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Why do people my our
$1.25 Kid Oxford is the Nicest?
We know. It’s made from nice kid, it's
trimmed nice. In short 1t 15 a ‘pretty shoe.
The style is right, the wear is there, the
price lower than any shoe of same quality in
Fairfield County. -
OH: OH: OH!
The $2 The are Beauties
Hand Sewed, Trim, Neat. Nice, Good.
Women’s Prenell Gaiters, at 58c.
Base Ball Shoes. all sizes. 60c.
Child’s Spring Heel Shoes, 40c., 500.
650. and up.
Men’s Shoes, $1.00 to $5.00.
A Fine Russett Shoe, men’s, $2.50
» and 3.00.
A good Plain Toe Bussett Shoe at 82.
~ A VeryNeat Gents’ Patent Leather
Shoe, narrow toe, at $3.50.
GOOD (CBS,
LOW PRICES.
a u. Hdll‘ a son.
37 Wall Street, Norwalk.
. EL F RE!
GREAT
Reduction Sale
dedKERY, GLASSWIRE
House runnrsurueeooou
Owing to the fire in our store we will
at once commence aGreat Fire Sale of
1rs)to.ck. Now is the time to secure bar-
ams.
JONES & Eorcnnrss,
23 Wall Street, Norwalk.
/t
IHAVE
SOMETHING
‘ new.
Picture to yourself the
change in this adv. to-
morrow.
E. J. canton, Grocer.
43 Chapel Street.
A9 3m
_—_—_.—/
‘In Your Order
NEW FOR A
SPRING
SUIT.
The Latest Stylesiat
E. GusoWski’s,
Sprint! and summer
SUITINGS.
Having procured a large stock of Spring
and Summer Buttmgs, I am prepared to make
them up in the latest styles.
F.KOCOUR,
I7 North Main St. South Norwalk.
GENERAL -:-MESSENGER
PurchasiftngD Agent.
:The subscriber having 25 years’ experience
in a large New York dry 1‘foods house, will.
commence the business of essenger and Pur-
chasing A gent between Norwalk and New York
on the 15th inst" and hopes to receive the pa-
tronage of friends and acquaintances.
Bg’eda‘itt 4%.?“th my hilt.“ "‘ I’m' Ad
. 5, am scree . or .
at 130 Park avenue. New York. wa R an
.. A, EDWIN K. SELLECK.
READERS E
TEE. G .
When buying goods
of any of the firms
advertising with us,
are requester] to men-
'Eion
SEEING THE
ADVERTISEMENT
We
are receiving the pa-
In this paper.
tronage of our most
prominent business
houses, and both for
their advantage'and
our own, we kindly.
urge our friends to
mention "
rH__E GAZETTE
When making 'pur
chases.
FINE JIIB PRINTING.
take too much Of.
mans;
' Rootbeen
It quenches your thirst
That’s the best of it.
Improves your health I . , g
a. That’s the rest of at. g
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: $33.3?“E232‘32i3$‘wfiicifi..‘i’3im.t..,°€§n’i 3
Great Reduction Sale
. 0F
Commencing May 29th, and continuing
Friday and Saturday, May 3lst and
June ’ lst.
3 cases of Real Italian Leghorn Hats, good
value at 32, our- sellin prlce this week S1.
Also 40 boxes of Fine Si k and Velvet Flowers,
worth from $3 to $4 each, our price this week
790 to 89c.. Silk Roses 250 to 300 per bunch.
Hats from 150 to 490, at
FAWCEIT’S.
Headquarters tor Millinery,
No. 3 Water St, Norwalk,
Horace E. Darin. '
EXCELSIOL
Livery and Sales Stable
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Opposite Danbury and
Norwalk Railroad depot
Norwalk, Conn. Stylish
Single or Double Team
with or without drivers.
Safe horses for women
and children
{DADDLE HORSES A SPECIALTY
f3"
' House
Cleaning. ,
Lusrntna.
At all Grocers.
Enough said.
IV?" '
REFRIGER'ATORS.
We have the Mackinaw Hard-wood
Refrigerator. It is a hot day when
they get left.
Oil stoves, Window Screens, Ice
Cream Freezers, Lawn Mowers,
Scythes and Snaths, Grass Hooks,
Rifles, Whet Stones, Steel Hoes,
25c, Steel Rakes, 30c. and 35c.
H. H. WILLIAMS,
l7 Main. Street. Norwalkfi
NOW BEEN.
GREGORY’S PUIN‘I' HII'IEL.
Clams, Oysters, etc.
Shore Dinners a Specialty.
Trolley cars run diret to the Point.
JOHN E. O’ISULLIVAN,
MANAGER.
11114
J. D. Jennings.
UNDERTAKER
4 Knight street. opposite
Street Railway Depot
NIGHI BELL AT OFF
Horse Sh oemg.
