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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-11-29
ADJUSTMENTS.
ssThe Indian Mall Carrier, ,,

ssThe Indian Mail Carrier.''
 Miss Go-Won-Go Mohawk, the Indian actress, and her jolly company played "The Indian Mail Carrier" to another good house last night. As there are thousands m this city and vicinity who prefer seeing all interesting drama to a circus the Indian actress may wager her last moccasin that she will be greeted with two large audiences to-day, Pater- son Morning Call.-At the opera house Saturday night.
 Primrose & Vests M1nstrels.
 The reappearance of Primrose & Vests minstrels at the Park theatre brought a large audience together last night, and there was much mirth and enthusiasm during the show. The company is a first class one, showy in dressing and acces- sories, furnished with good leaders and vocalists and its performance goes along with quite degree of snap. Brooklyn Eagle.-At the opera house Monday night
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-11-29
GREAT AMERICAN BANQUET.
A Notable Gathering in Berlin With Min
 ister Phelps Presiding.


 ister Phelps Presiding.
 BERLIN, Nov. 29.-A grand American banquet was gwen at the Kaiserhof last evening, at which there were 25O guests. Minister Phelps presided. At his right were Count Herbert Bismarck and Mrs. Phelps. On his left were Prince Radzi- will and Miss Phelps. Among the guests were P1 ofessors Mommsen and Curtius, and Consul Edwards and other prominent Americans with their wives.
 Mr. Phelps highly eulogized the late Minister Iendleton, and in toasting President Harrison, alluded to the sim ilarity of the virtues and traditions of Germany and America. The youths and maidens from America studying in Germany, he said, had never been tainted with the breath of scandal. The material wonders of America, he declared. defed the possi ibilities of rhetoric to do them justice, and the United States is proud of being the only nation yet born where the poor have a home, and whore 60.OOO, 900 of freemen prize education, love their country and worship God.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-11-29
Earnings of the Railroads.

The statement of the New York, New Haven and Hartford road for the quarter ending September 30 shows gross earn ings of S2, 797 ,552, an increase of $99, ,340; total income, $S33,319, an increase of $16,S29; fixed charges, $395, ,.263, an in- crease of $60, ,401; surplus, 43S, ,O55 an in crease of $43, ,573; cash on hand $250, ,299; profit and loss surplus, S3,633,711.
 The gross earnings of the New York and New England road for October were S539, ,346, an increase of $11 ,S99. The passenger income increased. Freight re- ceipts fell off, but there was still a gain of about $11 300 oyer 1888.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-11-29

Two or three Italians indulged in a free fight in a hou. on Brook street yes terday. One of the participants was found to-day and Officer Dodds locked him up.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-11-29
WORLD OF SPORTS.

At Oakville Wednesday night, Patrick Lunny and Dennis Whalen fought forty pound bulldogs for purse of $2O0. Lunny had "Jack," a brindle and white brute from Albany, and Whalen had "Joker," a white Sna tan s}nh dF9% EsW @ his owner, Whalen, gave up the fight and purse to save the dog. About fifty sporting men saw the fight.
 The long talked of fight between Ed Mcdonald and Joe Williams came off near Naugatuck Wednesday night and resulted in draw. The mill was an exceedingly tame affair and was wit messed by about fifty favored ones.-
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-11-29
STOCKINET MILLS BURNED.

Thompsonville Appeals to Hartford
 and Springfield for Assistance.
 The Stockinet mills of the Hartford Carpet company which are located at Thompsonville caught fire last midnight and were completely destroyed. A call for help was sent to Hartford and two steamers were sent to the scene of the fire Springfield was also asked to send help. The carpet company is large concern with 300 or 400 operatives. The concern was formerly located at Tariff, vile on the Connecticut western road but the mills were destroyed by fire at that place and the concern moved to Thompsonville.
 The officers of the company this morning estimated their loss at fully S2OO, ,0OO.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-11-29
Work in Lynn.

LYNN, Mass, Nov. 29.-Loca1 insur- snce agents announce that losses by the late fire here will be paid in full. The work of adjusting losses is progressing A heavy rain yesterday did not prevent good deal being done to- ward clearing up the ruins. The con- tents of the bank vaults are all right. Relief contributions to the amount of $2O, OO0 were received yesterday. Re- building has begun in many cases.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-11-29
McKIERNAN A FREE MAN.
Released To-Day Upon a Bond of S1,5OO Furnished By His Father.

