:sz. WM. N. SssizLas, 716 E. r781h Street, writes: “Tumour“, N. Y. CITY, I May I3lh, 1895. f “ I am glad to see you are pushing ' 1 Suva-cm. It is worthy of it. After having given it a. thorough trial for over a year, I am persuaded that it comes nearest to being a 3‘ ancm," a delightful cure-all, of , anything‘of its kind that I have ever known. I have come to believe that you are we» modest in your club-.113 01' its excellence. Vex’ily, it is t .0. oil of gladness. ' WM. N. SEARLES.” ‘ SALVA-CEA is universally praised—people are finding out ' _ that it does its work promptly—- that it is perfectly safe and that it does as it is advertised to do. You may depend upon it to give immediate relief in every case of piles, and a cure in ninety cases out of every hundred. It is a I positive cure for all skin irrita- tion and chafing—colds—and ,2 .. nasal catarrh, especially the dry "catarrh so .prevalent in this ‘1 country. " I ‘ ’WWWMWVV JV «4‘ Two sizes, 2'5 and 50 cents per box. At drug'gists, or by mail. For deej-reatedfozn arm? rheumatism of the/amt: use Saws tea, “Extra .51; 011g. ” Sa’d m tins of ”5 cent: eat/1. T111: BRANDRETH Co., 27.41, Canal St.,\' 1 _. Y. no BUT IN smou- MEAT. Round, Sirloin and Por- terhouse Steaks, Sausage, Pot and Rib Roasts Reduced lo. a Pound. All First Quality Meat. J. W. ,BOGARDUS, 6 WATER s'r., NORWALK 0an HATHI‘IRN SPRING WAIEII FOR THE Stomach, Bowels, Liver and Kidneys. FOR SALE BY ’ The Holmes, Keeles dSelleok Co PAINT. We are now prepared to supply the public with a good reliable ready mixed paint 1n 1.,pt 1 qt, 2 qt. and 4 qt. pails. Also aw and boiled oils, turpentine, dryer, varnish, white lead by the pound or hundred weight, white and colored kalsomine Putty, nails by the pound or keg. Good line of paint brushes. Our prices are all right—same as the goods. H. H. WILLIAMS 1? Main St. . MEEKER COAL CO. GOAL, WOOD, BRICK, LIME, BEMEIIT, TILE PIPE. OFFICE WITH G. & S. H. HOLMES MAIN STREET. NOBWALK. J. D. Jennings. UNDERTAKER 4 Knight street, opposite Street Railway Decor. . NIGHT BELL AT OFFICE. lBGKWOOBQSP LIGHT PARCEL an d PACKAGE DELIVEBYi Cheap rates. W_i11 alsot take orders for mes- senger service in New York. Goods called xor and delivered to all rts of the town, Orders received atE P. eed’s Drug Store 35 Wall Street, with telephone connectwn un- 3° C E. Looxwoon. Piano Lessons. , M38. GEORGE W. BRADhLEX, (daughter of the late Wm.“ u. Nash .) Rives efllccnt and satisfactory instructions on the Piano at her home No. 193 Main street. WE WINE OF THE MOSNING. Some would quail their necks? From curve-11 cups of gold, That like an open flower, With satin lips unrolled, Exhales a. liquid fragrance Of luxury untold. ,1 .-....‘. ...-"‘ Some would quafl their nectar From Venus’ poppy lips, The crimson fount of folly, Where pulsing passion sips, In drowsy dreams of sweetness, Through which time thrills and slips. But I Would quad ‘the nectar Whose forms. is ever free— Pure zephyrs from the mountain, Salt breezes from the sea. All fraught with morning’s fervor, And wild wings” poetry. Take all earth’s exultationl Its rosy sweets divine, Its perfumes and its purple. Its rare and fair and fine; The breeze is heaven’s brewing, God’s blessing in his wine. . —Mnry Berri Chapman. A PUZZLED PHILCSOPHER. Why Should Be So Greatly Miss the Things That Are Not? A philosopher dwelt 'in a house owned by Cleon. But one day Cleon came to the philosopher and said, “Why have you not sent me the money for last month’s rent?” The philosopher said he knew of no reason except that he had no money, having gotten to the bottom of his purse. “You will have to move out,” said Cleon, “to make room for a cordwainer I know who wants this house and has money. ” “Would you, then,” said the philoso- pher, “turn me out when 'I am so. com~ fortable here, having dwelt in this house 30 years?” ' “It is my comfort,” said Olson, “and not yours that I consider. ” “Then you prefer a cordwainer, I conclude, to a philosopher.” “No,” said Cleon; “a landlord has no preference except to prefer rent mon- ey t no rent money. ” so the cordwainer moved into the philosopher’s house, and the philosopher went to live in the mean hovel of the cordwainer. But once there, although contented enough, because he was a philosopher, yet he could not avoid the obtrusive facts of the absence of all those things which in his former habitation had grown habitual to him. This was the first thing that puzzled him—how that which was not could be so obtrusive. “What,” said he, “can be so entirely nonexistent as a no tion? And yet here I am confronted w h an obtrusive negation.’ “I miss,” said he again, “a chest of draWers, a table, a fireplace and the scenery from the window where I used to sit. Iwonder if it will be so after we. are driven out from our bodies because death, the final, inexorable landlord, de- mands a. rental we cannot pay.” In time, however, the philosopher gradually ceased being oppressed by the obtrusive memories and grew accustom- ed to new associations. “I wonder,” said he, “if it will be so when we are immortals—after death at first painful regrets for what we have lost, and in the and nothing of the old but faint memories and a new set of as- sociations. I wonder always and won- der most if philosophy will ever be any thing better than clever wondering about the wonderful. ”—Chicago Open. Court. . Animals Understand Hygiene. Enough is now known of the nature of animal materia medica to excite in- terest and curiosity. There is abundant evidence that many species know and constantly make use of simple remedies for definite disorders, and at the same time observe rules of health to which only the highest civilization or the sanc- tion of religious prescription compels man to conform. It has been noted that the general condition of animal health, especially in the case of the herbivorous creatures, corresponds not inexactly with that of such tribes as the Somalis, men feeding almost solely on grain, milk, dates'aud water, living constantly in the open air, moderate in all things and cleanly, be- cause- their religion enjoins constant ablutions. Like them, wild animals have no induced diseases. The greater number do not eat to excess. They take regular exercise in seeking their food and drink only at fixed hours. Many of them secure change of climate, one of the greatest factors in health, by mi- gration. This is not confined to birds and beasts, for the salmon enters the soft water partly to get rid of sea parasites and returns to the sea to recruit after spawning. With change of climate, change of diet and perfectly healthy habits their list of disorders is short, though they readily fall victims to con- tagious disease just as recently numbers of the Hamran Arabs of the Sudan, as healthy livers and good Mussulmaus as the Somalis themselves, friends and fol- low hunters with Sir Samuel Baker, perished of contagious fever on the banks of the Nile tributaries. --London Spectator. " Mme. Four-e. One of the ambitions of Mme. Felix Faure, wife of the president of France, is to become the leader of fashions for the republic, as the Empress Eugenie was for the empire, according to popular report. dresses exquisitely, but keeps the names of her modiste and milliner a secret. At the Grand Prix races she wore :1 cos- tume so beautiful that the fashion pa; pets not only described it at length, but illustrated it in colors. It was a creation of brown satin, chiffon and cream lace. —Paris Letter. The experience of failure is one that comes in a greater or less degree to ev- ery one at times, trying the metal and probing the characteras no prosperity can do.—Victor Hugo. It is only after one man tries to get' something that the crowd who wouldn’t have it as a gift strive for it.-—Los Angeles Express. —-—Advertise in the “Gazette.” 'fer’s, ’ ’ he continued. Consequently she not only* EKLY noaws PATIENCE CEASED TO BE A VIRTUE. I Comparisons ProVe Too Much For a Peaco- on Country Edito . He came in and took a chair near our desk. We were busy writing a double leaded editorial in which large, cour- ageous looking capital letters formed a good sized share. We had Webster’s unabridged o’en at our side, and three lead pencils shtirpened ready for busi- ness, while the “devil” stood by witha butcher knife, ready to sharpen other pencils as fast as we needed them. We had just annihilated E ,done up Germany and planted th 'meric'an bag in triumph in Berlin, while France and Spain and Turkey stood trembling as they wondered when their turn was coming. Our think tank was seething and bubbling, and burning thoughts were fast finding utterance in words of fiery eloquence. It was then he came in and sat himself down. He tilted his chair back, elevated his feet to the top of our desk and scattered enough of real estate over our papers to raise next winter’s potatoes. Then he laid his hat on the floor and spoke. “Fine day,” said be. we grunted. “Hope it will rain.” Again. “Bair’ 8 block is nearly finished.” We 6 no reply to this remark. 