The undersi ed has taken the shop in
the front of . T. Bub ’s on Cross street.
and. is prepared to do orse shoeing m a
m tau-class manner.
John '1'. Lyoett.
Raymond a. Son.
Successors to George H, Raymond,
Furniture Dealers and General Funeral
Directors.
46 and 48 Main street, Norwalk, Ct.
Residence, Berkeley Place.
Telephone Call. 97-» .
mmnma
Crafty, No. 12,022.
3110012112133.
Sire Kentucky Wilkes, No. 1857.Record 2.213;.
Dam Argo by Electionecr, No. 125. Service $35.
Bay Baron, NO 8,257.
RECORD, 2,19%,
Sire Baron Wilkes. No. 7758. Dam Carrie
Wilkes by George Wilkes, No. 519. Service 520
W. B. E. LOCKWOOD. Jr.,
Norwalk, Conn. '
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THE onNNIBAL‘ BOA.
THE serene THAT SWALLOWEZ‘ HIS
COMPANION rs DEAD.
lIc Livnd to Digest His Friend, and Sur-
vived Several .‘vIonths, but Died Appar-
ently of Another Ailment. The Victim
Was 9 Feet Long and the Other but 11.
It is announced that the famous boa.
const1"ctor in the London Zoological
Gardens that swallowed his companion
is dead.
The extraordinary tragedy in which
this snake figured is a matter of record.
The recently deceased snake, it appeared,
was on excellent terms with his room-
mate. a somewhat smaller boa. con-
strictor. One night some pigeons were
given to them. In the morning the
keepers found only one snake in the cage
and no pigeons. The only possible con-
clusion was that the big snake had swal-
lowed his friend.
A careful examination of the evidence
in the case made one theory appear prob-
able. This was that one snake had had
a pigeon in his mouth and that the other
had seized it, perhaps playfully. When
a snake has closed his jaws on a large
object he cannot relinquish it, owing to
the fact that his numerous teeth slant
backward and» that the jaws are (lis-
tended. In this case the bigger snake,
it would appear, was absolutely com-
pelled to swallow the smaller.
The big snake did not die of indiges-
tion, but survived the tragedy many
months. Possibly sorrOw preyed upon
him, for he recently died in generally
broken health.
Shortly before the snake's death the
superintendent of the gardens wrote this
account of the case:
“Since January, 1894, the two fine
specimens of the common be?. lived to-
gether on friendly terms in one of the
large compartments of the reptile house.
The snakes are usually fed at dusk once
a week, and on the evening of Oct. 5
Tyrrel, the keeper of the reptile house,
placed two pigeons in the den of the two
boa constrictors. The larger one seized
one Of the pigeons, and no doubt swal-
lowed it, after which the keeper closed
the house and left. On his return the
next morning he was astonished to find
Only one boa in the compartment instead
Of two, and from the enormously in-
creased sizc of the remaining one he
concluded at once that the larger boa
had swallowed its companion. That this
was so was evident to all who visited
the house. , .
“The enormous enlargement of the
creature's body was most remarkable.
It had no longer the power of curling
itself round, as snakes usually do, but
remained enended nearly its full length
in a straight line, and appeared to be at
least three times its normal size in cir-
cumference. It was almost painful to
see the distended skin, which had separ-
ated the scales all over the middle of the
bOdy. After examining the snake my
expectation was that it would ultimately
disgorge its companion. I have, however,
been disappointed. Recalling to mind
a. former and very similar case in which
the decomposing body of the snake
swallowed caused the death of its de-
stroyer, I had much doubt about the di-
gestive powers of this animal. But in
the present instance the snake has not
only digested its companion, but has
regained its appetite as well as its normal
size.
“On Friday, Nov. 2, the keeper, find-
ing the creature moving about as if in
search Of food, placed a pigeon in its
den, which was seized and swallowed
immediately. I have had this voracious
serpent measured, and find it to be eleven
feet in length. The one which it swal-
lowed was about nine feet in length.”
Florence Nightingale at 75.
On the 15th day of May she celebrated
her seventy-fifth birthday—as great a
woman and as great a public benefactor,
and as much of a heroine as she was
forty years ago, when she went forth
from her comfortable home in England,
not as a more nurse to attend to the
wants of the wounded and dying British
soldiers in the Crimea, but as a fearless
organizer of a. great field hospital sys-
tem, which the British war office author-
ities, staff Officers and generals had
looked upon as a mere matter of after-
thought in the preliminary arrange-
ments of one of the most difficult cam.-
paigns in the history of the civilized
World.
