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The bi-centennial celebration of old Windham's birth at Windham Center on Wednesday, June 8th, promises to be an imposing affair. A historical account of the town will be given by Editor Weaver of The Journal, and Editor Lincoln of the New England Home, and brief ad- dresses will be given by prominent sons of Old Windham from Washington, Phil adelphia, New York, and other leading cities. A poem will be read by Rev. Theron Brown, of Newton, Mass, one of the editors of the Youths Companion. There will be an exhibit of ancient relics and portraits. Music will be furnished by Hopkins & Aliens band of~Norwich. Exercises will commence at 10 m. and 2 D. m. At noon collation. will be served, the entertaining committee being desiI ous to provide for all
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FARMERS have been kept from planting by the wet weather, and the acreage of local crops will thereby be reduced, in addition to the inconvenience of delay. But the certainty of good grass crop is a nomnansatioli
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P. T. O'REILLY, Catholic bishop of the diocese of Springfield, died in that city on Saturday last, aged 59. The loss is a great one to the church, also to the city, of which he was public-spirited and valued citizen.
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ROrm.
Married.

Monson, May 18th, son to A. H. Dan forth; 18th, daughter to George l.. Fuller.
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THE latest fad is to do as the Russians do. Russo-maniacs are displacing the Anglo-maniacs. "It's Russian, you know" ]" is the label that goes to-day, and the fools that drop into this last fad are the ones who have. just been 1oundering in the other. s'What fools these mortals be-"
The Press., 1892-06-02
NEEDHAM

AT a Court of Probate holden at Staf- A ford, within and for the district Of Stafford on the 31st day of May, A. D. 1892.
 Present; JAMES F. CHAMBERLIN, Judge.
 on motion of Levi R. Lull, administrator, on the intestate estate of Daniel D. Baldwin, late of Stafford, within said district, deceased.
 This Court doth decree that six months be al- lowed and limited for the creditors of said estate to exhibit.thelr claims against the same to the administrator, and directs that public notice be given of this order by advertising the same once in some newspaper having circulation in said district, and by posting a copy thereon on the public sign post In said town of Stafford, near est the place where the deceased last dwelt. Certified from record,
 JAMES F. CHAMBERLAIN, Judge.
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Monson, May 18th, by Rev. J. F. Lee, Richard P. Doyle and Elizabeth J., daugh- ter of William Brennan, formerly of Staf- ford Springs.
 Rockville, May 28th, by Rev. 5. W. Derby, William O.. Wright Of Rockville and Flora A. Julia of Talcottville.
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A CORNER in corn at Chicago, which has been gradually sending prices up, eliminated Tuesday in an advance to $1 a bushel, when the bottom dropped out, and the unprecedented fall of 30 per cent. swamped the speculators, whose financial ruin is the pleasantest feature of the whole transaction. It is estimated that the clique of speculators had contracted foI 1000, 900 bushels of May corn before their resources failed before the unexpectedly large amount offered them.
 A CYCLONE swept over several Kansas towns last Friday night, doing it's greatest damage in the town of Wellington, where it's effects were fearful The greater part of the town was destroyed, 10 persons killed, and .19 fatally injured, besides many seriously hurt. Also several per sons are missing. The property damage is estimated at $5OO,O About 15( buildings were wrecked to various de- grees. Wellington is, or was, flourish ing town of 5000 or 5000 inhabitants.
 GEN. HAwLEY said true thing as tc Harrison's nomination-that it would be the weakest on the day it was made. Ii is not always the ticket that starts with g hurrah that is strongest. The man who has record, who never tries to dodge, ol to conceal his honest convictions, is, in the long run the hest man to flo to A cfronc point with President Harrison is that he has never been accused of being a trimmer or a dodger, an especially strong one thar every one of his numerous off-hant speeches will bear the closest scrutin, and criticism.
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THE Connecticut delegation to Minne- apolis is set down in the classifying ta- bles as solid for Blaine. At the time this delegation was chosen it was the alme st unanimously accepted understanding in this state that Harrison was to be re- nominated without opposition. Probably the republican delegate who says that his vote is for Harrison, unless assured in advance that MT. Blaine will accept, in dicates the attitude of most of his fellow delegates. But if the Connecticut dele gation lend themselves to a scheme, the real object of which is not to nominate Blaine, but to defeat Harrison, they are fraudulent representatives of the people of Connecticut. Connecticut republicans will cheerfully accept Blaine as candf- date, or any other good republican, but they will not soon forget the men who may treacherously help to raise shout for Blaine, under cover of which a "dark horse" wins the nomination which it was understood in the Connecticut state con vention was to go to Benjamin Harrison. Play fair, Messrs. Bulkeley, ct al.
 Some would be train robbers in Florida recently had an experience, which, if the like were oftener met by their kind, would much discourage this particular branch of industry, the net results being no money, one of the four robbers captured two others dead from gun-shot wounds, and the fourth desperately wounded and prisoner. The flight of this fourth rob- Der, Floyd, has been through swamps and forests and everglades; along the railroad track pursued by locomotives, and across the fields pursued by dogs Once he sprang from a bridge 30 feet into the Suwanee river, and and once to escape the dogs he plunged into a morass at the risk of death by suffocation. If he had shown half the skill, courage and endur- ance and foresight in working for an hon. est living that he has in trying to escape, he would have made vastly more money than he hoped to steal. But he chose what he thought was the easiest way to get rich, and now he lies, a lad of 20, dy- ing as the fool dieth.
 The New York Worlds Fair board has visited Chicago, inspected the exposition grounds and buildings and inquired care- fully into the progress of the work of preparation for the great fair The mem bers of the board expressed their aston ishment and enthusiasm over the mag nificent buildings, and the vast amount of work that has been accomplished. They said that New York will now bend all its energies to be creditably and splendidly represented.
 Nails may be driven into hard wood without bending double if first dipped in lard or oil.
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TENEMENT TO RENT.
 c. F. HAYWOOD. TOUND-A Bunch of Keys. May be I had by owner at Press Office.
 AnnNmQ $2OO is made monthly selling our new h(IhWTN Cutlery Speciality. Write for terms. Claus Shear Co.,, 100 OChambers-st., New orR, NY NOTICE.-This is to certify that have IN given my son, George o. smith, a minor, his time and shall not collect any, of his wages or pay any bills of his contracting after this date
 ORLANDO P. SMITH.
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ENOUGH TO GO AROUND ]!

