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The n. N. Ives Estnte.

The distribution of the late Hoadley R. Ives estate will undoubtedly soon be made. At Mir. Ives death his estate was inventoried at sS76.s42.67. All ex- penses and bills have been paid. yet the interest has been sufficient to bring the estate up to sss4.2ss.i7
 The bills of this estate. as can be imagined, are no small sum and the workings of tho income tax are now apparent. Under the income tax law this estate must pay tax of ? per cent, to the government before 1t can be divided, amounting to sl76S5.92 Besides this one-sixth of this estate, which goes to the nephews and nieces and grandnephews and grandnieces. must pay a collateral inheritance tax to the state upon the basis of per cent, which amounts to S6,742.S7. Thus here are two direct taxes on the estate amounting to $24, ,42s.79. But in reality this estate has also suffered Indirectly still another tax.
 The income Is largely from shares in corporations. which are taxed under the income tax law.
 The property will be divided among eleven persons. In the first place, the widow of the deceased will secure one half of the entire estate. Two sisters of the deceased will each take a sixth of the estate. and the remaining one sixth will be divided among four neph- ews and nieces and four grandnephews and nieces. The nephews and nieces are Mary V. L. Todd of Los Angeles Cal, James Ives Calhoun of Ottumwa, la, Vina B. Bowden of Missouri, and Wilfred H. Ives of Ottumwa, Ia. The grandnephews and nieces are Martha, Elizabeth, Jennie and Thomas Hunter of Oneonta, N. Y. The former nephews and nieces will each receive about $4o,- 900, while the latter will receive about $S,0OO each In round numbers.
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Mrs. George Warner Disappears.
 Middletown, Dec. 4.-Mrs. George Warnerof Hamburg mysteriously disap- peared from this city last Saturday, and has not been seen since.
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WALLINGFORD.

Compass lodge, F. and A. M., held their annual communication Monday evening and elected the following off, cers: William B. Hall, W. M.; w. H. Newton, 8. w.; B. A. Treat, J. w.; E. M Johnson. secretary; R. Talbot, treas- urer. The appointve officers are: G. T, Bramble, s. D.: B. A. Mossman, J. D.; W. N. Mix, s. s.; W. M. Whitta- ker, ,. S.; E. Whitaker, T.; Rev. J. E. Wlldman, chaplain: W. N. Mix, W. M. whitaker and w. H. Newton, audit ors At the meeting of the Masonic Mutual Benefit association R. Talbot and w. M. Whitaker were chosen di- rector5.
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To be Buried in Nsw Hsyen

\ Meriden, Dec. 4-Joseph Stephan died
 hast evening at 9 o'clock at the home of his father and mother, MT. and Mrs.
 Philip stephan, A Butler street. The
 funeral will be held Wednesday even- iing at 7:45 from the house Rev. B. W.
 Husted will ofaciate.
 N The remains will bs taken to New Haven tor burial on Thursday morning.
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s, David 6. Thomas Much Better,

Captain David S. Thomas, who has been seriously i'll with pneumonia for 5three or four weeks at his home on Academy street, Is. as his large circle of friends will be glad to learn, much better, and it is expected that he will be able to be out again in about a week.
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FOR RENT.

FOR RENT, MICE cottage, whole house, six roomi
 N sixty-two Nieoll street !h9nLEs 2 st 4,,r
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MARINE LIST.
 k PORT OF NEW HAVEN. am ARRfvED, Sch Ernest T. Lee. Rodney, Calais, lumber. Sch Phgnix. Carlton, N. Y., iron. Sch l., Nj. Thurlow, Roberts, Augusta, lum- ses Jssn [ frsat, SN%s Gsoeniaw. phila, coal to railroad. Sch T. A. Stuart, Falkingham, Hillsboro, N. E., plaster to the Adamant Plaster Go.
 CLEARED. in ballast. sch Palestine, Clark, Chino otesgue, Va. Sch K. H. Weaver, Weaver, Norfolk.
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Violation of Liuu IT Law,

Peter McHugh, who keeps saloon at 60 York street, was arrested yesterday morning for violation of the election day liquor law by Officers Phelps and Taylor A number of men were found in the saloon drinking
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Fire Commi sioners.