NEW HAVEN, November 29.-Terrence McKiernan, the slayer of Thomas Cleary. was released this afternoon by order of Judge Sanford, under bonds of $1 1,5OO furnished by his father. Assistant State Attorney Terry argued strongly against releasing McKiernan upon such small bond. The prisoners lawyers asked that the bond be fixed at 5000. After carefully weighing the points Judge Sanford fixed the amount of the bond at $1 300. Mckier- nan and his aged father left for Nauga- tuck at o'clock.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-11-29
LOCAL LIN ES.

ATTENTION WoRKMEN !-Wanted 100 workmen to come and buy one of our $14 watches at S1 each week. LAKE, STROBEL &, Go, the jewellers.
 Go TO LADD's for reliable groceries All goods fresh and pure. 66 South Main street.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-11-29
Clara Pierce's Murderer Still nt Lars

BELLEFONTE, Pa, Nov. 29.-The man arrested at Vanderbilt on suspicion of being the murderer of Clara Pierce, near Krautnaus. has been released, hav- ing proved an alibi. A body of men are searching for tramp suspected of be- ing the murderer. Miss Pierce was a pretty girl of Is. Her body was found in the road with three bullet holes through it, and the inquest revealed the fact that the girl had been outraged and then shot.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-11-29
ARCHBISHOP WALSH STONED.
His Carriage Attacked by Orangemen and
 the Prelate Painfully Bruised.

tho Prelate Painfully Bruised.
 ToRoNTo, Ont, Nov. 29. Archbishop Walsh recently appointed to this dio- cese was installed last night at the cathedral in this city. While riding from the railroad station to the cathed- ral the carriage of the Archbishop was stoned by some Orange rowdies. One of the stones struck the Archbishop in the arm causing a very painful bruise.
 Intense feeling is manifested by both sides and there are grave fears of further trouble.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-11-29
DR. c. W. S FROST, 157 Bank street.
DR E. A. TOwNE, "A Bank street.

Pearls White Glycerine is harmless, and delightful to use on hands and face.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-11-29

The big storm created havoc in some of the roads about Meriden. The Cat Hole road was wreck yesterday and there was no passage on it for awhile. It was feared that the lower reservoir would give way. The road down through hemlock grove was badly washed out and teams were not allowed to pass. The tracks of the Meriden, Waterbury and Connecticut River road were about four inches under water in the western part of the city.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1889-07-11
A Touching Obituary.

The following lines are copied from the
obituary column of rural New York journal
" IL is with deep regret that we chronicle the
death of G. H. M. OF -, New York.
He passed away on Monday morning March
%. after an illness of little more than three
days We had been acquainted for five years.
We began in the poultry business at the same
time. both buying Wyandotte eggs of the same
man. The writer soon gave up the breed, and
kept only Langlhans. But George kept his
Wyandottes, bought only the best, bred care
fully and though We have seen many fine
birds, we know of few which lay more and
larger eggs breed finer chicks than his do.
We have had many fowls and eggs of him, and
would rs quick trust him as ourseIf to ship
eggs to select stock"
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You can number on your fingers the towns
of Egypt which contain buildings of stone
and mortar. The great bulk of the 7,000.0 900
people who live in the land whose territory is
no bigger than Maryland dwell in mud huts,
aud their villages are such that heavy rain
of three days standing wonld melt them into
mush- like PASTE You can have no idea of
the poverty of these habtations. They are
just high enough for one to stand upright
in. They have no windows and no furni-
ture, and they are huddled together so that
you could pack whole town of 10000
people on a so, acre farm, None of the people
live outside of these villages, and there are no
detached houses with gardens about them nor
do the pe0pio seem to care for flowers. The
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Tie Tip Nuisance.

