‘Stick to In Welcome. 4 New England housekgep— crs are too wide awake to be fooled into buying inferior soap more than once, just because there is a present given with it. On washing-day they want only the best soap; next day they buy their own present. GREAT SALE OF MILLINERY _____.,yp___ FAWCETT’S Headquarters fur Mlllluuu. Commencing Saturday the 16th, and continuing Monday and Tuesday, when we shall sell fine French Felt Hats. all styles and colors, including a full line of Black, bought specially for this sale We shall also make a reduction in all our Trimmed Hats, and will offer one hundred Hats and Bonnets from $1.50 up, The Season has been b; ckward, hat is the reason for the extraordinary bargainsiwe shall offer the'coming week. FAWCE TT’S NORWALK 3 WATER STREET THE HONEST PLUMBER W. O. HOLMES, 7 Water Street, IS PREPARED TO DO ALL KANNEB OF PLUMBING WORK tin and Sheet Iron Hunter and Worker. ’ LL WORK AND MATERI \LS GUARAN- TEED 0F BEST QUALITY. AND PRICES FAIR AND VERY REASONABLE. W. G. HOLMES, 7 WATER STREET. uuuuscuuuuuu uuuuju‘ A Pure Malt Extract. A Substitute for Solid Food Highest percentage Extract Low- est percentage Alcohol. An Efi‘ect ive, Tonic. An Agreeable Beverage A mild Stimulant. Just what physicians will pre scribe for Nursing Mothers. Con- valescents and victims of Inromnia or NerVous Disorders resulting from Impaired Digestion and, Overwork. Bottled for Sale and Delivered Anywhere LONG ISLAND BflllLlNIi 60., 280-284 Bergen St., Brooklyn FOR SALE BY EDWARD P. WE ED . OPENED. Prof. George Yoerger has opened his Boxing School for the winter- Private instructions a. the pupils home if desired. , Full course, 12 lessons, $10. ADDRESS Prof. George Yoerger. Norwaik, Conn Or apply at this oflice. FAIL AND WINTER- sunmos. rocured a large line of handsome Having fall and inter suitings. I am ready to make ' them up in the latest styles. F.KOCOUR. 41 North Main St, South Norwa‘k. ’ travelers. ‘ w E E In? L Y son A BRITON’S LUGGAGE. % ATTEMPTS OF‘AMERICAN IMITATORS TO INTRODUCE IT HERE. Pondcrous British Hat Boxes, Portman- teaus and Hold Alla—The Baggage on a Steamship Wharf Is a. Study—The Trav- eler and His Bathtub. As the traveling Briton is known in this country by his luggage, so the American woman was once hated in Europe because of her saratoga trunk. The world has escaped the general adoption of the saratoga trunk, but a worse thing seems possible, as British luggage threatens to become interna. tional. Even now you may buy in this town all the imppdimenta with which the traveling Briton cumbers himself and bedevils the rest of mankind. A Broadway trunkmaker has for some years past undertaken to fix the thral- dom of these things upon his fellow country men and women, and many traveling Americans, especially the wealthy and fashionable, are to be rec- ognized by the multiplicity of British impedimenta that they carry to and fro in their frequent journeyings between the old world and the new. More curi- ous still, those clever and imitative Jap-. anese ' have begun to produce British luggage identical with the original in the minutest details, evendoxn to hand sewed straps on leather trunks, port- manteaus and the like; but, drolly enough, the whole outfit is merely a pa- per counterfeit of the real thing. American imitators of things British, lacking the fine humor of the Japanese. have made no substitution of light ma- terial for heavy, but have taken on the full burden of ponderous British hat- boxes, portmanteaus, rugs, bags, hold 3118 and even bathtubs. It was a travel- ing American Who gave to" the world an account of a refreshing scene on board a Mediterranean steamer bound to Tan- gier or some such Mohammedan port of north Africa. A British passenger with his bathtub had nearly pestered the life out of a meek, coffee colored Moham- medan, who accepted the Briton ’s curses without a sign,of reproach, but when in the course of getting the luggage ashore the precious bathtub fell over- board and sank like lead, the harmless follower of the prophet was seen to pause in his work and dance gleefully upon the deck, exclaiming in triumph, “Oh, Mr. Goddam, Mr. Goddaml” It is since that incident that traveled Americans in their aping of British ways have accepted even the burden of the bathtub. A study of baggage at a steamship