7\" LY ”-1 NoqurmGAzeml ' Tr". fie above all things. ’ FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1895. Enteru‘! ii. the lp‘cst-(‘fi'ce as a Newspaper ’__________._____. The county commissioners have re- vdked the license of the Stratford hotel. fl...”— —India Ceylon tea, at Betts &_ Far rington’s. 11113“ There are several bad ruts in the ,Wull street paVement that ought to be placed in repair. ._ The Y. M.,C. A. base ball team will play a nine at Cannon Station, to-mor- row afternoon. ‘ Charles Russell, a Bridgeport mar- ketman, is missing and his creditors are looking for him. The salary of Postmaster Malone has been increased $100. He will now *re'- ceive $2,400 per year. Dwyer’s City of Norwalk band will give an open air concert in the new pa- goda, on the Green, to-night. James Dowd, a Bridgeport longshore- man was fatally injured yesterday by a coal bucket dropping on him. —Moth Marbles at Hale’s. _ alitz' According to the Catholic calendar to-dsy is the Feast of the Sacred Heart, and it was so observed at St. Mary’s church. “The Ways of the Wicked and Their End,” will be the subject at the Meth- odist Epworth League meeting. Sunday evening. —-Napthaline at Hale’s. all if Major G. M. Holmes and wife and Mr and Mrs. James Cousins Jr., and child, are to go to Bichfield Springs for a. summer outing. The “Hazleton Survivors,” an or- der of funeral directors from all parts of the county, held a reunion with C. B. Dolge at Westport yesterday. —Low prices at Hale’s. alltt‘ Norwalk is to have an old fashioned one-ring circus on the 29th of this month. It will. exhibit on the large vacant lot on Belden avenue, owned by the Union Manufacturing company. ——Entertainment and strawberry fes- tival at the Broad River Chapel Wed- nesday and Thursday evening, June 26th and 27th. Carryall from post ofiice at 7 and 7:30 o’clock. Admission 10 cents, Carryall free. Mrs. Guthrie,-of the American House has contracted to care for thirty-five of the members of the Sautelle 8: Evans circus which is to appear here on the 29th. W. H. Buell, who stands “5 feet and 10 inches” in his stocking feet and who is an avaunt courier of the show, put up at the house, this week. SOUTH NORWALK Water at the Knob, 703. The salary of POstmaster Benedict has been increased from $2,300 to 2,- 400. Mr. George Brooks, of New Haven, is visiting Adams Express dgent Lester Hunt. Mrs. Mary E. Coon, of the U. S. Patent office, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Joseph Cox of Baton Hill. New York, New Haven and Hartford stock soldyesterday in— Boston, at 218 ; and the debentures in Boston at 147. Mrs. Joseph Cox, of Roton Hill, was a traveling companion from Niagara Falls to New York of the Maples-Hill combination. George S. Trowbridge and George A Whelpley, are in New York to-day attending the New York—Washington ball game. _ Manager William Knapp, of Music Hall, painfully mashed his fingeri‘yes- terday while at work at the box factory on Water street. The funeral of the late Wren C. Ray~ mond was held this afternoon, Rev. Mr. Beard officiating. The interment was in the Union cemetery at Roway— ton. ‘ William Colegrove, clerk at Plais- ted’s, received notice this morning that he had passed the examination taken at Hartford some days ago. and was now a full-fledged pharmacist. The Bed Men had a great time at their clam bake at Gregory’s Point, last evening. A number of out of town guests were present, and enjoyed them- selves, both in the surf, and at the din- ner. . The Norwalk water commissioners have applied to the South 'Nor'wnlk water commissioners for water, and u u.- less it rains within a day or two our up town friends will be using Huckh- berry water. i ' James Fay, a workman employed on the Consolidated railroad’s improve- ments in this city, became the worse for German disturbance yesterday af- 1ernbon and was arrested for drunken- ness and assault. This morning Judge Frost fined him 5,55 and costs. - ‘ completely to the cause, he sent his wife, xv- ' w n EK !.' TOLD BY GENERAL JOE JOHNSTON' The Loving Young Couple and the Philo- sophlc Soldier. Perhaps the most touching incident arising in connection with the'war that . I now recall, came to my noticeon a railway train which also bore as a. ‘pas- senger the very pretty young wife of a. . young soldier, who, by daring bravery, had secured promotion from the ranks toa Confederate captaincy. The Wife met while visiting in 'the North, and whom he had married and