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year. Funeral On Tuesday from her late home, attended by Rev L. D. Place.
 Joseph Moore moved from N. Cross mans house to Westport, last week.
 Walter Rowland has malaria.
 Samuel Post of Southbury has been guest of Lloyd $. Godfrey.
 Mrs Howard Beers of Good Hill lately presented her husband with bouncing boy.
 Sneak thieves have stolen tools iron the wagon shop of s. B. Fancher and from the shoe shop of E. W. Bradley.
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CANNON.

The ladies' aid met with Mrs Charles Cole, last week and will meet at the Meth odist parsonage, next week Thursday evening.
 Lloyd s. Godfrey has new horse.
 Edgar Belden of Springdale is visiting his grandmother, Mrs Caroline Belden.
 John Lockwood has moved into the house vacated by William Wood.
 Mrs c. s. Dikeman has gone to New Rochelle to visit friends.
 Mrs William Gilbert spent Sunday with her son in Bridgeport.
 Miss Maude Bethel attends school at Norwalk.
 The Sunday evening service at the M E. church has been changed to 30.
 Mrs Burr Partrick and Peter Osborn are under the care of Dr Gorham.
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the efficient training of George E. FL wood, the chorister.
 Francis Jelliff has given his house a coat of paint.
 Mrs Benjamin Pomeroy is spending the month in New York. Miss Elsie Bulkley is attending lec- lures on art in New Haven
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SOUTHPORT.

Miss Lulu Thorp has been guest of Mrs Henry Sturges.
 Station Agent W. E. Purdy now occu- pies the house recently purchased by the railroad company from s. B. Wakeman. Mrs Charles G. Adams has been called to Northumberland, Pa., by the serious illness of her mother.
 Our enterprising liveryman, Edward Henshaw, has cleared away the rubbish of the great fire and substantial barn is in process of erection over the ruins.
 \ Sunday school alliance has been formed by the pastors and superintend- ents of the village for the purpose of pro- noting more efficient work, canvassing the village and making an effort to get every child into Sunday school. The members are Rev Messrs Holmes, Adams and giIubbell and Superintendents Gould, Jelliff and Wakeman. The Sunday school work of the churches is already in vigor- ous condition and our citizens are to be tiltfb 1ul tAlCl LCttl tiilu labour are to be thrown into the work, The house of Edward Goulden, former. ly of this place but now of Stamford, is occupied by M. V. Woodward. The principal and teachers of the Sea side seminary gave musicale, Monday evening.
 LA. Curtis has purchased a fine new team of N. Jennings.
 Miss Sarah E. Rahm of Towanda, Pa., has been visiting Mrs John $. Beers.
 Ihe work on the Bridgeport road pro gresses finely. The new iron bridge is k,iilding in the shops and will soon be put in place.
 Services at the Episcopal church are being held every day. this week. The church will be gaily decorated for Easter and musical service given by the child ren of the Sunday school, who are under
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NORTH WILTON.

 Mrs Harvey Gilbert of Danbury visits Mrs Fri Williams.
 Born, son to Mir and Mrs Russell Betts. W. H. Olmstead of Norwalk and Mrs Morehouse Sturges visit LeGrand Olm- stead.
 Jesse Williams visits in Danbury. Mrs Lydia Mckee of Brooklyn visits Mrs Harriet Comstock. Mir and Mrs George Ferris and Miss Carrie Squires have visited Miss Ida Mills. Miss Katie keeler has been with Mrs Eben Crofutt in Bethel. | Miss Etta Coley visits Miss Ella Greg
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HoYpEN'S HILL.

The people of the M. E. church are to be congratulated on the return of their former pastor, Rev Y. E. Gilbert.
 Miss Fannie Patchen has visited Mrs Carrie Wade of Chestnut Hill.
 Auction at the late Silas Wakeman place, Tuesday.
 Misses Mary and Alice Seeley wis ited Miss l.. E. Jennings.
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GREENFIELD HILL.