3 business pretty brisk?” We said it was booming, having just received three subscriptions. “Fine window of Mr. Lanzendor- “Swartz’s win- “Very fine,” In dow is fine too. ” This annoyed us. Then he kept quiet for ten seconds. ‘ ‘ Breckstein has a showy window,” he gurgled. Then we laid down the pencil and closed the diction‘ “Punxsutawney girls can’t touch Big Run girls for style. Glen Campbell girls are away ahead of your girls here. DuBois girls beat yours all hollow,” he went on. We are getting mad. “Brookville girls ’way ahead of your girls,” said he. “ ’Way behind Rey~ noldsville. M archland girls much finer." “What?” we yelled. .‘ “Richmond ladies more stylish,” he piped. “Richomnd be d——d I” and then we choked. ”You ain’t in it with Indiana girls. ” That settled the matter. Our blood was up. We can stand a great deal, but when it comes to ranking our girls be- low Indiana girls that passes the out- posts ofpatience. So we gave the fight- ing editor the tip and turned our eyes away from the awful sight. The next day the coroner held the inquest—- Punxsutawney News. STAGE FRIGHT. Not the eight of the Audience, but the Sound, the Cause of It, an Actor Says. In discussing stage fright an old actor said: "‘It is not. the sightof the audience so mubh as its sound that worries the be- ginner. Probably very few persons real- ize what noise an average audience makes. It is not loud or definite, but a steady suppressed hum, like the Whir of the Broadway cable. It is the combi- nation of those little noises which are present in every large assemblance, no .mattcr how attentive and respectful. One moves an arm, another adjusts a skirt, a third rustles a programme, a fourth coughs, and so on. It is the strangeness and indefiniteness of the conglomerate of these sounds that star- tles and upsets the beginner. He cannot analyze them, and they sound angry and threatening to him. “I know that I did not get accus- tomed to the noise for some nights. The first time I went on the stage I did not see the audience at all, for the foot- lights seemed so high and bread that they made a wall of fire beyond which I could see nothing. The murmur of the audience on the other side of that wall was awful. I quaked with the feeling of a wretch pursued by a mob and convinced that there is no escape. “It is popularly supposed that only beginners suffer from stage fright, and that it soon disappears. There are suc- cessful actors and actresses who have at- tacks of the same Sort every time' they go on the stage, and who will never get over them. ”—New York Sun. Easily Accommodatcd. An Irish actor well known in the provinces arrived on one occasion at a rather Out of the way town. The man- ager, when he reached the theater, @- proached him with apparent anxiety and asked the “star” how many supers he would require for the play he had brought. “.Begorra, ” responded he, “not many, excipt in one scene, one great sensation scene, where the murdther is commit- ted—in the Gyap, d’ye moind? There I Want twelve supers to march across the ravine from right, tin more to defile down the mountain path, left; twinty Faynians to emerge as ’twere from the Gyap or the bowls av the earth and siv- enteen peasantry to dash on from the village. ” ‘ ‘Stop, stop!” exclaimed the manager. “We have in this theater only three su- pers I” “What,” cried the “star,” “only three, d’ye say? Ah, well, thin, never mind! Sure, I’ll make thim do !”—Lon- don Tit-Bits. A Greater Scheme. “We .mean to try a penny social at the church next time,” said Mrs. Watts. “And what’s that?” asked Mr. Watts. “Every woman gives a penny for ev- ery year of her age. ”- “Better make it a penny for every year she is under 70. Then the contri- butions will be long instead of short.” —Indianapolis Journal. Might Be. When he asked for her hand, she re- plied: “No, George; my heart. is quite at your service, but I think I had better keep my hand myself. It might be use- ful to me in case you couldn’t support me, you know. ”—Boston Transcript. Russia has about 550 female physi- cians. ~Advertise in the “Gazette.” DIAMOND DIGGIVGS PRECAUTIONS AGAINST THEFT SOUTH AFRICAN MINES. IN But In Spite of All This Stealing Still Con- ,flnues—Tho Decline of the Town of Kim. barley—Population Hus Flown to the, Gold