taken to his Southern home just before the War. He was one of the first to enlist in the Con- , federate army. To devote himself more ; at the first boom of the gums at Fort ' Sumter, back to her parents in Penn- sylvania to remain till the great strug- gle was ended. . . Now, in 1866, five years after their ' separation, she was on her way South 'to rejoin her husband and place in his arms their four-year-old daughter,whom , he had never seen. It was not long be- fore all the passengers on our car knew the romantic story of the pretty little woman and her beautiful child, and there was not a. man among us who did (not feel a tenderness for and 3. protect- . .ing interest in both. There never was a woman whose heart was more full of love and joy. Shecould do nothing but talk of the captain, and wonder if he had changed so that she could not recognize him, or if he wouldn’t be able to recog- nize her. Then she would fall to won- dering if he would know his little daughter if he met her in the street by her resemblance to himself. which, as he had never set eyes on her, did not seem probable. Throughout that long day’s ride we all entered most heartily into that dear little woman's hopes, fears. doubts and joys, and shared them to such an extent that we were quite as anxious to see the' captain as she was. We reached our journey’s end, and be- fore the train had fairly stopped a tall, elegantly proportioned fellow of 27 came bounding into the car. The little woman gave such a scream of joy as I never can forget, and in less time than I can tell it, was standing in the car aisle, clasped in the young soldier’s manly arms, and tears of joy unutterable coursed down two beautiful young faces as their lips met. For my own part. my eyes were so full of blinding moisture that I could see nothing wnen the proud , and happy young wife and mot-her led‘ her husband for the first time to the place where the little child lay sleeping. The Potato Cure for Tippling. A man prominent in the affairs of Dunkirk yesterday related the following incident: . “One day, two months after I had signed the pledge, I had a craving for a drink of whisky so strong that I could see nothing else- but drinks about me and felt as if I must have at least one drink. I told a friend-of my state of mind. He said, ‘You need not drink. ;‘ I can tell you of a. substitute that will stop your discomfort. Get a. bowl of ice water and a. raw potato, peel it and cut down one end of it to a size con- venient to take in the mouth. Dip the potato in the ice’ water and suck it every time you think you must have the whisky.’ I did as he advised. I took the bowl of ice water and the potato and placed them on a table at the head of my bed and would dip the potato in the water and place it between my lips every few moments till I went to sleep. I awoke free from any desire to drink whisky and have been free from it ever since. That one treatment eradicated my craving for whisky for all the time that has since elapsed."—Buifalo- Cou- rier. Prepared Breakfast W'lrilc Asleep. Somnambulism has in all ages furn- ished many curious illustrations, and among them may be noted one that oc~ curred in a \Vest Utics residence a few days ago. The husband and wife were aroused by the breakfast bell ringing in the middle of the night. They arose- and discovered that it was 2 o’clock, but on hastily dressing and going down to the dining room they found breakfast ready and waiting for them. , They were greatly alarmed at the condition of things, for they at first imagined that the hired girl had suddenly gone in- sane. , After a few minutes, however, they discovered that she was asleep. She had got up, started the fire, prepared the morning meal and had it ready for serv- ing, but was sound asleep all the time. The only unusual thing was her failure to put on her shoes. They Were in a quandary as to what course to pursue, " for the girl could not be awakened, and = seemed to take it as an affront that they should insist that she was asleep. The gentleman was about to summon a physician, when the Wife dashed a glass of cold water in the girl's face and she awoke. She was badly frightened over the occurrence,,but as this was the first . time in her life she had ever exhibited somnambulistic tendencies, and as she has done no housework in her sleep since, the household has ceased to be disturbed. —Utica. Observer. The Difference. Well Known Millionaire (to a. beggar) —Be off with you, this minute! Beggar—Come, now, my man, you needn’t give yourself such airs! 