Head Waiter-Hope you are not going TO for
get the waiter, sir.
Guest-No sir; I'm not going TO forget him
nor forgive him either Why don't you go 10
work and quit begRing2 Hang me Il haven't
half mind 10 have you arrested for vagraucy.
Head Waiter-But, sir, | have employment,
SIR the proprietors Of this hotel, sir, are my
employers, sir
Guest-Then why don't they pay you enough
to keep you from begging2 Hang me if don't
have them arrested, too, as accessories before
the fact
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Why it should be So however, Is one of the
wonders of modern civilization. These are the
people that own Egypt They have the rich
eat country that the Lord has given to man.
and they produce every year enough to make
them wealthy If they could get it. Egypt sells
more than $50. 600, 900 worth of goods per annum
to foreign countries, and she has for years been
raising much more than her people used. Her
surplus goes to her rulers and to the foreign
ers, and the story of her condition to day is the
same as that OF her past. Throughout the ages
Egypt has been in the hands Of other nation s.
| The Turks and Mabometans have been bleed
ing her since their conquest Greece once fed
off OF her. Rome ate up her sustenance in the
days OF the Cesars. She fed the widest ex-
travagancies of the Khediyes of the past and
the bankers of Europe. and especially Of Eng
land, now hold mortgages upon her, and her
peasants are ground down, as they have always
been, TO pay the interest on these. 1t must be
remembered that Egypt is almost altogether
agricultural, and that all of the money spent
in and by il must come from this Nile-fertiliz-
ing soil The Khedive and the Sultan NAV
pipe, but Egypts poor farmers have to pay the
pipers. Already the debt Of Egypt is not far
from being rs large our debt now is. It
amounts TO moro than $500, 900 600 or 10 more
than $50 TO each man, woman and child of the
farmers of Egypt who have TO pay it. This, at
five to the family, means 1925 per family.
d ihlhk OF people whose assets arc almost alto
gether made up of the soil on which they live
who have no money in the bank and nothing
whatever to speak Of, each family of which
owes this amount, and is forced to pay not only
the interest upon IL. hut also the general ex
penses Of running its Government, including
tribute Of $3-O00,000 n year, or $40 family, to
the Sultan. and you have some idea of the state
of the people of Egypt day. They are ground
down to the earth with taxation and they have
barely enough on which to exist. Their profits
all 90 TO Europe to the bant ors who own the
bonds given by Khedives and the Government,
to the foreigners living in Egypt, and to Tur-
key. and they have as hard lines as in the past
Pharaoh gave the Egyptians.
~
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A Complicated Record.
lHarper's Maga.i,e.I


On the second occasion alluded to / wal
travelling by stage coach through a Highland
district of Scotland with my father--a clergy
man. by-the-way- managed temporarily
to escape from his immediate paternal super
vision. Having done so. found myself IL
contiguity with two cattle -drovers, whose con
yersatioD amounted virtually 10 the following
Eli, Donal,' and hoo arc YET"
Weel"
"rhat's guild"
No sac guild eyther."
" Hoo's tlIat2"
:" j marrit a bad wife,"
"That's bad"
No sac bad eyther."
" Hoo's that?"
She had a wheen O. sheep"
" No sac bad that"
"Ay, but they had the rot"
"That's bad"
No sac bad eyther."
" lioo's that?"
:" ] self them aud bought hoose.n
That's guild"
81 No sac guild eyther."
" HOo's that?"
"The h0ose was burnt"
"Thats bad"
:" No sac bad eyther.7
" Ifoo's that?"
:" She was In IT,"
We recommend HTaneiII,s punch Cigor
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IBnrllnaLam Eree Prsss.

Woman (entering newspaper oilico) you
tell me who wrote that editorial ON +" Marriage
a State Of Restricted Freedom"Y
Ediior--One of our lady correspondents,
madam.
Woman--Ob, well, ] thought il was man.
and ] was going 10 give him piece Of my
mind. But If it WAS woman guess IL is all
ytUhf
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At Greenville Miss.. the other day, police.
mau shot az Il white man, but hit negro. This
il how local paper describes the result; Tho
cop bIazed away al tho man and shot him IL
the elbow, the bali glaneing and striking the
negro In the check As ho spit the bali out lac
said: Look bcah. white mnn, you quit dat
shootiH' at me. Fns' thing yuh know yuh
gwintcr brake some 'Epectable puSsous winder
glass;
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holdings are very small, an acre or so making
o farm, and about six-sevenths of the whole
people of Egypt live by farming in this way.
Wages are miserably low. In Upper Egypt
you can get a man to work all day for from
five to seven cents, and here about Cairo labor
ers get an average of perhaps 90 cents day.
The average farming wages in the richest part
of Egypt are not more than 10 cents day, and
the bulk of these people live on one third Of
what the poorest American wastes. Think of
raising family on 10 cents day. and of MAIN
tanning household on five cents per diem! Is
it any wonder that the people have to live on
sorghum seed, milIct and beans, and that they
eat clover and every green thing that they can
get2 It is no wonder that their clothing con-
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The PYRAaips.