The regular meeting of the board of fire commissioners was held at the city hall last evening. Applications for po- sitions in the department were read and ordered on file, from George H. Rodgers, John F. Eagan and E. w. Bean. .The resignation of Substitute Jacob c. Luft was read and accepted by the board.
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Judr. Callahan . LissI. Better

. Judge David Callahan. who has been i'll with typhoid fever. Is somewhat bet
 ter. His physician, pr. Paul skinf, said yesterday that the judge was quite little better, and is likely to get along all right if no unfavorabIe symp- toms set in.
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Adjourned Until To.uirht.

The board of police commissioners met last evening, but as the members wished to be out and hear the election returns they adjourned until this even- ing.
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RUNAWAY NARROWLY AYERTED

N. A. Rockers Horses Become Frightened
 on Arch Street.
 New Britain, Dec. 1.-The coachman for N. A. Hooker of Kensington road who was driving down Arch street last night with his spirited team, had a very narrow escape from a serious run away. A boy named Williams had just slid down Webster hill and returned to the top with his double ripper. The team came along as he was turning 1t around and the horses became fright ened. > ...s
 They shied. and striking the back sled on the ripper with the sleigh, threw it twenty feet, completely de- molishing it. They then dashed down the street at a breakneck pace, the sleigh going on one runner. The coach- man finally got them under control and righted the sleigh without any damage being done. Sliding is prohib- ited on Webster hill and the boys were violating the law. -.
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hne out how handy sambo wa an he sos
All De wok he cou'd do. An In Do spring
we went 70 town TO libe. an gan 70
COOK an wash 'mone de white ladies. but
oey didn't long to de same class as my
ole missus. do dey wa nice white lndies
De ondly dinence wa dey wa not quality.
ITS bin q good many yurs sencs den.
an my po' little daid pick-ninny wa
feched an bu'ed decent Ike In % viflaSs
sanitary, In de cullud grabe ya'd. An
de res hab all crowd up TO young men
an women. all KNOWN how 10 read an
rite, an shown OBJ de signs OBJ 'tsiu-
gence on de contenance. An now, missus
we uns got no cose to sigh an be un-
happy, only when de stahs come out ds
same stahs what usen TO gaze on OBJ an
ebenin' way down IN ole Ksintuck. I feel
sad an wondeh whar my kline ole nlissus
an sweet young missy am all gone TO, an
, ! wish I could go an tank heb 20 oil Dc
white folks?"
marse wa a Buford."
Your old masters family is, think.
living and doing well. and IL I mistake not
Miss Mary Buford married q foreigner
ana now lives abroad"
Thank de blessed Jo'd. I Cvfne hsb
my gal write a letteh to my ole missus
dis berry night. Bless de Lo'd"
z. II KING.
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SMOKING OPIUM IN THE OPEN AIR

which soldiers are placed to keep a lookout
over the city and its approaches
The walls are entered by great tunnel-like
gates with arched roofs. and the doors to
these are of heavy planks and timbers
pound with sheets of iron rIveted on with
ooits- These are closed during the night
and the man who arrives after dark has
10 wait till morning among the beggar huts
or the outside 1t was late in the after
noon when l found myself with about a
hundrel Chinese passengers in the rude
1er-y boat which takes the freight from
the river steamers to the shore at the land
iES for Marking. and / narrowly escaped
spending night out of doors. / was held
Tor some time by big Chinese official be-
cause L mad not a passport from Pekine
and when my servant had gotten our dom
keys and had loaded up two Chinese coolies
with our baggage the sun was low in the
horizon and l saw blind Mohammetlan
beggar kneeling by the roadside and saw
Ing his prayers it went down. We had
yet five miles to go before reaching the
city. but we made the gates and got in be-
fore dark. During the journey, with the
prospect Of lodging in a vile Chinese inn
before me- l thought Of the possibility Of
climbing the wall, but as 1 came closer
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LEARNED AT COOKING SCHOOL.
One Girl Had Been Taught How TO Cus
I'D an OK.