'Thef only difference between you and me is I that you are making your second mil-1 lion, while I am as yet working at the " first. ' ', The Reason He Had. I One—You haven't a single reason why you won't join our club. ' Tother—Perhaps not, but I have a , married reason—Detroit Free Press. ; Doing the Best He Could. I Hopper—Is the’ baby getting old! enough to entertain himself? I Popper—No; but he rolled- out of bed, I broke a window and fell dowstairs to-i day and we. are feeling very much en— ' courage.l.—St. Louis Republic. 5 as ineverything else. weights. 5 versrty.’ , ; WOMEN AS ACROBATS. A Performer Given an Insight of the Lit- . erary Tastes of Circus Ladies. Once a year Barnum’s Greatest Show on Earth calls attention to the evolution that goes on in the circus world. as well There is as much difiz‘erence between the sawdust attrac- tions of to-day and those of thirty years ago as between the science of the present time and that which was possessed in I j. the (13: S f 1 . was a Pennsylvania girl whom he had ,_ y 0 our ate war In no one respect has there been a greater change than in the ever increas- ing number of women among perform- ers. At one time they only appeared in three or four specialties, while men , usurped all the rest. In speaking of this change Miss Josie Ashton, who is one of the particular stars of the show this season, said: “It is hard to . say what women cannot do if they make ‘ up their minds to do it. To-day you find them as clowns and ringmistresses, as contortionists and acrobats; you find them in every kind of riding, swimming, fencing, boxing and in moving heavy About the only specialty that they are not in at the present moment is leaping and vaulting. There is no reason Why they should not; nearly every good woman performer can jump as well as a. man, only it is not the fashion at present. “The reasons for this are quite num- erous. The performer is paid very hand- somely'and is well taken care of. Her life is a very healthy and pleasant one, and enables her to see a. great deal of the world. She enjoys a certain inde- pendence, and, as long as she behaves herself, the respect and esteem of every- body she meets. Above all, her training develops her muscles, her self-reliance and her courage. She is better able to take care of herself than are ordinary women, and can do better things for herself where the latter would depend upon their husbands or would call in a porter. Performers lead very quiet lives, because, if they did otherwise, they would soon deteriorate in their work. It may seem strange, but nearly all women performers read a. great deal, and carry books with them when they travel. One of the women in our com- pany carries Lucille, another one makes it a. rule to read Longfellow every day; there is another one who is always look- ing over Shakespeare, but that. I fancy, is because she thinks she will he a great tragedienne some day.” TWO-HANDED WE-IIST. A New Game \Vhicll is a Great Improve- ment Over “Double Dummy.” Old whist players will probably greet with suspicion the announcement that it is possible to play an interesting game of whist with “Double dummy” and “single dummy” were never popular with the votaries of this game. They were classed with old maid and casino and other games which - allowed more or' less gossip while the ' game was in progress, and did not allow the display of any great amount of thought. A new game, however, has been introduced for two han‘ds',"'which, - while it undoubtedly is not so good as a four handed game, still it is moderate‘ 1y interesting, and affords a. chance for the display of a good deal of skill. The game is played by dealing the en- tire pack to the two players. The cards are picked up indiscriminately and each player places in a row before him thir- teen piles of cards. He begins by plac~ ing the first card face downward on the table, and the next one face upward on top of the first card laid down. This operation is repeated until the thirteen piles are built by each player. This leaves thirteen cards exposed on the table on each side, and thirteen, the value of which are not known, as the faces are turned downward. The play then begins with the non- dealer, and the game is carried through the same as in an ordinary game of whist. As soon as the card which is ex- posed is played, and the trick on which it is played is taken, the card underneath ‘ hot, and by touching .