here. and the circumference is edged with the
buo waters of the Mediterranean. This mar
row strip aud fan form tho land Of Egypt. and
this soil is nowhere moro ehau 35 feet deep. IL
rests on "a bod Of sand. On each side OF Il are
vast wastes of yelldw sand and rock, with not
n spot ol green to relieve 'the glare which the
sun daily paints upon II. .r1ho green goes clear
10 the edge Of the sand. ann stops Off as short us
though IL were cut Out by gardener. In some
places the strip is so tiarfos that you can stand
at one side of tho valley aid look clear across IT,
and this Is SO nearly eyery where above Cairo.
-s4----
Egypt IN tho leane5t country in tho world, but
such IL is IL Is the faItest in the quality Of the
food which nature gives it. II takes one big
meal ever year This comes nc tho inundaton
Of the Nile when orsayerAi months the waters
are spread over the land and allowed 10 stand
there nutil they drop the rich, black. fcrtiliz-
ing sediment which they carry down from the
African mountains. This ediment is SO strong
ia character thai il his produced from two To
three crops year Tor Egypt throughout the
ages; and IL is tho only manure that the land
gets The hundreds of thousands of cattle.
donkeys, eanels and sheep which feed off the
black soil OF Egypt give nothing back 10 IL.
Their manure Is gathered up as il falls by the
peasant women and girls of the country, patted
into shape, and dried for use ne fuel. The only
manure that is uaed in any part Of Egypt is that
oi psqEtols anu CAiCAtHhs OF th5 runs OIL an
cient towns. which. lying through the thou
sands Of years, have become rubbish which
possesses fertiliziug properties.
The Irrigation Of Egypt Is now conducted on
n scientific basis. The water is not allowed to
spread OVER the country nv II was years ago,
but this enitiyable soil Is cut up by canals,
aud there are immense irFigating works in tine
delta, which during the inGndgtion require II
force of hundreds Of thousands OF men to man-
age. just below Cairo is "a great dam or bar
rage which raises the waters Of the Nile into q
vast canal. from which they ilow over the great
fau-liko territory of lower Egypt All over
Egypt you sec men engaged in scoopisg the
water UP Ia baskgts from ono level to another
aud everywhere sou fud the buffalo, the camel,
or the donkey engaged in turning the water
wheel. which by means Of eogs fases one pot
Of water after another aud emptiea it into u
trough from whence il runs over the land.
These wells arc known 40 sakeoyeiis. There is
vertical wheel of about 80 feet in diameter.
to which earthen pots are tied by cords around
tie tire. A horizontal wheel at the top fits by
cogs into this, aud the animal, fastened To a
bar, moves around aud around in a circle like a
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The crops of Egypt deTand entirely upon
such inundation, and whengver the Nile does
not rise to a certain hight The country is liable
to famine. Last year, there was very low
Nile, and to-day the ptasa1ts have had a part
of their taxes remitted on this account. ii is
said that the irrigatioR of 1Jl Egypt was supe-
ror to that of to day, .dnd tliere is an American
who has q scheme whichaft Is thought, will
obviate this danger OF famine and make the
irrigation always sure. This American, by
travelling over the desert VIfear Cairo, has dis
covered the bed of vast lake, and by reading
Of the ancient works upon Egypt he has shown
that this was once grand artificial reservoir.
Herodotus thought 1t was equal to the Pyra-
mids, aud he says it was filed from the Nile,
and was used during low Niles to lot the water
back on tho land. Mr.. Whitehouse, for this is
the Americans name, came here In $780, He
was laughed at at first but his scheme is now
thought to be Il feasible one He proposes to
cut new canal to this lake, to fiji it with
water, and to use it again as ii was used in the
past The Egyptian Government has had a
survey made as to the matter, and il is found
that IL would take canal only ii miles leng
TO gil this lake, and that the change would be
greatly to the benefit of Egypt.
The Nile is the longest river in the world
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One Of Many.
fgsw FORT lIieel;ipl