Miss Nightingale loathes anything in
the form of publicity. To journalists
she never opens her mouth, nor even her
door, but to any one who seeks advice on
a question affecting the 'intercsts of the
Sick or those who nurse them a. hearty
welcome and a word of encouragement
and counsel are always cheerfully ac-
corded. She has a very comfortable
home on one of the best streets in the
West End of London, but spends most
of the year at Claydon House in Buck-
inghamshire, the home of her sister,
Lady Verney.
She is a. tall woman, rather stout, with
gray hair and’fine, open face. Although
a great sufferer she does not show a
trace of it. ‘ She has not known what it
is to be without pain for many years.
Her features are finely modeled, while
her handsand feet are very small. Her
voice is low and musical. She often
reads aloud, and sometimes she hums a
song or a hymn. She is very devout and
an omnivorous reader. Her room is lit-
tered with neivspapers, magazines, writ-
ing :paper, pencils and letters. She is
always cheerful.
A Qualified Answer.
Dukane—What is the order of Cincin-
nati, Gaswgll?
Gaswell—I was never in the town
more than twice or three times, but then
I gathered the imprsssion that the usu-
al order was beer and bologna—Pitts-
burg Chronicle Telegraph. ‘
His Misealeulation.
He—Certainly a New York that would
be large enough for us two.
She—Not with the present style of
sleeves—Life. -
SCULPTOR ROGER’S MOVING.,
He Can “'ork No More. Famous Masks
and Models to Be Sold.-
' Among the changes which the coming
of May day occasioned was one in which
artists and art lovers will take an es-
special interest. All that madehthe in-
terior of the home of John Rogers, the
sculptor, beautiful and attractive was
packed in boxes and shipped to New
Canaan, Conn., where the famous work-
er in clay has a country seat, and where
he intepds to spend the remaining years
of his life.
About a year ago Mr. Rogers became
afliicted with palsy which rendered his
right hand so unsteady as to compel him .
to give up, probably forever, the work
to which he had given the best part of
his life to.
For many years Mr. Rogers did all of
his modeling in a studio in the rear of
his residence. When this was being dis-
mantled a. number of the sculptor’s orig-
inal casts were foumd, which not only
have a. great artistic interest attaching
to them, but they also have a rare
value.
Among the number are masks of
Henry Ward Beecher, Robert Colyer,
William Lloyd Garrison, Alexander
Hamilton, President Lincoln. and
Charles Summer. The mask of Beecher
was made in 1860,just after he returned
from England, 'where he had gone to
preach against slavery. The mask of
Garrison was made before that time.
Lincoln’s was made in 1860 and Colyer’s
in 1875. It was from the mask found in
moving that the mask of Beecher now
in Plymouth Church was made.
There was also found the original of
Mr. Rogers’s famous “Shylock,” busts
of William Cullen Bryant and William
Parker, equestrian figures of Gen. Sher-
man and Gen. Sheridan, after which the
statuary in the Capitol at \Vashington
were made, and the group entitled “We
Boys,” ‘I‘The Interrupted Courtship,”
“The Negro Slave Auction” and “The
Foundling. ”
Beside these there are more than 100
of the original models from which many
of the most famous of the Rogers groups
were made.
DEVELOP A CHILD’S TALENT.
The Responsibility of Misfits in the World
Placed \Vith the Parents.
Mrs. Lemcke. who is a. professional
cook, is a philosopher as well. She
says:
“Every child has a. talent for some-
thing, and it is the duty of the parents
to find out what each child’s talent is.
DO you know that most- of the trouble in
the world comes from people not being
in their right places? We have minis-
ters, doctors and lawyers who should
be mechanics. blacksmiths, and, some of‘
them, street sweepers. Mind you, I
think a mechanic just as good as any-
thing else, provided he is a successful
one.
“Your child may be very smart in
books. He may get a medal every week,
and you perhaps think him the smartest
boy in the world—that's a failing par-
ents have—and yet that boy may turn
out a failure. He surely will if you do
not let him follow his bent. I’d rather
raise ten boys than one girl. Find out
what your boy’s talent is and cultivate
it in every way. If he is fond of tools
buy them for him, and buy him books
and papers that will teach him how to
use them. Fit up a room for this pur-
pose and allow him to do things about
the house. Always be at home when he
comes in from school, keep him busy
and short of money, and I feel sure he
will grow up a manly man.
“A woman was bragging to me not
long ago about what a. smart daughter
she had. ‘Why, she sits up over half of
every evening reading, and it’s always
buy, buy, buy to keep her supplied with
literature.’
“ ‘And pray, what does she read?”
said I.
“She mentioned over a dozen blood-
and-thunder periodicals and books, and I
said:
“ ‘Madame,
girl’s mind.’
