon. He has his evenings to him‘
self, but he occupies a couple of hours
then in reading the afternoon papers to
familiarize himself with the late news,
and so his day is a busy one.
“It is 'not so easy a task as one might
suppose, ” said Barreda to a reporter.
“The men am very mitical, and if the
matter is dull or uninteresting they do
nt hesitate to shout out and demand a
cange. Thé’y. me especially interested I
in the foreign news. Then {heywar
the general hews and anything sensa-
tional in the city news. They like scan-
dal. A divorce case or anything on t at ‘
order just suits them. As fast as ho
Cuban papers arrive by mail I get them
and read them, and the Spanish papers
published in the city contain a great
deal that the men want to hear. ,.
“In the after on I read to them out
of seine book. 11st now I am reading
‘Gil Blas’ in one shop and a Spanish
. novel called ‘The Two Sisters’ in the
other. When Ihave finished a novel, I
select half a‘ dozen others that I think
775“ suit them and read them a list of
titles. Then they vote on whi ch One l
shall beginr”
“Are they good listeners?’ ,
“The best in the world. 1.-y are
Working all the time, and they are anx-
ious not to miss a word; They Work
faster when some one is‘ reading, arid
they realize that if they ever get to talk-
ing together their bill at the end of the.
Week will be just so much less. They
are nearly all revolutionists, you know,
and there is great chance for argument
among them, because they all belong to
different factions.
“I have to be very careful in reading
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the Cuban papers and those published
in Spanish in? this city that I do not
miss an editorial representing'some par.
ticnlar shade of opinion. No matter how
radical it is, it is sure to have some ad~
herent and some sympathizer in thé
shop.’
Barreda has learned to be a very dis- .
criminating newspaper reader. He
knows when to skip the dry partof an
article, and he knows just what news.
paper is the one to begin on in the morn—
ing.
None of his hearers speaks English,
and their desire to know about the
country and the city they are‘ living iri'
‘ makes the employment of the reader not
only a luxury which few workmen en-_ 5
joy at their occupations, but an absolute
necesdity.—New York World.
' A Good hiatch.
Little Ethel—I dess I’ll marry Georgie
Sweet 1'." en he grows up.
Mother—You like him, do you?
Little Ethel—N-o, not much, but he’s
1118’ as fondof chocolates as I 11111.
News. "
' Read the Guam-u.
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Norwalk Chronicler