Patron-Mr Dentaile, put my set Of false
teeth iB this morning aud / can't get them
out
Mr. Dcntaile lgreat Dentist We'll, what do
you want 10 get them out for7
Pairon-Wby, It's dinner time.
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sists of single nightgown of blue cotton, and
that they sleep in this at night and work in
it during the day. The children in the coun-
Try districts go practically naked until they
get to the age at which our boys demand sus-
pcnders. and it is no wonder that they are the
poorest people on the face of the earth.
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some of the finest asses
aud mules / have ever
seen, and there is a royal
white iackass which /
see ridden by Mahom-
etans, which is worth
from 500 to a thousand
dollars per beast. The
best of these d0ukeys
come from Mecca. They
are Ii hands high, are
very swift, aud their
gait is "a pace. They
, live q long time. and
the pedigrees of some OF
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MS IL scaliops the road in attempting to get ont
of the way of the rod Hero is n drove of
donkeys laden with bags for tho market. They
are not harnessed, and the bags are balanced
upon their backs without ropes or saddles.
Every time go outside of the hotel In Cairo |
am bcsiegcd by donkey boys. who want me to
take a ride, and who jabber at mo in pigeon
English. pigeon French and pigeon. German.
They are bright fellows, aud they try To appeal
to my humor aud patriotism in offering the
beasts.
My donkey good donkey" says one; "him
name Gon. Grant" My donkey name Yam
kee Doodle" says another, aud mine Bis
marck says third Here another boy rUshes
up with beast which he calls "The Grand Old
Man" aud another forces upon me the Prince
OF Wales." while another has I" Bouanger"
The funniest Of all however, are tho donkeys
named after women, and during this very
morning | was offered for my excursion TO the
Boulac Museum, Mrs. Langtry" Mary An
derson aud as Sara Bernhardt." The donkey
who rejoieed in the name of Sara was by all
means the best looking and galoped out of
Cairo with my boy poking stick into spot
OF bare flesh on Sara's launches ms hig around
as tho bottom of tumbler. Ny saddle was
tho regular Egyptian saddle which rises about
foot above tho donkey's back, aud the stir
rups of which are tied to string thrown across
the seat and not fastened. The ordinary dom
key OF Egypt ID very cheap indeed, worth often
not moro than $40. The country has, however,
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hrae 9ork Woekiyl
Mrs. Gadd-Does your boy take after you or
his father2
Mrs. Gahb--IIc takes after his father. Yon
never can believe a word he says.
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of ton upon their backs staggered along
the black roads. Turbaned Egyptians, with
black gowns upon them, rode donkeys through
the fields, and the vailed women of this
benighted land crowded about the train at the
villages. On one side great waste OF daz-
zling yellow sand came close TO tho edge of the
green fields, and we passed grove after grove of
date-palm trees. which held their heads proudly
in the air. and, shaking their fan-like leaves to
every passing breeze, seemed to whisper re-
QUEEN over the dead past of this oldest of the
old lands of the world As we ncared Cairo and
skirted the edge of the desert, away off to the
right arose three ghost-ike cones of gray out of
the yellow sand their heads piercing the blue
sky and their background the hazy horizon OF
the desert. These were the Pyramids aud the
steam-engine Of the 10Th century whistied ont
a terrible shriek as we came in sight of them.
To the left were the Mokattim Hills, with the
citadel which Saladiu built upon them, and to
the right flowed the great broad -bosomed Nile,
the mother of the land of Egypt whose fertile
waters have created its soil throughout the ages,
and whose life-giying milk nonrishes the land
to-day,
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Cura for the Deaf.

Peck's Pat Improved Tabular Ear CnshonspgnpEorIy
CURE pEAPsE6 aud noises in head Unseen, comfortable
seifaiuBiiHg Whispers beard. SHoeessJH Ghen an Tog
edles faf 50ld only by H. HIACOX. sj5 Broadway Cor
lam 81. ". v. seld lor IlIusLraLed bo0k FREE.
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Mrs. De Graw--I'l,cy cay Mr. Sadfacs never
goes where he comes in contact with women.
Wonder what's the matter
Mr. DE Graw significantly was 4 Nor
mon before lac came cast.
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Egypt Is the gift the Nile. This whole conn
try was once bed of sterile sand so bleak aud
bare that not blade Of prass shrub OF cactus
would grow upon it. This mighty river, rising
in the nights Of Africa, cutting its way through
rocks aud hills, has brought down enough earth
to form the soil of Egypt. Above Cairo for
nearly thousand miles along its banks there
stretches tract of soil which is rs black as
your hat and as rich rs guano. but which is only
from three to nine miles wide. Below Cairo IL
spreads out in delta shaped somewhat like the
fourth ofa circle, the radi of which jut out from