Yes, I've taken q course at cooking
school," said the girl to New York Sun
reporter. land 1t was betteE than a dozen
mattnees. Nice lot of girls in my class,
bout a dozen, and the first day. when we
were told TO scrub dishes and wash a tabla
1 wondered why they were taking cooking
lessons. / was Interested In them. Then I
began 10 study them. i discovered that
each girl were an engagement ring, with
the stone turned IN. New wasn't that
funny? But Il really wasn't when you come
TO think Of it. for il explained their rea son
for taxing cooking lessons. you know Not
one Of the girls knew a thiag about cook
ing, and as each OF them was locking for
ward TO getting married. she wanted 10
know enough 10 govern aler cook one OF
the girls had heard her brother talking
about the number OF tobies he had the night
before. She asked hiin what a toby was.
and he told her Il was a small steak and
very popular with men. Wei. that girl
wanted the teacher 20 show her how to
cook a toby the FIRST Thing. Wasn't she an
innocent, though? After some lectures ana
experiments each sui VAS toiG 70 cook
something at home and bring n u school.
/ had TO cook a fish whole. Polly cooked IL
for me very nicely and put & IN Il box so
that L could carry L. BUt say. I dropped
the box. and when I showed the FISH 10 the
class IL was all broken w. So was /. But
cooking school is good t;sG. What did
learnp Now you will laugh when tell you.
but 1 really did learn one taiug / know
how to cut up an OK. SO, there"
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20 II / realized the futility of such an at
tempt 1t would be almost as easy to
crawl up the sides of the Washing ton mon
ument The walls rose straight upward
from wide meat to the height of an eight
story house, and the only broken spaces
were the cuts formed by their c-enellated
tops Had enc of the soldiers on guard
thrown me down a rope ladder / would
have feared to risk the climb, and as l
examined II | wondered at the expense of
Its building. We often hear of the vast
sums spent upon the great Chinese wall
1t was about fifteen hundred miles long
end IL Is larger than that about Marking
These city walls of China have eaten up a
vast deal more money. There are in the
empire more tnan four thousand walled
cities. and every place | have stopped in
my tour Up the YEngtse has these massive
battlements about II. They are made just
the same this wall Of Nenking
How IL Was Built.
The materials used are stone and large
burnt bricks Of blush gray color These
bricks are each about - inches long, )
irches wide and inches thick. They are
put together in solid masonry in the shape
OF two walls running parallel with each
pthsr and the space between them Is filled in
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The NIolefs Harmful Odor.


From the london Daily News.
IL a French specialist. NJ. Joal. is right
admirers OF Fashionable singers and act
resses will do well not TO persist in load
ing them with wreaths and bouquets. The
smell Of flowers. says II. Joal. is injurious
TO the voice. The rose, ana all flowers
with very strong scent. are especially to
be avoided. he says. but personal suscepti-
bility, he thinks has much 10 do with tie
matter. He knows operatic singers who
have completely lost their voices through
their passion for certain flowers. To some
the violet is especially injurious; others
would do well 20 Avoid lilac, and others
again should strictly taboo the harmless
looking gsrdenia. The advice, however.
would certainly be more practicable AZ the
alarmist would condcscend TO tell us which
particular people come into the different
categories enumerated.
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STOPPED THE POKER CANE.
An Alarm Clock I'm n Players Pocket,
Placed There by His wife.