Fields About Johannesburg. “The South African diamond mines are worked almost entirely by native laborers—the Kafiigs, Zulus, Hottentots and the rest, ’ ’ said a diamond merchant. “These receive good wages, about $125 per month, and are hired for. a term of three months. During this period they are confined in compounds located on the edge of the mines. The compounds consist of rows of buildings of corrugated iron, forming a hollow square, surround- ed by a high board fence and covering several acres of ground. Within this cor- ral are stores, a hospital, boarding houses and other conveniences. Wood, and wa- ter are furnished free, but no alcoholic liquors are allowed. During their term of service the natives are not allowed to have any communication with the out- side world and are under a system of close personal surveillance in order to prevent the theft of diamonds. When they come up from the mine shaft, they are carefully Searched, and many in- genious methods are adopted to reduce the loss from this source to a minimum. “Notwithstanding all that is done, however, the theft of diamonds still continues. It is estimated that from 10 to 20 per cent of the diamonds found are stolen every year. In order to pre- vent this a very stringent law was pass- ed, providing that all rough diamonds should be registered with the detective bureau of the government as soon as they were found, and that every man who sold a diamond must give with it a certificate of registry. “The penalty for having an unregis- tered rough diamond is seven years on the Cape Town breakwater, and the mere'fact of possession is prima facie evidence and will secure conviction. Sc it happens that if one laborer wants to do up another he manages to slip a rough diamond into the other laborer’s coat, or into his room, and then tells the police to keep a sharp lookout. Of course the police make a search, the contraband stone is found, and the man is‘in for a term of seven years. many unjust sentences have unquestion- ably been secured in this way, but def. spite the opposition to the law the com- pany is powerful enough to keep it in- force. side of the Kimberley district, but they are diflieult to work and are mainly ex- ploited by diggers working on their own account. The total product is not large, and the work is very arduous, the dig- gers being mostly men who have been thrown out of work by the consolidation of the Kimberley mines into one vast corporation and the subsequent restric- tion of production. This latter, by the way, has had a curious effect upon the town of Kimberley itself. As late as four years ago Kimberley had a popula- tion of 25,000 or 30,000 people. It was laid out for a great city and enjoyed for a time a big boom. “Fine brick blocks and residences were built, hotels and theaters and wa- terworks and everything pertaining to a modern city. Now a good third of these places are empty, and Kimberley is as dead as a New England town that is dependent upon a single mill. All the supplies and machinery for the mines are now bought of course by a single company. .so that more than two-thirds of the business of the town is gone. There is nothing there to sustain a town except the mine, and with the opening up of the goldficlds much of the popu-; lation moved on north to Johannesburg. “Although the existence of gold in the Transvaal had been known for years, yet the Boers disliked the invading prospectors and for a time kept them out by law. Afterward a more liberal spirit prevailed, and the Boer govern— ment offered reward for the finding of paying goldfields. But it was not until 1882 that the now celebrated gold bear- ing reef in which the bulk of South Af- rican gold is found was discovered, and it was not until four years later that the opening of the celebrated Sheba mine and its phenomenal yield, gave rise toa fever. Then prospectors poured in from Kimberley and the Cape, coming by push cart, wagon, horseback or on foot. In a year there were 10,000 persons in the district. The center of the excite- ment was the little town of Barberton, but this section was soon thrown into the shade by the discoveries on the Wit- watersrand. But while the excitement lasted the De Kaap fields, as they were known, had. their day, and 96 com- panies, with a nominal capital of $155, - 000, 000, were floated, and many of the shares sold at a tremendous premium. Most of these mines are now abandoned, though