“Now, that mother had better been
finding what that poor girl’s talent was
and giving her things to read to develop
it. More people are spoiled by bad liter-
ature than by liquor and tobacco. If we
ave a talent for what we undertake we
stick to it until we succeed; if not we
fail or fioundw around like a. fish out of
water. The success of your children
rests on your finding out what their bent
is and making them follow it.”
you are poisoning that
A Skeptic She.
A young woman from the treeless
plains of the West had gone to Boston
to a music school on her first trip East,
and among the first persons she met at
her boarding house was a .youth from
Bangor. As their acquaintance ripened
she told him of what had interested her
on her journey.
“Why,” she said, with an exultant
spirit, “I saw at one place in Pennsyl-
vania a hundred saw logs in one pile.”
(.- “A hundred?" he asked, with a. tinge
of a smile.
‘ ‘That’s what they told me. You know,
we don’t have saw logs where I come
from.” :-
"‘Is that so? You ought to come to
Maine once.”
“Do you have them there?”
“Do we?” he replied, magnificently.
“Do we? Why, my dear young lady,
saw logs grow on trees in Maine.”
“Really?” she asked in open eyed as-
tonishment.
“It’s a literal fact,” he asserted, posi»
tively.
“Well, I don’t believe it,” she con-
tended, and, do what he could, he could
not convince her that he was telling the
plain, unadomed truth—Detroit Free
Press.
One Reason for Going Slow.
Mrs. Strongmynd—It’s very strange
how slow women are about taking up
advanced ideas about dress.
Mrs. Meekly—Well, it's risky. You
know J can of Arc put on men’s armor,’.
and she was burned alive.
,Car'eful ; '
' 'seleCtiOn
every year
Of only '
highest-
grade
Tobacco
\ \ .
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B. L.
is uniform '
and never ;
PASTII A ‘.
First-class Pasturage for
Horses or Horned Cattle ; in
good neighborhood Where
an employee will have over-
sight of same. Plenty of
water and a heavy growth
of feed.
Raymond Bros.
EW YORK.NEW HAVEN d: HARTFORD
RAILROAD.
-NEW YORK DIVISION
October 1394
TramsleaoeSouth Norwalk asjoliows:
FOR NEW YORK—Accommodation trains at.
9.36 a.m., 1.11, 2.54. 4.07. 5.30. 6.50. 8.00. 10.20
p. m. Express trams at 5.20 5.26. 6.15. (local)
6,55 (local). 7.08 (local), 7.55 (local).8.21 (local).
9.03 (local) 9.58, 10-45. 11.37. (local) 8., m. 12.3!
2.25.4.20.5.20.6.20 7.57 p.m. It‘or Washington vu.
Harlem River 1.13 a.m. (daily.
Simona—Accommodation 915 a. m.. 6.14_
(local),7.23,(local) 9.281).m Express 6.20 5.20
a. m.
For: NEW_HAVEN AND THE Emu—Accommo.
dation trams at 6.32, 7.38, 8.46 and 1‘ 44 a. .11.,
1.40, 4.20, 5.27. 6.27. 7.28 (to Bridgeport),
8.41 9.41 and 11.15p.m. Express trains at 1.01.3230
9.11 10.09. 11.06ia. m. 12.05. 3.03. 5.07 (Nama-
tuck Express)7.10 p. m. _
SUNDAYS.—Accomm0d8.t10n7.38. 9.12 a. m. and
7.15 p.m. EXP-press 1.01 and 1.20 a. m.
C. ‘. HEMPSTEAD. Gen. Pass.Ag t.
The Norwalk Fnc Insurance Co
Has now Completedits
Z326. SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS YEAR,
And has not. outstanding a dollar of unpai
losses or claims for losses. No sound com.-
am/ insures for less
. Beavan. Pres.‘ G. B. ST. JOHN.
:Gno. R COWLEs. Sec’v.
Treas
TNA INSRUANCE 00., of Hartford
Incorporated 1812. Charter Perpetua
Capital and Assets, 88,902.272.64.
Insures against loss and damage by FIBE on
terms adapted to the hazard and consrster‘
With the laws of comvpinsation
CO ES 8r. MERRILL.
Sole agents for Norwalk and Vicinity
J. Belden Hurlbutt,
Attorney and Councilor at Law.
Room 4, up stairs,
GAZETTE BUILDING.
ADAMS EXPRESS COMPANY
Low Rates. Prompt Delivery
Bracnh Office, Nora alk, at Morris Benedict
Main Oflice. depot. South Norwalk.
L. HUNT. Agent.
0G. A. FRANKIE,
THE HAIR CUTTER
No. l Gazette Building, Norwalk
HOT AND com» BATES
surnotno tors
(ON INSTALLMENT PLAN.) ’
FOR SALE.
0n -:- Wilton Avenue
. ZAPPLY To).
Charles. Olmstead.
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Norwalk Chronicler