ENOUGH TO GO AROUND!
 We have just about enough of our Hobby Suits to go around, for, though they are not all gone yet by good deal, they're going with a rush. The pleasure you'll take in looking at them won't be any less than the pleasure we'll take in showing them 10 you :; we'll be gratified, and so will you. For your information let me quote the ex- clamation of purchaser: "Well, I have got what I wanted this time, if never got it before.'. That's only one verdict out of many, and it tells the whole story-they'il give you just what you want, if you never had it before.
 have special drive in Mems Suits, 35 AZ, at $5, that are good bargains.
 H. s. ABEL, BLUE FRONT CIothier Stafford Springs, Conn.
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Memorial Day in Stafford.

The clouds and all probabilities were jointly threatening on memorial day, but no lain fell to speak of, and the day was the better for the purpose because of the suns yelling.
 The program of the day was fully car ried out by the veterans and their CO., workers The various outside cemeteries in different parts of the town were visited in the forenoon and the graves decorated, Citizens Band furnishing music, and resi- dent clergymen offering prayers and speaking at the cemeteries. There were large turn outs at each place, and meet and becoming interest manifested in hav- ing due honor done the soldier dead.
 At each cemetery the band played a dirge, and in addition to the regular G. A. R. ritual some special exercises were held At West Stafford. prayer was offered by Rev. MT. .Ayre, who also made few briei remarks, concluded by an extract from Lincoln's famed address at Gettysburg Mrs. Henry Mckinney also recited a poem
 
 sion.
 At Sandy Knoll prayer was offered by Rev. T: 0. Druley.
 At Staffordville prayer was offered b. Rev. MT. Adams, and remarks made b. Rev. MT. Beard
 At Stafford Street Rev. MT. Batchelde invoked blessing and also read impressive ly poem, "For You and For Me-" The veterans and others returned t. G. A. R. hall little afternoon, leavin, the conveyances when near the borougl limits and walking the rest of the distance A collation. was partaken of, and alonl mid afternoon procession was forme' for march to the Stafford Springs ceme tery, composed hs follows: | Marshal, Reuben Burley, D0lin
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-06
CAUGHT BY THE CENSUS.

