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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-16
WRITERS AND PAINTERS.

Turner's pictures wcre admitted to tho Royal academy before the artist was 1s years old
 Miss Dhaulsai FardOnjce Banajce, an Is yCar-Old Bombay girl, succeeded in get ting one of her pictures hung in the Paris salon.
 Du Nauricr, The Punch artist, has been making his stately women an inch or two taller recently. because, as he says, they look better that way.
 Of Richard Henry Stoddard it Is said that he has read every important book printed in English for the last 40 years, but he still prizes most highly the works of Hawthorne
 Grcat regret is felt in Brussels at the death of Ernest Slingeneyer, the histor- ical painter. He was born in Ioochristi, near Ghcnt. in 1893. One of his principal works, The Ncngcr." is in the museum at Cologne.
 The latest reports from Rudyard Kip. ling arc to the effect that he is even mOry reserved since his marriage than he was before He recently declined an invita- ton tO breakfast from a literary duchess because he objected to being Iionizcd
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-16
ROYAL BLUE FLOODS.

The present king of Siam has 46 names, but he is called Chulalonkorn for short.
 The queen of Spain never uses plotting paper, but dries her letters by waving them in the air.
 The queen of Saxony maintains threo physicians whose sole duty is 10 attend shc ailments of the suffering poor.
 The Primes . Victoria and Maud of Wales have taken to cycling. This is at the czpr,sS daSirc of their mother, the Princess of Wales. They have commenced on the tricycle.
 The empress nf Austria is still able to tire out the guides at Madonna al Cam pigliO and other places in the Southern Tyrcl, where her pedestrian feats excite the grcatcst astOnishmcnt and intercst
 Tho German emperor intends to devote the profits from tho sale of his song toward the fund now being raised to build a church in memory of Emperor William l. The piece, called the Song to AcgeR." is his own composition. boeh words and music.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-16
A plarfarfsffc Doy.

One of the boys of n Capitol hill fam lily had been instructed by his teacher to write an essay. A rather abstruse subject was given him, and he had been referred to the dictionary. His elder brother, who was also giving sugges- tions, had promised if the composition was good he would write it on the type writer. The little fellow went to the dictionary and found the word he was looking for and under it a quotation that just suited the subject. He consid- cred life a little too short, though, to copy the quotation. so he hunted up his mother shears and in way that argues a great deal in favor of his future jour nalistic ability clipped through :he big. handsome dictionary and clipped whcr- ever a word or phrase suited his fancy.
 His brother, who rewrote the compo- sition, discovered the plagiarism and informed the father, and the boy now takes his meals from the shelf. Wash ington Post
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-16

PUBLIC PRINTER BENEDICT is out in an- other appeal to congress. insisting that something be done towards lessening the dangers which surround the 3O00 employees of the government printing office before the adjournment. He reminds congress that even if the troublesome question of the selection of a site for the new govern ment printing office were settled at this session, which it isn't likely to be. it would require four or five years to build a new office. while there is urgent necessity for some immediate relief. He suggeets that this may be had by purchasing ground and erect a building alongside of the present office that will meet the require ments until the entire new building is put up, which must be in the near future.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-16
How Poe Sold "The Bells.-

Henry Sartain, son of the famous en- graver, tells this story of how in 1851 Poe's poem of ''The Bells" was first published in Sartain's Magazine:
 "Poe came into the office one day, and handing father n stanza in msnu- script asked him what he thought of it. Father looked it over and said he thought it pretty good. Is it worth SUP asked Poe. Father said he thought it was and paid him the money. The poem was the first stanza of The Bells A week or so later Poe again sauntered into the office, with the remark, Well, John, see you haven't printed my poem yet. Father replied that hc had not be- cause of lack of space. Well, I've got another stanZa here. Will you let me have a five on it?' The man looked SC utterly wrctchcd that father paid him the money and took the stanza Still another installment of two additional stanzas followed within a month, and then it was that tho poem was first printed. ."--Philadelphia Record
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-16
JEWEL AND GEM.