wharf oreven at a large railway station in New York is an instructive lesson as to the cosmopolitan character of the city. There is one article of British luggage that seldom survives more than one journey within the limits of the United States and sometimes gets no farther inland than the New York hotel at which the traveler makes his first stop. This article is the little trunk or box of japanned tin much used by trav- elers in Great Britain. The flimsy trifle hardly survives the first encounter with the American baggage handler, and. after the first journey of 600 miles in this country is battered out of all re- semblance to its original rectilinear self. It is an article of luggage not suitable to the exigencies of American travel. A pathetic feature of the baggage at the railway stations that are doorways to the west is the immigrant’s luggage. Sometimes it is a mattress from the steerage wrapped about the few belong- ings of the new made American. Again it is the corded box of the Irish, English or Scotch immigrant. It will be recalled how important a preliminary to Char- lotte Bronte’s journeyings out into the great world from her Yorkshire home was the cording of her box. The corded box is as rare among the luggage of an American traveler as the old, hair trunk, though both are occasionally seen. The seaman’s locker,.,rectilinear for a stable stowage and strong against accidents, figures in the luggage at steamship wharves. One knows instinctively its contents of old clothes, protographs, curios, tobacco and long treasured let- ters from home and the array of pic-‘ tures from the illustrated papers pasted on the inside of the lid. The elaborate dressing cases that some Americans and all well to do Englishmen used to travel with are go- ing out of fashion. It is almost a neces- sity that the traveler with this pretty piece of luggage take along a valet, for the, thing weighs like so much lead and is too precious to be trusted to the ten- der mercies of the baggage department. The traveling desk also has nearly dis- appeared, though some ingenious trunk- makers now produce trunks that open so as to form desks. The luncheon hamper that used to accompany every traveler across this continent in the days before dining cars came into use has almost entirely disappeared. The California millionaires of early trans- continental travel carried enormous and richly laden hampers and dispensed of- ten a princely hospitality to their follow The dinner hour on board a transcontinental train was apicturesque incident of travel in those days. The traveling Briton in Europe still some- times carries his luncheon hamper, and it is often one of the nuisances of Euro- pean travel. Some of the English theatrical com- panies have become so'ufid to traveling in America that they have adopted our methods with baggage. They accept with grace the great American trunk, dispense with the hatbox, the bathtub, the rugs, shawl straps and the rest and calmly see their belongings carted oil by a stranger, who leaves behind as evi- deuce~ only a bit of brass bearing a few letters and numbers—New York Sun. The War Wheel. Wheeler—And don’t you think the . THOUGHT THE KAISER STUPID. A Coachman Told Him He Would Never Set a River Alla-e. . . An amusing little story about the pres- ent emperor of Germany, William II, and a Vienna coachman was narrated at a banquet lately given at Vienna by some diplomatists. the narrator being himself a well known and prominent member of the corps diplomatic. In the year 1887 the present Emperor William II of Germany, then Prillce William of Prussia, came to Vienna, avisiting his particular friend and chum. the late Crown Prince Rudolf of Aus- tria. Joined by the Prince of Wales, who was at that time also a frequent visitor to the Vienna court, the three princes took a fancy to mingle with the commons of the Vienna population. Dremed ‘u‘: ordinary clothes, they visited places which are not in the least regard- ed as suitable for princely guests. One day they entered a hotel, but in- stead of going into the dining room they walked into the “schwemmc,” a place which answers in some degree to the barroom of an American hotel; in this room coachmen and the servants of the hotel guests take their meals. The three princes took seats at an empty table, and