E The scholars of the Greenfield Hill school gave an exhibition under the su- pervision of William E.. Gardner, assist ed by Hattie E. Jennings. Considering the large crowd which was unable to find room in the building, it was deemed advisable to repeat the following pro- gram, at some future time. The pro gram was fully carried out, ,amid the ap- plause and qualification of those in attendance and to the satisfaction of MT Gardner and Miss Jennings, who have labored hard to make it q pleasant and enjoyable time. Singing, School.
 "Goose and turkey" Fannie Downs.~ Gala Bradley. Barbara blue," Jessie Price. 'lf had the money,n dialogue. Ida Rogers Mary Blassiet, Jessie Price. "Only now and then," Perry Beers.
 "Hardscrabble meeting" Clarence Banks Frederick Banks, Burton Merwin, Fred Flaw kins, Elmer Downs, Isaac Banks, Martin Burr, William Burr, Howard Wakeman, Ed ward Bradley. "Face against the pane," Mamie Merwin. "When am man," 10 boys.
 "The sparrow Bessie Archibald. Little sayings" Fannie Blassiet
 ssTinkle," Fannie Meeker.
 Recitation, Gussie Kirby. l Singing, school.
 "Niiller of the Dee," Mary Blassiet. l "I'n be a man," Howard Gray.
 "Lord Dundreary's visit" Ada Banks, Ha tie Jennings, Burton Merwin, Frederick ( Banks.
 "Wishes," Ida Rogers. ssThe Butterfly" Jesse Beers.
 "Backwoods school" dialogue, Edwar Bradley Burton Wheeler, George Graft, Cla ence Thorp, Martin Whitaker, Thomas Kirb,
 "Wnere are they" Emma Blassiet.
 Surprise Party dialogue, Gala Bradle. Fannie Downs, Iva Craft, Emma Blassiet, A , ice Finnerty, Bessie Archibald.
 sfThe mysterious G. G." Lillie Downs, NJ , mic HubbeIl, William Burr. "Grasshopper," Fannie Downs. ssI'l1 try" Emmanuel Blassiet.
 "Guessing," Walter Merwin Fannie Down Gala Bradley.
 "Witches in the cream" Helen Jenning
 Julia Brown, Mamie Merwin, Raymond Ma son, Burr Hill, William Burr. , "Three little bugs,'' Gala Bradley.
 "Ben Busters stump speech" Burr Hill l "A Boys plot" Isabel Lobdell, Everett Lo
 dell, Mamie MeIwin, Lillie Downs, Fam
 Conklin, Mamie Hubbel, Helen Jennings, ; s lia Brown, Hattie Jennings, Emma Jennine
 Frederick Banks, W. Burr Hill.
 Sculptor boy" Iva Craft. n "Little chatterbox," Alice Finnerty.
 'sCourtship under difficulties" Willia
 Gardner, Emma Jennings, Burr Hill.
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DEERFIELD.

Mrs Shepherd of Westport has visited Mrs George Banks.
 Mrs David M. Beach of Daniels Farm has visited Benjamin Burr.
 Charles Nichols has new horse.
 George Guernsey is working with Charles Nichols.
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LYONS PLAIN.

Will White and family have moved in to the parsonage. ' Rev A. N. Lewis held services in the church, Sunday.
The Newtown bee., 1889-04-19

Alice l.. Curtis recording secretary and William M. Wheeler treasurer. Five members are on each committee, prayer meeting, social, lookout and flower.
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EASToN.

c. E. Marsh wishes to sell or rent the grist mill at the NarroWs.
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If you wish to be borne with yourself, bear with others [Thomas-a-Kempis
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-10-18
Old prob.

"Grsndma! Grandma Maxim! The
gander's eating the buttons all off your
nightgown!" shouted little Nancy
Maxim, running toward the milk-room,
whore grandma was just putting achcese
IN press.
"Drive him of, child! drive him Off"
cried grandma, hurrying out with the
curd still clinging to her fingers.
Seems to me he could a. found plenty
Of stones for his gizzard! And see the
tracks-all over these clean clothes!
Some Of emil have to he washed again,
I'll DO bound! I wish he was in Hall
fax-he and his whole flock! Shoe!
ahoo!" and she rolled a big basket after
him, which set the flock quacking
loudly into the calf pasture.
But the geese did not remember their
fright very long, for soon after dinner
they came padding" softly back, @talk-
ing in an undertone, @Old Prob" as
grandpa had named the gander. at the
had Of tho line.
Il was . very hot, dry day, the last Of
August, and grandpa was harvesting his
early wheat. Il seemed such fine
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-10-18
Small IsWf Wicked.