‘a particle of dirt on is also turned up. This process finally causes all the cards tobe exposed, but, of course, not until the game is well along toward the close. Consequently there is always enough uncertainty about the value of your opponent’s hand and the strength of your own, to allow a. good deal of conjecture and thoughtful play- ing. The game has not been introduced extensively at present, and in many whist clubs it seems to be practically unknown, and in some Of them entire- ly so. Choate and Lauterbnch. The Hon. Joseph H. Choate and the Hon. Edward Lauterbach were associa- ted in a. suit a short time ago and won. As the jury left their seats Mr. Lanter- bach turned to Mr. Choate and said: “Cheats, we won this verdict because we happened to know more law on this subject than our adversaries.” , “Yes?" queried Choate. “Our clients are rich, you know, a corporation and all that,” rejoined Lau- terbach?" “Yes?” again replied Choate. “What T do you think we ought to, charge, Lau- terbach?” . “011, $750 apiece.” “Tut, tut,” broke out Choate, impa- tiently, and be repeated: “Tut, tut! You let me handle this bill. Lauterbach, I’ll» collect for us both.” ' A short time afterward Mr. Lanter- bach was in Mr. Choate’s office in Wall street, and Mr. Choate handed out a check for $1,500 as Mr. Lauterbach’s fee in the case, and said: “Lauterbach, what do you think of that?” Mr. Lauterbach-looked at the check, stroked his beard for an instant, and, looking intently at Choate, replied: .“Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.” Bismarck was an impetuous and per- sistent lover, who bore down all the ob- stacles thrown in the way of his mar- riage. It Was his earnest. quick witted and gentle-Wife who made a. man out of the reckless, roystering young giant—the hero of thifty duels and apparently the most hopeless ne‘er-do-well at his uni- less than four hands. Wm ’M- 7 BOTH PAPERS WERE USEFUL. The Fortunate Result of a Tennessee Jus- tice Mixing His Documents. Bill Wright was a justice of the . peace, and also an absent-minded. man, whose wife was as able an orator as Xantippe. Bill used to serve all his prouesses himself, and to save time would sign the marriage certificates in blank and de- liver a number to the person. ' ' One day Bill had a. process to serve away up, in the mountains on a semi- barbarous recluse, who was sued for damages for some misdeeds, and Bill thought he would deliver a. few of the certificates to the person. So sticking both packages of papers in the same pocket be mounted his horse and rode oflf. - Reaching the minister’s, he stopped and chatted awhile. and, after deliver- ing his papers, he started off again and took the road to the mountains. The person had a wedding that day, one _ of the parties being a. notorious horse thief from an adjoining county. When the ceremony was over the person selected a certificate from the bundle and unrolled it sufficiently to sign his name. On handing it to the man the latter opened it, and his eye grew wild when he read instead of a. marriage cer- tificate a warrant of arrest, signed by both the justice of the peace and the parson. He feared some trap, so sur- rendered himself to custody. When the justice reached the moun- tain side he took out the paper to read it and immediately saw its nature, but maintaining his self-possession, he re- cited the form of summons, which he fortunately remembered. He then returned and found the herse ' thief in jail, and went and saw the par- son, remarking, with his own matrimo- nial felicity in mind, that both papers had unintentionally served the ends of justice—University Courier. The Greatest Gunpowder Explosion. The greatest explosion of gunpowder the world has ever known took place at the Du Ponts works on the 7th of Octo- ber, 1890. With their usual cautious policy the Du Ponts have never stated just how great a. quantity of powder ex- ploded at this time, but it is certain that three magazines and three mills in the upper yard were blown up, one after another, and a. safe estimate will put the quantity of powder exploded at 150 tons. In this explosion thirteen men and one woman were instantly killed, while twenty-two men and nine women were injured, some fatally. The explosion occurred a little after 3 o’clock in the afternoon. It began in the magazine for hexagonal powder, the kind used in large guns and the most dangerous, being made not in grains, but