Fancy pearls as a center setting for dia- monds are advancing in popularity.
 Mantel clocks of late production rest on an onyx base and arc surmounted by a dome of like material.
 Novel and new are sntin finished alum inium watch dials, with the numerals sur rounded by floral design in enamel
 The chirping cricket has been selected as a design for a brooch. The piece is elabOrately studded with rubaes, diamonds and oliyines.
 4 lariat circular design woven in alter. nate strands of platina and gold and set with emeralds and diamonds Is a peerless hair ornament.
 Two circular etched slabs of silver, within which are concealed a knife, file nail cleaner and button hook. form a com. pact toilet article.
 Heart shaped topaz oolored oarbuuclcs and those shading to e deep royal purpls arc much sought as mountings In lace pins and brooches.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-16
ANnInnl,Ir Play Toy.

Miss Olive Schreiner recently told the following story: She and her brothers and sisters had as one of their play things n bright stone that they called the candle stone. It was about the size of n walnut and would flash in Q bright and singular way when held to the light. Not until she had quite grown up and the candle stone had been lost for years did any of them realize that it was diamond of doubtless immense value. Tho Kimberley mines were in the unknown future. but this stone had per haps been washed down by some torrent or brought by other chance from that region.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-16
WHAT A CANNON BALL GAN DO.
Chance Shots In the Chilean War That
 Went Through Ironclads-

Chance Shots In the Chilean War That
 Went Through Ironclads-
 In dwelling upon the wonderful pow er of the guns of the Indiana, Albert Franklin Matthews, in an article on ''The Evolution of Battleship'' in Tho Century, gives illustrations from the recent Chilean civil war, showing the effectiveness of the smaller sizes of brecchloading rifle guns.
 A shot weighing 250 pounds from an 8 inch gun of Fort Valdivia in Valparaiso harbor struck the cruiser Blanco Enca- lada above the armor belt, passed through the thin steel plate on the side, went through the captains cabin, took the pillow from under his head, dropped his head on the mattress with a thump, but without injuring a hair. passed through the open door into the mess room, where it struck the floor and then glanced to the ceiling. Then it went througha wooden bulkhead an inch thick into a room 25 by 42 feet. where 10 men were sleeping in hammocks- Il killed six of them outright and wound. cd six others, three of whom died, after which it passed through a steel bulk. head inches thick and ended its course by striking battery outside, in which it made a dent nearly two inches deep It was filled with sand Had it released deadly gases no one knows what dam age it might have done.
 A 450 pound missile from 10 incl gun in the same fort struck the saIn' vessel on its inch armor. It hit squar' on bolt. The shell did not pierce thu armor. but burst outside the vessel l drove the bolt clear through, and in it flight the bolt struck an inch gun completely disabling it. Such is tn power of the smaller sized guns
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-16
.Tne Para,Ii>e of Tips-

"Thc paradise of tips" as we arc told by writer in The Klcine Zeitung, is Carlsbad. His estimate is that not less than million marks must be paid dur ing tho season in the questionable shape of voluntary" gifts or gratuities to walters and others, which do not appear in any bill. Everybody who does you any service in Carlsbad looks for his or her ''trinkgeld" before you depart The waiter gets upon an average from to 10 fiorins U2 shillings to fll The maiden who serves you with water at the BrunEen expects and mostly receives florins. the postmnn gets n flurin, and there arc various other male and female benefactorss to whom you pay what you DlCase
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-16
A Showrr of Whrat.

In the year 1896 or thcrcalouts it was Q report in Bristol and thsreah0uts that it raincd wheat about this Town and six or seven Miles round. and many bc- heved it One Mir. Cole being curious to find out the Truth of the odd Phae- nomenOn procured several Parcels of it, and upon diigcnt Examination of them with magnifying Glasses. judged from the Taste. Figurc. Size and Smell that they were secds of Ivy berries. driven by strong Wind from tho Holes and Chinks of Houses. Churches and other Buildings. where Starlinss and other Birds had laid or dropped them, but if SO it's strange that they should fall in SO great Quantities in 90 many Plancs- -Cox's 'sMAgna Britannia
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-16

IT is a matter for congratulAtion that the straight democrats won in Alabama by such a broad margin as 26. 900 votes against the allied forces of the pOpulists. republi can and kicking democrats. It shows that the populistic craze is dying out and that the reign of reason is returning in the
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-16
The Laughing owl.