The compassion or the scorn with
which the masculine mind regards the
female of the race begins SO early in
life, says the Boston Courier, that it is
most difficult to say whether it is the
result of imitation or is one of the gifts
Of intuition. The small boy feels HIM
self superior to his little sister quite
without regard to whether he or she is
the more clever. He is he and she is
only she.
A small 5-year-old lad, in whom this
sense of masuline superiority was not
wholly lacking, was n day arrayed in
in his first trousers. Standing before
his sister, a couple of years younger, he
drew himself up for her inspection and
then proceeded to address herto this eff
feet:
@Kittie," he said, you can't never
wear trousers"
He paused, apparently to let his words
take their full effect.
@Kittie," he continued, "you can't
never have q mustache."
He paused again and let this dreadful
announcement in its turn eat into his
sisters soul; then he brought out the
climax with q triumph thrill in his voice
more eloquent than any words could
have been.
"Kittie, you can't never be q man no.
howl"
Poor, small Kittie, overwhelmed by
these successive statements, of which
she comprehended the import only as
something unspeabably dreadful, and
took that from the tone, probably.
rather than from the words, looked q,
her brother one agonized moment, and
then gave vent to her anguish in one
wild howl, which brought nurse from
one direction and mamma from another.
At sight Of the audience kittie burst
into tears and lamentations piteous te
behold, and when the small boy was re'
proved for making his sister cry his an.
swer was:
well, I just told her she'd always
got to be a girl, cause I thought shed
be disappointed if she got to he five and
couldn't have on trousers"
There seemed to he nothing in par
ticular which could be said to this, and
the elders devoted themselves to as
susging the grief of the small girl n.
we'll IS they might, leaving the boy tt
strut about in his new trousers in til,
full consciousness of having done hi
duty to the weaker vessel.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-10-18
THE TELEPHONE.

He had never seen a telephone, and
his friend vas showing him how il
worked. It was in his office. He
called up his house and his wife came to
the telephone. @My dear, Mr.. Jones is
here and I have asked him to come to
dinner"
Then he turned to MI. Jones and
said:
@Put your ear to that and you'll hear
her answer" He did, and this was the
answer:
snow, John, I told you I would never
have that disagreeable wretch in my
house again."
What was that?" spoke out Mr..
Jones.
Women are quick. A man would
have simply backed away from the tele-
phone and said no more. She took in
the situation in q second when she
heard the strange voice, and quick as q
fash came back the sweetest kind of q
voice:
why, Nj. Jones, how do you do?
thought my husband meant another Mr..
Jones. Do come up to dinner. shall
be SO glad to see you"
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-10-18
THE SHARK GOT THE MAJ.

THE SHARK GOT THE MAI.
We were about a mile off the bar,
fishing for drum, and it was q dead
calm. Some n accidently knocked
the Pittsburgh mans hat of, and it
fioated away about twenty feet and re-
manned stationary. The loser said he
didn't mind swimming out after it, a. il
was a very warm day, but as he rose up
the cat-boat captain protested:
Don't you do it; I'm suspicious Of
sharks!"
"sharks be hanged! I don't believe
there's a shark on the whole coastl"
II say you hadn't better"
"And I say I'm going to, Just the
same
He stood upon the seat ready for .
dive, and we all looked at the hat. At
that momont there was Q whirl in the
water. the white belly Of q great shark
showed clear through the limped green,
and the next instant his nose pushed
above the surface as he seized and
bolted the hat. He wa ten feet long IL
an inch, and could have snapped . man
in two at a bite.
II told you'll" growled the captain ~
he rebaited his hook.
well, by gcsh!" gasped the hastless
man, and he sat down and trembled for
half an our.-Detroit Free Press.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-10-18
OUR
Interesting Reading for the
Delight and Information
Of Children.
A STORY ABOUT OLD PROB.
She Wanted to Know-How a Little
Witch Of a Boy Breaks His
Sister's Heart.