in reddish, six-sided cakes, about an inch and a half in diameter and an inch thick, with a small hole in the center. These cakes look like nothing so much as the nut on a. wagon wheel. At the time of the explosion cakes of powder were being packed into large wooden boxes lined with tin, each box being about three feet square. The tin linings projected above the tops of the bones about two inches, and when a. box was packed, were folded over a tin cover fitted closely upon the cakes of powder. It was the duty of one of the workmen, William Green, to solder .these tin edges down upon the tin cover, a. hot iron being used for this purpose. On the day in question what he had feared came to pass. A fellow work- man, William McGarvey, was bringing him the hot irons from a. charcoal brazier about twenty-five yards distant. Green stood just at the door of the open magazine, and all around him Were un- covered boxes filled with hexagonal powder, ready to be sealed and stored away. There were also dozens of boxes that had been sealed. Just what hap- pened will never be known, for neither Green or McGarvey was left to tell the story. But the probability is that one of the soldering irons was a. little too the tin cover producei the deadly spark. —McClure’s Magazine. Sho Herself Was the Thief. An amusing series of incidents oc- curred at the Louisville Pure Food Show. After the first day the mana- gers found that scarcely a. spoon re--- mained that they allowed people to use who wanted to sample the edibles. So they decided to put strings on the spoons and fasten the ends to the tables. Several times women pocketed the spoons, only to find themselves at the end of a string, and one exciting epi- sode took place that was particularly funny. A nervous, aggressive looking woman quietly and deftly placed a. spoon in her pocket and started to walk ofi in that assumed, unconscious man- ner which amounts to positive genius in her sex. Presently she felt a. pulling at her pocket and at once excitedly declared that she was being robbed. This at- tracted every one’s attention and also 'ledto the discovery of the spoon, which had unfortunately got caught in her pocket and was with some difficulty ex- tracted. The expression upon her face at the moment that spoon came to light is easier imagined than described. The Magnet in Surgery. A few days ago C. H. Fiske, the Old Orchard hotel proprietor, got a. needle into his foot and was unable to extract it, although he tried many ways to do so. Finally, knowing the affinity of steel for a , magnet, 'he went to an electric light station and placed his foot near a dynamo, and out came the needle. -—Portland Press. 0 Logic on All Fours. Teacher—Why was George Washing- ton a. great man? Tommy—Because we don’t have no school on his birthday—Philadelphia. Record. ___________ In the Great Pie Belt. Housewife (suspiciously)——Aren’t you the tramp to whom I gave a. whole mince pie last week? Ragged Haggard — Nome. I’m his ._ ghost—Truth. I GEN. LEE’S TWO STORIES. He Dcscrhes the Caleb Raider-stone ol the Corrfr-(l- racy. ‘ Many of the mos; lace-critiful and pa- thetic incidents of the i as war occurred after it was all over. At a hotel at Washington in 186-) a g "rileman, whose, face I could not exactly remember, though it seemed strangely familiar, in- troduced himself and asked permission to present me to his 111031193, 8 singularly beautiful old lady (i' queenly and digni- fiel bearing, towhom he said: “Mother, let me present to you Gen. R. E. Lee, of the late Confederate army, whose saber thrust gave me this scar on my right cheek and who bears the mark of a wound I gave him.” I The beautiful old ladythrew her arms arormd my neck and wept on my shoul- der,and in that tender embrace and in- the fervent clasp of h .5 Federal officer’s hand and mine we bur--cithe animosities of the war forever. ' One of the most devoted adherents the Southern cause ever had was Col. M. When my surrender to Gen. Grant was inevitable, a. young office:- delicate- ly hinted to the Colonel that perhaps his confidence in the ultimate success of our arms,,which was still as boastful as ever, was perhaps a trifle overweening. The Colonel looked at him for a moment with an expression in which contempt, anger, horror and amusement struggled for the mastery. Then with hands up- lifted, hair standing on end and eyes flashing fire, he roared out at the dis- comfited lieutenant in the voice of ‘a stentor: “Dam up Niagara