One of the most fantastic of birds is the laughing owl of Florida and some other southern parts. He sits we'll up in tree at night and emits a series of loud, strange ha-has that sound like half human laughter. Tho sound is sufficiently terrifying to a nervous camper unacQuainted with the habit of the bird. though less grewsome than the unearthly call of the Chesapeake loon heard at all hours of the night along the shores of that bay.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-16
BLIND cHILoREN's IDEAS.

The Queer Notions They Have and How
 They Express Them.
 Dr. Anagnos told me some amusing stories about the quaint old way that blind children usually have of express ing themselves. This is due to the fact that blind children are thrown almost altogether for companionship with grown people and so unconsciously they imbibe the same manner of speech.
 A short time ago a little child was entered at the institution by its aunt, who was schoolteacher. When she left the child, she said, "Now. shall ex- pect you to get the matron to write a letter for you to me before very long. "
 A short time passed, and the matron said to the little girl. Isn't it about time that we wrote that letter to your auntie?" The little mite said, "Now, that is what should style coincidence, for was just about to remark upon the necessity of forming my ideas at once. " At this same institution was much interested in watching the little ones write. They placed the paper upon a board of raised lines, and guided by them wrote an even, we'll formed hand picked up composition just finished, and it was so dainty and fanciful that give it to you:
 THE PREACHER Do you know who the preacher is, and do you know where he lives? He lives in a green, shady place, and tho birds and the flowers make his congre gation-
 The children passing by often gather punches of these preachers, for ther, are a great many, and take them home to put in a vase to ornament their man tels. This preacher is called Jack in thu pulpit
 Jack, finding life very dismal, soor dies.
 When tho cold winds of winter come Jack is asleep under loving mother earth's warm blanket
 But when Jack hears the ripplinl brooks and the singing birds he know that it is spring again. and he must d' his part to make mother earth beauti ful-Boston Advertiser.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-16
A Thief Rewarded

A thief in the act of breaking into a safe was greatly Rstonished on looking up to sec gentleman quietly watching his procecSlingS- He tried to escape. but the grntleman stopped him
 "Go on. my friend. " he said ''I am greatly internSted in your work
 ''How is thatg" inquired tho ast0n- fshed thief.
 'Beczuse have lost the key to this safe If you can open ft, you shall be well rewarded for your trouble. "-Ar- 1@~
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-16

THE gratifying change in the weather need not be considered the breaking of summers back. We may have good many hot waves before we see frost, but there is comfort in knowing that from this on we are likely to be favored with lower temperature during the nights. and A chance thereby for the weary flesh to re- gain some of the strength wrenched from it during the day.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-16

P. P. P. wonderful medicine; it gives an appetite. it invigoratss and strengthens.
 P. r. P. Cures rheumatism and all pains inside. back and shoulders, knees, hips, wrists and joints.
 F. F. P. The best blood purifier of the age. Has made more permanent cures than all other blood remedies.
 F. F. F. Cures dyspepsia, chronic fe- male complaints and broken down consti tuition.
 A course of P. P. P. will banish all bad feelings and restore your health to perfect condition.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-16
THE DREAMER.

 When I am sleeping in my bed. The little people in my head All sport aud frolic, dance and play As they never do by day. They play at being king and queen Or catching fairy folk unseen They act out giant, troll or gnome. Or in far Afric's forests roam They go with Sindbad on his trips Or take command of pirate ships And capture gAlleons of Spain. Pearl freighted, on the Spanish main Yet each one still pretends he's me. While am sound asleep. you sec They play, I run and shout and leap And yet I'm lying fast asleep. They have such jolly lots of fun And sec such sights! Yet never one Will wake me up that may go To share the joys that please them so- And if ] wake and try to hear. Or at their frolics try to peer, Then all the sly things in Q trice Are quiet and demure as mice.
 Arb Bates in St. Nicholas.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-16

wreck the constitution and sometimes pro- duce softening of the brain, epilepsy, pa ralysis, and even dread insanity.
 To reach, reclaim and restore such un- fortunates to health and happiness, is the aim of tho publishers of book written in plain but chasto language, on the nature, symptoms and cuTnbility, by home treat ment, of such discases This book will be sent scaled, in plain envelope, on receipt of ten cents in stamps, for postage. Address, c63 Main St, Buffalo, N. \.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-16

