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Connecticut western news., 1891-10-22
MIR. BARNES OF NEW YORK. :
The Original of the Character a Profesl | sional Tea Faster.

The Original of the Character a Profesl
 sional Tea Faster.
 One of the most fashionable men here makes small fortune every year by tasting tea His name is Albert Claggett, and he is prominent man about town in New York city. Since the retirement of Berry Wall from tho world of fashion Claggett has the repu, tation of having the most expensive wardrobe of any man that comes to Saratoga
 At first thought Mir. Claggett's mode of making a handsome income is one of extreme ease, but he claims that it is the hardest kind of task. He ranks as the most expert tea taster in the country, and he is paid fee by nearly all the principal tea importing houses in New York A shipload of tea which reaches New York from China usually contains about 100 different grades of tea These grades have to be tested by the house that receives them. Samples of each are sent to Mir. Claggett, and his judgment decides their value, In his apartments are 100 or more china cups The china is of the most delicate char acter. and the material about as thin as can be made He brews tea with a small oil lamp and then pours it into one of these cups, where it stands until it becomes cold
 He tastes the different teas every morning just after getting up and be fore eating anything The effect of this, after so many years, has been very hard on his nerves. It is necessary to take some of the liquid into the stom- ach, and today his nerves are very much unstrung. He suffers terribly from i'll somnia, and about the only thing that seems to soothe him is champagne He has tried nearly everything, and be says that he has found that champagne counteracts the effect of the tea better than anything else. He is probably the largest individual consumer of cham pagne in this country. and he never drinks anything else.
 | Claggett has to take frequent and long vacations He usually goes to Europe about twice year. but always returns so as to spend the season at Saratoga He is a thorough cosmo politan. and is just as much at home in Paris as in New York. He speaks six languages tiuently.
 The character of Mir Barnes. of New York, is supposed to represent Mir Claggett He is great friend of Mr. Gunter. the author of the work, and several of the experiences attributed tc Mr. Barnes are known to be those o1 Mr. Claggett Claggett is the most prominent first nighter in the lnetropo lis.-Saratoga Cor. Kansas City Star.
Connecticut western news., 1891-10-22
Must the Bluefish Go?

Are the bluefish deserting us2 The boatmen of Buzzard's bay say that this gamy fish is mot in it" this year.
 A few years ago, when the waters of the south shore were alive with blueflsh, great shoals of menhaden were seen everywhere. Finally it was discovered that these feed fish could be profitably seined and ground into oil. Factory after factory went up along the shores In few years the depletion had become so great that many of the factories 'went up."
 A few struggling shoals of menhaden yet remain, and where these are found the bluefish congregate. But in the hot chase for bait the remaining men haden will ere long be exterminated.
 It is to be feared that soon nothing but groundfish will remain for the ar dent angler along our coasts. It is a regretable drift of things, for hali of seaside health and pleasure departs with the gradual disappearance of the mackerel and bluet1sh.
 Yet it is an memorable law of life that one cannot eat his cake and have it too. It is for the legislatures to say whether greed shall finally abolish the occupation of the hand liner If they neglect to act decisively in the near flu ture there is growing evidence that their action will come too late Boston Globe.
Connecticut western news., 1891-10-22
His Life Devoted to Spiders.

"One of the curious things of this Me," remarked an ex-congress1nan, lis the devotion of some men to an idea without regard to the opinion of the rest of the world and without hope oi reward. l know of a man from my state who devoted lifetime to spiders
 He died in the Alps, where he had been for two years collecting specimens ot spiders. He sacrificed his life to spi. ders He has left a collection of some 28,OO0 distinct varieties You would hardly think there were many more spiders in existence. This man has them stuck up in sections. In classes, fully labeled. t.-.
 'He began fooling with spiders when boy. He had room that he would allow no one to sweep or clean, and encouraged the spiders to suoh an ex tent that they would come to him and feed out of his hand. He discovered that by repeatedly destroying web g spider reached stage where his power of reproducing web is exhausted. When that stage was reached the spider at lacked another spider, killed him and took his ball of web from him. Just like human being, don't you sec Before this man died he embalmed his knowledge of spiders in two volumes. He was 8 spider crank. " Exchange.
Connecticut western news., 1891-10-22
ELECTRIC BITTERS.