Many incidents owe their fun to
locality. It is the unexpected and the
inappropriate that incites u mirth.
One Sunday morning, in the Brook.
lyn Tabernacle, while DIR. Talmage was
in the midst of an interesting sermon
and the eyes of the great congregation
were riveted upon him, and the still.
ness Of death prevailed the huge editice,
IN exceedingly conical incident oc.
CURED.
Down in the center of the church,
almost crowded out of sight by he,
older neighbors, sat q black-eyed miss
Of 6-years. Directly in front doomed
the bald head of an aged man.
While the little girl was looking a,
the shining pate with curiosity, a com
mon house fly circled around and
alighted on the head. 1t stood motion.
less for o second, andthen moved softly
over the smooth and shiny surface.
The aged gentleman was deeply en-
crossed in DIR. Talmage's sermon, and
for awhile evinced no uneasiness from
the ticklish manners of the little insect.
All the while the child's eyes followed
the movements of the fly. She was
deeply interested, and looked aroundto
e il somebody else wasn't enjoying
the scene.
Suddenly the old gentleman's arm
shot up. and came down with aresound
ing whack upon his Uranium. The lit
tie one behind had been waiting for this
and, sliding out of her seat before hel
mother could check her, she placed hel
chubby little hands on the old gentle.
mans shoulders, and, peering ove into
his face, unmindful of the time and
place. asked, with much animation:
did 90 kill it?"
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-10-18
FEMININE ARSENIC EArERs

u EAxAA0b
The sensational trial, conviction, sem
tence and Communication Of sentence of
Mrs. Maybrick. charged with the poi
soning Of her husband, and her defense,
through which she claimed that the
presence of a~rsenical fly-paper in her
boudoir was for toilet purposes, have
turned public attention to the use Of
this poison by women Of fashion. II Is
appalling to note how the demand for
arsenic has increased Of late years. Be-
fore the enterprising American COM
plexion-improving qualities of the dead
~ drug, its use was confined to wealthy
women Of fashion. Soon all women be-
gan to learn of the desirable pale pink
tint impaired to the skin when arsenic
was judiciously taken, and druggists
began to find in arsenic . profitable
source of revenue. They do not deny
that arsenic carefully administered may
improve the complexion OF even benefit
the system under certain conditions.
English law is strict regarding the sale
Of such drugs and consequently in that
country Ay-paper il largely used. Soak
ing the paper in water will extract the
arsenic and transfer the poison 10 the
liquid. It. Is then spilled 10 the skin
or drunk In minute quantities.. Like
the opium habit. arsenic eating grows
upon the victim, and it, work 4 allow
but gurs. Arssnic u used 1or anotnting
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-10-18

weather that he told grandma at dinner
he should risk it out, another day.
After dinner Nancy took her dolls
down under the grapevine, where, not
long after, she was joined by the geese.
for they were very fond Of company.
and would follow Nancy and feed when.
ever she took up her place to play.
All at once. as the little girl was get
ting drowsy listening to the shrill songs
Of the harvest flies, Old Prob stopped
nibbling the short grass, stretched his
head high in the air, and cast one eve
toward the sky. Then he gave a loud
sqnawk, lifted his wings, and started off
on a run as fast as his great red legs
would go.
At tho sound of his squack, the other
geese stretched their recks I'M. lifted
their wings, and started after the gan
der, squawking too, as though q fox
were after them.
On they went a few yards, when with
wild shrieks and beating of wings they
all went up into the air, like u great
white cloud, and flew toward the pond
q quarter of a mile off.
Nancy got up and stared.
"There's going to he rain, Samanthy
Ellen cher dearest doll), just as true as
the world! Didn't You see how Old
Prob acted? Grandpa says that's q sure
sign. Dear! dear! And the wheat IL
all be spoiled! No. I'll go tell grandpa"
And dropping Samanthy Ellen on the
grass she sped to the wheat-fields.
Then how grandpa and the men hur-
ried. They sent Nancy to drive the
oxen up from the meadow lot, and
within an hour three great loads of
golden wheat were in the barn.
But the sky was now thick and black.
and pretty soon the lightning tore
bright, jagged rents in it. And how
the thunder ratified and roared! Then
down poured the rain, catching grandpa's
last load at the bottom of the hill.
Get up Brindle! Gee, Star! Hol
Haw! Up we go!"
The men all pushed behind, as ifthat
would do much good.
Bouace' bounce! OFF went a big,
yellow cloud of straw. Crea-e-c-eah-
authe-Oump!. and with a bound they
rushed into the barn floor, the men
shouting, grandpa with his hat in his
hand and the rain running off his nose.
"'Twould all have got wet if it hadn't
been for Old Prob" he said.
And grandma laughed. Il guess we
won't send him to Halifax this year,
Nancy. "-louth's COMPANION.
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side Of tho chest; and this they oon.