the Sheba mine is still a big producer. ”—New York Sun. A Reminder. “I do not hesitate, Mr. Stalate,” she remarked gently, “to say that you are a young man of excellent habits, but I am very much afraid that you would spend too much of your time atvay from home. ” “Why do you think so?” “Because, ” and she yawned a little, “ you spend so much time away from home now. ”—Washington Star. Heat and the Eyes. The fact appears that there is a very marked difference in the way tempera- ture is borne by the eyes when it is be- low 2,000 degrees F. and when above that heat. Up to such a degree a man can look at the metal in a furnace with comparative case, but before it reaches 3, 000 degrees ho is compelled to wear colored glasses. The Sac and Fox Indians are said to be the purest blooded red men in the country. They neither marry nor give in marriage outside their own tribe. ~Advertise in the Gmrrs. A great " “There are other diamond fields out- I LocKsp up av wooo'PECKeas. ' The M of. Ground Owl not find Token -. Possession of Their Home. Although the woodpecker is' industri- ous, provident and peaceful, he is not to be trifled with or tyrannized over with impunity, as the following inqi- dent will show: _ A companion and l on an August day pitched our camp at a spring on the ta- ble lauds of the ridge dividing Ojal from Santa Clara valley. About the spring stands a large grove of live oaks. In. one of these notfar from the tent door a pair of woodpeckers had for years no doubt made their dwelling place. Some- what shy of us at first, the birds in a few days paid little attention to our presence. It frequently amused us of a sultry afternoon as we lounged up- on the buffalo robes laid on the shaded grass to‘ observe the birds with whose labors the warmth appeared to have lit- tle to do. We had camped there a week or ten days when before daybreak one morning we heard a commotion about the home of our staid neighbors. Our attention was attracted by their shrill eateries and the whir of their wings among the branches overhead. It had no sooner grown light enough to see than we pushed back the flap of the tent door and peered out to ascertain the cause of disturbance. It soon became apparent that a little tecolot-e, or ground ow], at the approach of day had taken lodging in the hollow. ocdhpied by the woodpeckers, to their consternation. But the return of day brought courage to the rightful owners, and they resolutely set about finding means to eject the invader. They tried blufiing awhile about the only aperture to the hollow tree, but to little purpose, other than to cause the tecolote to peck at them when they appeared to be about to thrust themselves in. At last, finding that neither threats nor sptreaties were likely to be effect- ive, and resolved that if they were to be deprived of their home it would be the last of that tyra‘nnical owl, the woodpeckers brought presently from another part of the grove an oak ball of the size of the aperture, and, driving it tightly into the hole, withdrew to an- other hollow tree, leaving the bird of prey hermetically scaled up. After several days, when we started to return to San Buenaventure, the ball was still' 1n the hole, and the woodpeck- rcrs, settled in their new home, were go- ing about. their business as if there had nerbeen a tecolote. —Portland Press. THE COLONEL WAS MEAN. " With His Car '11 ts. Colonel Blank was a 1g, pompous man, as it behooves one to be who as- pires to a military title without the dravvbacks of a military life. He was always calling people’s attention to his markedfacial resemblance to James G. Blaine, “the greatest man, sir, this cen- tury and this country have produced. ” And people—ill natured people, that is—thought the colonel had a vivid im- agination. There was a prodigality about his physique that one somehow expected to see repeated in the coloncl’s character. And to hear the colonel hold forth from the end of' the boarding house table over which he presided the unsophisticated boarder would never have doubted that such a reasonable ex- pectation would be realized on closer acquaintance. What, then, was this unsophisticated one’s surprise to‘hear the doughty colo- nel, evidently in a high good humor. with himself, say one day: “Well, I earned my fare down town today.” That the colonel would stoop to earn a nickel was remarkable; that he should boast of it was incredible. “You see, ” proceeded the man