Falls with tissue paper, bottle up the Atlantic Ocean in a whisky flask, paste ‘to let’ on the sun and moon. catch a. flash of light- ning between y 11' thumb and finger, build a worm fence around a winter sup- ply of summer weather, harness a. thun- derbolt to a sulky, waft all of the clouds out of the sky with a lady‘s fan, saddle and ride a hurricane, fashion a dish clout to the tail of a. comet, pack up all .the stars in a beer keg, knock a tornado out of time with your fist, put Hades to cool in a. spring house, put the sky in your pocket, unbuckle the bellyband of eter— nity, but never again allow yourself to fancy for a moment that the poor little North can ever whip the great Southern confederacy!” _WHAT IS FAME? Answer in the Perishable An- nals of Mlghtlness. Ask any man, “The was Mrs. Bloomer? and he can answer the question: He may not know much about her, but he does know the one achievement of her life. Ask him who was Secretary of State when Mrs. Bloomer was jeered by the urchins upon Broadway, and how many can answer? Who was Hayes‘s attorney-general? To what country was the prime author of the Ostend Manifesto then minister? Yet it is certain that either of the individuals here indicated would have curled his nose at any hint of aparallel between his own illustrious career and the fame that embalms the name and exploits of Mrs. Bloomer. It is melancholy to the verge of tear- fulness to reflect that not one adult in five hundred native born" adults in this land can enumerate its succession of Vice-Presidents 'without a break. Yet they seemed in their time, to themselves, at least, to be carving names on the sandstone, not the sand of time. The name of the proprietor of “thine in- comparable oil, Macasser,” has outlasted those not merely of statesmen, but of many a pretty poet and even of some pioneers of science. To the chosen few the name of Lucretia. Mott is that of a. saint, and Abbey Folsom a remembered sound. But the less ambitious effort of a Bloomer sends her name reverberating down the colonnades of time. She will have a public statue yet, but will it be garbed as she was? ‘ One Finds Blowing Out a Candle Through a. Brick. “You wouldn’t have believed it possi- ble to blow out a. candle flame through a brickbat,” remarked a celebrated physician whose penchant is to give scientific research a. practical bearing; “It can be done, however, and it illus- trates the all pervasive qualities of air. Most- rooms are largely ventilated through their walls, and the brick and mortar are merely very rudimentary lungs, which take in and throw out the atmosphere with little hindrance. “You may try the experiment your- self. Place a candle on the other side of your brick and use two funnels. with the flaring ends on the opposite side of the brickbatwith the small end of one in line with your mouth and the small'end of the other trained on the candle flame. The least breath will make the light flicker and a hearty expiration will ex- tinguish it altogether. Try it and see.” —Toledo Blade. ' . \Vhy \Ve Have TWo Ears. The teacher told the children how a wise man once said that we have only one month and tWO ears so that we may listen and hear twice as much as we speak. Afterward to see how much of the instruction was remembered, she asked: “Why is it that we have two ears and only one mouth, Frances?" "Because we would not have room in our face for two months and we would look too crooked if _we only had one ear." , "No, that is not the reason. You know, do you, Rosie?” “Yes, ma’am. So that what we hear may go in one ear and out the other.” -Philadelphia Times. . p A Frequent Complaint. “I am so sorry to hear that. your hus- band is ill,” said the caller. “Yes,” was the reply, "it"s really too ' bad. He took such a. liking to a. new kind of health food and over ate him- self.’°—Pearson's Weekly. Mrs. Malaprop—V‘Vho are the two young ladies playing that duet on the piano? . Herr Strawitzki—One is the daughter of the hostess. ' Mrs. Malaprop—And, pray, who is her accompliceE—Eulenspiegel. I READERS 9T T GAZETTE. ‘ When buying goods of any of the firms advertising with us, are requested to men- tion SEEING THE ADVERTISEMENT We are receiving the pa- iIn this , paper. tronage of our most prominent business houses, and both for their advantage and our own, we kindly urge our friends to mention up GAZETTE When” making. purg chases. FINE JIIB PRINTING.
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