This remedy is becoming so we'll known and so popular as to need no special mention. All who have. used Electric Bitters sing the same song of praise.-A purer medicine does not exist and it is guaranteed to do all that is claimed. Electric Bitters will cure all diseases of the liver and kidneys, will remove pimples, boils. salt rheum and other affections caused by impure blood Will drive malaria from the system and prevent as we'll as cure all malarial fevers.-For cure of headache, constipa- tion and indigestion try Electric Bittt rs. Entire satisfaction guaranteed. or money refunded. d.-Price 50 cts and $1 per bottle at w. H. Camps drug store
Connecticut western news., 1891-10-22
STATE WS.

William Walker, colored, aged about 30. was struck by train on the North ampton division of the Consolidated road last Thursday and instantly killed. He leaves 8 wife.
 An effort is being made to start na- tional bank at Manchester with 8 capi- tai of $5O, 1000.
 The Winsted Hosiery Go has received Q contract from the United States gov ernment for 8 large order of underwear for the Navy.
 Mrs A. R. Baldwin, formerly of Win sted, died at Pittsfeld, Mass, Oct 14th, after an illness of two weeks. Her daughter, Mrs Ward Smith, of Macon. Ga was with her mother during her last illness.
 The secretary of the Connecticut Christian Endeavor society reports 35, ,0OO members in the state union.
 A local correspondent of the Thom- aston Express says: 'The voters of Plymouth may prepare themselves to be called upon at the next annual town meeting to furnish school district No 2, with wet nurses at the towns expense. '
 The cornerstone of the new Mason ic Temple at Bristol was laid with ap- propriate exercises last Thursday.
 There are several cases of diphtheris at Southington.
 Mir Henry NJ. Wright of Glastonbury has one tree from which he secured seventy-five bushels of apples this fall.
 Last year the progressive little repub. lican town of Middlebury tried the ex- pertinent of electing woman as 8 mem. Der of the board of school visitors. The experiment proved so satisfactory that another woman was added to the board this year.
 Disbelievers in the old saying that s'in union there is strength" will be few and far between when they learn that the lady proprietors of boarding houses of New Haven have organized them. selves into powerful organization and have raised the price of table board g. per week. The Yale students say it Is g bitter pill to swallow, but ss it is g ques ton of either starve or eat, they have submitted. We do not know the name of the union, but one of the students 1T letter calls it the Grub Brigade Litchfeld Enquirer.
Connecticut western news., 1891-10-22
Exhumed History.

Every young reader who has been charmed by the wonderful story of Joseph ill Egypt must be interested to enterprise are doing to restore the scenes and objects he looked upon, and the outlines of the very life of his gen. eration. Pithom, one of the treasure cities" in which doubtless that Hebrew hero and pattern man stored up the surplus of the harvests of the ''seven years of plenty" has been discovered by Dr. Naville and excavated from the sand. It is the city which the Greeks called Heroopolis.
 Doctor Naville's explorations have enabled him also to identify the early camps of the Israelites, Succoth-a district, not city-Pi-Hahiroth, Ball Zephon and other places, and so trace their journey to where they crossed the Red sea.
 It seems almost as If the localities o1 Bible history were cast by design out side of the path of destroying time Climate, the embalmer's art, and the all covering sand have kept the daily world of the Pharaohs, like an old but indelible negative" to be brought out in full photograph by nations thousands of years younger than they.
 Men like Mariette Bey, Mir. Petrie and Dr. Naville have unearthed and are still unearthing for us the very halls and streets where old Egyptians bowed the knee to Joseph or trembled at the miracles of Moses and Aaron, and restoring to the light of day the in. scriptions and some of the very papyri which they actually saw and read It is silent language these risen relics speak, for the vowels are all gone out of them; but it requires but little imagination to breathe life and sound into the startling consonants-the skele tons of a past so real and so grand - Youths Companion.
Connecticut western news., 1891-10-22
s.Grandma,, Benson Receives.

Mrs Julia Benson, of Bridgeport, or Grandma" Benson, as she is popular ly known, passed the Tooth milestone on her long life journey Wednesday, 14th. From until o'clock in the afternoon she was visited by 8 large number of people, who manifested deep interest in conversing with the aged lady. She received her guests sitting in an invalid chair and seemed to fully appreciate the attentions bestowed up- on her. Her physical condition seem- ed to be rather above her average. She was presented with number of bou- quets of choice flowers. Among the centenarian's visitors were her brother, sister, daughter, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. They brought with them 8 number of appropriate gifts, which the old lady received with every evidence of pleasure.-Hartford Times.
Connecticut western news., 1891-10-22
A Cure for Craving Roasters.