side Of the chest; and this they con.
sider an adornment.
Women who are shortsighted will
mount spectacles IN public; even young
girls in their teens will do the same.
and so walk along the streets. and it is
not regarded strange.
II q nan does not smoke or drink he
is universally respected, and il is con
sidered meritorious. As regards women,
most of them drink, but exceedingly
few smoke.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-10-18
A CHINESE NOBLEMAN ON AMER.
TCA

ICA.
A Chinese nobleman, who Travelled
much in this country, publishes some Of
his impressions in o psper edited in
Pekin. He says: When women 90 to
court they regard q bare skin as Q mark
of respect, and on ordinary occasions
when they meet their parents they must
apply their mouths to the right and left
lips Of the elder with . smacking sound,
which is exceedingly strange.
Women consider . large bust and .
small waist as desirable; but while the
waist can be compressed ~ to b made
small, the bust cannot DO naturally en-
larged. A great number, then, have
co~ntrivanccs Of wickerware made which
" concealed under the bodice On oither
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-10-18

HE HAD FOR0OTTEN SOM THING.
smith-What are you loaing around
town ct this time Of night for?
Brown-'Fraid to go home. Wife
told me to be sure and remember some-
thing, and I've forgotten what it was.
smith-It wasn't dry goods or gro
ceries, was il?
Brown-No.
|. smith-Baby-food, tacks or theater
ticket?
Brownie; but I have just thought
Of IL.
smith-wh.t was it,
Brown-She wanted me to remember
to come home early.-Chica0o Jour-
nal
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-10-18
A EELLOW.

Tom speaking Of friend lately de-
ceased)-Poor Brownson possessed a
great many good traits Of character,
didn't hei
Joe-Yes, he did; and besides that he
was one Of the luckiest men I ever
knew. He got his lie insured against
accident aud WAS killed the very next
day. How Il that for luck?
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-10-18

purposes. too. by large numbers Of work
ing girls who toilin the mills aud fActo:
riea. They have not got learned the
art Of eating the drug, and employ II
In . crude fashion by dissolviug the
substance in water and applying it in
lotion-like form to the face and hands.
Its baneful effects are not SO quickly ap-
parent Is are those o~farsenic eating, but
sooner or later the foolish victims Of the
poisonous drug contract an appetite
for Il, and their death il but q matter Of
months. II is not easy to estimate the
number Of deaths among women for
which the use of arsenic is responsible,
yet . goodly proportion of so-called
blood-poisoning cases a he traced to
IN ignorant use of arsenic.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-10-18
SHE WOULD BE CONTENT WITH
6UBORDINATE POSkTION.

@Now," said the bridegroom to the
bride. when they had returned from
the honeymoon trip, @Let us have
q clear understanding before we settle
down to married life. Are you presi-
dent or vice-preside nt of this society 2"
II want to be neither president nor
vice-president," abe answered; II will
be content with . subordinate position"
@What Is that?"
"Treasurer."-Boston Journal.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-10-18
ITS CHIN = m ]y.v

@Dot vas a pooty baby, dond id" ex-
claimed Hans Spellbreckerto the father
Of q new baby that has just been landed.
in the household.
4Ye., it is q dumpling, sure" replied.
asked Hans.
Cant you guessq. asked the father.
We'll. I dink not id vas . girl. .aid
Correct. But how did you know
.oh. yoost because he got 20 mauh'
chin on ids face."-Smndav National.