listened, hi y amused, to a fierce debate about po tics between several stout members of that class- of fashionable Vienna coachmen who are known all. over Europe as “fesche Wiener flaker. ” The distinc— tion of those charioteers is a kind of good natured boldness and droll famil- iarity toward their customers as well as to perfect strangers. After listening awhile Prince William put in a word, and soon was drawn into the excited discussion. Suddenly a stout, red faced coachman walked up to the table where the three princes were seat- ed, and,.tapping Prince William gently on the shoulder, said, “Now, if you should ever have anything to say in politics, you wouldn’t set a river on fire, I'm sure!” As every public coachman in Vienna wears a number. this coachman was— upon a special request of Prince William —easily identified. The prince sent him a handsome scarfpin with his initials as thanks for the amusement he had fur- nished, and thus the man learned in amazement whose political abilities they were that he had so belittled.— Vienna Letter in New York Press. IN PLAGUE TIMES. How London Handled the All Dcvouring Sickness In the Seventeenth Century. During the plague of 1603 Francis Hering, “Doctor in Physicke and Fel- low of the Colledge of Physitians in London * * * published‘certfiin Rules and Directions for the prevention of the spreading of that contagious and all de- vouring Sickness. ” These be reprinted, “somewhat inlarged,” in the next plague sea-r n of 1625, “to the view and vse, and I hope good of my Cittizens and Count: snen.” Among his rules are: “Concourse of people to Stage playes, wakes or feasts and May pole dauncings are to be prohibited by publique Author- ity, whereby, as God is dishonored, the bodies of men and women-iby surfet- ting, drunkennes and other riots and excesses—disposed to infection, and the contagion dangerously scattered both in Citie and Countrie. “Let not the carkasses of horses, dogs, cats, etc., lye rotting and poisoning the aire (as they have done) in More and Finsburie fields, and elsewhere round about the Citie. “The burying of infected bodies in churches, churchyards and, namely, in Paules Churchyard, where the chiefs Magistrates of the Citie and many other Citizens meete weekly to hear Sermons, must needs be not onely inconuenient, but verie dangerous for spreading the contagion, and poisoning the whole Citie. ” Some folk ate breakfast then, others did not: “For breakfast you may vse a good draught of wormewood beere or ale, and a few morsels of bread and butter, with the lcaucs of sage, or else a toste with sweet salads oyle, two or three drops of rose vinegar and a little sugar. They that haue cold stomackes may drinke a draught of wormewood wine or malmsey, instead of ale or beere. But take heed (as you lone your life) of extreme but waters, as aqua vitae, Rosa solis or other compound waters of like nature, which Empericks prepare and set out with vaine and boosting words * *‘* they were 4" * * devised to kill, not cure men. ”—Notcs and Queries. A Remarkable Tree. There is a wayward white oak tree near Laporte, Ind., that may well puz- zle naturalists with the vagaries of its growth. The tree is 9 feet in circumfer- ence at the base, and there are no branches'of any size below 15 feet. from the ground. There the great bole di- vides into a number of limbs. ‘Two, leaving the trunk about 20 inches apart, ' grow west, their lines diverging for some 6 feet, and then each tending toward the other. Twelve feet from the body of the tree they unite again, making aper- fect oval, and out of this grow two smaller branches.’ As if not satisfied with that expressed disregard for the laws of nature, this old tree has per- formed another feat. Six feet from its base grows another white oak, less than half its size, and no sooner does the smaller tree arrive at the charmed c'iro cles of those branching limbs than one of them grows right into it, andis ab- sorbed. The second tree is very much larger 20 feet from the ground than at its base. Noah’s Business. While teaching a class of girls in a school recently, the master asked the following question : “What was Noah supposed to be do- ing when the animals were going into the ark?" bicycle will ever be useful in warfare? Walker—No. get farther than its present status as a