of military aspirations, “I went down in the carette. Getting in at Schiller street, the carette was empty, and I went up to the front and bought six tickets for a quarter. One I dropped in the box. Then as the car filled up I was exceed- ingly useful to those who sat farther down, passing their fares up and depos- iting them An exceedingly polite man they all thought me. And so I am, so I am. But instead of dropping their nick- els 1n the box I dropped my tickets in until I had used up my five tickets and confiscated five nickols. I had regained my quarter and paid my fare. After that I was not so polite. I let people drop their nickels into the chute which the company provides for that purpose. Awful nuisance, that chute. But it’s not my business to play conductor if the company’s too mean to hire any.’ And the colonel called for another cup of tea, and the unsophisticated one gasped to think of the smallness of which such greatness was capable. —- Chicago Tribune. . Don't Keep Track of Dates. “It’s a peculiar matter, but neverthe- less true, that not one-half of the color- ed people who eome before me have any idea as to the time when they were born or, in fact, the date of any par- ticular event,” said Magistrate Jermon to a Philadelphia Cc rell reporter. “I fre- quently have occasion to ask colored women how old they are, and almost invariably the Answer comes, ‘Don’t know.’ Frequently I ask them how long they have been married, to which I get the same reply.” Malicious. '. Ethel—I suppose I shall have to wear this veil; it’s the only one I have. It’s so thick one can hardly see my face through it. Edith—0h, wear it, by all .meaus. Everybody snys ypu never had on any- thing half so becoming—Boston Tran- script. A Poor Spirit. Medium (in a tone with ice down its- back)—Madam, the spirit of your dead ‘ husband wishes to converse with. you. The Widow Hennypeck—Huh! If he hasn’t any more spirit now than he had when he was a.live,1 it isn’t worth pay-r ing attention to. —London Tit-Bits. -—Advertise 1n the Gazer-rs. ' \ Man He Played 11. Small Game . ' . Beavan, Pres; G. kgag NM flit) If a man want I; I i I a GOOD chew B.L.Tobacco will suit Its flavor is g n d l I Sv I every time. Q I perfect, and 3 w d it is the Q Q LongestChewé I in the world. Q Bearded for the Winter at our 'Stables on Water St ‘.in the city, or at our East Norwalk or West N orivalk fmns; good, warm stables, large yard for exercise open- ing to the south, protected on three sides by buildings,- careful, experienced horse- men in attendance. Raymond Bros. “I“. NEWYORK.NEWHAVEN d: HARTFORD RAILROAD. -—an YonxDrvzsron. December 15, 1895. Trainsleaoe South Norwalk as] aiming“ F011 an Yonx—Accommodation trains at 9.36 a. m., 1.11, 2.54. 4.07. 5.30, 6.50. 25.11.10.220 .m. Express trains 11115.20 5.30. 6.15 (local) 6,55, (local), 7.05, (local), 7.55, (local). 3.21, 9. 03 (local) 9. 58, 10 45. 11. 37. (local 1) a. m.12.52 2. 25,4. 20,5. 25,6. 20 7. 57 p. m. For Washington via Harlem River 12.53 a. m. (daily ) SUNDAYS. —Accommodation 9 15 a. m.. 6.14- (local),7.23,(local) 9.28 p.m Express 5.20 5.30 a. m. F011 New HAVEN AND THE EAST. -Accommo- dation trains at 6.327. 38. 8. 46 and 11 44 a. m., 1.37, 2 42, (to 3’1) ’t). 4. 2i) 5. 27. 6. 27.” 1. 28 (to B’p ’t)- 8. 41.9. 41 and 1115p.m. xpress trains at 1. 03.1'. 20 9.11 10. 05. 11.06 a. m. 12. 05. 3 03, 5.07 (Nauga- tuck Express) 7.10 p. m. SUNDAYS. —Accommodation7. 38, 9. 12a. :11. and 7.15 D. m. ress 1. 03 sndl. 20 a. CT. Hx ‘MPSTEAD. Gen. Pamss. Agent. The Nowell Fue Insurance to , Has now Completed ts “320. SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS YEAR, And has not outstanding a dollar of unpai losses or claims for losses. No sound com. any insures for less B. Sr. Jonx, Tress Gno.R Cowmas. Sec’v. TNA INSRUANC'E 00., of Hartford. Incorporated 1812. Charter Perpetua Capitol and Assets, $8,902,272. 84. Insures sgainstloss and damage by rm! 0;; terms adapted to the hazard and consister‘ with the laws of com cofinsation do MERRILL. Sole agents for Norwalk and vicinitv J.’ Bcldcn Hurlbutt, Attorney and Counties at Lei. Room 4, up stairs, GAZETTE BUILDING. ADAMS EXPRESS COMPANY Low Rates. ‘ Prompt Delivery Bracnh Otlice, Norwalk, at Morris Benedic 1; Main Office, depot. South Nonwalk, L. HUNT, Agent. annulus nous (0N INSTALLMENTPL AN FOR SALE, On -:- :Wilton; 6. Avenue APP‘IAY Tl). Charles Olmstead.
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