In Philadelphia there is one home to
every five inhabitants.
THE number of dwellings in the United
States in 1891 was 1855, s12.
THE population of the United States
in the last ten years has increased TWEEN
ty per cent; its output of new books,
one hundred per cent.
A GENERAL census of Costa RIGA re-
Gently completed shows population of
243,205. San Jose is the most populous
province with 1918 inhabitants.
CHICAGO now has a population of
1,5e0, 600, according to an estimate based
On the canvass made for the city direct
DRY just issued. This is an increase of
about 100000 over the school census of
1890.
THE block which probably has the
largest population of any in the world
is in New York, bounded by Avenues B
and C, Second and Third avenues. 1t
has a population of $500 or at the sur
prising rate of 100000 to the square
mila
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-06
LITERARY CLIPPINGS.

HARDY, the English novelist, began
as an architect. He is ffty-three years
of age.
SIXTEEN of the thirty heroines of Sir
Walter Scott were under twenty years
of age.
THE well that prompted Samuel
Woodwork to write The Old OakeD
Bucket" is still kept in good condition
at Scituate, Mass.
JEAN INGELow's first poems were
written on the window shutters, that
folded back against the wall, in her old
home. Her mother discovered them
first, and her brother had them pub
ished.
The Poems of Two Brothers, :"
when sold to a publisher, brought
Charles and Alfred Tennyson just one
hundred dollars. The manuscript has
been carefully preserved, and is esti-
mated to be now worth five Thousand
dollars.
THE book that sold for 81 $50 at auc-
ton in Boston-Poe's ''Tameraane"-
was 16-mo. in paper covers andhaving
forty pages. Nobody knows just how
or when it was printed. The British
museum has the only other known
copy. Poe wrote "Tamerlane" when a
boy and nameless.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-06
DoiNGS or ROYAL LADIES.

The name-jewels of Queen Margherita
have been presented TO her in such pro-
fusion by her husband that her neck
lace of pearls now hangs down to her
waist
THE duchess of Edinburgh Is an ac-
complished and lovely woman, and is
another instance of the familiar truth
that exalted station does not secure per-
sonsl happiness
THE queen regent of Spain has this
year granted Communication of the
death sentence of nine criminals out of
seventeen who were waiting the ex-
IRENE penalty of the law in Spanish
prisons
MILLINERY is special talent of the
queen of Denmark, and of her three
daughters, the empress of Russia, tho
princess of Wales and the duchess of
Cumberland. They developed it as
girls and practiced it until their mar
rage.
The queen has accepted a copy Of
Amir Ais Life and Teachings OF
Mohammed; or, the Spirit of Islam"
Copies have also been accepted by the
sultan and the shah of Persia, who has
sent to the publishers an autograph
letter of Acknowledgement
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price So that it wouldn't be very
difficult matter to get up summer out
fit at low cost Ginghams make very
pretty. indeed, with the addition of a
little fine white embroidery, and then a
ginghaIn washes so well that it can al
ways be kept fresh
a pretty challie which l have just
been admiring is OF a very deep shrimp
pink. The left side is caught half way
up and bordered and hung with narrow
black velvet ribbon. of which there is a
considerable quantity on the round
bodice as well.
also liked blazer suit that is going
away this week. of deep rich fawn,
speckled all over with pale turquoise
dots. A turquoise silk waist matched
the dots. and the jacket fronts were
made very short so as TO display good
deal of the pretty shade
The girl that wears this has one Of
the airiest and most exquisite summer
gowns have yet seen 1t Is made of
pure white gauze over delicate mauve
silk. think it is the prettier for its
perfect simplicity. The skirt is gath
cred one, and has something of a train
The bodice Is simply shirred on stand
inn collar. and gathered in At the waist
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-06
STORIES RECENTLY TOLD.