mere. instrument for ,assault and bat- I, tery. —Indianapolis Journal. He received several answers. At last I doubt if it Will ever . a little girl put up her hand. “Well,” he said, “what do you say?" “Taking the tickets, sir. ”—-Buffalo I Times. I s ‘.;2" THE. .mossr ossusuc ' It Monthe Bank-or the 1m. Not Far From Cairo. The oldest of all the obelisks is the beautiful one of rosy granite which stands alone among the green fields on _ the banks of the N ile not far from 2 Cairo. It is the gravestone of a great city which has vanished and left only this relic behind. That city was Beth- ' chance of Scripture. the famous On. which is memorable to all Bible readers . as the residence of the priest of On. Potipherah, whose daughter Asenath Jmeph married. The Greeks called it: Heliopolis, the city of the sun, because there the worship of the sun had its chief center and its most sacred shrine. It was the seat of the most ancient uni- . versity in the world, to which youthful students came from all parts of the world to learn the occult wisdom which . the priests of On alone could teach. ' Thales, Solon; Eudoxus," Pythagoras and Plato all studied there; perhaps Moses too. It was also the birthplace of the sacred literature of Egypt, where were written on papyrus leaves the orig- . inal chapter of the oldest book in the world, generally known as "The Book of the Dead,” giving a most striking account of the conflicts and triumphs of the life after death, a whole copy or fragment of which every Egyptian, rich or poor, wished to have buried with him in his comn, and portions of which are found inscribed on every mummy case and on the walls of every tomb. In front of one of the principal temples of the sun in this magnificent city stood, along with a companion long since de- stroyed, the solitary obelisk which we now behold on the spot. It alone has survived the wreck of all the glory of the place. It was constructed by User- tesen I, who is supposed to have reigned 2800 B. C. , and has outlived all the dy- nastic changes of the land and still stands where it originally stood nearly 47 centuries ago. What appears of its shaft above ground is 68 feet in height, but its base is buried in the mud of the Nile, and year after- year the inundation of the river deposits its film of soil around its foot and buries it still deeper in its sacred grave. —Pall Mall Gazette. LONDON’S GREAT PARK. The Hum of the Metropolis Penetrates It With Ever Varying Cadence. The greatest attraction of Hyde park is one which Londoners and most visit- ors fail to discover and appreciate. It is a unique and subtle charm whose mean- ing only those can know who liave fall- en under its spell. Hyde park, be it re— membered, is the only great plot of verdure in» the world set in the very center of a great city. Boston Common is but a garden compared with it, Cen- tral park may soon be hemmed in by New York’s teeming millions, but not yet. Hyde park is a. grateful refuge of silence in the midst of turmoil. Only upon its outer borders does the restless mob infringe. Within, away from Rot- ten row, away from carriage drive and fashionable promenade, there is always rest; tranquillity, silence—no, not si- lence, but in its place the thing which is the mysterious charm of the spot. Find a seat upon a bench in the midst of the wide, sweeping, open green where the eye sees only grass and trees, with no sign of the vast city on any side. Sit for a few moments and listen—listen, and there will come to your ears the most wonderful sound in all the world. It is the voice of London—an ever changing, inarticulate, pregnant solil- oquy. One day it will be the gentle murmur of a sea shell. Again it is the harsh grinding of the mill of the gods crushing human grain beneath its upper and nether millstones. The mighty but distant reverberation is sometimes a triumphant harmony, sometimes a minor note, melancholy and despairing. The myriad tongued voice which comes from the east is sullen, protesting, enduring; that from the west is a careless chorus of pleasure and prosperity; that from the north is a hopeful strain of patient progress; that iron. deuce of struggle out; sorrow, and the whole isa symphony of human life, ma- jestic. inspiring, infinitely pathetic. Nowhere save in this spot does the : greatness of London impress itself upon me. ——Bost0n Transcript. . A Sure Cure. Mrs. blinks—Doctor, my husband is a terrible sufferer from insomnia, and some nights cannot sleep a wink. Can you do anything for him? Doctor—Certainly, madam. In the first place, he must go to bed not later than 10 o'clock. “He does that.” “Very well. Wait until he appears to be in a doze, and then suddenly give him a shake and tell him it is time to go down and fix the kitchen fire. He’ll turn over, give a grunt, and sleep like a log till morning. ”—-New York Weekly. ; .