In the suburban districts of London much annoyance has been caused, and unneighborly squabbles induced, by cock growing at untinely hours. A contrivance has been devised whereby the nuisance complained of may be ob- viated, peace secured and harmony re stored. It is a very simple one. Let a lath be loosely suspended over the roasting place of the aggressive bird, and immediately he rears his head and stretches his neck as preliminary to a raucous blast he receives a rap on the comb which checks his performance and fills him with astouishMent. Af- ter repeated attempts, attended with a like disconcerting result. he subsidies into gentle melancholy and rumi- mates. possibly, over the degeneracy of the times, till, the day being sufficient ly advanced, he is allowed to roam abroad. New York Telegram.
Connecticut western news., 1891-10-22
Strangers In the House of Commons.

The number of strangers admitted to the various galleries of the house of commons iii each session of the present parliament appears, from the returns granted to MT. Childers on July 21 last, to have been, in the second. session of 1SS6, 1929, or a daily average of 20l :; in 1887, B, 2,54S or a daily average of 203; in 1SSS, 5, O33, or a daily average of 219; in 1889, 25,5S7, or a daily aver age of 21o; in 1890, 29, 817, or daily average of 23S, and in 1891, 22, 832, or a daily average of 162.
 The total number of sittinys of the house during the present parliament has been 7S9, and the total number of persons admitted to the galleries was 152, O46, or at the rate of 206 per sit, ting Ladies and distinguished stran, gers admitted to tlleir respective gal leries are not included in the return, which stated that the speakers gallery and the strangers gallery were anal gamated on June IF, 1888, and desig- mated the Members gallery. "-Lon- don Tit-Bits.
Connecticut western news., 1891-10-22
The Old Way.

i've can remember" says the vener- able editor of the New York Journal of Commerce, s'when in our native village in Connecticut the town bell rung at sun-down on Saturday evening and the Sabbath was begun. Scripture lessons were read, the children and servants of the hons, hold were 'catechised' and the Saturday night hours were kept even more rigidly free from secular em- ployments than any other p Tt of the twenty -four A. sundown on Sunday the Sabbath ended, and the evening that followed was the grand season for neighborbood visiting and for court isg' among the young folks.
Connecticut western news., 1891-10-22
Low Water.

The prolonged drought has crippled the manufacturing industries in many sections of the state. The New Hart ford Tribune says:
 The Pennington river is lower than 1t has been for many years. The Otis res- ervoir is empty, and the water h the river is insufficient for the manufactories along it's banks. Riverton and New Hartford wheels are idle. and the Collins company at Collinsville are using steam to drive their engines.
 The situation in the Naugatuck valley described by the Seymour Record as follows:
 A leading Shelton manufacturer says that some days the mills do not run at all for lack of water. Birmingham and Ansonia are no better off except where, as in Seymour, they can run by steam At Unionville the mills only attempt to run every other day and uoless sufficient rain falls before winter sets in an al- most total suspension of business in that section must necessarily follow This is probably fair representation of wsterpower throughout the state.
Connecticut western news., 1891-10-22
October l3.

NLClaudius, the Roman emperor, poisoned by connivance of Agrippina, the mother of Nero.
 l6O6-Theodore Beza. eminent reformer and translator of the New Testament. died. l690-Sophia. electress of Hanover and mother of George of England. born. le60-Thomas Harrison. parliamentary gen. eral and commander of the Puritan army after Cromwell. executed. 8l6-Joachim Murat. Bonapartist king of Na- ples. shot
 ls22-Antonio Canova, celebrated Italian sculp- tor, died; born l715 lS45-Mrs. Elizabeth Fry. philanthrop1st, prison reformer and Quaker preacher, died: born l70Q le63Six minor battles fought, chiefly by cavalry the most important being at Wyatt, on the Tallahatchie. Miss. and at Blountsville, Tenn. l8oQ-General W. w. Belknap, ex-secretary of war. died at Washington; born 1891. Also Justice Miller. of the United States su- preme court, aged H. Also in Oxford. Eng land. Professor James E. Thorold Rogers.
Connecticut western news., 1891-10-22
Why Teeth Become Loose.