THREE weeks after tree near jack
son, Miss, was used as gallows, it
showed signs of decay, and a month la
ter it was dead.
A YOUNG man in Texas started to
town the other day to get marriage IL
cense, but the clerk had sold out. He
invested in pair of shoes and went
home perfectly satisfied
A YOUNG man named NJ. w. Smith ar
rived at the mining town of Cripple
Creek, Col, with s33 in his pocket He
began peddling peanuts and popcorn,
and in sixty days cleared $1,000.
IT is claimed that double-yolked egg
was Matched by a hen near Gettys-
burg recently. The farmer was greatly
amazed to find two little chicks grown
together after the fashion of the Sia-
mese twins.
SOME boys in Murray county. Ga.
claim that they saw blacksnake run
at full speed down a steep hill and
jump ten feet high and capture a sap
sucker, which was drilling a hole in
the bark of pine tree with its sharp
beak
A STARTLING variation of the snake
story comes from Rome, Ga A gentle
man, seeing a snake lying on the road,
prodded it with his umbrella. The
snake Strengthened it's body, spread
out two long wings like a goose,
arose in the air, and flew across the
field
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ing sight to watch them swoop down
upon the salesman, and snap their
prizes before some one else shall inter-
pose.
But when a woman can buy gauZe
shirts for nineteen cents apiece, in all
the dainty eolors; stockings all sizes,
and styles and colors for the same price;
ten ties for ninety-eight cents, white
shirts for forty-nine, gloves for nine
teen, dark blue skirts from two to three
dollars, shirt-waists for sixty-nine cents,
blazers for two dollars and half, sailor
hat with ribbon band for twenty-five
cents, and last. but not least, shot silk
parasols for forty-nine cents, it seems
as though no woman could poSsibly
have any trouble in procuring summer
outfit for next to nothing. Then ging-
hams can be had for five cents yard,
outing cloth for eight cents, dimities,
fresh and sheer, for twelve cents: shirt
ing cambrics for four, aud great many
other materials for about the same
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surprised, if you enter the shops, to find
them crowded in spite of the summer
exodus. This morning entered one to
find extraordinary confusion, and more
reckless pushing than usual. For,
though New Workers are proverbially
good-natured and obliging in a crowd,
think the New York shopper must be
exempt. For she has absolutely no con-
science and no feeling of any sort. She
simply steps over her victim, and never
so much as casts backward glance to
discover the extent of the damage
wrought. After had succeeded in max
ing my way past great number of
these heartless beings with only a few
unimportant injuries, discovered that
the center of interest was a table piled
high with soft wooden checks and
stripes, marked at 20 cents yard, worth
IS cents. How easily we are all taken
in! Anything marked at so cents and
worth 60 is passed by with perfect in
difference, but something marked exact
ly the same, but with the estimate of
90 cents or 81 put on it, is snatched at
by all of the women, in truly hawk
fashion. 1t is certainly most harrow
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-06
NOT VOUChED FOR.

A COLLAR button was recently found
concealed in COW.
THERE is claimed to be a snow-white
squirrel at Yellow Springs, o.
A HEN at Hawthorne. Fla, Matched
min eteen chickens from eighteen eggs
GEORGIA has almocking-bird which
cannot only talk but whistle almost
any tune it hears.
A FoURTEEN-YEAR-oUD boy at San
Jose, Cal, thrashed his father because
he ordered him to bring in some hay.
ONE thousand and twenty-eight
pounds of butter have been made from
a Jersey cow at Huntsville, Ala, in one
year.
A WONDERFUL tree may be seen in the
orchard of Simon Muchher, York, Pa.
One-third of it is pink with peach
blossoms, one-third bears apple bios
SONS. and on the remaining part good
pears grow.
CHICKENS have been acting as gold
collectors for J. A. McCouville, of
Butte, Mont. In one chickens crop
and gizzard he found some golden
nuggets. He therefore killed the re-
mainder of his brood, thirty-onein nnm-
Der, and found in them gold to the
value of 1857
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-06
LITTLE GRAINS OF SAND.

A TH1,BLE is really etymologically
considered only thumb belt" the or
iginal thimbles having been worn on
the thumb.
A CAMEL of the largest size has
been known to drink from thirty to
fifty gallons of water and then travel
without any more for twenty days
A GOLD watch was recently dug up
near Atlanta, Ga The works had
rusted out while the case was good
The owner is supposed TO have been
killed in the war.
BEFORE the introduction Of iron tools
the making of a canoe was a work OF
enormous difficulty. The hatchets used
were of stone and the chisels were Of
mussel shell ground TO sharp edge
PIGEONS, as letter carriers, tradition
tells Us, were employed at the tins
when Joshua invaded Palestine as mo
diums of communication between the
headquarters and camps in landS far
off on the other side of the Jordan
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under silver belt. She viii wear an
all black hat with this gown and white
gloves and shoes