Speaking about the peculiar usss %
which alarm clocks have been put" said .
business man to the Pittsburg Dispatch re-
porter. Il know Of none more ridiculous
than a case that I witnessed. There are
several OF us, all friends, who Join in q lit
tie game OF poker every now and then. The
game usually becomes more interesting
IMAM We expect. so all limitations OF time
are set aside. It was all very well for us
unmarried fellows TO get home at o'clock
In the morning, but one of the number had
wife waiting patiently for him. and.
wnlle she was not opposed TO her husband
having a friendly game Of poker OCCASION
ally, she did object strenuously to his COM
ing home at such hours believing fa. rnodar-
alton IN all things. The other night we were
all deeply interested in a sack pot which
had attained respectable proportions. when
suddenly we were surprised by a continued
ringing of bell. the sound apparently
coming from our married friends pocket
He threw down his hand with a laugh ana.
delving into his coat pocket produced A
small alarm clock. We looked on I'm amaze-
ment. but our benedict was convulsed with
laughter Finally the bell stopped ringing.
and he said: Boys. ] forgot 10 tell you
about IL. tried TO explain TO my wife how
the great interest i took In the game al
ways made me forgetful OF time. as an ex-
cuse Tor my late Homecoming, when, TO my
surprise, she said: We'll. George. II you
can't remember when it's time TO come
home I've got way TO remind you Of It."
she said nothing more. but when left the
house this evening che put This alarm clock
in my pocket, saying: George. I've set IL
for lsSO; think that's late enough for sny
man. so there's no excuse tonight OF
course we all Joined in the laugh, but Il ala
not last long. for George got up from the
table. saying: Well. boys. I'll have 70 be
on; there's no excuse tonight Inasmuch
as George was in SIS on the game this IN
formation caused all our faces 20 grow long.
But George went, notwithstanding our
strong appeals for him to stay. When we
were left alone We passed our views upon q
wife who could invent such a scheme az
that especially when her husband was win
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Nuisance in Cities.
From Casters Magazine
Washing air of its impurities by passing 1t
into which water is profusely sprayed is a
well-known and much used practice. Its
merits were conclusively demonstrated years
ago. and ever since advantage has been
taken Of them in large ventilating instala-
tons in which their expense was warranted,
and where smoky and an unclean outside
atmosphere suggested the desirabiity of
submitting the air to some cleansing pro-
cess before allowing 1t to pass into build
ings. 1t Is not surprising, therefore, that a
somewhat analogous method should have
suggested itself as of likely service in deal
ing with the now so much discussed smoke
problem, and that it should have been tried
with encouraging results. At any rate, a
newspaper paragraph, now going the
rounds, tells of it's application by an En-
glish factory owner, whose repeated con-
ficts with the local smoke ordinance
prompted experiments in this direction, and
apparently with perfect satisfaction. Ac-
cording to the published description, some
what indefinite. perhaps in a few respects
the apparatus used by him consists of a
large cast-ron tank, in which Is a slotted
barrel, which is filled with perforated heat
ers. and the tank is partly filled with water
The smoke is drawn into the barrel from
the machinery by powerful fan, and I'M
rotates very rapidly, churning up the smoke
with the water. On the top of the barrel
are several semi-circular trays or sieves
which are perforated, and effect the purpose
of further washing the smoke. The smoke
which escapes from the heaters is caught
again by these sleeves and dashed down
again by very fine spray of water from
the beaters. The back sludge of solid mat
ter is forced to the top of the chamber and
thrown over into a chute, which conveys
it to wooden tank. The smoke which
finally escapes from the machine Is said to
be comparatively inoffensve, and there is
certainly good reason to believe that this
should be so.
1t is interesting to note, moreover, that
the use of the apparatus does not end with
the cleansing of the smoke. The black de-
posit gathered by 1t is taken off in barrels
to be used in the making of paint and print
ing ink, yielding an acceptable revenue in
stead of polluting the atmosphere, and the
remaing liquid is said to have proved itself
a most valuable disinfectant. Thus a two
fold purpose is accomplished. either one Of
which would seem to be quite sufficient to
commend the process to manufacturing
communities in which smoke suppression
Is a live topic.
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throw a stone and have 1t remain there
will have luck from that time forth. At
the beginning of this avenue there is a
great tower. with four arched gdteways.
ard in the center of the interior Of this
sits a turtle of black marble. 1t is so large
that 1t would fill the average American par
lor, and II Is made from a single block
of stone. 1t is the Chinese emblem of
longevity, and from its back springs a
marble tablet twelve fifteen feet In
height, upon which are inscribed the Chi
nese characters concentrating the great
ness of the emperor who lies buried at the
other end of the funeral highway. l did
rot count these immense animals and war
riorS, but they stand at short intervals
along the avenue leading to the tomb In
closure. They must each weigh many tons,
and must have been brought from far in
the interior to Marking. Some of the cary
ing upon them is beautifully done: and the
figures Of the elephants and men are well
executed. One of the stone horses has
been thrown over, and it lies half sunk en-
in a ditch. The figures of others are some
what broken. but the most Of them are as
perfect today as when they were Arst
erected four or five hundred years ago.
The tomb however. is in ruins. 1t covered
several acres, and at its end there are the
remains of a great tower of solid masonry
pierced IN the center by tunnel walled
with marble, which runs from the ground
upward at an angle OF ~ degrees This
tunnel is SO high and wide that a train of
passenger cars could be run through it
touching the walls, ana these walls
are of stone. with a dado Of marble artis-
tically carved. There was. l judge. origi-
nally temple on the top of this fort-like
r. ausoleum; the four thick walls of some
such buildings still stand, making you think
of the grass-grown, n,oss-covered ruins of
Europe. / ate my lunch within them sit
ting on a stone. with my feet among the
blue wild flowers which were springing out
OF the crevices between the stones of the
grass-grown floor. AS l did SO 1 could
look out through one of the great arched
dcorways upon the thousands of grave
mounds of the Nankirg OF today, and the
cries OF poorly clad woman who sat and
walled at one OF them fioated up to my
ears. 1t was the mourning of the present
amid the grandest tombs of the past. and
again realized that of all things death
alone is the king who rules from age to
age, and who, with his mighty hand, makes
all men of one size
o,,..k u. l'a.Lnaiaz
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surrounds it was built about one hundred
years before Columbus sailed out from
Spain to find a passage to trade with its
people. and it has several times been the
capital Of the great Chinese empire. 1t lies
In the interior not far from the Yangtse
kiang river about two hundred miles away
from the sea coast and the viceroy, who
now makes il his capital, has more power
than President Cleveland, and he governs
pearly twice as many people as there are
IN the whole United States. He has under
him cities of vast extent, the names of
which are unknown to the average Ameri-
can. and his income amounts to millions
He spends vast sums in his arsenals, pow-
der works and naval schools. and he directs
from this point a machinery of govern
ment which, though by no means so pure
has as many qualifications and offices as
that Of our capital at Washington. He has
here the big examinations which test the
learning Of tens Of thousands of Chinese
students every three years, and his people
are SO noted for their ability and culture
that Marking has been called the Athens of
China
Markings Great Wall.
These Chinese cities are so different from
anything in America that 1 almost despair
OF giving good idea Of them In the first
place. Marking is a walled city. Ali Of the
Dig cities OF China are surrounded by walls
ranging in size from forty to seventy feet
high and so thick that two two-horse wa
CONS could be driven side by side upon the
paved roads which form their tops and the
wheels OF the wagons would not touch
each other. Here and there upon the walls
are guard houses and barracks which rise
one and two stories above the walls and I'm
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Many Oriental Wonders.