————..——~ 4‘-‘ Ten ‘ Sweet Caporal Little 3 Cigars for5 cts. & 501.0 .33! ALL DEALERS. “' , I frun‘mriuur PEANUT. .1) south is aoa- _ .ONE WOULD HARDLY THINK THE HUMBLE GOOBER SO IMPORTANT. This Country Every Year—The Most Nu- tritious and by For the Cheapest bf Foods—Substitute For: Olive Oil. . But little is known of the peanut out- , side of localities in which it is grown, and even where it is most largely grown its possibilities are for the most part not at all realized, and it' is not by any means made to yield the highest results It is capable of. Taking into account all its sources of value, the peanut ought to be one of the most profitable of the gen-p oral farm crops in thfi‘h, th. The fol- lowing facts about it fire in the main . condensed from a bulletin of the United 1 States department of agriculture pre- pared by B. B. Handy of the office of experiment stations. The yearly production of peanuts in this country is about 4,000,000 busheli of 22 pounds, the bulk of the crop being . produced in Virginia, Georgia, Tennes- see and North Carolina. These 4,000,- 000 bushels, while fully supplying the present demand of the United States, constitute but a small part of the pea- nut crop of the world, as the exporta- ti‘ from Africa and India in 1892 amounted to nearly 400,000,000 pounds, of which 222,000,000 pounds went to Marspilles for conversion into oil. The largest part of the American crop is sold by street vendors, but small amounts are used by confectioners, choc- olate manufacturers and for the manu- facture of oil. Peanut oil is used for lubricating and soapmaking and is a good substitute for olive oil for salads and other culinary purposes and as a substitute for lard and cottolenc and butter in cooking. The residue from oil- making, known as “peanut cake,” is a highly valued cattle food in the coun- , tries of Europe and is also ground into fine flour and used as human food. It makes good soup, griddle cakes, muf- fins, etc. , and is one of the most nutri- tive of foods. The vines, when dried, become a very nutritive hay, readily eaten by stock, though requir'gg care in the feeding lest it produce cofilc. The present uses of the peanut and its products are likely to be greatly extend- ed and new channels of utility found . for it, as has been the case with cotton seed. With better methods of tillage and fa larger yield acts the cost-of pro- ! duction could reatly lessened. Ao- T cording to the eleventh census, the aver- age .yield of peanuts in the United States in i889 was 17.6 bushels per acre, the average in Virginia being about 20 and in Tennessee 32 bushels per acre. This appears to be a very low average, especially as official and semi- ofi‘icial figures give 50 or 60 bushels as an average crop, and 100. bushels are not an uncommon yield. While the peanut has been cultivated in the United States to a limited extent for a number of years, it is only since 1866 that the crop has become of pri- mary importance in th eastern section ‘ of this country, which 8 ems peculiarly ! adapted to its production. Between 1865 ' and 1870 the rapid spread of the culture of peanuts was phenomenal. Each year doubled and at times increased three- fold its crop over that of the preceding year, so that this country, from being a large importer of west African nuts, was soon able- to supply the domestic demand with the home raised article. I Virginia, North Carolina and Tennes- ' see produce a large part of the peanut crop of the United States. Within the last few years this crop has ceased to be as profitable as heretofore. The method of culture—the annual planting of nuts on the same land, the lack of proper ro- tation of crops, the complete removal of all vegetation from the land and the fail- ure to replenish the soil by