TIE efforts of Messrs Corbett and Jack son to knock each other out with their mouths do not appear to have been de- cisive. As between blackguarding and prize lighting the public would probably prefer the latter. It is less tiresome and rather more edifying.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-16

According to the Mohammedans of southern India. pulvcrizcd diamond is the least painful. tho most active and the most certain of all poisons Accord ing to Wilkes History" tho powder of diamonds is kept on hand (by the wealthy only. presumably as last TO- source. But a belief in the poisonous character of the diamond also existed in Italy in the sixteenth century. Chicago Times
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-16

RUDY-s PILE sUPPosITORY is guar anteed to cure Piles and Constipation. or money refunded. soc per box. Send stamp for circular and Free Sample to Martin Rudy. Lancaster. Pa Tor sale by all frxt-class druggists. and in Waterbury. Conn. by Cannon d Webster.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-16
nu nIanrfrr.. Women.

Speaking of "Trilby." have you ever noticed what an important part eye brows play in Du Mauricr's faces? No matter how small the face. the eyebrow stands out as the most characteristic feature -Critic
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-16
South Omaha Strike Lost.

OMAHA, Aug. 16.-The South Omahs packing house employees strike Is of After holding out three weeks the men lose all and arc now trying to get back or the old terms
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-16
Canadian kumb.rmcn ,Jub,Ian,

OTTAWA, Ont, Aug. 16-Lumbcrmen here are iubilant over the prospects of freo lumber in the United States. Last year Canada paid over $l, 900, GOO in duty on lumber and other forest products which will now Do admitted free.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-16
The lenucrat.
o. and M. T. MALoNEY. PUBLISHES.

UNDER the Mckinley act the sugar trust has enjoyed protection of 60 cents per 100 pounds; under the new tArin It VIII have a protection of 42 1-2 cents per 100 pounds.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-16
CIo.c,l by r.rIrL.rI.Ia,ion.

BALTIMORE, Aug. I6-The kilns of the Edward Bennett, Pottery company have been closed down on account, it Is said, of the tariff reduction on pottery.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-16
All Past Records Broken.
 Even the weather this year
Even the weather this year Is the warmest on record.

Even the weather this year is the warmest on record.
 Never has such values been given in the dullest times on record. It has been a grand effort by wide awake merchants to force business. Never would dollar go as far as now. Our forefathers would be as much astonished to see the purchasing power of an American dollar to- day, as they would to see the numerous inventions since their time.
 You have been paying 75 cents for a cheap shirt, Sl for a poor one, and $1 50 for a good Laundered Negligee Shirt. We have sold over 50 dozen of these fine goods unlaundered | for 50 cents each.
 This week we found another Manufacturer who has sold these fine fancy shirts laundered, for fancy prices, all the season. We take the balance of his stock (but not laundered) at our own price. You can have the pick this week for
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-16

Rubinstein's first teacher was his mother. and his first concert tour as s virtuoso was made when he was not quite 10 years of aga
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-16
WaterburyFire Alarm