under silver belt. She viii wear an
all black hat with this gown and white
gloves and shoes.
A quaint gown for afternoons is made
of pink crepon, and has for a trimming
the edge, then three bands of black vel
vet ribbon quite far apart, and then two
more ruffles, 50 that the trimming comes
almost half way up. The bodice Is per
fectly plain and tight fitting, and is
trimmed with lace about eight inches
deep, which starts at the collar IN the
back and is carried down in an inverted
V to each side under the arm; then it
goes round straight till the two ends
almost meet in front, where they both
stop, and being like a genuine petit
coat, while little black velvet bows
stand over them like sentinels.
Or do you like white linen? That
makes charming afternoon gown, with
the skirt embroidered in a pretty vine
pattern all around. and edged with a
narrow hounce of white mousseline de
plated.
A fishing party that starts out next
week will include st least one very
pretty and rather daring costume. The
young maiden that will wear it is going
in for genuine work; she's bound she'll
catch something, and that her costume
will not interfere with a free Indulgence
in the sport. So her slightly-draped
skirt of dark blue linen reaches only a
little below the knees. Her waist is of
ecru linen, tight fitting. trimmed with a
deep lace collar. The collar is kept
down, SO that it can't fly or become
troublesome, by dark blue straps over
the shoulders which are fastened at the
top of the skirt by big buttons. Her
bag is slung across her shoulder, she
carries her net in her hand, and with
her broad-rimmed hat of the same
heavy lace that trims the dress, shading
well her face, she is ready to battle
with wind and wave, and even fish.
Ribbons do not seem to be falling
from grace. They still have the smile
and favor of the feminine public. Why,
I saw one dress the other day that was
one mass of little black velvet bows,
scattered all over. And the hat
worn with it was truly imposing. 1t
was broad-rimmed, dropping leghorn,
with three long loops of palest yellow
laid fiat upon the wide brim in front.
Edging the two outer loops were two
black ostrich tips also fastened down
tight, and where the three yellow loops
joined sprung three more stiff black
tips. EVA A. SCHUBERT.
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A Woman Fiend.

A laboring woman in the city o.
Lille, France, had quarrel with her
beau and was greatly excited about it
Not so the man, who took it easy and
went to sleep. When he was fast asleep
the woman saturated his clothes with
petroleum and applied match. The
poor fellow was ablaze before he awoke,
and when he jumped up his eyes were
blinded already and the smoke nearly
suffocated him. He ran to and fro,
knocking against everything in the
room and unable to find the door.
When the neighbors heard his cries and
came to help him he was lying On the
ground almost burnt to a crisp. The
fendish murderess was found standing
in the half-opened door to the next
room still gleeful over the horrid spec
tacle she had been enjoying.
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NEW WAR IMPLEMENTS.

TIE great Italian warships are 400
feet long by "A feet beam
THE projectile thrown from the Royal
Sovereign will weigh 100 pounds and
that thrown by our Massachusetts, 600
pounds
The British board Of admiralty esti-
mates that one vessel, carrying 1Ioton
guns, would IN two ordinary engage
ments use up guns and ammunition 20
the value of $3.50. 900.
THE cartridges Of Germany, Austria
and Belgium have groove a. the end
instead Of al enlargement at the base,
the advantage Of which Is that the
cartridge Is packed more easily.
THE 15-inch aerial torpedo throwsr.
now introduced as . British service
weapon for coast defense, resembles n
appearance powder gun having the
AXIS Of it's trUnnious a. or Lear TIE cen
ter Of gravity Of tie barrel
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NAMES THAT ARE FAMILIAR.

TEE private Etenogrzphsr Of Pres3-
dent Harrison is 81 ass Alice Z Sawyer.
CEAUxcET DEYEw receives Al average
OF ten invitations . week 20 deliver
pubsic addresses or zftsT-d.ncer
speeches.
oxE week IN four. Cor Fifer. Of Iii
noEs. Is sid 20 abstain from nslnz Gig
&-s, % ~hsSh be Is exceedingly fond. ia
order thai be rnsy not tseeoaae = asaYe
20 tie habit 81 smoking
RossA EoKEs. the gar. i=ayhser-lor-
ing actress on the sage. Il Gzses 20 be
aizssoSs a1ofbsd 3; home. aud tie oalv
thing that eza ehser he< - eoEs@ oszszscis
amusement, A<@ s<s.sng rs6sa. or
arzE4nx