means of fertilizers—has been a great factor in reducing the profits of the crop by re- . ducing the ability of the land to pro- duce such crops as were previously se- cured in that section, so that now in- ’ stead of an average of 50 bushels per acre, with frequent yields of over 100 ‘ bushels, the average in the peanut sec- tions is not over 20 bushels, while the cost of cultivation has been but slightly reduced. As regards food value, peanut kernels, with an average of 29 per cent of pro- tein, 49 per cent of fat and 14 per cent of carbohydrates in the dry material, take a high rank and should be classed with such concentrated foods as soja beans. cotton seed, etc. The vines are shown by analysis to be superior to i timothy hay as a feeding stud and but J slightly inferior to clover hay. The ground bulls are used to a con- siderable extent as a coarse fodder in European countries. Peanut meal, the ground residue from oil extraction, is a . valuable feeding stuff highly appreciat- ed and extensively used in foreign coun- tries. It contains, as the averages of over 2,000 analyses show, about 52 per cent of protein, 8 per cent of fat and .27 per cent of carbohydrates and is one of , the most concentrated feeding stufi’s iwith which we are familiar, ranking ; with cottonseed meal, linseed meal, etc. , i and in some cases ahead of them. I In describing the uses of peanuts it" is , scarcely necessary to more than refer to ' the use to which fully three-fourths of i the American raised crop is devoted. t The not is sorted in the factory into ! four grades, the first, second and third being sold to venders of the roasted pea- nut either directly or through jobbers. while the fourth is sold to confectioners to be used in the making of “burnt almonds, ” peanut candy and the cheap- er grades of chocolates. The extent of the use of the peanut by the American people Will be more fully appreciated when it is remembered that they use 4,000,000 bushels of nuts .yearly, at a cost to the consumers of $10,000,000, which do not form a part of the regular articles of food, but are eaten at odd times. —-Boston Herald. \ About your Minion Bushela Raised In, I. For Throat And Lung Troubles, Take ‘ ~ men's Cherry Pastoral Received Highest Awards At World’s Fair. Whel in Doubt, m: for mm m Raymond & Son. Successors to George H. Raymond. Furniture Dealers and General Funeral Directors. 4-6 and 48 Main sum-t Norwalk cu Residence, ' Berkeley Place. Telephone No. 7'7 . P cuuuus PW By HARVEI BEDIENT. Grand St. ,- Norwaik Orders to :eived evenings. FOR SALE BY S. B. WILSON. BUILDER, 9.9 WALL STREET. One 8-room cottage, Roton Point; 1 lot Myrtle avenve and 1 lot Howarr avenue, 37x300 feet, East Norwalk; 1 lot, 129x180 feet, Broad River; 1 Cabin Steam Launch, 30x7 feet; 1 two-seated Sleigh; 1 two-seated Business Wagon: ? good Stews; House and Lot on easyr erms. ~ c. F. DANIELS, - uusucuu INSTRUCTOR Faun, moon and ouuuu. o. A. FRANKIE; * THE HAIR CUTTER No. l .Gazette Building, Norwalk nor AND com) BATES Wm. Lockwood, . Real Estate, Insurance and Investment Securities. ——MONEY T0 LOAN..— Insnrance Placed In First-Class Companies. Ofiice—Corner Main 65 Wall Sh... Norws'l g ETER L. QUIGUEJ-Uonst and Nurse” man Union Avenue. north of Union Cemtery Norwalk, Conn. Dealer in Green House Hot House and Bedding and Vegc. table Plants _F'ru1t and Ornamental Trees Shubbery, Vines, Cut Flowers, always on hand. and all sorts of designs in flowers ar— ranged to order. W Grading and tended to. HENRY TILLY. CARRIAGE MAKER, refilling cemetery lots at-. SO UTE .NOR WALK, 0019.7“. —-ldanufacturer of— Fauttr Carriages. Vtuturtastuuuia 2;: ALL KINDS OF REPAIRING. ELY’S '~ GREAM BALM GATARRH It: quickly absorbed. Cleanses the Nassau Passages. Allays Pain and Inflammation, Heals thefiores, Protects the Membrane from Additional Cold. Restores the Senses "1' Taste and Smell. AM Hi: rItWitI Eue. COLDlu HEAD A particle is applied into each nostril and is agreeable. Price 50 cents at Drzsists or by . ELY BROT mail. , . 56 Warrenfitreet. New York. Every tent taken out by ugis brought the politic by a notice given free otcharse in the status guano m" cl's ”nomad” EWéh'fmf’opimi“ 3.? fi‘afl) :lxbglonttgawail‘dngefig V82. 003 Pentium 861 Broadway, New Yard} City. 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