LOCATION OF BOXES. The following are the Fire Alarm ssSuIls under the new sys=em: I-3 Roxers k Bro.
 Is Cor East Main and NsAG.lrH streets I-s Cor Ezst Main and wolerr nal Is Cor High AIlI Walnut streets Is T EAS1 Main and Cherry s-rAs.~ I-T Cor E2s; Main and Cole streets 3-i Cor Nuxth Elm and ElssEsbury s--s-.E 2S Cor No<1h EEn- NOE1h Main sRd 6ravr
 streets
 9s Waterbury Manufacturing eonrans. 2s Cor North Main and North streets s-s Or Blckingham and Ceske streets 3-T Cur GrTze and PrOsTert streets 2s Cor Hill-sde AN--s ge and Fine s-rsst 3s Cor JChnszn and WAssTyIlls ss-S<.s .I-l Ths FIAtt Brus c. Il. Wsasst--J J~-zE SHuaE@ng D1~s1er-
 meni tArturTA'
 ExehAnEe ElAra-
 s-7 Ctr weSs Main and Willow stre<as- s-s Or west Main and WAs@T1S~n mad s-s Horse Oar BAElrNa1 ssAtle- f-s wAfeEburY Brass comT&nys s-T Or Cedar and Meadow streets ss Cor Grand and FSe1a streets. s-i-8 Ger Bank and Meadow ssreetA si-s Randolph k CuEes. s-I-s Plume 4 AfEoOd sAa2fASszrinE eun- s-aI No Hc@e House saS Holmes Booth k HAE8snk.. H-3< Cor Chzrse< and Porter E-rA4tS s+2-s Cor S,nons stre~s ard wAkkfrEton ave Cor South Main and GrAnd ssreess- t-a Cor South Ms.n and CaMr streets t-s Waterbury Watch eozFRnTs Es Benedict A Barnh&n MHnutsrt-rSnx
 courAnT-
 sS Waterbury BIrkle cNnranE!. t-T Ger South Main and washErE-n- s.x
 ScUvIn Manufacturing cC-nFAnEs t3 Or Franklin and Union streets ss Waterbury CDek O. EnHse tAr=1rJH sS Cor Clay and Mn streets ss Cor L1herzy and River psre<ss s--nNo. Hose HCure-
 ks Cor Baldwin and Stone ssr~res~ Cor Bridge and MaxIl rsre~ss- s-1 osx Doolits1e alley and Dublin strss< l-sPrfzfs
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-16
Explaining . BlanlA

The above space is reserved for two very funny Jokes that we thought Of the other day, but unfortunately cannot re- call at the present writing Messenger.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-16


 A return of memory sometimes CO., CUTS in drunkenness, as in the case of the Irish porter who. having lost pack age while dfunk. got drunk again and remembered where he had left it
 Blood Stains.
 To the present day the superstition is rife that blood stains cannot be washed out During the French revolution SC priests were massacred in the Carmelite chapel at Paris, and the stains, so called, of their blood are pointed out today.
 Sir Walter Scott, in his "Tales of 6 Grandfather, declares that the blood stains of David Rizzio, the Italian pri. vate secretary of Mary, queen of Scots, who was stabbed at Holyrood palace by certain Protestant leaders of her court, aided by her husband, Darnley, are still to be seen.
 In Lancashire the natives show 6 stone called the 'bloody stone" which was so marked to show heavens dis, pleasure at some of Cromwell's soldiers atrocities at Gallows Croft In Mao, beth, act 6. scene 1, Shakespeare al ludee to the idea, "Yet here's a spot !"
 The truth is blood cannot be eas- fly expunged- In the first place. if that of murdered person, 1t is not attempt cd. In the next place. blood contains oxide of iron. which sinks deep into tho fiber of wood and proves indelible to or dinary washing. Thus it is true that stones of a porous nature and wood mol of the hardest kind are susceptible te the stain of blood produced by the oxide of iron which the blood contains But the blood of pig is as good as that oi ! a murdered man.-Pcarsun's waailv
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-16
IT'S a EsLLSTONE

About . young mans neck to be e sufferer from ner- vous exhaustion, ner- vous debility, impair ed memory low spirits, irritable tenn per, and the thousand and one Arrangements of mind and body that result from, unnatural, pernicious habits, con tracted through ignorance
 Such habits result in loss of manly power.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-16
lNarioEk.

A domestic. newly engaged. presented to his master one morning pair of boots the leg of one of which was much longer than the other. How comes 1t that these boots are not the same length." 'I really don't know. sir. but what bothers mo the most Is that tho pair down stairs arc in the same fix. " Boston Woman's Journal.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-16
Wherr He Drew the Line

"You have called mo a pitiful sneak. sir, 0 coward, a poltroon, a small souled, miserly, ovcrbcarlng brute" said the man on the north side of tho line fence, rnmOv. ling his coat and rolling up his sleeves ''l don't allow anybody on earth to talk tc me like that" he added, jumping ovcI the fcncc and knocking his quarrclsomG neighb0r down, except my wife. "-Chi- ca0o Tribune
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-16
Boston Clothing
 House.

We are still with you, and will continue to give you the best bargains ill town. Our prices are always the lowest, and every purchaser Is sure to make a good saving on every thing bought at our store.
 We make now a Special Sale on lot of