A Waterbury dentist chatting with 8 reporter, said: "Waterbury people, in common with the rest of humanity, are often at loss to know why their teeth get loose for no apparent reason. Teeth that are sound as dollar lose their firm ness in the gums and in process of time fall out. This is due to 8 mucous sub stance which gets between the gums and teeth and is called Riggs disease of the teeth This mucous matter, after 1nvei- gling itself between the gums and teeth, adheres to the latter. Evaporation then takes place and white, chalky sub stance is left which coats over the roots of the molars. The gums cannot grow to the teeth because of the nerve tissues being covered with this chalky forma- ton and gradually the gums recede, the tooth gradually grows looser and soon falls out This disease of course does not attack all peoples teeth. but of those who are troubled with it very few know the real cause or the remedy. In the first place skillful dentist should be consulted, one who is surgeon pre- ferred. He will draw down the gums and remove with his instruments the scales of chalky matter. He may have to go down nearly to the bottom of the roots He will then apply 8 stringent, and in time the gums will grow fast around the tooth and it will be as firm as ever Front teeth are the most af- fected in this particular. Many people are now carrying mouthfnl of false teeth due to gnorsnce of the real cause of their loss
Connecticut western news., 1891-10-22
TIMELY ANNIVERSARIES.
Current Selections from HistO- rvs Broad Page.
October II.

October II. M92-Discovery of the Bahama islands. H31-Ulric Zwingle, the radical reformer, killed at Cappel while leading a peasant revolt.
 lbs6-The trial of Mary Queen of Scots began EH-George II crowned. Nl2-Philip Astley. founder of Astley's amphi- theater, born. N63-Anne, Countess of Maeclesfield and moth CT of the poet Savage, died. He was illegiti mate, and when condemned to death for murder his mother protested against a pardon, asserting that he had tried to kill her. He celebrated the facts in a poem called 1.-The Bastard" s6S-Dr Elisha Kent Kane reached New York from the arctic regions. lS6tCavalry battles at Rheatown. Hender sons Mill and Colliersville Tenn 064-The Fourth United States Colored heavy artillery repulsed an attack on Fort Donel- son, Tenn
 le65-The 30 called ''Gordon riots" began at Morant bay. Jamaica; l6 whites were killed and IS wounded. for which Governor Eyre had several hundred negroes slaughtered and a wealthy mulatto and Baptist preach or, George William Gordon. hanged.
Connecticut western news., 1891-10-22
A WONDER WORKER,

MT Frank Huffman, young man of Burlington, Ohio, states that he had been under the care of two prominent physicians, and used their treatment until he was not able to get around. They pronounced his case to be con- sumption and incurable. He was per suaded to try Dr Kings New Discovery for consumption, coughs and colds and at that time was not able to walk across the street without resting. He found before he had used half of dollar bot tie, that he was much better; he contin- ued to use it and is today enjoying good health. If you have any throat, lung or chest trouble try it We guarantee satisfaction. Trial bottle free at W. H. Camps drug store.
Connecticut western news., 1891-10-22

loe-John Hunter. famous NOAH WEBSTER English anatounist and physiologist, died; born l72a iuS-Queen Marie Antoinette guillotined. l6O6-William Pitt Fessenden, statesman, born at Boscawen, N. H.; died 1889. ls12-Henry Martyr, missionary to Persia, died. ls69-On Sunday night, at 10 o'clock, John Brown and party seized the arsenal at Har- per's Ferry, Va ls61-Bsttles at Bolivar Heights, Va. and War saw, Mo-, much talked of then. but for gotten before the war ended. lsS8-"Long John" Wentworth died in Chicago.
 born 1915. l8so-lnternational marine conference assem- bled at Washington.
Connecticut western news., 1891-10-22
October IT.