Many Oriental Wonders.
Other wonders Of ancient Chinese art and
engineering you see scattered throughout
the ruins Of the Tartar city, where the
monarchs held their court. There are wide
streets made Of great flags of granite as
big as the top Of dining table, worn by
the feet of generations into the smooth
polish Of marble. There are five large
bridges OF heavy stones put together in
oeauttful arches without a keystone and
the fences which line this highway are
made up OF stones mixed with broken tile
OF the imperial yellow glaze and pieces of
dragon discs Of the green and red porcelain
wnicn once adorned the palaces of the city
and of the shattered marble which formed
the artistic walls of the past. The walls Of
the Tartar city which separated it from
the common herd still stand in picturesque
ruin, grass grown and crumbling and be-
SIDE pillar OF what was once in all prob
ability the palace Of a prince I saw lying
the plastered coffin of a coolie whose pow
erty prevented his putting a mound above
It. Close by it In the fields worked other
plue-gowned men and women digging in the
soil once sacred to royalty alone, and my
| boy led me into tumble down palace and
showed me two marble stones streaked
with reddish veins. These" said he, were
part OF the floor of the emperor's palace.
One Of his mobiles had abused his confidence
by saying that which he should not and he
stratghtway had ms tongue cut out then
ana there. The blood from his mouth
dropped upon the white marble and stained
| 1t as you see."
The BegEar Kings Tomb.
! took donkeys and rode out into the
country yesterday to see the tomb of this
| famous beggar king. He was buried under
Purple mountain, about five miles away
| from here and his mausoleum must have
been one of the most magnificent ever made
by man. 1t comprised in its burial lot an
| avenue through the country overlooking
| his city more than mile in length and
| this avenue was lined with gigantic ele-
| plants, camels, lions and tigers of marble,
which still stand in solemn grandeur facing
| each other in the open fields. There are in
addition to these giant warriors carved
artiStically from solid blocks of marble
| and each of these warriors is. l judge,
twelve feet in height
l stood beside one and reached upward
| My finger nails just touched the elbow OF
| the stone warriors folded arms The ele-
plants ere as big as was Barnum's Jumbo
and they are cut from solid blocks OF
marble. Their broad backs are covered
| with bushels of stones, and the people
| have superstition that the man who car