l67s-Mysterious murder ot Sir Edmundbnry Godfrey gave color of truth to the perjur!es of Titus Oates, and melted @ cruel persecu- tion of English Catholics. lD6-Ninon de L'Enclos. famous beauty and wit, died: born 16l8 "fhsee successive generations of men adored her. and when she was 58 a lad of l9 killed himself be- cause she rejected him." E7-BurRoyne surrendered at Saratoga l8Io-Edward Chopin. musical composer, died. l06l-Beginning of four days fight at Fred ericktown. Mo.
 days fighting on their raid in Mississippi; the president called for 3OO.0O0 more. lS72-Hon. Sylvester Mowry. of Arizona, died in London.
Connecticut western news., 1891-10-22

inventor of the barometer. born in Faen- "a, Italy; died l6H. .s..# l6S3tJames II of England born; died l701. l6o6-Allan Ramsay. Scottish poet, born: died 175a
 l7E3tLord Edward Fitzgerald, Irish patriot, born near Dublin; died of wounds In l798. l6l7-Thaddeus Kosciuszko. Polish patriot. died in Solothurn, Switzerland: born l746. lnS-Irwin Mcdowell. general. born in Colum bus, O.: died 1885.
 838-Letitta Elizabeth Landon Maclean c'L. E.. L"l died at Cape Coast Castle, Africa, from an overdose of prussia acid taken to relieve hysteria: born in London 1902. lse9-Fiyst meeting of the South Dakota state legislature.
Connecticut western news., 1891-10-22
Whats in a Name?
(Des Moines Leader.)

MT Lavegood of Kansas recently elop- ed with his servant girl; Mir Lawless is president of law and order league in Kentucky; the Rev Mir Nogood of Virginia exhorts his brethren to lead 8 better life; MT Doolittle, county clerk in Wisconsin, complains that he is overworked, and now we are told that MT Van Whoopen is t. be compelled to remain silent.
Connecticut western news., 1891-10-22
ODDS AND ENDS.
It takes $2O, 900 to run a big steame

It takes $2O, 900 to run big steamer across the ocean.
 In England there are on an average b.38 persons to every inhabited house.
 Morning mists and fogs are formed by the cooling of the moist air during the night.
 An alloy of 78 per cent of gold and 9 per cent. of aluminium is the most brilliant known.
 Snuff boxes are made in Natal and Gaboon by the natives of the seed of Oncoba spinosa.
 To cure catarrh use douch of equal parts of the very best whisky procur' able and glycerin.
 The cultivation of the giant sun, flower for oil making purposes is mak ing great strides in southern Russia
 The average number of persons in each family of the United Kingdom is. as nearly as possible, four and half.
 An Ohio man has colt that is jet black save it's, mane tail and feet, which are milk white. The dam and sire of this freak are plain black.
 The use of the electric light has been found to materially reduce the amount of illness in factories which had pre-. viously used gas or oil for lighting.
 Poor human nature, so richly en. dowed with nerves of anguish, so splendidly organized for pain and sor- row, is but sfenderly equipped for joy.
 A Limoges firm has introduced new process of firing porcelain by means o1 petroleum or residuum oils, which give a very pure heat without smoke ol f,zmes
 The learned Dr. McKatterll, in his article on the rapidity of thought, states that it requires one-thirteenth o1 a second to distinguish between r.d and blue
Connecticut western news., 1891-10-22
Make Hay While
 the Sun Shines.

We carry 8 complete stock of all re- pairs for the ADRIANCE BUCKEYE MOVING MACHINE and can furnish repairs for any other machine at very short notice. We also have large ns- sortment tools for the field, such as Forks, R, es, Scythes and Snaths, Grain Grad E, etc at low prices.
 We have few kegs left of those Nails which wens thu .,uph the flood of last spiing whi' are just as good for gem eral purposes, aud which we will sell at VERY LOW PRICE to close them out
 Of Lawn Mowers we have a few left, and. rather than carry them over, will sell them at price that will make it an object to buy now.
 For the sporting season we have . fine assortment of Guns, Rifles, Revol- vers, Loading Tools, Ammunition, etc.
 full stock of Barbed Wire, Building Materials, Lime, Cement, Drain Tile, Iron and Steel.
Connecticut western news., 1891-10-22
Will Make Aluminium |.

An extensive plant for the manufac- ture of aluminium by the electric pro- cess, is to be established at Leaksville,
 N. c. The dynamo to be used weighs 30. 900 pounds and Is said to be the lar Q .,t iu the world. The white metal will be prodEced from corundum and baux- ite which is found in unlimited quanti- ties in the vicinity, and the price of the pr oduct will not be over 90 cents per ponnd. The deman,l for aluminium irn the arts is increasing, anl in spite of the critics, it's usefulness seemS to be
 well es abli.hel. New Haven Record.